Meyers: I did a little research and I discovered a startling thing...
There was violence in the past, long before cartoons were
invented.
Kent: I see. Fascinating.
Meyers: Yeah, and know something, Karl? The Crusades, for instance.
Tremendous violence, many people killed, the darned thing went
on for thirty years.
Kent: And this was before cartoons were invented?
Meyers: That's right, Kent.
-- `Smartline', "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge"