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"[[Analysis of Cork-Based Networking]]": Pelton refuses to authorize a bulletin board over site committee idea Annie brings to him. He later sends custodial goons to take down a bulletin board Professor Hickey hangs in the cafeteria but is stopped by the Save Greendale committee.
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"[[Analysis of Cork-Based Networking]]": Pelton refuses to authorize a bulletin board over site committee idea Annie brings to him. He later sends custodial goons to take down a bulletin board Professor Hickey hangs in the cafeteria but is stopped by the Save Greendale committee.
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"[[App Development and Condiments]]": Pelton attempts to make Greendale more like Harvard by having the [[MeowMeowBeenz]] app tested on campus.
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"[[VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing]]": Pelton dresses as a payday bar to tell Jeff and Hickey that their checks are late.
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"[[Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]": Pelton gets invited to a game of Dungeons & Dragons to help Hickey and his son reconnect.
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"[[G.I. Jeff]]": Pelton plays "Vice Cobra Assistant Commander" in Jeff's hallucination
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"[[Basic Story]]": Pelton tries to make a good impression on an insurance appraiser, and later finds out that the school is going to be sold to Subway, and he loses his job as Dean.
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"[[Basic Sandwich]]": Pelton tries to find buried treasure to Save Greendale.
 
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Craig Isadore Pelton
Portrayed by: Jim Rash
First appearance: Pilot
Date of birth: Unknown
Department: School Administration
Position: Dean
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Bio

“
I have always dreamt of playing charades with you, Jeffrey. Just not like this. And not on dry land.
”
— Dean Pelton

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Craig Pelton
Dean Craig Pelton is the well-meaning, however somewhat floundering and sexually-agnostic dean of Greendale Community College. Craig has been an educator for 10 years, with four of those years being dean at Greendale. All of the previous schools he has worked at are no longer in existence. ("Basic Rocket Science"). Since his first day at Greendale, enrollment has grown 25%. One of his biggest changes was renaming the school's team name from "The Greendale Grizzlies" to the "Greendale Human Beings." Along with Pierce Hawthorne he also created the new school mascot, the Greendale Human Being. Dean Pelton also teaches a class on PA announcing; a student in the spring 2011 semester was named Manuel.

Personality

The Dean is shown to be a very upbeat and overall cheerful person. He enjoys interacting with his students and attempts to get them more involved in school functions. Although Dean Pelton has a lot of pride in the school he also has a bit of an inferiority complex over it. He spends a lot of his time trying to improve the school, though many of these attempts prove misguided. The Dean enjoys dressing up in costumes and will often deliver news personally to the study group in those outfits (see main article Dean Pelton's outfits). He has developed a particular fondness for Jeff and often flirts with him, though this is unrequited.

Character history


These students have been called animals all their lives.

–Dean Pelton, "Football, Feminism and You"

School year synopsis

Dean Pelton is introduced messing up a welcome speech to a crowd of new students arriving at Greendale. He first meets Jeff when Britta admits to using a crib sheet on a Spanish test. He heads up an academic tribunal made up of Ian Duncan and Ben Chang in order to deal with Britta's cheating. Later he blackmails Jeff into helping him get Troy to be the quarterback for Greendale's football team. Throughout the year his bizarre proclivities and man crush on Jeff start to become more apparent. At the end of the school year he accidentally invites two people dressed as dalmatians to the "Tranny Dance". When a drunk Ian Duncan disrupts the party with a lewd rap and then insults the Dean for his strange tastes Pelton suspends the professor.



Craig Pelton Season One
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"Pilot': Pelton fumbles a speech while trying to welcome a new group of students to the school.

"Advanced Criminal Law": When Britta cheats on a Spanish test, Pelton forms an academic tribunal to deal with the matter.

"Football, Feminism and You": Pelton threatens to use photos of Jeff in the Greendale promotional materials unless he gets Troy to join the football team. He also teams up with Pierce to create a new mascot for the school.

"Debate 109": Pelton and Professor Whitman ask Jeff to join the school debate team along with Annie for the intercollegiate debate championship.

"The Politics of Human Sexuality": Dean Pelton, along with his new assistant Sabrina and with the help of Annie, holds a STD Fair in the cafeteria promoting safe sex to the Greendale students.

"Comparative Religion": Dean Pelton dresses up as a non-denominational Holiday character "Mr.Winter".

"Investigative Journalism": Annie investigates Pelton's possibly racist mass text message he sent out to the students.

"Interpretive Dance": Dean Pelton learns about Jeff and Michelle Slater's relationship and talks to them about it in his office.

"Physical Education": Pelton takes a photo of a nude Jeff.

"Basic Genealogy": Pelton is introduced to Chang's brother, Rabbi Chang.

