What small moments felt out of character for the Ted Lasso universe? I don’t mean Nate’s arc or Keely is season 3. I mean what small event seemed like something the character wouldn’t do?
My example is Beard putting his bare ass on Rebecca’s counter top. He was odd and sexually adventurous but always seemed to have a handle on etiquette. It seemed out of character to do that.
Also Rupert putting his chance of being in the owners box to torment Rebecca for a bar bet. Those dart prizes didn’t seem equal. Picking the line-up doesn’t seem like such a big deal and I thought the stakes should have been higher to entice Rupert.
yeah, those moments felt a bit out of character for sure. it’s like the writers were trying to add some shock value but it didn’t really fit with the established personalities. they could have gone a different route to create tension or humor without making the characters seem inconsistent.
Jamie and Roy fighting over Keeley in the final season felt out place. Character regression 101
Speaking of Beard and his GF …I generally found his weird submissive and codependant relationship with her a bit forced and off-brand. I could see him either playing the field OR in a quirky relationship with someone, but without the controlling aspects. Never seemed a good fit for his character.
The man who worked at Man City, who accepted money to bite people, who went to jail for meth, and who lived to serve Ted, who sings Bad Romance….seems like he wouldn’t be into a 24/7 BDSM lifestyle? Ok.
This may be bigger than the scope of the question a bit, but I never bought Rebecca’s “barmaid backstory” of how she met Rupert. 🙄 That was lazy writing. She came from money, that story is not believable for a woman of Rebecca’s background, education or personality.
Jake the shady therapist. It was more than a “character flaw”. The whole Ted universe is people learning to be better versions or find peace. Or in Rupert’s case finally running into consequences.
Jake just disappeared. The assumption is he was dumped, but we don’t know. He also should have been in front of an ethics board. They made Sharon so important, but really lost the plot with Jake.
Another one is Colin mentioning Grindr. He’s so careful hiding his secret that it’s a bit out of character to say something is ‘like Grindr.’
He didn´t seem that careful given that him and Michael making out outside Sams restaurant was that easy for Trent to spot.
I also imagine there’s a level, conscious or unconscious, that he wanted to be caught and confronted so he’d have a reason to come out
I thought it was odd that Ted didn’t show more emotion at the “So Long, Farewell” tribute and that Rebecca and Keeley weren’t watching.
totally-he didn’t bat an eye like…okay???
And I was bawling!!!
💯!!! He was just like cool thanks bye
Sassy Smurf saying that Ted’s references are very specific to being a 40 year old guy from Kansas when he routinely makes references to things that are unusual for a 40 year old guy from Kansas, like Kanye’s 808 & Heartbreak, Woody Allen’s saxophone playing, Julie Andrew movies, etc.
The opening scene with Ted and Rebecca in the kitchen because of the gas leak…look, if there were ticket stubs for the Ted/Rebecca hooking up bandwagon, I’d have ticket no1 & no2.
But that whole scene just seemed out of character for everyone, it was the only time I ever felt like the writers were lazy about throwing us viewers off. Not once before had there been that awkward sexual tension between them and then BAM out of left field they can’t make eye contact and talk about last night just because Beard and Jayne were bumping uglies?
To your point OP, Beard sitting on the counter and leaving a mess in the guest bedroom of someone they have shown he respects, seemed wildly out of character; even for someone as eccentric as Beard
There is a very large very vocal contingent of Ted Rebecca shippers they were fucking with and it was hilarious
I believe they couldn’t talk about last night because Ted had told Rebecca he was going to go back to the US and she wasn’t ready to acknowledge that yet.
Ted not attending coach beard’s wedding
I thought Coach Beard’s wedding was supposed to be Ted’s dream on the plane, it was filmed differently and fuzzy than the other ‘flash forwards,’ and the next scene is Ted waking up when landing.
Not an out of character thing, but out of the show’s character was two tell, not show events; Nate quitting West Ham and Ted telling Rebecca he was also quitting. The show does a great job showing these kinds of events, but just skipped them completely. First watch, I thought I had missed an episode when they mentioned Nate wasn’t coaching West Ham anymore so I went back and rewatched half the previous episode looking for that scene.
I agree about Nate quitting West Ham, but i disagree that we missed anything vital in the other missing scenes. I think we know perfectly well what was said and in the case of Ted quitting how Rebecca reacted to it.
The “were talking about practice” speech felt odd to me on my first watch. I didn’t know the reference at the time.
I know this isn’t really the spirit of this post, but the brief appearance of Led Tasso was awesome.
Nate quitting West Ham. Nate happily and submissively accepting the position of assistant kitman back at Richmond.
If one is at heart an ambitious, driven person, the love of a good woman and a compliment from your withholding dad isn’t going to change your essential character like that.
Nate was all over the place. In my opinion he wasn’t at all redeemed just because he worked as a waiter and got a pretty girlfriend. He was still a short sighted ingrate who fell into a career because of Ted and then threw it back in his face when he no longer felt like Richmond’s Wonder Kid.
Realistically he wouldn’t go back to Richmond, the players would go back to treating him terribly because he would’ve deserved it
Yes, realistically, he would get another head coaching job in the Premier League because he’d done such a good job with West Ham and because his ego would need that validation.
As someone who was married to and built a life with someone as truly decent and loving as Ted- Michelle.
She divorced him (Sometimes people just aren’t right for eachother, that’s fine) and then began dating their marriage counselor. I would think someone Ted would choose to spend his life with would have a similar baseline of integrity.
Also this isn’t relevant but in real life everything Dr. Jacob did was super illegal and he would lose his license to practice.
I found it weird in the final episode dr. Jacob was being the aloof and uninterested partner (watching the final match) as a marriage councilor you’d think he would know better.