Ted Red Band Trailer Is Exactly What You Expect From Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane.

Uttering his name, one has already split people 50/50. The first half who finds his politically-incorrect (Read: easy stereotypes) raunchy, rapid-fire pop culture raddled humor God's gift to comedy. The other half who views that same affinity for referencing movies or TV shows from the last 30 years as comedy writing at its laziest and his using Family Guy as a platform to shove his left-wing views down our collective throats to the point of stopping episodes cold just to get across how much he hates George W. Bush and loves Barack Obama.

No matter your ideology on the man, he's made Fox a lot of money and doesn't show any signs of stopping his signature show or its spin-offs. Since dominating the field of TV animation as much as anyone can (We're all waiting to see how his Flintstones revival series), he's turned his attention to a foreign concept: directing.

Funny or Die has the red-band trailer for Ted, his directorial debut in the live-action comedy arena about a man (Mark Wahlberg) and his relationship with his best friend, his fouled-mouth, among other things, teddy-bear voiced by MacFarlane, and yes he does sound just like Peter Griffin. If you're among that crowd of devout MacFarlane fans, you'll like what you see. For the rest, well, at least you know what you won’t be watching on July 13^th: