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Ah yes the annual post-Rose Bowl “Better Off Ted” episode. ABC at this point is airing all of the episodes from this show and Scrubs from now through early February so it won’t interfere with the sweeps period. In other words, this show is doomed. Let’s enjoy it while it lasts.
Ted tells us relationships are tricky at the office, because you have to be careful about sexual harassment. Veronica informs Ted that it is a problem amongst the drones. It turns out Linda is the latest drone making all of the trouble. Veronica decides Veridian can classify Sexual Harassment as a disease, to keep them from being liable. Ted and Linda have to go harassment seminars, aka “The League of Extraordinary Perverted Gentleman.” By act three the office are far more open about speaking sexually with productivity greatly decreased. Ted is informed by a female employee he is yummy but can’t do anything about it because he doesn’t want to be in sexual harassment class his entire life. Ted and Veronica complain about how everybody is sexually charged and end up making out until Ted’s daughter walks in. With this and with Ted agreeing with Linda her boobs are awesome earlier this is bringing the love triangle to the foreground again. Linda is busy taking advantage of the recent office climate and harasses men to the point where they’re on the verge of tears. Linda ends up saving Sheila from a fat perverted man and she drops the charges that got us all into this crazy mess in the first place. Ted and Veronica have the kids walk around the office to get rid of the horndogness. Veronica explains to Ted it’d be some sort of warlike clusterfuck if they ever got together, but welcomes him to watch her ass as she walks away, since she’s having a great ass day. Linda smacks Ted for doing that, because she’s a feminist superhero now. I mean not really, just for the last few minutes and never again. Being a superhero is hard anyway.
Meanwhile Phil and Lem are upset because their precious cleaning machine is being replaced with a dumb old human being. They of course ask Ted for help where Phil gets immediately upset about the non existence of a robot retirement farm. Phil feels like his heart was just kicked in his testicles. Lem and Phil discover their robots’ aren’t frolicking in the binary grass or do whatever it is a retired robot would do (knit electric sweaters?) but actually languish in a basement, stripped of their parts. Phil declares he can put their robot vacuum (not referred to as a Roomba by the way) back together in the form of a sad joke about marriage. Chumley the machine is seemingly repaired until it spits coffee back into Lem’s face making Lem squak like Dave Chappelle. Lem and Phil go back to Ted, confused when Ted informs them he isn’t friends with Ryan Seacrest. Ultimately Chumley attacks Phil’s foot and the human janitor, Carlos kills the machine for them. Ted explains to us that it turns out Phil and Lem had an inappropriate relationship with a co-worker as well. Shananana. Yeah, they didn’t really have the A story and B story talk much to each other. Maybe they had a fight or something.
All in all this was a good bounce back from last week’s poor outing. They really couldn’t go wrong with an episode about sexual harassment. That’s comedy gold.
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