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40. Dilbert - CybrMonkey
https://youtu.be/fpivIYJFjd4

Unique: 6.25
Story: 5.75
Music: 5.25
Animation: 5.5
Personal: 5.5
Average: 5.65

This was an interesting intro with a lot going on. First theres the sardonic focus on evolution, showing how far weve come only to reach the point of humanity being hunched over a computer. Then after becoming literally trapped inside the computer and printed out, Dilbert gets launched around the office as a paper airplane, resulting in total chaos. And finally, the Dilbert plane is crumbled up into a ball by the boss and discarded in the garbage, leaving us with an image of a helpless Dilbert trapped in one of countless cubicles. I think the clear message of this is the way office workers are essentially disposable commodities treated like garbage.

The discordant music starting at around 0:22 does a good job of enhancing the sense of chaos unfolding in the office (or perhaps in Dilberts mind). And its got to be one of the more unusual theme songs Ive ever heard from a cartoon, without anything resembling a catchy hook. That isnt a bad thing, and it fits for this sequence, but I cant say its a song I would want to repeatedly listen to.

The animation was mostly average, but the visual effect of the sparks raining down from the broken lights looked really good. And I liked the way they depicted that zoom out to show all the cubicles at the end. All in all, Id say the animators did the best they could with this considering the simplistic character designs they had to work with.