Best Ted Lasso Puns

1. Jamie On The Deceased
2. The Best Jamie
3. Jamie On George Harrison
4. Yoda, They Are
5. Can't Buy Ted Love
6. Get Jamie's Tats
7. Jamie Is The Best
8. Jamie On That American Rodeo Clown
9. Jamie's Name, But Bigger
10. Secret Santa

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First off, I waited way too long to watch this show. My dad's been telling me to watch it for months but as it was on Apple TV+ I just never did. Well, one 7 day free trial and a binge watch later and I absolutely loved it.

but I think what I loved most is that the male characters actually felt like real people, not like most TV shows or films where they're walking stereotypes who can barely communicate with each other or who only have moments of clarity once every 5 or 6 episodes. Sure, they all had some stereotypical traits. Nate was lacking in confidence and being bullied, Roy was the angry older player, Beard was the eccentric second in command, Lasso himself was the dopey Yank out of his depth, etc.

But Roy was also willing to be vulnerable (that scene where he allows Keeley to comfort him in the locker room during the final game); Nate was not some idiot, he had good ideas but just needed someone to believe in him (Lasso making him read his own roast of the team), the way that Roy stood and listened while he was being roasted; Beard was a competent coach and was able to stand up for himself when he disagreed with Lasso; Lasso was ever the optimist but never a pushover.

Even characters like Colin and Isaac, who could have been nothing but stereotyped bullies, were written well. Nate's roast of Colin in particular showed that people weren't scared of Colin himself, he just had Jamie's protection. Without that, he was just another man. Isaac making a space and indicating Nate to sit next to him during Lasso's half time speech is another example.

The darts scene, Lasso's panic attack, Nate's roast, Roy's 'press conference', the 'sacrifice', the Diamond Dogs, Lasso's split from his wife, Crimm's interview, the half time team talk after subbing Jamie, Roy accepting his place on the bench and most of all, possibly my favourite scene in the whole series, Lasso's speech in the changing room after the final game. The fact he immediately acknowledge the goalkeeper, who would have been feeling terrible, and commended him on the excellent game he had, the fact he didn't tell them to suck it up or not be sad, brilliant.

The only person I didn't like was Jamie Tartt. I know he's supposed to be a prick but he's more of a pantomime villain than anything else. I hope he gets a bit more development in the second series.

I just wanted to make a post about how much I thought the writing nailed each character. The only reason I'm focusing on the male characters is b

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This show is so good and so worthwhile, it's practically a disservice to civil discourse that it's only available on Apple TV+, a relatively minor streaming platform.

The basic plot can be summed up in a sentence. A moderately successful, endlessly optimistic American football coach gets picked to lead a flailing Association Football (Soccer) team in England, despite knowing nothing about English culture or Association Football.

This is initially played purely for laughs and even a few pratfalls. A lesser show with this premise would be nothing more than a cheap boner comedy, something that Adam Sandler might have led in the early 00s.

But by the end of the second episode, it becomes clear that Ted Lasso is about a lot more. It reveals itself as a meditation on masculinity and male relationships, the difference between healthy competition and toxic competition, the effects of media and sports on both young men and old men. It's often hilarious, often vulgar, but never crass.

There are literally almost zero sexist, homophobic, or racist jokes, not even winking or ironic ones. (EDIT: StonyGiddens pointed out that there are one or two sexist or homophobic jokes made by secondary characters in the first episode, but those characters are clearly not meant to be liked, and the main culprit disappears after the first half of the first episode.) It's like a glimpse into an alternate reality of male-oriented comedy, where the humor comes from building complex and organic relationships instead of gay panic and a fear of women.

The character of Ted Lasso is a truly Good Man, an unabashed male role model that I haven't seen on TV since... maybe ever? He's not perfect, he struggles with grief and loss and frustration, he doesn't always make the right choice. But he always acts and speaks out of curiosity and openness. He takes responsibility for his mistakes, and tries to forgive others for theirs.

He acknowledges and seeks the contributions and opinions of others, even potential rivals. He embraces competitiveness without turning everything into a zero-sum game. He understands that masculinity comes in many forms. He respects and includes women without tokenizing, idolizing, or neutering.

And virtually every other character is equally fully realized. The potential villains of the series all have understandable motivations, often rooted in recognizable trauma and experiences. There are perhaps one or two characters that are more of like one-dimensional v

Such a wonderful blend of humor, insight, real life situations, tough times, waterworks, and abundant acceptance and kindness. Someone should start a high school class on The Ted Lasso way. I predict many award nominations, deservedly so.

That being, you’re like Ted alone from family on Christmas but it’s because of Covid related stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2sf4kmBQ8

Edit: thank you, everyone! All of your comments made me feel a lot better.

Over/under 100?

I hear the shows lumped together and I get it. They all feature great casts of very likeable actors and have a cartoonish overwritten sensibility. But to me the comparison ends there. Kimmy Schmidt has the jokes. Sometimes layer upon layer of jokes, sometimes the setup is in season 1 and the punchline is in season 3. Sometimes the jokes are so funny that even thinking about them makes me laugh, even though I've seen them a million times (e g., "Daddy's boy"). I haven't seen anything like that in Schitts Creek or Ted Lasso even though those shows swept the Emmys. Am I missing something, or is everyone else wrong?

It was a dark and cold Friday evening, the kids had gone to bed and I was sitting in my couch drinking a glass of wine, watching probably the best TV series in the world - Ted Lasso!

That's when it hit me.

I wan't to be able to get a daily dose of funny quotes from the show directly into my terminal.

A couple of hours later I had built https://tedlassoquotes.com (obviously in Go).

It had gotten late so I decided to continue later in the weekend.

On that Sunday evening I created the Ted Lasso Quotes CLI, bought the domain and deployed the backend to Linode.

Checkout out the repo for the CLI here https://github.com/fredrikburman/ted-lasso-quotes-cli

This was quite a fun weekend, I know, I might have issues :)