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"Diversity Day" is the second episode of the first season of The Office and the 2nd episode overall. It was written by B.J. Novak and directed by Ken Kwapis. It originally aired on March 29, 2005, and was viewed by 6 million people.

Summary

Michael explains in his talking head that it's Diversity Day and that a guest speaker is at Dunder Mifflin Scranton to talk about diversity in the workplace. Michael claims that he's wanted this for a while. Corporate mandated it without Michael having to talk to them about it, though. But Michael still believes it's very important.

Jim is trying to make a sales call when Dwight begins noisily shredding paper. Jim turns off Dwight's surge strip. In retaliation, Dwight disconnects Jim's phone call. Jim explains to the camera that this client makes up 25% of his commission each year. He brings a small bottle of champagne to the office with him to celebrate.

While Pam plays freecell, Michael walks out of his office, then backs up when he sees the corporate representative is heading out of the conference room. He makes sure to walk out at the same time as the other man and make a point of singling out Oscar Martinez as a friend of his. Jim has made contact with his client just in time for Michael to order him into the meeting. Jim is forced to hang up again.

When the meeting begins, Michael tries to take over by talking about how he doesn't even see Stanley as a black man. The representative explains that's not the point here. No one is expected to be color-blind. That's just fighting ignorance with more ignorance.

The Employees meeting for Diversity Day — The meeting for Diversity Day

Then Michael decides everyone should go around and name an ethnicity that he or she finds sexually attractive. Dwight claims he's attracted to whites and Indians. The representative does not think that's a good start. He asks Michael for permission to run this session himself and suggests it would be easier if Michael sits down.

He explains that he asked each of them to write down an incident that offended them. He would like volunteers to assist him. Dwight asks that they don't do anything involving gays.

The representative attempts to take control again from Michael who asks his name. When he reveals that it's Mr. Brown, Michael thinks it's a trick to see if he will call a black man Mr. Brown. Brown assures him that is his name. He goes on to explain that almost everyone wrote down the same incident and asks if everyone is familiar with the Chris Rock routine.

Michael complains to the camera how Chris Rock can do a hilarious routine that makes everyone laugh, but he gets in trouble from corporate when he does the same routine. Michael volunteers to be the joker, Brown doesn't want the person who was the original offender in the same position. Kevin offers to be the joke teller, but doesn't tell it to Michael's liking. Michael interrupts with a loud, profane rendition of the routine before Brown stops him.

While Jim listens to his phone ring, helpless to answer it, Brown sets up an acronym for Hero: Honesty, Empathy, Respect and Open-Mindedness. Dwight adds additional criteria that essentially describes a super-hero, not a hero. Brown passes out forms, asking everyone sign it. Michael refuses because he didn't learn anything.

Privately, Brown explains that they both know he is here because of Michael's behavior. Michael argues that this office is racially advanced enough that it really doesn't need a diversity lecture. Brown tells him it does because it's Michael that caused the need for it. He only needs Michael's signature, but put the whole office through the seminar because he didn't want Michael to feel singled out. Michael feigns offense that this wasn't really about diversity then.

Michael signs the form and then jokes after the fact that he signed it "Daffy Duck".

In the meantime, Jim has tried to call back his client and has to leave a message.

Michael comes out, tears up the pledge, and criticizes Mr. Brown's lack of an "Oprah moment". He wants everyone to get as much done before lunch as possible.

Jim gets nothing but a busy signal right before Michael forces them all into the conference room again.

The HR representative, Toby Flenderson asks if they are going to sit Indian style. Michael orders him out for being offensive. Then he shows the staff a video announcing his new initiative for Diversity Tomorrow and quotes Abraham Lincoln as saying, "If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North".

Kelly Kapoor, a young Indian woman, asks to be excused for a customer meeting. Michael lets her go. He introduces himself and describes his ethnic breakdown, including that he is part Native American. Oscar asks him what part he is. Michael asks about Oscar's ethnicity. Oscar explains his parents were born in Mexico, moved here and he was born. Michael wants to know if there's something he would like to be called besides Mexican. Oscar doesn't understand why Michael would think Mexican is offensive.

Jim, hearing his phone ring, runs out to grab it, but is too late.

Michael hands out cards with different ethnicities on them. The employees are to take a card and then try to guess their pretend ethnicity by how their co-workers treat them.

