Ted And Rebecca Talk About Their Dads in a Beautifully Crafted Scene

Rebecca is hit with the news that her father has passed away. The prospect of attending this funeral forces Ted to deal with his own dad’s death.

In the Ted Lasso tradition, the coach is seen getting ready for the funeral jiggling to the tunes of a fun song. And while not all of his positivity is a farce, his looming issues with his dad cause him to have a panic attack, once again revealing that all is not okay behind Lasso’s smiling face.

When Dr Fieldstone makes it to the scene, she sits Ted down and asks him to narrate his father’s suicide to her. This scene dances back and forth with Rebecca’s own monologue that expresses her hatred for her father.

Rebecca’s father did not have much of a presence on screen, but her resentment for him filled any gaps that the audience may have felt. When asked by her mother why she wouldn’t deliver a eulogy, Rebecca reveals that she walked in on her father being with another woman.

This same “walk in” is mirrored with Ted’s description of entering his father’s bedroom on a night that was supposed to be a fun movie marathon with his friends. Instead, he hears a “bang!” go off.

When both Ted and Rebecca walk into their respective rooms of doom, they’re reduced to tears.

Ted reveals that he never went to his own father’s funeral because a suicide meant he quit on his family and on himself. This is something he still hates his father for. Rebecca, on the other hand, is angered that her mother knew about the affair and yet both parents did nothing to ease her burden.

The Doc weighs in by asking Ted to recall a good memory around his father. Just as the good deeds don’t cancel out the pain Ted and Rebecca feel, the bad memories too shouldn’t tarnish the happiness of good ones.

After recalling a heartwarming episode with his father, Ted eventually makes it to the funeral, just in time to lend Rebecca the support she needs during her own father’s eulogy.

In a rather emotional performance of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” Rebecca makes peace with the fact that her mother had her own ways of dealing with the affair, and that fortunately, Rebecca was brave enough to choose differently for her own marital issues.

The episode let Ted and Rebecca hold up mirrors that not only helped to deal with their respective pasts, but also reflected why they’d make good friends to each other.

About Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso is an American sports-comedy streaming TV series developed by Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, Joe Kelly, and Brendan Hunt. It’s based on a character of the same name that Sudeikis first portrayed in a series of promos for NBC Sports’ coverage of the Premier League.

It follows the life of Ted Lasso, a coach of college-level American football who is unexpectedly recruited to coach an English Premier League team, AFC Richmond, despite having no experience at all in association football.

It stars Sudeikis as the titular character, Ted Lasso, joined by Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, Phil Dunster, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Nick Mohammed, Juno Temple, and Sarah Niles among many others.