Writer:	B.J. Novak
Director:	Ken Kwapis
Star:	B.J. Novak (Ryan Howard),  John Krasinski (Jim Halpert),  Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly),  Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute),  Steve Carell (Michael Scott)
Recurring Role:	Phyllis Smith (Phyllis Lapin),  Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer),  Leslie David Baker (Stanley Hudson),  Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor),  Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone),  Angela Kinsey (Angela Martin),  Oscar Nunez (Oscar Martinez),  Paul Lieberstein (Toby Flenderson)
Guest Star:	Larry Wilmore (Mr. Brown)

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) B.J. Novak was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in the Best Episodic Comedy category for his work on this episode. (edit) Originally, producer Greg Daniels was not sure where to use Mindy Kaling on screen in the series until the point came in this episode's script when Michael needed to be slapped by a minority. Her character in this episode, however, is far from the bubbly chatty character that Kelly later becomes. (edit) Considered by NBC to be the premiere due to its being the first episode to air in the show's regular Tuesday 9:30 pm ET timeslot. (edit)

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) Dwight: Retaliation. Tit for tit.
Jim: That is not the expression.
Dwight: Well it should be. (edit) Kevin: Basically, there are two types of black people, and black people are actually more racist because they hate the other type of black people. Every time the one type wants to have a good time, then the other type comes in and makes a real mess…
Michael: OK, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, but he’s ruined…he’s butchering it. I- I, Can you just let me? Every time, every time black people wanna have a good time, some mean-ass [bleep] it up. I take care of my kids! [Bleep] always want credit for something they supposed to do!
Mr. Brown: (attempting to stop Michael and yelling to interrupt) Stop it! Stop it! STOP IT!
Michael: What you want? A cookie? (edit)

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) The Chris Rock routine that Michael imitates is Chris Rock's Bring the Pain (1996). (edit) After Dwight says "Am I a woman?" a deleted scene show Jim saying that it is offensive and takes it off. He replaces it with the word "Dwight"! (edit)

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