YMMV / Better Off Ted

• Cargo Ship: 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.
• Fridge Brilliance: 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.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The numerous jokes about losing weight given to and by Veronica become uncomfortable when one is aware of Portia de Rossi'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.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: 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 Ted Lasso.
• Ho Yay:
  • In "Trust and Consequence" Ted admits to being single and the male lawyer is just as interested as the female one. Later on, in the same episode, 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.
• It Was His Sled: In "Lust in Translation", Lem says the bagels are more corrupt than Michael Corleone at the end of The Godfather, spoiling both Phil and, no doubt, several members of the audience.
• Les Yay: 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".