"Contemporary American Poultry": Pelton is bribed by the "Chicken Finger Association" led by Abed to look the

"Modern Warfare': Dean Pelton sends in the paintball ringer Ben Chang into the annual Paintball Assassin game in order to prevent the students from winning the prize

"Pascal's Triangle Revisited": Dean Pelton's extracurricular activities makes it's presence known at the end of the year Transfer formal dance.


Would that this hoodie were a time hoodie!

–Dean Pelton, "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design"

School year synopsis

Dean Pelton is heard announcing the start of the 2010 semester at Greendale over the P.A. system. He becomes more comfortable showing off his flamboyant side and begins dressing up in various outfits Starting with lederhosen. Pelton devises a scheme to preempt City Colleges new space program with one of Greendale's own which earns him the ire of his rival, Dean Spreck. During A Halloween party he unknowingly serves the students army surplus rations which contain a deadly contagion. During the rest of the school year, he takes a more personal interest in the study group, particularly Jeff. The end of the school year sees another paintball assassin game go out of control when the students destroy the campus again to win a $100,000 prize. The stakes of the competition become higher when it's revealed to be a City College plot orchestrated by Dean Spreck. Pelton is taken hostage and forced to watch as the students struggle valiantly against an army of City College Storm Troopers. Pelton is on hand to witness the final battle between he remaining players and witnesses Greendale triumph due to the efforts of a rebel alliance led by the study group and the shocking actions of Pierce Hawthorne.



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"Accounting for Lawyers": Pelton holds a "Pop-And-Lock-Toberfest" at school.

"Epidemiology": Pelton serves some mysterious taco meat at a Halloween party which has an unusual effect on the party goers.

"Basic Rocket Science": Pelton devises a plan to counter City College's new space program.

"Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design": Pelton, Annie and Professor Garrity team up tio teach Jeff a lesson on academic fraud.

"Intro to Political Science": The Vice-President s coming to Greendale and Dean Pelton tries to quickly create a student government for the school by electing a student body president.

"Paradigms of Human Memory": Pelton tries to calm things down when the study group has another argument but ends up being insulted by Jeff. In revenge, he later creates a short animated film about the incident where he becomes mutates into "CYber-Dean" and kills the study group.

"A Fistful of Paintballs": Pelton loses control of another paintball assassin game

"For A Few Paintballs More": Pelton is taken hostage by Dean Spreck and his City College invaders.


Over the summer I decided it's time to whip this place into shape. I'm going to be a lean, mean Dean-ing machine.

–Dean Pelton, "Biology 101"

School year synopsis

At the beginning of season Three, Dean Pelton is determined to make Greendale Community College a more respectable and straight-laced institution. However, his efforts to reign in the school budget brings the ire of Vice Dean Laybourne of Greendale's AC annex, which is responsible for the majority of the school's budget. He turns to Chang for help when Greendale's security staff quits. Greendale's executive board asks Pelton to direct a new promotional advertisement but the production takes over the campus when Luis Guzmon offers to participate. As the new head of security Chang begins to plot a takeover of Greendale. Pelton cuts a deal with Subway to bring the restaurant to Greendale. Layboure continues to put pressure on Pelton, demanding that Troy be transferred to the AC program. Student unrest following student's death snowballs into a full scale riot, which gives Chang the opportunity to enact his scheme. Chang holds Pelton captive after replacing him with a lookalike Dean. Two months later he is rescued by the study group after being held captive in the boiler room beneatgh the cafeteria. Near the end of summer, he awards Pierce and Shirley the now vacant Subway spot to launch their own sandwich shop. When the two get into an argument over the ownership of the new business venture, Pelton had them settle their dispute in Greendale Court with him presiding as judge.



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"Biology 101": Pelton crosses paths with Robert Laybourne, Vice Dean of Greendale's AC annex.

"Competitive Ecology": Chang pursues bogus investigation leads to a fire in the cafeteria and Pelton ends up naming him the new head of security.

"Studies in Modern Movement": Pelton blackmails Jeff into spending a day with him at the mall when he catches Jeff skipping out on the Study Group helping Annie move from her apartment.

"Documentary Filmmaking: Redux": Pelton goes off the deep end while directing the new television commercial for Greendale.

"Digital Exploration of Interior Design": Troy and Abed's pillow/blanket forts attract attention from Guinness world records and Pelton gets involved to generate publicity for the school.

"Course Listing Unavailable": The death of Star-Burns precipitates a riot, which leads Pelton to give Chang's security force extra authority.

"Curriculum Unavailable": In a series of flashbacks, Pelton repeatedly shows favoritism towards Study Group members over other students.

"The First Chang Dynasty": The study group plots to rescue Pelton, who has been held captive and replaced with a dopple-Deaner as part of Chang's coup.


Friends, students, human beings...we are gathered here to honor that sacred bond between a student and his Dean.

