Seth McFarlane's Ted, a movie you probably saw and immediately forgot, made over $200M in an era when you could only make money by adapting Marvel comics. Thunder buddies Nadia and Tony investigate how it happened, and how comedy worked in 2012. Tony writes a new intro for the show. Nadia reads the single funniest review we've ever found. Our theme music is “Hey Allison!” by Jeff Rosenstock, distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license, and available at quoteunquoterecords.com. Today’s outro music is Seth McFarlane and Norah Jones' "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" as covered by Uytae Lee.