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Dilbert

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202 feature instances
129 referencing feature instances

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Dilbert	label	Dilbert
Dilbert	page	Dilbert
Dilbert	comment	Animated Black Comedy Work Com adaptation of Scott Adams' cult comic that ran for two seasons on UPN from 1999 to 2000, produced by Columbia-TriStar Television, starring the voice of Daniel Stern as Dilbert, an engineer working for a soulless and bureaucratic corporation, underneath an incredibly dimwitted Pointy-Haired Boss (Larry Miller). The opposite of him in almost every way is his dog, Dogbert (Chris Elliott), a morally gray genius who constantly exploits Dilbert, Dilbert's company and everyone else with consummate ease.Adams developed the series with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles, which explains guest voice roles from Jason Alexander (Catbert), Wayne Knight (The Security Guard), and Jerry Seinfeld (Comp-U-Comp).The theme song was a revision of Danny Elfman's opening theme from Forbidden Zone.
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Dilbert / int_116eeb4a	type	Non-Residential Residence
Dilbert / int_116eeb4a	comment	Non-Residential Residence: One episode shows Dilbert's Disappeared Dad has been living inside of the local mall for almost a decade now (turning into a kind of shaman-like Urban Legend amongst the people who go there) and has no plan of leaving any time soon (if ever) because one of the restaurants has an "all you can eat" buffet and Dilbert's Dad absolutely has not eaten "all he could eat" just yet. The mall natives in "The Gift" live inside the mall and speak in store names. Legend has it that they once came to the mall for the early morning power walks before deciding to live inside the mall.
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Dilbert / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
Dilbert / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin appeared in one episode as the judge during a child custody hearing over Dilbert's baby.
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Dilbert / int_125f3ee4	type	Cannot Keep a Secret
Dilbert / int_125f3ee4	comment	Cannot Keep a Secret: When Dilbert gets pregnant, he eventually tells Pointy-Haired Boss, but only on the condition that he keeps it a secret. PHB immediately struggles, so Dilbert allows him to tell just one person who will also keep the secret... in theory. Loud Howard's introduction was this! When PHB is trying to root out a potential mole in the company, he rules out Loud Howard for obvious reasons:
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Dilbert / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Dilbert / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Amazing Rudolph, who Alice calls to debunk the claims about her boss' psychic powers is a clear parody of the Amazing Randi, focusing on the Alternative Character Interpretation held by some of his critics that he actually has paranormal powers. Bob Bastard is Tom Kenny doing a Jack Nicholson impression. The nun featured in "Art" was based on Sister Wendy Beckett, who presented a series of documentaries on the history of art on the BBC and PBS.
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Dilbert / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Dilbert / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Catbert has a sign on his door that indicates his job title is "Evil Director of Human Resources". Also, there's the episode with a character named Bob Bastard:
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Dilbert / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Dilbert / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: In the first episode Dilbert states that it is impossible for a man to transform into a chicken. Despite the fact that, in the comic, Dilbert has been transformed into quite a few things: a troll, a dog, a sheep... Dilbert also objects to Dogbert's theory that all "extinct" species are just hiding, only to be casually greeted by Bob, a dinosaur they both know personally. (In the comic, Dogbert's "theory" as it relates to dinosaurs is explicitly the context for Bob's presence, and Dilbert is well aware of this.)
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Dilbert / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Dilbert / int_14180452	comment	Dilbert also objects to Dogbert's theory that all "extinct" species are just hiding, only to be casually greeted by Bob, a dinosaur they both know personally. (In the comic, Dogbert's "theory" as it relates to dinosaurs is explicitly the context for Bob's presence, and Dilbert is well aware of this.)
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Dilbert / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Dilbert / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: One episode features the usual group creating an invented coworker by the name of Todd which leads to a lot of moments where "Todd" is like a stand-in for God. This is especially prominent when Catbert declares that he "doesn't believe in Todd" which incites Wally who acts like a believer (albeit in a justified manner to cover himself). Throw in bonus points for Catbert's fiery, Satanic entrance. The process of merging is deliberately shown to be like playing the bar scene for sex partners. Right up to an executive telling the Pointy-Haired Boss that he wants to "merge with him right there". In Elbonia, left-handed citizens are subservient to the "right man." In "The Prototype," Lena hypes up her team in what obviously resembles a Hitler rally.
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Dilbert / int_17a969de	type	No OSHA Compliance
Dilbert / int_17a969de	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Common being a Dilbert series. Parodied in one episode where one employee, Bob Bastard, fell into a vat of disfiguring liquid, that's literally the product.
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Dilbert / int_183b52	type	Kafka Komedy
Dilbert / int_183b52	comment	Kafka Komedy: The Premise on which the entire franchise- nay, genre - rests.
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Dilbert / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
Dilbert / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: Dilmom says in "The Merger" that she does love Dilbert; she just doesn't like him.
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Dilbert / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Dilbert / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: A staple of the show's Mundane Fantastic portrayal of the workplace. Employees who get "downsized" become Lilliputians, and at one point the building dies of Sick Building Syndrome.
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Dilbert / int_1f067b97	type	Invented Individual
Dilbert / int_1f067b97	comment	Invented Individual: Todd, a fictional employee Dilbert and the others created to let them claim an unoccupied cubicle for storage space. As Todds legend grew, they create faked employee records and even a photo of Todd, a composite image of Dilbert, Wally, Alice and Loud Howard.
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Dilbert / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Dilbert / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: In "The Assistant", we learn that the assassination was carried out by the company Dilbert works for. They did it "to bring attention to our line of pillbox hats."
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Dilbert / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Dilbert / int_1fc8335e	comment	Except this company keeps his soul. In a pickle jar.
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Dilbert / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
Dilbert / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: The merger threatens to upend Dilbert's workplace and scatter his co-workers. Dilbert finds this sad, which confuses him since (as he readily admits) he doesn't even like his co-workers much of the time. Dilmom and Dogbert remark the co-workers are essentially a surrogate family for him: PHB is similar to his father, Alice and Wally are like siblings, Loud Howard is like an embarrassing uncle, and Asok is like a son. Dilbert finds this all preposterous, but the Garbageman points out the human mind is wired to organize others into such family roles. Dilbert realizes he's right and becomes motivated to stop the merger before it breaks up his family. Unsurprisingly, when it's all over, the sentiment isn't quite shared (unless you count Asok hugging himself).
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Dilbert / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Dilbert / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: We actually get a good look at the world outside Dilbert's office, and it's full of idiots, government corruption, and noxious pop culture.
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Dilbert / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Dilbert / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Loud Howard's sneezes kill people instantly by stripping their flesh to the bone. Midway through a sneezing fit, Alice stops him from sneezing so they can bring someone in from marketing to get rid of him.
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Dilbert / int_23510712	type	Science-Related Memetic Disorder
Dilbert / int_23510712	comment	Science-Related Memetic Disorder: The Knack, "a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical" as well as "utter social ineptitude," exemplified by Dilbert. There is no cure, all who suffer from it are doomed to be engineers.
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Dilbert / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
Dilbert / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Alice thinks so... until the realities of taking care of one drive her to the breaking point.
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Dilbert / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Dilbert / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Alice does this (and much, much worse) to Wally a LOT. At one point, she even punches a hole through a table, reaches up through it to grab his tie, and yanks him down to hit the table face-first (she's also stuffed him into a copier, and tried to drown him in a sea of popcorn). Not just Wally, either. There are characters who serve only as people for Alice to hit.
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Dilbert / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Dilbert / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Bob the Dinosaur's (non-intro) cameo occurs right after Dogbert suggests that all the species that ever existed still exist and are simply in hiding; this is exactly' Bob's backstory in the comics. One episode features a file on Ted the Generic Guy, a minor recurring character who was made a Composite Character with Loud Howard in this series; he then appears in person as a part of Dilbert's Y2K-aversion team.
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Dilbert / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Dilbert / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: During the For Inconvenience, Press "1" scene in "The Return", during the conversation between Dilbert and his coworkers about whether Comp-U-Comp could really operate without any humans, one of the few bits from the phone recording that isn't obscured by dialogue is the option "If you would like to sleep with me, press 73".
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Dilbert / int_2791ae1e	type	Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Dilbert / int_2791ae1e	comment	Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: As shown in "Y2K", Wally had hair when he was a young engineer.
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Dilbert / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Dilbert / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: The 30-second animated shorts produced by RingTales. These, however, were based on specific pre-existing strips (and Dogbert sounds really weird).
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Dilbert / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Dilbert / int_28cd01ca	comment	One episode shows Dilbert's Disappeared Dad has been living inside of the local mall for almost a decade now (turning into a kind of shaman-like Urban Legend amongst the people who go there) and has no plan of leaving any time soon (if ever) because one of the restaurants has an "all you can eat" buffet and Dilbert's Dad absolutely has not eaten "all he could eat" just yet.
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Dilbert / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Dilbert / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Dilbert has issues with the mall because his father abandoned him there when he went to the "All You Can Eat" buffet at the Red Oyster and was never seen again.
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Dilbert / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Dilbert / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade: "I knew I shouldn't have added that option." It's still better than moving to Albany.
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Dilbert / int_2a3e0069	type	Amazonian Beauty
Dilbert / int_2a3e0069	comment	Amazonian Beauty: Lena. Dilbert falls for her hard and fast.
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Dilbert / int_2b851bd4	type	The Scrooge
Dilbert / int_2b851bd4	comment	The Scrooge: The PHB calls Dilbert "the Scrooge of Dogbert Day" when Dilbert points out that his nonsensical ravings about the Dogbert Day celebrations of his youth makes no sense, because this is the first Dogbert Day ever celebrated.
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Dilbert / int_2c1696ec	type	GrossOutShow
Dilbert / int_2c1696ec	comment	Gross-Out Show: A less extreme example. Any time there's vomiting on-screen, expect there to be a lot of it, and for it to be of the non-discrete type, and no opportunity to show a character drinking filthy water is wasted. Easily the grossest episode is "Tower Of Babble," complete with rampant, squicky Body Horror.
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Dilbert / int_2e528f4e	type	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
Dilbert / int_2e528f4e	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: The Dupey, a popular fad toy in the style of Furby, created by Dilbert's company, accidentally turns out to be alive and ends up evolving into a highly intelligent but now ugly species. With the loss of their cuteness, people abandon the Dupeys en masse, and the company attempts to remarket them as a pizza topping, though this fails because nobody wants to eat giant brains that beg for their lives. The Dupeys are discarded in a landfill, and are only spared being eaten by seagulls when Dilbert rescues them.
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Dilbert / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Dilbert / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Petrunyik Vlastominitz, an "Elbonian foster child" who receives 87 cents a week from Dilbert. It turns out that he's a grown man who has countless people "fostering" him at the same rate and is the richest man in Elbonia as a result. An atypical example in that he's fully bearded, like all Elbonian children.
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Dilbert / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Dilbert / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: In "The Name," Dilbert has to come up for the name of a product that doesn't exist and hasn't been conceptualized in any way. His mother suggests "Gruntmaster 6000" apropos of nothing, explaining her logic by saying it's a name for "a stripped-down version of the Gruntmaster 9000." With several other name possibilities shot down, Dilbert finally pitches "Gruntmaster 6000" in desperation, to which the CEO enthuses, "Less features than the Gruntmaster 9000 but just as fun!"
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Dilbert / int_33f095a8	type	Jaded Washout
Dilbert / int_33f095a8	comment	Jaded Washout: A flashback in the Millennium Bug episode indicates that Wally used to be a conscientious and productive employee before he became the slacker he is in the present.
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Dilbert / int_3425e0bf	type	Milestone Celebration
Dilbert / int_3425e0bf	comment	Milestone Celebration: Invoked in "Y2K", where Dilbert refuses to partake in this with the following line:
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Dilbert / int_36a8331c	type	Parody of Evolution
Dilbert / int_36a8331c	comment	Parody of Evolution: The intro.
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Dilbert / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Dilbert / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: About as cynical as a cartoon show can get. Interestingly enough, Dilbert is shown to be on the idealistic side of the scale, a sharp contrast from his comic strip counterpart. Par for the course in this cynical world, his faith in humanity comes back to burn him more often than not.
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Dilbert / int_38e4b69d	type	Mister Seahorse
Dilbert / int_38e4b69d	comment	Several of the episodes, but especially in the two part episode "Pregnancy" and "The Delivery". Dilbert gets pregnant with several different types of animal, human, robot, and alien sperm, and has a baby.
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Dilbert / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Dilbert / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: When the company tries to market Dupeys, a sapient species, as a pizza topping, Dilbert comes up with a campaign encouraging people not to eat them by highlighting their resemblance to insurance salesmen.
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Dilbert / int_3ee91def	type	Fantastic Comedy
Dilbert / int_3ee91def	comment	Fantastic Comedy: Hearkens back to the older comic strips in this regard.
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Dilbert / int_4028c4e	type	Off to See the Wizard
Dilbert / int_4028c4e	comment	Off to See the Wizard: In "Y2K," Dilbert rounding up a group of employees to help him consult HR, punctuated by "We're Off to See the Wizard" playing as part of the score. Once there, Catbert tells each of them that the answers they needed were with them all along: Asok, who wants experience, learns that cynicism serves the same purpose, Alice, who needs more time, is told to skip all the time she spends on her hair and makeup, and Wally, who needs his memory restored, is told that false memories are just as good and provided with several books on hypnosis.
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Dilbert / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Dilbert / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: Dogbert bets Dilbert $20 that it doesn't feel good to give and to settle the bet he asks Dilbert to give him $40 and tell him if it feels good. Dilbert refuses because it wouldn't feel good and it's only when he pays Dogbert the $20 that he realizes he agreed to an unwinnable bet.
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Dilbert / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Dilbert / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Tower of Babel. Dilbert fulfilling his lifelong dream of getting his own office. He then learns he'll only get to keep it for another few minutes due to the company moving back to its original building. He's understandably sad, but takes those few minutes to live out his other dream; closing the door and dancing around his desk in his boxers.
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Dilbert / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Dilbert / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Comp-U-Comp, the psychotic computer mainframe that secretly controls most of the world (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld). When Dogbert briefly shuts it down to let Dilbert win against it in a game of Scrabble, it causes the Earth's rotation to stop. He also claims to be a superior form of life high above humans at every chance he gets.
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Dilbert / int_42148628	type	Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
Dilbert / int_42148628	comment	Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory:invoked Parodied in a (nun) art expert who insists everything is about barely suppressed sexual urges. It's obvious that she's projecting so hard that they could use her for PowerPoint presentations.
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Dilbert / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
Dilbert / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: In the intro sequence, when there is a flythrough of the office. The characters are traditionally-animated, but the whole office and everything else is CG.
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Dilbert / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Dilbert / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Lampshaded in one episode during an office meeting.
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Dilbert / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Dilbert / int_469e3e2f	comment	Comp-U-Comp is an In-Universe example that The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard. Unlike Dogbert, who is more creative in his cheating, Comp bends the rules to allow his Scrabble Babble to count as a valid word. This is despite the Earth needing it to be able to function normally — in other words, it ought to have more flexible thinking. Alternatively, it's precisely because it manages Earth — Comp is used to having access to everything, so it's more reasonable to it to change the rules it's already making.
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Dilbert / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Dilbert / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Asok the intern. Anyone who isn't Catbert, Dogbert, Dilmom, or the Garbageman.
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Dilbert / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Dilbert / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Management is this.
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Dilbert / int_4860478e	type	Constantly Changing Name
Dilbert / int_4860478e	comment	Constantly Changing Name: It's implied that the company is this due to frequent mergers and acquisitions (a notable iteration being "Path-E-Tech Management"), which could explain why it's never named in the comic.
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Dilbert / int_497bdeec	type	Sexy Surfacing Shot
Dilbert / int_497bdeec	comment	Sexy Surfacing Shot: Subverted in the first episode with the VP's story of how he got his Embarrassing Nickname. As a child he was swimming with his friends on a lake when he lost his swim-trunks to a turtle. He tried to stay under the water as long as he could, but was forced to surface from the water due to the cold and the kids promptly nicknamed him "Acorn", due to his Teeny Weenie.
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Dilbert / int_4ab35cdc	type	Dead TV Remote Gag
Dilbert / int_4ab35cdc	comment	Dead TV Remote Gag: When Dogbert complained that the remote wasn't working in one episode, Dilbert advised him to change the battery. He expected this to happen so he purchased a battery on his way home from work the previous day. Dilbert used this to show off his "knack" for electronics, which he loses later in the episode.
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Dilbert / int_4ab9720d	type	I'm Cold... So Cold...
Dilbert / int_4ab9720d	comment	I'm Cold... So Cold...: Used in the episode Holiday. During the Dogbert Day parade, Dilberts obnoxious co-worker, the aptly named Dick, who has spent the entire episode making Dilbert even more miserable than usual, is crushed along with his equally obnoxious SUV by Dogberts giant parade float. As he lies in the wreckage, he utters this trope. Dilbert, who is watching the parade on TV with his mother, remarks that it's the best Dogbert Day ever.
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Dilbert / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Dilbert / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: At the end of "The Trial", an electrocution happens just as the episode ends. When it does, the first credit "shimmers" to go along with it.
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Dilbert / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Dilbert / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: The womanizing Bob Bastard was romantically unsuccessful until after an accident deformed him to the point of Facial Horror, though this seems most directly attributable to the event being the Cynicism Catalyst that turned him into an irresistible scumbag.
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Dilbert / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
Dilbert / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: Albany, New York. One character prefers decapitation to being sent there.
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Dilbert / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Dilbert / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: An epidemic of these in "Tower of Babel" results in the company constructing a new building. Although many of the mutations are rather disturbing (one guy is practically a puddle of flesh, another is skinless, and another has an eyeball for a head), everyone is pretty nonchalant about it, to the point that employees are less concerned about accommodations necessary for them to survive with their mutations than they are about ensuring that they don't get placed near the PHB.
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Dilbert / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Dilbert / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Wally, amazingly enough. As it turned out, he helped install the company's mainframe, and secretly documented the programming in it to point out all of the code that would need to be altered to make it Y2K compliant. And he did all this long before anyone else had even considered the Y2K problem's existence. He then completely forgot about it in the intervening decades. The Gruntmaster 6000 (an exercise machine) has to be tested on its capacity to withstand heavy earthquakes, extreme temperatures and asteroid damage before it's put into production.
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Dilbert / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Dilbert / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Dilbert video tapes himself while he's taking a bath because he ultimately gets all his engineering ideas in the bathtub. During one recording session he drops his soap and is reaching between his legs and says the unfortunate line "It's so small, I can't even find it." When Dogbert ultimately distributes the tape to Dilbert's coworkers, nobody thinks he's talking about soap.
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Dilbert / int_54bbe137	type	Hilarious in Flashback
Dilbert / int_54bbe137	comment	Hilarious in Flashback: The flashbacks in "Y2K" showing Wally as an enthusiastic and dedicated young engineer before life beat him down:
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Dilbert / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Dilbert / int_5640e2c9	comment	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: In "The Competition," Dilbert gets fired and is hired by well-heeled rival company Nirvana Co., where he's taken seriously, given a luxurious office space and furnished with everything he needs to put his ideas into action. The absence of "tension" is so alien to him that he ends up inadvertently convincing the higher-ups to install a marketing department, causing the entire company to collapse almost instantly. He's ultimately happy when he winds up at his old oppressive job again.
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Dilbert / int_5717e34	type	Sincerity Mode
Dilbert / int_5717e34	comment	In "The Famine", Dilbert needs to go to accounting for a budget approval. The office is literally hell, with demons working there. When one of them sarcactically asks if he looks like Santa Claus, Dilbert answers no, that he looks like a completely normal accountant.
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Dilbert / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Dilbert / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Parodied; Dilbert and his co-workers treat the possibility of being reassigned to Albany as though it would be a Fate Worse than Death. It then cuts to a man trudging through a bitter blizzard with the caption "Albany: First Day of Spring".
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Dilbert / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Dilbert / int_57b80b45	comment	In Elbonia, left-handed citizens are subservient to the "right man."
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Dilbert / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
Dilbert / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Alice is smitten with Bob Bastard, but Wally and the Pointy-Haired Boss aren't much better.
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Dilbert / int_59c3b4cd	type	Undead Author
Dilbert / int_59c3b4cd	comment	Undead Author: The story of Lena killing opposing Field Hockey players ends with "None of the witnesses ever talked." When Dilbert asks Wally how they all knew the story then, he revealed it to have come off her website.
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Dilbert / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Dilbert / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: While the series lost its focus on office humor early on in its run, it also reverted to the strip's original format to establish Dilbert as a proper protagonist.
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Dilbert / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Dilbert / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax:
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Dilbert / int_5ac86e7b	type	Advanced Tech 2000
Dilbert / int_5ac86e7b	comment	Advanced Tech 2000: The Gruntmaster 6000 as a arbitrary multiple of 2000.
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Dilbert / int_5b04b205	type	I'm Taking Her Home with Me!
Dilbert / int_5b04b205	comment	I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: Alice, upon seeing an Elbonian baby.
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Dilbert / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Dilbert / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Wally, Alice and Dilbert use the air-conditioning vents as a shortcut to the conference room.
