Remembering Scott Adams’ best work, the Dilbert animated series

Scott Adams, the satirist-creator of Dilbert, died this week. I first encountered his strip as a child, far too young to appreciate its clairvoyance, but old enough to laugh at quips like: “According to the anonymous online employee survey, you don’t trust management. What’s up with that?” Only later, once I began my own career as an engineer, did the strip reveal itself as an unnervingly accurate parody of corporate life — by the time I finished my MBA, I was half-convinced Adams had been practicing some kind of sorcery.

As enduring as his comics were, I’ve always thought Adams’ instincts shone brightest in the animated series that brought his universe to life. Co-created with Larry Charles (of Seinfeld fame), Dilbert follows its titular engineer at Path-E-Tech (a comical name