Pam & Dwight trying to guess their races — Pam and Dwight trying to guess each other's race

Stanley is inadvertently given Black. Dwight is Asian but can't guess it based upon people telling him they like his people's food or eat lots of rice. Michael, who's chosen Martin Luther King for himself, insists Pam stir up the pot by getting extreme. Pam hesitantly suggests to Dwight that his people aren't very good drivers. Dwight angrily asks if he's a woman.

Jim goes to Pam's desk where Ryan is watching an online sketch. Ryan mentions how cute she is. Jim agrees, but that Pam is engaged. Ryan says he was talking about the girl in the sketch.

Kevin is Italian and is trying to get Angela to guess that she's Jamaican by using the word "mon" and talking about beaches. Angela won't go any further when he asks if she wants to get high.

Irritated that no one is trying very hard to be offensive, Michael immediately jumps on Kelly when she returns from her meeting by throwing himself into a really offensive Indian stereotype until Kelly slaps him. Michael gets visibly upset. He tells the employees how now Kelly knows what it's like to be a minority.

Jim finally gets ahold of his client who was able to close his sale with Dwight instead who gave him a discount. Jim puts the mini champagne bottle on Dwight's desk.

Pam fall asleep on Jim's Shoulder — Pam falls asleep on Jim's shoulder

Michael continues mumbling about Mr. Brown and corrects Stanley on how to pronounce the word collard in collard greens. When 5 PM arrives, Pam is asleep on Jim's shoulder. He smiles at the camera, then wakes her up so they can go.

He tells the camera that today was a pretty good day.

Cultural references

Diversity is a term used in corporate culture to refer to multiple races, cultures, and customs being represented within a company's workforce.
Michael's exclamation "Celebrate good times, come on!" comes from the chorus of the 1980s song "Celebration" by the group Kool & the Gang.
Daffy Duck is a cartoon character.
Toby jokes about "sitting in a circle Indian style." This is a typical campfire arrangement (and terminology) used by children at camp.
Namaste (with the accompanying hand gesture) is a traditional Indian greeting.
I Have a Dream is the refrain of a famous speech by civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
The routine Michael imitates is "Black People vs. N—s" from Chris Rock's 1996 HBO special Bring the Pain.
The melting pot is an American concept for describing how multiple cultures are assimilated into a single combined culture. The more contemporary concept of diversity emphasizes how the cultures retain their identity rather than lose it via assimilation (with the new analogy of a salad bowl).
Googy-googy is a made-up term.
In a deleted scene, Dwight mentions James Earl Jones, a noted African-American actor and voice-over performer.
In a deleted scene, Michael imitates the character of Colonel Klink from the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The sitcom is set in a German POW camp. Hogan is the leader of a group of Allied POWs whose activities regularly frustrate camp commandant Klink. Michael compares Jan to General Burkhalter (Klink's superior) and Dwight to Sergeant Schultz (Klink's bumbling aide).
In a deleted scene, Michael (pretending to be Martin Luther King, Jr.) talks about marching to the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Mint. King did march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, but not the U.S. Mint.

Quotes

see Diversity Day Quotes

Trivia

Michael's attempts to upstage Brown echoes David Brent's treatment of a visiting consultant in the episode Training from The Office (UK).
Michael's diversity exercise with the index cards is similar to one sometimes done in actual diversity training programs.
These are the roles played by the Dunder Mifflin employees in Michael's diversity exercise:

Character	Race/nationality
Michael	Martin Luther King Jr.
Dwight	Asian (and "Dwight" in a deleted scene)
Stanley	Black (by coincidence)
Angela	Jamaican
Kevin	Italian
Meredith	Brazilian
Pam	Jewish
Oscar	Eskimo
Creed	Puerto Rican
Phyllis	Haitian (deleted scene)
Devon	West Nile (deleted scene)

Although it's true that "insect" would not have made sense either, another anagram for "incest" is "nicest", which would have worked well in this context.
Wilmore appears as Mr. Brown again in the Season Three episode "Gay Witch Hunt", giving the Stamford branch the Diversity Today sensitivity training. It is implied he was brought in because of events in Scranton.
Michael says, "Don't take my word for it. Let's take a look at the tape." But the tape consists merely of Michael talking.
As Dwight gives his explanation of heroes, Jim's face goes through at least four expressions.

