Dilbert (TV series)
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| Dilbert | |
|---|---|
| Format | Animated comedy |
| Created by | Scott Adams (characters) |
| Developed by | Scott Adams Larry Charles |
| Voices of | Daniel Stern Chris Elliott Gordon Hunt Kathy Griffin Larry Miller |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (includes commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | UPN |
| Original run | January 25, 1999 – July 25, 2000 |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the comic strip of the same name. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999, making it UPN's highest rated series premiere to that point of the network's history; it lasted two seasons on UPN before its cancellation.
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[edit] History
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 Prototype, and The Competition respectively); the fourth (Testing) involved having it survive a malevolent company tester named "Bob Bastard", and the fifth (Elbonian Trip) was about production in the famine-stricken fourth-world country of Elbonia. The product was finally tested by an incredibly stupid family in Squiddler's Patch, Texas, in the thirteenth and final episode of the season, Infomercial, even though it had not been tested in a lab beforehand.
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 29 and 30, 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 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.
[edit] Cast
- Daniel Stern as Dilbert
- Chris Elliott as Dogbert
- Tom Kenny as Ratbert, Asok and additional voices
- Larry Miller as the Pointy-Haired Boss
- Gordon Hunt as Wally
- Kathy Griffin as Alice
- 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
- Jim Wise as Loud Howard
[edit] Guest stars
- Billy West as Vibrating Chair salesman and an engineer
- 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
[edit] See also
- List of Dilbert animated series episodes
- List of characters from Dilbert (TV series)
- New Dilbert Animation
[edit] External links
- Dilbert at the Internet Movie Database
- Dilbert at TV.com
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