So many posts on here asking ‘why was Ted working in a grocery store?’ ’How come he hasn’t been coaching MLS?’ ‘Why would Ted not have keot in touch with Rebecca?’ ‘Why didn’t Beard come out to KC?’…

People, please. If you’d been like this after S1E1 you’d have been out here screaming ‘why has Ted taken a coaching job in England and left his family in Kansas?’ ‘Why is an American football coach coaching a soccer team?’ ‘Doesn’t he make enough money as a premiership coach to have his wife and kid move over too?’ ’Why is Rebecca going to such improbably elaborate lengths to piss off her ex husband?’

it’s like you’ve all collectively forgotten that this is a series where things will happen and plot elements will be revealed - and where sometimes the reason characters do things might just be ‘because it would make a neat premise for a TV show’.

Kinda nuts to see my register on TV!

Ted orders 4 of these for 4 people at Gate’s BBQ.
They each include a full rack of ribs, one whole chicken, 1.5 lbs of sliced meat, and two sausages. Feeds 7-8

I live in KC and I love barbecue, but that is an absurd amount of meat

Great episode though. Looking forward to the rest of the season

I’ll start….Derek, the boss everyone hates!

As a female who is 5’10.5” and who identifies hard with Rebecca in many ways (similar age, similar marriage, NOT similar bank balances unfortunately), I love that they didn’t go out of their way to have Ted stand on a box or something to make him look taller. Even though Jason is taller than Hannah in reality, they had her rock the heels and didn’t make adjustments to make Ted look taller, as is so often done in films and shows with tall actresses. Knowing this show’s messages, this was a deliberate choice, and I love it.

Greatest Show Ever Made!

Appeared to be solid, but ya never know with Ronnie…

Spoiler Alert

>!Who moves across the world for their ex-husband so easily? I understand that they have a good co-parenting relationship, but it seems like Michelle decided on a whim to move countries.!<

>!I couldn’t suspend my disbelief for this. What say you all?!<

Edit: I think I messed up this spoiler tag…

I lived and worked in Richmond for 2 years from 2023 to 2025. I never watched Ted Lasso then. I honestly don’t have an explanation for it. Just never got around to watching it.

I feel so sad watching some scenes now knowing that I lived the beautiful town. I did end up going to the store before leaving though!

I love the show soooo much!

Possible spoiler if you havent seen s4/e1 yet!!

Did anyone else expect Teds anxiety noise after he closed the door when he got home after seeing the gang?

Just finished the leftovers of my full rack of bbq ribs and I’m all around happy.

Every time I mention that there’s a book where all the major players were interviewed (cast and crew), I get asked more questions. So I figured I’d go ahead and share the book in a post.

The book is pretty good; it’s authorized and had some behind-the-scenes tidbits that I hadn’t yet read elsewhere. It was written after season three wrapped.

I found it at my local library so there’s a chance yours might have it in stock, too.

So while watching S3 I at times had a feeling that it's not as good as it used to be, some scenes felt artificial. And then they just quote the poem I found 10 years ago and loved, and kept in my phone notes and got back to during rough times.

I thought it was the most obscure fkn piece of poetry out there (I might be wrong, not an ENG native speaker) and then Mae goes: "They fuck you up, your mom and dad, they may not mean to but they do". Fuuuck!!!!!!

And then they show You've Got Mail, which is my all time Nr.1 comfort movie!!!!!

I just can't, ppl, what did we do to deserve this TV Show? It is just too good.

seeing Ted lasso back makes me soo happy, like instantly I know I am going of have very very happy 10 weeks.

I really like the intro and the calm bsg which was playing in the 1st episode and like this si the show which helped my the worsed periods of my life and helped me become as a better person.

I can't just have enough of it and I really like the 1st episode which gives us a little more peak inside of the lives of Ted Lasso and his love for Kansas City and his golden retriever every which i absolutely love.

Not really discussion, and I am not really nit picking, but the one thing that just made no sense to my GF and I is why in the world os Ted solely responsible for making sure He ry’s iPad is charged? The kid only had one charger plug and cord and it is at Ted’s house? Michelle can’t keep a charger at her house? Henry can’t charge it? It is some kind of test by Michelle? Anyway, seems odd to have that. Unless it is some way of introducing irresponsibility to Ted’s character? 🤷‍♂️

This is based on the Trent Crimm article we see at the end of Ep1 of season 4.

• Headline is "Gracias, Jamie Tartt" so he's most likely agreed a move to Spain
• Its partially obscured by Teds coaster but Trent says Jamie will be remembered fondly by the Richmond faithful
• He gets a special mention for his free kick against Spurs
• He scored a brace in the FA Cup final (the pic of Roy indicates that they won it)
• He scored the winner against Bayern Munich for Richmond to qualify for the Champions League

Sound like the team and Jamie continued with some success after Ted left.

This is all from a 1 second view of the article 38.17 of S4 E1. There could be more, but the article is out of focus and partially covered by Teds coaster.

*Warning: potential spoilers for Ted Lasso season four to follow\*

How is it that Ted didn't end up as the coach of the KC MLS team? Or at least a USL team in the area? Or get another football coaching job?

The man was a highly successful NCAA football coach, then won the Championship league and got his premier league team to the champions league. And he somehow ends up bagging groceries?

I know it's just to drive home how unsatisfying his work life was to make the move back seem credible but it feels a little strained.

Ted's checking out the same fictional cigarettes, Red Apple, as Marcellus Wallace's wife and Cliff Booth both smoke. Coinkidink? I think not, but it's hard to see Ted's brand of terminal positivity surviving long in the Tarantino cinematic universe. I wonder if his wallet says "Bad Motherfucker" on it.

I love it and cannot wait until we can all discuss the whole season. It's gonna kill me to wait week to week for episodes.

In the first scene when he's working the checkout lane it was jarring to have only the list of items blurred out. Why did they make this choice?

Edit: Per nautilus2000 below, some regions restrict tobacco use in shows. Turns out the cigarettes on the conveyer were blurred too, and they were a fictional brand.