The Trial (Dilbert episode)

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Dilbert episode
"The Trial"
Episode №	15
Prod. code	202
Airdate	November 23, 1999
Writer(s)	Joe Wiseman Joe Port
Director	Chris Dozois
Dilbert season two November 2, 1999 – June 13, 2000 List of Dilbert animated series episodes
Episodes: The Gift The Trial The Shroud of Wally The Dupey Art Hunger The Security Guard The Merger The Off-Site Meeting The Assistant Company Picnic The Virtual Employee The Return Ethics The Fact Pregnancy The Delivery

The Trial was the fifteenth episode of the Dilbert animated television series. It originally aired November 23, 1999.

[edit] Plot

The boss's driving skills suffer on the way to work since he is distracted by a book on tape entitled English for Managers. After causing several accidents, and the death of a bus full of Nobel Prize winners, the boss arrives at work. The police, failing to apprehend him, accidentally shoot several employees taking a smoking break.

Meanwhile, the office is having a mandatory blood drive, however the screening process eliminates every single employee except Dilbert, and to meet the quota, the nurse must take all of his blood. When the boss and the nurse drop some of his blood on the crime scene in front of the building, Dilbert is suspected of committing the Nobel Prize murder. He is pulled over for drunk driving (since he has no blood), and is arrested for murder. While in prison, Dilbert standardizes the prison economy, and makes operations run more efficiently.

At the same prison, Alice is engaged to an inmate on death row. He is executed 45 seconds after they are married, and Alice is on the lookout for a new convict bride. When Wally and Alice visit Dilbert, she is on the lookout for a new husband. Wally, on the other hand, begins looking for a crime to commit when he hears the perks of prison.

In order to sell a book, Dogbert convinces the supreme court to overturn the verdict in Dilbert's case, and he is released. Alice finds a new convict, and right before he is executed, the governor calls to pardon him. However, the priest forgets which button is the hold for the phone, and accidentally electrocutes him. Meanwhile, Wally, after confessing to Dilbert's crime, discovers that prison isn't quite what he expected it would be.

[edit] Quotes

• Nurse: "Please leave the auditorium if any of the following apply to you. Are you now, or have you ever been, Wally."

• Nobel Prize Winners: "Infinity bottles of beer on the wall, infinity bottles of beer. If one of those bottles should happen to fall, infinity bottles of beer on the wall. Infinity bottles of..."

• Priest: "I pronounce you man and wife. You may now insert the gag."