Unfortunately I never saw any previews or knew this great show was on for 2 seasons. I would have tuned in every week and think the casting, comedy, and the slightly exaggerated "evil company" references and the both hilarious yet truthful advertisements would have appealed to a much bigger audience than the ratings suggest.I waited to post this review until watching most episodes and asking nearly 100 coworkers their opinion of the show and learned less than 10% even knew the show was on much less 2 seasons and all but a few loved it and would have tuned in every week. Please bring this show back!

What a shame that abc pulled the plug on this show.It has a great ensemble cast of Phil & Lem, the quirky Lab Technicians, Ted, the well balanced but easily swayed middle manager, Veronica, the remorseless corporate crony, and Linda, the Corporate product tester and moral compass.The writing is witty and fast. There is no laugh track in this show, and while some jokes really smack you in the face, others are more subtle and can easily be overlooked until you've seen the episode a second time.This show was so well done, and being set in the heart of a global corporation that only cares about money led to a potentially endless supply of fun.I highly recommend this show. If only abc had given Better off Ted a consistent time slot and some advertising, this could have easily become one of the most popular shows on television.

I don't know if it's being a Brit, but few American 'comedy' shows make me laugh; I find the canned laughter particularly irritating. So, it is a refreshing change to find a show that doesn't try to make me laugh when it is not actually being very funny.The point is, this show IS funny! Very funny, and to me at least, slightly scary and uncomfortable, but that might be that I am an ex-hippie, and the whole corporate 'profit above all else' is sometimes too horrible to laugh at. To be completely oblivious to the total lack of morality in their behaviour - the spoof adverts being created are a real hoot!Excellent characters; the research geeks are outstanding, and Linda is great. Portia De Rossi is seriously chilling as Veronica, I find myself frequently thinking, "s***, I've met someone almost like that..." ...!!It's on the 'record series' list of my PVR, just in case I have to miss one.

Better Off Ted is a sitcom centered in an office of a heartless company- Veridian Dynamics. Most of the episodes are narrated by the titular character- Ted, portrayed by Jay Harrington in "High Fidelity" style. The only reason I started watching Better Off Ted is because it came from the same mind that brought us "Andy Richter Controls the Universe", a genius sitcom, that sadly got prematurely cancelled. And while "Ted" is a good TV show, and it's definitely better than most of what passes as comedy these days on TV (The Office, season 9 of Scrubs- I'm looking at you), it didn't live up to it's predecessor. But enough Ted-bashing, let's review the thing, Pro-Con style:Pros: Cast (For the Most part- more on that later).Lem, Phil, Veronica- these three character are the highlights of the whole series. They are what Fonzie was to Happy Days. The two geeky scientists portrayed by Jonathan Slavin and Malcolm Barrett provide great laughs and get most of the better story lines, like when they realise that most of the things they invent are used to murder people. Portia de Rossi, mostly know for playing Lindsay Bluth on Arrested Development, out-shines every cast-member as Veridian's middle management- Veronica. She delivers her lines with perfect comedic timing and nails the heartless company executive persona. Titular Ted although gets plenty of laugh-out-loud hilarious lines, but Jay Harrington mostly shines when he's a straight man for above characters. Ted's daughter- Rose, is pretty good too, at least she's not a too-smart-for-her-age kid that is usually present in sitcoms.Great story lines- when it came to them this show was pretty original, and through that - funny. Highlights include office motion detectors not detecting black people and Veridians tactic of using the death of an employee that no one knew to motivate it's employees to work ("FOR JENKINS!"- Veronica screams, channeling Braveheart).Spoof commercials- it's hard not too laugh at the little commercials of fictional company Veridian Dynamics. The mixture of Portal's GLaDOS with stock footage and music is a highlight of almost every episode ("Veridian Dynamics - Don't cross us. Ever. Seriously. Just don't.").Cons: Andrea Anders- this lady almost ruined the show for me. She's better off in regular sitcoms, not in a fast paced comedy like this one. On her own, she sucks, but because the actress is backed in most of the story lines by more competent cast members (like when she pairs up with Veronica, or with guest-starring Taye Diggs), she's almost bearable, and funny on rare occasions. She's also a part of another of this show's problem, which is...A shoehorned "will they or won't they" storyline- from the get go, the show is trying to sell us the chemistry between Ted and Linda, which doesn't work in the slightest. Not only is this show forcefully keeping them apart (Ted having a limit of one office romance, Linda getting a boyfriend to make Ted jealous, but then staying with him), but the actors have no chemistry whatsoever. Harrington is excellent, and probably would do excellent work with an actress more competent, but Anders usually wrecks the scenes where Ted and Linda are talking to each-other. It's less like Ross and Rachel, and more like Michael and Rita (look them up!).Overall Better Off Ted is an excellent TV show, even though it wasn't perfect, it's still a shame that it was cancelled. Given enough time it sure would attract a more sizable audience, which while not being extremely big, it would be loyal and enough to warrant the series new seasons.