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- Jossed, though he does become a YouTube sensation.
- "Threat level midnight", nuff said.
- As well as "Todd Packer"
- Judging from the last few episodes before he's was about to leave, I'd argue that this is confirmed. I'll copy paste an analysis I wrote on reddit regarding his development:
- In one episode, Michael used it on Jan to get a raise.
- Michael at least hints she's been trying it on him.
- But Creed's playing himself, so... Uh-oh.
- The show has finally aired in Denmark, and it's basically a hidden camera show. Nobody is an actor, but the documentary crew director is something of a sleazeball and reveals to Pam that he's basically been manipulating and exploiting everyone, on top of violating their privacy. So far, not too far off. We'll have to see what the finale this May holds.
- Jossed. It was a documentary all along.
- At the launch party, Dwight and Michael will engage in Wild Mass Guessing as to what will happen, including the question of whether Jim and Pam will hook up. Pan to Jim and Pam Halpert looking at the camera in a awkwardly ironic fashion. Fade to Black.
- Confirmed false.
- The most recent episode has the office discover the show airing in Denmark, and are not impressed. We see bits of the show, and it's basically a hidden camera show.
- While Michael is never fired, the Series Finale ends with Dwight firing Kevin, Toby, Jim and Pam. Though the latter two's firings was out of sympathy.
- He's socially awkward because he didn't have any friends or a father figure when he was growing up. After all, he wanted to be friends with his coworkers.
- Autistic might not be too far off as Michael mentioned he couldn't talk until he was 5 years old, a common sign of autism.
- Michael has often shown the ability to recognize unspoken social cues, which helps him be a successful and charismatic salesman. His displays of social ineptitude are most often the result of his own selfishness.
- She is notably the only original Dunder Mifflin employee who never participates in the plot or gets interviewed. A likely explanation for this is that she declined being filmed for the documentary, though she still gets picked up in a few background shots by accident. Her last appearance is in the Season 3 episode A Benihana Christmas. This episode was also the final appearance of Stamford transfer Hannah Smoterich-Barr, who, as we learn in the next episode, quit. Maybe Marjorie, emboldened by the departure of Hannah and several other former Stamford employees, decided to leave the company so she wouldn't have to tiptoe around the camera crews.
- Marjorie quits and threatens everyone with lawsuits over an unaired event. The documentary crew choose to cut her out from most of the documentary, for legal reasons.
- Jossed. Michael left Dunder-Mifflin altogether in season seven.
- Exhibit A: in his
journaldiary, he notes how "hot" he thinks Ryan is. - Exhibit B: Every other scene Michael and Ryan share.
- Because gay people never have children. It's also heavily implied that Michael wants kids because he doesn't want to be lonely. He could still be a closeted homosexual or bisexual, though.
- He falls in love with Holly, marries her, and they have several children, so he's not homosexual. That still doesn't rule out the possibility that he's bisexual.
- Jossed. The crew is still there, and everyone discovered the show is starting to air in Denmark, and watch its promos on a YouTube-like website, narrated in Danish.
- The "Costume Contest" ep says he's still on the loose.
- Toby mentions later on he was called to be a juror in the Scranton Strangler's trial, confirming the Strangler has been caught and convicted. We don't find out who it was, but we also haven't seen Rolf in a while...
- Jossed. His name is eventually revealed to be George Howard Skub. Toby briefly suspects George Howard Skub was falsely convicted, but was convinced they got the right man when Skub attempts to strangle him.
- Alternate theory: Rolf isn't the Scranton Strangler, but he *is* a serial killer who no one has connected to any murders yet.
- Apparently not, as B.J. Novak and others have signed contracts for an eighth season.
- Jossed. There's been an eighth, and a ninth (which is the final) season without Michael.
- Almost, but not quite. Brent was indeed one of the candidates for Michael's job. However, he didn't get it.
- Jossed. Both Holly and Michael left Dunder-Mifflin altogether.
- Jossed. Both Holly and Michael left Dunder-Mifflin altogether.
- Almost, but not quite. Brent was indeed one of the candidates for Michael's job. However, he didn't get it.
- Jossed. She returns in the eighth season as Nellie Bertram, becoming a regular in season nine.
- There's no way that Dwight/Angela's storyline is over, despite her marriage to the Senator. Calling it now!
- Confirmed in "Jury Duty".
- "Confirmed" means it's a definite fact backed up by evidence. It hasn't been confirmed, although it probably is his baby.
- Officially Jossed in the season nine premiere, when we see Angela and Dwight getting the DNA results and a "You are NOT the father."
- Though, now it's been confirmed by Angela herself.
- Confirmed in "Jury Duty".
- "No one steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last man who did disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton."
- If she was going to be fired over the Oscar situation it probably would have happened back then. I don't see her getting fired any time soon. She's pregnant. It's considered pretty lousy etiquette to fire a pregnant woman without an extremely good reason, and I don't think "gay husband" has ever been grounds for dismissal.
