Neonajarin WTF man?! Sheldon is a scientist, a theoretical physicist - ergo he has little mechanical intuition. Wolowitz is the engineer. What you said is just insulting to both physicists AND engineers! 😁
I work as an engineer and my coworkers told me to watch this since they thought I would find it funny. I didn't expect to be watching my backstory in cartoon form.
I'm an engineer, and I approve this message!! We've had this video circulating our family since it first came out. I'm one, my dad is one, my brother-in-law is one - the Knack is strong in this family!! LOVE it.
The sales people and stock broker types drive me crazy. Let's hear from you after the nuclear holocaust hits and all of your iphones/computers quit working. The only people that will make it are the STEM folks... they are the only people that can actually build something with their hands and brains. You WILL not think they are the lowest on the food chain then... Good luck!
Michael, I'd turn your statement around the other way. If it wasn't for engineers creating products to sell, there wouldn't be a need for sales people. There would be nothing to sell. I used to have this discussion with sales people all the time (as I'm an engineer). The simple fact is, that in a modern business world you need both to be successful.
True story folks. My dad owns an air compressor and one day he was using it in another room, I could hear it acting up a little bit. I knew something wasn't right and I had my phone with me so I Googled the symptoms with the model number. I found a forum post about a specific point of failure that affected that specific compressor, so I found a replacement part online for cheap and placed an order. Six months later, my dad invited me to go shopping with him for a new compressor. "What's wrong with the old one?" "It runs continuously without stopping and overheats the motor." Then I remembered I bought that part. It was still sitting in the shipping package. So I found that and went to listen to his compressor. "Your pressure transducer is shot. I bought another one online a while back. I'll just install this now." He was so dazed from this information that he thought maybe I was mixing things up. He said the problem only just started that day, and he never brought it up with me before. Nevertheless, in under and hour his compressor was working about. Saved him around 400 bucks. To this day he still doesn't know what to think of that.
I was to my high school cyber patriots program the designated Googler! It takes a special mind to know what questions to ask especially when the problem can be so ambiguous.
I fixed my dads drill when I was a kid. Disassembled, cleaned, found a fault (basically makita had a failure point with the torque mechanism) and fixed it.
@@DrDrift-rl6cc in this day and age it should be like common sense but for some reason a lot don't not sure if they do not trust it or people are afraid, or just technologically inept
I absolutely adore this video. Like Dilbert, I tinkered with antique vacuum tube radios at age 8, becoming a medical electronics designer for almost 50 years.
I studied EE in university. Our analogue electronics professor was something like you - he told us stories about how 12 year old him would ask his parents for electronics components so he could make audio amplifiers etc (can't remember if it was vacuum tube or transistors). He had a "knack" as they talk about in this video - seemed to very intuitively know how to build complex circuits (or at least prototypes that met 95% of design goals) entirely in his head. I started doing EE because I liked physics and maths, but hadn't really played around with electronics stuff before university so I was completely out of my depth. I hope I get to that level someday :)
@@nidhinbenny7975 My dad was so irritated that I wasn't doing my homework, he did a tap dance on top of one of my antique radios. You don't do that to a young teenager. Like being on drugs, it drove me deeper into the hobby. My father was right. Electronic tinkering was one of the reasons I had to drop out of college - I wasn't doing my homework - again - at a time when Uncle Sam was drafting young men. I joined the Air Force and when our first child was born, I returned to college, under the GI Bill, older and much wiser. After 13 years of full time engineering and part-time college, I received a Physics degree. The moral - do your homework first and odds are, good stuff should follow. I've just turned 80 and love electronics every day, almost as much as I love my family.
@@ronbax2922 Thanks for the reply, Ron. You sound like you would have a lot of cool stories to tell about electronics projects and the Air Force :). Happy to hear that you still enjoy electronics. Take care.
I started fixing radios in 1964 at nine years old, got hooked on shortwave, got on CB in 1970, had a job as a bench tech and a local CB shop in 1972, went to DeVry Columbus to learn electronics, discovered the world of industrial instruments and process controls in 1978, and made a career from it. Now retired, I still love restoring vintage CB and ham radios and rescuing them from the landfill.
