'' is an '', ''
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 ''.
The beginning of the intro could possibly be a spoof of the music video from
Fatboy Slim 's song,
Right Here, Right Now .
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The show features noticebly darker humor than the comic. Deaths are common within each episodes, usually with minor reactions from the characters (i.e. Elbonians fall in molten lava, Dilbert and Dogbert launch missle to destroy traffic). But otherwise, the show is faithful to the office satire since most of the stories revolve on or around the themes of the white-collar workers. The show goes into more themes than the workplace than the comic, usually starting the show with Dilbert in his home as well as showing the origin of Dibert's technical expertise (
The Knack ).
