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293:" routine, the corporate offices of Dunder Mifflin send a representative (Mr. Brown) from Diversity Today to hold a diversity training seminar. After Michael repeatedly attempts to take over the training and makes an issue of signing the form saying he learned something, Brown privately explains to him that the training was purely for Michael's benefit, the other employees were included solely so as not to shame Michael, and corporate will not allow Brown to leave until Michael signs the form. Michael finds this insulting and, as a response, holds his own diversity meeting. He shows a brief video that addresses nothing of significance, claims that his heritage is "two-fifteenths Native American", and instructs everyone to wear index cards with a certain race on it and to treat others however they might treat people of those races. When he delivers a racist impression of an Indian person to Kelly (who is not wearing a card, having missed the activity due to a meeting), she takes offense and slaps him. 317: 250:, forces the staff to undergo a racial diversity seminar. A consultant arrives to teach the staff about tolerance and diversity, but Michael insists on imparting his own knowledge—aggravating both the consultant and the entire office staff—and creates his own diversity seminar. He eventually assigns each staff member an index card with a different race on it, causing tempers to simmer until they snap. Meanwhile, Jim struggles to keep hold of a lucrative contract extension, but Dwight makes the sale for himself. 355:
The scene during which Pam rests her head on Jim's shoulder after Dwight has stolen his sale and Jim smiles and says "not a bad day after all" came about when Greg Daniels spoke to the writers about wanting to have small, happy interactions between Jim and Pam and mentioned the head-on-shoulder idea,
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awarded the episode a "B+" and felt that, as the show lost viewers in the first season, the stories got better, and that "Diversity Day" is an excellent example of this "unfortunate trend". He noted that the episode "would go on to be one of the series' defining episodes, an installment that put a
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pilot. During one of Michael's impersonations, a racial expletive spoken by Michael had to be censored by the producers for NBC. Daniels was terrified that the scene would leak unedited, so he personally oversaw the censoring of the master copy.
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among people aged 18–49, meaning that 2.7 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds viewed the episode and six percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds watching TV viewed it. The episode garnered 6.0 million viewers overall. The episode, airing after
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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.
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s views on accepting the disparity between our dreams and our realities." However, Adams noted that Carell's character was still too aggressive for Michael Scott to be completely lovable, and that the
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that cutting it to the required 12 minutes "was almost impossible" and that he had already "really sweated" during the process of getting the episode down to the 22 minutes for broadcast.
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to promote the show's then-upcoming premiere. This was NBC's first-ever online debut of a complete episode of a network series, and also included a trimmed-down
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gave the episode positive reviews, stating that: "Think of the toss-off racism of the original, plopped into a PC-gone-wrong showcase that might be entitled
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among people aged 18–49 and garnered 6.0 million viewers overall, losing almost half of its audience from the previous week.
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version of the episode for on-demand viewing on MySpace the following day. Greg Daniels later noted in an interview with
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tries to re-up an annual sale that will amount to a quarter of his yearly commission, but he is ultimately undercut by
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was impressed by his work and said the show should use him more, leading to the expansion of Lieberstein's work as
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pilot. Wilmore, a writer for the show, had to formally audition with other actors because of stipulations with the
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Contrary to the lukewarm response to the pilot, "Diversity Day" earned positive reviews from television critics.
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magazine named the scene wherein Michael shows the office his diversity video the third greatest Moment from
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The second episode of the series was the first to feature predominantly original writing, as the
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did not want to appear in the episode and did so assuming it would be a one-time event, but
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dozes on his shoulder, leading Jim to conclude that it was nevertheless "not a bad day".
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removed the episode from its reruns of the show. However it remains in rotation on
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thought he was perfect for the role. However, because of stipulations with the
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Daniels, Greg (Executive Producer). 2005. "Diversity Day" ,
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The episode guest-starred Larry Wilmore as Mr. Brown.
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to feature original writing, as the pilot episode ("
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