The theme music, "The Dilbert Zone", was written by Danny Elfman, and is a slight rewrite from the theme of the film Forbidden Zone, originally performed by Elfman's band, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.
@@supraman_ Loud Howard* Sometimes I find that I really relate to him because I, at least to me and everyone else in my family, am known for being quite loud myself XD
@@Bawgle no he hasn't, you're just letting people on the internet tell you what to think about politics. Imagine letting an artist's political views influence wether you enjoy something or not LOLOLOL
I love how when everyone is leaving the sea as dinosaurs, Dogbert casually walks out already being Dogbert, implying he’s been around for billions of years
@@ianmaluk1 That’s true, since 3D animation was only just beginning to pick up steam. Still, if he were to relaunch the cartoon (which is doubtful, but who knows), I hope it can be done like this.
+david gold No offense, but have you ever actually scrolled up to the search bar and typed in "Futurama Intro"? Because that one beats this one hands down.
Alot of people hated the tv show, and I do not understand why. Someone hated the show, because there's a girl in there that cusses alot. I remember watching the show when it comes on, and I think I did hate that Alice character, but I could not hate the show just for the hatred of one character, but if it was the whole cast, that's worth hating the show for. I also hated the villians, but I think that's what the villians are there for. The Dilbert magazine was popular, and that's why he continues to be on the magazine. I think I also heard about the comic book of it being popular.
@@elliotandfriends_alt Are you testing to see if I'm dumb? I'm dumb enough, and everybody is sure that I'm the only dummy. You probably know that I'm wokeish bulls**t, and that's true about me. There's never anything good about me. I'm the only dummy, and everybody else (including you) is a genius. I do not support racism. I do have some games where I can decide which characters would be in, and I did do different colored skin characters, so I'm not racist, but I'm still s**t.
@@bennel3588 Bro, how is that testing your intelligence? I’m not testing your intelligence whatsoever. You’re getting the wrong idea. I’m just saying a practical reason why the show was hated. And another thing, you literally said you didn’t understand why the show was hated, and then you accuse me of testing your intelligence? OK then.
@@elliotandfriends_alt Sorry about that! Sometimes, I make a post, and then I'm the only one getting criticized like whoever started the post was only joking while I'm being an idiot getting the wrong idea. It just seems like criticism is always targeted on me, even if somebody else started it. Even I'm being called the only dummy who thinks that, and everybody else is smart enough to know that thing is wrong. It makes me realize I'm the only dummy to get everything wrong. Sorry about the misunderstanding! I was not calling you a racist! Is it true that the creator is a racist?
I would have love to see a Dilbert cartoon reboot someday . It seem that it could have worked today in Netflixs,or Hulu, there was even talks of a live action movie back in 2010, but sadly because the creators latest statements make it that any interest in Dilbert might be dead.
I always loved this cartoon, too bad it was only 2 seasons long. It was a lot more accessible than the comics for those who don't have a lot of office experience while still being hilarious.
This is probably one of the best animated intros ever...because its epic and yet sums up the office bound, slightly off beat nature of the show. I used to think Dilbert was essentially an extreme parody of the workplace...and then I went to work for a large insurance company and it was like...ohhh...this actually exists? True the management weren't as bad as the pointy haird boss but not far off...I will never forget a meeting we had to attend about 'positivity circumplex' diagrams...
0:44 This bit always got to me when I was a kid, how it zoomed out and there was just… so much. I always felt a mix of wonder and despair when I watched that part. It's not even the fact that it's all office cubicles, which is depressing on its own, but that was irrelevant to me. It was just the scale of there being that many in such a small space, so that the entire "Dilbert" logo felt like a whole universe unto itself.
One of the first adult cartoons I saw growing up alongside SIMPSONS, FUTURAMA, and THE PJs. They always aired these sort of brilliant shows on Sky One when it was still good in its heyday in the UK. Seen reruns on FTN, never gets old.
