The Worst Episodes of Dilbert
Every episode of Dilbert ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Dilbert!
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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Dilbert" is "The Prototype", rated 6.8/10 from 129 user votes. It was directed by Alfred Gimeno and written by Jeff Kahn. "The Prototype" aired on 2/1/1999 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Off-Site Meeting".
6.8/10 129 votes#1 - The Prototype
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/1999
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.
Director: Alfred Gimeno
Writer: Jeff Kahn
6.9/10 80 votes#2 - 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
7.0/10 102 votes#3 - Little People
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/22/1999
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.
Director: Barry Vodos
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, David Adam Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic
7.0/10 97 votes#4 - Holiday
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/17/1999
Dilbert thinks there are too many time-wasting holidays; Dogbert concurrently convinces Congress to abandon all holidays in favor of a National Dogbert Day.
Director: Andi Klein
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, Ned Goldreyer, David Adam Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic
7.1/10 116 votes#5 - Testing
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/1999
The Gruntmaster 6000 prototype is put to the test by an evil masked test engineer named Bob Bastard.
Director: Chris Dozois
Writer: David Adam Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic
7.2/10 136 votes#6 - The Competition
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/1999
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.
Director: Seth Kearsley
Writer: Ned Goldreyer
7.2/10 102 votes#7 - Tower of Babel
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/5/1999
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.
Director: Gloria Jenkins
Writer: David Adam Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic
7.2/10 96 votes#8 - 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
7.2/10 98 votes#9 - 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#10 - 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
7.2/10 83 votes#11 - 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#12 - 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
7.3/10 173 votes#13 - The Name
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/1999
Dilbert is tasked with naming a product that hasn't even been designed yet, and the stress (brought on by a recurring nightmare) makes Dilbert think he's turning into a chicken.
Director: Seth Kearsley
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles
7.3/10 126 votes#14 - The Takeover
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/1/1999
Dilbert and Wally become majority shareholders of their company after Dogbert manipulates the stock market.
Director: Andi Klein
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, Ned Goldreyer
7.3/10 115 votes#15 - Elbonian Trip
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/1999
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.
Director: Mike Kim
Writer: David Adam Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic
7.3/10 94 votes#16 - Charity
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/10/1999
Dilbert is forced to be a charity coordinator for the "Associated Way" charity drive.
Director: Chris Dozois
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, David Adam Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic
7.3/10 95 votes#17 - Infomercial
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/24/1999
The pre-production—non-lab-tested—Gruntmaster 6000 is scheduled to be tested by a Texan family.
Director: Todd Frederiksen, Joe Vaux
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, Ned Goldreyer
7.3/10 90 votes#18 - 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
7.4/10 93 votes#19 - 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
7.4/10 86 votes#20 - 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
7.5/10 102 votes#21 - The Knack
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/3/1999
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.
Director: Michael Goguen
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, Ned Goldreyer
7.5/10 91 votes#22 - 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
7.6/10 106 votes#23 - Y2K
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/26/1999
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?
Director: Andi Thom, Bob Hathcock, Jennifer Graves
Writer: Scott Adams, Larry Charles, Andrew Borakove, Rachel Powell
7.6/10 109 votes#24 - 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
7.6/10 99 votes#25 - 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