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Dilbert / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
Dilbert / int_5e7163c9	comment	The Amazing Rudolph, who Alice calls to debunk the claims about her boss' psychic powers is a clear parody of the Amazing Randi, focusing on the Alternative Character Interpretation held by some of his critics that he actually has paranormal powers.
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Dilbert / int_5fe4f9db	type	Pull the Plug on the Title
Dilbert / int_5fe4f9db	comment	Pull the Plug on the Title: The theme song ends with the title shorting out and then cutting to Dogbert, twirling the plug while standing beside an outlet.
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Dilbert / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Dilbert / int_6041e4f4	comment	Also happens in Dilbert's Scrabble match with Comp-U-Comp; the latter lays down all of its tiles randomly, spelling "wipqozn". It then proceeds to hack into the dictionary servers and insert the bogus word, thus making it legal.
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Dilbert / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Dilbert / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Bob Bastard, the Jerkass from "The Prototype" who is absolutely determined to make sure every product test fails.
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Dilbert / int_617a1d43	type	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink
Dilbert / int_617a1d43	comment	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: A whole crapton of conspiracies are in effect in the series, ranging from the Secret Ruling Class of which Dogbert is a key member, to Comp-U-Comp, to Dogbert being Deep Throat and in cahoots with a large concerns that manufactures the news, to the company having planned the JFK assassination, the art world being run like organized crime, and NASA covering up the existence of aliens. It's almost like a conspiracy parade. Other than Dogbert being involved in several of them, they don't interact at all.
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Dilbert / int_61ef56f5	type	Inventional Wisdom
Dilbert / int_61ef56f5	comment	Inventional Wisdom: Lena's version of the Depruner has a decapitate setting. It does make some sense considering Lena's backstory, but it doesn't turn out so well when she ends up in it. Lampshade: "I knew I shouldn't have added that option." It's still better than moving to Albany.
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Dilbert / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
Dilbert / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: A Running Gag throughout "The Prototype" is Lena's tendency to decapitate people with abandon. She has a series of jars containing the still-living heads of her victims and sets one aside for Dilbert. She later suffers this herself after falling victim to her own version of an invention she stole from Dilbert, to which she had added a "decapitate" setting.
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Dilbert / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Dilbert / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Dogbert wants Dilbert to sign a will he's written up in "Tower of Babel", it says that Dogbert will inherit all of Dilbert's possessions.
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Dilbert / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Dilbert / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: When Dilbert is offered a glass of warm milk by Dogbert, he notices Wally acting like a cow. Cue Dilbert immediately spitting the milk out.
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Dilbert / int_66c51bf8	type	Buffet Buffoonery
Dilbert / int_66c51bf8	comment	Buffet Buffoonery: Dilbert's father is very Literal-Minded when it comes to all-you-can-eat restaurants.
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Dilbert / int_69806c03	type	Cold Reading
Dilbert / int_69806c03	comment	Cold Reading: The phone psychic in "The Shroud of Wally" has this down to such a science that the whole "conversation" is a recording.
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Dilbert / int_6aada778	type	Only the Chosen May Wield
Dilbert / int_6aada778	comment	Only the Chosen May Wield: Parodied in "The Takeover" when the CEO dies and it turns out that the role is traditionally given to whoever can remove a 9 iron from a bag of golf clubs. Since there's nothing magical about the golf clubs whatsoever, the victor is always the first guy who tries.
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Dilbert / int_6bc499da	type	Diplomatic Impunity
Dilbert / int_6bc499da	comment	Diplomatic Impunity: Dogbert becomes the ambassador to Elbonia so he can follow Dilbert and make sure he doesn't get himself killed. He of course takes the opportunity to loot the country with impunity. The local dictator even hands him control for no reason than that he asked.
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Dilbert / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Dilbert / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Dick from "Holiday". When you make even the cast of Dilbert look like a perfectly nice group of folks by comparison, that name fits you. Bob Bastard. Though he was apparently a decent guy for most of his life. His birthname was Bob Childbornoutofwedlock before his parents changed it before his Start of Darkness. (He was three at the time.) In one episode, Dilbert's company had the name "Path-E-Tech Management". Loud Howard.
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Dilbert / int_6ca5a8c2	type	Master Computer
Dilbert / int_6ca5a8c2	comment	Master Computer: Comp-U-Comp is one of these.
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Dilbert / int_6dec83b9	type	Five-Aces Cheater
Dilbert / int_6dec83b9	comment	Dogbert is always up to dismissing rules if it benefits him, so it doesn't come as a surprise that he cheats in crafty, although comedically blatant, ways even in board games. In Scrabble, for example, he carves new tiles under the table.
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Dilbert / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
Dilbert / int_6eb1268c	comment	Extreme Omnivore: The citizens of Elbonia subsist mostly off the mud that covers the majority of their country. When Dilbert introduces his hybrid plant, the tomeato, in an attempt to stop a nonexistent famine, it ends up draining all the nutrients from the mud, rendering it inedible and starting a REAL famine until the Elbonians learn to properly prepare the tomeato.
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Dilbert / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Dilbert / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Parodied in "Holiday" where all popular holidays are merged into Dogbert Day, which uses the traditions of all holidays, but most of the ones shown are from Christmas (gift giving, "mall Dogberts") and Thanksgiving (giant parade).
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Dilbert / int_709d5e74	type	Parent Never Came Back from the Store
Dilbert / int_709d5e74	comment	Parent Never Came Back from the Store: A variant involving young Dilbert's father and an all-you-can-eat restaurant.
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Dilbert / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
Dilbert / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: In a bit of an unusual bending of the unwritten rules of the comic, Dilbert's company is actually given a name, albeit as a one-off joke that isn't brought up again: they were originally two companies called Pathway and E-Tech Systems, but later on they merged and became Path-E-Tech.
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Dilbert / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
Dilbert / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: Alice reacts with rage and disgust when Lena calls her Dilbert's "girlfriend" in "The Prototype."
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Dilbert / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Dilbert / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Animation for the opening sequence has more improvements than the series. What also helps is that there's also CG. Ratbert's animation in the cold opening to "Hunger" is probably the most fluid of the entire series.
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Dilbert / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Dilbert / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Dilbert sets out to solve a famine in Elbonia by creating a mutant vegetable plant called the Tomeato; unfortunately, the Elbonians aren't actually starving, they subsist on the country's nutrient-rich mud. When Dilbert introduces the Tomeato, it sucks up all the nutrients from the mud, causing a real famine because the Tomeato is inedible and disgusting. On top of that, the Elbonians realize that the Tomeato's innate fertilizer makes it a perfect explosive, leading to them creating WMD's with it and destabilizing the whole region. It takes Dilmom teaching them how to properly prepare the Tomeato so it becomes edible (cooking it like a meat/fruit hybrid which it actually is rather than a vegetable) for the situation to go back to normal.
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Dilbert / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Dilbert / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the intro, Loud Howard is the only character whose startlement at Dogbert's paper airplane is audible over the theme tune.
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Dilbert / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Dilbert / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: In the episode "Testing," Dilbert phones Dogbert (who is in a space rocket with the astronauts) about why women go for jerks. Dogbert explains it before adding this gem: "That, and the fact you look like the illegitimate lovechild of Bill Gates and the Pillsbury Dough Boy." The astronauts hear his conversation and laugh very hard.
