ted (2024)

A prequel to the 2012 Seth MacFarlane comedy starring Mark Wahlberg its 2015 follow up, this Peacock series revisits the moment in 1985 when a young lonely boy named John Bennett wished that his teddy bear would come to life and the wish came true. It then skips to 1993 where Ted (still voiced by MacFarlane) has returned to Framingham, Massachusetts after a brief brush with fame to live with the now teenage John and his parents - loud, conservative father Matty (Scott Grimes) and mousy, peace-loving mother Susan (Alanna Ubach, doing some outstanding vocal work of her own). Also hanging around is Blair (Giorgia Whigham), John’s very liberal cousin who attends college nearby and has a very Meathead/Archie Bunker relationship with her Uncle Matty. With the thunderbuddies-for-life reunited, all types of stoner shenanigans ensure, especially when Ted is made to attend high school with John. In the show’s second season, there’s a focus on John’s lack of experience with the ladies that kicks off with the two using a phone in the school basement to call a 1-900 sex line. By the next episode, Ted encounters a horny neighbor who tries to seduce him (Michaela McManus, doing her best Mrs. Robinson in some sexy lingerie) and Alanna canoodles with Scott in bed while wearing a white bra, but that’s the closest we get to seeing skin. Despite the sexy subject matter, Ted is more bear than bare.