Parker MolloyFun fact: when the Dilbert TV show got canceled in the 2000 (after consistently having some of the worst ratings on TV), UPN announced the cancellation with an announcement titled "UPN Fills New Schedule With Testosterone"
Years later, Scott Adams said that the show got canceled because he's white. The truth is that it was consistently one of the lowest rated shows on broadcast TV.
Weirdly enough, one of the show's final plot lines involved Dilbert getting pregnant with an alien baby or something.
Ernie Smith@parkermolloy I think the funny part about Dilbert is that all of Scott Adams’ actions over the past half-decade have proven that his personification in the comic is actually Dogbert.
plsburydoughboy (I/het/him)@ernie @parkermolloy this mirrors an old theory I have, that every HP fan who says they are a Slytherin is a Hufflepuff
@plsburydoughboy @parkermolloy Check out this clip of Dogbert from the cartoon—it literally lays out Scott Adams’ entire recent career. https://twitter.com/micro_cabbage/status/1629766448682872832
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mjfgates@ernie @plsburydoughboy @parkermolloy It certainly shows us a good reason to drop the comic from whatever newspapers we might own. That was less funny than the "elves get overrun by nazi propaganda" scene from Bakshi's "Wizards."
thesupermikey@parkermolloy its low ratings really cover up for the fact how truly bad of a show it was.
Michael Stanclift@parkermolloy I loved the comic at the time and even read a couple of Scott’s books, but I couldn’t even force myself to watch the TV show.
I was probably too young to realize how dumb the books were. I probably thought I was smart for them at the time.
Aaron 
@vmstan @parkermolloy Same here, thought the comic was funny - show was unwatchable.
@vmstan @parkermolloy Same here, thought the comic was funny - show was unwatchable.
Ricardo B�nffy@parkermolloy The animated series is quite funny. I feel bad to admit it.
Jacob Harris@parkermolloy at least the cancellation gave him time to reinvent philosophy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God's_Debris
Xillian Salgado@parkermolloy why are we promoting the creation of a white supremacist? That's like pushing JKR on the trans community! 😾
@pleignjayne What in the everloving f are you talking about? How tf are you reading that thread and thinking that I'm "promoting" anything? Jesus Christ.
@pleignjayne Seriously, read the whole thread again and explain to me how I am "promoting" Scott Adams. JFC.
RedPanda@parkermolloy trans masc Dilbert 🫡
Marty@parkermolloy I see that they never put an ounce of thought into how Dilbert's hair would look when his head is in motion.
@parkermolloy Oh... oh no! 😵
Andrew Cunningham@parkermolloy mpreg dilbert aside, I really do not like seeing or thinking about his lumpy hair-skin in three dimensional space
Kaelef 
@parkermolloy It didn't even to better than "Shasta"
input.translationHere, a telling/prescient juxtaposition of two #newspaper blurbs on Jan. 25, 1999 - one offering a preview of the "new" UPN show based on #ScottAdams #Dilbert strip, and the second highlighting a documentary on #WhiteSupremacy and the horrific murder of James Byrd, Jr.
"The white supremacy movement... doesn't simply target the lone African-American walking home late at night. They are anti-Semitic, anti-abortion, anti-affirmative action, anti-race mixing and anti-gay." #racism
Jonathan Polley@parkermolloy I remember trying to watch the first couple of episodes and it was not good. Trying to turn the comic into a TV show is like trying to turn South Park into a movie, there just isn't enough material there.
@the_other_jon @parkermolloy the South Park movie works mainly because the songs are funny. Without the musical numbers it would be skeletally thin.
Joyous Panther@parkermolloy I remember trying to watch it when I was younger and consciously wondering if I was wasting my life as I watched it.
MyNameIsHe's just another another hateful GQP adherent with a victim complex.
epiloniousIn a comic making fun of th whole michegoss... Scott Adams was holding a book that said "My wife left me so now I am alt-right"
And it's hilarious because that is basically what all these rich white men are doing in the wake of consequence culture: Being bitter with anyone and anything other than their own shitty behavior. Living as a warning against being a rich white supremacist.
So true. I call it SPS - Small Penis Syndrome
beverly_gardner@parkermolloy I didn’t know he ever had a TV show.
The Human Arkle@parkermolloy I liked the show TBH, but I think it helped a lot that unlike with the strip Adams had people above him who could say "No, we're not doing that." Also that voice cast was stacked. And the theme song is still epic, even now.
Moose Jolly Holcomb@parkermolloy facts laying the smack down on Scott Adams.
eD! Thomas@parkermolloy I thought that last screenshot said that UPN was adding “a show about a top crime-fighting crow”, and now I want that show to exist so badly.
John Hansen@parkermolloy I’m sad the show about people kung fu fighting their way out of a military coup in the USA never got a chance.
Also I remember the Dilbert show just being awful.
@parkermolloy Anyway, TU4 the trip down the TV history rabbit hole!