Two films, and a television series set inside the gap the first film skips over.
Release order. The television series is a prequel, and it does not merely come before the first film: it sits inside it, in the twenty seven years the film crosses in a single line of narration. Watching it first would mean meeting a sixteen year old John before you have any reason to care.
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The wish is made at Christmas 1985 and the film then jumps twenty seven years in one move. Everything else in the franchise lives either side of that jump.
About three years on from the first film in total, with a courtroom plot about whether Ted counts as a person. It assumes you know the first film's ending.
Fifteen episodes across two seasons, set in 1993 and 1994 with John at sixteen. It fills in the years the first film crosses in a sentence, and it is much better once you already know who these people become.
Then what? That is everything watchable. Seth MacFarlane said in March 2026 that there is no plan for a third season, citing the cost of animating the bear, though it has not been formally cancelled. An animated Ted series was ordered by Peacock in 2025 and we have not been able to confirm that it has aired, so nothing is listed for it.
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