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selina-meyer · 1 year

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boglady · 1 year

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Because people have asked, here’s way too many words on phallic imagery in the Ted Lasso episode “Biscuits”

As I’ve written about before (somewhat glibly), that initial biscuit offer is on its face presented as Ted’s way of getting to know Rebecca, but it also has the distinct feeling of a marriage proposal (the way Ted holds the box open for her) and a sexual proposition. Ted presents the open pink box to Rebecca, offering her a taste of his phallic shaped biscuits (“Away you go”) and she likes it (“Fuck me!”).

The biscuits are an interesting example of a phallic symbol, since pretty much any vaguely oblong shape can be interpreted as phallic if you really want to, but just by the nature of the prop, there’s a certain amount of creative freedom and intentionality to their shape and appearance. The biscuits could have been shaped like just about anything from a jammy dodger to a Proustian madeleine, but they went with the somewhat uncommon shape of long, thick, unusually dark shortbread without visible poke holes, which would certainly be the ideal look to go for if there ever was an intention to present the biscuits as phallic.

Looking past the dick-joke of it all, the look of the biscuits is also a bit old-fashioned, rough and homemade, suggesting their quality and sturdiness as a carefully produced labor of love. Of course, Rebecca doesn’t immediately know that they’re homemade, but all these properties are what connects them to Ted and tell us about the kind of person he is, perhaps more so than phallic reference of the shape itself.

And then of course there’s the literal added layer of the pink box itself (the yonic interpretation writes itself here, although I’m particularly obsessed with the fact that Ted folds these pink boxes himself, and that the box design has a little rounded clasp at the front and center). When Rebecca first starts receiving the biscuits, the box serves a function in the visual story-telling, as Rebecca initially closes the box in front of Ted, physically denying that she wants more (even though she clearly does). Much like with the biscuits themselves, there’s a non-dirty way of reading this, where Rebecca closing the box symbolizes her closed-off nature, and her beginning to open them the moment he hands them to her symbolizes that she is allowing herself to open up.

And along with the “opening up,” Rebecca also becomes more ready to consume the biscuits in front of Ted, and she does so voraciously. I’ve seen this interpreted as “stress eating,” but it goes far beyond that and notably only applies to the biscuits. At the end of “Biscuits”, she easily turns down Sam’s birthday cake, but at the beginning of the very next episode, she fully inhales the biscuit box as soon as Ted offers it to her.

#I’ve definitely written at ahem length about the other eps in the discord #I could also go on and on about the feminized phallus as reflective of the show’s view of masculinity #but I realized how many words I had already written so i figured i’d just shut up now #asta psychoanalyzes tl #tedxrebecca

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daydreamgoddess14 · 9 months

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Serenade - sneak peek!

From the Tedbecca Prompt Party:

No. 27 - A team karaoke night that changes everything.

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“Can you step outside for a moment, please, Ted?” He asked politely. Ted nodded and left the four alone. They spoke in hushed tones, in case he could hear them,

“What do you think?” Rebecca looked around the huddle. With Leslie on holiday, the three gentlemen around her had become her musketeers in recent weeks. Leslie had chuckled on the phone about being their d'Artagnan when he returned.

“I knew this would fucking happen,” Roy grumbled.

“We all did,” Beard agreed.

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Coming August 12th!

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#ted lasso #ted lasso fanfiction #ted lasso fic #tedbecca #ted and rebecca #tedlassoedit #ted lasso imagine #rebecca x ted #ted x rebecca #tedxrebecca #rebecca welton

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olafur-neal · 2 years

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So I’ve been tweeting some 90s Country related TedBecca and Ted Lasso headcanons and feels (mostly to remember them because some may or may not become fic) and I thought I’d share on tumblr.

TedBecca’s wedding first dance song would be From This Moment On (the Brian White Duet version). I am totally biased because it was mine and hubby’s song at our wedding but like SOULMATISM! No matter what has happened before, everything that has happened led them to each other AND FROM THAT MOMENT ON IT WAS THE TWO OF THEM TOGETHER!

