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Dilbert
1999 - 2000 6.9 (63 votes) 2 Seasons
Genres
Animation Comedy
Networks
UPN
Created By
Scott Adams
Larry Charles

Dilbert

Overview

Dilbert is an animated television series adaptation of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox, and United Media and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999, and was UPN's highest-rated comedy series premiere at that point in the network's history; it lasted two seasons on UPN and won a Primetime Emmy before its cancellation.

Key Crew

Producer: Kara Vallow, Larry Charles

Top Cast

Daniel Stern
Daniel Stern

Dilbert (voice)

Larry Miller
Larry Miller

Pointy-Haired Boss (voice)

Gordon Hunt
Gordon Hunt

Wally (voice)

Chris Elliott
Chris Elliott

Dogbert (voice)

Gary Kroeger

Various (voice)

Jim Wise
Jim Wise

Loud Howard (voice)

Jackie Hoffman
Jackie Hoffman

Dilmom (voice)

Tress MacNeille
Tress MacNeille

Various

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1999)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Name
1999-01-25

Dilbert is tasked with naming a product that hasn't even been designed yet, and the stress (brought on by a recurring nightmare) makes Dilbert think he's turning into a chicken.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: The Prototype
1999-02-01

Dilbert and Alice must work together to stop a rival team led by the legendary "Lena" from stealing their ideas and presenting them to the Boss as her own.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: The Competition
1999-02-08

Dilbert is fired from his job when he is suspected of being a spy for a rival company (which was a rumor cooked up by Dogbert's online newsletter) and gets hired at a company that actually treats their workers like people.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Testing
1999-02-15

The Gruntmaster 6000 prototype is put to the test by an evil masked test engineer named Bob Bastard.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Elbonian Trip
1999-02-22

Dilbert, Alice, Wally, Dogbert, and the Pointy-Haired Boss take a business trip to Elbonia. Alice and Dilbert attempt to free the Elbonian people (Alice adopts an Elbonian baby while Dilbert introduces the workers to human rights) while Wally becomes a prophet.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: The Takeover
1999-03-01

Dilbert and Wally become majority shareholders of their company after Dogbert manipulates the stock market.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Little People
1999-03-22

Dilbert discovers that the office is inhabited by a race of former employees who have been "downsized" (literally shrunken down to size after they've been laid off) after finding all of his belongings used, the dry-erase markers disappearing, and X-rated websites on his computer.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Tower of Babel
1999-04-05

The repetitive passing-on of the same cold strain in Dilbert's office causes it to mutate and turns the coworkers into monsters. Rather than eliminate the virus, the company decides to start fresh by moving everyone to a new office, which Dilbert is tasked with designing.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Y2K
1999-04-26

On the eve of the new millennium, everyone — except Dilbert — is making New Year's plans. While assuring everyone that the company is prepared for Y2K, Dilbert discovers that the computer mainframe's main processor isn't Y2K-compatible and all the company's systems will crash if it isn't fixed. Dilbert is rewarded for discovering this by being assigned to fix it, and he discovers that the system's original programmer was Wally. But have years of drudgework dulled his brain too much to be able to tackle this crucial task?

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: The Knack
1999-05-03

Dilbert loses "the knack" for technology when he gets management DNA from accidentally drinking from the Boss's cup. His resulting mis-steps send the world back to the Dark Ages.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: Charity
1999-05-10

Dilbert is forced to be a charity coordinator for the "Associated Way" charity drive.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: Holiday
1999-05-17

Dilbert thinks there are too many time-wasting holidays; Dogbert concurrently convinces Congress to abandon all holidays in favor of a National Dogbert Day.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: Infomercial
1999-05-24

The pre-production—non-lab-tested—Gruntmaster 6000 is scheduled to be tested by a Texan family.

Runtime: 22 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1999)

No overview available.

17 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Gift
1999-11-02

Dilbert's mother's birthday is coming up, and in search of the perfect gift, he returns to the mall where he was abandoned by his father (voiced by Buck Henry) years ago.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: The Trial
1999-11-23

Dilbert is sent to prison after the boss frames him for a fatal traffic accident. Once inside, he applies his knowledge of mathematics and engineering to prison life and takes over his cell block.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: The Shroud of Wally
1999-11-16

Dilbert has a near-death experience at a gas station, and finds that the afterlife is exactly like the office. Meanwhile, a group listening to a multi-level marketing speech become hypnotized, and through a bizarre accident caused by a crashing space shuttle and the birthday kit create a religion based on Wally. Dilbert and Dogbert manage to cover up the crash, while Wally turns away his followers with his odd habits.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: The Dupey
1999-12-07

Dilbert's attempts to design a Furby-style children's toy go horribly awry when the toys gain sentience and mutate into hideous but benevolent creatures that want independence.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Art
2000-02-22

Dilbert is assigned to create a digital work of art. The result, the "Blue Duck," ends up appealing to the lowest common denominator of society and destroys the value and popularity of classic artworks.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Hunger
2000-02-01

Dilbert tries to end world hunger by creating a new, safe, artificial food, but it tastes so bad that even people dying of starvation refuse to eat it – until his mother gets involved.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: The Security Guard
2000-01-18

After a heated debate, Dilbert and the building's security guard trade jobs to see who can do the other's job better. Dilbert quickly finds himself in over his head when he discovers an illegal casino being run underneath the building.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: The Merger
2000-01-25

The Boss decides that the company needs to merge with another, and chooses a company of brain-sucking extraterrestrials.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: The Off-Site Meeting
2000-02-08

Dilbert's home is chosen as the location for an off-site meeting when a dendrophile sues his company because of their deforestation policies.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: The Assistant
2000-02-15

Dilbert is unwillingly promoted to management and given an assistant, sparking a showdown with the other engineers.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: Company Picnic
2000-07-11

The annual company picnic comes around and so does the softball game between Marketing and Engineering. This episode is based on Romeo and Juliet.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: The Virtual Employee
2000-05-30

Dilbert and his co-workers find an empty cubicle and start dumping their obsolete computer equipment into it. To keep the marketing department from claiming the cubicle, they hack into the human resources database and create a profile for a fake engineer named Todd. The plan backfires when Todd is named project leader and develops a messianic reputation.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: The Return
2000-06-06

Dilbert tries to buy a computer online but gets the wrong model, leading to an unpleasant surprise when he tries to return it to the company warehouse.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 14: Ethics
2000-06-13

After the company employees are forced to take ethical-training classes, Dilbert is put in charge of designing a nationwide Internet voting network. His scruples are put to the test when an attractive female representative of a tobacco special-interest group tries to seduce him.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 15: The Fact
1999-11-09

Dogbert becomes rich and famous by writing a best-selling book about an imaginary disease, 'Chronic Cubicle Syndrome', and Dilbert finds himself saddled with the job of devising a cure.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 16: Pregnancy
2000-07-18

Ratbert accidentally sends Dilbert's model rocket into space. When it returns with samples of DNA from aliens, cows, hillbillies, engineers, and robots, it rectally impales Dilbert, impregnating him.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 17: The Delivery
2000-07-25

Dilbert's pregnancy turns into a media circus as the various "parents" of his baby sue for custody, with Steve Austin presiding over the hearing.

Runtime: 22 min

Videos

Dilbert - Intro

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