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Jamie receives a scout with binoculars, symbolizing that Ted is still looking out for Jamie, even when he's playing for another team. Be Careful What You Wish For: Throughout Season 1 and the first half of Season 2, everyone wanted Nate to step up and be more confident: Roy demanded he stop reading his roast and do it face to face, Ted and Beard encouraged him to come out of his shell and share his football strategies with the team, and Rebecca and Keeley helped him learn to be more assertive. As a result, Nate went from kit boy to amazing coach... and then the praise went to his head and he turned into a complete asshole.

Whether you’re a seasoned Ted Lasso enthusiast or just starting your journey with this lovable coach, our quiz questions are designed to entertain, amuse, and, hopefully, bring a smile to your face, just like the show itself. Carol of the Bells" focuses on Ted and Rebecca spending Christmas together, Roy and Keeley having to host Phoebe after her mother needs to work an emergency surgery, and Higgins and his family throwing their annual Christmas party for all of Richmond's international players. Kind of horrifically subverted with Nate's arc, where his inner Jerkass tendencies come to the fore over the second season.Even the problematic Jamie Tartt gains some wisdom – just a drop – by the end of the season finale. His journey will take more time, but something important does happen late in Episode 10, The Hope That Kills You, that shows he is learning, if slowly. Soccer-Hating Americans: Downplayed. As a dedicated American football coach, it's understandable that Ted has little knowledge about soccer and indeed that is the reason he's chosen to coach Richmond. However, Ted's personality is such that he never shows any disdain for the sport, he's just woefully ignorant. Coach Beard, similarly, never disdains the sport, and is shown doing his own research on it. Everyone Owns a Mac: This being an Apple TV+ show, all the characters are regularly seen typing away on Macs and using iPhones, often with the logo visible. Other players like Sam, in Season 1, and Colin, in Season 3, are able to better play to their potential when they get the support they need. As it is written, the motto seems not to make sense: if we assume that all words are nominative, the meaning becomes something like ‘A strong guide is (equals) victory’, a plausible, and indeed the only possible grammatical, meaning but not a particularly emphatic meaning, even if it does dovetail with the point of the show (reading gradarius as a noun eliminates the incongruity of two masculine adjectives agreeing with a feminine noun). With victoria as ablative: ‘A strong guide (wins / leads) by means of victory’ or ‘because of victory’? Not sure exactly what that means. The strongest meaning is ‘A strong hand / coach guides us to victory’; that has the strength of other Latin mottoes that I assume the show is trying to invoke. But that’s not what the Latin says.

Separated by a Common Language: Ted repeatedly struggles with the differences between US and UK English, with Coach Beard helpfully providing translations such as: coach/manager, practice/training, cleat/boot, trunk/boot, etc. Prediction for season 2: We’ve already seen in the season 2 trailer that AFC Richmond will face a string of ties. This book reference suggests they will show gradual improvement, winning more games later in the season, and — of course — leading to victory. They have to get a promotion spot by the end! Interestingly, the show draws a line between easy-but-insincere apologies and hard-but-meaningful apologies. The star player, Jamie Tartt, throws a meaningless apology Keeley’s way after he embarrasses her publicly – “people should be accountable,” she tells him – which frames the sincere apology Keeley offers Roy for doing the same thing to him.Jamie's father screams at him and throws a shoe at his head for passing the ball to a teammate instead of making the game-winning goal himself (worse when you realize that probably half the reason they made the goal is because he passed; Jamie's former team are so used to him being selfish and always taking the shot himself that they disregarded the possibility of him passing). Colin being gay and in the closet is hinted at a couple of times in Season 2 before being confirmed in Season 3. Most obviously, he immediately blurts out that Bantr is spelled like the gay hookup app Grindr in "Do The Right-est Thing", but he's also the only character wearing a vest in "No Weddings and a Funeral" as a nod to Simon Callow's character in the titular film, who is known for wearing elaborate vests and is openly gay. Season 2 also more generally hints that Colin is hiding something from the team: he's the only character other than Ted who is repeatedly shown having therapy sessions with Dr. Sharon, his performance on the pitch suffers throughout the season, and he struggles with self-esteem issues and insecurities about his place on the team that have no clear origin. Ted: No, "Hey Jealousy" is their best song. My favorite song of theirs is "Follow You Down". You don't know that story?

Roy does not bother to put on a shirt as he dashes outside the stadium to look for Jamie, leading Keeley (who is arriving) to quite shamelessly leer at him.

Richmond Wins Hearts But Not the Title

Country Matters: Notably averted. Plenty of characters swear a lot, and while said word is considered less vulgar in Britain, it's the only swear word explicitly forbidden by the show's network.

Fictional Social Network: Season 2 introduces Bantr, a newly-released dating app that Keeley arranges to sponsor Richmond. The idea is that unlike most dating apps, it doesn't have the option to upload pictures, so people can only connect through conversations. In season 2 episode 8, Sharon watches Lust Conquers All: All-Stars. One previous winner is Danthony, who Jamie got Voted Off the Island against in his reality TV stint. It's also a reference to Allen Iverson's infamous Practice Rant , which Ted Lasso then performs almost word-for-word. Booked Full of Mooks: When Ghanian multibillionaire Edwin Akufo tries to convince Sam Obisanya to leave AFC Richmond and sign on with his team, he takes Sam to an art museum to have a chat. Midway through, Edwin reveals that he rented out the whole museum for the day and everyone else there (even a man Edwin claims is actually Banksy) is an actor. Season 3, episode 12 is "So Long, Farewell" from " The Sound of Music". Bonus points because the song is actually performed during the episode, effectively making it a musical Title Drop.Jamie Tartt seems to be unaware that removing his shirt when celebrating a goal is a bookable offence. Granted, Jamie is somewhat Book Dumb, but you'd expect a professional footballer to know that, especially if he's done it in the past, which is implied. The same goes for Zava in the third series; if he does get booked for doing so, it is not stated.