@@nidhinbenny7975There are different levels of The Knack. I've witnessed it in skilled trades from carpentry to mechanic to electricians. We all share it, and apparently Nikola Tesla had it too. According to the story, he was called in to troubleshoot a power station generator. Upon submitting his bill for $1000, considered outrageous, he was told to itemize his bill. It went like this: Placing a chalk mark on the generator: $1. Knowing where to place the chalk mark on the generator: $999. They paid him.
My managers believed that my ability to fix stuff that defeated other people indicated that I had knowledge that I was keeping to myself rather than sharing with the team. It's enough to make an engineer tear her hair out.
@@1964Minette nice victim mentallity. And technically speaking, she did have knowledge others didnt, thats why she could fix it while others couldnt. Even if that knowledge is just her approach to problem solving.
I am disabled at 35 years old with degenerative disc disease and a lot of other issues.. Ever since I was a kid I would tear stuff apart and then make something else out of it. My mom got me this really expensive $400 talking parrot.. I gutted it for its electronics and I gutted my remote control car that I got for Christmas. I stuck the main board for the car and the parrot inside of a battleship game case I didn't know how to solder because I was like eight so I could see the way the boards worked everything in each grid was connected to each other So I took little squares of duct tape and stuck my wires where they should be on the board etc.. End result I had the old battleship game and it had a wire hanging out the side for the antenna. If you pressed the throttle on the controller instead of powering the motor it powered the parrot up and if you held it down he would kaw like three times and then record what you say and repeat it back My mom is in the kitchen cooking chili and I hit the trigger She hears kaw kaw kaw Then she said "what the fuck" I kept the trigger held down so it kept repeating her saying what the fuck over and over again until she found it in the cabinet She didn't even get mad after she opened it up and saw the crazy shit I had done I took a laser pointer because they were really popular in the late 90s early 2000s and pointed it and reflected it through the entire house through mirrors at each of the doorways If someone walked past the laser it would break the connection that was going to a light sensor and it would light up a light bulb in my bedroom 😅 All these years later the only way that I pay my bills is because every person in my county comes to me to fix their stuff computers electronics etc 🥰
When working on the Polaris Nuclear Submarine (Lafayette-class SSBN 617), four of us were dockside due to a hydraulic leak (common). Someone asked, "Would you recommend to your son to become and engineer?" All said, "No!"
I remember this episode well. This is the set-up for later in the show when Dilbert loses "the knack" and wreaks destruction on the planet. Civilization is saved at the last moment when Dilbert launches a rocket to push a communications satellite back into its proper orbit and everyone starts getting cell phone calls again.
I forget who showed me this originally but it's SO spot on. I was strong with the knack since I was young, especially when everyone else gives up because things seem hopeless. When I was about 19 my dad took me fishing, only to have the outboard die on our little boat. To me it sounded like it ran out of gas, but the tank was full and had brand new lines? To make things worse though the only real "tool" on board was some needle nose pliers... Dad gave up trying to fix it, but I searched all over the boat for ANYTHING "useful" and found a 2" nail! I used that to pry the crimp fittings on the fuel line loose to get at the check valve in the little squeeze bulb and BINGO it was jammed shut! 5 minutes later dad was astonished and we were headed home. Hence my nickname too, you should see what I've done with paperclips!😎
I am the daughter of an engineer who took apart my wind up alarm clock then asked Dad to fix it when the springs went flying. He did. I was fascinated at age 4 with the mechanics of an egg beater and spend endless hours on a stepstool at the kitchen sink making soap suds as I cranked that beater forward and backwards, fast and slow. To this day, I can fix most anything although I’ve never been trained. My dad and his brother were so inventive, when their plane went missing, I assured the FAA that they would have used whatever they had in the plane to make a radio and call for help if they were alive. Sadly, the plane had crashed and both men were victims. But the good news is that they lived their lives to the fullest, and died in their 80’s doing what they loved, and I am confident they did not suffer. My dad always said, “I was born with more sense than that! [referring to someone who did something foolish] I guess it was his way of saying, he had the knack! ❤
@@spaceflight1019 I don’t remember the last line of the movie, but agree that the men in that movie were a lot like my dad and uncle! Thanks for the memory.
@@bisondalen9961 It's on here, as "Secondhand Lions- End Scene". I'll let you watch it, because it's so powerful and there's no way I can replicate that. Enjoy.
Apparently the host network was poor at making decisions and apparently the public would rather watch The Simpsons or Family Guy (both shows I don't watch).