Behind the Scenes

Originally, producer Greg Daniels wasn't 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. "Since then, I've been on the show," Kaling says. Daniels also loves the scene where Pam falls asleep on Jim's shoulder.
Larry Wilmore (Mr. Brown) is a writer for the show. At the table-read for this show, they hadn't cast the part yet and Daniels just had Wilmore read for the role to fill in. After the read, Daniels thought he was perfect for the role. However, because of stipulations with the Screen Actors Guild, producers still had to have Wilmore formally audition with other actors for the role.
The diversity training company's name (and Michael's response to it) went through a number of changes before Diversity Today was settled on, including Diversity 360 (Michael would rename it Diversity 365, "Because diversity shouldn't take five days off") and Diversity 2000 (Michael would rename it Diversity 3000). Unfortunately, research discovered a real company named Diversity 360, and they didn't want to make it sound like they were making fun of that company.
This episode was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Episodic Comedy".
This episode unintentionally features Creed Bratton's first lines. The first assistant director asked him to provide banter with Phyllis, unaware that Creed was hired for background only and was not supposed to speak.[1]

Deleted scenes

Included on the Season 1 DVD were various deleted scenes:

Michael and Mr. Brown discussing erasing racism.
Dwight telling the camera he's wasting busy sales hours because of the meeting.
A scene at the meeting where Michael creates his own acronym for sensitivity (inclusion, new attitude, color blind, expectations, sharing, and tolerance) which ends up spelling I.N.C.E.S.T. After Pam points this out, he tries to explain how the term works in context.
Pam in a talking head saying Michael could've just used insect as an acronym, though it still wouldn't have made sense.
Ryan mentioning his childhood neighbor who played pro baseball "before the leagues were integrated" and his stories, though Michael interrupts him and asks him to leave the meeting because he sees this information as irrelevant. He tells Ryan to check if anyone parked in the handicap spots and tries to talk about how that ties in with the new attitude part of his acronym, though Mr. Brown stops him from continuing.
Pam trying to think of good things about Michael.
Ryan in the parking lot looking at the empty handicap parking spots.
An extended scene with Michael showing his Daffy Duck signature.
Jim helping Pam in her game of solitaire, but Dwight trying to stop them as the game should only be played alone.
Dwight and Michael filming the short sensitivity video.
Michael talking about marching on Washington "back in the day."
Devon smoking on a balcony with "West Nile" on his forehead card.
When Dwight asks if he's a woman, Jim changes his forehead card from Asian to "Dwight" and continues asking what race he is, though Angela eventually tells him what his card says.
Pam telling the camera there was once an ethnic festival in Scranton.
Reactions from the office workers after Kelly slaps Michael.

Cast

Main Cast

Recurring Cast

Leslie David Baker as Stanley Hudson
Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone
Kate Flannery as Meredith Palmer
Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor
Paul Lieberstein as Toby Flenderson
Angela Kinsey as Angela Martin
Oscar Nunez as Oscar Martinez
Phyllis Smith as Phyllis Lapin
Creed Bratton (actor) as Creed Bratton (Uncredited)
Devon Abner as Devon White (Only in Deleted Scenes)

