Dale starts panicking after his pet gerbil destroys his stuff in a King of the Hill episode about this event.  
In an episode of the short-lived Dilbert cartoon about this event, Dilbert has to deal with Black Betty.  In the aftermath of this event, one character pretends that he was the piano savant from Shine.  Dale starts panicking after his pet gerbil destroys his stuff in a King of the Hill episode about this event.  Following this event, Springfield's Sit 'n' Rotate restaurant shoots off into space, and Homer and Bart realize their spaceship with (*) Tom Arnold on it is being shot into the sun.  In real life, approximately three hundred billion dollars was spent preparing for this event.  Following this event, a Florida man was charged $91,250 by Super Video Rentals.  A successor to this event may take place on January 19th, 2038 due to the use of a signed 32-bit integer in Unix systems.  For 10 points, name this largely non-event that passed without a lot of computers incorrectly thinking it was 1900.
In an episode of the short-lived Dilbert cartoon about this event, Dilbert has to deal with Black Betty.  
Y2K Bug [or the new millennium bug; or January 1st, 2000; or equivalents