Better Off Ted
2009 · TV Series · TV-PG · 30 min · ★ 7.6 · 81% critics
A morally aware manager leads a research team at a powerful corporation where no idea is too strange and ethics are optional. As the company pushes ever more extreme experiments and policies, he tries to balance ambition, loyalty, and conscience in a workplace that treats the absurd as business as usual.
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Details
- Years
- 2009–2010
- Release date
- 2009-03-18
- Network
- ABC
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Runtime
- 30 min
- Critic score
- 81/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (230 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a fast, sarcastic workplace comedy that pokes fun at corporate culture with big, silly science ideas; Not for you if you dislike edgy jokes or prefer grounded sitcoms like The Middle.
Pros: quick wit; lovable workplace chemistry; sharp corporate satire | Cons: uneven later episodes; too much relationship humor; narration style divisive
Themes
- satire
- evil corporation
- single father
- workplace comedy
Cast & crew
Jay Harrington
as Ted Crisp
Portia De Rossi
as Veronica Palmer
- LG
Lydia Blanco Garza
as Sarah (as Lydia Blanco)
Andrea Anders
as Linda Zwordling
Jonathan Slavin
as Phil Myman
Malcolm Barrett
as Lem Hewitt
Isabella Acres
as Rose Crisp
- KC
Kevin Chamberlin
as Ted's Father
- RF
Richard Fancy
as Mr. Campbell
- KP
Kristoffer Polaha
as Don
Directed by Reginald Hudlin, Paul Lazarus, Michael Spiller +5 more
Created by Victor Fresco
Episodes2 seasons · 26 episodes
Season 113 episodes
- S1E1Pilot22m
- S1E2Heroes21m
- S1E3Through Rose Colored HAZMAT Suits21m
- S1E4Racial Sensitivity22m
- S1E5Win Some, Dose Some22m
- S1E6Goodbye, Mr. Chips22m
- S1E7Get Happy22m
- S1E8You Are the Boss of Me22m
- S1E9Bioshuffle22m
- S1E10Trust and Consequences21m
- S1E11Father, Can You Hair Me?22m
- S1E12Jabberwocky21m
- S1E13Secrets and Lives22m
Season 213 episodes
- S2E1Love Blurts22m
- S2E2The Lawyer, The Lemur and the Little Listener21m
- S2E3Battle of the Bulbs22m
- S2E4It's Nothing Business, It's Just Personal21m
- S2E5The Great Repression22m
- S2E6Beating a Dead Workforce22m
- S2E7Change We Can't Believe In21m
- S2E8The Impertence of Communicationizing22m
- S2E9The Long and Winding High Road22m
- S2E10Lust in Translation22m
- S2E11Mess of a Salesman22m
- S2E12It's My Party and I'll Lie If I Want To22m
- S2E13Swag the Dog22m