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Y2K

Episode Number: 10    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Monday May 3, 1999    Prod Code: 109
Dogbert and Ratbert try to decide where they are going to celebrate the new millennium. Dilbert is put in charge of the company's Y2K problem. Wally plans to scam the banks, trusting that their computer records will fail them. Wally may be the key to "Black Betty," the old mainframe that still runs the whole company. The Evil HR director, Catbert, begrudgingly offers the team assistance in the help of some hypnosis books to recover Wally's memories of when he helped install the mainframe. He also offers additional support in the form "Misfits and Losers" such as: The Useless Guy, Ted the Generic Guy and Zimbu the Monkey.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Andrew Borakove, Rachel Powell, Scott Adams, Larry Charles
Director: Andi Thom, Jennifer Graves, Bob Hathcock
Star: Chris Elliott (Voice of Dogbert),  Jim Wise (Loud Howard),  Daniel Stern (Voice of Dilbert),  Tress MacNeille (Carol/Various Guests),  Tom Kenny (Ashok/Ratbert),  Larry Miller (Voice of the Pointy-Haired Boss),  Kathy Griffin (Voice of Alice (uncredited)),  Gordon Hunt (Voice of Wally),  Jackie Hoffman (Voice of Dilmom),  Maurice LaMarche (Garbage Man/Bob the Dinosaur),  Gary Kroeger (Marketing Guy)
Recurring Role: Maurice LaMarche (Voice of Garbage Man),  Jim Wise (Voice of Loud Howard),  Tom Kenny (Voice of Asok/ Ratbert),  Gary Kroeger (Voice of Unknown),  Tress MacNeille (Voice of Unknown),  Jason Alexander (Voice of Catbert)

Notes

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The Y2K Bug was a popular subject for many shows airing in 1999, one of which was a similar Family Guy episode entitled DaBoom. (edit)

Quotes

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Pointy-Haired Boss: That's what they said about daylight saving time.
Dilbert: No, they didn't.
Pointy-Haired Boss: Well, they should have. My watch is off by an hour. Sometimes it's like that for months. (edit)
Wally: I feel so soiled, even more than usual. Oh my God have I been working? (edit)
Alice: (talking about Wally) Wow, from great engineer to doorstop in just a few short years. (edit)
Asok: So our futures depend on Wally?
Loud Howard: That's it, we're all farmers. (edit)
Loud Howard: Let's give up now and form an agarian society. (edit)

Trivia

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In case you didn't catch all the party invites: Dogbert is invited to parties in Paris, Rome, Prague, Budapest, Hong Kong, Singapore, Lisbon and Istanbul.
Ratbert is invited to parties in Tokyo and Munich.
The Pointy-Haired Boss is invited to parties in Jarkarta and Geneva. (edit)
Ashok claims the code is Cobol, but it is clearly c++, as it uses "cout." (edit)

Allusions

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Pointy Haired Boss: Are you telling me that Han Solo's ship is HERE?

The Pointy Haired Boss confuses the Millenium Bug with the Millenium Falcon from "Star Wars." (edit)
Y2K / The Millenium Bug: The crisis as the year 1999 closed that caused hoarding because it was thought that all computers would cease to work because of a flaw with the year. Instead of programming the date as 4 numerals it was programmed as 2 meaning that the year 2000 would become year 00. (edit)
This episode takes a great deal from the Wizard of Oz. Below is a chart of the characters and what they are asking for.

Alice (Dorothy)--time management (go home)
Asok (Scarecrow)--experience (brain)
Wally (Tin Man)--memory (heart)
Dilbert (Lion)--a team (courage)
Dogbert (Toto)--nothing because he's perfect.
The Director of Human Resources (The Wizard of Oz) (edit)
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The characters try to solve the Y2K bug.
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