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I broke my promise almost immediately and went back on the devil app. My main take away is that Aisha Hinds should be directing every single episode. It’s bringing the fandom together.

Like I’ve still seen some very stupid takes, it’s so much less than I thought

Tonight’s episode may well be the straw that broke the camel’s back and got me to never open tiktok again. Here people are civil. I don’t want to know what they are saying. Let me be blissfully ignorant.

Like do you know how fucked your fandom has to be for tumblr to be the civil part?!?!?!?

Let two consenting adults have a fun night together jfc

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I would however like to talk about Ravi’s POV of this episode:

1. Boss keeps calling you your old coworker’s name.

2. Find out your boss’s mom is some kind of famous faith healer?!

3. Coworker who once chased you with a chainsaw is being weirdly nice to you and is clearly trying to replace old coworker with you.

4. You give in and go out to drinks with coworker. Coworker will not shut up about his bff. He’s also drinking way more than you were planning for.

5. You run into your coworker’s ex at the bar.

6. You bring your coworker’s ex over to your coworker.

7. You leave.

8. You go to help an old man who fell in his garden and his wife rises up out of the flower bed.

What a wild week with wild choices

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Tonight’s episode may well be the straw that broke the camel’s back and got me to never open tiktok again. Here people are civil. I don’t want to know what they are saying. Let me be blissfully ignorant.

Like do you know how fucked your fandom has to be for tumblr to be the civil part?!?!?!?

Let two consenting adults have a fun night together jfc

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If a vote in California is a sneeze, a vote in Wyoming is an orgasm

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i do not come on here and appreciate maddie buckley han as much as i should but i would literally go to war for her

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Hey, Question for the class?

Has anyone else noticed that Steve Harrington and Nick Nelson have the same poster in their rooms? I feel like I cannot possibly be the first person to notice this.

Ok so there not like exactly the same and I don't know enough about cars to even tell you if this is significant. Is this a boy thing? Is this a bisexual thing?

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Hey, remember me, probably not. I think I want to get back on tumblr after like a year and a half off. I got busy and just kinda out of the habit. Plus I’m like super dyslexic so I often gravitate away from text based social media but I have been getting way too much from fandom TikTok and I think it’s made me worse.

Probably don’t have much to say about Ted Lasso anymore. I am watching 9-1-1 but the discourse in that fandom kinda scares me (famous last words). I’m also getting into some Stevie fanfic again because my god that fandom is so talented. I’d also love to do more costume design breakdowns for shows and movies and stuff, so if anyone has requests by all means.

I also know that there is a very long and annoying rant about sewing machine brands that is begging for the light of day, because you know what this app needs, discourse about the Singer Heavy Duty.

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So Ted “mercury stache” Lasso remembers watching the Live Aid Queen show and now we’re going to acknowledge his greatest talent (Turning Straights), play Fat Bottomed Girls and move on?!

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I’ve been so busy moving and starting a new job that I forgot it was Tuesday and I am absolutely not emotionally prepared for another episode.

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So, if being a Denver Broncos fan is being gay and Broncos fans eat seven layer dip, what is the seven layer dip that Ted wants in on?

Just saying

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Sport is quite the metaphor

are they… you know… a denver broncos fan?

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As a Gay Denver Broncos fan, I don’t even know where to start with episode 9. I’m in awe.

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I'm in the middle of moving so I might not get to watch tonights episode for a full 24 hours and I'm a little devastated. Giving me some empathy for fans outside the Americas who get the episode at like 4am though

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wait what does this point mean under trent?

"Less likely but what all the Tedependent girlies (ungendered) want, fake dating trope"

I haven't seen anyone saying anything about that

Oh, no one is saying anything about it. The Birdcage just has the feeling of fake dating trope even though it’s not. This point is even “less likely” it’s full fanfiction. Someone please write the fix where Trent does drag and brings Ted as his date to some parent event at the Crimmlett’s school to appease the conservative parents and then gets revealed when Crimmlett’s mom finally makes it but it’s ok because his fake date is now his real date and “I Am Who I Am” plays.

