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Ted tells Beard that he wants to try something new, as he feels like he has been "stuck" recently. Beard prepares psilocybin tea for the two of them, but Ted doesn't drink his glass at first. With Beard gone on his own adventure for the night and Rebecca not answering his texts, Ted drinks the tea and goes to a Van Gogh exhibit, where the museum docent tells him that Van Gogh stayed determined to search for beauty in spite of his failures, because "when you know you're doing what you're meant to do, you have to try." Ted goes to an American-themed restaurant for dinner, where he watches an old Chicago Bulls game that he saw with his father as a child. Inspired by Tex Winter's triangle offense strategy for the Bulls, Ted devises a similar strategy for Richmond that allows the players to flow from position to position depending on where they're needed. On the bus the next morning, he shows the strategy to Beard, who informs him that the strategy is called Total Football and was invented in the Netherlands in the 1970s, but agrees that it could work for Richmond. Rebecca joins the team on the bus, content after her own night out, and leads them in singing "Three Little Birds" by Music/BobMarley.

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Ted tells Beard that he wants to try something new, as he feels like he has been "stuck" recently. Beard prepares psilocybin tea for the two of them, but Ted doesn't drink his glass at first. With Beard gone on his own adventure for the night and Rebecca not answering his texts, Ted drinks the tea and goes to a Van Gogh exhibit, where the museum docent tells him that Van Gogh stayed determined to search for beauty in spite of his failures, because "when you know you're doing what you're meant to do, you have to try." Ted goes to an American-themed restaurant for dinner, where he watches an old Chicago Bulls game that he saw with his father as a child. Inspired by Tex Winter's triangle offense strategy for the Bulls, Ted devises a similar strategy for Richmond that allows the players to flow from position to position depending on where they're needed. On the bus the next morning, he shows the strategy to Beard, who informs him that the strategy is called Total Football and was invented in the Netherlands in the 1970s, but agrees that it could work for Richmond. Rebecca joins the The team gathers on the bus, content after her their own night out, adventures, and Rebecca leads them in singing "Three Little Birds" by Music/BobMarley.
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* ExtraLongEpisode: This episode is much longer than previous ones, clocking in at around an hour and 40 minutes.

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After Richmond loses a friendly against AFC Ajax 5-0, Ted decides to cheer the team up by lifting their curfew, leaving them free to spend the night exploring Amsterdam. The episode then [[FourLinesAllWaiting follows what each group of characters does with their night off]]:

Roy tells Jamie that the lack of a curfew doesn't excuse him from their extra training sessions. The two go for a run, in which Jamie leads Roy, who has never been to Amsterdam before, to various tourist destinations and tells him about the history of the city. Jamie procures bikes for the two of them so they can go see a windmill, but Roy admits that he doesn't know how to ride a bike. Jamie teaches Roy how to ride, and the two open up to each other. Roy acknowledges that he unfairly takes his negative emotions out on Jamie. Jamie tells Roy that his father took him to Amsterdam when he was 14 and paid for a prostitute to take his virginity, and then his mother took him again a few years later, where they went on a tour of the city and Jamie learned all the information he shared with Roy on their run.

The players, minus Jamie, meet in the hotel lobby to vote on a plan for the night. After multiple arguments and endless rounds of voting, they agree to go to a private party DJ'd by Jan Maas' cousin in Groningen, only to find themselves unable to agree on where to eat dinner beforehand. Eventually, they decide against leaving the hotel at all and stage a massive pillow fight.

While the team is arguing about how to spend the evening, Colin excuses himself under the pretense of food poisoning, then sneaks back out to go to a gay bar. Trent secretly follows Colin and confronts him, revealing that [[Recap/TedLassoS3E03FourFiveOne he's known about Colin's sexuality for months]] and hasn't told anyone. The two visit the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomonument Homomonument]], where Trent shares his own ComingOutStory with Colin. Colin admits that he is conflicted about the idea of coming out: he doesn't enjoy living a double life, but he also doesn't want his sexuality to be treated like a big deal, which he knows it would be if he were to come out. Trent and Colin return to the gay bar and dance, enjoying Colin's anonymity in the crowd.

