likes 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. The set for the TV show Roseanne had a reproduction of one of the paintings in Roseanne and Dan's bedroom. The cover of the 1981 album, Moving Pictures by Rush, features A Friend in Need as one of the three pictures being moved. In the 1984 play The Foreigner, a character complains that she doesn't want to be in her motel room because there is a "Damn picture on the wall of some dogs playin' poker." In the 1985 film Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, slobbish police officer Vinnie Schtulman (Peter Van Norden) has a framed print of Waterloo and, below it, an unframed print of Pinched With Four Aces (which features four dogs in old-fashioned police uniforms raiding a poker game). In the 1991 film Hudson Hawk, the Mario Brothers Mafia Family have the Bold Bluff painting framed on their wall. The animated television series The Simpsons has made several references to the paintings, such as in "Treehouse of Horror IV" (1993) when Homer is driven to screaming insanity simply by looking at the surrealness of the painting. The music video for Snoop Dogg's 1993 song, "What's My Name", depicts dogs playing craps while smoking cigars and wearing sunglasses. In the 1994 "School Daze" episode of Living Single Overton brings a print of A Bold Bluff into art class and comments on the "obviousness" of the bulldog's bluff. Dogs Playing Poker TV ads were aired during ESPN Sunday Night Football during the 1998 and 1999 NFL seasons. The 1998 season four episode "Sinking Ship" of the TV series NewsRadio spoofs the 1997 film Titanic. As the characters are shown fleeing the sinking ship/broadcasting studio they dump famous artworks but hold on to a Dogs Playing Poker, which a character claims is a "great picture". In The Powerpuff Girls 1998 episode "Monkey See, Doggie Do", villain Mojo Jojo turns people into dogs, including a group of men who are playing poker. In the 1999 film The Thomas Crown Affair, Banning believes she finds a stolen Claude Monet painting in Crown's house. On expert examination it turns out to be a fake painted over a copy of Poker Sympathy, a Dogs Playing Poker canvas. In a 2000 episode