A PSA for you, yes, you!
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dollsomeLooking for yet another hilarious sitcom to brighten your days and further your procrastination abilities? Choose Better Off Ted, you guys, do it!! Sure, ABC keeps throwing episodes at us with a frequency that is truly worrying, as if to ... get rid of all of them, but by God, I don't want to live in a world where Dollhouse and Better Off Ted get taken away from me! In fact, Better Off Ted is sort of like the jolly sitcom equivalent of Dollhouse: morally questionable (perhaps amoralish, to be more accurate) organization; awe-inspiring HBIC boss; her handsome suited up underling who follows her every instruction but is sometimes like "Hmm, maybe what we do here is slightly not of the good"; TWO TOPHERS (or, well, er, Lem and Phil -- adorable geeky scientists, with bonus adorable life partnery man love!); one lone woman whose quest it is to STICK IT TO THE COMPANY, be it by bringing down Rossum with incredible super skillz or ... stealing cream packets. And having an irritating lack of chemistry with the male lead we are (were originally?) supposed to want to ship her with.
Now that I've got the Dollhouse-watchin' crew sold (oh, no question), that just leaves the rest of you. Come on! You know you want to watch this! And beneath this cut is an embedded youtube clip frenzy just to prove it to ya!
Let's do this in sections!
SECTION THE FIRST: Veronica and Ted
Originally, I'm pretty sure we were supposed to ship Ted and Linda; they've got a lot of stuff in season one, and in season two they occasionally flare up, like acne, but the show finds a good rhythm with them pretty quickly and they get less annoying and more snarkalicious. HOWEVER. The true shippy gem, folks, no doubt about it, is Ted and Veronica.
Sorry Linda, Ted used up his office affair -- with Veronica! ("Look at me! I'm so ... nervous, I'm ... shaking like a leaf." There is absolutely no way to recreate the hilarity of the delivery on this show with mere text alone!) Also: it is weird to see them all tension-y and romantically interested. Ted and Linda, thank you for getting way less annoying around each other!
"Products are for people who don't have presentations."
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"A way of doing business more magnificent than ... a fish!"
"... Or a whale!"
Here, Ted and Veronica show off how they are AWESOME TOGETHER, by giving a presentation on a product that does not exist even a little bit, or even have a theoretical concept. That don't matter when you're awesome!
"In ten years, honey, you'll look back on this moment and think, 'ohh.'"
Occasionally, their office affair history comes back to haunt them, in the form of RESIDUAL SEXINESS. Also: that is Ted's daughter Rose, and while I couldn't find any other clips with her in them, rest assured that she is adorable and funny and great, sort of like the girl equivalent of Manny on Modern Family in terms of sheer TV kid awesomeness, and she makes Ted like 500x more darling than he is already. Ted, while we're on the subject, is great. All handsome and funny and amazing!
Also: yes, Veronica should be Rose's stepmommy. They have had some truly amazing scenes together, those two.
SECTION THE SECOND: The Magic of Veridian
X-rays show that when people work together, they're happier!
"They've expressed your individuality for you, in four exciting and inoffensive themes!"
SECTION THE THIRD: Lem & Phil
Words cannot convey the adorability of them. Like, really, they can't. You just have to watch for these guys, especially since finding clips was very hard! But really, if you want a show with the most darling man love conceivable, this is the one.
(Sidenote: at one point, there was a Dalek in this episode. I missed it, but twop tells me it was there. Bam, gotcha, Doctor Who fans! Better Off Ted is your master now!)
SECTION THE FOURTH: Linda
I really wanted to hate Linda, on account of her possessing the troublesome role of Obligatory Love Interest, but I just couldn't! Show gets points for this, because it moved very quickly from Obligatory Love Interest to Friggin' Hilarious Lady. Her delivery of her lines -- it should be knighted or something. I love her.
Characters should always be drugged due to crazy accidental mishaps!
"Linda, listen to yourself! Those are just facts, and facts are just opinions, and opinions can be wrong. The only thing that is never wrong is confidence."
SECTION THE FIFTH: Veronica
You know how Portia was amazing on Arrested Development? SO MUCH AMAZINGER HERE. And Lindsay was always my favourite! But Veronica is more amazing than -- well, quite frankly, anything ever. She alone is worth watching the show for.
So do it, people. You know you want to!! I promise it will be hilarious and zany and witty and full of fun, and maybe at one point, a certain dreamy husband of Idina Menzel will confess his fondness for dressing up in a realistic-looking bear suit and scaring innocent people in parks.
Good day.
Now that I've got the Dollhouse-watchin' crew sold (oh, no question), that just leaves the rest of you. Come on! You know you want to watch this! And beneath this cut is an embedded youtube clip frenzy just to prove it to ya!
Let's do this in sections!
SECTION THE FIRST: Veronica and Ted
Originally, I'm pretty sure we were supposed to ship Ted and Linda; they've got a lot of stuff in season one, and in season two they occasionally flare up, like acne, but the show finds a good rhythm with them pretty quickly and they get less annoying and more snarkalicious. HOWEVER. The true shippy gem, folks, no doubt about it, is Ted and Veronica.
