Y2K (Dilbert episode)
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Y2K was the ninth episode of the Dilbert animated television series. It originally aired May 3, 1999.
Plot
After Dilbert and his co-workers discuss plans for the new millenium, the Pointy-Haird Boss drops in and announces that all of the computers at their company are controlled by an ancient mainframe known as Black Betty, which will fail at midnight on January 1, 2000 because of the Y2K Bug. Since the problem will personally affect the boss, Dilbert is assigned to fix it.
Since Alice needs more time, Asok the intern needs experience, Wally needs to remember how to work Black Betty, and Dilbert needs more people to attend to the project, the four of them, along with Dogbert, skip off (in a blatant Wizard of Oz parody) to see Catbert, the Evil Director of Human Resources.
Catbert proposes solutions to each of their problems, without being directly helpful. Alice will gain time if she stops wasting on her appearance. Cynicism is almost the same thing as experience, and will work for Asok. For Wally, Catbert declares that recent court verdicts have shown that a false memory is just as good as real memory, maybe better, and gives Dogbert several books on hypnosis. For Dilbert, in an act close to being helpful, Dilbert is given a list of downsized empolyees who are still on the payroll.
After several meetings, and several unethical misuses of hypnosis, the team is ready to try to fix the mainframe. Wally operates the terminal. As the safety meter on the terminal approaches "Warning," Zimbu the monkey joins in, typing faster, until the terminal explodes, and Dilbert is unsure whether or not the team they have fixed the problem. The Boss announces, however, that the government has decided to skip the year 2000, "fixing" the problem.
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