I am extremely impressed with the quality of this intro. The 3D animation looks fucking GREAT. If it was CGI, which is obviously likely, it was goddamn seamless.
I remember watching this show in fifth grade and not understandstandjng the adult humor. If I rewatched it now I feel I’d like it more. It does have an awesome voice cast.
You know, it's really meta that a series this smart and funny only lasted two seasons. The real life pointy-haired exec behind it decided it wasn't worth the money and replaced it with something pointless like *Magic Potty Baby* or something similarly stupid...
Funny thing, nowadays Buffy, Angel and all the vampire franchise knock-offs have become at best just a curiosity of the early turn of the the millennium with no real value beyond base entertainment and at worst a source of embarrassment for grown up people who pretended to be "vampires", Dilbert on the other hand is still used worldwide as a reference in both economics, social and work environment and technology in newspapers and educational texts, and yeah, he still makes everyone laugh.
The second season was not as good as the first. In fact some say it jumped the shark. I’m working on trying to watch all of Dilbert to see if this is true.
All these answers are kind of poor so here's the actual reason. It's too expensive. Dilbert was in a league with several other cartoons that were produced with the express purpose of riding the wave created by The Simpsons. A lot of them were decent and a few made their way to Adult Swim where they would get a second chance but most of these shows were cancelled because the networks funding them found animation too expensive when compared to live action productions. The profit margin wasn't there so they got the boot. Family Guy and Futurama was saved by Adult Swim. The Critic and Duckman had a respectable run though.
I just found out that Ratbert (the orange rat) is played by Tom Kenny and oh golly I can really hear it now Edit: We actually started watching this show again, along with Daria (O-O)(¬_¬) And lmaoooo Loud Howard at 0:33 🤣🤣🤣 Update: We finished Daria ;-; we still have Dilbert tho Another update: WE ARE WATCHING DARIA AGAIN. We haven't resumed Dilbert because we forgot which disk we are on ;-;
I love this show, it still holds up well even today. When it could have been like a lot the other 90s adult shows that came about because of the Simpsons rise. And the vanished faster then this did,
Just learned this intro won an Emmy. The idea was proposed by Scott Adams, but there wasn't enough room on the Emmy application for his name, so he didn't receive it with everyone else. Kind of unfair.
Back in the early 2000s, this aired in Canada on Teletoon. However, it was NOT in their teen block (The Detour on Teletoon) or their adult block (Teletoon Unleashed!). It was part of their weekend "family" block alongside "For Better or For Worse" and "Redwall" (and later "Silverwing").
I swear I have the most vivid memories of my Dad watching this with me when I was a little kid and just starting to get to the age where I can remember stuff this intro has been stuck inside my head for years
TH-cam REALLY wants me to watch this show for some reason. Over the last several days it's been recommending me clips, compilations, even the whole series as like 2 hours long upload! And now the intro. And I've never even clicked on any of them until today.
Its probably because really horrible people meat ride the creator after he came out as a huge racist. People on the right have no life so when a racist pops up they all rush in to support them. Nipsey hussles murderer is the perfect modern day example, kyle fuckface the mass shooter is another. No life loser, right leaning voters, prop those people up on a pedestal. Probably so their crotch is face level and easier to slob all over.
The first time I heard this theme, I belted out Forbidden Zone. It's kool that this theme music is a slightly different version of that. Though, it does kind of make me wonder if this show gets far into the 6th dimension. Anyone here ever see the movie Forbidden Zone?
This is one of the best Openings to cartoon I've ever seen. The fact that Danny Elfman composed the theme music makes it even more epic.
It was originally used in the movie “the forbidden zone”
The theme music, "The Dilbert Zone", was written by Danny Elfman, and is a slight rewrite from the theme of the film Forbidden Zone, originally performed by Elfman's band, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.
This cartoon is criminally underrated.
