This is a list of episodes of the Dilbert animated series in the order that they were aired.
| # | Title | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Airdate | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Name" | Seth Kearsley | Larry Charles, Scott Adams |
25 January 1999 | 101 |
| Dilbert is tasked with naming a product that hasn't even been designed yet. | |||||
| 2 | "The Competition" | Seth Kearsley | Ned Goldreyer | 1 February 1999 | 103 |
| Dilbert is fired from his job when he is suspected of being a spy for a rival company. He then introduces the idea of a marketing department to a successful company with disastrous results. | |||||
| 3 | "The Prototype" | Alfred Gimeno | Jeff Kahn | 8 February 1999 | 102 |
| 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. | |||||
| 4 | "The Takeover" | Andi Klein | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Ned Goldreyer |
15 February 1999 | 106 |
| Dilbert and Wally become majority shareholders of their company after Dogbert manipulates the stock. | |||||
| 5 | "Testing" | Chris Dozois | David Silverman, Stephen Sustrastic |
22 February 1999 | 104 |
| The Gruntmaster 6000 prototype is put to the test by an evil masked test engineer named Bob Bastard; Alice falls for him. | |||||
| 6 | "Elbonian Trip" | Mike Kim | David Silverman, Stephen Sustrastic |
1 March 1999 | 105 |
| Dilbert, Alice, Wally, Dogbert, and the Pointy-Haired Boss take a business trip to Elbonia. Alice and Dilbert attempt to free the Elbonian people while Wally becomes a prophet. | |||||
| 7 | "Tower of Babel" | Gloria Jenkins | David Silverman, Stephen Sustrastic |
22 March 1999 | 108 |
| The repetitive passing-on of the same cold strain in Dilbert's office causes it to mutate, in turn mutating his coworkers. Rather than eliminate the virus, the company decides to start fresh by moving everyone to a new office, which Dilbert is tasked with designing. | |||||
| 8 | "Little People" | Barry Vodos | David Silverman, Stephen Sustrastic, Scott Adams, Larry Charles |
5 April 1999 | 107 |
| Dilbert discovers that his office is inhabited by a race of former employees who have been "downsized"--literally. These tiny officemates are stealing supplies to fuel their dry-erase-marker addiction. | |||||
| 9 | "The Knack" | Michael Goguen | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Andrew Borakove, Rachel Powell |
21 April 1999 | 110 |
| 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. | |||||
| 10 | "Y2K" | Jennifer Graves, Bob Hathcock, Andi Tom |
Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Andrew Borakove, Rachel Powell |
3 May 1999 | 109 |
| 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? | |||||
| 11 | "Charity" | Chris Dozois | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, David Silverman, Stephen Sustrastic |
10 May 1999 | 111 |
| Dilbert is forced to be a charity coordinator for the "Associated Way" charity drive. | |||||
| 12 | "Holiday" | Andi Klein | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, David Silverman, Stephen Sustrastic, Ned Goldreyer |
17 May 1999 | 112 |
| Dilbert thinks there are too many time-wasting holidays; Dogbert concurrently convinces Congress to abandon all holidays in favor of a National Dogbert Day. | |||||
| 13 | "The Infomercial" | Todd Frederiksen, Joe Vaux |
Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Ned Goldreyer |
24 May 1999 | 113 |
| The pre-production--non-lab-tested--Gruntmaster 6000 is scheduled to be tested by a Texan family. | |||||
| # | Title | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Airdate | Prod. code |
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| 14 | "The Gift" | Gloria Jenkins | Ned Goldreyer | 2 November 1999 | 201 |
| 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 years ago. He discovers his father at the food court; he's been there for the past decade, obsessed with the challenge of the "All-You-Can-Eat" Buffet. "Dadbert" gives Dilbert a video of him to give to his mother with a message. Dilbert ends up giving Dilmom a gift certificate; she's underwhelmed by it but touched that he confronted his fears for her, and together they watch the video from his father. | |||||
| 15 | "The Shroud of Wally" | Andi Klein | Scott Adams | 9 November 1999 | 203 |
| Dilbert has a near-death experience when he has an accident at a gas station. Meanwhile, a group listening to a multi-level marketing speech become hypnotized, and through a bizarre accident create a religion based on Wally. | |||||
| 16 | "Art" | Linda Miller | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Ned Goldreyer |
16 November 1999 | 205 |
| 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. In this climate, Dogbert is able to sell people Dilbert's dirty clothes. Dilbert gets kidnapped by Da Vinci and "The 5 Families of Art", and the boss showing his bare Blue-Ducked belly on national TV ends up in a decline of the popularity of the Blue Duck. | |||||
| 17 | "The Trial" | Chris Dozois | Joe Port, Joe Wiseman |
23 November 1999 | 202 |
| 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. | |||||
| 18 | "The Dupey" | Michael Goguen | Larry Charles, Scott Adams |
7 December 1999 | 204 |
| Dilbert's attempts to design a children's toy go horribly awry when the toys gain sentience and mutate into hideous but benevolent creatures that want independence. | |||||
| 19 | "The Security Guard" | Rick Del Carmen | Scott Adams | 18 January 2000 | 207 |
| 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 hopelessly out of his league when he discovers an illegal casino being run underneath the building. | |||||
| 20 | "The Merger" | Jim Hull | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, David Silverman, Stephen Sustrastic |
25 January 2000 | 208 |
| The Boss decides that the company needs to merge with another, and chooses a company of brain-sucking extraterrestrials. | |||||
| 21 | "Hunger" | Craig R. Maras | Larry Charles, Scott Adams |
1 February 2000 | 206 |
| Dilbert almost ends world hunger by creating a new, safe, artificial food, but it tastes so bad that not even people dying of starvation will eat it. | |||||
| 22 | "The Off-Site Meeting" | Seth Kearsley | Mark Steen, Ron Nelson, Scott Adams |
8 February 2000 | 209 |
| Dilbert's home is chosen as the location for an off-site meeting when a dendrophile sues his company because of their deforestation policies. | |||||
| 23 | "The Assistant" | Gloria Jenkins, Declan M. Moran |
Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Ron Nelson, Mark Steen |
15 February 2000 | 210 |
| Dilbert is unwillingly promoted to management and given an assistant (Andy Dick). | |||||
| 24 | "The Return" | Mike Kuntel | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Ned Goldreyer |
22 February 2000 | 213 |
| Dilbert tries to buy a greatly advanced computer online but gets the wrong model. Jerry Seinfeld and Eugene Levy guest-star as Comp-U-Comp and the plug guard. | |||||
| 25 | "The Virtual Employee" | Perry Zombalas | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Ned Goldreyer |
30 May 2000 | 212 |
| When Dilbert and his co-workers are inundated by obsolete computer equipment they can't get rid of, they dump it in an empty cubicle, but when it's discovered, Dilbert, Alice, and Wally hack into human resources and create a profile for a fake employee, Todd, so they can keep the cubicle. The plan backfires when rumors that Todd is real begin to turn up, until he becomes a messianic figure. | |||||
| 26 | "Pregnancy" | Andi Klein | Larry Charles, Scott Adams |
6 June 2000 | 216 |
| Ratbert accidentally sends Dilbert's model rocket into space. When it returns laced with a variety of human and extraterrestrial gametes, it rectally impales Dilbert, impregnating him. | |||||
| 27 | "The Delivery" | Craig R. Maras | Larry Charles, Scott Adams |
13 June 2000 | 217 |
| Dilbert fights to keep his baby, a human-alien-cyborg hybrid whose various "parents" sue for joint custody. Stone Cold Steve Austin guest-stars as himself. | |||||
| 28 | "Company Picnic" | Chris Dozios | Scott Adams, David Silverman, Stephen Sustrastic |
11 July 2000 | 211 |
| The annual company picnic comes around and so does the softball game between Marketing and Engineering. This episode is based on Romeo and Juliet. | |||||
| 29 | "The Fact" | Linda Miller | Larry Charles, Scott Adams, Ron Nelson, Mark Steen |
18 July 2000 | 215 |
| Dogbert is catapulted into fame and fortune when he posts false information on the Internet about his imaginary disease, "Chronic Cubicle Syndrome," and releases a best-selling book about it. Ironically, Dilbert is forced to come up with the cure. | |||||
| 30 | "Ethics" | Michael Goguen | Larry Charles, Scott Adams |
25 July 2000 | 214 |
| The company employees are forced to take ethical training classes, then Dilbert is made project lead for the National Internet Voting Network. An attractive female employee of a special-interest group attempts to seduce Dilbert, putting his ethical limitations to the test. | |||||
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