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| “ | You guys just woke a sleeping giant. You have no idea what you just started. Welcome to the darkness, bitches. | „ |
| ~ Teddy Sanders' famous quote. |
| “ | I know what you might be thinking. "Teddy is gonna graduate this year and everything's gonna be fine." But it won't. Because in a few weeks, when school ends, so does our probation. There's gonna be hundreds and thousands of Teddys living next door to you for all time. Because "Teddy" is just an idea. (Mac and Kelly: “It's over. It's over, man. Okay? It’s done.”) It's over? Okay, it's over, it's over, it's over. I just have one thing I wanted to say. This entire time, your daughter is gonna be growing up watching all these young, shirtless men next door, and we're gonna be watching right back. (Kelly: “YOU’RE A BAD BOY! Get off our porch!”) Delta Psi, bitch. | „ |
| ~ Teddy threatening Mac and Kelly Radner, claiming that his reign will never end. |
Theodore "Teddy" Sanders is the main antagonist of the 2014 film Neighbors and the tritagonist in the 2016 sequel Neighbors: Sorority Rising. He was the former president and leader of Delta Psi Beta fraternity.
His goal is to throw massive loud parties in order to get onto the Delta Psi Beta Hall of Fame. He has been able to make good relations with all his neighbors except the film's protagonist Mac and his wife Kelly because the amount of noise Teddy's parties make will disturb their baby, but it was all failed.
In the sequel, he helps to Mac and Kelly to defeat the new main antagonist; Shelby, the leader of Kappa Nu Sorority.
He was portrayed by Zac Efron, who also played Billy Joel in Robot Chicken, Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, a disguised Dick Dastardly in Scoob!, and Troy Bolton in the High School Musical movie trilogy.
Biography[]
First Movie[]
After Mac and Kelly kindly ask him to turn down the noise, Teddy agrees but begs them to attend his party. Mac and Kelly do have fun at the party because it has marijuana, alcohol and socializing with friends. Teddy records them being at the party as well as telling Mac and Kelly that he will keep the noise down as long as they call him and not the police. The next day, Mac and Kelly cannot reach Teddy at all and reluctantly call the police on them. Police officer Watkins shows up but he defends Teddy against Mac and Teddy shows Watkins recorded videos of Mac at the party, which shows the reason why Teddy wanted Mac and Kelly at the party was to make the police think they are hypocritical towards Teddy. Mac and Kelly learn that Teddy has one strike on a 3-strike policy which was burning down the house.
As revenge for sending Officer Watkins over, Teddy then leads Delta Psi into completely bullying and vandalizing Mac and Kelly by throwing garbage all over their lawn, taking peeks (and possibly photos) of them naked, throwing beach balls at them and verbally repeating "Are you talking to me?" over and over at a Robert de Niro-themed party.
Mac and Kelly figured that they used to be college students but had no finances, and deduce that vandalizing Delta Psi's property will force them to move since they cannot pay for it. Mac uses an ax to slice a water pipe to flood through a window into the Delta Psi house's media room. Pete Regazolli first considers moving out but Scoonie influences Teddy to start a merchandise fundraiser. They earn the money to fix the damage.
The next day Mac and Kelly have come to the party and to frame Teddy's best friend Pete for having sex with Teddy's girlfriend Brooke. This results in Teddy and Pete fighting (which shortly ended with Pete calmly having an erection and homosexual tendencies towards Teddy), and just for entertainment, Teddy rolls down a barbecue grill down the road which a car strikes and it knocks out an economics professor. This makes it Teddy's second strike. Finally, he is put on probation, not allowed to party at all or cause any sort of disturbance.
Mac and Kelly team up with Jimmy to make a false school letter to tell Teddy that he and his Delta Psi brethren are now off probation. Delighted by the lying letter, Teddy activates another party to earn his place on the Delta Psi Beta Hall of Fame. However, Jimmy left Hebrew writing instead of Latin writing on the letter to taunt and Teddy's friends catching the Hebrew writing and reporting this to him, Teddy goes to shut down the party and quickly force everyone out as soon as the police officer Watkins returns.
Mac and Kelly return to the party to get the power box back on. They reach Teddy's room and Kelly goes in to turn the lights and music back on while Mac and Teddy battle in an amateurish way. Teddy wins the fight but Kelly then fires a firework at Officer Watkins' car which angers him into sending in additional police officers to shut down the party. Even so, Scoonie turns the power back on and everyone returns. Teddy tries to shoo them away, but it's no use so he decides to go alert Delta Psi to run away from the police. Teddy orders Pete to flee and not take any blame for the party, which is now their third strike. Teddy and Pete then yell "I LOVE YOU!" back and forth until the police have come and now Pete does run away. Officer Watkins then whacks Teddy with a nightstick and goes to punish him.
After serving a short prison term, Teddy became a shirtless greeter at Abercrombie & Finch's, and Mac joins him.
Sorority Rising[]
Teddy returns in the sequel as a protagonist. Due to his criminal record, he cannot find a worthwhile job.
On one night, he reunited with his former fraternity brothers in a poker game. When the friends help a former frat brother Pete's boyfriend Darren propose, Teddy is asked to move out. A distraught Teddy returns to his old frat house, next door to the Radners, where he meets Shelby, Beth, and Nora of Kappa Nu; the girls hoping to rent the house for their organization. Finding an opportunity to be valued, Teddy offers to help them throw parties, earning enough donations and new members to pay the rent fees.
When Kappa Nu runs out of funds due to fumigation tenting, thanks to Paula infesting the sorority house with bed bugs, the girls propose to sell marijuana at a tailgate party; they succeed by getting all local dealers arrested. Teddy discovers this and objects, knowing its illegality, and also discovering Shelby's decisions to make Mac and Kelly's lives miserable; the sorority evicts him and remorseful Teddy decides to redeem himself by helping Mac and Kelly get revenge on Kappa Nu.
At the tailgate party, Teddy distracts the girls with some dances, while Mac steals their marijuana, leading to a chase. The trio board a pickup truck driven by some accomplices, where Mac and Teddy further complicate Kappa Nu's plan to retrieve their marijuana by distributing it as freebies as they drive away. In return for his assistance, the Radners allow Teddy to move in, realizing his lack of direction in life.
The sorority receives an eviction notice, and Shelby reluctantly organizes a sexually gratuitous frat-style party to raise money. As Mac and Kelly wait to call the police, Jimmy and Paula sneak into the party, while Teddy is unable to shut off the sorority's power. Shelby steals Mac and Kelly's phones and locks Mac and Teddy in the garage, but they break out using airbags. Later, after the incident, Teddy reconciles with Pete and Darren, happily agreeing to serve as their best man.
Three months later, it is revealed that Teddy is a wedding planning business owner.
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Trivia[]
- Teddy was Efron's first villainous role.
- It is possible that Teddy MAY be a creep as he mentions that Stella would grow up watching Delta Psi’s shirtless men and them watching back, with Stella being a newborn at the time of the first movie, but it is possible that he was just messing with Mac and Kelly, mostly to make Kelly angry.
- Teddy and the fraternity can get arrested for theft and damage for breaking into Kelly's car to steal her airbags and also get arrested for attempted murder or assault for their airbag prank. If Mac or Kelly sat on the chair with the airbag in it holding their baby, the frat boys would definitely go to jail for assaulting a child.