It’s what all the tedependent girlies want because I am a tedependent girlie, I want it, and we are a hive mind.

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The Bird-Locker-Room (aka. La Locker Room Aux Folles)

Having just rewatched The Birdcage in preparation, I am now ready to wildly speculate about how Ted Lasso episode 9 could parallel Folles. We have 3 confirmed queer main characters and 3 directions this can go. I could see each of these options happening individually or I could see some combination of them.

Side note: if you are in the US (or have a VPN) The Birdcage (1996) is currently free with ads on youtube.

Also for those who don't know, this weeks episode title "La Locker Room Aux Folles" is a reference to La Cage Aux Folles, a french musical with songs in the show's soundtrack. It was then adapted into the movie The Birdcage with Robin Williams.

Here are what I see as the essential elements of La Cage/Birdcage:

An elaborate scheme to overcompensate and hide one's sexuality

Well meaning character asks gay character to act straight

Media Circus

Drag (the fourth element of Total Football is Drag :) )

Option 1: Colin Hughes

Obviously, we know that Colin's plot line is going to play in the next episode. It's in the first line of the episode summary. Here are the ways I could see that playing out. Many of these I don't want to see happen but I am saying they could.

Colin concocts some kind of elaborate rouse in order to try to convince Issac that he is straight and those photos of men were just a joke

Issac asks Colin to be more careful in order to protect the reputation of the team

Issac takes Colin to a drag show to be supportive but the press show up

Some kind of interaction with a conservative politician. Could mirror Sam's experiences and change Colin's mind about wanting not wanting to be a representative for the queer community

Michael. Just think he's going to be involved

Option 2: Trent Crimm

Realistically, I think it is likely that Trent plays into this next episode mainly as an accessory of Colin's story. That said there is the opportunity here for a B plot that mirrors Colin's A plot.

Trent attempts to play off a boyfriend as a friend around the club (similar to how Colin introduced Michael in Episode 3)

Trent finds ways to subvert the media circus or throw off the trope. Think of this as: what the Birdcage might have been like if the reporters were gay and wanted to respect everyone's privacy

Less likely but what all the Tedependent girlies (ungendered) want, fake dating trope

Option 3: Keeley Jones

I don't think Keeley is going to play a major role in this episode simply because we have seen so much of her in the last 2 episodes. Typically we don't see the show focus on one character (other than Ted) for 3 episodes in a row.

Keeley as publicist could be involved in the media circus and/or subverting the media circus

Other wild connections to Ted Lasso that I made while watching the movie:

The Fiance and her family have the last name Keeley

Agador trying to wear dress shoes reminds me of Dani at the funeral

Armand's mustache and a certain other mustached protagonist

Things I'm hopeful about:

Jokes. One of the strengths of The Birdcage is that it is a comedy. It takes a very serious topic like coming out and makes it appealing to a broader audience by making it funny. I'm going to call it now, this episode is going to get backlash. By cutting it with jokes like they did in the Birdcage/La Cage, the reception might be better.

This being an extremely homosexual episode

Things I'm nervous about:

To many jokes. They are walking a line. We all know it.

Not enough drag. It's such an important part of the original but I can't see it happening in Ted Lasso

The fact that my mom is in town and will be watching with me

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Ya, I’ve been having is thought a lot. I’m a fan of Ted and Trent being happy and queer. Together or otherwise

do i actually ship ted/trent or do i just know in my heart that trent fancies ted and just need in my heart for ted to be queer and tedtrent would be a way to get both of those and a nice little extra because trent deserves to be kissed by someone dammit and it's unrealistic if no-one fancies this beautiful-haired man

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It just hit me that when Jamie and Keeley were dating she emailed him a sexy video of herself and not only that but Jamie had other nudes etc in his email?! His email?! Really?! Was this a situation where he needed to get it off one phone so he emailed it to himself? Did Keeley regularly email him? Was this one of those situations when you text an android and the pictures shrink so they emailed it instead? Was this like a gmail account Jamie made when he was like 12 and is something like jamiefootball@gmail.com? What if it was like mancityfan1997@gmail.com? Was it his Richmond email address? I have so many questions.