Higgins takes Will to the red-light district to visit the site where jazz musician Chet Baker died. They go to a jazz club and sit at a table right in front of the stage, where the singer notices Higgins playing air bass and invites him up to play with the band. Will eyes up a young couple at another table, who eventually approach him and proposition him for a threesome.

While walking over a bridge, Rebecca is knocked into a canal by a bicyclist, losing her phone in the process. She is rescued by a man living on a houseboat in the canal, who allows her to shower and dry her clothes on his boat. She and the man get to know each other: he was in the army, and like Rebecca, his former partner cheated on him. They both make excuses for Rebecca to stay later and later—first for a drink, then for dinner, then to wash and dry her clothes once again—until Rebecca ends up spending the night on his couch. In the morning, they kiss, but do not exchange names or phone numbers, accepting that they will likely never see each other again.

Ted tells Beard that he wants to try something new, as he feels like he has been "stuck" recently. Beard prepares psilocybin tea for the two of them, but Ted doesn't drink his glass at first. With Beard gone on his own adventure for the night and Rebecca not answering his texts, Ted drinks the tea and goes to a Van Gogh exhibit, where the museum docent tells him that Van Gogh stayed determined to search for beauty in spite of his failures, because "when you know you're doing what you're meant to do, you have to try." Ted goes to an American-themed restaurant for dinner, where he watches an old Chicago Bulls game that he saw with his father as a child. Inspired by Tex Winter's triangle offense strategy for the Bulls, Ted devises a similar strategy for Richmond that allows the players to flow from position to position depending on where they're needed. On the bus the next morning, he shows the strategy to Beard, who informs him that the strategy is called Total Football and was invented in the Netherlands in the 1970s, but agrees that it could work for Richmond. Rebecca joins the team on the bus, content after her own night out, and leads them in singing "Three Little Birds" by Music/BobMarley.

This episode premiered on April 18th, 2023.



* AbusiveParents: Jamie reveals to Roy that his father took him to Amsterdam when he was 14 years old and paid a sex worker to take his virginity. He admits the actual experience wasn't so bad, but that he knows this was still a seriously messed up thing for his father to do.

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* AbusiveParents: Jamie reveals to Roy that his father took him to Amsterdam when he was 14 years old and paid a sex worker to take his virginity. He admits that he doesn't remember the actual experience wasn't so bad, but clearly, implying that he knows this was still a seriously messed up thing for his father to do.blocked out the trauma.


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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. When Jamie reveals to Roy that his father paid for him to lose his virginity to a prostitute when he was 14 (which would be statutory rape, as the age of consent in the UK and the Netherlands is 16), Roy is suitably horrified and comments that it must have been traumatic, which Jamie doesn't deny.
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** After spending a considerable amount of their night off arguing about how to spend their night off, the team settles for a pillow fight, [[Recap/TedLassoS1E07MakeRebeccaGreatAgain something Ted had suggested in season 1]].


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* SeriousBusiness: The team chooses to spend their night off mostly with an intense debate on how to spend their night off. When Richard takes great offense at the idea of eating Dutch cuisine, it briefly devolves into a shouting match.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Will gets some focus in this episode as he accompanies Higgins on an expedition of Amsterdam's jazz scene.
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* InternalReveal: Trent reveals to Colin that he knows about his sexuality and saw him making out with Michael outside of Sam's restaurant.


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* SecretKeeper: Colin reveals to Trent that no one currently at AFC Richmond knows about his secret and the one person who did was Sharon.
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* TakeThat: When Dani suggests that the team get some Dutch food, Richard angrily tells him that he would rather DIE.

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* AuthorAppeal: Early in their careers, Creator/JasonSudeikis and Brendan Hunt had a grand time doing improv comedy in Amsterdam, which is very likely the reason the destination was chosen for this episode.

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* AuthorAppeal: Early in their careers, Creator/JasonSudeikis and Brendan Hunt had a grand time doing performed improv comedy with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, which is very likely the reason the destination was chosen for this episode.



** The owner of AFC Ajax corrects Higgins on the pronunciation of Johan Cruijff's name, [[Recap/TedLassoS2E07Headspace just like Jan Maas did to Jamie]].



