Better Off Ted was definitely off this Tuesday. I'm interested to see how tonight's episode will be. If this episode is off too, it may mean, they were informed to hurry up the production and therefore the writing. The jokes were less subtle and more in your face raunchy. Usually the characters have roles, but here they all clashed, and there was no office hierarchy. It seemed Linda and Ted were on the same level, and usually Veronica is shown as being uber-boss, but she wasn't at all. The power display was completely absent. I think that's what makes the show work too. And the commercials!!! I WANT VERIDION DYNAMICS COMMERCIALS!

Hit sitcom is nothing more than a family with a wacky dad who gets food on his face. That's really all most Americans can handle these days. Anything that requires more thought and depth to understand than "spagetti on face" won't succeed. And they sure as hell don't know how to market anything beyond food-face based sitcoms. The "sit" in situation comedy has become "messy food on face."

Ray Romano with food on his face will earn the networks billions and all they have to do to market it is show clips of him standing there with food on his face. The idiots tune in en masse.

I think it has had some episodes that are as good as any Seinfeld episodes. Do think ABC just doesn't know how to promote this show? It is much funnier than some of the hit sitcoms.

A funny, unique, well casted show that is consistently entertaining? Yeah, the networks would never give a program like that time to find it's audience these days. It really is sad.

Yeah this episode seemed kinda off for some reason. Not one thing in partiuclar. More cutesy than usual, that does sound about right. Loved the "Red Jacket" thing, and the perverse yet justified reasoning for it.

You know what pisses me off? After this show is cancelled, I'm sure eventually Victor Fresco will be given another show. And they'll market it by saying "From the people who brought you Better Off Ted comes ____!" Why are you using a show that you CANCELLED to hype up a new show? Fox did that with the horrible Sit Down Shut Up ... "From Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of Arrested Development!" Fox had the nerve to cancel AD, one of the funniest shows of all time, and now they have the double-nerve to use AD for marketing purposes? If you think so highly of AD, bring it back you assfuckers.

Anyway, just let us see Ted have a three-way with Veronica and Linda and I'll be content with the show's inevitable cancellation, which I knew would be coming as soon as I finished watching the pilot episode of BoT - it was funny and clever and I liked it so its impending cancellation was inevitable. I'm surprised there's even a brief 13 episode season 2 for me to enjoy.

"the jokes were more cutesy than funny"
I agree on that measure. Although as a recent TedHead, I've enjoyed past eps, however, this ep and last week weren't as funny as I hoped. Admittedly, the second half of this ep was slightly better. I loved Mordor's magic, Veronica's purring and the small office punishment (followed by an even smaller office shared with someone else). However, the past two eps left out the office satire & Ted's romantic gaffes, which are the ones I felt drew out the strongest writing -

I was very happy to see a return appearance of Mordor, even if the episode wasn't one of the series' best (that doesn't at all mean it was a bad episode, though -- they just have high standards to live up to).

I thought Mark "No I'm Not Casper Van Dien" Deklin's Mordor was great. What was the name of his Peruvian slap fighting again?

Why don't watch more people that show? It's the single most consistently funny show currently on TV. I actually really enjoyed that episode too, despite the so-so review.

"Last weekend we raced cars in the desert and ate a rattlesnake, and then a goat THAT wandered into the camp. And then a light salad."

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