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“To this day I think that no one has turned in a first draft of an episode better than ‘Diversity Day.’ Now, as a successful comedy writer, I can look back and feel nothing but excitement for my very dear friend B.J. At the time when that episode came out in 2005, I was so angry, and it like filled me with anxiety how good that draft was. I remember it because B.J. turned in like a 30-page draft. It was just so lean and funny. Besides just being a funny episode of TV, because it was the second episode, it was very good for the rest of us, because it sort of was like, ‘Here’s the bar.'” That’s Mindy Kaling looking back at the early days of a show that’s still my happy place (maybe now more than ever). ‘The Office’ Turns 20: An Oral History of Season 1 From the Writers Who Shaped It.