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* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': A sketch from "May Cause a Squeakquel" has Dilbert confronting his creator Scott Adams in a parody of ''Film/DieHard''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': A sketch from "May Cause a Squeakquel" has Dilbert confronting his creator Scott Adams in a parody of ''Film/DieHard''. Scott Adams' tweet blaming the cancellation of the ''Dilbert'' animated series on being discriminated against for being white is referenced, with Dilbert refuting that the real reason the ''Dilbert'' cartoon got cancelled was because [[TakeThat it wasn't funny]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", among the rides at a fair is "Dilbert's Flying Cubicle".

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", among the rides at a fair is "Dilbert's Flying Cubicle".Cubicle".
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington", Dilbert and Wally appear in a cutaway, making Peter Griffin realize afterwards that the workplace isn't always funny.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': A sketch from "May Cause a Squeakquel" has Dilbert confronting his creator Scott Adams in a parody of ''Film/DieHard''.

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* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': One storyline has Rat creating a comic strip called "Bildert", and despite how glaringly obvious it is that he's just plagarizing ''Dilbert'', he denies it, coming up with such excuses as Bildert having four lumps of hair while Dilbert has five and that the reason why Bilder's tie points up like Dilbert's is because it's windy where Bildert lives. He winds up getting sued by Scott Adams.

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One storyline has Rat creating a comic strip called "Bildert", and despite how glaringly obvious it is that he's just plagarizing ''Dilbert'', he denies it, coming up with such excuses as Bildert having four lumps of hair while Dilbert has five and that the reason why Bilder's tie points up like Dilbert's is because it's windy where Bildert lives. He winds up getting sued by Scott Adams.Adams.
** Another storyline has Rat finding out that ''Dilbert'' includes a character who happens to be a rat named Ratbert. Assuming that the character is a ripoff and holds him hostage until he tells him the name of his creator. Then he takes a bulldozer to the fence in front of Scott Adams' house, only for a horrified Goat to tell him that Ratbert preceded him by at least ten years.
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* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': One storyline has Rat creating a comic strip called "Bildert", and despite how glaringly obvious it is that he's just plagarizing ''Dilbert'', he denies it, coming up with such excuses as Bildert having four lumps of hair while Dilbert has five and that the reason why Dilbert's tie points up is because it's windy where Bildert lives. He winds up getting sued by Scott Adams.

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* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': One storyline has Rat creating a comic strip called "Bildert", and despite how glaringly obvious it is that he's just plagarizing ''Dilbert'', he denies it, coming up with such excuses as Bildert having four lumps of hair while Dilbert has five and that the reason why Bilder's tie points up like Dilbert's tie points up is because it's windy where Bildert lives. He winds up getting sued by Scott Adams.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' had a series of strips in which Roger and Andy discuss the success of ''Dilbert'' and speculate on how it occurred, with each strip then facetiously aping a proposed reason in the final panel.
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** [[Series/SesameStreet Ernie]], [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/leisure-hobbies/television/1997-11-21 in an attempt to cash in on a trend]], attempts to create his own "[[VisualPun Dill Bert]]".
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* ''Series/NewsRadio'': In "Review", Matthew reads ''Dilbert'' for the first time and becomes obsessed with it. He thinks he's stumbled onto the next big thing and badgers Dave to do a story on it; and when Dave refuses, Matthew quits and goes to work on the coffee shop downstairs. Dave gets someone to pretend to be Scott Adams and convince Matthew to return. (The real Scott Adams has a cameo as an irate customer at the coffee shop.)
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* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': One storyline has Rat creating a comic strip called "Bildert", and despite how glaringly obvious it is that he's just plagarizing ''Dilbert'', he denies it, coming up with such excuses as Bildert having four lumps of hair while Dilbert has five and that the reason why Dilbert's tie points up is because it's windy where Bildert lives. He winds up getting sued by Scott Adams.
* ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'': One storyline has Sherman write a comic strip based on his own experiences called "Norman's Lagoon". Hawthorne ends up cancelling the strip because he doesn't think folks want to read a comic strip about fish every day, so Sherman reinvents it as a comic strip about inter-office politics and corporate America featuring characters named "Shermbert", "Crabbert", and "Turtlebert".
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** Dilbert is seen in [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1995-05-28C-500x259.gif this strip]] at the Toontown Barber alongside other cartoon characters such as [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]], [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]], and [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1998-08-02C-500x259.gif Dogbert appears in this strip]] at the [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Betty Rubble]] Center For Recovering Toons.
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1998-11-16C-240x331.gif This strip]] shows Dilbert leaving the bathroom along with other comic strip characters.
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1998-12-11B-240x331.gif "Tying your shoes causes a sharp pain in your eye?"]]
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/business-finance/office/2003-02-17 The Dilbert Presidency]].
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/2004-03-13 Dilbert appears here]] as a resident of the Funny Pages Hotel.
** [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/leisure-hobbies/music/2010-07-22 Dilbert is pretending to listen to "The Boss"]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", among the rides at a fair is "Dilbert's Flying Cubicle".

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