* CargoShip: Veronica often refers to the company as if it were a person, and seems to hold the company itself in higher regard than the people who actually run it.
* FridgeBrilliance: In the pilot, Ted and Lem are discussing Lem's mother. Ted says Lem's mother is many things, but not someone who "can make something out of nothing" and assigns Lem a project. Later, in season two, we find out that exchange wasn't just Ted trying to encourage Lem, but that Lem's mother is also a scientist, but works only in theoretical science and looks down on the things Lem creates.
* HarsherInHindsight: The numerous jokes about losing weight given to and by Veronica become uncomfortable when one is aware of Creator/PortiaDeRossi's autobiography, published around the time ''Better Off Ted'' first came out, in which she writes at length about her real-life battles with eating disorders.
* HilariousInHindsight: Andrea Anders playing a character whose love interest is named Ted becomes this after she plays the wife/ex-wife of the titular character in ''Series/TedLasso''.
* HoYay:
** In "Trust and Consequence" Ted admits to being single and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim the male lawyer]] is just as interested as the female one. Later on, in the same episode, [[MakesSenseInContext when Ted loudly proclaims that he's gay, the male lawyer happens to be walking by. He looks very excited. Ted tells him to settle down.]]
** In "Battle of the Bulbs", higher-up Chet grabs Ted's ass. To his credit, Ted takes it in stride, though doesn't seem pleased.
** There was another episode where Ted had to wine and dine a gay general to get a military contract.
* ItWasHisSled: In "Lust in Translation", Lem says the bagels are more corrupt than [[spoiler:Michael Corleone]] at the end of ''Film/TheGodfather'', spoiling both Phil and, no doubt, several members of the audience.
* LesYay: Averted in Linda's past:
-->'''Linda:''' I actually went to an all-girls school and was totally straight. But I'm very trampy now.
** Linda and Veronica: "Hi best-looking-woman-in-the-company, possibly the universe..."
*** She ''was'' hopped up on drugs at the time, but she did continue to say that "her calves [are] like granite wrapped in silk".