–Dean Pelton, "Advanced Introduction to Finality"

School year synopsis

In the study group's fourth year at Greendale, Pelton devises a competition called "The Hunger Deans" in order to determine which students get to attend a "History of Ice Cream" course. He is forced to deal with the unexpected return of Ben Chang to campus who is supposedly suffering from amnesia. He is assigned the task by the school board to get a rich student to enroll at Greendale. Pelton throws a Sadie Hawkins dance which inspires Britta to organize a dance of her own. When the study group is traumatized by a recent event, Pelton helps them work through it with puppet therapy. Pelton role-plays as Jeff believing he swapped bodies with him. At the end of the year he presides over a graduuation ceremony for Jeff and later attends a special dinner in the study room in honor of the graduate.



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"History 101": Dean Pelton holds the "Hunger Deans" competition to determine which students will attend a "History of Ice cream" course.


"Economics of Marine Biology": With the help of the study gorup, Pelton tries to get a rich student called Archie DeCoste to enroll at Greendale.


"Intro to Felt Surrogacy": Dean Pelton helps the study group deal with traumatic recent event by using puppet therapy.


"Basic Human Anatomy": Dean Pelton pretends that he switched bodies with Jeff.

"Advanced Introduction to Finality": Pelton presides over Jeff's graduation ceremony.


It's not easy being Dean Jeffrey! It's my whole I-Dean-tity!

–Dean Pelton, "Repilot"

School year synopsis

Dean Pelton is excited when recent Greendale graduate Jeff Winger returns to campus and assumes he intends to help the school deal with another alumni suing the institution. While Jeff researches school records, Pelton shreds documents pertaining to the lawsuit. This angers Jeff who almost launches his own class action lawsuit against the school. Jeff has a change of heart and lectures Pelton about his dishonesty causing the Dean to plead with Jeff to stay and help make the school better. He offers him a teaching position which Jeff reluctantly accepts. The Dean later welcomes Jeff on his first day of his new job and proudly tells everyone he learning how to use the the computer program Excel. Pelton is present when a student protest marches into the cafeteria demanding that the teachers change their "A minus" grades. Afterwards he suggests to Jeff that a "Save Greendale committee" be formed made up of teachers and students. It's not long before the campus peace is disturbed again this time by the return of the "Ass Crack Bandit". Pelton begins an investigation into finding the unknown quarter dropping assailant but ends up bribing Star-Burns to take the fall for the crimes in return for dropping the outstanding meth charges against him.



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"Repilot": Pelton welcomes back Jeff to Greendale and offers him a teaching job.

"Introduction to Teaching": Pelton forms the "Save Greendale Committee" to help ease tensions between the students and teachers.

"Basic Intergluteal Numismatics": Pelton opens an investigation into the "Ass Crack Bandit".

"Geothermal Escapism": Pelton allows Abed to use the school's PA system to announce his special game of "Hot Lava" in honor of Troy.


"Analysis of Cork-Based Networking": Pelton refuses to authorize a bulletin board over site committee idea Annie brings to him. He later sends custodial goons to take down a bulletin board Professor Hickey hangs in the cafeteria but is stopped by the Save Greendale committee.

"App Development and Condiments": Pelton attempts to make Greendale more like Harvard by having the MeowMeowBeenz app tested on campus.

"VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing": Pelton dresses as a payday bar to tell Jeff and Hickey that their checks are late.

"Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons": Pelton gets invited to a game of Dungeons & Dragons to help Hickey and his son reconnect.

"G.I. Jeff": Pelton plays "Vice Cobra Assistant Commander" in Jeff's hallucination

"Basic Story": Pelton tries to make a good impression on an insurance appraiser, and later finds out that the school is going to be sold to Subway, and he loses his job as Dean.

"Basic Sandwich": Pelton tries to find buried treasure to Save Greendale.

Trivia

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  • In the Community Pilot, Dean Pelton is wearing a wedding ring suggesting that he is married. Throughout the rest of the series he is never seen wearing it again.
  • Craig's influences include Dean Will Anderson, Boz Scaggs, and the "spell check" function. ("[[1]]")
  • Craig currently lives with at least one roommate - his Saint Bernard named Agatha Christie. ("[[2]]")
  • He has some kind of attraction to dalmatians, as he is seen dancing with a person in a dalmatian suit in the episode "Pascal's Triangle Revisited". In an earlier episode we see him looking at a YouTube clip of a dalmatian man and saying, "This better not awaken anything in me."  Additionally, he wears a dalmatian-styled vest, and a large dalmatian stuffed animal can be seen inside the closet in his office during "A Fistful of Paintballs".  During "Contemporary Impressionists" A dalmatian toy can be seen on his desk, as well as numerous portraits of dalmatians on the wall behind him.


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