- Also, she's head of the Accounting department, so despite her personal views, she obviously does good work. She and Oscar get along well enough, so there really isn't any reason why she would be fired.
- Jossed. Angela keeps her job by the end of the Series, despite marrying Dwight, who is her boss.
- Dwight actually sees Jim as a good friend, possibly his best friend, and treats him just as he would treat a brother. It's just the Schrute's have aggressive and antagonistic relationships with family.
- And in season nine, he is shown to be upset about Jim leaving Dunder Mifflin for Athlead.
- The cat she keeps at the office? It's the one Andy gave her.
- For what other conceivable reason would Oscar own Dunder Mifflin stock?
- Employee benefits?
- His new ideas wouldn't have changed the character of the people who mismanaged it, and he'd gotten sick of his good ideas constantly being ignored. Add to that the fact that the company swept his sexual harassment claim under the rug, and the fact that he could probably find other opportunities if need be, then perhaps he just wanted to watch Dunder Mifflin go down in flames.
- In "Performance Review", Michael read old suggestions from the suggestion box, including "We need better outreach for employees fighting depression" by someone named Tom. Phyllis reminds Michael that Tom shot himself. It's possible that the original intent of the crew was to document how the employees handled the fact that their coworker killed himself, as well as shedding light on why such a thing would happen, but they quickly shifted focus after discovering the quirks of the cast.
- Confirmed by Word of God.
- Michael will be Back for the Finale to walk her down the aisle.
- Jossed. It's actually Dwight and Angela's, with Michael returning to act as best man.
- Angela knows The Senator (state senator) is gay and is willing to be his beard because of the prestige it gives her and because the fake marriage suits her perfectly. She hasn't even been intimate with him. Evidently this means the senator knows the baby isn't his, but as long as people believes it is, he doesn't cares. He may already suspect Dwight is the father, and just pretends to be aloof about the situation.
- Jossed. She found out and is not very happy about it.
- The Scranton Strangler holds Dunder-Mifflin hostage but Dwight saves everybody using all the weapons he hid in the office.
- Jossed. No such event occurs.
- He doesn't know or remember who Pam is, during Beach Day he thought speech-making Pam was some random woman and at one time, he called Andy "Jim".
- He interrupts the health seminar in "Stress Relief: Part 1" to tell the CPR woman he finally recognizes her from seeing her in the parking lot.
- It seems Creed can't recognize voices either, since one episode with him as manager had Pam do two barely different voices over the phone and Creed thought they were two different people.
- Michael has to find his soul-mate and gain maturity. He found Holly Flax and finally decided to settle in with her. The last time we saw him was at the airport where he took off his mic, said his famous "That's what she said!" completely mute and leaving to take his "plane" surrounded by lights. Since then, we never saw him again. He moved on.
- Jim has to accept Dwight as his best friend. Something that's becoming to grow in him.
- Pam, well, she already found the love of her life but she has to wait for Jim to move on with him.
- Dwight also has to accept Jim as his best friend. Something he is to proud to admit. That's why he's going straight to The Farm, the spin-off and his personal hell where all of his family is present.
- Andy has to become more confident and he needs Erin.
- Erin has to find her real parents. Andy will use the fortune of his parents to help her.
- Ryan and Kelly have to accept they are not meant to be together.
- Angela has to accept the homosexuality of her husband
- Oscar has to accept he's in love with Angela (Why? Because that will be hilarious!)
- Meredith has to quit drinking and stop being a mess.
- Stanley already knows where he is. That's why he is so indifferent.
Now concerning the "special" persons.
- Creed is a kind of angel/The Watcher who takes care of the new souls that arrive in the Purgatory like Gene Hunt from ''Life on Mars. In fact, The Office is the Purgatory of office employees as Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes is the purgatory of cops.
- Kevin is a benevolent creature that incarnates the child innocence. He wants the people around him to enjoy little things of life like cookies, music and... Um... 69s.
- Phyllis is Satan. Why? She's a horrible, shallow person who always criticizes other people's lifes. She told Erin she is maybe her mother to keep her in the Purgatory. She was the first person to be vocal about Jim and Pam relationship to keep them apart...
- Nellie Bertram is Donna Noble who eventually died while being a temp after her days with the Doctor. With her memory erased, she became once again the shallow woman she was before and that attitude became much worse with time.
And the end of the show will be like Life on Mars. Ryan will wake up and realize it was "a dream". Then, he will try to kill himself to go back with his true friends. Why Ryan? He was the new soul of the Purgatory when the show started. Oh! And his realization and subsequent suicide will be accompanied with this. Just for the awesomeness.
- Jossed. The show finally aired in Denmark, narrated completely in Danish, and the finished product is basically a hidden camera show.
