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1	Creed wants to buy a helicopter, so he decides to blackmail Andy, Oscar, Angela, Kelly and Meredith for the money. Toby refuses to do anything about it.
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6	* ADayInTheLimelight: The series of four webisodes focus on Creed.
7	* AllThereInTheManual: The webisodes explain why Creed got a toy helicopter and Andy got a Nard Dog tattoo.
8	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Creed wants a helicopter, commodities, gold, oil, political capital, four-leaf clovers, bones, information (as in gossip) and uranium.
9	* {{Blackmail}}: What Creed is doing so he can get a helicopter. In actuality, he wanted six dollars to buy a toy helicopter on Amazon.
10	* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Said nearly word-for-word by Creed.
11	* BlatantLies: Andy denies that he has a tramp stamp.
12	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
13	** Once Creed gets his toy helicopter, he plans to send it to the Amazon, home to the largest bookstore.
14	** Creed resorts to blackmailing Kelly to get juicy blackmail material on his coworkers. Kelly, the incorrigible office gossip who would almost certainly have been happy to dish out the dirt without being forced.
15	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Had Creed been given six dollars before hand for his helicopter, he wouldn't have to blackmail everyone. This said, the other characters can hardly be blamed for ''not'' wanting to submit to blackmail, and the inverse is also true: had Creed just asked to ''borrow'' the money instead of resorting to blackmail, he could possibly have achieved a similar result much sooner.
16	* DrivenToSuicide: Creed threatens to set himself on fire if he doesn't get paid, but [[HardToLightFire his chosen method]], rubbing two sticks together, leaves something to be desired.
17	* EmbarrassingTattoo: Andy has a tramp stamp on his lower back that means "Nard Dog".
18	* GratuitousSpanish: Creed took introductory Spanish classes and said "Jonas Brothers" with a silent J. He even talked to Oscar in Spanish before returning in English.
19	* InsultBackfire: Andy told Creed that he is gratuitously creepy, where Creed took it as a compliment.
20	* KarmaHoudini: Kelly is the one who passes the incriminating gossip for the blackmailing on to Creed, but she never gets targeted for it.
21	* ProductPlacement: Ebay.
22	* TheReveal: In the fourth and final webisode, there are several reveals about Creed, which he acknowledges.
23	** He was Music/JanisJoplin's drug dealer.
24	** He made Chinese anti-democracy videos where he yells "Confucius is a fool! We grow fat on greed."
25	** He introduced the Walking Snakehead fish into the North American Ecosystem.
26	** He threw plenty of raves in the Dunder-Mifflin warehouse and was known to the kids as Papa Smurf.
27	* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: When he starts sheepishly mumbling to avoid explaining why he doesn't want to intervene, Toby actually says the word "mumble", which Andy frustratedly {{Lampshades}}.

Context Recap / TheOfficeUSSWE4Blackmail