History Film / Ted

* ABoyAndHisX: Rather, A Man and His Teddy Bear.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Donny and Robert.

* AuthorAppeal:
** It's not hard to notice [=MacFarlane=]'s love of big band swing in the soundtrack.
** Plus a ton of {{Shout Out}}s to pop culture from TheEighties.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Ted manages to have sex with a number of women despite not having a penis. He's written several angry letters to Hasbro about it.

** John also hates when people say "cunt," though he seems to be more scared of the word than angered by it.

* BornOfMagic: Ted was just a normal teddy bear whose owner wished for him to come to life with [=MacFarlane=]'s most overused character voice. Unfortunately for everyone involved, RealityEnsues.

** Ted is voiced by Seth [=MacFarlane=]. Lampshaded when Ted says he doesn't sound like [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]].

*** Not to mention that as John grows up, Ted grows up ''with'' him.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Ted tells John he saw Lori with anothee man, John thinks he's just making an excuse for the two of them (John and Ted) to get back together and tells him to get out. Ted tells him he's acting like a cock and that he's blaming him for something he did to himself and that Lori was right; John is a manchild incapable of taking responsibility for anything that goes on in his life. At least Ted has a reason for being irresponsible: "I don't have to! I'm a fucking Teddy Bear!"

* AdamWesting: [[spoiler:Sam Jones.]]

* AstronomicZoom: The movie begins with a zoom into [[LogoJoke the Universal logo]] to zero in on where the hero lives.

* ABoyAndHisX: Rather, A Man and His Teddy Bear.

* AstronomicZoom[=/=]LogoJoke: The movie begins with a zoom into the Universal logo to zero in on where the hero lives.

* BornOfMagic: Ted was just a normal teddy bear whose owner wished for him to come to life with Seth Macfarlane's most overused character voice. Unfortunately for everyone involved, RealityEnsues.

** The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue states that Rex [[spoiler: died of Lou Gehrig's disease. Earlier in the film, John says to Rex that he hopes he gets Lou Gehrig's disease]].
** At the beginning of the movie, John suggests that Guy is part of a "gay beat-up club", to which Guy says, "yeah, maybe I'm gay or whatever, I don't really know". Later in the movie, at Ted's party, Guy shows up and introduces his new [[Creator/RyanReynolds boyfriend]].
** After sort-of chewing out the late-to-work John, John's boss mentions (as evidence of his success) being a personal acquaintance of Tom Skerritt. [[spoiler: At the end, he is seen with Skerritt at John and Lori's wedding. Then Skerritt whispers "My daughter had better still be alive, you sick son of a bitch" to him.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Ted tells John he saw Lori with anothee man, John thinks he's just making an excuse for the two of them (John and Ted) to get back together and tells him to get out. Ted tells him he's acting like a cock and thag he' blaming him for something he did to himself and that Lori was right; John is a manchild incapable of taking responsibility for anything that goes on in his life. At least Ted has a reason for being irresponsible: "I don't have to! I'm a fucking Teddy Bear!"

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Ted tells John he saw Lori with anothee man, John thinks he's just making an excuse for the two of them (John and Ted) to get back together and tells him to get out. Ted tells him he's acting like a cock and thag he' blaming him for something he did to himself and that Lori was right; John is a manchild incapable of taking responsibility for anything that goes on in his life. At least Ted has a reason for being irresponsible: "I don't have to! I'm a fucking Teddy Bear!"

** "Whether you're Corey Feldman, Creator/FrankieMuniz or Justin Bieber, eventually, nobody gives a shit."

* FriendlessBackground: The reason that John made a wish for Ted to come to life was because he was shunned by the other neighborhood kids and he had no real friends.

** Another weird example toward the end: [[spoiler:when Ted is kidnapped, he's shown to be no more durable than any other teddy bear when the villains cut his ear off and tear him in half. What makes it weird is that earlier, Ted beat the shit out of John with ease.]]

* AuthorAppeal: It's not hard to notice [=MacFarlane=]'s love of big band swing in the soundtrack.

* CurbstompBattle: Robert is in the receiving end of John's fist and goes down with a thud.

* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Inverted in that Lori is the one who wants to get rid of Ted, while the people who want to kidnap him are male. The general public seems to be about even in their interest in a living teddy bear.

* InhumanableAlienRights: Ted never seems to be studied, and he claims he's a U.S. citizen. The fact he can find legitimate employment seems to indicates that to be true.
** Though, in the end, [[spoiler: Ted was torn in half, and all that came out was stuffing, so maybe the scientists figured out early there really ''was'' nothing to study.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: "Y'know, Lori would hate me for sayin' this, but she told me how you are at the office. And one gentleman to another, I just want to say, ''I really hope you fucking get Lou Gehrig's disease.''"

** At the beginning of the movie, John suggests that Guy is part of a "gay beat-up club", to which Guy says, "yeah, maybe I'm gay or whatever, I don't really know". Later in the movie, at Ted's party, Guy shows up and introduces his new [[RyanReynolds boyfriend]].

-->'''Manager''': ... That took guts. We ''need'' guts. I'm promoting you.

* HighConcept: Mark Wahlberg and a talking teddy bear.

* LargeHam: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "YOU! CAN'T! HAVE! MY! TEDDY BEEEAAAR!!"]]

** After young John announces that his teddy bear has come to life, his parents begin to [[NotNowKiddo dismiss him]] and the audience was surely expecting it, but Ted walks out of the bedroom and breaks the masquerade immediately, [[HilarityEnsues making them freak out]]. [[FreakyIsCool They warmed up to him after a few minutes, though.]]

** Patrick Stewart's jab at ''Film/SupermanReturns'' at the end. This might be motivated by Creator/BryanSinger leaving the ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' series (where Stewart plays Professor X) to make the film.
** "The ladies and I were just watching ''[[Film/JackAndJill Jack and Jill]]''. Creator/AdamSandler plays a guy and his sister and it's just-- awful. It's unwatchable. But they're hookers, so it's fine."

** One of the shows that Ted and John watch while high is ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.
* This is more of StonerComedy than anything, [[TruthInTelevision as many stoners enjoy watching cartoons while high]].

* BearyFunny

** The narration claims that the stupid, evil child Robert grew up to be Series/TaylorLautner (even though the film takes place in 2012).