Dilbert (5)

1 Name: Couch Potato : 2007-12-28 21:33 ID:AtUeuBL+

Am I the only one who remembers the 1999-2000 TV show?

2 Name: Couch Potato : 2007-12-29 00:25 ID:jmv32ER0

i remember the reruns. think they used to show it on comedy central or spike after midnight

3 Name: Couch Potato : 2007-12-31 00:06 ID:9f3QPfGE

"Am I the only one who remembers..."

Is a lame way of trumpting how more "with it" you are, or that you are an "old fag", for whatever status you think that grants you on the internet. Go die in a fire.

4 Name: Couch Potato : 2008-01-01 22:19 ID:Heaven

>>3

>a lame way of trumpting how more "with it" you are, or that you are an "old fag"

Never thought of it that way, but it rings with some truth.

5 Name: Couch Potato : 2008-01-04 04:35 ID:AtUeuBL+

No, I really just wondered if anyone else remembered it. Was the show famous enough for knowing it to make me "with it"? I didn't think so. It didn't achieve mainstream success and ended after two years. (Besides, why trumpet anything when I'm anonymous? I don't care what people think about "ID:AtUeuBL+")

Regardless, it was pretty funny. I found my old tapes and have been watching again... I don't watch a lot of TV, but apparently the satirical, cynical style of the show was somewhat unusual. Like when Dilbert holds a press conference at the site of a black hole:

Dilbert: I'll answer any engineering or scientific questions about the black hole phenomenon.
Newsman: Has anyone famous ever had sexual relations near a black hole?
Dilbert: Not that I know of...
Newswoman: Then you don't deny that someone famous has had sexual relations near a black hole!
Dilbert: Does anyone have a question about the science?
Newsman: There's nothing here.
(crowd of reporters leaves)

And the crazy exaggerations, like of the boss's ineptitude. This is really funny with the timing it has in the show:

Boss (over the phone): Good work, Wally. When you get back, remind me which one you are.
Wally: You got it.
Boss: And remind me why you went over there and what you did.
Wally: I will.
Boss: And while you're at it, maybe you can tell me who the hell I am. (eyes get big)
Wally: I'll... see what I can do.

There are a couple episodes that seem to be thinly disguised criticism of religion, like "The Shroud of Wally", where people find an outline of Wally's face on a tablecloth he used as a napkin, decide it's a sign, and form a religion around him. They leave and go home when he states values that make the religion un-fun to follow. In another, Dilbert, Wally, Alice, and Asok invent a fictional employee named Todd (hence "act of Todd", "where's your Todd now"), etc. Another episode has Dilbert inventing a cute toy creature, but it evolves into a higher life form, which people hate because it's ugly. Then there's one where the garbage man revives Benjamin Franklin, who says of the election system, "I suppose you've figured out by now that it was all a big joke."

While the show is very much the typical sitcom in some ways, I find it interesting that something so abjectly cynical ended up getting animated.

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