“Veridian dynamics. Everyday, something we make makes your life better. Power, we make that. Technology, we make that. Cows… well, we don’t make cows, although we have made a sheep.”
Finally! A comedy without a laugh track. From the very first line of the show, I knew I was going to like this comedy. A sharp, witty, Douglas Adamsish comedy that makes you think, think, then laugh your boots off. And in that regard, Better off Ted more than delivers.
An office comedy unlike other office comedy. This show is about Ted Crunch, an executive for the scientific corporation Veridian Dynamics who cares very little about morals and ethics and cares more on money and profit, and perhaps the only sane man within the organization. This is about a lighthearted comedy about science going wrong, and a corporation hiding the truth about it… but delivered with dry, rib cracking wit.
Each episode we see Ted encounter and approach the corporations numerous but hilarious (and socially wrong) problems… from exploding pumpkins, cryogenically frozen employees, cameras that ignores black people, or even accidentally deleting someone’s existence. Its moderately realistic, and doesn’t cross the line through impossible science like Eureka did. And that’s what makes this comedy all the more funny. It’s not the science that’ll make you laugh, it’s the office dynamic, and it’s the brilliantly idiotic people involved.
From featuring Lem and Phil, the quirky, odd, and socially inept lab partners, to Veronica (Portia de Rossi) the stone-cold and emotionless boss with the largest ego, to Linda the product tester and her small, petty, and private vengeance through stealing tcoffee creamers. The chemistry between the characters in this new comedy is just perfect, that I couldn’t help but laugh out loud during the pilot, and every other episode that came afterwards. This is just a breath of fresh air. Although, I can’t help but think its not air, but laughing gas.
If you liked 30 Rock and Arrested Development (and I just loved those two shows)… this has the same brand of humor those two series had, and then some. While nothing would make me crack up as much as 30 Rock would, Better Off Ted does come very close to it.
Very Highly Recommended.
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