It wasnt so smart just because it was about engineers... and as much as i liked the comic strips, there was something about cartoon that made it feel odd, some jokes were good but some just felt out of place, i cant tell why. I think it was execution that wasnt good, not main idea.
Most of jokes are basicly exaggerated real life situations from work in bigger companies, i do like it, but main storries in episodes seemed lacking or paced bad in my opinion.
@@JSmusiqalthinka Hi, autist here. Dilbert is like the embodiment of someone with autism and a knack for problem solving. (like me who fixed someone's stuck washing machine pump by slamming on the filter housing lol)
As a child of and engineer, whose best friends father is also and engineer, and whose wife's father is and engineer I fully endorse this. P.S.My wife is the one with the knack in my family... but I can do cartoon voices (sigh...)
A good friend of mine had kept this "The Knack" for months awaiting the opportunity to give it to me ,he said quite rightly,I found a small documentary about You ! I couldn't believe how accurate he was !
a perfect satire of the complicated (and tedious), business world, the comic has a brilliant humor, but the cartoon version, have a one better and direct.
Normal life?? Where can one get to install that? :( But hey, we are endowed to solve interesting problems for the world! :) "We engineers aren't boring. We just get excited for boring things" - D. McMillan
I'm an electrical Engineer. I passed my ham radio FCC test at age 11 and built a lot of my radio equipment. I am still a ham after all these decades. Thank goodness my mother and grandmother encouraged me. I got my degree and it's been a very good and interesting life. At age 78, I'm still doing the Engineering bit part time. It helps keep me young. BTW, my wife is also a ham.
This is so true. back in elementary school when the Tv's were only 2-13, the state started using UHF channels and our local one was on 33. The TV convertors were shipped to the school and I found them along in the library waiting on someone from SCETV to come install them. I saw the connectors and figured out in short order where everything went. I had the black and white TV getting a fuzzy picture with the little loop UHF antenna. When the principal asked me, Who showed you how to do that. I said I don't know. I just could...
My favorite part of this scene is right after it cuts off here it shows to doctor putting on the garbage man's hat meaning the garbage man has been a part of Dilbert's life longer than we thought.
+I AM Most of my HS classmates (some degreed, some not) are back in the midwest scraping by while my wife and I have made six figs for years. We're in tech, was forced on us while living in Dallas twenty years ago.
I'm like that with computers. I understood how DOS batch files worked when I was 6. Guess what I do now. IT Support. My social life consists of my dog and Alexa. I'm DEAD serious.
Just had my biography Run by me ! THE KNACK. it even did a part where I fixed our t.v. Made me shiver at the accuracy of it all and the predictions about it ever being curable. Fortunately I have never needed the cure,still loving being incurable at 66 !
I forget who showed me this originally but it's SO spot on. I was strong with the knack since I was young, especially when everyone else give up because things seem hopeless. When I was about 19 my dad took me fishing, only to have the outboard die on our little boat. To me it sounded like it ran out of gas, but the tank was full and had brand new lines? To make things worse though the only real "tool" on board was some needle nose pliers... Dad gave up trying to fix it, but I searched all over the boat for ANYTHING "useful" and found a 2" nail! I used that to pry the crimp fittings on the fuel line loose to get at the check valve in the little squeeze bulb and BINGO it was jammed shut! 5 minutes later dad was astonished and we were headed home. Hence my nickname too, you should see what I've done with paperclips!😎
Taking a signals and systems course one day.. and then the professor pointed out how all Engineers lack social abilities... By this I believe that "the knack" is "Asperberger's Syndrome" Looking this up for the symptoms.... I believe I am afflicted...
"Not everyone can be a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere", I think it went. I always like the scene when Gusteau stops Remy with "You know how to fix it. This is your chance!"
I'm the same way, I tried taking apart a 13" B&W Samsung TV when I was in my early teens, but I had no idea about fly-backs, I'm lucky I'm still here. Either way, I still love tinkering with things when my budget allows for it.
This shockingly simmilar to a conversation my Granpa had with my mom but he was happy cause he's an engineer. My mom was just as distraught at the thought her son would be like her father.
