The series follows Ted Crisp, the Head of Research and Development at one of the largest companies in the world Veridian Dynamics. This comedy shows Ted's boss relationships toward Phil and Lem, who are both genius' who have little to no person skills. His boss played by Portia de Rossi, who is a relatively soulless director. And finally a tester of new products who tends to have an odd love/not-love/worker with Ted.
Ted every so often breaks the 4th wall by talking directly with the audience as he narrates pieces of his life working at the company, or his own personal life as a single father. He helps guide us through the interesting, disturbing, and possibly highly useful inventions that Veridian Dynamics is creating. Some examples are a scented lightbulb, but unfortunately after a 3 days it starts to smell like rotted meat. Beef grown in the lab entirely free of cows, but tastes like despair. Toothpaste that accidentally created a parasite that grows hair on any and all surfaces including on a desk.
My personal favorite part of the show (other than the Dalek found in the robot graveyard) is the commercials that come up in every episode that are produced by the company to keep up business for the company. Some of these commercials are actual commercials produced by real companies just with new voice-overs.
Finally I must say I loved the show, but like many others I discovered it after it was already cancelled and subsequently over. But in the end I give it a 10 out of 11 because I laughed repeatedly during almost every episode, and as such thought it was a fantastic show people should definitely watch.
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