3x08 The Merger

Trivias

+Michael meets Rashida Jones' character for the first time and awkwardly comments, "Oh, you're exotic looking, was your father a G.I.?" (Jones is biracial.) Years later, life would imitate art when TNT correspondent Danielle Demski interviewed Jones on the red carpet at the 2015 SAG awards. The reporter commented to Jones that she looked "very tan" adding, "You look like you've just come off an island or something. You're very tan. Very tropical." Not wishing to embarrass Demski, Jones graciously accepted the compliment, but pointed out she was "ethnic".
+Dwight is wearing a Rock 107 t-shirt in his and Michael's music video "Lazy Scranton". Rock 107 is a local classic rock station for the area.
+In the epilogue scene, Dwight mentions to Andy that his car is an '87 Pontiac Trans Am. However, in the pilot episode, Dwight brags to the new hire, Ryan Howard, that he drives a '78 (Datsun) 280Z
+Jim mentions that the orientation video Michael made for him when he started was based on The Blair Witch Project (1999). The new orientation video, "Lazy Scranton," is a parody of a Saturday Night Live sketch called "Lazy Sunday."
+Dwight claims to know a lot about animals and nature through out the series. Yet in this episode says he "outran" a black pepper snake. Which is not only commonly docile but is also nonvenomus.

Spoilers
During part of Michaels Integration Celebration he & Andy are singing and dancing to "What Is Love". This is a reference to Night At The Roxbury which stars Will Ferrell, who is hired at Dunder Mifflin in season 7.