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* AbsurdBrandName: The company is planning to unveil a new product, but are having a devil of a time finding a name for the product that isn't already trademarked, and thus are forced to trademark the name "Gruntmaster".
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The Knack flashback showed the Garbageman being Dilbert's doctor in the past briefly.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: PlayedForLaughs. 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 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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* FateWorseThanDeath: PlayedForLaughs. 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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* BrickJoke: Before leaving for Elbonia Dilbert reads that the leading cause of death in the country is "Self-inflicted gunshot wounds". Later in the episode a firing squad attempts to execute him, only for all of them to kill themselves via [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy ricochets off the wall behind him]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Taken to its (il)LogicalExtreme when Dilbert, who normally is HollywoodDateless, 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".
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Taken to its (il)LogicalExtreme when Dilbert, who normally is HollywoodDateless, 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".
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* SneezeOfDoom: Loud Howard's sternutations strip the flesh from the skeletons of his targets.
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* SuperOCD: Dilbert knows how many staples are in his stapler and has his Scotch Tape measured down to the millimeter.
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* HollywoodBoardGames:
** 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 [[FiveAcesCheater comedically blatant]], ways even in board games. In ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'', for example, he carves new tiles under the table.
** Comp-U-Comp is an InUniverse example that TheComputerIsACheatingBastard. Unlike Dogbert, who is more creative in his cheating, Comp bends the rules to allow his ScrabbleBabble 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.
** 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 [[FiveAcesCheater comedically blatant]], ways even in board games. In ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'', for example, he carves new tiles under the table.
** Comp-U-Comp is an InUniverse example that TheComputerIsACheatingBastard. Unlike Dogbert, who is more creative in his cheating, Comp bends the rules to allow his ScrabbleBabble 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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* DeadTVRemoteGag: 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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* AIIsACrapshoot: Comp-U-Comp, the psychotic computer mainframe that secretly controls most of the world (voiced by Creator/JerrySeinfeld). 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''. [[AGodAmI He also claims to be a superior form of life high above humans]] at every chance he gets.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Comp-U-Comp, the psychotic computer mainframe that secretly controls most of the world (voiced by Creator/JerrySeinfeld). When Dogbert briefly shuts it down to let Dilbert win against it in a game of Scrabble, ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'', it causes the ''Earth's rotation to stop''. [[AGodAmI He also claims to be a superior form of life high above humans]] at every chance he gets.
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* FiveAcesCheater: Dogbert cheats at scrabble by hand-carving tiles under the table. When he plays "Quizzing" to score 188 points, Dilbert becomes suspicious because he thought the scrabble set only has one Z.
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* FiveAcesCheater: Dogbert cheats at scrabble ''Scrabble'' by hand-carving tiles under the table. When he plays "Quizzing" to score 188 points, Dilbert becomes suspicious because he thought the scrabble ''Scrabble'' set only has one Z.
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* ScrabbleBabble: 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 [[IncompetenceInc 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". [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard It then proceeds to hack into the dictionary servers and insert the bogus word, thus making it legal.]]
** Also happens in Dilbert's Scrabble match with Comp-U-Comp; the latter lays down all of its tiles randomly, spelling "wipqozn". [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard It then proceeds to hack into the dictionary servers and insert the bogus word, thus making it legal.]]
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* ScrabbleBabble: Scrabble ScrabbleBabble:
** ''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 [[IncompetenceInc his company]], or Dogbert making counterfeit Z tiles to spell "quizzing", which is impossible in a legalScrabble ''Scrabble'' set.
** Also happens in Dilbert'sScrabble ''Scrabble'' match with Comp-U-Comp; the latter lays down all of its tiles randomly, spelling "wipqozn". [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard It then proceeds to hack into the dictionary servers and insert the bogus word, thus making it legal.]]
