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The best TV
you've never seen
By Alex McCracken
staff Reporter
A few years back ABC green lit the kind of
shows that never ever get green lit. They were
high off the success of Lost and decided a couple
other left field shows couldn't hurt.
One of these shows was Better off Ted. I feel
the best way to describe it would be a cross
between Dilbert and Malcolm in the Middle.
Malcolm because the eponymous Ted frequently
breaks into soliloquy and Dilbert because it's one
of the darkest office based comedies ever aired
on network TV.
Not that it's ever noticeably depressing, the
show never stops slinging killer one liners and
character moments long enough for you dwell
on its darker subtext. No, Better off Ted is
actually my go-to bad mood show. It's upbeat
and electric characters wrestling with racism,
sexual politics, edible space moss, co-worker
death, and the military application of pumpkins
never fail to put a smile on my face.
But you're probably wondering how one
goes about weaponizing pumpkins. It's a fair
question and its one that Ted Crisp's team of
researchers and quality assurance testers are paid
to answer They work for Viridian Dynamics, a
multinational conglomerate that will do literally
anything to turn a buck.
Veronica: "The company loves its money, Ted.
If they could, they'd go to strip clubs and throw
naked women at money.'
That's Ted's immediate superior, a character
that Arrested Development's Portia De Rossi
absolutely kills. On that note there really aren't
any characters on the show that are underacted
or written.
You just have to get with the vibe the show
tries to give off, a cartoonish reflection of the
complicated reality of the corporate grind. Once
you can take things like motion detectors that
can't see black people in stride, it will burrow
into a comer of your TV loving heart and stay
there for a really really long time.
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 the worst people can call it
is "indifferent."
The show is only available streaming from
Netflix.
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