Animation Damnation - Dilbert: "Little People"
Added 2022-08-17 14:22:40 +0000 UTCOn this month's super-sized AD, the guys are chatting about what Chris Cabin so rightly deemed "Libertarian Wallace and Gromit," it's the endlessly obnoxious Dilbert!
The episode in question, "Little People," originally aired back on April 5, 1999, and features Dilbert getting accused of looking at pornography at work, Dogbert admitting he doesn't believe in evolution, a bunch of employees getting high on markers, and an army of tiny people living beneath the floor of the office! PLUS: Did Ben Shapiro model his personality after Dogbert?
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
I always liked the dilbert cartoon as a kid, never knew any of the creator becoming a nutcase stuff though.
Kureigu
2025-04-07 07:19:44 +0000 UTCEric and the rest of the gang are spot on with the take on the office potluck/pizza party. Some food from your gross coworker’s gross house? No thanks! Your employer acting like you should blow them for getting you some shitty Little Caesars pizza? Nope!
George Corrigan
2022-10-02 11:55:12 +0000 UTCNever knew this cartoon existed and damn glad I never saw it because yuck. I think I can only count on one hand how many Dilbert strips I found funny in the past 20+ years even with having an office job.
Daniel Hood
2022-08-22 02:19:22 +0000 UTC"You're chugging your Fruitopia, you're stroking your fuckin troll's hair, having a great...great time." Pure poetry.
FiddlersGreenDay
2022-08-21 15:53:52 +0000 UTCWho else rushed to IMDB to confirm that it was a different David Silverman?
Erin Hardy
2022-08-21 00:03:47 +0000 UTCThere were definitely red flags throughout his career going back to the late 90s.
Justine Prudhomme
2022-08-19 07:30:23 +0000 UTCI first noticed a shift in Adams's work when reading The Dilbert Future. His attributing his success to the power of positivity and writing down affirmations was jarring coming from someone who had thus far presented himself as a skeptic. (Rhonda's Byrne's "The Secret" made similar claims.) For me, his tendency toward contrarianism gradually turned him from a skeptic to an out-and-out eccentric. Everybody thought Dilbert was an alter-ego for Adams, when he was actually Dogbert the whole time.
TheToad
2022-08-19 06:52:26 +0000 UTCI did like the Dilbert strip back in the late '90s/early 2000's, had several of the book collections. But never saw this cartoon, and lost interest before I noticed what a horrible person Adams is. This doesn't sound like the strip I enjoyed, but I could have just been a stupid kid and now blinded by nostalgia.
Velcro Gibbon
2022-08-18 23:38:13 +0000 UTCRemember Silly Slammers? My dad was a big Dilbert fan (and also a techy IT guy) and had Silly Slammers of Dilbert, Dogbert, and the Pointy-Haired Boss on top of the family computer. Dilbert comics were really the only comic collections that our family had, so sadly I read a lot but I was like, six, so I never really got it. It was a great day when I picked up a Garfield book at a yard sale.
Bumblepuppy
2022-08-18 21:59:18 +0000 UTCI owned a few collections of Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and Far Side in my preteen years. Dilbert got sent to the yard sale over a decade ago for obvious reasons but I look forward to sharing the other two with my kids when they get older. For me Calvin and Hobbes still remains a beloved and generally untouched piece of nostalgia and those seem less and less common these days.
Alexander Farr
2022-08-18 15:48:24 +0000 UTCThat makes a lot of sense. The gulf between the good strips and everything else is immense.
Paul DeCoursey-Clark
2022-08-18 15:28:00 +0000 UTCI love all of Eric's feelings about humanity and they mirror a lot of my own. So, I hate myself a little bit for loving office food so much. I think it's because the food is the only bonus we're allowed any more ...
Paul DeCoursey-Clark
2022-08-18 15:10:58 +0000 UTCThe bit about Dogbert criticizing Dilbert’s masturbation game gave me flashbacks of A Boy and His Dog. I can picture Dogbert muttering, “Breeding is an ugly thing,” while watching Dilbert get it wet.
luxmeansbucks
2022-08-18 05:46:14 +0000 UTCI need to know more about the new theme song!! It's so cosmic and gorgeous. I'd love to hear it as an isolated track!
Franny McCabe-Bennett
2022-08-18 05:05:47 +0000 UTCDriven narcissist. Look up stories about how he thought his "Dilberito" frozen food was a failure not because by all accounts they tasted terrible and made you incredibly flatulent, but because "big frozen pizza" was sending agents to grocery stores and hiding the stock behind other products. He's also run at least one restaurant into the ground. He just has this trail of failed ideas behind him much like one D. Trump.
Sibyl Arnett
2022-08-18 01:05:13 +0000 UTCWhat happened to Scott Adams? I mean maybe he was always an asshole, but he must have had some kind of ability to...you know, not be a complete maniac or he wouldn't have gotten off the ground in the first place. My guess? Like Rudy Giuliani, papa likes the hooch.
Michael Daniels
2022-08-17 23:22:36 +0000 UTCThe pizza slice discussion was worth a Patreon membership on its own.
AllegedBeef
2022-08-17 21:35:52 +0000 UTCSigh. I was an IT person and Dilbert strips were everywhere. The best strips were about very current issues in IT that a cartoonist wouldnt have known about - cos Scott Adams openly solicited suggestions for strips from fans
Andrew Dean
2022-08-17 21:02:10 +0000 UTCIf Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year. - Scott Adams real tweet
Paddy O'Rourke
2022-08-17 19:47:38 +0000 UTCEvolution is indeed a longstanding hobby horse for Adams, but not for creationist reasons, which would be too common: https://twitter.com/electriceden92/status/1544834239522390017
Tyler Weeks
2022-08-17 18:34:43 +0000 UTCI remember Comedy Central playing reruns of this for a while in the early 2000s. It must've been one of those things they licensed and just ran endlessly. Maybe I'm mashing two memories together, but I distinctly remember some weekend where they did a marathon of Dilbert followed by a marathon of Gallagher specials. The pre-streaming era was weird.
K
2022-08-17 17:58:15 +0000 UTCI'm ashamed to admit that at age 14 in 1997 (the height of Dilbert-mania), I had my phase where I was really into Dilbert. I owned MULTIPLE Dilbert collections, including one with a "creator's commentary" with Scott Adams' "VERY important" thoughts. It's amazing that didn't screw me up. Let me say that Andrew nailed it when he said that Dogbert was closer to Scott Adams' actual voice/how he views himself (smarter than everyone else). But yeah, in hindsight, this show fucking sucked. Hard.
Justine Prudhomme
2022-08-17 16:59:52 +0000 UTCWe have become Dilbert, destroyer of Worlds
Matt
2022-08-17 16:21:03 +0000 UTCDoes anyone remember the Trolls attempt to rip off Ninja Turtles with their action cartoon show in the 1990’s called STONE PROTECTORS?
Maurice Jones
2022-08-17 15:36:57 +0000 UTC