I am so in my feelings about Ted’s face in all SamBecca related scenes and firmly believe that it was the first few moments of Ted realizing he was in love with Rebecca only to be told that she’s in a will they won’t they with his very attractive youngest player. While the song I’m thinking about is a little dated, Ted may or may not listen to it while in his feelings on repeat and that song is That Ain’t My Truck. Again it’s probably really dated but the dude in the song is accepting of his love’s choices he’s just super sad he’s not her choice. And he’s in his feelings about it. So yeah…

This one is RoyKeely related: When I said I Do is their wedding first dance song. Like I know they probably don’t listen to country music (altho I feel like certain types of country would be one of Roy’s secret faves like his Yoga Mums, it’s for roy to love and it’s no one else’s business) ANYWAY it’s their song because it’s listening to the lyrics it’s so them! It’s about choices you make, “when I said I do, I meant I will…” like that totally sounds like being accountable to the person you love. Anyway the song is beautiful and the artist actually does the duet with his non-famous wife instead of another famous country music star. (I’m in my feels but this is also on me and hubby’s playlist from when we were dating. So I’m biased again but IT WORKS!)

This one is Beard related, he has a very soft spot for country music, I’d like to think that he also comes from the Midwest and with the QAnon mom he has working class roots. And no matter how forward thinking he is, no matter how complicated his relationship is with his mother, the genre is still associated with good times, bittersweet times, it makes his heart warm. BUT this only applies to Pre-9/11 country. He hates all the nationalistic i love Murica patriarchal bs, that is coming out of Nashville nowadays. He finds it a perversion of the values he grew up with and an echo chamber of the worst voices he was around growing up. He does however have very good things to say about the new Alt!Country (think what’s played on Yellowstone) and has a very nice collection he’s building.

Back to Ted: He plays Tim McGraw’s Just to See You smile A LOT during his move to London, after he takes his ring off, and during the divorce proceedings (is it still called proceedings if they never went to court???). He even added it to the locker room playlist for a few days before Beard made him take it off. There was no conversation about it but there were several pointed eyebrow raises after the fifth time Ted started singing along to it while they were finishing up paperwork.

Check Yes or No by George Strait is straight up TedBecca vibes (sorry I had to make the pun, Ted would be very sad if I missed the opportunity). Like you’d think since it’s about young kids who grow up together it’d be TedMichelle vibes but it is not. It’s TedBecca vibes because Soulmates. That’s why. Also I may or may not be writing a fanfic where Ted sings it at karaoke but like right at Rebecca. So ya know. Also its romcom quality is very high.

Last one for now is How Your Love Makes Me Feel by Diamond Rio. It’s Lightening. I just this song makes me feel like I’ve been struck by lightening. Just listen to it. Its TedBecca. Omg I realized I loved you and I cannot stand to not do anything about it for a second longer. It may also make a karaoke appearance in that fic I’m writing.

#ted lasso #tedxrebecca #tedbecca #headcanons #beard #roykeely #country music

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supersonic-rocket-ship · 1 year

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Tedependent from a process of elimination perspective, because I just got some new tinfoil and I need to make hats

Ted’s arc this season is largely about his search for emotional intimacy, and the assumption by the viewers Is that it will be fulfilled by the end of the season, or at the very least alluded to. We can see how he is looking for genuine, authentic, romantic affection; and we watch him fail; through Sassy and even Michelle. Also, as the writers were writing this season as though it would be the last, it doesn’t make sense to not address this continuing storyline.

Cast members and even Hannnah Waddingham have talked about how the show is subverting expectations about TedxRebecca, and have brought up great points about the societal expectation that the male and female leads will end up together. It wouldn’t make sense for them to mention how these sorts of standards are unhealthy, and then go on to comply with those exact same conventions. This also perfectly sets up a queer romance by directly mentioning how they are going to defy the heteronormative standards the film industry typically subscribes to.

Ted and Rebecca’s arcs looking for romance are parallels, as have been their journeys through the first and second seasons. Important dual moments such as the conversations during the funeral episode in season two have been happening throughout the entire show. There’s even a nod to this when they both are carrying around Ola’s green matchbook. The most important romantic encounter Rebecca has had this season was her night with the boat guy, who was a romantic interest that came out of seemingly nowhere. You know who would seemingly come out of nowhere as a love interest for Ted? Trent!

