Dilmom is a fictional character and Dilbert's mother in Scott Adams' Dilbert comic strip and television series. She is homely and intelligent, not unlike her son. She used to think Dilbert worked at a railroad, confusing his profession as an electrical engineer with a train engineer. She's often sarcastic and openly uncaring towards her son; in the TV series she states that, although she loves him as family, she did not like him as an individual. She has nearly the same level of technical knowledge as Dilbert, although she has him do technical work for her. She is obsessed with Scrabble, and has been accused of cheating with "counterfeit vowels," which is a reference to Adams' own mother. She also is on an unnamed department store's "bad customer list", for buying and later returning over a thousand items to the store, one scarf in particular 17 times.
Dilmom's name appears in the April 12, 2006 and the May 31, 2009 strips. She is also referred to as "Dilmom" in the TV series episode "Hunger", by Dogbert and later a TV announcer.
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