History Series / Ted2024

Serving as a prequel to the films, the series follows sentient teddy bear Ted as he grows up with his best friend John Bennett and his family in the suburbs of Massachusetts during the '90s. The series premiered on Creator/{{Peacock}} January 11, 2024.

* AbusiveParents: Matty is a straightforward example of this, being racist, sexist, homophobic, and irate towards practically everyone around him. [[spoiler:And Blaire stills stays at his house despite this, due to the fact her parents are outright drunks and insane]].

** In the first Episode, Ted is caught with [[spoiler:sex workers in someone else's house, just like in the first film]]. Just like that film, it's the point at which the other characters demand that his behaviour change.
* CastingGag: Possibly - the narrator is changed from Creator/PatrickStewart in the movies to Creator/IanMcKellen here, and both men are famously [[Film/XMenFilmSeries frenemies in fiction]] and good friends in real life.
* DeadlyHazing: Discussed when Ted asks Blair a long winded question about if she's going to participate in any college hazing which might go horribly wrong leading to everyone involved needing to cover it up and living with it as a dark secret until someone starts to get panicky and they'll have to be dealt with before it becomes a problem.

* KidsAreCruel: Clive and Erin are two of the biggest examples but are deconstructed by showing that they both have their own struggles that affect their behaviour with [[spoiler:absent parents playing a role to both as well as a murdered sibling specifically for the latter]].

** Whatever happened to Matty in Vietnam that he's afraid to accidentally talk about during his colonoscopy. [[spoiler:Subverted in that later we find out that he jacked off a dog. Which just raises the question of ''why'']].

* {{Retcon}}: John's parents briefly appeared in the prologue of the original ''Ted'' film, where they were portrayed by Creator/AlexBorstein and Ralph Garman, and were named onscreen as Helen and Steve, respectively. For their more prominent roles in this series, they are renamed Susan and Matty, are portrayed by completely different actors (Creator/AlannaUbach and Creator/ScottGrimes, respectively) and look and act nothing like their previous counterparts.

** In "Subways, Bicycles and Automobiles", Ted dresses up as an [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Ewok]]. It's Creator/SethMacFarlane. Of course he'd include Star Wars references. Blair also dresses up as [[Creator/MichellePfeiffer Michelle Pfeiffer's]] Catwoman from Film/BatmanReturns. She gets mistaken for Batman though.
** Shows and movies from the 90s are frequently shouted-out to the point where they'd be hard to all name here.

* CastingGag: Possibly - the narrator is changed from Creator/PatrickStewart in the movies to Creator/IanMcKellen here, and both men are famously [Film/XMenFilmSeries frenemies in fiction]] and good friends in real life.