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+}}'''"Diversity Day"''' is the second episode of the [[Season 1|first season]] of ''The Office'' and the 2nd episode overall. It was written by B.J. Novak and directed by Ken Kwapis. It originally aired on March 29, 2005, and was viewed by 6 million people.
-==Synopsis==
+==Summary==
-[[Michael Scott|Michael]] explains in his talking head that it's diversity day and that a guest speaker is at [[Dunder Mifflin Scranton]] to talk about Diversity.
+[[Michael Scott|Michael]] explains in his talking head that it's Diversity Day and that a guest speaker is at [[Dunder Mifflin Scranton]] to talk about diversity in the workplace. Michael claims that he's wanted this for a while. Corporate mandated it without Michael having to talk to them about it, though. But Michael still believes it's very important.
-[[Jim Halpert|Jim]] is on the phone, though [[Dwight Schrute|Dwight]] interrupts him by noisily shredding paper. Jim turns off Dwight's surge strip, and in retaliation, Dwight cuts off Jim's phone call, which he calls "dit for tit." In a talking head, Jim explains that the call was for a sale he makes every year which constitutes 25% of his commission, and even buys a miniature bottle of champagne to celebrate the occasion.
+[[Jim Halpert|Jim]] is trying to make a sales call when [[Dwight Schrute|Dwight]] begins noisily shredding paper. Jim turns off Dwight's surge strip. In retaliation, Dwight disconnects Jim's phone call. Jim explains to the camera that this client makes up 25% of his commission each year. He brings a small bottle of champagne to the office with him to celebrate.
-Michael walks out of his office, though walks back in and then walks back out at the same time when the diversity speaker, [[Mr. Brown]], walks out from the conference room.  Michael does not take Mr. Brown (who is African-American) seriously when he says that Mr. Brown really is his name.  Michael walks over to [[Oscar Martinez|Oscar]] and introduces him to Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown then tells Michael that he's ready. Jim is on the phone again with Mr. Deckert, trying to make the sale, but Michael demands he hang up and come to the meeting.
+While Pam plays freecell, Michael walks out of his office, then backs up when he sees the corporate representative is heading out of the conference room. He makes sure to walk out at the same time as the other man and make a point of singling out Oscar Martinez as a friend of his. Jim has made contact with his client just in time for Michael to order him into the meeting. Jim is forced to hang up again.
-The meeting starts with Mr. Brown collecting papers from everyone. He then makes a speech, though Michael continually interrupts. When Mr. Brown stumbles with what they're going to do, Michael intervenes and tells everybody to name a race they are attracted to sexually. Dwight immediately raises his hand and says whites and Indians, with [[Kelly Kapoor|Kelly]] sitting right beside him. Mr. Brown stops this and asks Michael for his permission to run the session.
+When the meeting begins, Michael tries to take over by talking about how he doesn't even see Stanley as a black man. The representative explains that's not the point here. No one is expected to be color-blind. That's just fighting ignorance with more ignorance.
-Mr. Brown says that the papers he collected at the start of the session were their input on an incident they've found offensive in the workplace. Dwight interrupts and asks if they can "steer away from gay people", though Mr. Brown says they only have an hour. Mr. Brown says that most everybody wrote down the same incident, which is also the incident he was asked to deal with.
+[[File:The_Employees_meeting_for_Diversity_Day.png|thumb|226x226px|The meeting for Diversity Day]]
-Apparently, Michael retold a famously controversial Chris Rock stand-up routine, which workers found offensive. Mr. Brown asks for the incident to be repeated, with Michael as the "man listening" and [[Kevin Malone|Kevin]] as Chris Rock. However, Michael thinks Kevin is "butchering" the routine and takes over, delivering a highly emphatic, foul-mouthed monologue (most of which is bleeped) until Mr. Brown yells at Michael to make him stop.
-Mr. Brown writes "HERO" on the whiteboard, which is an acronym for Honesty, Empathy, Respect, and Open-mindedness. Dwight disagrees and offers his opinion of what a hero is, which Mr. Brown says is characterizing a ''super''hero.
+Then Michael decides everyone should go around and name an ethnicity that he or she finds sexually attractive. Dwight claims he's attracted to whites and Indians. The representative does not think that's a good start. He asks Michael for permission to run this session himself and suggests it would be easier if Michael sits down.