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Dilbert / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Dilbert / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Lena's to-do list in 'Prototype': "Decapitate Dilbert, steal idea, 2 quarts milk, a box of muesli..."
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Dilbert / int_80d0d980	type	The Generic Guy
Dilbert / int_80d0d980	comment	The Generic Guy: Ted appears prominently in "Y2K" and is dubbed as so generic that people who have known him for years couldn't describe him.
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Dilbert / int_812fc350	type	Turn of the Millennium
Dilbert / int_812fc350	comment	In the episode where the team is trying to get the company mainframe (an ancient COBOL monstrosity that they should have migrated from a decade before) y2k compliant he doesn't think the year 2000 is at all relevant; the Turn of the Millennium is technically 2001 after all.
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Dilbert / int_8134db87	type	Mechanical Evolution
Dilbert / int_8134db87	comment	Mechanical Evolution: The Dupeys go through this, causing their perceived value to take a hit when they cease to be cute.
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Dilbert / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Dilbert / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Comp-U-Comp is this, and with good reason. The PHB can also get a bit hammy at times.
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Dilbert / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Dilbert / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: The Pointy-Haired Boss is a good deal less mean in the series than he was in the comic strip. The series focuses more on his Cloudcuckoolander qualities; he still does have his moments of spite though as he is a manager after all.
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Dilbert / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Dilbert / int_863fac26	comment	To a lot of things, obviously, but most prominently to marketing people. They are invariably portrayed as imbecilic Jerk Jocks who make a business out of Comically Missing the Point and stealing credit wherever possible. At one point, adding a marketing department to an idealistic company directly caused it to fall apart (literally, as in the building itself physically fell apart and burst into flames.)
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Dilbert / int_87c7f99d	type	Sidetracked by the Analogy
Dilbert / int_87c7f99d	comment	Sidetracked by the Analogy: The Trope Namer is in fine form here.
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Dilbert / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Dilbert / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Dilbert is in the unusual position that his mother prefers his dog over him. She's even noted that while she loves her son, she doesn't particularly LIKE him (she has very high standards).
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Dilbert / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Dilbert / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: When Bob, an executive, is fired, he rages, "I have given my soul to this company!" Cut to an employee adding a vessel labeled "Bob" to a shelf of similarly-labeled Soul Jars.
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Dilbert / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Dilbert / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Dogbert's TV financial round-table. With 3 financial specialists and a drunken bear..
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Dilbert / int_8df81e2d	type	House Amnesia
Dilbert / int_8df81e2d	comment	House Amnesia: "The Knack" has a variant with Dilbert ordering Wally and Alice out of "his" cubicle only for Alice to remind him that it's hers. Unusually Played for Drama in that loss of sense of direction is said to be symptomatic of losing "the Knack," his innate engineering ability.
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Dilbert / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Dilbert / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Dick from Procurement and the PHB's fellow executive Alan
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Dilbert / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Dilbert / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Lena in "The Prototype," an Amazonian Beauty who has (non-fatally) beheaded countless people and seduces her way into Dilbert's house so that she can steal one of his concepts while he's earnestly filling her complicated cocktail order.
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Dilbert / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Dilbert / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: In one episode a corporate director proudly boasts that "There's no way in hell a woman is ever going to sit on this board as long as I'm alive!" Moments later he chokes to death on a donut. One of the PHB's fellow executives has multiple people who go by the fake names Wally gives to protect himself murdered so as to protect the executives' secrets. His final call is for everyone named Alan to be killed, only to remember that his name's Alan just seconds before he's killed. Dilbert's neighbors in "The Off-Site Meeting" spend the entire episode being overly disruptive and causing a huge amount of suffering to Dilbert, to the point that their actions lead to the destruction of his house. However, Dilbert gets the last laugh through the help of Dogbert, as he winds up with their house in its place and with them possibly stranded.
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Dilbert / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Dilbert / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The show switches between traditional ink & paint and digital paint a few times per episode.
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Dilbert / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
Dilbert / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Dilbert's mother predicts Dilbert's every response to her taped message. Shortly thereafter she forced him to return the soda pop bottle he stole on the way out.
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Dilbert / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Dilbert / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Discussed in the first episode regarding Dilbert's custom voice-controlled shower.
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Dilbert / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Dilbert / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Several. Someone on the writing staff REALLY liked projectile vomiting. Alice's arc in the Elbonian episode sees her prospective adoption vomit directly into her face every time she's on screen.
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Dilbert / int_9624326b	type	Sudden Anatomy
Dilbert / int_9624326b	comment	Sudden Anatomy: Done to Dilbert and any other character who typically had No Mouth. The added mouths usually disappear when closed.
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Dilbert / int_964163e9	type	Mistaken for Profound
Dilbert / int_964163e9	comment	Mistaken for Profound: Henry Kissneger insists he doesn't actually know what he's talking about, but his voice drives the chicks wild.
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Dilbert / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Dilbert / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Dilbert often uses practical / scientific methods of solving his problems, as opposed to Dogbert's exploitative and immoral ways. But, when push comes to shove, Dilbert often has no choice but to resort to Dogbert's ideas.
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Dilbert / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Dilbert / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The main characters' reaction to the Contrived Coincidence of the VP's Embarrassing Nickname also being the name they picked.
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Dilbert / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Dilbert / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Parodied in "The Merger" during the last office meeting. PHB fully explains why the merger collapsed, to which Dilbert responds, "I told you that."
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Dilbert / int_9b5a308c	type	Crocodile Tears
Dilbert / int_9b5a308c	comment	Crocodile Tears: A Girl Scout pulls this on Dilbert when he questions why he should buy her cookies to pay for a frivolous vacation when her wealthy family could easily afford it. He folds, which Dogbert mocks him for.
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Dilbert / int_9b76b81	type	Evolutionary Levels
Dilbert / int_9b76b81	comment	Evolutionary Levels: A big deal is often made of various beings being a "superior form of life", such as Comp-U-Comp and the Dupeys. One episode has Ratbert enter with the line "How may I be of service to you superior life forms?"
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Dilbert / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Dilbert / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The Blue Duck from "Art" appears on the wall of a Post Office, as a stamp, briefly in "The Return".
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Dilbert / int_9e03dbd6	type	Mr. Fixit
Dilbert / int_9e03dbd6	comment	Mr. Fixit: The episode "The Knack" depicts Dilbert as this and shows what happens when he loses his ability.
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Dilbert / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Dilbert / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The keynote that Wally used to flag all the areas of the mainframe's code that would have to be changed to prevent the Y2K bug is, naturally, "keynote."
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Dilbert / int_a4328a91	type	For Inconvenience, Press "1"
Dilbert / int_a4328a91	comment	For Inconvenience, Press "1": To an extreme in "The Return". By the Dilbert's call to Comp-U-Comp to inquire about a return is onscreen, he's already up to option 61, and the most relevant option he had gotten required him to speak Mandarin and be inquiring about a tractor. Especially bad since most of the options were there for no apparent relevance to anything and no use other than to be inconvenient. One of the options, heard in the background while Dilbert is explaining this, is "If you would like to sleep with me". He eventually gets transferred to a fulfillment house, which turns out to be managed by his own company, in the cubicle next to his at that.
