Creed Bratton

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Creed Bratton
Gender Male
Job Quality Assurance
Played by Creed Bratton (actor)

Creed Bratton is a fictional character played by Creed Bratton in the television series The Office.


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[edit] Season 1:

[edit] Season 2:

Creed eats mung beans, which even he acknowledges "Smell like death."

Offers to show kids that he only has 4 toes on one foot.

[edit] Season 3:

  • Creed says that he may have made love to a man during the 1960's.
  • Creed thinks it's okay for babies to play with paper clips. (He has extra paper clips.)
  • Creed is eager to help Dwight battle the bat, as well as Jim (whom Dwight believed was becoming a vampire)
  • Creed used to be homeless and lives in the office four days a week. His place is in Toronto, taking advantage of the welfare state.
  • Has faked his own death and, at one point, was living off of his life insurance payout.
  • Creed prefers natural, unaugmented breasts, as he tells the camera after news of Jan's surgery gets out. "Swing low, sweet chariots," as he puts it.
  • Creed seems to work on his blog frequently, but he doesn't know that it's just a Word document that Ryan set up for him, telling Creed it was a blog. Ryan says he read some of it and that it was disturbing.

[edit] Season 4:

  • Creed's real name is suggested to be William Charles Schneider (which is the actor's birth name). When Creed has money problems, he transfers his debt to this identity. In Goodbye, Toby, Creed forgets his job title(Quality Assurance), referring to it as "Quabity Ashwitz".
  • Creed is the only one who remembers the security guard's name (Hank) when everyone was accidentally locked in the office and needed Hank's assistance in opening the locked gate.

[edit] Creed's lack of morals

  • Steals gambling chips. ("Casino Night")
  • Steals office supplies - mentioned. ("Casino Night")
  • Steals candy bars. ("Casino Night")
  • Has been arrested at least once, during his photo ID session in Drug Testing, Creed assumes a profile pose after being photographed from the front, in a manner similar to a mugshot,
  • Sells office equipment online. ("Branch Closing", Producer's Cut)
  • Takes a toy from a toy drive collection box. ("A Benihana Christmas")
  • Steals a laminating machine from the sheriff's office, used to start a fake ID business which he runs from his car. ("Cocktails")
  • Eats steaks with his hands. ("Ben Franklin")
  • Attaches his wedding card to another guest's gift. ("Phyllis' Wedding")
  • Takes $40 from Michael - implied when he returns it. ("The Negotiation")
  • Takes up a fake collection for Debbie Brown. ("Product Recall")
  • Creed lives in Toronto three days a week to take advantage of the welfare state; he spends the remainder of the week living in the office, sleeping on the couch in reception and using the water-cooler and paper towl to bathe.
  • Has faked his own death and, at one point, was living off of his life insurance payout.(Product Recall)
  • Lies about his age, claiming at various points to be 82 ("Fun Run") and 30 ("Dunder Mifflin Infinity").
  • Implied that he stole Pam's glasses when she can't find them ("Did I Stutter?").

[edit] Recurring Jokes

  • Creed is unable to remember the names of his coworkers.
    • First mentioned in "The Secret", when Creed asks Kevin "Which one is Pam?"
    • In a deleted scene from "Valentine's Day", he calls Oscar and someone on the phone "Ace".
    • In "Conflict Resolution", Creed calls Meredith "the redhead" and Pam "the receptionist" in a complaint.
    • In "The Convention", Creed calls Angela "Andrea" and introduces himself to Meredith.
    • In "Dunder Mifflin Infinity", Creed refers to Stanley as "Sammy" and Meredith as "the chick you hit with the car" (or confuses Meredith with Phyllis).
    • In "Business School", Creed calls Meredith "Mary Beth" when she's trapped in the break room with the bat.
    • Creed manages to remember Jim's name, calling him "Jimmy" ("Dwight's Speech", "Survivor Man") or "Halpert" ("The Negotiation"). In "The Negotiation", he also nearly remembered Dwight's name (calling him "sharoot").

[edit] Trivia

  • The actor Creed Bratton was the lead guitarist for the Sixties rock group The Grass Roots. In a deleted scene from "The Booze Cruise," this piece of history was incorporated into his character as well. In "The Office," Creed appears to be portraying a parody of himself, as a Sixties burnout.
  • In the same deleted scene, Creed claims that thanks to his extended drug use during his rock and roll days, 90 seconds is the longest amount of time that he can remain focused on any task.
  • Creed claims to have spent time in an iron lung as a teenager. ("The Injury")
    • Creed claims to had his own radio show in the 1970s, using the name "DJ Wacky

Weed Creed." ("The Return")

  • Creed has extensive knowledge of potentially addictive pain killers. ("Fun Run")

[edit] Appearances

Creed appears but does not speak in any first-season episodes.

Creed speaks in the following second-season episodes:

Creed speaks in every episode starting in the third season, with the following exceptions:

Characters of The Office

Main characters

Michael Scott | Dwight Schrute | Jim Halpert | Pam Beesly |Ryan Howard

Recurring characters

Accounting: Angela Martin | Oscar Martinez | Kevin Malone
Sales: Stanley Hudson | Phyllis Lapin | Karen Filippelli | Andy Bernard
Product oversight: Kelly Kapoor | Meredith Palmer | Creed Bratton
Warehouse: Roy Anderson | Darryl Philbin | Lonny | Madge | Philip | Lester
Corporate: Toby Flenderson | Todd Packer | David Wallace

Other characters

Jan Levinson | Carol Stills | Bob Vance | Mose Schrute | Josh Porter | Katy | Devon | Billy Merchant | Tony Gardner | Martin Nash | Hannah Smoterich-Barr | Ed Truck

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