Premise: `` Everybody Needs a Best Friend '' is a song from the 2012 feature film Ted , with music composed by Walter Murphy and lyrics by Seth MacFarlane . Seth MacFarlane . He wrote the lyrics for the Academy Award-nominated song `` Everybody Needs a Best Friend '' for Ted .
Hypothesis: Seth MacFarlane wrote the lyrics for "Everybody Needs a Best Friend."
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