The Best Episodes of Dilbert Season 2
Every episode of Dilbert Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dilbert Season 2!
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 on UPN and won a Primetime Emmy before its cancellation.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Dilbert" season 2 is "The Gift", rated 7.6/10 from 109 user votes. It was directed by Gloria Jenkins and written by Ned Goldreyer. "The Gift" aired on 11/2/1999 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Trial".
7.6/10 109 votes#1 - The Gift
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/1999
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 (voiced by Buck Henry) years ago.
Director: Gloria Jenkins
Writer: Ned Goldreyer
7.2/10 96 votes#2 - The Trial
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/23/1999
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.
Director: Michael Goguen
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles
7.6/10 99 votes#3 - The Shroud of Wally
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/1999
Dilbert has a near-death experience at a gas station, and finds that the afterlife is exactly like the office. Meanwhile, a group listening to a multi-level marketing speech become hypnotized, and through a bizarre accident caused by a crashing space shuttle and the birthday kit create a religion based on Wally. Dilbert and Dogbert manage to cover up the crash, while Wally turns away his followers with his odd habits.
Director: Andi Klein
Writer: Scott Adams
7.4/10 93 votes#4 - The Dupey
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/7/1999
Dilbert's attempts to design a Furby-style children's toy go horribly awry when the toys gain sentience and mutate into hideous but benevolent creatures that want independence.
Director: Linda Miller
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 98 votes#5 - Art
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/22/2000
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.
Director: Chris Dozois
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 92 votes#6 - Hunger
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/1/2000
Dilbert tries to end world hunger by creating a new, safe, artificial food, but it tastes so bad that even people dying of starvation refuse to eat it – until his mother gets involved.
Director: James Hull
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 101 votes#7 - The Security Guard
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/18/2000
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 in over his head when he discovers an illegal casino being run underneath the building.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 86 votes#8 - The Merger
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/25/2000
The Boss decides that the company needs to merge with another, and chooses a company of brain-sucking extraterrestrials.
Director: Rick Del Carmen
Writer: Scott Adams
6.9/10 80 votes#9 - The Off-Site Meeting
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/8/2000
Dilbert's home is chosen as the location for an off-site meeting when a dendrophile sues his company because of their deforestation policies.
Director: Seth Kearsley
Writer: Scott Adams, Ron Nelson, Mark Steen
7.5/10 91 votes#10 - The Assistant
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/15/2000
Dilbert is unwillingly promoted to management and given an assistant, sparking a showdown with the other engineers.
Director: Gloria Jenkins, Declan Moran
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, Ron Nelson, Mark Steen
7.8/10 114 votes#11 - Company Picnic
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 7/11/2000
The annual company picnic comes around and so does the softball game between Marketing and Engineering. This episode is based on Romeo and Juliet.
Director: Linda Miller
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 94 votes#12 - The Virtual Employee
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 5/30/2000
Dilbert and his co-workers find an empty cubicle and start dumping their obsolete computer equipment into it. To keep the marketing department from claiming the cubicle, they hack into the human resources database and create a profile for a fake engineer named Todd. The plan backfires when Todd is named project leader and develops a messianic reputation.
Director: Perry Zombolas
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, Ned Goldreyer
7.2/10 83 votes#13 - The Return
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/6/2000
Dilbert tries to buy a computer online but gets the wrong model, leading to an unpleasant surprise when he tries to return it to the company warehouse.
Director: Mike Kunkel
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 89 votes#14 - Ethics
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 6/13/2000
After the company employees are forced to take ethical-training classes, Dilbert is put in charge of designing a nationwide Internet voting network. His scruples are put to the test when an attractive female representative of a tobacco special-interest group tries to seduce him.
Director: Michael Goguen
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles
7.3/10 90 votes#15 - The Fact
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 11/9/1999
Dogbert becomes rich and famous by writing a best-selling book about an imaginary disease, 'Chronic Cubicle Syndrome', and Dilbert finds himself saddled with the job of devising a cure.
Director: Chris Dozois
Writer: Joe Port, Joe Wiseman
7.7/10 80 votes#16 - Pregnancy
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/18/2000
Ratbert accidentally sends Dilbert's model rocket into space. When it returns with samples of DNA from aliens, cows, hillbillies, engineers, and robots, it rectally impales Dilbert, impregnating him.
Director: Andi Klein
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles
7.6/10 87 votes#17 - The Delivery
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 7/25/2000
Dilbert's pregnancy turns into a media circus as the various "parents" of his baby sue for custody, with Steve Austin presiding over the hearing.
Director: Craig R. Maras
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles