Source: New York Post
Several years before NBC landed on the idea to try to make the onetime criminal/Crips associate/rapper Snoop Dogg synonymous with the Olympics — a desperate attempt to lure viewers who didn’t much care for the Olympics as an athletic competition — “The Simpsons” beat them to that punch. The venerable cartoon show, steeped in brilliant social satire, introduced a character named “Poochie” — a sunglasses-wearing, surfboard-schlepping, cap-backward, attitude-enriched beach bum dog — and a genius mockery of TV shows desperate to reverse their decline. Poochie was designed to be seen as a lame, last-chance attempt to stave off a network’s cancellation of a played-out show.
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