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Better Off Ted: The Lawyer, The Lemur and the Little Listener

Veronica discovers that Rose knows all about company layoffs, thanks to her friends in her aftercare group. However, Ted becomes increasingly uncomfortable when Veronica uses the information to save her workers. Meanwhile, Linda tries to publish her first children's book but discovers she's unconsciously based her lemur character on Phil, and Lem discovers he has to pay by the hour to have sex with a company lawyer during business hours.


8.8/10 (10 Votes cast)

Episode Info


Episode number: 2x2
Production Number: 2APX04
Airdate: Tuesday December 15th, 2009

Director: Chris Koch
Writer: Tim Doyle

Alternate Airdates:

UK (FX) Sep 14, 2010

Guest Stars
Terry RhoadsTerry Rhoads
As Chet
Recurring

Co-Guest Stars
Chelsey CrispChelsey Crisp
As Nadine (Nadine Webson)
Christopher Hoffman (3)Christopher Hoffman (3)
As Jeffrey (Jeffrey Bouchard)
Brandon MolaleBrandon Molale
As Extraction Guy #1
Main Cast
Jay HarringtonJay Harrington
As Ted Crisp
Portia de RossiPortia de Rossi
As Veronica Palmer
Andrea AndersAndrea Anders
As Linda Zwordling
Jonathan SlavinJonathan Slavin
As Phil Mymen
Malcolm BarrettMalcolm Barrett
As Lem Hewitt
Isabella AcresIsabella Acres
As Rose Crisp

Recap

Phil and Lem are taking the elevator when a Veridian lawyer, Nadine Webson, comes in and starts making out with Phil. Once they're done, she leaves at the next floor and Lem explains that the only time they can get together due to their busy schedules is when they're at work, and she has an office and a door that locks...

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Episode Quotes
Phil: She seemed nice.
Lem: That was Nadine.
Phil: Oh, good. So you know each other.
Lem: Yeah, she's one of the company's lawyers. Sorry for not introducing you.
Phil: Your tongue was kind of busy. All up inside her month.
Lem: She's amazing. It's just that we both work such long hours, it's hard to find time to go out. So we usually meet in her office, where she has a door that closes and a closet where we can hang our clothes so we're crisp and fresh after we've soiled each other.
Phil: The only time I've ever been naked in this building is that time I was deloused. Remember, when those super lice got out and tried to colonize me?
Lem: Mmm. This is more fun than that.

Linda: Hey there, Bloopity-Bloo.
Ted: Bloopity-Bloo?
Linda: It's a nickname I came up with for you, right off the top of my head.
Ted: Hmm, so what made you get high before work this morning?

Linda: I may have a whole new career entertaining children instead of working for a place that uses them to assemble munitions.
Ted: Boy, who's gonna judge us when you're gone?

Ted: Honey, there's nobody at the company named Larry Pancake or anybody else named after food.
Rose: What about Taco Tony in the cafeteria?
Ted: Well, that was just a nickname, and we don't call him that anymore. When he moved to the salad bar, it just sounded racist.

Ted: We can have one conversation with Rose. Gently.
Veronica: Fine. Let's get her up here, crack her open like a lobster claw, and scoop out her sweet white meat of information. Gently.
Ted: I know you don't like to eat children, but it's that kind of talk and your cottage in the woods made of candy that keeps those rumors alive.

Linda: You guys are thinking about antlers and tails, aren't you?
Phil: Why do animals get all the best stuff attached to their bodies?
Lem: I would love to have a blowhole.

Rose: Pretty sure it was Paul Spielman.
Veronica: Oh, my God. Not Paul Spielman.
Ted: You have no idea who Paul Spielman is.
Veronica: Not even a little.
Ted: He's one of our department's best engineers.
Veronica: And they're just gonna throw him out on the street with no consideration for how weak that's going to make me look.
Ted: Paul might not like it either, you know, 'cause he's got four kids.
Veronica: Fine, I'm insensitive. I can live with that.

Lem: Veronica.
Veronica: Ugh! There are employees everywhere. It's like I'm walking through spiderwebs.

Veronica: Children... so adorable. In a way, they're like people.
Ted: Yes, that's why there's a taboo about eating them.

Linda: It--it's just... what if I can't do this. Maybe I'm really not a writer. What if I end up just some product tester working for a soulless company with a half-finished lemur story in her drawer. What a cliche.

Veronica: Jeffrey Bouchard.
Ted: Another engineer. There's a picture of you two on your office wall.
Veronica: People always want to have their pictures taken with me, Ted. I'm like a sunset.

Veronica: How could he do this? And after I let him use me like a sunset.
Ted: Well, you better take his picture down. Maybe put it in your drawer next to the one of you and Saddam Hussein riding that tandem bike.
Veronica: Yeah. That was before he got weird.

Veronica: Oh, that's Jeffery Bouchard
Chet: I love it when they run.
(Jeffrey gets tasered)
Ted: Hmm. Tased flesh smells bacon-y.
Veronica: Now I'm hungry.

Veronica: All I have to do is look at Phil and he tells me everything. Even things I don't want to know, like his time-saving system for washing his legs.

Veronica: God, I love Asia. There's no regulation on anything. Did you know companies there can just shoot a man in the street? I heard that at a conference about reasons to move your business to Asia.
Linda: I know. They make it crazy hard to kill anyone here. I want my country back.

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Other Episode Crew

CreatorVictor Fresco
Executive ProducerVictor Fresco
Co-Executive ProducerTim Doyle  |  Michael Teverbaugh  |  Kat Likkel  |  John Hoberg  |  Michael A. Ross  |  Michael Shipley
ProducerMarc Solakian
Associate ProducerLisa Iannone
Production DesignerDawn Snyder
EditorLance Luckey
CastingLaura Adler  |  Jill Anthony
Unit Production ManagerJack Philbrick
First Assistant DirectorLeo Bauer
Second Assistant DirectorJason Roberts (2)
Staff WriterIngrid Escajeda
MusicChristopher A. Lee (1)  |  Scott Clausen
Costume DesignerBrandy Lusvardi
Key GripTom Keefer
Set DecoratorDiane Yates
Transportation CoordinatorMike Paventi
Property MasterKevin Shaw (3)
Construction CoordinatorGreg Hamlin
Production Sound MixerJaya Jayaraja
Script SupervisorRebecca E. Asher
Production CoordinatorJohn Barney
Script CoordinatorEve Weston
Assistant EditorJoan Wrzala
Post Production SupervisorJohn M. Myrick
Supervising Sound EditorRandy Thomas
Re-Recording MixerTamara Johnson
Director of PhotographyBrian J. Reynolds
Story EditorJordan Young  |  Elijah Aron  |  Audra Sielaff  |  Becky Mann
Costume SupervisorPatricia McLaughlin
Production AccountantSuzie Shimizu
Chief Lighting TechnicianDerrick Kolus
Department Head HairLorna A. Reid
Department Head Make-upDarla Albright
Music ConsultantKevin Edelman
Original CastingGeraldine Leder  |  Sharon Klein
Assistant To The Executive ProducerChris Luccy
Production StaffOscar Sosa  |  Jason Suhrke  |  Kate A. Ross  |  Jessica Poter  |  Robert Olmedo  |  Shel Gilbert  |  Christopher Horan  |  Rob Hoffman  |  James Gordon  |  Rick Glassman  |  Patrick Dunn  |  Nickole Doro  |  Katie Botkin  |  Weston Middleton
Writing AssistantDevin Mahoney
 

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