Better Off Ted

2009
4.9
29 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (13)

1 Pilot
18/3/09
Season-only
BETTER OFF TED is a satirical office comedy featuring a successful but morally conscious man, Ted, who runs an R&D department at a morally questionable corporation.
2 Heroes
25/3/09
Season-only
Veronica tries to shirk responsibility for freezing Phil, while Ted has other ideas.
3 Through Rose Colored Hazmat Suits
1/4/09
Season-only
When his nanny calls in sick, Ted reluctantly takes Rose to work.
4 Racial Sensitivity
8/4/09
Season-only
Veridian's new light sensor system inadvertently touches off a racial controversy.
5 Win Some, Dose Some
15/4/09
Season-only
Phil and Lem accidentally dose Linda with an experimental drug.
6 Goodbye, Mr Chips
22/4/09
Season-only
The gang resorts to desperate measures to get Ted his job back when he is deleted from Veridian's computer system.
7 Get Happy
5/5/09
Season-only
Veronica comes up with some novel ways for Veridian to boost employee morale when a survey reveals they're miserable. But since the survey also showed that she's too intimidating, she's got to work on being more likable, even if it kills her. Meanwhile, Ted tries to win over the only segment of the Veridian population he didn't score well with - men over 50.
8 You Are the Boss of Me
23/6/09
Season-only
Executives Ted and Veronica try mingling with the worker bees, with mixed results.
9 Bioshuffle
30/6/09
Season-only
Tensions mount when Ted, Linda and Veronica end up sharing offices.
10 Trust and Consequences
14/7/09
Season-only
Veridian tries to make Linda a scapegoat when the company is sued.
11 Father Can You Hair Me
21/7/09
Season-only
Veronica's rivalry with her dad is out of control, while Ted thinks Veridian may have discovered the one thing that would make his dad happy.
12 Jabberwocky
28/7/09
Season-only
Ted is forced to create a fake project for Linda rather than admit the rumor that Veridian is going green is false. When other employees try to sign up for the program, things start to go awry.
13 Secret and Lives
11/8/09
Season-only
A new Veridian invention accidentally reveals Veronica's "secret" life.

About this show

Better Off Ted is a wildly inventive satirical office comedy that thinks outside of the cubicle. Ted (Jay Harrington) is the morally-conscious Head of Research & Development at Veridian Dynamics, a morally-questionable corporation. For Ted and his trusty team of scientists, no invention is too unorthodox.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
29 reviews
Ignatius
4 November 2014
One of the funniest, zaniest things on TV. Criminal that the series was axed and even more so that it lacked exposure.
Ben Cunningham
23 December 2014
If anything in life should make a comeback. Better off Ted is top of the list.
A Google user
7 February 2015
A brilliant show, plenty of laugh out loud moments, such a shame it got cancelled