- Bart and Lisa meet a vagabond who claims to be the creator of Itchy from "Itchy and Scratchy."
- On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Itchy and Scratchy, Bart and Lisa go to see the tribute parade. Its route is so badly planned that it goes to the bad part of town, where Bart meets a hobo named Chester J. Lampwick who claims he is the creator of Itchy. He also says that Roger Myers, Sr. stole the characters he created. Bart does not believe Chester until he pulls out a film reel which says "Itchy the Lucky Mouse in Manhattan Madness." Bart and Milhouse view this 1919 cartoon, but the nitrate print disintegrates quickly afterwards. Bart allows Chester to hide out in the basement, where he plans how to right the wrongs done to him. Roger Myers, Jr. throws him out of the studio for attempting to claim back royalties, so Bart persuades Homer to pay Lionel Hutz's $1,000 contingency fee to sue Itchy and Scratchy Studios. The plantiff's case does not look good until Bart buys an old-time drawing of Itchy from the Android's Dungeon, which he remembered seeing the night before the parade. Under the frame is Chester's signature and a date of September 3, 1919, and the court orders Itchy and Scratchy Studios to pay $800,000,000,000 in back royalties. Chester receives a check and uses it to buy a solid gold house, but the studio goes bankrupt. Appalled by what replaces Itchy and Scratchy's spot on the Krusty show, Bart and Lisa try to persuade Chester to allow the studio to continue making cartoons, but he rebuffs them. After going through several law books, they think they have found the answer, but they are beaten to it by two kids named Lester and Eliza (who happen to look very much like them). These two upstarts prove that the United States Postal Service plagiarized an early character called "Manic Mailman" to create their ad character of Mr. Zip, resulting in a huge government settlement that brings back Itchy and Scratchy.
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