The Office Theories - Character Secrets

all right so carrying on the series of lesser-known office theories that i started last year today i wanted to focus on some obscure office theories having to do with some massive secrets that some of the characters are possibly keeping secret secrets are no fun sacred secrets hurt someone wow these theories like all fan theories are just fun thought experiments i think they work out a part of our brain when we're watching a show and connecting neurons that add a new level of excitement to the series so are these true don't know super care does that matter no way jose lastly lesser known is a relative statement if you scour the depths of the web every day you're probably familiar with these if not then they're probably new nice oh and before we begin here's my daily reminder that toby was not the scranton strangler why were you when you were writing the show and when you were acting in the show did you ever did that ever cross your mind no not once now let's expose some secrets fair warning spoilers ahead [Music] [Applause] i understand nothing when you try to put michael in a box it gets a little complicated is he a jerk maybe angela would cheerlead oh yeah right i'll do it oh yuck that's worse than you playing where is he kind i am really proud of you is he a realist i quit my job we both quit those are the facts that's what happened or is he fanciful well that's easy for you to say you have a bad imagination it's stupid i live in a fantasy world and we could do this with a few more adjectives and their antonyms but for the sake of the theory let's look at just one more is he dumb i declare bankruptcy or is he smart so they may be looking for a little change in the cfo so i don't think i need to wait out dunder mifflin i think i just have to wait out you and if you watched michael through his seven seasons on the show on repeat like a lot of fans have you begin to see some method to michael's madness as a boss on the surface it's easy to just look at the surface craziness that michael saturates the scranton office with in each episode i burned my foot very badly on my foreman grill and then conclude that michael's an idiot i have a lot of calories well just don't leave it on too long but fans are quick to point out how effective michael actually was as a salesman i almost had awesome blossom coming out of my nose but as a boss [Music] well this theory would say that michael isn't just smart he's actually a genius is he some sort of secret genius and some evidence was right in front of our face the entire time your brands have been doing great lately and your sales staff is reporting very strong numbers outperforming last year in fact so the branch always excelled regardless of the economy in this climate in all climates regardless of their corporate boss that we were the one branch that was actually working right so we probably could have saved our own asses we didn't need them touching our asses so how did the branch always do so well because at dunder mifflin scranton we're not just in the paper business we're in the people business well logically it's the people the people make up the branch between customer service choir quality quality auschwitz sales and accounting they were a well-oiled machine that didn't rely on anyone which is even explored in season 9. so as it turns out unless you're a young child or prison inmate you don't need anyone supervising you come in andy hi i just made another huge sale for the company that you managed i need you to authorize that expense report and sign off on that contract so how is the lack of a need for a manager evidence that michael is a genius dwighty wigger and which maybe the question we should be asking ourselves is has michael somehow managed the branch so well that he basically alleviated the need for any semblance of real leadership well not quite but in the words of tupac if you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions so what does michael say about his managerial approach well since season one he spoke about how his workers are his family and michael's relationship first approach is presented in every season you know you can go mess with josh's people but i'm the head of this family and uh you ain't gonna be messing with my children times have changed a little and even though we're still a family here at dunder mifflin families grow my branch is absorbing the stanford branch or as i like to put it my family is doubling in size michael you always said we were a family and it's still there in his very last episode the people that you work with are just when you get down to it you are very best friends it's also clear that michael doesn't treat people differently based on their function and you know why not because i am collar blind and while michael can be inappropriate for the office place at times that's what she said no time but she did no time he does have a perfectly fine explanation for this as well i say stuff like that you know to lighten the tension when things sort of get hard that's what she said and also all of this works when we break down michael's sales approach we get a great example of this in season two he defuses tension did somebody say baby back ribs he breaks down barriers and take care of her well this brings us to jan truth or dare tell us about your divorce he relates with his clients how many hospitals we have or how many schools we have it's home you know i know the challenges and he makes the deal i guess i could give you guys our business but you have to meet me halfway okay because they're expecting me to make cuts so how does michael lead by not leading i see listen why why don't we just leave that position vacant truth be told i think i thrive under a lack of accountability it's almost as though michael creates an environment that through his insanity he empowers his workers to take responsibility for their own workload and in that way they get stuff done [Music] so i want to hear in the comments do you think that michael is a genius sometimes i see crazy things but michael isn't the only one that's theorized to be a genius my name is kevin yeah that is my name yeah they call me kevin yeah cause that's my name for fans of my channel it's no surprise that kevin is one of my favorite characters i just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs that's all i've ever wanted one of three accountants on the scranton branch kevin's necessity and presence is an ongoing joke throughout the series well i looked through all the budgets and there is one department yes that has three people yeah doing the work that could be