History Main / CaninesGamblingInACardGame

* Near the end of the Snooker Commentators sketch series on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', snooker broadcasting dries up and the commentators begin covering dogs playing poker. This proves difficult as [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome dogs can't actually do that]].

* In [[Recap/CheersS5E25 an episode]] of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Sam Malone loves the paintings (in particular one of ''Dogs Playing Blackjack'') while his more sophisticated lover, Diane Chambers, hates them. Sam says that he sees something new every time he looks at it.

* One of the players in Telltale Games' ''[[VideoGame/PokerNight2 Poker Night 2]]'' is Sam, the canine star of ''[[Franchise/SamAndMax Sam & Max: Freelance Police]]''. In one of the game's many [[SeinfeldianConversation humorous asides]], [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros Brock Samson]] points out the obvious joke.

* Similar to ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/Wunschpunsch'' a spell makes everyone in the city undergo a dog/human hybrid transformation. When the spell effects are shown, there are some dogs playing poker (and starting a fight because one of them supposedly cheats).

* ''WesternAnimation/Clarence'': In “Man of the House”, Clarence’s idea of having the house to himself is, oddly enough, hosting a Poker party with dogs.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' episode, "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS5E10YouMeAndFifi You, Me, and Fifi]]", when Mickey calls Goofy for advice on how to get Fifi to like him, Goofy is seen playing ''TabletopGame/GoFish'' with Pluto, [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Nana]], [[WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp Tramp, Peg]], [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Pongo]], [[WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound Copper]], [[WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany Tito]], and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Sultan (in his footrest form)]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'', during the party in the barn house some dogs are seen playing poker while one animal is painting a picture of them in the exact same likeness of the original panting.
* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' has Chester, Spike, Charlie and other Franchise/LooneyTunes canines playing cards at a table inside Yosemite Sam's Wooden Nickel casino. Their game gets interrupted by TheHero falling from an exposed hallway onto the table, wrecking it. All the dogs bark at him, though most have spoken conversational English in their cartoons.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': There's a scene where some of Charles Muntz's dogs are playing a game of poker, the bulldog with a big pile of dog biscuits in front of him.

* In ''Film/Shazam2019'', one of the inter-dimensional doors leads to a room where some crocodile-men are playing poker in a setting directly lifted from the paintings. As soon as one of those crocodile-men lunges towards the protagonists, they slam the door on its face and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment the incident is soon forgotten.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'': After Carmen steals a painting by Vermeer, Zack says that he doesn't get the hype because his idea of fine art is dogs playing poker. Later, when Zack has to go undercover as professional art thief The Duke, he scoffs that it's probably Dash Haber's art preference too.

** In the episode "Road to Rhode Island", Stewie comments on the Dogs Playing Poker paintings hanging on a wall, and suggests that since Jesus is alone in one of the other paintings, the dogs should invite him to their card game.

-> ''"Ah, you see, the poor dumb beasts have no thumbs, so I ask you... how are they holding their cards? ... It should be impossible, and yet somehow they go on... playing the game. In the end, Razputin, aren't we all just dogs playing poker?"''

* One episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' ends with Sabrina playing Go Fish with a group of dogs. She wins the game but then offers to buy them all treats to cheer them up.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' episode, "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS5E10YouMeAndFifi You, Me, and Fifi]]", when Mickey calls Goofy for advice on how to get Fifi to like him, Goofy is seen playing Go Fish with Pluto, [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Nana]], [[WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp Tramp, Peg]], [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Pongo]], [[WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound Copper]], [[WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany Tito]], and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Sultan (in his footrest form)]].

* One of the players in Telltale Games' [[VideoGame/PokerNight2 Poker Night 2]] is Sam, the canine star of [[Franchise/SamAndMax Sam & Max: Freelance Police.]] In one of the game's many [[SeinfeldianConversation humorous asides]], [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros Brock Samson]] points out the obvious joke.

[-[[caption-width-right:350:With these dogs playing, the game is bound to get a bit [[{{Pun}} ruff]].[[labelnote:Left to right]][[WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow Huckleberry Hound]], Franchise/ScoobyDoo, [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Jake]], [[WesternAnimation/CouragetheCowardlydog Courage]], [[WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest Dukey]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee Monroe]][[/labelnote]].]]-]

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' in which the [[TheDitz Lesser Dog]] is playing poker alone against himself (despite his numerous guard dog colleagues being present at Grillby's). Somehow, it's losing. In the [[GoldenEnding True Pacifist]] ending, [[spoiler: it seemingly finally won]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': In a flashback to how Puss [[CatsHaveNineLives lost his sixth of nine lives]], he is shown beating some dogs at poker with a hand of ''[[FiveAcesCheater five aces]]''. They were not amused.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': There's a scene where some of Charles Muntz's dogs are playing a game of poker, the bulldog with a big pile of dog biscuits in front of him.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In the episode "Monkey See, Doggie Do", Mojo Jojo's spree of [[BalefulPolymorph transforming the citizens of Townsville into dogs with the Anubis Dog Head]] includes a party of men playing poker.

** In episode "Saving Private Brian", Mayor West is discovered playing poker with dogs.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Finder", Stitch (who was adopted by Lilo as a "dog") plays a game of poker with his experiment "cousins" with cookies in place of poker chips.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" when Homer is driven to insanity by his mix of intense fear and intense amusement in response to one of the paintings.

* The animated television series ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has made several references to the paintings, such as in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" when Homer is driven to insanity by his mix of intense fear and intense amusement in response to one of the paintings.
** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E18DaysOfWineAndDohses Days of Wine and D'oh'ses]]" has Bart and Lisa trying to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/0/01/Days_of_Wine_and_D%27oh%27ses_78.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20131028175630 recreate the painting in real life]] for a photography contest.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Saving Private Brian", Mayor West is discovered playing poker with dogs.
** In the episode "Road to Rhode Island", Stewie comments on the Dogs Playing Poker paintings hanging on a wall, and suggests that since Jesus is alone in one of the other paintings, the dogs should invite him to their card game.
* In the animated series ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Lawnmower Dog", five intelligent dogs play poker and smoke cigars while using their advanced robotic suits.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' episode "Love's Tender Rampage", the characters walk past a shop in where dogs are playing poker.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In the episode ''Monkey See, Doggie Do'', Mojo Jojo's spree of [[BalefulPolymorph transforming the citizens of Townsville into dogs with the Anubis Dog Head]] includes a party of men playing poker.
* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'': After Carmen steals a painting by Vermeer, Zack says that he doesn't get the hype because his idea of fine art is dogs playing poker. Later, when Zack has to go undercover as professional art thief The Duke, he scoffs that it's probably Dash Haber's art preference too.