Got the knack? probably spend 90% of your time explaning things to a manager who doesn't understand, won't remember and will mis-quote you to other managers
I have a theiry that the garbage man is a time traveler sent back to make sure dilbert does something important that changes the world. Sort of a “time continuity” thing.
What's almost as funny - I was a Syracuse U. Engineering dropout, who elisted in the Air Force as a heavy ground radar tech. In the 3rd year of my 4 year enlistment, I started back to college, but my new school wasn't yet certified to grant 4 year engineering degrees, so I changed my major to Physics. Like the old engineering line, "Once upon a time, I couldn't spell Physicist. Now I are one."
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Will he lead a normal life?
No, He will be an engineer. :D Amazing
Sheldon: Bazinga
Uday Kumar i love how she breaks down crying as if thats the worst news a mother could hear😂
Neonajarin WTF man?! Sheldon is a scientist, a theoretical physicist - ergo he has little mechanical intuition. Wolowitz is the engineer. What you said is just insulting to both physicists AND engineers! 😁
Want that knack
Uday Kumar where did i go wrong with him.
My engineering professor showed this to our class today. It was pretty great seeing everyone's reactions.
You wouldn't happen to have gone to Virginia Tech and taken ENGE 1215 or similar class?
Or York University, ENG 1101?
Or Oakland University, class CSI 2440?
Or Carleton university ECOR 1010
Same here, they showed us this in our first year engineering core class back in 2007. Still resonates just as much with us engineers today haha
"If an engineer loses the knack, the results can be devastating."
Yes indeed, they go to marketing.
Andrew Cahaly or worse Psychology the horror
An example would be the two space shuttle disasters.
Those blood suckers!
Man that’s fucked up but hilarious 😂
they go to sales, like me
I work as an engineer and my coworkers told me to watch this since they thought I would find it funny. I didn't expect to be watching my backstory in cartoon form.
I'm an engineer, and I approve this message!! We've had this video circulating our family since it first came out. I'm one, my dad is one, my brother-in-law is one - the Knack is strong in this family!! LOVE it.
May the knack be with you 😊
As an engineer, I love it!!! I hope I don't lose the knack!
is the knack genetic everyone in my family has it
It's comical you think being an engineer is something to be proud of. You're dime a dozen. The lowest on the food chain in STEM.
The sales people and stock broker types drive me crazy. Let's hear from you after the nuclear holocaust hits and all of your iphones/computers quit working. The only people that will make it are the STEM folks... they are the only people that can actually build something with their hands and brains. You WILL not think they are the lowest on the food chain then... Good luck!
The knack is like a machine... use it or lose it.
Michael, I'd turn your statement around the other way. If it wasn't for engineers creating products to sell, there wouldn't be a need for sales people. There would be nothing to sell.
I used to have this discussion with sales people all the time (as I'm an engineer). The simple fact is, that in a modern business world you need both to be successful.
True story folks. My dad owns an air compressor and one day he was using it in another room, I could hear it acting up a little bit. I knew something wasn't right and I had my phone with me so I Googled the symptoms with the model number. I found a forum post about a specific point of failure that affected that specific compressor, so I found a replacement part online for cheap and placed an order. Six months later, my dad invited me to go shopping with him for a new compressor. "What's wrong with the old one?" "It runs continuously without stopping and overheats the motor." Then I remembered I bought that part. It was still sitting in the shipping package. So I found that and went to listen to his compressor. "Your pressure transducer is shot. I bought another one online a while back. I'll just install this now." He was so dazed from this information that he thought maybe I was mixing things up. He said the problem only just started that day, and he never brought it up with me before. Nevertheless, in under and hour his compressor was working about. Saved him around 400 bucks. To this day he still doesn't know what to think of that.
Googling is an essential skill, for sure.
I was to my high school cyber patriots program the designated Googler! It takes a special mind to know what questions to ask especially when the problem can be so ambiguous.
I fixed my dads drill when I was a kid.
Disassembled, cleaned, found a fault (basically makita had a failure point with the torque mechanism) and fixed it.
@@DrDrift-rl6cc in this day and age it should be like common sense but for some reason a lot don't not sure if they do not trust it or people are afraid, or just technologically inept
And that makes you an engineer?...😅
As an electrical engineer, this clip is spot on!
I absolutely adore this video. Like Dilbert, I tinkered with antique vacuum tube radios at age 8, becoming a medical electronics designer for almost 50 years.