* ImplausibleDeniability: Dani insists to the others than someone else might have wrote down seeing a tulip as their vote. Isaac shows that the ballot says "tulipán", the Spanish word for the flower, meaning that it was clearly Dani's vote.



* ImplausibleDeniability: Dani insists to the others than someone else might have wrote down seeing a tulip as their vote. Isaac shows that the ballot says "tulipán", the Spanish word for the flower, meaning that it was clearly Dani's vote.


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* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Ted goes to a restaurant called "Yankee Doodle Burger Barn", which serves American food and is split into three sections themed after New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
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* SuddenlyShouting: Poor Isaac can only take so much of the team's bickering about their night out in Amsterdam before he completely loses it.
* TeamDad: It's implied that, as captain, Isaac is so intent on getting the team to agree on a shared activity is because he thinks they should be together as a team after their abysmal match. After a ''lot'' of debate, he finally gets his wish with a team pillow fight.
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** At the gay bar, Colin tries to order vanilla vodka, much to the barkeeper's disgust. [[Recap/TedLassoS1E03TrentCrimmTheIndependent Early in season 1]], he was part of Jamie's party posse when Roy berated him for their drink of choice.


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** Ted uses ketchup and mustard bottles to simulate playing tactics, just like Beard did to educate him several times.


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* MentorInQueerness: Trent consults Colin on his situation, both from his expertise in sports media as well as an older gay man.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: Dani insists to the others than someone else might have wrote done seeing a tulip as their vote. Isaac shows that the ballot says "tulipán", the Spanish word for the flower, meaning that it was clearly Dani's vote.

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* ImplausibleDeniability: Dani insists to the others than someone else might have wrote done down seeing a tulip as their vote. Isaac shows that the ballot says "tulipán", the Spanish word for the flower, meaning that it was clearly Dani's vote.
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* AbusiveParents: Jamie reveals to Roy that his father took him to Amsterdam when he was 14 years old and paid a sex worker to take his virginity. He admits the actual experience wasn't so bad, but that he knows this was still a seriously messed up thing for his father to do.
* AmbiguousSituation: Coach Beard revealing the mushrooms in the tea didn't work for him makes it unclear whether Ted's MushroomSamba was just his imagination or Beard simply has a higher tolerance due to his frequent use and the mushrooms did work for Ted.


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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Colin admits to Trent that he's considered coming out of the closet, but that he's afraid people will either shun him or try to force him into being a symbol for gay people and he just wants to be a regular footballer.


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* ImplausibleDeniability: Dani insists to the others than someone else might have wrote done seeing a tulip as their vote. Isaac shows that the ballot says "tulipán", the Spanish word for the flower, meaning that it was clearly Dani's vote.
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* ShoutOut: When Ted walks into the American restaurant, it closely follows the Jackrabbit Slim's entrance scene in Film/PulpFiction, right down to the music being played.
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* AuthorAppeal: Early in their careers, Creator/JasonSudeikis and Brendan Hunt had a grand time doing improv comedy in Amsterdam, which is very likely the reason the destination was chosen for this episode.

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* OutOfFocus: Keeley appears with Rebecca and Higgins at the end of Richmond's friendly with Ajax, but quickly departs to go see the Aurora Borealis with Jack and isn’t seen for the rest of the episode.

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Keeley appears with Rebecca and Higgins at the end of Richmond's friendly with Ajax, but quickly departs to go see the Aurora Borealis with Jack and isn’t seen for the rest of the episode.episode.
** Nate doesn't officially appear in this episode, but he does appear as a hallucination of a cowboy waiter. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* RageInducingSight: When Roy passes a poster of Zava commemorating his time at Ajax, his response to lash out at the image, knocking it the floor before kicking it a few times.

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* BrutalHonesty: In a post-match interview, Jan Maas says that Richmond's spirits were broken even before kickoff. Roy, standing right next to him, also bluntly says that things went to shit.

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* BrutalHonesty: In a post-match interview, Jan Maas says that Richmond's spirits were broken even before kickoff. Roy, standing right next to him, also bluntly says that things went to shit.shit before lambasting that the game was ultimately pointless as there were no stakes to winning or losing.