done by two oh yeah oh kevin is much beloved by most office fans as the doll-witted numbers guy i do the numbers with kevin becoming more and more of a character of himself every episode oh don't be a caricature kevin never be a caricature with holly the new hr rep even easily being conned i think it's really cool you hired kevin thanks it's hard to fathom anything real happening under the surface here but let's look at the evidence this theory points out that kevin gradually de-evolved throughout the series to make the point here's kevin's first line spoken in the show i bet it's gonna be me probably gonna be me yeah it'll be you and here's kevin in the season nine premiere the turtle was already dead probably when i ran over him the first time and the show even references this decline in this meta moment me feel good body strong sleep big last night he's fine fine he's always been like that no he hasn't i mean he's gotten worse over the years it's hard to really pinpoint at what point kevin became kevin hey but on my channel i'm reviewing every single episode of the office and quite a lot of detail and i'd say that if this theory is to be believed if kevin is really just pretending to be kevin you can't eat cats kevin then the answer to that question we need to talk about what his motives for doing this are in the first place the first theory is that kevin is pretending to be slow because he knows that it'll make him more of an interesting character and thus give him more screen time in the documentary and this theory kind of tracks when you look generally at season one when kevin is quote normal he's just a background character with little to nothing to do work wise and in the documentary maybe some spaghetti okay kevin you can take off that thing okay by the end of the dark cruz time in scranton he gets a substantial amount of screen time in every episode what are you doing i wanted to eat a big blanket in a blanket so if kevin is putting on a facade to make for a more engaging documentary subject then i'd say this all started in season two's office olympics in which kevin can barely contain his smile and giggles as the dock crew gives him a tight shot as he perhaps on purpose is using the wrong hand during the national anthem this pavlov's dog reward moment gives kevin all of the ammunition he may need to increasingly become more of an engaging character it's not ashton kutcher it's kevin malone kevin then is just a character that this guy puts on to get more screen time this theory kind of works with andy too you even look shorter oh i took out my lips oh yeah unlike andy bernard this character is my real hype but the other motive that kevin may have is that he's actually embezzling money from the company gasp right so we think of kevin as a big harmless pillow equally handsome equally smart this theory would suggest that's exactly what he wants you to think just a bumbling fool who could never pull off a con right in front of our faces but let's break this down we know that kevin has a gambling problem that's a real thing yeah but no one here has it someone has it this means that he'll either be in a position of deficit like in the kevin's loan webisode that little dude may hurt me if i don't get that bank loan or he's always on the prowl for his next risk reward situation to take some sweet sweet cash and that is dallas and we know that he's more than willing to steal some money from dunder mifflin from petty cash i'm gonna take this petty cash that i got from oscar and turn it into next month's rent well i don't think this next joke was written to make us believe something nefarious was happening i think that it could be open to interpretation i had martin explain to me three times what he got arrested for it sounds an awful lot like what i do here every day and you might think well kevin isn't smart enough to pull this all off but from time to time some intelligence ends up slipping through the cracks i won the 2002 2500 no limit deuce to 7 draw tournament at the world series of poker in vegas 13 miles away so at 55 miles an hour that just gives us five minutes to spare with poker and pie kevin seems to have no problem counting so what's his endgame well we find out in the finale that kevin was fired he bought a bar i heard you bought a bar kevin yes i did this one an entire bar who knows how much he'd spend on that but to go from having nothing to owning a bar means that there was plenty going on in the background that we never saw in the series keep in mind that kevin did use a special accounting trick to keep the books he used to call that a cleveland he told dwight a mistake plus cleveland gets you home by seven and while that may be why the scranton branch always ended up performing the best in the company it could have been kevin's way of embezzling that money i am going to be a very rich dude or there was a completely different reason why the scranton branch was always on top why is pbs sending another crew we're getting bonus footage for the dvd okay this one is pretty straightforward and seeks to answer a very specific plot point that is present throughout most of the series and that is scranton branch's apparent success in spite of the economy and in spite of itself a product that nobody wanted this theory posits that the documentary crew filming all of the craziness decided that they had struck proverbial gold with finding incredible documentary subjects the quirkiness the drama the mundanity all of it the producers surely knew that there would be gold in them hills and began to purchase paper from dunder mifflin scranton anonymously as to not interfere directly with their subjects when are you gonna boo me uh listen they're cracking down on us talking to the subjects it's a lame rule but you know i wanna i'll see you later got it the logistics involved in this the money it took would have made a worthy profit for everyone involved and you're going to have to explain to them why your most profitable branch is bleeding what about the fact that the dock aired on the not-for-profit pbs network pbs the propaganda wing of bill and melinda gates and viewers like you go to the bathroom for 45 minutes and everything changes right not much money in it there unless pbs procured the rights from the original production company for a hefty fee and perhaps the documentary company could then sell the rights to the american workplace to another network i don't mean to demean pbs but i can't imagine a locally aired pbs documentary could actually incur this much stardom hey it's andy bernard [Applause] maybe it would i don't know but that's just what this