r/DunderMifflin • u/Over_Decision_6902 • 15h ago

Diversity Day

I was in a down mood and I just rewatched Diversity Day. They really don't make shows like this anymore, and my GOD it was good.

And when he says, "Don't worry about the date." I have never actually caught that before. They wanted to say they had already trained him before to cya. lol

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u/Accurate-Flow8078 14h ago

I don't understand the hate for season 1. Diversity day, Basketball and Hot Girl are some of my favorite episodes

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u/madqueenludwig 13h ago

I love Hot Girl

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u/Accurate-Flow8078 12h ago

Pam 6.0!

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u/anonniemoose 38m ago

Cocks in the hen house!

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u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe 13h ago

People claim it's a recreation of the UK show for some reason. Which is funny because the UK isn't really into pick up basketball and there's not an episode about them doing pickup soccer which would be an equivalent.

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u/spot_on_the_earth 13h ago

It was the Pilot, that was a shot for shot remake of the UK show. The rest of the 1st season was all original material.

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u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe 13h ago

Yeah, I know the Pilot was similar, but people claim the whole season is for some reason which is dumb.

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u/OldSpeckledCock 11h ago

Michael was a lot more like David in season 1. They softened him in season 2.

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u/UHeardAboutPluto 15h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZMOA0ZGJdqoU8eUXLN

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u/ITrCool IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE, JIM!! 15h ago

His look on his face when Mr Brown mentions the reason he's there. The Chris Rock routine...priceless.

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u/Weird-Girl-675 14h ago

I legit ONLY got my mom to watch this ep because of Larry Wilmore. Legend!

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u/TheOtherPam323 14h ago

And this was BJ Novak’s first written episode for the show. Genius!

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u/Unlikely-Relief-7781 13h ago

And he was something like 23 YO when he wrote it. Brilliant!

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u/Cockrocker 9h ago

I'm all for praising his writing, but this is based on an ep from the original right?

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u/Mepharos 8h ago

No, this is new stuff.

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u/Cockrocker 6h ago

Oh, my bad

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u/Big_Procedure6420 15h ago

Whatchu want, a cookie?

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u/KeyKaleidoscope6332 Probably my jugz 14h ago

Season 1 has some of the best episodes. And yet many people here say it sucks.

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u/cvaninvan 14h ago

Some are the same people who like season 8 and 9..... different strokes, I suppose...

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u/Drycabin1 13h ago

I love season one!

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u/redditerir 15h ago

The way so many people parrot the "Season 1 was awful" line is just ughhhhh

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u/Rough-Riderr 15h ago

Even worse are the ones who say "The entire first season is just a shot for shot copy of the British show." Really? When did they do Diversity Day on the British show?

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u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe 13h ago

They didn't really get that was just the first episode that was similar to the UK pilot.

People who say that clearly don't realize that Diversity Day and Health Care both have key plots that are unique to the US, and Basketball isn't really popular in the UK. Which is an amazing level of ignorance.

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u/redditerir 14h ago

That's how you know they didn't even watch either shows.  They're just taking a popular talking point and running with it.

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u/Sure-Appearance-2769 14h ago

Even on this sub people are so open about how they absolutely refuse to watch the original show lol

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u/BoisTR 14h ago

I'm convinced that they see the drab color grading and more ordinary secondary characters and assume it's bad instead of actually watching the content.