Diversity Day

Season 1, Episode 2, Aired
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A consultant arrives to teach the staff about tolerance and diversity, but Michael insists on imparting his own knowledge. Meanwhile, Jim struggles to keep hold of a lucrative contract extension.
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  • A Classic in the Office Series!

    10
    "Perfect"
    By TimurDavydov, Dec 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    One of my faves, I was watching it earlier at my college library and I just had to stop the video, laughter with no control whatsoever. Loved it

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  • One of my favorite episodes of the show, and the first one where I got an idea of what the show would end up like.

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    By JaCkKbAuEr2424, Apr 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    One word for this episode. Hilarious. This was the first sign for me that The Office was going to be kicking its reliance on the British show and become its own. Some of the jokes in this, from Michael's Chris Rock routine, to his idea involving cards with different ethnicities on them, are series classics. And when Michael learns the Diversity guy's name is Mr. Brown and he tells him that he WON'T call him that as his first test, I died. Such a great line from a great episode.

    This episode was also filled with one of my favorite Jim and Pam moments. Sometimes, for me, it's the tiny things that I love more than the larger ones. For instance, the moment where Pam lays her head on Jim's shoulder during Michael's speech just gets me every time. You can tell how excited this makes Jim and how he takes this as a sign of sorts. I just loved it.

    I think this episode, when the show is finally done, will be remembered as a series classic. As the first episode after the pilot, it was their first chance to prove that they wouldn't fall by the wayside and become just another failed remake.moreless

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    By Canogaparkcindy, Sep 22, 2010 Report Abuse
    Definitely a series classic, and a major improvement from the first episode, I must say. We've got a lot of hilarious moments, and the whole episode was just way more fast paced. This episode definitely was eventful.

    A lot of classic moments such as Pam falling asleep on Jim's shoulder, Jim trying to make a sale, Kelly slapping Michael. The whole note card on everyone's forehead. It was just a hilarious episode overall, and we even got a lot of subtle Jim & Pam moments.

    Vast improvement in all places, this is what the show is about, or at least for the next 3 seasons. Michael being a crazy boss, amazing editing, and subtle Jim & Pam moments. Great hilarious episode.moreless

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  • Diversity training two different ways. One the right way and one the complete wrong way to go about it. Hilarious!

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    By D_Dub11, Apr 15, 2010 Report Abuse
    Well Diversity Day is just a day for Michael to ruin something like usual. He makes up different types of diversity training and they turn out to be terrible ideas. He gets slapped in the process.

    Also Jim loses a client to Dwight because of Michael's and Dwight's inconvenient timing of their own little side projects.

    During the diversity training the employees had to take cards of different ethnicities and place them on their foreheads. Dwight got Asians and Pam was talking to him and said, "You would not be a very good driver." Dwight yells, "O man, am I a woman?"

    So funny!moreless

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  • Not quite there yet.

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    By francklloyd, Jan 30, 2010 Report Abuse
    Watching the series in random order, I discover the initial episodes after having seen several later ones. And I don't like what I see. There's something wrong with the way Steve Carell portrays his character here. It took me a while to figure it out: he's imitating Ricky Gervais's performance in the British original, which I never liked. Michael seems fatter, with a poorer dress sense (walking around in a formless shirt, like Gervais's David Brent) and a less than flattering hairstyle. Also, he seems just plain irritating, rather than the somewhat tragic figure he is in later episodes. I'm glad they got Michael Scott right in the end, or that they let Carell do his own thing.moreless

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    • At about 16:35 into the episode, you can see that on the back of Meredith's card it says "Meredeth" Edit
    • Pam tells Jim that she is playing Free Cell, but the cards don't go "ftststst" after a win as in regular Solitaire. Edit
    • At the start of the episode when Dwight hangs up Jim's phone in retaliation for switching off his shredder, Dwight holds his finger down on the button but a dial tone is clearly heard through Jim's ear piece to indicate that the call was disconnected. Point being that when the button on any phone is held down, nothing should be heard through the ear piece. Edit

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    • The German episode title is "Tag der Vielfalt", and the French title is "La Journée de la diversité", both exact translations. The Italian title is "Integrazione", meaning "Integration". The Spanish title is "El día de la universidad", meaning "University Day". Edit
    • The diversity training company's name (and Michael's response to it) went through a number of changes before Diversity Today was settled on, because the names they chose turned out to be names of real companies. Names they tried included Diversity 360 (Michael: Diversity 365), Diversity 2000 (Michael: Diversity 3000). Edit
    • Due to the strong language, the part of the Chris Rock routine where Michael says the N-word is bleeped in the episode. On the DVD commentary, Greg Daniels said that Steve Carrell actually used the real language, and he added bleeps to the master tapes of the episode so the uncensored joke wouldn't be leaked online before the series had premiered. Edit

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    • Michael: (Talking to the camera) Today is diversity day and someone is gonna come in and talk to us about diversity. It's something that I've been pushing... that I've been wanting to push for a long time. And corporate mandated it, and I... I never actually talked to corporate about it, um... they kinda beat me to the punch, ah, the bastards... But, I was going to, and I think it's very important that we have this. And it's... I'm... I'm very very excited. Edit
    • Pam and Stanley are across from each other. Pam is Jewish, Stanley is Black. Michael: Oh, this is a good one. Pam: Um, hi how are you? Stanley: Fine, how are you? Pam: Great. Um. Michael: Push it. Push it. Stanley: I admire your culture's success in America. Pam: Thank you. Michael: Good. Bum bum bum bum. Come on! Olympics of suffering right here! Slavery vs. the Holocaust come on! Stanley: Who am I supposed to be? Michael: No no no. Well that was inadvertent. We didn't actually plan that. Edit
    • Employees are entering the conference room for Diversity Day Take Two meeting Toby: Hey, we're not all going to sit in a circle Indian style are we? Michael: Get out. Toby: Huh, oh sorry. Michael: No. This is not a joke, okay. That was offensive...and lame. So double offensive. This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell out of here. Edit

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    • Michael borrows lyrics from Kool and the Gang's 1981 song "Celebration" in saying, "Celebrate good times. Come on! Let's celebrate diversity. Right?" Edit

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