theory suggests that the doc crew secretly kept the branch afloat and speaking of floating [Music] his name creed brett before this last theory if you give this video a like that would be awesome it helps a ton if you don't screw you texas boom tapa anyway i've said this before on this channel if the office was a recipe creed bratton is a certain spice that we get just the right amount of to little creed and something's missing what is it then hey guys somebody making soup too much creed and you might spoil the dish i'm sorry for sure someone will argue with me about that in the comments but the point is that the character of creed is the phrase non-sequitur in human form do that i'm gonna do that if you do that i'm gonna do that if you do this i'm gonna do that once you see him presented on camera and he begins to open his mouth well we don't exactly know what he's gonna say or what he'll do maybe he'll drop some knowledge i love my kids i love real estate i love ceramics i love my job i love wrestling maybe he'll nail a cartwheel i did it you did the perfect cartwheel and you may think that his backstory isn't fully explored until the final episode creed was in the band the grassroots in the 1960s during that time the police say he sold drugs and trafficked in endangered species meat but it was several times throughout the series back in the 60s i was with the grassroots we toured with janice joplin the doors cream they were simply deleted from the final cut seemingly to make the character more elusive [Music] but we even get this moment in season 4 when creed shows off his id in which it shows a completely different name which this has created bratton's actual birth name which means that creed bratton is actually an alias in real life and in the show the last person to do this disappeared his name creed brat but for totally different reasons and i'm kind of confused just saying that sentence the timeline's messy anyway i explored creed a little bit in the office horror video i made but creed's been shown to traffic animals be involved in cults and potentially murder there has been a murder and you are a suspect so it's obvious that there's a lot of secretivity around this character's backstory but those theories about it are abundant some argue that creed is a scranton strangler which would definitely be more believable than this guy no more s'mores hey nobody cares because this dude he's killed people it's halloween that is really really good timing but strangling someone doesn't produce that much blood at least i would assume i don't know guys and there is a plot element that the writers have talked about but they never really stated in the show that the strangler wasn't actually strangling people to death just gripping them till their life bar was about empty then letting off which might even be more messed up i'm not sure great heroin though but i guess i could see creed as that type of creep sometimes it's best just to stay out of it that's true that's right yeah want to play a game one more theory suggests that when creed says this nobody steals from creed brat and gets away with it creed bratton went on a quest to hunt down and destroy the culprits john wick's style they're real casual like not make a big deal out of it but i know everybody saw it other fan theories suggest that creed's erratic behavior is partly due to his elderly dementia creed bratton's 75-plus division you're over 75 years old 82 november 1st how much is the prize money there's no prize money but is any of this real i'm 30. well in november i'll be 30. another fan theory hypothesizes that creed's simply pretending to be bizarre due to the fact that he's literally hiding from the law in plain sight just pretend like we're talking until the cops leave hoping to use the evidence gathered by the dock crew as a legal defense to why he's not able to stand trial due to mental instability as i like to call it great bratton keep it running then there's the simple yet delightful idea that crete is biting his time to get to scotland and hunt down nessie why don't you tell stanley that i have asthma because i don't if it gets out they won't let me scuba if i can't scuba then what's this all been about what am i working toward the loch ness monster and the reward for its capture all the riches in scotland so i have one question why are you here and then lastly the creed is somehow mixed up with organized crime and that somehow he's still operating under that alias printing illegal ids pretending to work a mild-mannered job though he's never actually working choir and i do like that last one but i like the theory more that bob vance is secretly a mobster i feel like there's more weight than the evidence for that who's bob vance you have a lot to learn about this town sweetie but maybe the most suspicious moment for bob vance is all the cash he threw in to make toby's goodbye party a smashing success cool that's like what five grand to rent a ferris wheel i mean they had to spend over 10k on this party i'm pretty sure the refrigeration business was doing well in oh eight thanks i never owned a refrigerator but it seems like a suspicious amount of cash to be throwing around for something so trivial what are you hiding bob was bob vance the scranton strangler oh no of course not no no bob's a united states marine corps infantry combat officer from vietnam of course which in some circles may have qualified him but um you know no no no a marine all always one once in forever yeah robert schaefer told me that his view of the character was pretty straight laced so i guess he's not hiding so much he just loves his wife so that's what i have for lesser-known office theories on character secrets let me know in the comments what you think about these secrets or what your favorite office theory is that at least has some evidence to it if you drop something awesome and i end up using it for a future video i'll make sure to call it out if you love the office like i do please check out the rest of my channel i'm reviewing every episode once a week with a lot of details some edits and a look at each episode's deeper meaning thanks follow us on our social media the discord if you really want to support the channel check out our memberships or the patreon thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time [Music] you

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Keywords: Michael Scott Theories, The Office Theories, Fan Theories, Lock Ness, Scranton Strangler

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Length: 21min 58sec (1318 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 25 2021