Peter Boyle as a police officer who gets reincarnated into a talking bulldog? And you thought Cop Rock was the worst idea for a quirky cop show.

Check out this promo for Poochinski, a rejected pilot about man who presumably offends some whimsical Eastern god and comes back from the dead in dog puppet form.



You can't blame me for thinking this was a Funny or Die-style hoax, especially after that Tim Allen Arbor Daze video Bob posted earlier. But Poochinski was the real deal.

About this time last year, give or take a few days, we reported that veteran actor Leslie Nielsen had signed on to the NBC comedy pilot Lipshitz Saves the World. His role on the show was to be the man who helps the 17-year-old nebbish in the title become the savior that he was destined to be. Unfortunately, the show was not picked up by the network for the fall season. Instead, they picked up another season of Heroes. Cold, heartless bastards!

Because the show wasn't picked up you would think that footage of the pilot would be gone forever. No sir, not in this day and age! Why, you could just go to YouTube -- where unaired pilots go for their final rest -- type in the keyword lipshitz, and you would probably find it fairly easily. We did, and that's why you'll see a preview of the pilot after the jump.