@@jennyl309 Yeah Adams has kinda lost it
loud harold was 100 times funnier in the cartoon
@@supraman_ Loud Howard*
Sometimes I find that I really relate to him because I, at least to me and everyone else in my family, am known for being quite loud myself XD
@@Bawgle no he hasn't, you're just letting people on the internet tell you what to think about politics. Imagine letting an artist's political views influence wether you enjoy something or not LOLOLOL
@@Bawgle Scott is the man
I love how when everyone is leaving the sea as dinosaurs, Dogbert casually walks out already being Dogbert, implying he’s been around for billions of years
He's the antichrist, so that tracks.
Paper airplanes
He explained it, he is already perfect so he didn’t need to evolve.
It also implies that humans in Dilbert are actually diapsids.
Like The Emperor of Mankind
This is damn good CGI for a 90's/early 2000's cartoon.
Personally, I believe the show should have done in the CGI style.
@@CountvonStaffordofVirginia1607 Way too expensive at the time and wouldn't have been practical.
@@ianmaluk1 That’s true, since 3D animation was only just beginning to pick up steam. Still, if he were to relaunch the cartoon (which is doubtful, but who knows), I hope it can be done like this.
Only the intro is done in digital ink and paint with cgi, as the episodes are done in traditonal hand drawn cel.
It’s because of how simple the characters are.
I like how even in a voiceless intro,Loud Howard makes a sound.
I love how Wally spilling coffee inadvertently caused Alice’s hair to catch on fire and all it took was Wally to spill more coffee to extinguish it.
It's the cause of, and solution to the problem.
0:42 onwards always gets me. You could hardly get a more violent grasp on the working environment than this.
for me its one of the many forms of hell on Earth
This theme song was composed by Danny Elfman.
Not exactly composed, it was a song written by Danny Elfman for oingo boingo
Meal Deal Supreme Specifically it’s the opening theme for the 1982 movie, “Forbidden Zone.” Its an awesome song from a crazy as balls movie.
but it's also on their 1978 demo EP
which is different to the movie version
HAHA, I knew it! Elfman is legit.
This show and its theme song were so underrated.
dubbaking it's nor originally from the show. It's Forbidden Zone by Oingo Boingo.
This is over 10 years old but the quality of the animation is amazing!
This comment is 10 years old now
@@TheJonkler2024 but dilbert remains timeless
@@MoxFreakinFulder true.
And this comment remains timeless too. Forever.
This is over 10 years old but the quality of this comment is amazing.
It won the 1999 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design for a reason!!!
RIP Gordon Hunt, the voice of Wally.
Hands down THE best cartoon intro ever made.
Eh it'll be in my top 11th
not really there are better ones
+david gold
No offense, but have you ever actually scrolled up to the search bar and typed in "Futurama Intro"? Because that one beats this one hands down.
@Jake Sangria Living in the sixth dimension, things get rough.
Up there. Just came from the Men in Black intro, another one of my favs.
A shame this didn't last longer.
That's what she said!
Yeah, too bad Scott Adams was too busy trying to sell Dilbert themed burritos to try and help save the show
at least we still have the comics
It got really weird in the last few episodes :/
I wonder why
I always thought this show had one of the coolest opening sequences ever. Shame it's rarely recognized for it...
Alot of people hated the tv show, and I do not understand why. Someone hated the show, because there's a girl in there that cusses alot. I remember watching the show when it comes on, and I think I did hate that Alice character, but I could not hate the show just for the hatred of one character, but if it was the whole cast, that's worth hating the show for. I also hated the villians, but I think that's what the villians are there for. The Dilbert magazine was popular, and that's why he continues to be on the magazine. I think I also heard about the comic book of it being popular.
@@bennel3588Or probably because the creator is a racist.
@@elliotandfriends_alt Are you testing to see if I'm dumb? I'm dumb enough, and everybody is sure that I'm the only dummy. You probably know that I'm wokeish bulls**t, and that's true about me. There's never anything good about me. I'm the only dummy, and everybody else (including you) is a genius. I do not support racism. I do have some games where I can decide which characters would be in, and I did do different colored skin characters, so I'm not racist, but I'm still s**t.
