Dilbert (1999)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Gift
Release Date: 1999-11-02Dilbert'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.
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Episode 2 - The Trial
Release Date: 1999-11-23Dilbert 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.
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Episode 3 - The Shroud of Wally
Release Date: 1999-11-16Dilbert 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.
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Episode 4 - The Dupey
Release Date: 1999-12-07Dilbert'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.
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Episode 5 - Art
Release Date: 2000-02-22Dilbert 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.
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Episode 6 - Hunger
Release Date: 2000-02-01Dilbert 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.
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Episode 7 - The Security Guard
Release Date: 2000-01-18After 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.
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Episode 8 - The Merger
Release Date: 2000-01-25The Boss decides that the company needs to merge with another, and chooses a company of brain-sucking extraterrestrials.
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Episode 9 - The Off-Site Meeting
Release Date: 2000-02-08Dilbert's home is chosen as the location for an off-site meeting when a dendrophile sues his company because of their deforestation policies.
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Episode 10 - The Assistant
Release Date: 2000-02-15Dilbert is unwillingly promoted to management and given an assistant, sparking a showdown with the other engineers.
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Episode 11 - Company Picnic
Release Date: 2000-07-11The annual company picnic comes around and so does the softball game between Marketing and Engineering. This episode is based on Romeo and Juliet.
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Episode 12 - The Virtual Employee
Release Date: 2000-05-30Dilbert 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.
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Episode 13 - The Return
Release Date: 2000-06-06Dilbert 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.
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Episode 14 - Ethics
Release Date: 2000-06-13After 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.
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Episode 15 - The Fact
Release Date: 1999-11-09Dogbert 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.
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Episode 16 - Pregnancy
Release Date: 2000-07-18Ratbert 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.
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Episode 17 - The Delivery
Release Date: 2000-07-25Dilbert's pregnancy turns into a media circus as the various "parents" of his baby sue for custody, with Steve Austin presiding over the hearing.