This is Jamie Tartt's father, James, with his two buddies. Pop Culture Happy Hour 'Ted Lasso' Recap: Ted Can't Move On, But Can He Sit Still?ĭejected and desperate, Beard wanders out of the hotel, down the street and into a dark tunnel, where he is delighted to see three guys ambling toward him - people he can ask for help! Buuuuuut as it turns out, these are not the guys he's looking for. Beard lies on her couch, shrink-style, and begins to unburden himself about his confused feelings for Jane. (Is that what they're calling it these days?, etc.) Once they're there, she really does start working on the pants, though - in the meantime, she loans him a pair of sequined bell-bottoms that she says belonged to an old lover of hers who's now dead. Outside, he finds the woman in the red dress, and after some very intense flirtation, she invites him back to her place, promising she can mend his pants for him. When Beard can't present a membership card, the security guy turfs him out. And I listen more than I talk."īeard goes in search of a beautiful woman in a red dress whom he saw across the bar, but he winds up ripping his pants and attracting the attention of a security guy. In perhaps the most telling comment of the whole episode, Baz asks Beard how he knew so much about Oxford, and Beard says, "I dated a professor at Oxford. He manages to convince the snobs that he and the boys are all Oxford men. Just in the nick of time, Beard shows up and introduces himself as an Irish professor (an extremely Irish professor). At the pool table, the pub guys meet their Bizarro World Bones & Honey drink-elgangers, three snobs who immediately suspect they don't belong. Once there, they manage to con their way past the front desk and upstairs. Pop Culture Happy Hour 'Ted Lasso' Recap, Season 2, Episode 8: Father FiguresĪnd so, in borrowed blazers, caps and scarves, Beard and the boys set off for the club. ("Would you be-liiieve they did such a thing?" Paul sings.) Beard is immediately intrigued, and when the boys fret about the dress code, Mae produces a box of cast-offs from the pub's lost and found. The boys know of a private club called Bones & Honey, but even Cher couldn't get in there.
Several beers in, Beard still isn't ready to go home when the pub is closing.
He's waffling over whether to continue a text exchange with her when the pub guys - Baz, Jeremy and Paul - spot him and start chatting him up. But, haunted by a vision where the football announcers - Thierry Henry in particular haunts him throughout the episode - are all talking about him being bad at his job, he has to bolt.īeard heads to the pub, where he reveals to Mae that he and Jane have broken up because she didn't say "I love you" after he said it to her. But this time, instead of following Ted as we usually would, we follow Beard.īeard gets on the Tube (to a lovely acoustic rendition of the theme song performed by Jeff Tweedy that replaces the usual credits) and makes his way home. We begin at the end of "Man City," where Beard is telling Ted he's not going to come out with the team he wants to "shake this off" on his own. Beard (Brendan Hunt) spends a long night out after the Manchester City loss.īeard goes out on the town after the team's big loss to Manchester City, and he finds adventure, danger, magic, new friends and a return to old patterns.