Sorry Linda, Ted used up his office affair -- with Veronica! ("Look at me! I'm so ... nervous, I'm ... shaking like a leaf." There is absolutely no way to recreate the hilarity of the delivery on this show with mere text alone!) Also: it is weird to see them all tension-y and romantically interested. Ted and Linda, thank you for getting way less annoying around each other!
"Products are for people who don't have presentations."
*
"A way of doing business more magnificent than ... a fish!"
"... Or a whale!"
Here, Ted and Veronica show off how they are AWESOME TOGETHER, by giving a presentation on a product that does not exist even a little bit, or even have a theoretical concept. That don't matter when you're awesome!
"In ten years, honey, you'll look back on this moment and think, 'ohh.'"
Occasionally, their office affair history comes back to haunt them, in the form of RESIDUAL SEXINESS. Also: that is Ted's daughter Rose, and while I couldn't find any other clips with her in them, rest assured that she is adorable and funny and great, sort of like the girl equivalent of Manny on Modern Family in terms of sheer TV kid awesomeness, and she makes Ted like 500x more darling than he is already. Ted, while we're on the subject, is great. All handsome and funny and amazing!
Also: yes, Veronica should be Rose's stepmommy. They have had some truly amazing scenes together, those two.
SECTION THE SECOND: The Magic of Veridian
X-rays show that when people work together, they're happier!
"They've expressed your individuality for you, in four exciting and inoffensive themes!"
SECTION THE THIRD: Lem & Phil
Words cannot convey the adorability of them. Like, really, they can't. You just have to watch for these guys, especially since finding clips was very hard! But really, if you want a show with the most darling man love conceivable, this is the one.
(Sidenote: at one point, there was a Dalek in this episode. I missed it, but twop tells me it was there. Bam, gotcha, Doctor Who fans! Better Off Ted is your master now!)
SECTION THE FOURTH: Linda
I really wanted to hate Linda, on account of her possessing the troublesome role of Obligatory Love Interest, but I just couldn't! Show gets points for this, because it moved very quickly from Obligatory Love Interest to Friggin' Hilarious Lady. Her delivery of her lines -- it should be knighted or something. I love her.
Characters should always be drugged due to crazy accidental mishaps!
"Linda, listen to yourself! Those are just facts, and facts are just opinions, and opinions can be wrong. The only thing that is never wrong is confidence."
SECTION THE FIFTH: Veronica
You know how Portia was amazing on Arrested Development? SO MUCH AMAZINGER HERE. And Lindsay was always my favourite! But Veronica is more amazing than -- well, quite frankly, anything ever. She alone is worth watching the show for.
So do it, people. You know you want to!! I promise it will be hilarious and zany and witty and full of fun, and maybe at one point, a certain dreamy husband of Idina Menzel will confess his fondness for dressing up in a realistic-looking bear suit and scaring innocent people in parks.
Good day.
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Date: 2010-01-06 08:23 pm (UTC)Also, is there any way you could unlock this so I could
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Date: 2010-01-06 09:01 pm (UTC)Edit: at one point, there was a Dalek in this episode
Veronica said "frak" once. <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2010-01-07 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-06 09:03 pm (UTC)Oh, yes, a Dalek. It's when Lem and Phil went to the basement, you see it when they walk in ... see? (I highlighted its color a tad.)
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Date: 2010-01-06 11:37 pm (UTC)I watched the second season episodes first, starting with Repression, and then the first season, and woah, it is so weird seeing the show set up Linda and Ted in the early episodes. I feel like you are not delusional at all, second season is WAY Veronica/Ted heavy, and there's almost no Linda/Ted stuff. Bizarre (and awesome). YAY VERONICA!
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Date: 2010-01-07 12:16 am (UTC)Now I want fic. I want Veronica and Adelle being awesome and emotionally distant. Ted and Dominic should be in the background thinking that the two of them could lead to a lot of badness, and while Ted thinks they should somehow stop Adelle and Veronica (impossible) Dominic just kind of thinks they should see where it would go (as long as none of their power gets into the hands of foreign powers).
I also love Linda. I love that she is kind of secretly batshit. Like she doesn't know it, and she keeps it down, but the moment she comes into the office it explodes.
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Date: 2010-01-07 01:49 am (UTC)Heck, my partner likes watching it and he doesn't like anything!
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Date: 2010-01-07 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-07 03:52 am (UTC)The Dalek cameo freaked me the heck out. Why are they so worried about the spill cleaning robot?! There is a sleeping Dalek in their sub-basement! Run for your lives, Veridian!
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Date: 2010-01-07 05:23 am (UTC)OMG LOVEEEE. VERONICA! TED! VERONICA/TED! Linda, when they're not trying to convince me of Ted/Linda! Phil! Lem! Rose! &hearts How has this show been missing from my life for so long? The first couple of episodes didn't hook me, but of course the third did and then it was loveee.
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Date: 2010-01-24 10:42 pm (UTC)God, I hope they don't cancel this show.
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Date: 2010-01-25 07:30 pm (UTC)Can I just say that my already stratospheric love for BoT would increase tenfold if the actress playing Linda would stop with the sudden uberskinniness?