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I like to watch Office Space again whenever I give my two weeks' notice somewhere.

Adams did try an animated Dilbert series but it didn't do very well or last very long (and wasn't especially good). There was a time when I really liked Dilbert--probably in part because I worked at a cubicle farm tech company that probably resembled PacBell where Adams worked in quite a few ways.

But Adams left (and I left) and, for the most part, Dilbert ended up mostly stuck in a 90s cubicle time warp notwithstanding some zingers about cloud from time to time. (Some of which hit amusingly close to home as the consultant I was later.)

I for one really liked the animated series and reccommend fans of the comic to search it on utube

It had pretty wacky humour, and a lot of the office dynamics it talks about are still relatable today. I've seen several Gruntmaster 3000-esque projects since.

> But Adams left (and I left) and, for the most part, Dilbert ended up mostly stuck in a 90s cubicle time warp

This was made obvious during COVID lockdowns to me. He had a lot of trouble addressing it in a way that felt as original and genuine as I was used to from the strip.

Silicon Valley I'm probably close enough to fake even though it's not my day to day thing directly. But college life satire/humor say. No matter how much second and third-hand research I did it would probably be off in a lot of ways.

When you're actually living something, there are a ton of happenings which you can file the serial numbers off, exaggerate a little (or not), and things pretty much write themselves.

Mike Judge is also devastatingly effective. I know people who can't watch Silicon Valley because it's too real.

I was making an app to classify food if it had nuts or not. Someone on HN commented about hot dog or not app that was in the episode. I didn't have HBO so I wasn't even aware of its existence.

I've seen similar comments about Idiocracy.

That's me

> I know people who can't watch Silicon Valley because it's too real.

Sounds like they just don't enjoy it.

Dilbert does have a cartoon TV series that ran for 2 seasons.

https://youtu.be/J1KEPvuiQIs

I remember watching it as a kid and realizing that cartoons could be not good... is it better several decades later?

Dilbert isn’t for kids… it’s for people who have spent time in a bureaucratic office setting.

What works as a 3-panel comic strip falls flat on its face when translated too literally to video. You need to hire good writers, director, animators, voice actors, etc. to make an effective video show, and you need to have an idea better than “show a sequence of loosely related 3-panel comic strip jokes, but animated”.

There is a joke at some point in time where they say pathway electronics is going to merge with etech management. And they're gonna call the new company path-e-tech management. How would a kid get this joke?

Kids love puns that make groan folks grown.

Wow that is bad. Its like they gave an intern a shoestring budget and told them to make something happen. The voice actors are like they just grabbed the nearest person and told them hey you are gonna voice these characters.

The show isn't great, but these are hardly unknown cast members/voice actors. Daniel Stern, Chris Elliot, Larry Miller, Jason Alexander, Tom Kenny, Tress MacNielle, Maurice LaMarche, Kathy Griffin. This is nearly an all-star cast for the late 90s.

Scott Adams blames the cancelation of his shown on "reverse racism" by whatever network was running it.

Let's decouple the art from the artist. My theory is that Adams knows exactly what he is doing and is making a living by feeding the troll / fanning the flames. I stopped watching his blog / consuming the strip a long time ago (cca 2017) but I thoroughly enjoyed it for years before I stopped.

I always feel like I'm the only one who enjoyed the series. I don't know what's so terribly bad about it. It's not The Simpsons, and it's not _that_ related to the strip, but it's amusing in many ways.

It was hilarious, I enjoyed it a lot actually.

I thought it was "OK" and probably wouldn't hate rewatching it. But it also wasn't very memorable or special IMO.

I liked it. There are a few bits I have integrated into my memetic universe. Eg: https://youtu.be/g8vHhgh6oM0 https://youtu.be/KcPx-dHYASU

"This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated."

Oddly coincidental timing?

"The Office" we're talking about here is not a syndicated TV show with a new episode every week; it's a British mini-series. You're likely referring to the US version of "The Office", which ran for 9 seasons and was wildly different from the British show (the showrunners attempted to clone the original but discovered that David Brent's character suited Ricky Gervais far more than it did Steve Carrell, and course-corrected to a different kind of show.)

Rao's article is definitely about the American version. Look at the character names and post-season 1 plots referenced.

You're right, I'm wrong, apologies to everybody involved.

There has to be a first time for everything.

From the third paragraph of the article:

> I’ll be basing this entire article on the American version of the show, which is more fully developed than the original British version, though the original is perhaps more satisfyingly bleak.

or Clerks if your are not white collar worker, worked in both environments and both Clerks and Office Space perfectly describe both environments

btw avoid Clerks III, it's unwatchable