Product Details

• Actors: Jay Harrington, Portia de Rossi
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: December 1, 2009
• Run Time: 299 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0025KVKBQ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,802 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Better Off Ted: Season One" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Sneaky, madcap, and completely addictive, Better Off Ted is a delicious lampoon of the corporate culture that puts profits over anything resembling human decency. Ted Crisp (Jay Harrington) is the breezy, confident manager of the research and development department of Veridian Dynamics--a massive multinational corporation that does everything, from growing cowless meat to weaponizing pumpkins. Crisp has already had an affair with his blissfully heartless boss, Veronica (Portia de Rossi, from the cult favorite sitcom Arrested Development), which inhibits him from having an affair with the smart, lovely, somewhat neurotic new product tester Linda (Andrea Anders, Joey), lest he be seen as a guy who sleeps around the office. He has to look after his top two research scientists, Lem and Phil (Malcolm Barrett and Jonathan Slavin), who are brilliant but socially hapless, and his precocious young daughter Rose (Isabella Acres), whose mother abandoned them to save countries in Africa. From this web of relationships are woven absurd stories about cryogenically freezing employees, motion sensors that don't detect dark skin, Medieval Fight Club, hair growth formula, and phosphorescent squirrels. Better Off Ted is that rare sitcom with a genuinely distinctive sense of humor, one that may take a few moments to catch--but once you've gotten in sync, the show is gut-bustingly funny. De Rossi has the most flamboyant role and gets to be deliriously merciless, but the whole cast is impeccable. The show was created by Victor Fresco, who previously conceived the brief-lived but much-loved Andy Richter Controls the Universe. The only flaw of The Complete First Season is the lack of any extras--a show with this much wit and imagination deserves some bonus features. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

A satirical office comedy centered around a morally conscious man, Ted, who works for a Research & Development department at a morally lax corporation.

• Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Surround / Spanish: Dolby Surround
• Language: Dubbed: English & Spanish / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
• Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 1.78:1

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, original, smart and biting, July 21, 2009

By	Shevi "FantasyWeaver" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

Veridian Dynamics is a large corporatation that invents, tests and markets everything from deadly pumpkins to beef that tastes like despair. Ted works there as a manager. He's a good and sane man in a heartless--and often insane--corporate environment. The comedy in this series comes from seeing just how insane work at Veridian can be and the hoops Ted jumps through to keep the insanity in check.

Each episode begins with a commercial for Veridian Dynamics, parodies of commercials put out by real world corporations. These commercials are so biting--and funny--one wonders who would dare advertise on a show like this. Portia De Rodsi steals the show as Ted's boss, Veronica, who embodies all that is beautiful, perfect, devious and heartless at Veridian. Veronica is the kind of woman who likes having Ted's young daughter around, because her presense makes it easier for Veronica to fire people.

The show never lets you get too comfortable, and that's a good thing. It is brilliant, hysterically funny and original, so much so that it's a wonder it hasn't been taken off the air . . . yet. On TV or DVD, catch it while you can.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, Smart TV, May 11, 2009

By	Better Off with this show (Fort Worth) - See all my reviews

Excellent writing makes this a great show that's among the best I've seen! I can even laugh while watching this show alone. I hope this stays around for many seasons.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great show!, May 18, 2009

By	Joker84 "Maverikk12" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This is one of the funniest show on tv. Good thing ABC renew this show. I can't wait for the second season. All characters are funny as hell but Veronica stands out on her own.