Diversity Day dawns as Dwight shreds through Jim's big call
Michael claims he wanted diversity training before corporate mandated it; then Dwight runs a noisy shredder mid-call and calls it retaliation.
S1E2 · Diversity Day
13 moments · 18 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Michael hijacks Mr. Brown's diversity seminar
Michael fumbles Oscar's surname, declares a color-free zone, invites everyone to name a race they find attractive, and won't call Mr. Brown by his name.
Kevin and Michael botch the Chris Rock routine reenactment
The complaint behind the seminar comes out: Michael's Chris Rock bit. Kevin is cast to reenact it, and Michael can't resist taking over.
Dwight redefines a hero during the HERO acronym
Mr. Brown explains HERO; Dwight objects that real heroes kill enemies, are part supernatural and are born of trauma.
Michael refuses the pledge, then signs it as Daffy Duck
Michael balks at a pledge saying he learned something, until Mr. Brown tells him plainly the seminar exists because of him.
Michael vows to give the office its Oprah moment
Michael mocks the pledge, dismisses Mr. Brown's session as heartless, and promises to have everyone in tears after lunch.
Michael's Diversity Tomorrow video premieres
Michael ejects a joker, then screens his homemade video with a made-up Lincoln quote; Jim's feedback is brief and he exits to a meeting.
Michael claims to be two-fifteenths Native American, then grills Oscar
Michael lists his heritage and an impossible fraction, then asks Oscar for a less offensive word than Mexican and can't explain why.
The race-card forehead game
Michael hands out race cards to wear and treat each other by; Dwight goes all in, Pam is pushed to stir the melting pot.
Kelly walks in on Michael's convenience-store act
Michael urges people to push the stereotypes further, then greets a late-arriving Kelly with an accent routine, and it goes badly.
Jim learns another salesman took his biggest sale
Jim finally reaches his biggest client of the year, only to hear a colleague already closed the renewal at a discount.
Michael's collard greens lesson and send-off
Michael complains about Mr. Brown, gets corrected on a food name and pushes back, then sees everyone out with misfired farewells.
Jim and Pam close out Diversity Day
After the office empties, Pam stirs beside Jim and heads home; despite the lost sale, Jim sums up the day with a smile.
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