Dilbert: Company Picnic

Culver City, CA: Adelaide Productions, 1999. Archive of material relating to Season 2 Episode 15 of the 1999-2000 primetime animated television series. Archive belonging to screenwriter and co-executive producer Stephen Sustarsic, with his initials on the first leaf of the script.

Archive includes on Table Draft script, and four gatherings of xerographically duplicated draft materials relating to screenwriter meetings and story ideas, dated variously between February 11 and 18, 1999, as well as two gatherings of publicity material relating to ratings for the show.

Based on the successful 1989-2023 comic strip by Scott Adams, about the titular pessimistic white-collar engineer and his daily interactions with his idiotic boss and frustrated coworkers. In this episode, Dilbert unhappily attends the company picnic, where he must play in the annual softball game between the engineers and the marketing division. Originally aired on July 11, 2000, on UPN.

Script:

Self wrappers, dated July 1, 1999, on the front wrapper, noted as TABLE DRAFT and episode No. 211, with credits for screenwriters Ron Nelson, Mark Steen, Scott Adams, and Larry Charles. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 54 leaves, with last page of text numbered 52. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

All other materials Near Fine.

[Book #162695]