#Tedtrent #tedependent #ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso spoilers #I zoned out and now there's three full paragraphs of analysis #what has this show done to my brain #please tell me this makes sense to anyone other than me

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ridingtedlassosjetskimustache · 1 year

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Me posting TedxRebecca and TedxTrent like

#trying not to get my hopes up #watch it be neither #that’d be a fucking twist #ted lasso #jason sudeikis #rebecca welton #tedbecca #hannah waddingham #ted x rebecca #ted x trent #trent crimm

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wewillbehappyagain · 11 months

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Shipping fictional characters can be a painful experience, and I’m just glad I feel relatively safe, especially after this interview! I agree on JamiexKeeley and TedxRebecca (not to say I don’t get the appeal), and I think Jamie is gonna stay single for now, and RoyxKeeley will end up together or it will be hinted that they’ll get together once they’re ready.

#i can see the throuple or royjamie appeal in an AU setting #but as ted lasso is right now? i don’t think jamie and roy could work and i don’t see jamie and keeley getting together either #like at all #phil dunster #ted lasso #ted lasso cast #jamie tartt #my post

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party-gilmore · 1 year

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HNNGNGNGNNN The SamXRebecca plot has been so tasty and interesting for each of their personal development and desires but ffffuucckkk I’d be a fucking liar if I said my heart wasn’t set on TedXRebecca like gggggooodddddddddd it would just be so SATISFYING and make me feel so warm and toastyyyyyy

#dgmw Trent Crimm (The Indepedent) is DELIGHTFUL #but for me he’s more like… the perfect dessert to COMPLIMENT the main pairing of the wine and meal

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somenamewithepineapple · 2 years

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thank you for tagging me @starflowersearching ! you're the bestest and i almost forgot to do this because i was so busy procrastinating

Three ships: (that's a tough one because my poor little heart is hyperfixating so much but i'll try) Mikita (Nikita), TedxRebecca (Ted Lasso), platonic JoanxSherlock (Elementary, it's so much more than a BroTP)

First ever ship: Chinduggery (Skulduggery Pleasant, og series)

Last song: this is my esc 22 phase, so it's "Jezebel" by The Rasmus

Last film: does german copaganda show "Tatort" count? if not then "The Protégé"

Currently reading: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez and about 30 books and papers about gender quotas and women in top management but those are for university so they don't count

Currently watching: Sky Castle

Currently consuming: mochi ice cream

Currently craving: a break

tagging @blue-aconite @awordwasthebeginning @mindfairies @faytalepsy and anyone else who wants to do this^^

#fyi #procrastination game

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selina-meyer · 1 year

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he’s kind of an idiot, but he’s her idiot.

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filmtribv · 3 years

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TED LASSO: 1.02 ft. The Biscuits

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blueymoons · 2 years

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Today I have a fic from ShfiftyFive who is @talldecafcappuccino here on the Tumblrs and it's one of the cutest I've ever read. I love it so much.

#Ted Lasso #Ted Lasso Podfic #Podfic #Audio Fanfic #tedxrebecca #rebecca welton #blueyreadsfanfic #Spotify

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bumblingalong · 2 years

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Tedbecca Fic Rec

Wide Open Spaces -ihopethatyouburn It's summer 1992, and Ted Lasso and Rebecca Welton are counselors at an American sleepaway camp.

#tedbecca fic rec #tedxrebecca #tedxrebecca fic rec #I love this au and these angsty teens with all my heart #ted lasso #rebecca welton #you have to read it because the details and world building are really something else

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iwouldntstopforaredlight · 3 years

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Okay so I have another (much smaller) (and much less concrete) Ted Lasso opinion that no one asked for … this time looking into episode 2x07 and the theme of masking. Specifically:

The nodding waterbird imagery

Rebecca + Ted’s limited interaction

Warning in advance if this one is a little rambly, its late but I just wanted to get it out of my head while it still sort of made sense to me.

