"Adams's long leap into infamy on the back of countless racist, sexist, transphobic, and antisemitic statements, and his close association with right-wing politics, cost him dearly while he was still alive, including the eventual cancelation of his comic strip from most of the country's remaining newspapers. The last decade of Adams's life was a public and often bizarre downward spiral, culminating in feuds with some of the alt-health quacks who gave him medically unsound advice after his prostate cancer diagnosis."
"In the late 1990s, Adams undertook tireless efforts to commercialize the Dilbert brand. From the highly successful Office Depot ad campaign to a million coffee mugs to lunchboxes to rubber masks to the ill-fated Dilberito-available in "Mexican" and "Indian" flavors!-Adams was a relentless promoter. Among the franchise detritus, one particularly intriguing tidbit has caught the attention of obscure media aficionados: a supposedly lost, live-action Dilbert sitcom pilot, which Adams wrote and directed for the Fox network."
Scott Adams's final years were marked by pervasive controversy, including numerous racist, sexist, transphobic, and antisemitic statements and alignment with right-wing politics that led to the Dilbert comic's widespread cancellation. In the 1990s Adams aggressively commercialized the Dilbert brand through ad campaigns, mass-produced merchandise, and novelty products such as the Dilberito offered in "Mexican" and "Indian" flavors. A reportedly lost live-action Dilbert pilot for Fox represents a notable piece of franchise ephemera. The only publicly surfaced artifact from that pilot is a ghastly Dogbert animatronic puppet, which appeared on a local PBS B-movie segment after being acquired by a Florida prop museum. No footage of the pilot is currently available online.
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