Dilbert Chronicles?

Did anyone notice that the title of tonight's Dilbert premier was "The Name"?

It's co-produced by Larry Charles, who worked on Seinfeld. Do you think the use of "The xxx" was intentional? Will all the shows be titled in this manner, similar to Seinfeld?

Other similarities:

A crack about how dry cleaners are accused of wearing their customer's clothes. There was a character who always shouted, they referred to him as "The Loud Guy". One boss told the story of how he got the nickname, "The Acorn", he was swimming in a lake at summer camp, and it was cold, and well, you know.... (shrinkage, anyone?)

What next? An cubicle "contest"?

--Flap

Oh and didn't Jerry play scrabble with his mother in the first official Seinfeld episode (The Stakeout)?

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Neha333 wrote:

Yeah, QUONE - It's a medical term: To QUONE someone.

And how Dilbert used a dictionary at one point like Mrs. Seinfeld.

...If a patient gets difficult, you QUONE 'em.

I didn't get the original post, only this response, so I don't know if
this has been mentioned, but if what we're doing here is questioning the
originality of some of the content of the Dilbert show, then let me say
the scene at the dry cleaners was a blatant ripoff of Monty Python's
"French taunter" scene from the Holy Grail movie.
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In article , [email] wrote:

Judging from Dogbert burning down a strip mall to get the dry cleaner's name and the town dying from Anthrax throat lozenges, Larry Charles is still the "Prince of Darkness."

[email] wrote:

This seemed more reminiscent of South Park than Seinfeld

Even more so. He had written some scripts for Seinfeld episodes that were rejected because they were too close to the edge. Most notably, an episode where Elaine purchases a handgun. There was another one, where George inadvertantly utters a racist remark about how he's never seen a black person order a salad, that was scrapped.

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In article , [email] wrote:

Apparently you can get away with more stuff if it's animated.

Are any of those scripts available on the internet?

about how he's never seen a black person order a salad, that was scrapped.

this sounds Hi-larious! too bad it got scrapped

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Nope.  I guess that even though the scripts were rejected, they remain
Charles' property.  He might even end up working some of the rejected
stuff into a Dilbert episode.  (Watch for a gun purchase some time
soon?)
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