Here is goes: now the waterbird theory doesn’t really impact too much, it’s more just an appreciation for the writers really looking to ensure that everything matters in this show.

So what we’re seeing as the series progresses is that Ted has a fairly strong emotional mask. He uses constant optimism to conceal emotions he does not want to feel/express/acknowledge. When Ted enters Dr. Sharons office in 2x07 his emotional mask is back firmly in place (unlike the previous night). He’s jovial, rambling, and deflecting. We can clearly see that this is a very different Ted to the one that we saw and the end of the previous episode. To the audience is feels conflicting: this is the Ted that we’re most used to, but this is not the Ted that we expect to see, we know something is wrong and there is a little frustration that the show is once again hiding it from us.

After the nervous show he puts on, when he sits down at Dr. Sharons desk, he taps the water bird and watches it nod, and he nods along with it. He mirrors the actions of the waterbird. Now this is interesting as the action he is undertaking is essentially purposeless except for show. There isn’t any water in front of the waterbird, its actions are never going to result in anything but an eventual slowing and tiring of the birds actions. But still Ted taps it, and he mirrors its actions. Yet the waterbird slows—as does his rambling. His mask is cracking. He is tiring. The waterbird stops completely and Ted is laid bare, with not persona or pointless chitchat to keep him in movement, and he storms out of the room. He can’t bare to stop yet, he can’t bare to be still.

The second time Ted enters Dr. Sharon’s office is much the same; the waterbird continuing to represent his mask within the therapy session and his true emotions come out as he looses momentum in keeping up his persona. By the time he storms out again, the mask is fully dropped, and the waterbird has long since been still.

So when in the final session he enters the therapy room stops the waterbird already in motion, his deliberate actions to stop it’s movements, to let it be still, acts as an acknowledgement that he truly is finally ready to stop and fully engage with the therapy. His mirroring has stopped.

Now why did I bring this up?

Well 1. (And this is the main reason) I just think it’s neat. I think the way they’ve symbolically set up so many moments and images in this show, and taken the time to really care, is fantastic and so enjoyable to watch.

And 2. Because I think it plays into the theme of the episode, and why I think we were withheld a scene as the audience

When you take a step back and look, the entire episode can be seen to be about the masks characters use, how these and left on or removed, and the impact of these actions.

With Nate, he masks his pride, hurt, and anger, which he then unloads onto Collin and then Will. Keeley masks her relationship issues from Roy, which causes her to unload and explode at him, despite both of their positive intentions. Yet while these two comparisons have similar overarching themes, their execution is couldn’t be more different.

It is true that both these characters (Nate and Keeley) have negative interactions with other characters during the episode due to emotions they repress, however while Nate is forgiven, he does not actually express the true reason he was angry, and so he continues to take out his suppressed emotions on others in the team. Keeley on the other hand clearly expresses why she is angry. She makes her feelings known, and so the forgiveness from Roy to her is genuine and lasting.

The positive impact of clearly expressing your emotions and true feelings is then pushed forward again through the interaction of Higgins and Coach Beard. As, despite being warned off, Higgin’s heartfelt confession to Coach Beard concerning his true feelings towards Jane is met with gratitude and positive emotion. A second positive example of not ‘bottling’ up emotions.

And then there were two. Rebecca is shown to be masking her true self through her interactions on the ‘bantr’ app, unwilling to let the person on the other end (who we know is Sam) truly know or see her. Ted is shown to be masking his true emotions, and attempting to shy away from the struggles he is having. Yet neither of these masks are shown to be fully removed or their impacts fully resolved within this episode.

Now, despite his harsh conversation with Dr. Sharron, we don’t see much of a negative personal fall out from Ted’s masking of emotions, and we don’t see Ted—usually our touchstone for the correction handling of a situation—make these same positive un-masking steps fully within this episode.

In fact in his first scene after his first therapy session we are instead treated to a coaching session where he emphasises importance of the team ‘masking’ their exhaustion … a little playful in the moment, but thematically relevant when view in context with the entire episode. Ted, then again, twice more throughout the episode deliberately makes cases for masking emotions. When talking to the diamond dogs about Coach Beard’s situation with Jane, he advises against interfering, indicating that in this situation it’s better to conceal true feelings, than to confront Coach Beard. This sentiment is then repeated in the boot room when Ted is talking to Keeley about her relationship issues with Roy. Once again he is a firm advocate for ‘bottling’ it up, and pushing it down.

