Dilbert

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Dilbert
Genre	Comedy Animated Spin-off
Format	Animation
Created by	Scott Adams (characters)
Developed by	Scott Adams Larry Charles
Directed by	Rick Del Carmen James Hull
Voices of	(See article)
Theme music composer	Danny Elfman
Composer(s)	Adam Cohen Ian Dye
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	30 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Larry Charles
Producer(s)	Jeffrey L. Goldstein Ron Nelson Kara Vallow
Running time	22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	UPN
Original run	January 25, 1999 – July 25, 2000

Dilbert was an animated television series spin-off of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Columbia TriStar Television. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999 and was UPN's highest rated comedy series premiere to that point of the network's history; it lasted two seasons on UPN and won a Golden Globe before its cancellation.

History

Here, the location of Dilbert's town is somewhat revealed: in the opening sequence, it seems to zoom in around the Great Lakes. In episode 2, Lena's car has a Minnesota license plate. In "The Delivery", a sign saying "Townbert: 5 Miles" is seen being crashed into by the UFO during the car chase. This can confirm that the location is Townbert, Minnesota. The first season centered on the creation of a new product, the "Gruntmaster 6000": episodes one through three involved the idea process ("The Name", "The Competition", and "The Prototype" respectively); the fifth ("Testing") involved having it survive a malevolent company tester named "Bob Bastard" (who was somewhat like Dilbert before being humiliated and disfigured), and the sixth ("Elbonian Trip") was about production in the famine-stricken fourth-world country of Elbonia. The product was field tested (with disastrous results) by an incredibly stupid family in Squiddler's Patch, Texas, during the thirteenth and final episode of the season, "Infomercial", even though it had not been tested in a lab beforehand. However, Dilbert fell into the resulting black hole and woke up in the meeting that had begun the episode (implying it was merely a daydream or vision of his, though it appears to have actually happened), and promptly locked his design lab.

The second season featured seventeen episodes, bringing the total number of episodes to thirty. Unlike the first season, the episodes were not part of a larger story arc and had a different storyline for each of the episodes (with the exception of episodes 26 and 27, "Pregnancy" and "The Delivery"). Elbonia was revisited once more in "Hunger"; Dogbert still managed to scam people in "Art"; Dilbert was accused of mass murder in "The Trial"; and Wally gets his own disciples (the result of a complicated misunderstanding) in episode 16, "The Shroud of Wally".

The entire run of the Dilbert animated series was made available on Region 1 DVD on January 27, 2004 in Canada and the United States. The DVD box set retailed at US$49.95 and included some special features including trailers and clip compilations with commentary by Scott Adams, executive producer Larry Charles, and voice actors Chris Elliott, Larry Miller, Kathy Griffin, and Gordon Hunt. The DVDs can be played on some PCs and DVD players with Region 2.

The theme music, "The Dilbert Zone", was written by Danny Elfman, and is a slight rewrite from the theme of the film Forbidden Zone.

Some episodes of Dilbert can now be watched on TidalTV [1] and on YouTube.com. All episodes of the show are available on Hulu and Crackle. Several Minisodes are also available.

The DVD was entitled Dilbert: The Complete Series.

Cast

• Daniel Stern as Dilbert
• Chris Elliott as Dogbert
• Tom Kenny as Ratbert / Asok / additional voices
• Larry Miller as the Pointy-Haired Boss
• Gordon Hunt as Wally
• Kathy Griffin as Alice (uncredited)
• Jackie Hoffman as Dilmom
• Jason Alexander as Catbert
• Gary Kroeger Additional voices
• Maurice LaMarche as The World's Smartest Garbageman and Bob the Dinosaur
• Tress MacNeille as Carol and additional voices
• Jim Wise as Loud Howard

Guest stars

• Billy West as Vibrating Chair salesman / Rioting engineer (Pilot episode only)
• Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine Alarm Clock
• Buck Henry as Dadbert
• Mr. Moviefone as Himself
• Chazz Palminteri as Leonardo da Vinci
• Wayne Knight as Path-E-Tech Security guard
• Gilbert Gottfried as an Accounting troll
• Tom Green as Jerrold
• Andy Dick as Dilbert's assistant Alfonso
• Jerry Seinfeld as Comp-U-Comp
• Eugene Levy as Comp-U-Comp's Plug Guard
• Jon Favreau as Holden Callfielder
• Stone Cold Steve Austin as Himself
• Jay Leno as Himself
• Camryn Manheim as Juliet
• Harry Kalas as the baseball announcer
• Jennifer Bransford as Ashley
• Christopher Guest as The Dupey
• Stephen Hawking as Himself

See also

• List of Dilbert animated series episodes
• List of characters from Dilbert (TV series)
• New Dilbert Animation

External links

• Dilbert at the Internet Movie Database
• Dilbert at TV.com