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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 11
"Mess of a Salesman"
January 26, 2010 - 08:01p.m.
I've never understood the whole brothers dynamic. Even though I grew up with two of them, I didn't witness any of the rough-housing and machismo that television is constantly portraying as the normal relationship between brothers. And we ...
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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 10
“Lust In Translation”
January 19, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
As I mentioned last week, when I worked for General Electric the employees in my department were a diverse lot. We had a Brazilian woman who handled our South American orders in Spanish and Portuguese, and a German woman who ...
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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 8 & 9
“The Impertence Of Communicationizing”/“The Long And Winding High Road”
January 12, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
I’ve been working at home since the fall of ’99—over 10 years!—so I don’t know if corporate office culture has changed at all since my days as a cubicle-jockey, but back then people swore. I mean ...
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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 6 & 7
“Beating A Dead Workforce”/“Change You Can’t Believe In”
January 5, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
During my brief hiatus from Ted-blogging, I kept up with all the episodes—largely via Hulu, since my local ABC affiliate didn’t air two of the Teds—and I even re-watched the first few minutes of “Love ...
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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 5
"The Great Repression"
January 1, 2010 - 09:01p.m.
Watching Better Off Ted unspool a handful of episodes over the holidays - including this outing on New Year's Day! - has been a bit of a grim reminder of how low-rated TV shows get canceled in this age when seemingly ...
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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 4
"It's Nothing Business, It's Personal"
December 30, 2009 - 12:12a.m.
So far, this second season of Better Off Ted hasn't been quite up to par, but tonight's episode, "It's Nothing Business, It's Just Personal" was the first one that really seemed like a dud to me ...
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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 3
"Battle of the Bulbs"
December 22, 2009 - 10:12p.m.
Greetings Veridians! Noel is on holiday leave for the next two weeks, developing a candy cane that doubles as a peppermint hook (here at the AV Club, we set sights low), and I'll be your Better Off Ted re-capper ...
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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 2
“The Lawyer, The Lemur And The Little Listener”
December 15, 2009 - 08:12p.m.
Hey there, Bloopity-bloo!
While last week’s Better Off Ted was all about using downtime at work to pursue a personal agenda—namely finding a mate—at the company’s discretion, this week’s is all about Veridian Dynamics extending ...
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Better Off Ted: season 2, episode 1
“Love Blurts”
December 8, 2009 - 08:12p.m.
I’ve only ever had one “office romance,” unless you count the two times I’ve worked alongside women I was already dating (which I don’t), so I can speak from experience when I say that these kinds of ...
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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 ...
