The BEST episodes of Dilbert

Every episode of Dilbert ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dilbert!

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.

Last Updated: 1/31/2024Network: UPNStatus: Ended
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The Trial
star
8.22
133 votes

#1 - The Trial

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/23/1999

Dilbert is sent to prison after the Pointy-Haired boss frames him for a fatal traffic accident that kills multiple nobel prize winners. Once inside, he applies his knowledge of mathematics and engineering to prison life and takes over his cell block.

Directors: Chris Dozois
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The Return
star
8.20
129 votes

#2 - The Return

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/22/2000

Dilbert tries to buy a computer online but gets the wrong model, leading to an unpleasant surprise when he tries to return it to Comp-U-Comp headquarters.

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Tower of Babel
star
8.16
167 votes

#3 - Tower of Babel

Season 1 - Episode 8 - 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 in exchange for a new office.

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Pregnancy
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8.02
128 votes

#4 - Pregnancy

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/6/2000

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. Part one of a two part episode.

Directors: Andi Klein
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The Shroud of Wally
star
8.01
218 votes

#5 - The Shroud of Wally

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/1999

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.

Writer: Scott Adams
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Holiday
star
8.00
138 votes

#6 - 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".

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The Virtual Employee
star
7.98
131 votes

#7 - 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.

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Company Picnic
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7.97
130 votes

#8 - Company Picnic

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/11/2000

The annual company picnic is coming up and with it the yearly softball game between Marketing and Engineering. Dilbert becomes involved in a Romeo and Juliet-esque relationship with the new girl from Marketing.

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The Delivery
star
7.96
131 votes

#9 - The Delivery

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/13/2000

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. Part two of a two part episode.

Directors: Craig R. Maras
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Hunger
star
7.96
162 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 Dilmom gets involved.

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The Gift
star
7.95
216 votes

#11 - The Gift

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/1999

Dilmom's birthday is coming up! In search of the perfect gift, Dilbert and Dogbert go shopping, but an unspeakable event in Dilbert's childhood has him afraid to set foot in that horrible monstrosity known as The Mall.

Directors: Gloria Jenkins
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The Assistant
star
7.94
135 votes

#12 - The Assistant

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/15/2000

In an effort to conceal the fact that there are engineering jobs elsewhere, Dilbert is unwillingly promoted to management and given an assistant, sparking a showdown with the other engineers.

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Y2K
star
7.94
226 votes

#13 - Y2K

Season 1 - Episode 9 - 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 drudge work dulled his brain too much to be able to tackle this crucial task?

The Knack
star
7.89
196 votes

#14 - The Knack

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/3/1999

Dilbert loses "the knack" for technology when he gets management DNA from accidentally drinking from the Boss' cup. His resulting missteps send the world back to the Dark Ages.

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Infomercial
star
7.85
163 votes

#15 - 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 whose ill treatment of it threatens to destroy the world. Meanwhile, the Boss begins predicting the future while asleep after injuring his head while making a commercial for the Gruntmaster 6000.

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The Off-Site Meeting
star
7.85
157 votes

#16 - 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 environmentalist sues his company because of their deforestation policies.

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Ethics
star
7.82
130 votes

#17 - Ethics

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/25/2000

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.

Directors: Michael Goguen
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Elbonian Trip
star
7.81
257 votes

#18 - Elbonian Trip

Season 1 - Episode 5 - 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.

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The Fact
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7.81
130 votes

#19 - The Fact

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/18/2000

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.

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Little People
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7.81
178 votes

#20 - Little People

Season 1 - Episode 7 - 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.

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Art
star
7.80
162 votes

#21 - Art

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/16/1999

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.

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The Prototype
star
7.78
301 votes

#22 - The Prototype

Season 1 - Episode 2 - 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 Pointy-Haired Boss as her own.

Directors: Alfred Gimeno
Writer: Jeff Kahn
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Charity
star
7.74
219 votes

#23 - Charity

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/10/1999

Dilbert questions the idea of charity and is forced to be the coordinator for the "Associated Way" charity drive.

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The Competition
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7.71
308 votes

#24 - The Competition

Season 1 - Episode 3 - 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.

Directors: Seth Kearsley
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The Takeover
star
7.69
274 votes

#25 - The Takeover

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/1/1999

Dilbert and Wally become majority shareholders of their company after Dogbert manipulates the stock market.

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