Dilbert: The Complete Series
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Scott Adams |
| Developed by | Scott Adams Larry Charles |
| Directed by | Rick Del Carmen James Hull |
| Voices of |
Daniel Stern Chris Elliott Larry Miller Gordon Hunt Kathy Griffin Jackie Hoffman Jason Alexander |
| Theme music composer | Danny Elfman |
| Opening theme | "The Dilbert Zone" |
| Composer(s) | Adam Cohen Ian Dye |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 30 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Scott Adams Larry Charles |
| Producer(s) | Jeffrey L. Goldstein Ron Nelson Kara Vallow |
| Editor(s) | Mark Scheib |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Idbox United Media Columbia TriStar Television |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
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| Original network | UPN |
| Picture format | 4:3 SDTV |
| Audio format | Dolby Surround |
| Original release | January 25, 1999 – July 25, 2000 |
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 with thirty episodes on UPN and won a Primetime Emmy before its cancellation.
The series follows the adventures of a middle-aged white collar office worker, named Dilbert, who is extremely intelligent in regards to all things that fall within the boundaries of electrical engineering. Although Dilbert’s intelligence greatly surpasses that of his incompetent colleagues at work, he is unable to question certain processes that he believes to be inefficient, due to his lack of power within the organization. Thus, he is consistently found to be unsatisfied with the decisions that are made in his workplace, because of the fact that many times he has many suggestions to improve the decision, yet is incapable of expressing them. Consequently, he is often found to show a pessimistic and frustrated attitude, which ultimately lands him in various comedic situations that revolve around concepts like leadership, teamwork, communication and corporate culture.
The first season centers on the creation of a new product, the "Gruntmaster 6000". The first three episodes involve the idea process ("The Name", "The Prototype", and "The Competition" respectively); the fifth ("Testing") involves having it survive a malevolent company tester named "Bob Bastard", and the sixth ("Elbonian Trip") is about production in the famine-stricken fourth-world country of Elbonia. The prototype is delivered to an incredibly stupid family in Squiddler's Patch, Texas, during the thirteenth and final episode of the season, "Infomercial", even though it was not tested in a lab beforehand. The family's misuse of the prototype creates a black hole that sucks Dilbert in; he instantly wakes up in the meeting seen at the start of the episode, then locks his design lab to keep the prototype from being shipped out.
The second season features seventeen episodes, bringing the total number of episodes to thirty. Unlike the first season, the episodes are not part of a larger story arc and have a different storyline for each of the episodes (with the exception of episodes 29 and 30, "Pregnancy" and "The Delivery"). Elbonia is revisited once more in "Hunger"; Dogbert still manages to scam people in "Art"; Dilbert is accused of mass murder in "The Trial"; and Wally gets his own disciples (the result of a complicated misunderstanding, the company launching a rocket for NASA, and a brainwashing seminar) in episode 16, "The Shroud of Wally".
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