We need something more. Trouble is, the rest of "Ted," MacFarlane's directorial debut, is pretty listless. Especially any time the talking bear takes a hike, which is way too often. Need a break?

The usually harmless source is what makes the offensiveness funny; Ted delivers the gags with a straight face since teddy bears don't have any other expression. John's girlfriend Lori (Mila Kunis ...

But even those less enamored with MacFarlane’s scattershot style will admit that there are plenty of funny ... parents, Ted becomes a celebrity of the moment (as a talking teddy bear would ...

Seth MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear gets a logical scaled-down home in “Ted,” a Peacock prequel ... proudly offensive and occasionally very, very funny. For those unfamiliar with ...

In Ted, the bawdy teddy bear fantasy that has yielded two R-rated ... Creator (and Ted voice) Seth MacFarlane clearly finds it all funny, having continually returned to this particular well.

The engine driving the plot is Ted's friendship with John (Wahlberg), a kind if breathtakingly dumb Boston slacker, and the bear's tendency ... of the more revoltingly funny lines of the year.

As for the rest of us MacFarlane fans, buckle up because “Ted” really is a hilariously ... by material that is largely original and funny. MacFarlane, who also provides the voice of the vulgar teddy ...

To make “Ted,” his R-rated film about a man-boy and his teddy bear that comes alive, Seth MacFarlane spent years working with his producers and visual effects supervisor Blair Clark to adapt ...