** [[Recap/TedLassoS2E09BeardAfterHours Beard has another wild night off on his own misadventures]].
* CurbStompBattle: The episode opens on the closing moments of Richmond losing 5-0 to Dutch side in Ajax in a Friendly game.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Roy refuses to let Jamie enjoy his night in Amsterdam, and instead makes him go training.
* DumbassHasAPoint: When Beard and Roy correct Ted that correct terminology is "Friendly" game rather than "Exhibition" game, Ted responds that there's nothing friendly about a 5-0 loss. Beard and Roy nod in agreement.



* GayParee: Richard's suggestion for the team's night in Amsterdam is... to get on a train and go to Paris instead.



** Jamie is revealed to be incredibly knowledgeable about the city of Amsterdam. He explains that he had two very meaningful trips to the city with his parents.

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** Jamie is revealed to be incredibly knowledgeable about the city of Amsterdam. He explains that he had two very meaningful (and very different) trips to the city with each of his parents.



* ItsBeenDone: After a moment of inspiration watching a [[UsefulNotes/{{NBA}} Chicago Bulls]] game from the 90s, Ted adapts the Bulls' triangle offence to the game of football. When he shows Beard what he'd come up with, Beard informs Ted that the tactic already exists and has been known as "Total Football" since the 1970s.

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* InsistentTerminology: Beard and Roy once again have to correct Ted on the correct terminology of football - it's a "Friendly" game and not an "Exhibition" game.
* ItsBeenDone: After a moment of inspiration watching a [[UsefulNotes/{{NBA}} Chicago Bulls]] game from the 90s, Ted adapts the Bulls' triangle offence to the game of football. When he shows Beard what he'd come up with, Beard informs Ted that the tactic already exists and has been known as "Total Football" since the 1970s. However, Beard does note that the tactic is a good idea for Richmond to implement when Ted asks.



* NoodleIncident: Coach Beard disappears to go off on his own adventures. The details aren't provided, but he shows up the next morning exhausted and dressed as Music/ZiggyStardust… with a pig nose. [[IncrediblyLamePun Piggy Stardust.]]

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* NoodleIncident: Coach Beard disappears to go off on his own adventures. The details aren't provided, but he shows up the next morning exhausted and dressed as Music/ZiggyStardust… with a pig nose. [[IncrediblyLamePun [[PunnyName Piggy Stardust.]]Stardust]].



* QueerEstablishingMoment:
** Trent comes out to Colin after revealing that [[InternalReveal he knew Colin was gay.]]
** Possibly for Will, as well, as he may have engaged in a threesome with a male-female couple.

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* QueerEstablishingMoment:
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QueerEstablishingMoment: Trent comes out to Colin after revealing that [[InternalReveal he knew Colin was gay.]]
** Possibly for Will, as well, as he may have engaged in
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* RageInducingSight: When Roy passes
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* SecretSecretKeeper: Trent admits to Colin that he's known about Colin's sexuality for months.

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* HiddenDepths: Jamie is revealed to be incredibly knowledgeable about the city of Amsterdam. He explains that he'd once visited the city with his mother.

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** Beard is revealed to be fluent in Dutch but swears Will to secrecy.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Higgins says he's off to Amsterdam's red-light district. Others are shocked that the happily married Higgins would go partake in such activities but it turns out the jazz afficionado wanted to go see where Music/ChetBaker died.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Higgins says he's off to Amsterdam's red-light district. Others are shocked that the happily married Higgins would go partake in such activities but it turns out the jazz afficionado wanted to go see where Music/ChetBaker Chet Baker died.
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* OutOfFocus: Keeley appears with Rebecca and Higgins at the end of Richmond's friendly with Ajax, but quickly departs to go see the Aurora Borealis with Jack and isn’t seen for the rest of the match.

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* OutOfFocus: Keeley appears with Rebecca and Higgins at the end of Richmond's friendly with Ajax, but quickly departs to go see the Aurora Borealis with Jack and isn’t seen for the rest of the match.episode.
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* NoodleIncident: Coach Beard disappears to go off on his own adventures. The details aren't provided, but he shows up the next morning exhausted and dressed as Music/ZiggyStardust… with a pig nose.

