"Better Off Ted" creator takes on Obama with fake commercial

Both videos are AWESOME.  I love this show so much.  I can't believe the season finale is here already. Not cool. It needs to come back for more! We need to see Veronica-as-magician's-assistant!

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that came quick. i gotta admit that portia's the best part of the show and the woman who plays linda. otherwise, it can be just a little too goofy and annoying to me.

hmm...fav lines?

i liked when veronica tells linda "i know you're obsessed with me. that's what i like about you." and when she approached linda and told that her that she knew all about her but couldn't even say her full name.

or when she went into the daycare and asked if there were any children with curly hair (the episode where ted brings rose into work).

also liked when linda called veronica out for not washing her hands after going to the bathroom.

It does have some awkward/off moments, but it's by and large the funniest new comedy. I've given Parks and Recreation a try too, but it never seems to make me actually LOL. Better Off Ted has the best one liners: "You're soft and weak... like a geisha." -- Veronica

love the show. the commercials are the best. without a doubt the highlight of each ep. I hope it gets renewed. *keeping fingers crossed*

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I really hope this show doesn't get cancelled.  Every episode has funny moments and I especially love the commericals. The tag lines are so simple yet hilarious.  It does subtle humour well too so you have to pay attention to everything.  I love Phil and Lem and Portia de Rossi is great in this.

My favourite exchange that I can think right now of was:

Phil: Linda, you can't hurt a baby!
Lem: Well, you can hurt them, they're not indestructible.
Phil: I meant it's morally indefensible.
Lem: Well, what if the baby killed a man?
Phil: You and your moral puzzles. ... I just love 'em!
Lem: So you're saying under no circumstances would you harm a baby Hitler?

And when Veronica yells at the team for trying to crash the system, she runs out of adjectives and ends with "Vertical and lactose intolerant."  

You really have to watch the scenes to get the full effect. It's all in the delivery.

at the end was interesting.  I think it means a dig against NBC, which is owned by GE, and of course is ABC's network rival. 

I like this show, the writing is crisp and intelligent, and the actors, especially Portia De Rossi and Jay Harrington (Ted), are very good.  Which is precisely why it will get canceled.  Nobody in America seems to be interested in anything except so-called "reality" shows like American Idol.  These days, an intellligent scripted show is doomed.

This show is so subversive. In your face, rude, anti-corporate, funny, subversive! With the Big O pre-empting the show tonight, the rerun on Canadian tv was about the security scanners that couldn't recognize people of colour. A bizarre idea somehow made funny. If the show fails, it will be because the male lead (can't even remember his name!) is clearly not a star. Portia steals all her scenes and when she's not around, the two lab nerds steal the rest.

It's not my fault I don't listen when you talk.

Some days, it seems like everything we do leaches toxins.

My door is always open to you. Please, close it on the way out.

And of course, my all time fave:

Here, I bought you some briefs. The boxers you were wearing didn't highlight your assets. Penis-ly speaking.

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This show is insanely funny. Gotta agree the commercials are a highlight, but all the characters surrounding Ted are hysterically screwy!

Def hope it gets renewed!

I love this show and definitely missed it tonight. Veronica is certainly the highlight of the show, but I do enjoy watching the two bumbling scientists...

I can't believe that it's time for the season finale already--I hope that ABC has the good sense to pick it up. 

Hahaha! 

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i love this show. it's so sarcastic to me. and so wrong. 

but.. it's so real at the same time. it makes me think in a different way than grey's anatomy does. i love it and it's funny at the same time. love veronica's character. woot woot

While I like that the show has a very unique voice and isn't afraid to be really ridiculous, I think that some of the actors have been miscast, and I don't think the attempts to humanize Ted, i.e. his crush on Linda and his relationship with his daughter, really mesh with the biting, satirical tone. But I like his daughter.

I don't think that Jay Harrington has the chops to be the leading actor in a sitcom. I may be biased because of his insufferable role as Paul on The Inside, but I don't think he has good enough comic timing. Andrea Anders also feels a bit off to me as Linda because she's too soft around the edges. I could see Lauren Graham killing in that part.

I love Veronica and Lem and Phil though. I would totally watch the Lem and Phil show.

Some of my favorite lines:

Veronica: The company's position is that it's actually the opposite of racist because it's not targeting black people. It's just ignoring them. They insist that the worst people can call it is "indifferent."

Phil: Did you put hydrochloric acid in this mug?
Lem: Oh, yeah. I was trying to get the stains out.
Phil: You know, soap would work, and it wouldn't kill someone if they accidentally drank it.
Lem: But soap leaves a film.

Ted: I have to watch Rose.
Veronica: I can wash Rose.
Ted: I said "watch" her, not "wash" her.
Veronica: Hmm. Even easier.
Ted: The fact that you thought I was going to go wash Rose right now makes me think you may not know that much about children.
Veronica: I know they need to be cleaned.

Veronica: "Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.

I'm not sure if I want it renewed or not. I guess I don't want it canceled. I just wish it could come back with slightly different actors.

that they might be cancelling this already!

I haven't seen it yet because I'm in the UK but every clip I've watched and everything I've heard about it has been hilarious. I actually laughed out loud through most of that "join the Veridian Dynamics family" clip, and I don't laugh out loud easily!

This is just like Arrested Development not getting good enough ratings even though it was hilarious and is one of my favourite shows.
I feel like maybe these shows would do a lot better if they were aired in the UK from the beginning, because I think that kind of humour is more popular in the UK. Everyone I know here who has watched Arrested Development loves it anyway, and I'm sure it would be the same with Better Off Ted.

I'll cross all my limbs and digits and everything that can be crossed that this will get more than one season!

I picked up this show from reading about it here, and can't get enough of it.  I'm spreading the word with my friends, too.  (Maybe if the network advertised it at all, it'd be doing better.) 

Fave lines:

 Rose:  Veronica seems friendly enough.

Veronica:  I AM friendly enough!

Same episode:

Rose (after Veronica hands her the Art of War):  I don't want to read this. 

Veronica:  Trust me.  Your enemies are reading this. 

I love love love the show, I can't believe that the ratings havn't been good! Portia¡s character is awesome :D

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I really need this show to come back for another season.

Favorite line ever: "Hello gorgeous woman with calves of granite wrapped in silk." haha

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