@@bennel3588 Bro, how is that testing your intelligence? I’m not testing your intelligence whatsoever. You’re getting the wrong idea. I’m just saying a practical reason why the show was hated. And another thing, you literally said you didn’t understand why the show was hated, and then you accuse me of testing your intelligence? OK then.
@@elliotandfriends_alt Sorry about that! Sometimes, I make a post, and then I'm the only one getting criticized like whoever started the post was only joking while I'm being an idiot getting the wrong idea. It just seems like criticism is always targeted on me, even if somebody else started it. Even I'm being called the only dummy who thinks that, and everybody else is smart enough to know that thing is wrong. It makes me realize I'm the only dummy to get everything wrong. Sorry about the misunderstanding! I was not calling you a racist! Is it true that the creator is a racist?
I feel like this is the best cartoon intro I've ever seen just because it so perfectly conveys the characters. I love it so much.
Dilbert was the office before the office.
When I first saw ads for the Office, I shrugged it off as a Live Action Dilbert
Strange how a comic with such simple characters happen to have the coolest intro EVAH
I would have love to see a Dilbert cartoon reboot someday . It seem that it could have worked today in Netflixs,or Hulu, there was even talks of a live action movie back in 2010, but sadly because the creators latest statements make it that any interest in Dilbert might be dead.
No duh, his a MAGA idiot!
I love how light hearted they are about total, all-encompassing, post-modern dread
That was the general attitude throughout the nineties.
I mean, everyone is.
DAYUM what a funky intro.
Thank Danny Elfman for that! :D
Not surprising this intro was composed by Danny Elfman.
You can always tell his style. Insane but brilliant.
That awesome moment when you realize he also composed the theme for the Simpsons
It's actually a remix of The Forbidden Zone, which came out in 1979, WAY before Dilbert.
actually it was composed by jay ferguson
@@krystalharwood7842 Citation needed?
This has no business going this hard
Up there with Pokemon and Futurama as one of the best openings for a cartoon ever.
I always loved this cartoon, too bad it was only 2 seasons long. It was a lot more accessible than the comics for those who don't have a lot of office experience while still being hilarious.
This is probably one of the best animated intros ever...because its epic and yet sums up the office bound, slightly off beat nature of the show. I used to think Dilbert was essentially an extreme parody of the workplace...and then I went to work for a large insurance company and it was like...ohhh...this actually exists? True the management weren't as bad as the pointy haird boss but not far off...I will never forget a meeting we had to attend about 'positivity circumplex' diagrams...
drums at 0:46 are simply kickass , never tired of this intro
Golden era for dilbert
one of the best intros in cartoon history
Melody Conte Amen.
This show was about 8 years ahead its time. If it had coincided with the geek revolution (i.e. TBBT and the like) it might still be airing today.
And probably aired on adult swim!
I doubt it. Dilbert is a different breed of geek than whats in modern media.
0:44 This bit always got to me when I was a kid, how it zoomed out and there was just… so much. I always felt a mix of wonder and despair when I watched that part. It's not even the fact that it's all office cubicles, which is depressing on its own, but that was irrelevant to me. It was just the scale of there being that many in such a small space, so that the entire "Dilbert" logo felt like a whole universe unto itself.
one of the coolest intros to a cartoon about office workers and cubicles ever
One of the first adult cartoons I saw growing up alongside SIMPSONS, FUTURAMA, and THE PJs. They always aired these sort of brilliant shows on Sky One when it was still good in its heyday in the UK. Seen reruns on FTN, never gets old.
i simply adore ratbert the cute when he holds a torch in this intro 🗽🐀❤️
0:16 His tie just pops into existence
I am extremely impressed with the quality of this intro. The 3D animation looks fucking GREAT. If it was CGI, which is obviously likely, it was goddamn seamless.
