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Better Off Ted: season 1, episode 12/13
“Jabberwocky”/“Secrets And Lives”
August 11, 2009 - 10:08p.m.
Friends, for each of the past two Tuesdays I’ve fired up my MacBook, opened my Better Off Ted document, and have been all prepared to watch the last of the remaining Season One episodes so that I could bid ...
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Better Off Ted: season 1, episode 11
"Father Can You Hair Me?"
July 21, 2009 - 09:07p.m.
“We’re like oil and… what’s that thing that’s always disappointing oil? Oh yeah, it’s me.”
That’s our Ted, describing his relationship with his father, a bald, anti-intellectual plumber who once got kicked out a zoo ...
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Better Off Ted: season 1, episode 10
"Trust and Consequence"
July 14, 2009 - 09:07p.m.
Noel is on the road this evening, which gives me a golden opportunity to explore my love for Better Off Ted with you. It took me several episodes to get into the groove of this show. If it had been ...
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Better Off Ted: season 1, episode 9
“Bioshuffle”
June 30, 2009 - 09:06p.m.
I worry sometimes that I over-praise the TV shows I love, creating a false impression that they’re somehow flawless and exalted, and that anyone who doesn’t “get” them is a dolt. (And then I worry that I worry ...
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Better Off Ted: season 1, episode 8
“You’re The Boss Of Me”
June 23, 2009 - 09:06p.m.
“Without bosses, we’d be like these worms. Disgusting.” –Veridian Dynamics
Is it possible for employees to be friends with their bosses? I can’t think of too many times when I didn’t socialize with my supervisors, editors or ...
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Better Off Ted: season 1, episode 7
"Get Happy"
May 6, 2009 - 12:05a.m.
If the Wikipedia entry for Better Off Ted can be trusted, writer-producer Victor Fresco and his cast and staff have completed 13 episodes of their gently absurdist workplace comedy, and yet tonight’s episode—the seventh to air—is being ...
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Better Off Ted: season 1, episode 1
"Pilot"
March 18, 2009 - 09:03a.m.
Maybe it’s because I spent some time last week watching Andy Richter Controls The Universe for the first time, but I think I was predisposed to like ABC’s new sitcom Better Off Ted, an absurdist quirkfest that—like ...
