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Skip the Second Season (Spoilers)

posted 14 years ago by quball87
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The first season of Dilbert is great - despite a few blemishes, it seems to faithfully follow the comic strip and truly parody working in an office, corporate life, content of the strip, etc. For example, in the episode 'Holiday', Dilbert delivers a poigant speech about how holidays have lost all their meaning.

However the second season seems to be less-based around Dilbert at work or dealing with projects, subordinates, co-worker issues, frustrations with his boss, etc. and instead focuses on Adventure-of-the-Week plots where Dilbert:

a) gets pregnant
b) finds his Dad in a mall
c) has to return a computer
d) hosts a meeting at his house
e) joins the company baseball team
f) goes to jail

etc

It seems like the show either got new writers, ran out of ideas or something by the time the second season started.

First Season: 4 out of 5 Stars
Best episodes: 'The Competition,' 'Takeover', 'Charity, 'Holiday'
Second Season: 2 out of 5 Stars
Best episodes: 'Art,' 'The Virutal Employee', 'The Merger'

[–] Hancock_the_Superb 13 years ago

I agree. The second season got too wacky for its own good, though it had its share of good/great episodes. I particularly hated the finale which was way too weird to be funny.

"You are, in your own idiom, a punk - and a second-rate punk at that!"

[–] MaximusXXX 13 years ago

Still, you gotta admit the 2nd season was better than the last 10 seasons of Simpsons combined.

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[–] duffyk4 12 years ago

Eh, I enjoyed all those storylines with the exception of the pregnancy one. That was just a little too out there.

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[–] Track607 11 years ago

The main story in any Dilbert episode is just there to stitch together the comedic genius that is the writing. It's irrelevant.

Quality-wise, the second season is no worse than the first. The stories are just less interesting.. but who gives a hoot? That's not why anyone watches the show.

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[–] supersmart4life 11 years ago

I've always preferred the second season to the first because it was all stand alone episodes and many of them were quite brilliant.