X-Message-Number: 31364
From: "Kennita (Go Cryo!)" <>
Subject: Re: "Better Off Ted"
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:11:06 -0800
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Definitely something to keep an eye on;
it might offer good opportunities to
point out how we're different from the
sitcom.  Start with that we're not for
profit and that our experimental subjects
are not in good health, and continue with
what I expect will be myriad differences
in the procedures etc.  If we're lucky,
it will be only be one subplot in one
episode.

I don't have cable; I hope someone here
(on Alcor-North?) can Tivo it, so more of
us can survey the damage firsthand and
prepare any needed rejoinders from a
position of knowledge rather than from
hearsay.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

On Jan 30, 2009, at 2:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> This doesn't look good:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Ted
>
> Better Off Ted is an upcoming American situation comedy which will  
> premiere on the ABC network on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 8:30PM.  
> The series was created, and will be executive produced, by Victor  
> Fresco.
>
> Plot
>
>    "Better Off Ted is a satirical office comedy featuring a  
> successful but morally conscious man, Ted, who runs a research and  
> development department at a morally questionable corporation,  
> Veridian Technologies. No achievement is too far fetched and no  
> invention too unorthodox for Veridian. Need a suicidal turkey? Done.  
> Need a metal that is hard as steel but bounces - and is edible? Done  
> and done. Ted loves his seemingly perfect job; he loves his  
> superhuman boss, Veronica, and colleagues Lem, Phil and Linda, but  
> he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely  
> questionable practices... especially when they try to cryogenically  
> freeze one of Ted's scientists for testing purposes."

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