History Trivia / Dilbert

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: On February 22, 2023, Scott Adams made racially insensitive comments on [=YouTube=] that prompted some of the individual newspapers running ''Dilbert'' to drop it. On February 27, Andrew [=McMeel=] Syndication reacted to the controversy and completely dropped Adams and ''Dilbert'' from its roster.

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%%* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Scott Adams made racially insensitive comments on [=YouTube=] that prompted newspapers to start removing ''Dilbert'' from their funny sections on their own. Andrew [=McMeel=] Syndication dropped Adams and the strip from its roster almost immediately thereafter.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Scott Adams made racially insensitive comments on [=YouTube=] that prompted newspapers to start removing ''Dilbert'' from their funny sections on their own. Andrew [=McMeel=] Syndication dropped Adams and the strip from its roster almost immediately thereafter.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Scott Adams made racially insensitive comments on [=YouTube=] that prompted newspapers to start removing ''Dilbert'' from their funny sections on their own. Andrew [=McMeel=] Syndication dropped Adams and the script from its roster almost immediately thereafter.

* RoleEndingDismeanor: Scott Adams made racially insensitive comments on [=YouTube=] that prompted newspapers to start removing ''Dilbert'' from their funny sections on their own. Andrew [=McMeel=] Syndication dropped Adams and the script from its roster almost immediately thereafter.

* RealitySubtext:
** Alice was based on a former coworker of Scott's. This woman, whose real name was Anita, was "the model for Alice's pink suit, fluffy hair, coffee obsession, technical proficiency, and take-no-crap attitude." Adams went on to say that "As far as I know, the real-life version of Alice has never kicked a man into his hat, or stuffed an intern into his shirt sleeve, or slapped a man so hard he traveled back in time. But if I ever hear about it happening, it won't surprise me."
** Wally is based on an extremely intelligent man Adams worked with at Pac Bell, who discovered he'd earn more money from severance than actually working there thanks to a generous employee buy-out program—for the company's worst employees. He stated he was absolutely ''fascinated'' by "one of the more brilliant people I've met" working ''hard'' at being incompetent, rude, and generally poor at his job to qualify for the buy-out program.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Adams has said that Wally, Alice, Carol and Asok are all based (with varying degrees of precision) on ex-coworkers from Pacific Bell. He's specified that the coworker he based Alice on was named Anita, who he said was the model for "Alice's pink suit, fluffy hair, coffee obsession, technical proficiency and take-no-crap attitude." Asok was named after another coworker who used a less-common spelling of the Indian name Ashok, something Adams didn't realize until fans started asking him about it.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: In 2023, following an inflammatory Internet video Adams posted regarding American race-relations, the strip was terminated by large numbers of newspapers and its hosting syndicate.
* TrollingCreator: Scott Adams has admitted that the angry or irrational comments he'll sometimes tweet are just his way of getting ideas for gags. As noted directly above, [[TemptingFate this may not have been the best of plans.]]

* TrollingCreator: Scott Adams has admitted that the angry or irrational comments he'll sometimes tweet are just his way of getting ideas for gags.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: In February 2023, Adams posted a video in which he made inflammatory comments about race relations in America, leading many newspapers to immediately cancel the strip. Andrews [=McMeel=] Syndication, which handles distribution for the strip, cut all ties with Adams at the end of that month.

* BannedInChina: Over time, Scott Adams's political views have shifted over to the right, which has resulted in more and more individual strips being banned from newspapers, allegedly for things like [[PoliticalOvercorrectness making fun of]] "wokeness" and ESG. The last straw came in February 2023 when he cited a public poll, suggesting that almost half of blacks either thought that it is not OK to be white or weren't sure. He accused blacks of being a hate group and suggested that whites need to stay away from them for their own safety. American newspapers proceeded to condemn Adams as a racist and dropped the strip en masse, and the distributor for it soon cut all its ties to him as well.

* BannedInChina: Over time, Scott Adams's political views have shifted over to the right, which has resulted in more and more individual strips being banned from newspapers, allegedly for things like [[PoliticalOvercorrectness making fun of]] "wokeness" and ESG. The last straw was when Scott Adams cited a public poll, suggesting that almost half of blacks either thought that it is not ok to be white or weren't sure. Scott Adams accused blacks of being a hate group and suggested that whites need to stay away from them for their own safety. American newspapers proceeded to condemn Scott Adams as a racist and dropped the strip en masse, and the distributor for it soon cut all its ties to Adams as well.

* BannedInChina: Over time, Scott Adams's political views have shifted over to the right, which has resulted in more and more individual strips being banned from newspapers, allegedly for things like [[PoliticalOvercorrectness making fun of]] "wokeness" and ESG. The last straw was when Scott Adams cited a public poll, suggesting that almost half of blacks either thought that it is not ok to be white or weren't sure. Scott Adams accused blacks of being a hate group and suggested that whites need to stay away from them for their own safety. American newspapers proceeded to condemn Scott Adams as a racist and dropped the strip en masse.

* NamesTheSame: The title character was inadvertently named after a comic character from TheForties who would feature in US Air Force publications as a humorous example of 'How Not To Do It'. Adams asked for name suggestions from his friends, and the winner didn't realize he must have recalled the name from the earlier comic until after ''Dilbert'' had already become famous.

* ProductionPosse: Since producer Larry Charles previously worked on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', a lot of people from that show showed up- Creator/LarryMiller (the titular character of "the Doorman") was the PHB, and Jason Alexander was Catbert; Wayne Knight and Jerry himself showed up in guest spots (as a security guard Dilbert trades jobs with, and Comp-U-Comp respectively).

* CharlieBrownBaldness: He only has a few strands of hair.

* ImageSource:

* ImageSource:
** ADickInName
** TheGenericGuy
** PointyHairedBoss
** PullThePlugOnTheTitle

* VideoSource:
** BobRossRib

* FanNickname: The character had no name when he first appeared, but letters poured in asking for more Catbert. Scott Adams later said, "If hundreds of people spontaneously give a character the same name, it's a keeper."

** TheAllSolvingHammer
** AmbiguousGender
** BluffWorkedTooWell
** CuttingCorners
** DontTouchItYouIdiot
** ExpertConsultant
** FauxAffablyEvil
** HappinessInSlavery
** HeadsTailsEdge
** InhumanResources
** InsultMisfire
** InventorOfTheMundane
** MovingTheGoalposts
** NobodyEverComplainedBefore
** NoIndoorVoice
** NoSenseOfPersonalSpace
** OnlySaneMan
** SassySecretary
** ScottyTime
** StealingTheCredit
** StealthInsult
** StupidestThingIveEverHeard
** {{Tradesnark}}

* QuoteSource:
** ExtremeDoormat
** {{Yandere}}

* * RealitySubtext:

* ImageSource: PointyHairedBoss

--'''Adams:''' And to date, I have not been accused of being in league with Phil, so it all worked out.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Adams has said that Wally, Alice, Carol and Asok are all based (with varying degrees of precision) on ex-coworkers from Pacific Bell. He's specified that the coworker he based Alice on was named Anita, who he said was the model for "Alice's pink suit, fluffy hair, coffee obsession, technical proficiency and take-no-crap attitude."

** Alice was based on a former coworker of Scott's. This woman, whose real name was Anita, was "the model for Alice's pink suit, fluffy hair, technical proficiency, and take-no-crap attitude." Adams went on to say that "As far as I know, the real-life version of Alice has never kicked a man into his hat, or stuffed an intern into his shirt sleeve, or slapped a man so hard he traveled back in time. But if I ever hear about it happening, it won't surprise me."