The word “ frooglepoopillion ” is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number.

This project was followed in 2004 with designs for Dilbert ’ s Ultimate House ( abbreviated as DUH ).

Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998.

In the Squiddy Awards, Dilbert was named the best daily strip of 1996 and 1997, and the best comic strip of 1998 and 2000.

* There was a line of Dilbert mints which had names along the lines of Manage-mints, Accomplish-mints, Perform-mints and Improve-mints

* Dilbert: the Board Game – 2006 ; by Hyperion Games ; A Dilbert-branded board game that was named one of Games magazine's Top 100 Games

Dilbert was adapted into a UPN animated television series, which ran for two seasons from January 25, 1999, to July 25, 2000.

His Dilbert series came to national prominence through the downsizing period in 1990s America and was then distributed worldwide.

His first paycheck for Dilbert was a monthly royalty check of $ 368. 62.

Gradually Dilbert became more popular, and was published by 100 newspapers in 1991 and 400 by 1994.

In 1996 The Dilbert Principle was released, his first business book.

In 1998 Dilbert began as a TV series, but was cancelled in 2000.

A second reference was made on the TV series, S1E7 " Little people ", in which Dilbert uses a Jefferies tube to get to the conference room where free food is waiting.

First announced in The Dilbert Future, the Dilberito came in flavors of Mexican, Indian, Barbecue, and Garlic & Herb and was sold through some health food stores.

The book was largely considered to be a rehash of Adams ' other books, most notably The Dilbert Principle.

In Pep Comics # 27, a Dilton prototype was named Theodosious, and one named Dilbert was in Archie Comics # 34.

Dilbert was also once asked to interview the PHB's nephew for a position.

* Scott Adam's Dilbert featured a character called " Antina ", created in response to allegations that Tina the Brittle Tech Writer was too stereotypical.

DNRC members ( defined in effect by their subscription to the ( free ) email Dilbert Newsletter, which was issued approximately four times per year, apparently ending in 2008 ) are characterised by their ' superior intelligence and good looks ', whereas non-members (' induhviduals ', a play on the word ' duh ') suffer from idiocy and lacklustre charm.

Dogbert was originally created only so Dilbert would have someone to talk to, but as the strip progressed, Adams developed the character to be an anti-hero, metophorically personifying the dark, cynical side of Adams own personality.

The film's soundtrack has also become popular, and its theme song was eventually reused by Danny Elfman, who rearranged it as The Dilbert Zone for use as the theme for the television series Dilbert.

Dilbert is sometimes found in the business section of a newspaper instead of the comics page because of the strip's commentary about office politics, and Tank McNamara often appears on the sports page because of its subject matter.

' Downtime ' is a section of the magazine which included a 2 column Dilbert.

On April 7, 2008, dilbert. com presented its first Dilbert animation.

Some, such as Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, include an email address in each strip.

Naked backsides and shooting guns cannot be shown, according to Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams.

Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams.

First published on April 16, 1989 Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character.

Dilbert appears in 2000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25 languages.

The comic strip originally revolved around Dilbert and his " pet " dog Dogbert in their home.

Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politics that stand in the way of productivity, where employees ' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work is praised.

The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country in Dilbert.

Solomon describes the characters of Dilbert, none of whom occupies a position higher than middle management, as dysfunctional time-wasters whose inefficiencies detract from corporate values like ' productivity ' and ' growth ', a very favorable outlook for managers.

Though Dilbert and his office-mates often find themselves baffled or victimized by the whims of managerial behavior, they never seem to question it openly.

" Xerox management had recognized what more gullible Dilbert readers did not: Dilbert is an offbeat sugary substance that helps the corporate medicine go down.

The Dilbert phenomenon accepts — and perversely eggs on — many negative aspects of corporate existence as unchangeable facets of human nature ... As Xerox managers grasped, Dilbert speaks to some very real work experiences while simultaneously eroding inclinations to fight for better working conditions.

" Labor unions haven't adopted Dilbert characters as insignia.

But corporations in droves have rushed to link themselves with Dilbert.

Dilbert mirrors the mass media's crocodile tears for working people — and echoes the ambient noises from Wall Street.

" Dilbert notes that the strip is " nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things " and Dogbert responds that he is " maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy.

In the late 1990s, an amateur cartoonist named Karl Hörnell began submitting a comic strip parodying both Dilbert and the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon to Dragon creator Erik Larsen.

The strip began as a specific parody of the comic book itself, set loosely within the office structure of Dilbert, with Hörnell doing an emulation of Adams ' cartooning style.

The scene then cuts away to a parody of Dilbert, after which Peter remarks, " Well, sometimes the business world is funny.

Dilbert has occasionally been criticized for alleged " insensitivity " and off-color jokes, as documented by Adams in The Joy of Work.

Its coining is explained in Dilbert Newsletter # 6.