I studied EE in university. Our analogue electronics professor was something like you - he told us stories about how 12 year old him would ask his parents for electronics components so he could make audio amplifiers etc (can't remember if it was vacuum tube or transistors). He had a "knack" as they talk about in this video - seemed to very intuitively know how to build complex circuits (or at least prototypes that met 95% of design goals) entirely in his head. I started doing EE because I liked physics and maths, but hadn't really played around with electronics stuff before university so I was completely out of my depth. I hope I get to that level someday :)
@@nidhinbenny7975 My dad was so irritated that I wasn't doing my homework, he did a tap dance on top of one of my antique radios. You don't do that to a young teenager. Like being on drugs, it drove me deeper into the hobby.
My father was right. Electronic tinkering was one of the reasons I had to drop out of college - I wasn't doing my homework - again - at a time when Uncle Sam was drafting young men. I joined the Air Force and when our first child was born, I returned to college, under the GI Bill, older and much wiser. After 13 years of full time engineering and part-time college, I received a Physics degree.
The moral - do your homework first and odds are, good stuff should follow.
I've just turned 80 and love electronics every day, almost as much as I love my family.
@@ronbax2922 Thanks for the reply, Ron. You sound like you would have a lot of cool stories to tell about electronics projects and the Air Force :). Happy to hear that you still enjoy electronics. Take care.
I started fixing radios in 1964 at nine years old, got hooked on shortwave, got on CB in 1970, had a job as a bench tech and a local CB shop in 1972, went to DeVry Columbus to learn electronics, discovered the world of industrial instruments and process controls in 1978, and made a career from it. Now retired, I still love restoring vintage CB and ham radios and rescuing them from the landfill.
@@nidhinbenny7975There are different levels of The Knack. I've witnessed it in skilled trades from carpentry to mechanic to electricians. We all share it, and apparently Nikola Tesla had it too.
According to the story, he was called in to troubleshoot a power station generator. Upon submitting his bill for $1000, considered outrageous, he was told to itemize his bill. It went like this:
Placing a chalk mark on the generator: $1.
Knowing where to place the chalk mark on the generator: $999.
They paid him.
My managers believed that my ability to fix stuff that defeated other people indicated that I had knowledge that I was keeping to myself rather than sharing with the team. It's enough to make an engineer tear her hair out.
"... her ...". Awesome!!!!!
I wonder if your managers would treat a male engineer that way?
@@1964Minette depends if he had long hair or not?
@@1964Minette nice victim mentallity. And technically speaking, she did have knowledge others didnt, thats why she could fix it while others couldnt. Even if that knowledge is just her approach to problem solving.
@@nenadmomcilovic9133 it's not "victim mentality;" it's literally how women are treated
I have the opposite, "The Break", meaning I'm basically hopeless with anything of a practical or useful nature. So I became an artist instead.
lol thats artist for you
Musician haha Same
With that condition, you're meant to become a manager, earn more than engineers, and decide how much they should be paid.
Nah. That condition is called Artism
Welcome to your new career in QA.
maybe if i had the knack, getting my engineering degree would have been easier.
nope, it doesn't help.
No. Engineering is hard. Needs to be. That is also The Knack.
Engineering requires textbook math and physics. The Knack uses *applied* math and physics, often intuitive.
"I'd run an EEG on him but the machine isn't working" (Dilbert fixes the machine) "Oh dear...its worse then I feared LMAO!
I am disabled at 35 years old with degenerative disc disease and a lot of other issues..
Ever since I was a kid I would tear stuff apart and then make something else out of it.
My mom got me this really expensive $400 talking parrot.. I gutted it for its electronics and I gutted my remote control car that I got for Christmas.
I stuck the main board for the car and the parrot inside of a battleship game case
I didn't know how to solder because I was like eight so I could see the way the boards worked everything in each grid was connected to each other
So I took little squares of duct tape and stuck my wires where they should be on the board etc..
