Better Off Ted: It's like Dilbert, but with... It's like Dilbert

[seriousfic]

We all love sitcoms. Whether it be Scrubs' proving of the law of diminishing returns, the Big Bang Theory's thesis that if a beautiful woman moved next door to a bunch of nerds there'd be constant social interaction, or How I Met Your Mother's... Alyson Hannigan, we all love to laugh, and mocking poorly written smutfic and conservative ideology just isn't enough. With that in mind, I'd like to introduce you to Better Off Ted.

It's well-executed, if kind of what you'd expect -- cynical skewering of Corporate America that was old-hat around the Clinton Administration, a narrator who talks to the camera and has UST with a pretty but boring love interest, a precocious child who acts as her father's erstwhile moral compass, and Portia de Rossi (who thankfully helped me tell her apart from Isabelle Rossellini by being gay).

Portia de Rossi plays Veronica, a ruthless corporate raider with a heart of gold SEX-HAIR. She disdains smalltalk, sees feelings as an inconvenience, and satisfies her lusts by faking (badly) vulnerability and nervousness to get men into bed. Errr, on top of desk. Basically, think Emma Frost with Aspergers. It's okay, I can make that joke, Aspergers isn't real. Stupid kids are, though. (I'm allowed to make that joke because I have that kind of Aspergers that's indistinguishable from being a nerd. You know the one.)

And you'd better believe Emma Frost/Veronica is the gender-swap universe's version of Bruce/Tony!



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