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Dilbert / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
Dilbert / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: When Dilbert says that the alternative to evolution is "unthinkable," one of these strikes an armchair in his house.
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Dilbert / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Dilbert / int_a60e3252	comment	Plungers and ice cream scoops
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Dilbert / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Dilbert / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Loud Howard, a one-shot joke character in the comic, became a regular part of the cast in the series. Probably as a need to fill in the spot of Ted The Generic Guy with someone... less generic. There are also many more jokes you can do with a character like Loud Howard in animation than are feasible in a static strip format. (He gets to use his No Indoor Voice quality in the first episode, for example, in a joke you probably couldn't pull off at all in a 3-panel strip, and would still be lousy in an 8-panel weekend one. The deadly sneeze joke would be similarly difficult to set up and pull off so quickly, even if it made sense.) Within the show itself, Dilmom, Ratbert, Asok, and Loud Howard. They appeared occasionally in Season 1, but they appeared in most (if not all) of Season 2 and frequently got multiple scenes.
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Dilbert / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Dilbert / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: A very expanded one at that, covering far more than the original strip could.
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Dilbert / int_a6e57875	type	Scrabble Babble
Dilbert / int_a6e57875	comment	Scrabble Babble: Scrabble games with Dilbert's family tend to go this way, including Dilbert losing a challenge on the word "it" because the dictionary they were using was made by his company, or Dogbert making counterfeit Z tiles to spell "quizzing", which is impossible in a legal Scrabble set. Also happens in Dilbert's Scrabble match with Comp-U-Comp; the latter lays down all of its tiles randomly, spelling "wipqozn". It then proceeds to hack into the dictionary servers and insert the bogus word, thus making it legal.
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Dilbert / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Dilbert / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: In general, much like its source material, the only real things that stick are Dilbert and Dogbert living together, the Pointy-Haired Boss being Dilbert's boss, and where he works, plus advice from the Garbageman. Also: "Tower of Babel" starts with the old office's numerous health code violations mutating most of the staff, making the company move to a new building, where Dilbert finally gets his own office. By the end of the episode, everyone is back in the old building (because they ran the cost up so high for all the amenities the company couldn't afford it) but at that point, the staff had adapted to the various poisons and all returned to normal. Sadly this meant Dilbert had to give up his office, but he made it a point to enjoy the few minutes he had with it.
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Dilbert / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Dilbert / int_a70223	comment	Also the closest thing to an aversion of the Karma Houdini antics of the marketing department, as one of the marketing execs is fired over it. But not really an aversion because he gets a fat severance package and will end up with a higher paying job at a better company. Except this company keeps his soul. In a pickle jar.
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Dilbert / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Dilbert / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: While in Elbonia, Dilbert is condemned to execution by firing squad. He's saved when the misfired bullets ricochet off the wall near him and kill his would-be executioners instead.
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Dilbert / int_a849183f	type	Toilet Seat Divorce
Dilbert / int_a849183f	comment	Toilet Seat Divorce: Alice attributes the failure of her marriage to slurping.
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Dilbert / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
Dilbert / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: Parodied in "The Name" when an executive's pet project fails horribly.
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Dilbert / int_ac7cbf8d	type	Myth Arc
Dilbert / int_ac7cbf8d	comment	Myth Arc: Much of season 1 involves Dilbert struggling to get his "Gruntmaster 5000" exercise machine project off the ground.
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Dilbert / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Dilbert / int_ad1db87c	comment	One of the PHB's fellow executives has multiple people who go by the fake names Wally gives to protect himself murdered so as to protect the executives' secrets. His final call is for everyone named Alan to be killed, only to remember that his name's Alan just seconds before he's killed.
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Dilbert / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Dilbert / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Virtually every character on the show is this to some degree or another; however, special mention goes to Dogbert, for whom snark is as natural as respiration itself.
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Dilbert / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Dilbert / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Marketing people can never get the names of anything right.
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Dilbert / int_af8838cb	type	Sneeze of Doom
Dilbert / int_af8838cb	comment	Sneeze of Doom: Loud Howard's sternutations strip the flesh from the skeletons of his targets.
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Dilbert / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Dilbert / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: In "The Knack", PHB tells his employees about a plan to pollute outer space, since the Earth is polluted beyond repair. However, he realizes that "polluting" has negative connotations, and prefers that he and his staff call it "advertising" with billboards in space.
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Dilbert / int_b0c4bf9b	type	Luxury Prison Suite
Dilbert / int_b0c4bf9b	comment	Luxury Prison Suite: When Dilbert is accused of murdering the world's most famous scientists, he's put in a cell with all the amenities and even an internet connection.
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Dilbert / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Dilbert / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Played for Laughs. In "The Knack", Dilmom took a young Dilbert to a pediatrician to find out what was causing his odd, unchildlike behavior, only for the doctor (aka the Garbageman filling in for the regular doctor) to diagnose him with The Knack, an innate knowledge and talent with mechanics and computers. When asked if Dilbert would be able to live a normal life...
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Dilbert / int_b3860333	type	Droste Image
Dilbert / int_b3860333	comment	Droste Image: The Pointy-Haired Boss shows a slideshow of his trip to Elbonia. The final slide is of himself showing the final slide, which loops endlessly.
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Dilbert / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Dilbert / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To a lot of things, obviously, but most prominently to marketing people. They are invariably portrayed as imbecilic Jerk Jocks who make a business out of Comically Missing the Point and stealing credit wherever possible. At one point, adding a marketing department to an idealistic company directly caused it to fall apart (literally, as in the building itself physically fell apart and burst into flames.) The Dupeys find refuge in a place where their vast intellect is appreciated and physical appearance is ignored: Apple Inc. In "The Famine", Dilbert needs to go to accounting for a budget approval. The office is literally hell, with demons working there. When one of them sarcactically asks if he looks like Santa Claus, Dilbert answers no, that he looks like a completely normal accountant.
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Dilbert / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Dilbert / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: When Dilbert says people should know better than to listen to anecdotal evidence and rely on real scientific evidence, Dogbert points out he never actually reads scientific studies himself; he relies entirely on the same mass media that is pushing the health scare he's railing against.
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Dilbert / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
Dilbert / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: An Omnidisciplinary Engineer. Dilbert. He builds spacecraft, (phony) medical devices (to cure a phony disease), complex computer networks, voice activated showers...
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Dilbert / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Dilbert / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Bob the Dinosaur only has a brief cameo in one episode. Strangely, he's prominently featured in the credit sequence.
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Dilbert / int_bab7fceb	type	Incredible Shrinking Man
Dilbert / int_bab7fceb	comment	Incredible Shrinking Man: While no actual shrinking takes place on screen. When workers are downsized they are "literally" downsized, as in "reduced to Littleput-style humans", which take up residence in the office crawlspaces and steal their markers.
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Dilbert / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Dilbert / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: In one episode, Dogbert points out it that if you just depend on mass media to tell you scientific evidence exists without reading any of it, you're really not much better than the people who fall for scams like fake diseases sold using mass media.