0:14 It’s official. Dilbert’s an OG.
If my life had a theme song this would be it.
For those of us who grew up during these times, what a time to be alive.
I loved this show as a child! :D
This cartoon has a weirdly apocalyptic feel to it, I guess they captured the office work environment really well-
@JBWarner86 Actually it won a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award in 1999 for Outstanding Main Title Design
At a time when everyone was jumping on the adult animated sitcom bandwagon, this was one of the better ones, I think.
It's a shame this show wasn't around for longer.
It was, but instead they gave the bad ones more seasons *coughfamilyguy*
I remember watching this show in fifth grade and not understandstandjng the adult humor. If I rewatched it now I feel I’d like it more. It does have an awesome voice cast.
@@Zoras88 I think it has to do with that Family guy is really cheap to make because of how it is barely animated.
@@jbearclowater it didn't help that it was on a network no one cared about.
Literally one of my favorite re-watch shows.
This is the one opening theme I can always play on repeat and not get tired of it
This is actually one of the greatest cartoon intros I've seen!
absolutely cannot wrap my head round the fact this song is Forbidden Zone by Oingo Boingo
this show needs a reboot/remake/continuation
yeah
Not after the cartoonist’s gratuitously racist remarks.🚫🤮
Oh wow! The intro song is an arrange of “Forbidden Zone!” No wonder I was recommended this after listening to Oingo Boingo.
6 million, really?
You know, it's really meta that a series this smart and funny only lasted two seasons. The real life pointy-haired exec behind it decided it wasn't worth the money and replaced it with something pointless like *Magic Potty Baby* or something similarly stupid...
Of all the places to hear Oingo Boingo, I would never have guessed Dilbert. It's quite the pleasant surprise. :)
You can't get better entertainment than this.
MOST EPIC CARTOON INTRO EVER!
Going down, down, down
How far can you go
You might fall into
A forbidden zone
This was a rerecording of Danny's own "The Forbidden Zone."
This should be on Paramount Plus
Well, because of the creator's most recent takes, that would be doubtful.
Oh, what a wonderful show this was...why'd they cancel it!
+Michael Gavin Johnston Three letters...U-P-N.
Funny thing, nowadays Buffy, Angel and all the vampire franchise knock-offs have become at best just a curiosity of the early turn of the the millennium with no real value beyond base entertainment and at worst a source of embarrassment for grown up people who pretended to be "vampires", Dilbert on the other hand is still used worldwide as a reference in both economics, social and work environment and technology in newspapers and educational texts, and yeah, he still makes everyone laugh.
The second season was not as good as the first. In fact some say it jumped the shark. I’m working on trying to watch all of Dilbert to see if this is true.
All these answers are kind of poor so here's the actual reason.
It's too expensive. Dilbert was in a league with several other cartoons that were produced with the express purpose of riding the wave created by The Simpsons.
A lot of them were decent and a few made their way to Adult Swim where they would get a second chance but most of these shows were cancelled because the networks funding them found animation too expensive when compared to live action productions. The profit margin wasn't there so they got the boot.
Family Guy and Futurama was saved by Adult Swim. The Critic and Duckman had a respectable run though.
@@OdaSwifteye Family Guy and Futurama are Fox toons and they're supposed to be on FX.
best cartoon ever, those were the days
Going down down down, how far can you go
You might fall into a Dilbert Zone
I just found out that Ratbert (the orange rat) is played by Tom Kenny and oh golly I can really hear it now
Edit: We actually started watching this show again, along with Daria (O-O)(¬_¬)
And lmaoooo Loud Howard at 0:33 🤣🤣🤣
Update: We finished Daria ;-; we still have Dilbert tho
Another update: WE ARE WATCHING DARIA AGAIN. We haven't resumed Dilbert because we forgot which disk we are on ;-;
ratbert is SpongeBob confirmed
@@coolkid57456 and Dogbert is Roland Schitt and Catbert is George Costanza
I love this show, it still holds up well even today. When it could have been like a lot the other 90s adult shows that came about because of the Simpsons rise. And the vanished faster then this did,
My dad loves the Dilbert comic strip, but I don’t think he knows the series Dilbert.