End result I had the old battleship game and it had a wire hanging out the side for the antenna. If you pressed the throttle on the controller instead of powering the motor it powered the parrot up and if you held it down he would kaw like three times and then record what you say and repeat it back
My mom is in the kitchen cooking chili and I hit the trigger
She hears kaw kaw kaw
Then she said "what the fuck"
I kept the trigger held down so it kept repeating her saying what the fuck over and over again until she found it in the cabinet
She didn't even get mad after she opened it up and saw the crazy shit I had done
I took a laser pointer because they were really popular in the late 90s early 2000s and pointed it and reflected it through the entire house through mirrors at each of the doorways
If someone walked past the laser it would break the connection that was going to a light sensor and it would light up a light bulb in my bedroom 😅
All these years later the only way that I pay my bills is because every person in my county comes to me to fix their stuff computers electronics etc 🥰
When working on the Polaris Nuclear Submarine (Lafayette-class SSBN 617), four of us were dockside due to a hydraulic leak (common). Someone asked, "Would you recommend to your son to become and engineer?" All said, "No!"
+S. Steve Adkins Engineering is awesome :)
ouch !
Interesting.
@@WheelsRCool Indeed.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with engineering.
I remember this episode well. This is the set-up for later in the show when Dilbert loses "the knack" and wreaks destruction on the planet. Civilization is saved at the last moment when Dilbert launches a rocket to push a communications satellite back into its proper orbit and everyone starts getting cell phone calls again.
I forget who showed me this originally but it's SO spot on. I was strong with the knack since I was young, especially when everyone else gives up because things seem hopeless. When I was about 19 my dad took me fishing, only to have the outboard die on our little boat. To me it sounded like it ran out of gas, but the tank was full and had brand new lines? To make things worse though the only real "tool" on board was some needle nose pliers... Dad gave up trying to fix it, but I searched all over the boat for ANYTHING "useful" and found a 2" nail! I used that to pry the crimp fittings on the fuel line loose to get at the check valve in the little squeeze bulb and BINGO it was jammed shut! 5 minutes later dad was astonished and we were headed home. Hence my nickname too, you should see what I've done with paperclips!😎
My mom should this to me when I was a teen! And now that I am an actual engineer, this is true yet hilarious!
Him sitting there swinging his legs is hilarious! ANd when he fixes the machine as the Doctor is saying its broken! LMAO!!!
I am the daughter of an engineer who took apart my wind up alarm clock then asked Dad to fix it when the springs went flying. He did. I was fascinated at age 4 with the mechanics of an egg beater and spend endless hours on a stepstool at the kitchen sink making soap suds as I cranked that beater forward and backwards, fast and slow. To this day, I can fix most anything although I’ve never been trained.
My dad and his brother were so inventive, when their plane went missing, I assured the FAA that they would have used whatever they had in the plane to make a radio and call for help if they were alive. Sadly, the plane had crashed and both men were victims. But the good news is that they lived their lives to the fullest, and died in their 80’s doing what they loved, and I am confident they did not suffer.
My dad always said, “I was born with more sense than that! [referring to someone who did something foolish]
I guess it was his way of saying, he had the knack!
❤
Your story reminded me of the movie "Secondhand Lions", and the final line of the movie.
@@spaceflight1019 I don’t remember the last line of the movie, but agree that the men in that movie were a lot like my dad and uncle! Thanks for the memory.
@@bisondalen9961 It's on here, as "Secondhand Lions- End Scene". I'll let you watch it, because it's so powerful and there's no way I can replicate that. Enjoy.
Before, I couldn't spell Engineer. Now I ARE one.
Steve Korn
And a ding good one at that. lol
I still don't understand why the show was canceled when the comic is still funny.
Apparently the host network was poor at making decisions and apparently the public would rather watch The Simpsons or Family Guy (both shows I don't watch).
How much does the comic cost to produce?
How much does the TV show cost to produce?
It wasnt so smart just because it was about engineers... and as much as i liked the comic strips, there was something about cartoon that made it feel odd, some jokes were good but some just felt out of place, i cant tell why. I think it was execution that wasnt good, not main idea.
Maciej Różański people didnt understand the jokes
Most of jokes are basicly exaggerated real life situations from work in bigger companies, i do like it, but main storries in episodes seemed lacking or paced bad in my opinion.
"...and other social ineptitude" LOL
Utter
Benjamin Myers 'Udder' 😉
It's pronounced otter. Like the maim-all.
sounds like code for "autistic"
@@JSmusiqalthinka Hi, autist here. Dilbert is like the embodiment of someone with autism and a knack for problem solving.