-After the meeting, Mr. Brown asks everyone to sign some papers indicating that they paid attention and learned something, though Michael refuses because he already knew what Mr. Brown taught. In Michael's office, Mr. Brown tells Michael corporate told him to put Michael through the seminar because of his comments, and that he only really needs Michael's signature; he gave everyone forms so that Michael wouldn't be embarrassed. Michael, believing that Mr. Brown was only pretending to be passionate about Diversity Day and feeling insulted, signs the form, but later reveals in a talking head his signature reads "Daffy Duck."
+He explains that he asked each of them to write down an incident that offended them. He would like volunteers to assist him. Dwight asks that they don't do anything involving gays.
-Jim continues trying to make the sale. Michael walks out of his office and reads his form, then tears it up. He tells the office Mr. Brown did a bad job and didn't have an "Oprah moment," so he's going to do his own seminar.
+The representative attempts to take control again from Michael who asks his name. When he reveals that it's [[Mr. Brown]], Michael thinks it's a trick to see if he will call a black man Mr. Brown. Brown assures him that is his name. He goes on to explain that almost everyone wrote down the same incident and asks if everyone is familiar with the Chris Rock routine.
-As everyone enters the conference room, [[Toby Flenderson|Toby]] says, "We're not all going to sit in a circle Indian style, are we?" Michael takes the opportunity to tell Toby what he said was "offensive and lame" before throwing him out.  To start the meeting, Michael shows a 28 second video he made on diversity. Michael continues by listing the various ethnic groups he apparently has heritage in, which Dwight writes down. Michael then asks for a volunteer but then forces Oscar to go. Oscar tells everybody how his parents moved from Mexico to the United States a year before he was born. Michael then asks if he prefers a "less offensive" term other than Mexican, to which Oscar responds with confusion and indignance. As Michael tries to back off, Jim's desk phone rings and he runs to answer it, but fails to reach it before Mr. Deckert hangs up.
+Michael complains to the camera how Chris Rock can do a hilarious routine that makes everyone laugh, but he gets in trouble from corporate when he does the same routine. Michael volunteers to be the joker, Brown doesn't want the person who was the original offender in the same position. Kevin offers to be the joke teller, but doesn't tell it to Michael's liking. Michael interrupts with a loud, profane rendition of the routine before Brown stops him.
-Michael gives each member of the office a card with a race on it, though they don't know which race they have. Shown with cards on their foreheads are [[Pam Beesly|Pam]] as Jewish, Kevin as Italian, [[Angela Martin|Angela]] as Jamaican, [[Stanley Hudson|Stanley]] as Black (by coincidence), Dwight as Asian, [[Meredith Palmer|Meredith]] as Brazil, Oscar as Eskimo, Phyllis as Haitian, and Michael as Martin Luther King, Jr. He wants them to treat the others like the race that is on their forehead.
+While Jim listens to his phone ring, helpless to answer it, Brown sets up an acronym for Hero: Honesty, Empathy, Respect and Open-Mindedness. Dwight adds additional criteria that essentially describes a super-hero, not a hero. Brown passes out forms, asking everyone sign it. Michael refuses because he didn't learn anything.
-Pam talks with Stanley, which Michael observes. He encourages them to push the envelope, saying things like, "Slavery versus the Holocaust", causing Stanley to look at his card. Meredith and Dwight talk, but Dwight thinks Meredith's clues are useless, saying "lots of cultures eat rice." Dwight talks with Pam, and thinks he's Australian. Michael encourages Pam to "get real", so she reluctantly says he "would maybe not be a very good driver"; Dwight asks if he's a woman. In a talking head, Michael explains he didn't make a card with Arab on it so the meeting wouldn't be explosive.
+Privately, Brown explains that they both know he is here because of Michael's behavior. Michael argues that this office is racially advanced enough that it really doesn't need a diversity lecture. Brown tells him it does because it's Michael that caused the need for it. He only needs Michael's signature, but put the whole office through the seminar because he didn't want Michael to feel singled out. Michael feigns offense that this wasn't really about diversity then.
-Jim talks with [[Ryan Howard|Ryan]], who's watching a Chappelle's Show clip on Pam's computer.&nbsp;Kevin talks with Angela and asks if she wants to go to the beach and get high; when she angrily says no, he replies, "I think you do, mon." Michael encourages them to "go a bit further", and sees Kelly enter the conference room.  He runs over to her and does a highly crude and offensive imitation of an Indian, saying "try my googy googy" over and over until she slaps him.
+Michael signs the form and then jokes after the fact that he signed it "Daffy Duck".
-Jim finally manages to get Mr. Deckert on the phone, but learns Dwight made the sale instead by offering a discount.  Disheartened, Jim he leaves the small bottle of champagne on Dwight's desk.
+In the meantime, Jim has tried to call back his client and has to leave a message.
