Ted Crisp is the head of Research & Development at Veridian Dynamics, a top-line corporation, striving to make it to the top. Ted has an uneasy friendship with his boss, Veronica Palmer - she is always wanting something from him to add to the business, from bio-warfare pumpkins, to uncomfortable leather chairs. Dr. Lem Hewitt and Dr. Phil Myman are two research analysts that work in Ted's group and are always competing against one another to get ahead. Linda Zwordling is a young intern and test consultant to office-test the various experiments the lab puts out. Ted is a recent divorcée raising a 10-year-old daughter, named Rose, after his wife left him to find herself as well as to "save the world". Ted's latest assignment involves recruiting Phil to be cryogenetically frozen as a public relations experiment for the company's research purposes.
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Show Name....... Better Off Ted
Rating.......... 8.7 [********--]
Premiered....... 2009-03-17
Type............ Scripted
Genre........... Comedy
Plot............ Better Off Ted is a satirical office comedy about successful good guy, Ted Crisp, who runs research and development at Veridian Dynamics, a company with a morally questionable approach to its employees. Whether it's standing by a memo with a typo that encourages employees to now (as opposed to not) use offensive language with each other, to championing interoffice dating based on DNA matching to save money on health care, Veridian is a company that puts its bottom line first and employees last. Ted's a single dad to a seven year old girl, and he loves his job, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely dubious practices
Cast............ Jay Harrington ... Theodore "Ted" Crisp
Cast............ Portia de Rossi ... Veronica Palmer
Cast............ Andrea Anders ... Linda Zwordling
Cast............ Jonathan Slavin ... Phil Mymen
Cast............ Malcolm Barrett ... Lem Hewitt
Network......... ABC
Country......... United States
Language........ English
Runtime......... 30 mins
Status.......... Ended
Air Date........ Tuesday 21:30
URL............. http://www.tvmaze.com/shows/769/better-off-ted
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Episode Name.... Pilot
Season.......... 1x01
Plot............ Ted Crisp is the head of Research & Development at Veridian Dynamics, a top-line corporation, striving to make it to the top. Ted has an uneasy friendship with his boss, Veronica Palmer - she is always wanting something from him to add to the business, from bio-warfare pumpkins, to uncomfortable leather chairs. Dr. Lem Hewitt and Dr. Phil Myman are two research analysts that work in Ted's group and are always competing against one another to get ahead. Linda Zwordling is a young intern and test consultant to office-test the various experiments the lab puts out. Ted is a recent divorcee raising a 10-year-old daughter, named Rose, after his wife left him to find herself as well as to "save the world". Ted's latest assignment involves recruiting Phil to be cryogenetically frozen as a public relations experiment for the company's research purposes
Runtime......... 30 mins
Air Date........ 2009-03-18 Wednesday, 20:30
URL............. http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/67874/better-off-ted-1x01-pilot
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Episode Name.... Heroes
Season.......... 1x02
Plot............ While Phil and Lem work in the lab to create "beef without cows," Veronica takes steps to ensure that Phil won't sue the company for his botched freezing
Runtime......... 30 mins
Air Date........ 2009-03-25 Wednesday, 20:30
URL............. http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/67875/better-off-ted-1x02-heroes
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