While it is a significant scene between to the two characters, this episode can’t be mentioned without acknowledging the strange lack of one-on-one interaction between Ted and Rebecca. We as the audience know that she chased after him after the match, and we know that she also called him to check in with him, yet we don’t see any of the follow through scenes that we would expect to see from this type of leading storytelling. So if the whole episode is about masking … would it not be reasonable to think that maybe an interaction was masked from the audience?

We see Ted storm out of his first therapy session, and when next he comes in he is irritable from the first second he sits down. Now. I do think this can almost be explained away by his dislike of therapy BUT this show does like to themes and then follow through. When Higgins is confronting Coach Beard about his relationship, Rebecca is also watching in the parking lot. She is there to visually see the positive impact that confrontation can do when you believe something is wrong with somebody you care about.

Yet in the next scene Rebecca and Ted are in together, they barely even acknowledge each others presence, let alone have an emotional talk. When Rebecca walks in to the boot room we can see Ted try to make eye contact with her, and then we can also see him look at the ground dejectedly when Rebecca doesn’t look back. Similarly further on in the conversation when Ted makes a joke about ‘bottling’ up emotions (‘like pickles’) Rebecca laughs, but her facial expressions seem tight and slightly irritated before the camera angle cuts. And she again doesn’t look Ted’s way. So what do I think happened?

Well Ted and Rebecca’s emotional presentation is very different in this scene. Ted seems regretful and sad while Rebecca seems deliberately distant and a little subdued (towards Ted). We know from previous character arcs in the series that Rebecca struggles to put herself out into the world emotionally, and (as we saw with Higgins) reacts with cool distance when she feels rejected. So why is Rebecca acting as though Ted rejected her? Why is Ted acting as though he deserves the cold shoulder. Why is he doubling down on the ‘bottling’ up emotions rhetoric?

I think this show is aiming to explore the pressure that repressing emotions puts on all relationships in your life, and what the handling of these masks looks like when both positive and when negative. So I think the show kept a scene from us, because, for a show that aims to make us feel above all else, is there a better way to make us feel and appreciate the anger or shock of realising you thought you knew what was happening to someone, to feel assured that they’re telling you everything you need to know, only to have that belief ripped out from under you and turned on its head.

#ted lasso #Ted lasso meta #Ted lasso 2x07 #Ted lasso theory #text prompt #basically im just justifying why i think we were deprived the tedxrebecca scene we all deserved #and my only thought is: IT HAPPENED #we just havent been allowed to see it yet

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mskinkyafro · 3 years

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As for my ship of Ted x Rebecca, anyone else find it interesting as of late that the only other people they have been able to open up with and take risks to showing their true cards and vulnerable sides despite the label of the relationship are ppl who are their foils and similar to the other.

Sharon has same wall and at times icy exterior as Rebecca that Ted is determine to knock down and call his friend. Sam has the same cheeriness and persistence to wear down Rebecca and get her to loosen up just like Ted.

That ain’t a coincidence. That’s a deliberate choice and I believe it’s setting up for some TedxRebecca in Season 3. Patience is key.

#ted x rebecca #Ted Lasso x Rebecca Welton #slow burn for the win baby #especially with Ted assumed to be Sharon husband #gives me slight When Harry Met Sally vibes #just on the flip #that part in the movie where Harry was with the younger girl and Sally was with the guy that seemed to be exactly what she wanted #might be a reach comparison but you know what I mean #ted lasso spoilers

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remember-the-hurt · 2 years

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Hi, I just wanted to say I stumbled on your Tumblr before watching Ted Lasso and seeing the TedxRebecca posts gave me the encouragement I needed. Now, I have watched the entire series twice, once by myself and another time with my twin. Just really excited for the S3 :)

Omg thank you for telling me this, I’m glad my blog encouraged you!! Ted x Rebecca endgame in S3💜

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