(like me who fixed someone's stuck washing machine pump by slamming on the filter housing lol)
As a child of and engineer, whose best friends father is also and engineer, and whose wife's father is and engineer I fully endorse this. P.S.My wife is the one with the knack in my family... but I can do cartoon voices (sigh...)
I want an engineer tomboy real bad
I lost "The Knack" for a bit but got back to my roots and got it back...
A good friend of mine had kept this "The Knack" for months awaiting the opportunity to give it to me ,he said quite rightly,I found a small documentary about You ! I couldn't believe how accurate he was !
And then there was no more dilbert.
I listen to Scott every day on the "locals" platform. He has become a part of my family.
he kinda went nazi so thats not great.
@@aredub1847lol no he did not
The Doctor sounds like the same VA who voiced Brain from Pinky and the Brain.
I actually looked up the actor (Maurice LaMarche) who did Brain, Lo and behold that's him in the clip
Thank you, this was driving me nuts!
@@alexluft5742 He did a lot on The Critic too.
a perfect satire of the complicated (and tedious), business world, the comic has a brilliant humor, but the cartoon version, have a one better and direct.
Me:"trust me I'm an engineer"
Mom:*cries out loud
Normal life?? Where can one get to install that? :(
But hey, we are endowed to solve interesting problems for the world! :)
"We engineers aren't boring. We just get excited for boring things" - D. McMillan
What do you mean? The things we talk about are very exciting?
I'm an electrical Engineer. I passed my ham radio FCC test at age 11 and built a lot of my radio equipment. I am still a ham after all these decades. Thank goodness my mother and grandmother encouraged me. I got my degree and it's been a very good and interesting life. At age 78, I'm still doing the Engineering bit part time. It helps keep me young. BTW, my wife is also a ham.
Whoever made this comic, she should be given the nobel prize.
As a Ham Radio Operator.... this is hilarious!
Doctor: “No, he’ll be an engineer.”
Every immigrant parent: “Oh thank goodness! That’s wonderful!”
First saw this alongside my uncle... An engineer... He had to chuckle.
I am 70 and apparently always had The Knack. Retired electrical engineer.
This is so true. back in elementary school when the Tv's were only 2-13, the state started using UHF channels and our local one was on 33. The TV convertors were shipped to the school and I found them along in the library waiting on someone from SCETV to come install them. I saw the connectors and figured out in short order where everything went. I had the black and white TV getting a fuzzy picture with the little loop UHF antenna. When the principal asked me, Who showed you how to do that. I said I don't know. I just could...
When someone asks about who I am, and my life, I show them this clip!
imagine in a parallel universe, young sheldon is diagnosed "the knack"
Sheldon actually has it, but only uses it at home.
I'm an engineer, and got a lot of laughs out of this!
I totally feel like I'm being called out there. Like, what is so hard about to look at the symptoms, and then debug the system systematically?
1:15 mom finding out I wanna be an artist
no knack still an engineer
You are one of those instruction manual following bad ones
KNACK IS BACK BAYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
When I saw the title I thought it was going to be dilbert meets an 80s rock group you know the Knack
This cartoon is great. So splendid, relaxing and smooth.
ƬψƬΩiiXinnex You sound like a cigarette commercial.
My favorite part of this scene is right after it cuts off here it shows to doctor putting on the garbage man's hat meaning the garbage man has been a part of Dilbert's life longer than we thought.
Too true in some cases. Favorite sound bite for two decades.
I built a brilliant career around the knack.
+I AM Most of my HS classmates (some degreed, some not) are back in the midwest scraping by while my wife and I have made six figs for years. We're in tech, was forced on us while living in Dallas twenty years ago.
13 people aren't engineers
***** He's the engineer, what do you expect?
shut up
why are you bitching about a freaking youtube comment that not very people have seen, you're a sad, sad, sad little man.
you have too much time on your hands
+awesomedude4438
I am an engineer...
utter social ineptitude, accurate
I'm like that with computers. I understood how DOS batch files worked when I was 6. Guess what I do now. IT Support. My social life consists of my dog and Alexa. I'm DEAD serious.
Just had my biography Run by me ! THE KNACK. it even did a part where I fixed our t.v. Made me shiver at the accuracy of it all and the predictions about it ever being curable. Fortunately I have never needed the cure,still loving being incurable at 66 !