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Dilbert / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Dilbert / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The Boss HATES being corrected. Doing so is the one sure-fire way to get him to assign you the worst tasks. Alice hates slurping to the point where she claims it ruined her marriage. Dilbert later exploits this fact to turn her against Bob Bastard.
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Dilbert / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Dilbert / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Team Lena in Episode 3 is a combination of this and a thinly veiled parody of The Church of Happyology.
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Dilbert / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Dilbert / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The show's opening sequence (why does he turn into a printed image and back?). Several of the episodes, but especially in the two part episode "Pregnancy" and "The Delivery". Dilbert gets pregnant with several different types of animal, human, robot, and alien sperm, and has a baby.
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Dilbert / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Dilbert / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Bob Bastard. His original name was Bob Bornoutofwedlock, but his parents had it changed to Bastard when he was six.
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Dilbert / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Dilbert / int_c335b9ec	comment	Even funnier was that the aforementioned throat medicine actually worked; one victim commented how his "throat was moist and the raspiness was gone" right before keeling over. Note that this was likely the one time a product from Dilbert's company did what it was supposed to do.
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Dilbert / int_c58a2047	type	Brain Drain
Dilbert / int_c58a2047	comment	Brain Drain: Attempted in the episode with the merger with the company that does just that to their acquisitions.
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Dilbert / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Dilbert / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: The Pointy-Haired Boss' entire system of thought runs on this.
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Dilbert / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Dilbert / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Due to a tape of a demonstration for a de-wrinkler being switched for one of Dilbert Bathing: "I HAVE DILBERT AND SEX IN THE SAME PART OF MY BRAIN!!!"
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Dilbert / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dilbert / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To The Wizard of Oz in two different episodes. Multiple refs to Star Trek were in there: Dilbert's cubicle has a model of the Enterprise in it, Dilbert has a Star Trek calendar in his study in several episodes, in "Testing" while on the Space Shuttle, we see that Gene Roddenberry ended up in a Constitution-class ship with the saucer replaced by a casket, in "Little People", he thinks an air-conditioning duct is a Jefferies tube, in "The Takeover" Dogbert fabricates a scandal that involved the CEO of Path-E-Tech and the cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in an orgy, and in "The Gift" Dilbert is woken up by a Seven-of-Nine alarm clock (voiced by Jeri Ryan herself!) and Hilarity Ensues. While the theme song doesn't count, as it's just a new arrangement of Danny Elfman's theme from Forbidden Zone, most of the show's music score is, appropriately, In the Style of Oingo Boingo.
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Dilbert / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Dilbert / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Dilbert's fear of the mall was caused by his father abandoning him to go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant.
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Dilbert / int_c9a33c23	type	Mundane Afterlife
Dilbert / int_c9a33c23	comment	Mundane Afterlife: Dilbert has a near-death experience after getting hit in the head at a gas station and finds himself in a bright-lit void, with only a cubicle office in it, complete with desk, chair and computer. He feels somewhat let down over it. Later in the episode, the clients in a pyramid scheme form a cult around Wally after a capsule of "religious artifacts" (in reality the remains of the office birthday kit), crashes into their meeting, among which is the page photo seen above. Part of their religion is that you spend the afterlife with Wally. When Dilbert has a second near death experience, he finds himself back in the cubicle, only now, Wally is occupying a second cubicle next to his.
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Dilbert / int_ca198bc3	type	Paintball Episode
Dilbert / int_ca198bc3	comment	Paintball Episode: One episode had Alice use paintball as an ice breaker party game. INSIDE Dilbert's house! It gets worse from there.
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Dilbert / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Dilbert / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: The Pointy-Haired Boss.
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Dilbert / int_cb71c461	type	Deus Exit Machina
Dilbert / int_cb71c461	comment	Deus Exit Machina: Dogbert in "The Off-Site Meeting."
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Dilbert / int_cb8880a5	type	Soul-Crushing Desk Job
Dilbert / int_cb8880a5	comment	Soul-Crushing Desk Job: As in the comic strip, this is the show's essential theme.
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Dilbert / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Dilbert / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: The cold open of "Little People" has Dilbert and Dogbert arguing over the validity of evolution while watching a TV show about paleontologists claiming to have found the missing link. While Dilbert defends evolutionary theory, the show they're watching is more interested in dogma than in evidence; when a native turns up the vase that the "skull fragment" the scientists found is clearly broken off, one of the scientists breaks the vase.
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Dilbert / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Dilbert / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: An officer in command of a sniper team says "oh, shoot" after hearing bad news, provoking the team to fire, prompting him to say it again, causing more fire. Then he lampshades it by saying "I've gotta come up with a new swear word".
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Dilbert / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Dilbert / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Lena falls into her Depruner, which also includes a Decapitation feature.
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Dilbert / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Dilbert / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Dilbert gets these a lot, even though the problems he's being called out for are caused more by the stupidity around him rather than his own ideas. A great example would be Nirvana Co., who blamed Dilbert for destroying their company by suggesting that a Marketing Department be started, even though he was constantly trying to tell them that he wasn't suggesting it. Of course, this made him a well-known industry figure and benefited him in the long run... The details of what Nirvana Company tried to claim are unclear (as we only get Dilbert's disjointed reading from an article about the collapse of the company) but they appear to have tried to blame it on Dilbert's spur-of-the-moment idea for an underwater barbecue instead of the ill-advised marketing department. Oddly enough, one of the few times where Dilbert did genuinely screw up (in the episode "The Knack", where Dilbert accidentally knocks most of the communication satellites around Earth out of alignment), he is actually praised for it. Sort of, anyway. It's hard to tell if Alice's tone is because she's actually angry or because Alice always sounds angry, since she's usually angry anyway. In the end of the episode, when his attempt to fix it seems to have failed, the crowd is ready to lynch him because "for a few moments we had hope!"
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Dilbert / int_d8e0e9f7	type	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
Dilbert / int_d8e0e9f7	comment	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Dilbert's dad THINKS he does, anyway; he left his son to take up the challenge of a nearby seafood buffet, and won't leave the mall until he's certain he's had all he can eat. He's been there for a good 20 years now, and views his task as a sort of Zen philosophy.
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Dilbert / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Dilbert / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A lot of bizarre things happen at Path-E-Tech, and it's barely reacted to by the cast. Applies when outside the office, too — nobody questions talking dogs in positions of power, an accounting department run by trolls, etc.
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Dilbert / int_da1211b4	type	Security Cling
Dilbert / int_da1211b4	comment	Security Cling: Alice and Wally do this to Dilbert while Bob Bastard is testing the Gruntmaster 6000.
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Dilbert / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
Dilbert / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Parodied with the villainous Bob Bastard; before telling his flashback he lights a cigar in an attempt to act like a suave supervillain, and then eats it shortly after.
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Dilbert / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Dilbert / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Taken to its (il)Logical Extreme when Dilbert, who normally is dateless, gets wrongfully convicted of murder. Once Dilbert is led to his prison cell, the prison guard gives him a large sack of mail, which he mentions are mostly marriage proposals, as "murder is aphrodisiac to the opposite sex". Surprisingly, Alice seems susceptible to this trope. In the same episode mentioned above she marries two death row inmates while they are being prepped for execution, only to lose interest in one when he's found to be innocent. She also falls hard for Bob Bastard, even though he treats Alice like dirt, and it's shown in Bob's flashback that his transformation into a jerk made him irresistible to women who previously scorned him at every opportunity.