Why does this intro go so hard?
What a good show! I sure hope the creator is just as good!
Going down, down, down.
How far can you go?
You might fall into the Forbidden Zone!
anyone notice that dilbert's tie just pops into existance at 0:16
the best opening of all time i will always remember this theme!
As a fan of The Forbidden Zone, this is awesome!
0:12 *Ho Ha OG Ho Ha OG Ho Ha OG Ho Ha OG!*
Used controversy to revive his show lmao
Just learned this intro won an Emmy. The idea was proposed by Scott Adams, but there wasn't enough room on the Emmy application for his name, so he didn't receive it with everyone else. Kind of unfair.
He was a MAGA
Back in the early 2000s, this aired in Canada on Teletoon. However, it was NOT in their teen block (The Detour on Teletoon) or their adult block (Teletoon Unleashed!). It was part of their weekend "family" block alongside "For Better or For Worse" and "Redwall" (and later "Silverwing").
I think this is one of those things that got lost when internet came in all of its distracting glory
The internet had already been around for a few years when the show started in 1999.
I miss this series... wish they had made more
Same for me!
I swear I have the most vivid memories of my Dad watching this with me when I was a little kid and just starting to get to the age where I can remember stuff
this intro has been stuck inside my head for years
The creator just destroyed the whole franchise.
TH-cam REALLY wants me to watch this show for some reason. Over the last several days it's been recommending me clips, compilations, even the whole series as like 2 hours long upload! And now the intro. And I've never even clicked on any of them until today.
Its probably because really horrible people meat ride the creator after he came out as a huge racist. People on the right have no life so when a racist pops up they all rush in to support them. Nipsey hussles murderer is the perfect modern day example, kyle fuckface the mass shooter is another. No life loser, right leaning voters, prop those people up on a pedestal. Probably so their crotch is face level and easier to slob all over.
That 3D Perspective was really impressive for 2000. Still remember this pretty well. Even though I was about five years old..huh? O.o
One of the best intros i ever seen
I always laugh at Catbert chasing Ratbert.
If this show had been on a more watched network, I bet it'd have ran for at least four seasons tops, heck, maybe even six seasons and a movie
watched my son die to this song
IFC channel has started showing Dilbert episodes on Sunday mornings! Sweet!
When you shit yourself.
WHOA what a cool intro
pretty epic how it zooms out to a huge cubical maze 0:45
is this show good as the intro?
no
yes
I heard the first season is, but the second one is crap.
Nah, its an awesome and underrated show from start to end.
+Zach Nimmo
It *WAS* on Adult Swim. I remember watching this on Cartoon Network when they stopped playing kids cartoons.
Dilbert is on Netflix!
***** I know i really am going to miss it!
0:11 This Part Cracks Me Up
And now the creators a trumper
Based and might I add redpilled
He once said he was left of Bernie sanders tho
@@thesteelecrusader7778 you arent a based tradcath crusader youre a larper high schooler with too much internet access
@@isaacpoppe990 I’m not a trad carb larper.
This show is actually pretty good I just started watching on TH-cam
love the way Wally goes from chair to cofee machine in 10 seconds.
Before there was Brian Griffin it was Dogbert lol
This helped me take a shit
LOUD HOWARD FTW!
The first time I heard this theme, I belted out Forbidden Zone. It's kool that this theme music is a slightly different version of that. Though, it does kind of make me wonder if this show gets far into the 6th dimension. Anyone here ever see the movie Forbidden Zone?
But it DID and HAS survived the idiots at the BOX Network. :)
I had no idea this show was a thing and WOW. This intro goes HARD. Especially for when it came out