Better Off Ted: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: Better Off Ted
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 2009-03-18
• Final broadcast date listed: 2010-08-24
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 8.2/10
• TVMaze ID: 769

Cast and credited roles

• Jay Harrington — Theodore "Ted" Crisp
• Portia de Rossi — Veronica Palmer
• Andrea Anders — Linda Zwordling
• Jonathan Slavin — Phil Mymen
• Malcolm Barrett — Lem Hewitt
• Isabella Acres — Rose Crisp

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-03-18; final listed air date 2009-08-11; episode order: 13.
• Season 2: premiered 2009-12-08; final listed air date 2010-08-24; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Better Off Ted on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.