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Dilbert / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Dilbert / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The first episode has a doozy - after debating for a full day, they decide to name their product "Acorn"... which also happens to be the Embarrassing Nickname of the VP they're presenting it to, and his parents were the owners of the business they'd had to buy the name from.
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Dilbert / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Dilbert / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: In the episode "Y2K", as Asok is viewing code on an old computer mainframe, he claims the code is COBOL, a legacy programming language. Not only is the code we see on-screen not COBOL, it is (invalid) C++, the biggest language in the business. It appears to be a sample from a programming tutorial. In this case, the writers got it right and the artists got it wrong. A business system from the era depicted would likely be written in COBOL, and the artists just didn't bother getting any code snippets of it. note Most of the Y2K problems were, in fact, with COBOL systems. If you knew any COBOL back then, you could make a pretty penny as a Y2K compliance contractor.
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Dilbert / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
Dilbert / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: Dogbert is always up to dismissing rules if it benefits him, so it doesn't come as a surprise that he cheats in crafty, although comedically blatant, ways even in board games. In Scrabble, for example, he carves new tiles under the table. Comp-U-Comp is an In-Universe example that The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard. Unlike Dogbert, who is more creative in his cheating, Comp bends the rules to allow his Scrabble Babble to count as a valid word. This is despite the Earth needing it to be able to function normally — in other words, it ought to have more flexible thinking. Alternatively, it's precisely because it manages Earth — Comp is used to having access to everything, so it's more reasonable to it to change the rules it's already making. Dilbert's mom makes liberal use of counterfeit vowels at Scrabble. It's meant to contrast how for all of her technological genius, she needs to nearly break a language-based game's rules to be up to par. It also can be interpreted as her being shrewd. To sum up, everyone but Dilbert cheats at Scrabble, which goes to show that he's the most honest character, if only because everyone else is so terrible.
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Dilbert / int_de999021	type	Rage Quit
Dilbert / int_de999021	comment	Rage Quit: The Pointy-Haired Boss's reaction when a pineapple beats him at chess.
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Dilbert / int_e075be83	type	Inanimate Competitor
Dilbert / int_e075be83	comment	Inanimate Competitor: When the company holds a charity drive, the Pointy Haired Boss chooses the company's three most worthless employees to see who can raise the most money. The three candidates are Wally, a dead guy who was found in the stairwell, and the dead guy's chair, which is given the name "Ronald".
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Dilbert / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Dilbert / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Dilbert doesn't really have a traditional villain per se due to the series being a Satire on corporate life and the cut and thrust of business; the Pointy-Haired Boss is more of a Friendly Enemy and a Mean Boss (but not a Bad Boss) rather than a Big Bad and actively working against Dilbert. Catbert, while seen as a villain in the original comic strip is more of a Plot-Irrelevant Villain than an actual antagonist and hasn't actually done anything totally evil in this adaptation. The only real antagonist, Lena, a Brawn Hilda from Season 1, was Killed Off for Real in her debut episode and was more of a Villainy-Free Villain rather than a Big Bad with an overarching scheme.
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Dilbert / int_e0e52562	type	Loves the Sound of Screaming
Dilbert / int_e0e52562	comment	Loves the Sound of Screaming: Wally, if his cheerful listening to the audio entertainment on Elbonian Airlines is anything to go by.
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Dilbert / int_e1bd7a4e	type	You're Just Jealous
Dilbert / int_e1bd7a4e	comment	You're Just Jealous: Dilbert accuses Alice of being this after he falls for their aggressive rival Lena.
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Dilbert / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Dilbert / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: The Pointy-Haired Boss is very much this. He can't even win a game of chess against a pineapple. It's not uncommon for other minor occurring characters to be this as well, particularly anyone in marketing. His intelligence does jump when it would be funny though, like when he suddenly stepped in and successfully looted the assets of a company Dilbert accidentally destroyed (in this case, Comp-U-Comp was the victim).
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Dilbert / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Dilbert / int_e4965307	comment	One episode features a file on Ted the Generic Guy, a minor recurring character who was made a Composite Character with Loud Howard in this series; he then appears in person as a part of Dilbert's Y2K-aversion team.
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Dilbert / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
Dilbert / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: Dilbert needs to acquire the name of a dry cleaners that won't sell. Dogbert solves this problem by going to a vibrating chair place several stores down in the same building complex and activating all the chairs. The vibration causes a chain reaction in the neighboring stores — which sell various flammable things — until the dry cleaners at the other end burns down.
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Dilbert / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
Dilbert / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks Plungers and ice cream scoops Ratbert and Catbert wield a literal torch and pitchfork in the title sequence.
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Dilbert / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Dilbert / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: In a first-season episode, Dogbert is seen on TV chairing a group discussion of the financial markets. One participant asks if they're talking about the stock market, which Dogbert confirms. He responds:
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Dilbert / int_eaf83237	type	The Grotesque
Dilbert / int_eaf83237	comment	The Grotesque: Bob Bastard wears a wrestling mask to cover up his disfigured face. He wasn't exactly good-looking before his accident either though.
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Dilbert / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Dilbert / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: In one episode the Pointy-Haired Boss has instituted harsh security measures to protect trade secrets: many people are tied up and can't move or speak through the gags, though Loud Howard can.
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Dilbert / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Dilbert / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Dick from "Holiday". When you make even the cast of Dilbert look like a perfectly nice group of folks by comparison, that name fits you.
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Dilbert / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Dilbert / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: The appropriately-named Loud Howard. There's a reason his picture is on the header for that trope's page.
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Dilbert / int_f5ab45cb	type	Incompetence, Inc.
Dilbert / int_f5ab45cb	comment	Scrabble games with Dilbert's family tend to go this way, including Dilbert losing a challenge on the word "it" because the dictionary they were using was made by his company, or Dogbert making counterfeit Z tiles to spell "quizzing", which is impossible in a legal Scrabble set.
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Dilbert / int_f609fcfe	type	Fictional Holiday
Dilbert / int_f609fcfe	comment	Fictional Holiday: Much of "Holiday" revolves around the celebration of Dogbert Day, which Dogbert manages to get signed into federal law as a replacement for all other holidays. Besides taking the salient features of those holidays, it has its own set of traditions such as uncomfortable headgear, a feast of bald eagle, and a drum solo played on the skull with spoons (and, if the Pointy-Haired Boss is to be believed, a Virgin Sacrifice).
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Dilbert / int_f79c0820	type	Idiot Houdini
Dilbert / int_f79c0820	comment	Idiot Houdini: In "The Trial", the Pointy-Haired Boss and the police cause Dilbert to be arrested for crimes that they were responsible for causing through their own obliviousness (reckless driving and killing Nobel Prize winners, respectively) and face no repercussions for it. In fact, Wally ends up being the loser at the end even though he didn't do anything wrong in the context of the episode. It may potentially have been done because Dilbert is treated well and manages to be quite happy in his situation, but it still is a bit of an oddity.
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