TV Shows/Dilbert/Season 1
Season 1

DilbertSeason 1

1999
13 Episodes

Episodes

The Name
S01E01
7.0

The Name

When Dilbert wakes up after another night of having the egg dream, he discovers he isn't the only one to have had the dream. His fellow employees tell him about The Chicken Man, a guy who turned into a chicken after he was put in charge of a product that he was unable to name. Dilbert soon finds himself in the same situation.

25 Jan 199922m
The Prototype
S01E03

The Prototype

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.

08 Feb 199922m
The Competition
S01E02

The Competition

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.

01 Feb 199922m
Testing
S01E05

Testing

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

22 Feb 199922m
Elbonian Trip
S01E06

Elbonian Trip

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.

01 Mar 199922m
The Takeover
S01E04

The Takeover

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

15 Feb 199922m
Little People
S01E08

Little People

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.

05 Apr 199922m
Tower of Babel
S01E07

Tower of Babel

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.

22 Mar 199922m
Y2K
S01E10

Y2K

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?

03 May 199922m
The Knack
S01E09

The Knack

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.

26 Apr 199922m
Charity
S01E11

Charity

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

10 May 199922m
Holiday
S01E12

Holiday

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

17 May 199922m
Infomercial
S01E13

Infomercial

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

24 May 199922m