About this season
Dilbert, a socially awkward but highly competent engineer, works in a dysfunctional workplace. The series satirizes corporate culture, featuring clueless managers, pointless meetings, bizarre company policies, and the daily frustrations of modern office life.
Episodes (13)
1. The Name
7.0Aired 25 January 1999 • 22 min
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.
3. The Prototype
Aired 8 February 1999 • 22 min
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.
2. The Competition
Aired 1 February 1999 • 22 min
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.
5. Testing
Aired 22 February 1999 • 22 min
The Gruntmaster 6000 prototype is put to the test by an evil masked test engineer named Bob Bastard.
6. Elbonian Trip
Aired 1 March 1999 • 22 min
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.
4. The Takeover
Aired 15 February 1999 • 22 min
Dilbert and Wally become majority shareholders of their company after Dogbert manipulates the stock market.
8. Little People
Aired 5 April 1999 • 22 min
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.
7. Tower of Babel
Aired 22 March 1999 • 22 min
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.
10. Y2K
Aired 3 May 1999 • 22 min
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?
9. The Knack
Aired 26 April 1999 • 22 min
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.
11. Charity
Aired 10 May 1999 • 22 min
Dilbert is forced to be a charity coordinator for the "Associated Way" charity drive.
12. Holiday
Aired 17 May 1999 • 22 min
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. Infomercial
Aired 24 May 1999 • 22 min
The pre-production—non-lab-tested—Gruntmaster 6000 is scheduled to be tested by a Texan family.