Archive Panic: There's a yearly conference, places most of the recorded presentations on its website under the Creative Commons license and has over 500 listed as of this writing. Good luck getting through them all in under a month.
Green EyesExplanation A frequent meme posted in comments amongst the TED-ed riddle videos, where it's jokingly suggested as a solution to the riddle. This is a reference to the famously difficult green eyes logic puzzle.
Tear Jerker: There are talks that can shed your tears about sensitive subjects such as death and war.
The film
Crosses the Line Twice: A few jokes, some of which had to be heavily edited even for late night TV trailers. For example, the trailer joke where Ted tries to impress a colleague by waving, blowing a kiss then humping part of the checkout actually continues further, with him mimicing fellatio on a candy bar and using hand soap to pretend he's being ejaculated on.
Faux Symbolism: One of the major themes of the movie is about John's difficulty growing up, but name a young child who has not lived through the trauma of a beloved toy being destroyed or lost while a desperate parent tries to fix it, and comfort them when they can't. To many younger children the toy really is something more than just a toy and is a true friend and companion.
Genius Bonus: Ted's response to Lori's remark about a shit being on the floor is, "Or, or....is the floor...on the shit? Is what Kierkegaard would say."
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Ted proved to be a massive hit in Japan, as the film spent four straight weeks as the #1 movie and eventually earned $44 million there. He also has over 200k likes on his official Japanese Facebook page. In fact, Japan was the film's third highest grossing market, behind North America, where it made $218.8 million, and the UK, where it made $48.9 million. He's even getting a figma! The film is so popular in Japan that there's actually a Ted-themed café over in Tokyo. The film even managed to have a crossover promotion with Danganronpa: The Animation of all things.
Harsher in Hindsight: Ted comments on being a former child star, and being washed up like the cast of Diff'rent Strokes. While death is inevitable, Conrad Bain died less than a year after Ted was released and Todd Bridges is the only main actor still living.
The fact that Robert becomes Taylor Lautner is even funnier when you know what this actor was up to in the past few years, and who he shares scenes with... A Robert Pattinson who would have been a much more believable joke.
Ted briefly posing as an animatronic mascot at a restaurant and then jumpscaring a kid who comes to check him out. Looks like he got a little quirky...
Ted once said he could totally be a lawyer. In the sequel, he becomes involved in the legal department.
When John's parents first see Ted alive, John's mother says that Ted's existence is "just like the baby Jesus". The sixth episode of the prequel series revolves around John and Ted theorising that Ted may, in fact, be Jesus.
The scene where Ted poses as an animatronic mascot and scares a kid is commonly used in Five Nights at Freddy's memes.
Ted's exclamation of "There's so much PORN!" when he comes across the massive Porn Stash on John's laptop has found use as a reaction to pretty much anything prone to a lot of Rule 34.
Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: While the film and its sequel poke fun at life in Massachusetts, a lot of people from Massachusetts love the movies.
Nausea Fuel: One of the prostitutes defecating on the floor. Thankfully, it was off-screen, but the shit is still seen.
Protagonist Title Fallacy: Ted is not the main character. John is. Ted is the deuteragonist. He is, however, the protagonist of the sequel.
With Charlie the Abusive Teddy Bear. So much so that Seth MacFarlanewas sued for it, though the case was ultimately dismissed with the plantiffs conceding that MacFarlane developed it independently of their work.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Ted. We are supposed to feel bad when John dumps him, but seeing how he turns John into a loser, it feels deserved.
Visual Effects of Awesome: Think about it. This is a movie that has a grown man engaging in a brutal fight with a teddy bear... and pulls it off. Especially considering the fight scene isn't played for laughs.
In general, the CGI on Ted himself is pretty awesome, since it actually looks like a real teddy bear.
Similar to Seth's other works, it looks colorful and cutesy, but once you hear the dialogue.... In his review, Roger Ebert advised parents that if their kids want to see the movie because of the ads, don't take them (he specifically recommended Brave as an alternative).
Taken to the extreme by a Brazilian deputy / moral guardian who tried to upgrade the film's rating there for "offensive content using childish elements", when the rating was already "inappropriate for under 16 years". And the deputy brought his 11-year old son to watch it. The Ministry of Justice shot down his request, and the film topped the box office afterwards.
. In fact, Japan was the film's third highest grossing market, behind North America, where it made $218.8 million, and the UK, where it made $48.9 million. He's even getting a figma!