The Reel Rejects - TED EPISODE 1 REVIEW – HOLY S*** IS THIS BETTER THAN THE MOVIES?!

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have watched Ted. Ted season one episode one and you know what it would mean a lot if you hit that like button maybe subscribe if you want yes please

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So, you know, LJ. Yeah. How you doing, man? What did you think of the pilot? Oh, yeah, I enjoyed it thoroughly. That was a hell of fun. I didn't expect it to be that funny, but also family guy and American dad. So, of course, I enjoyed it.

I actually want to see the cousin in like a third movie. That would be funny. Yeah. But otherwise, yeah, pretty cool, pretty funnier than I was expecting. Yeah, definitely. it's kind of the same type of, I mean, it's Seth McFarland. So, yeah, I didn't have very high expectations, nonetheless. But that was cool.

It was really fun. I was you guys. Yeah. Mr. H. It was a good time. I'm BJ. If he's L.J. I am B.

Okay. For this show specific, no, I apologize. Mr. H. There's just less obscene things we can do with that. But, no, this is very fun. This is, you know, I, I appreciated that this was like a little more of a hangout thing than I maybe was expecting. I mean, you have the hook of like Ted, you got to go to school.

I'm sure that's going to carry through a lot based off of these thumbnails from the upcoming episode. But at the same time, like, there is so much in here that is just about the two of them hanging out and getting you into the dynamic of this version of John and Ted. And then, yeah, setting the stage with the whole rest of the family. I liked everybody, and I thought the bits were funny, and I'm excited to see more. Yeah. How about you? I thought it was great. I thought it was actually really great.

And it's cool because I'm looking at the runtimes of these, and normally even on a streaming service, the runtimes of stuff, usually for a comedy or clocked it at a very specific runtime. And these are all over the place. This is an almost an hour-long comedy pilot. Yeah. And sometimes when they do that, it feels like two episodes slapped together and one, but no, they just wrote the one they needed to do. And it kind of seems like that might be the case for all of them just based off of the sporadic run times. So I was surprised by how it did not. It's weird because it definitely, it still feels like the movies, but also feels like a television show version at the same time.

But that doesn't, yet it doesn't feel like a downgrading quality, you know. True. Because the quality of the interaction, the comedy, the CGI of TED, the overall dynamics are so well done. I guess because it feels a little bit more intimate and contained that that's what gives it this more show setting vibe because it feels like it's like the Bennett family. And then they got their stranger teddy bear living with them. And I really thought it was impressive how they did it. I appreciate the limitation on music that this show uses. you know like with Seth McFarland

there's an association with television with the guy because he's I've actually never seen the show Orville I've heard that was surprisingly an all right show but that show from from what I've seen of clips and stuff there is like a certain type of snappiness and energy and chaos to it. I mean it's a space show

so watching this really embody that hangout vibe of just them kicking it surprisingly doubling down on the heart as well. Yeah. Makes for a really good time.

And you don't need to see the movie at all to watch this. Outside of understanding like an Easter egg or two. Yeah. You really don't need to see the film. And I love that.

Like, because it's this good, because like Mark Wahlberg, that's probably the best one I'd ever see Mark Wahlbert. It's John Bennett, you know. It's probably the best work I've ever seen him do. So whoever's playing

a young, young John Bennett. He's got his word cut out for him. Yeah. And I like that. He's got that wide eye kind of like, that delivery that goes up here. That sounds very much like a Mark Wahlberg.

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Like, he's got that, like, wicked ice there constantly going. on, you know. Like that Jack Nicholson, intense Jim Carrey thing going on. Yeah. And so it's a, it's a different dynamic, though. It's not exactly Mark Wahlberg

and Seth MacFarlane. It's different, and it has to be different. Definitely. And it works, though. I didn't find myself missing Mark Wahlberg is what I'm getting at because I thought Mark Wahlberg was like perfect in those movies. Right.