I forget who showed me this originally but it's SO spot on. I was strong with the knack since I was young, especially when everyone else give up because things seem hopeless. When I was about 19 my dad took me fishing, only to have the outboard die on our little boat. To me it sounded like it ran out of gas, but the tank was full and had brand new lines? To make things worse though the only real "tool" on board was some needle nose pliers... Dad gave up trying to fix it, but I searched all over the boat for ANYTHING "useful" and found a 2" nail! I used that to pry the crimp fittings on the fuel line loose to get at the check valve in the little squeeze bulb and BINGO it was jammed shut! 5 minutes later dad was astonished and we were headed home. Hence my nickname too, you should see what I've done with paperclips!😎
Don't worry Bois!
The engineer,
Is engihere.
My first class prof showed us engineering students this vid at the beginning of our first lecture
Taking a signals and systems course one day.. and then the professor pointed out how all Engineers lack social abilities...
By this I believe that "the knack" is "Asperberger's Syndrome"
Looking this up for the symptoms.... I believe I am afflicted...
Same with computer techs. A good one repairs it, and other people try to figure what just happened to fix it.
I'm an engineer, this tickles :)
If you're an engineer how do you measure distance on a digital spectrum?
ummmmm I know this one umm.... 12! NAILED IT!
that doctor is like a white morgan freeman, what a soothing voice
I love it. Sincerely, an engineer
With the a tv remote one battery is used to powered the buttons and the other for the IR led the button one always goes first.
They showed me this during orientation for my computer science degree back in 2001
Engineers can be anyone, but not everyone can be an engineer.
"Ratatouille" speaks to engineering as well. Your thoughts echo Ego's review.
spaceflight101
It is what it is.
"Not everyone can be a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere", I think it went. I always like the scene when Gusteau stops Remy with "You know how to fix it. This is your chance!"
Goes for athletes
I'm the same way, I tried taking apart a 13" B&W Samsung TV when I was in my early teens, but I had no idea about fly-backs, I'm lucky I'm still here. Either way, I still love tinkering with things when my budget allows for it.
DID SOMEONE SAY KNACK, KNACK IS BACK BABAY
Too bad it cuts off before revealing that the doctor is actually "The Garbage Man" who shows up from time to time.
Well it looks like someone made a cartoon about my husband! LOL!
Those who left engineering went to psychology majors in college.
Dilbert - The Knack "The Curse of the Engineer"
i remeber this but in newspaper🥺🥺
This shockingly simmilar to a conversation my Granpa had with my mom but he was happy cause he's an engineer. My mom was just as distraught at the thought her son would be like her father.
LOL!!! cool clip, idk why i laughed so hard
Got the knack? probably spend 90% of your time explaning things to a manager who doesn't understand, won't remember and will mis-quote you to other managers
"The Knack" pays my bills!
If little dilbert loses the knack then of course he would be messing around
Looove this
I can't escape the knack...
The doctor is also Dilbert's garbageman. He also delivered Dilbert.
It was pretty epic when they revealed the doctor to be the garbageman
One of our professors showed this to us at a lecture ^_^
Sounds like a superpower more than anything though.
I am here because of the signal and system project:))
The Garbage man.... Dilbert's version of Dr. Who
*Engineer Gaming*
“Hey look buddy, I’m an engineer, that means I solve problems.”
I have a theiry that the garbage man is a time traveler sent back to make sure dilbert does something important that changes the world. Sort of a “time continuity” thing.
Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer and that means I solve problems.
I am fairly curious why use the instead of a? many different knacks, one is able to dabble in all of them.
This hits hard 😂
Wow! It's like we watched the same video or something. Uncanny...
This is PURE GENIUS. I see this once a day
I am looking for who posted the Dilbert video the knack curse of the engineer. Thanks
What's almost as funny - I was a Syracuse U. Engineering dropout, who elisted in the Air Force as a heavy ground radar tech. In the 3rd year of my 4 year enlistment, I started back to college, but my new school wasn't yet certified to grant 4 year engineering degrees, so I changed my major to Physics. Like the old engineering line, "Once upon a time, I couldn't spell Physicist. Now I are one."
ahhh welcome son!!
as an engineer … this hurts
Story of my life XP
Ok, quick question .Why does the doctor have such a sexy voice? That's like the last character archetype you would expect to have a voice like that.
This is how engineers are born.
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