-Michael continues the meeting, during which Pam falls asleep on Jim's shoulder. In a talking head, Jim says that it was "not a bad day".
+Michael comes out, tears up the pledge, and criticizes Mr. Brown's lack of an "Oprah moment". He wants everyone to get as much done before lunch as possible.
+Jim gets nothing but a busy signal right before Michael forces them all into the conference room again.
+The HR representative, [[Toby Flenderson]] asks if they are going to sit Indian style. Michael orders him out for being offensive. Then he shows the staff a video announcing his new initiative for Diversity Tomorrow and quotes Abraham Lincoln as saying, "If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North".
+[[Kelly Kapoor]], a young Indian woman, asks to be excused for a customer meeting. Michael lets her go. He introduces himself and describes his ethnic breakdown, including that he is part Native American. Oscar asks him what part he is. Michael asks about Oscar's ethnicity. Oscar explains his parents were born in Mexico, moved here and he was born. Michael wants to know if there's something he would like to be called besides Mexican. Oscar doesn't understand why Michael would think Mexican is offensive.
+Jim, hearing his phone ring, runs out to grab it, but is too late.
+Michael hands out cards with different ethnicities on them. The employees are to take a card and then try to guess their pretend ethnicity by how their co-workers treat them.
+[[File:Pam_&_Dwight_trying_to_guess_their_races.png|thumb|left|225x225px|Pam and Dwight trying to guess each other's race]]
+Stanley is inadvertently given Black. Dwight is Asian but can't guess it based upon people telling him they like his people's food or eat lots of rice. Michael, who's chosen Martin Luther King for himself, insists Pam stir up the pot by getting extreme. Pam hesitantly suggests to Dwight that his people aren't very good drivers. Dwight angrily asks if he's a woman.
+Jim goes to Pam's desk where Ryan is watching an online sketch. Ryan mentions how cute she is. Jim agrees, but that Pam is engaged. Ryan says he was talking about the girl in the sketch.
+Kevin is Italian and is trying to get Angela to guess that she's Jamaican by using the word "mon" and talking about beaches. Angela won't go any further when he asks if she wants to get high.
+Irritated that no one is trying very hard to be offensive, Michael immediately jumps on Kelly when she returns from her meeting by throwing himself into a really offensive Indian stereotype until Kelly slaps him. Michael gets visibly upset. He tells the employees how now Kelly knows what it's like to be a minority.
+Jim finally gets ahold of his client who was able to close his sale with Dwight instead who gave him a discount. Jim puts the mini champagne bottle on Dwight's desk.
+[[File:Pam_fall_asleep_on_Jim's_Shoulder.png|thumb|225x225px|Pam falls asleep on Jim's shoulder]]
+Michael continues mumbling about Mr. Brown and corrects Stanley on how to pronounce the word collard in collard greens. When 5 PM arrives, Pam is asleep on Jim's shoulder. He smiles at the camera, then wakes her up so they can go.
+He tells the camera that today was a pretty good day.
 ==Cultural references==
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 * ''[[Wikipedia:Namaste|Namaste]]'' (with the accompanying hand gesture) is a traditional Indian greeting.
 * ''I Have a Dream'' is the refrain of a famous speech by civil rights activist [[Wikipedia:Martin Luther King, Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
+* The routine Michael imitates is "Black People vs. N&mdash;s" from Chris Rock's 1996 HBO special ''Bring the Pain''.
 * The ''[[Wikipedia:Melting pot|melting pot]]'' is an American concept for describing how multiple cultures are assimilated into a single combined culture. The more contemporary concept of ''diversity'' emphasizes how the cultures retain their identity rather than lose it via assimilation (with the new analogy of a salad bowl).
 * ''Googy-googy'' is a made-up term.
 * In a deleted scene, [[Dwight Schrute|Dwight]] mentions ''[[Wikipedia:James Earl Jones|James Earl Jones]]'', a noted African-American actor and voice-over performer.
-* In a deleted scene, Michael imitates the character of Colonel Klink from the 1960s sitcom "[[Wikipedia:Hogan's Heroes|Hogan's Heroes]]". The sitcom is set in a German POW camp. Hogan is the leader of a group of Allied POWs whose activities regularly frustrate camp commandant Klink. Michael compares Jan to General Burkhalter (Klink's superior) and Dwight to Sergeant Schultz (Klink's bumbling aide).
+* In a deleted scene, Michael imitates the character of Colonel Klink from the 1960s sitcom ''[[Wikipedia:Hogan's Heroes|Hogan's Heroes]]''. The sitcom is set in a German POW camp. Hogan is the leader of a group of Allied POWs whose activities regularly frustrate camp commandant Klink. Michael compares Jan to General Burkhalter (Klink's superior) and Dwight to Sergeant Schultz (Klink's bumbling aide).