** ''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 [[IncompetenceInc his company]], or Dogbert making counterfeit Z tiles to spell "quizzing", which is impossible in a legal
** Also happens in Dilbert's
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{{Animated|Sitcom}} BlackComedy WorkCom adaptation of [[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Scott Adams' cult comic]] that ran for two seasons on UPN from 1999 to 2000, produced by [[Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision Columbia-[=TriStar=] Television]], starring the voice of Creator/DanielStern as Dilbert, an engineer working for a soulless and bureaucratic corporation, underneath an incredibly thick-witted, PointyHairedBoss (Creator/LarryMiller). The opposite of him in almost every way is his dog, Dogbert (Creator/ChrisElliott), a morally gray genius who constantly exploits Dilbert, Dilbert's company and everyone else with consummate ease.
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{{Animated|Sitcom}} BlackComedy WorkCom adaptation of [[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Scott Adams' cult comic]] that ran for two seasons on UPN from 1999 to 2000, produced by [[Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision Columbia-[=TriStar=] Television]], starring the voice of Creator/DanielStern as Dilbert, an engineer working for a soulless and bureaucratic corporation, underneath an incredibly thick-witted, dimwitted PointyHairedBoss (Creator/LarryMiller). The opposite of him in almost every way is his dog, Dogbert (Creator/ChrisElliott), a morally gray genius who constantly exploits Dilbert, Dilbert's company and everyone else with consummate ease.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Considering Scott Adams' shift into misogynistic, right-wing rhetoric in the 2010s, it's hard not to see some of Dogbert's nastier tendencies and darker viewpoints as more sincere than ironic or meant for humor. The aforementioned HardTruthAesop starts to sound a lot less like scientific rationality and more in keeping with Adams' anti-vax stance amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Considering Scott Adams' shift into misogynistic, right-wing rhetoric in the 2010s, it's hard not to see some of Dogbert's nastier tendencies and darker viewpoints as more sincere than ironic or meant for humor. The aforementioned HardTruthAesop starts to sound a lot less like scientific rationality and more in keeping with Adams' anti-vax stance amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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{{Animated|Sitcom}} BlackComedy WorkCom adaptation of [[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Scott Adams' cult comic]] that ran for two seasons on UPN, UPN from 1999 to 2000, produced by [[Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision Columbia-[=TriStar=] Television]], starring the voice of Creator/DanielStern as Dilbert, an engineer working for a soulless and bureaucratic corporation, underneath an incredibly thick-witted, PointyHairedBoss (Creator/LarryMiller). The opposite of him in almost every way is his dog, Dogbert (Creator/ChrisElliott), a morally gray genius who constantly exploits Dilbert, Dilbert's company and everyone else with consummate ease.
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* SpitTake: 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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* NotWhatItLooksLike: 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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* NotWhatItLooksLike: 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, [[TeenyWeenie nobody thinks he's talking about soap.soap]].
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* PullThePlugOnTheTitle: 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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* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: 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.
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* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: 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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* NonResidentialResidence: One episode shows Dilbert's DisappearedDad has been living inside of the local mall for almost a decade now (turning into a kind of shaman-like UrbanLegend 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 ''[[BuffetBuffoonery has not]]'' [[BuffetBuffoonery eaten]] "[[BuffetBuffoonery all he could eat]]" just yet.
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* NonResidentialResidence: NonResidentialResidence:
** One episode shows Dilbert's DisappearedDad has been living inside of the local mall for almost a decade now (turning into a kind of shaman-like UrbanLegend 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 ''[[BuffetBuffoonery has not]]'' [[BuffetBuffoonery eaten]] "[[BuffetBuffoonery all he could eat]]" justyet.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.
** One episode shows Dilbert's DisappearedDad has been living inside of the local mall for almost a decade now (turning into a kind of shaman-like UrbanLegend 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 ''[[BuffetBuffoonery has not]]'' [[BuffetBuffoonery eaten]] "[[BuffetBuffoonery all he could eat]]" just
** 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.
