Ever since we unlocked the action to buy Itchy and Scratchy, all the posters in this thread have been asking themselves the same question: where's poochie?
well after hours of discussion with the qms, it is my privilege, honor, and duty to elucidate this cartoonist's conundrum
Poochy, as we understand him, doesn't not and potentially may never exist
Now, what do I mean by this? I'm sure you've seen the episode, Itchy and Scratchy clearly interact with him in the show(or aleast see the guy) so what gives?
Well to explain, first we have to go over the differences between a Natural Toon and a Created Toon.
Natural Toons are people hired by studios to make cartoons, often while consenting to changes in their voice or design. These Toons have an inherent desire to spread joy, whimsy, and general positivity to those around them, specially nontoons.
Poochie is a Created Toon, meaning the studio itself came together to give him form. We actually see this in the episode itself, but without the weight of a living breathing soul on the line.
If Natural toons want to spread joy, Created Toons need it in order to truly form. Otherwise theyre just meaningless ink on a page. Until they spread this joy, Created Toons are nothing more than golems of raw "toonmatter" that the executives are trying to weekend-at-burnies into existence. Like a trap door in Scooby-Doo that's drawn instead of being painted to denote that it's supposed to be interacted with.
In theory, it's incredibly easy to give created toons enough whimsy(hereafter refered to as positivity) to form. With the miracle of mass broadcasting, these Toons can be exposed to thousands of people who could potentially find joy in their existence.
Hell, this Positivity doesn't even have to be directed at the Toon themselves! Setting up jokes, providing a tone, or any other thing could potentially even incarnate a background character!
In short, it's an incredibly low bar to make a toon like poochy into a Real Boy, and the brain trusts at Itchy and Scratchy Studios limboed under it like it was the Olympics. Poochy not only failed to elicit joy, he failed to assist humor. Hell, regularly stopped jokes before they could starting a less improv-savvy bonkers bobcat
The Poochy we know is not a person, he is a lifeless Pinocchio puppeted by out of touch fools who tried to bottle lightning to create life and failed to an unprecedented degree.
For now, Poochie's lifeless form is collecting dust, possibly stored in a vault separate from the lifeless background characters he calls kin.
And there he will remain until someone gives him a chance
Any questions and comments are appreciated