 * In a deleted scene, Michael (pretending to be [[Wikipedia:Martin Luther King, Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]]) talks about marching to the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Mint. King did [[Wikipedia:March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial]], but not the U.S. Mint.
-== Quotes ==
+==Quotes==
 :''see [[Diversity Day Quotes]]''
 ==Trivia==
+* [[Michael Scott|Michael]]'s attempts to upstage Brown echoes [[David Brent]]'s treatment of a visiting consultant in the episode [[Training]] from [[The Office (UK)]].
-* Originally, producer [[Greg Daniels]] wasn't 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. "Since then, I've been on the show," Kaling says. Daniels also loves the scene where [[Pam Beesly|Pam]] falls asleep on [[Jim Halpert|Jim]]'s shoulder.
-* [[Larry Wilmore]] ([[Mr. Brown]]) is a writer for the show. At the table-read for this show, they hadn't cast the part yet and Daniels just had Wilmore read for the role to fill in. After the read, Daniels thought he was perfect for the role. However, because of stipulations with the Screen Actors Guild, producers still had to have Wilmore formally audition with other actors for the role.
-* [[Michael Scott|Michael]]'s attempts to upstage Brown echoes [[David Brent]]'s treatment of a visiting consultant in the episode [[Training]] from [[The Office UK]].
-* The diversity training company's name (and Michael's response to it) went through a number of changes before Diversity Today was settled on, including Diversity 360 (Michael would rename it Diversity 365) and Diversity 2000 (Michael would rename it Diversity 3000).
-* The routine Michael imitates is "Niggas vs. Black People" from Chris Rock's 1996 HBO special ''Bring the Pain''.
 * Michael's diversity exercise with the index cards is similar to one sometimes done in actual diversity training programs.
-* This episode was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Episodic Comedy".
 * These are the roles played by the [[Dunder Mifflin Paper Company|Dunder Mifflin]] employees in Michael's diversity exercise:
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 !Race/nationality
 |-
-|Michael
+|[[Michael Scott|Michael]]
 |Martin Luther King Jr.
 |-
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 |Brazilian
 |-
-|Pam
+|[[Pam Beesly|Pam]]
 |Jewish
 |-
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 |Puerto Rican
 |-
-|[[Phyllis Lapin|Phyllis]]
+|[[Phyllis Vance|Phyllis]]
 |Haitian (deleted scene)
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 |West Nile (deleted scene)
 |}
 * Although it's true that "insect" would not have made sense either, another anagram for "incest" is "nicest", which would have worked well in this context.
 * Wilmore appears as Mr. Brown again in the [[Season 3|Season Three]] episode "[[Gay Witch Hunt]]", giving the [[Dunder Mifflin Stamford|Stamford branch]] the Diversity Today sensitivity training. It is implied he was brought in because of events in Scranton.
 * Michael says, "Don't take my word for it. Let's take a look at the tape." But the tape consists merely of Michael talking.
 * As Dwight gives his explanation of heroes, Jim's face goes through at least four expressions.
+==Behind the Scenes==
+* Originally, producer [[Greg Daniels]] wasn't 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. "Since then, I've been on the show," Kaling says. Daniels also loves the scene where [[Pam Beesly|Pam]] falls asleep on [[Jim Halpert|Jim]]'s shoulder.
+* [[Larry Wilmore]] ([[Mr. Brown]]) is a writer for the show. At the table-read for this show, they hadn't cast the part yet and Daniels just had Wilmore read for the role to fill in. After the read, Daniels thought he was perfect for the role. However, because of stipulations with the Screen Actors Guild, producers still had to have Wilmore formally audition with other actors for the role.
+* The diversity training company's name (and Michael's response to it) went through a number of changes before Diversity Today was settled on, including Diversity 360 (Michael would rename it Diversity 365, "Because diversity shouldn't take five days off") and Diversity 2000 (Michael would rename it Diversity 3000). Unfortunately, research discovered a real company named Diversity 360, and they didn't want to make it sound like they were making fun of that company.
+* This episode was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Episodic Comedy".
+* This episode unintentionally features [[Creed Bratton (actor)|Creed Bratton]]'s first lines. The first assistant director asked him to provide banter with Phyllis, unaware that Creed was hired for background only and was not supposed to speak.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZpP_26Bws&t=41m06s]
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 *[[Angela Kinsey]] as [[Angela Martin]]
 *[[Oscar Nunez]] as [[Oscar Martinez]]
-*[[Phyllis Smith]] as [[Phyllis Lapin]]
+*[[Phyllis Smith]] as [[Phyllis Vance|Phyllis Lapin]]
 *[[Creed Bratton (actor)]] as [[Creed Bratton]] (Uncredited)
 *[[Devon Abner]] as [[Devon White]] (Only in Deleted Scenes)
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