And yet I did not miss him here. And most importantly, it does a really good job on being this. For Ted series to come out in a, when the Ted won and two movies, came out. We didn't have the social media climate we have now where quote unquote cancel culture came

into existence and all that shit. This is coming out being just as a reverend and raunchy in that climate. But to position it in the 90s to have a character who is at that transitional point of society talking about like words

you can't say and sort of behaviorisms is a smart way to position this show to still maintain that humor without it seems mean like it's like preaching anything because it's not you know i thought it was a really it's actually like really smart and that's part of the key to what makes ted work is how it's more thoughtful the the the the the this ip is more thoughtful than you might initially think and this show demonstrates that i think pretty well i was surprised because i thought like it's a show version it's probably

just going to be like you know the cheaper version for a laugh there's something yeah there's something because like the moot part of what's silly part of what's so very amusing about the movies is that they put way more into that than you ever

needed to so there's like part of the gag is how many resources we're putting into this and I feel like there's kind of like a neat thing that the show is allowed to do because yeah like the TED is the effect that will cost money and the rest of it doesn't feel at all encumbered by

yeah just being on the back lot and being confined to a few locations. Like it naturally fits that way, and it doesn't feel like anything's missing. And it's like it's fun that the movies have that, again, gag of it that we're doing way more than we ever expected to. But here it's like kind of able to, yeah, you don't miss that. It's not like it's not big enough. But at the same time, I don't know, it smoothly transitions into something that feels

a little smaller and a little more at home. And it makes sense given the context of that. And I like to that, like, in a. in an age of the new norms and Mr. Beechams of the world, these like irreverent you know, like sort of right-leaning comedies

that have a character like the cousin here and they exist fully to be a wet blanket and they suck. Like, I like that you have the friction of like, yeah, of course, Ted is the irreverent character so, you know, I feel bad for forgetting her name, but cousin is the foil to that.

And there is, you know, a certain wet blanketness that comes with that. If you're point of view is the raunchy irreverent one. But I like that by the end of the episode like that character is also like a nuanced character and a part of the family and her inclinations while an obstacle at some points are also

more in line with yours when it comes to like the weed stuff and like other things and having each other's backs coming of age and seeing the kind of family life that you might have to escape from. I feel like at a lesser show that character would just amount to being a punching bag and so you can get to

kind of have your cake and eat it too. definitely you know yeah you can acknowledge culture and the changing of culture and too i'm sure there's going to be a lot of 90s stuff that they're going to comment on with today's perspectives right uh because this character has existed in the 90s too but yeah as a yeah as a family unit and too i like the parents you know yeah definitely okay more uh you said it john let's go deep come on it's comedy i thought i have to go and keep talking deeper like for comedy reviews Comment on the nature of Ted's

You know Like worth and value with the living being Oh my gosh Because he's not He had the whole court case yet being human Yeah Yeah yeah Shows about growing up

That's the theme of all the Ted's Yeah definitely They're all coming of age They are all John is always coming in They are all about growing up aren't they Definitely yes Yes

I mean I don't Yeah you guys said a lot That I agree with but also a very profound kind of dissection of it all. I just thought. We got what we wanted. We got, yeah.

We are very deep. It was friggin sick. What do you want to say? It's funny. It's freaking sick. Deering is funny. Nice use of the back line. Oh, yeah, that was cool.

They go to school at the clock tower. Yeah. But yeah, enjoyed it. I'm hoping we can continue this with us three watching this. that would be cool that'd be fun that'd be fun this is a real surprise that they're really fun man yeah this is really good i feel like i'd probably like there's more than the movies depending on how that's all i'm leaning i'm leaning towards there too man this format seems like it and obviously seth macfarlane coming from tv yes sense like i think he makes a better movie than

you might expect as of the teds but i can see this format lending itself very well to this yeah definitely sure all right well thank you guys for encouraging this watch We'll see you all soon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for being here.