The Radical Child

A prequel series to Seth MacFarlane’s film franchise of the same name, Ted follows the eponymous plush bear, whom MacFarlane voices (in a performance highly resembling that of his character Peter Griffin from Family Guy), is set in 1993-94, following sixteen-year-old John Bennett, Ted’s owner, and his family in Framingham, Massachusetts, with the stuffed ursine joining John in high school. The tone of the series is raunchy and profane, with tons of gratuitous swearing, along with endless crude humor, some being misogynous (but as a male, I find that kind of comedy funny, and a clever term for female-written books will forever live rent-free in my mind). Some political banter about events of the time also occurs, chiefly in the sixth episode, but is even-handed, with some fair points made. Overall, I enjoyed this series with its offbeat, if crude, sense of humor (which somewhat appeals to me as an autistic) and would happily check out the films.