- Early in the series the camera crew realized the heart of their story was in the courtship of Jim and Pam. When they got together early in season four, the camera crew wanted to strike gold again. This is why the show continues to focus on the relationships within the office. The camera crew may even try to influence matters (like telling Andy to ask out Angela or push Erin to date Gabe to draw out the Andy/Erin story). Because the camera crew loves Jim and Pam, the series will end with them leaving Dunder Mifflin.
- I like this one! Makes a lot of sense, especially with Gabe and Erin and Erin and Andy. Both of these couples were extremely reluctant.
- Partially confirmed. The documentary crew admitted late in Season 9 that they stuck around so long because of Pam and Jim's relationship, and indeed the finale had Pam and Jim leaving the company. Whether they deliberately tried to recreate anything with other couples is still anyone's guess.
- Toby really phones it in these days and this is how people get away with so much in the Office and how Andy can call pointless meetings to discuss how to make his girlfriend hot enough to be a news anchor or whether he's related to Michelle Obama.
- In an alternate universe he could pursue his filmmaking carrer without going to community college. He has the patience to follow the Dunder Mifflin staff all the time everywhere. Maybe he's the crew's chief and documental's director.
- Pam talks to the director after seeing the show's promos, and it's not Abed.
- Maybe he's one of the editors. After all, they wouldn't have to be on set to do their job.
- Pam talks to the director after seeing the show's promos, and it's not Abed.
- Let's look at Michael Scott. Frequently throughout his run as manager he is lauded as an excellent salesman, which greatly contradicts the personality as clingy man-child that the audience sees him as. This makes sense if you consider that he was a great salesman before he became manager.
- Then Jim, the basically Only Sane Man and voice of reason in the show, becomes manager temporarily, and even he starts to make uncharacteristically bad choices and loses the respect of the rest of the office.
- Next up is DeAngelo, who did something to impress the hiring committee to give him the job. In record time he totally loses it and is Put on a Bus.
- Then Dwight, quirky, Bunny-Ears Lawyer with a possible heart of gold is named acting manager for a week, in which time he turns the office into dictatorship and fires a gun indoors.
- After that it's Creed, who during his brief stint as manager had what he thought was a phone-conversation with two different women, and both were Pam barely disguising her voice.
- Finally, there's Andy, who has had remarkable character development for a supporting character. We see him transform from a spoiled Jerkass who couldn't even land a sale to a humbler, more self-aware person who was making real strides towards personal betterment. At first his managerial skills were clumsy yet effective, and it seemed like the office was really warming up to him. Now he has abandoned his position and his girlfriend to go on a random boat ride around the world.
- Pete is a manifestation of the Manager curse. He appeared out of no where as Andy started to become corrupted and only seems to serve as Erin's replacement love interest.
- Basically the Scranton branch manager position takes whoever has assumed it and slowly but surely corrupts their minds and morals and turns them into caricatured, flanderized husks of their former selves.
- Expect for Creed, who was already quite crazy before he gained the branch manager position.
- Nellie is the only one who seems not to be affected by the branch manager curse. That might be because she's the only female branch manager in Scranton. What if the curse was put by some kind of a radical feminist witch and affects only male managers? Thus the ill fate of DeAngelo makes more sense - he was, among other things, a bad sexist, so the curse hit him the fastest and the most painful way - at least, the other managers did not suffer any physical injuries.
- In one of the very first episodes, Michael was about to fire Creed but fired Devon instead. Creed obviously did not do his job and was even responsible for an entire stock of paper being shipped with a pornographic cartoon on it, which landed the company in hot water. This actually led to a series of events behind the scenes that resulted in the company going under in season 6 and being sold to Sabre. Devon could have prevented all of this from happening.
- Supporting this theory: Dwight brings back Devon, and DM seems to be doing fine at the end of the show.
- To add even more to the theory, when Jan was fired as the Director of Sales, David Wallace ended up going with Ryan after Jim, Karen, and Michael either bowed out or were passed over. Ryan was convicted of fraud a short time later and that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to the company and gave it a ton of bad press, which further hurt the company. If Devon were still around, Wallace would have gone to him instead of Ryan.
- Andy quickly becomes less of a jerk after he resigns from being manager, and in the last few episodes Erin and Pete are not seen together very often.
Basically, there are two separate universes. Both contain a Dunder-Mifflin and a Wernham-Hogg, both contain a Michael Scott and a David Brent. But in the universe where a film crew shows up at Dunder-Mifflin's Scranton branch, Wernham-Hogg's Slough branch remains in obscurity, and vice-versa for the other one. Most likely, the same or similar things happen to both branches in both universes (including Brent getting fired — let's face it, that was just a matter of time), but one gets filmed and the other doesn't. And in the universe where one gets filmed, the things that happen in both shows only happen in the one that doesn't get filmed. Which also means that in The Office (UK) universe, it's highly possible that a few years down the track, David Brent would bump into an American paper salesman with whom he happened to share a surprising sense of humor with outside a hotel elevator in London...
- Jossed. The Series Finale confirms that Creed is indeed a criminal, with him being arrested at the end of the Finale.
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