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* NoodleIncident: Coach Beard disappears to go off on his own adventures. The details aren't provided, but he shows up the next morning exhausted and dressed as Music/ZiggyStardust… with a pig nose. [[IncrediblyLamePun Piggy Stardust.]]

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* ItsBeenDone: After a moment of inspiration watching a [[UsefulNotes/{{NBA}} Chicago Bulls]] from the 90s, Ted adapts the Bulls' triangle offence to the game of football. When he shows Beard what he'd come up with, Beard informs Ted that the tactic already exists and has been known as "Total Football" since the 1970s.

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* HiddenDepths: Jamie is revealed to be incredibly knowledgeable about the city of Amsterdam. He explains that he'd once visited the city with his mother.
* ItsBeenDone: After a moment of inspiration watching a [[UsefulNotes/{{NBA}} Chicago Bulls]] game from the 90s, Ted adapts the Bulls' triangle offence to the game of football. When he shows Beard what he'd come up with, Beard informs Ted that the tactic already exists and has been known as "Total Football" since the 1970s.

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* ItsBeenDone: After a moment of inspiration watching a [[UsefulNotes/{{NBA}} Chicago Bulls]] from the 90s, Ted adapts the Bulls' triangle offence to the game of football. When he shows Beard what he'd come up with, Beard informs Ted that the tactic already exists and has been known as "Total Football" since the 1970s.



* NoodleIncident: Coach Beard disappears to go off on his own adventures. The details aren't provided, but he shows up the next morning exhausted and dressed as Music/ZiggyStardust.

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* NoodleIncident: Coach Beard disappears to go off on his own adventures. The details aren't provided, but he shows up the next morning exhausted and dressed as Music/ZiggyStardust.Music/ZiggyStardust… with a pig nose.
* OutOfFocus: Keeley appears with Rebecca and Higgins at the end of Richmond's friendly with Ajax, but quickly departs to go see the Aurora Borealis with Jack and isn’t seen for the rest of the match.
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** When presented with psilocybin tea, Ted refuses on account of it being ''tea'', which he's stated a dislike of repeatedly in previous seasons.

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* AllMenArePerverts: After Zoreaux suggests the team goes to see a live sex show, one half of the team joins him in voting for it.
* BaitAndSwitch: Higgins says he's off to Amsterdam's red-light district. Others are shocked that the happily married Higgins would go partake in such activities but it turns out the jazz afficionado wanted to go see where Music/ChetBaker died.
* BlatantLies: It's abundantly clear that Dani is the one repeatedly voting for the team to go see ''a'' tulip, but he keeps trying to say that somebody else could have cast that vote.
* BrutalHonesty: In a post-match interview, Jan Maas says that Richmond's spirits were broken even before kickoff. Roy, standing right next to him, also bluntly says that things went to shit.
* CallBack:
** Ted is presented with a bottle of Arthur Bryant barbecue sauce, which he'd declared to be the best in the world in Season 1.
** In the end, the team decides to let off some pent-up steam by engaging in a pillow fight, which Ted had been pushing for in Season 1's "Diamond Dogs".



* QueerEstablishingMoment: Trent comes out to Colin after revealing that [[InternalReveal he knew Colin was gay.]]
** Possibly for [[spoiler: Will]] as well, because of the threesome.

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* QueerEstablishingMoment: NoodleIncident: Coach Beard disappears to go off on his own adventures. The details aren't provided, but he shows up the next morning exhausted and dressed as Music/ZiggyStardust.
* QueerEstablishingMoment:
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Trent comes out to Colin after revealing that [[InternalReveal he knew Colin was gay.]]
** Possibly for [[spoiler: Will]] Will, as well, because of the threesome.as he may have engaged in a threesome with a male-female couple.



* VacationEpisode: The episode is set entirely in (and around) Amsterdam.

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* VacationEpisode: The episode is set entirely in (and around) Amsterdam.Amsterdam.

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* FourLinesAllWaiting: The episode has six plots: Ted, Rebecca, Colin/Crimm, Roy/Jamie, Higgins/Will, and the rest of the team, with an implied seventh subplot around Beard whose ending we see, and a brief scene with Keeley leaving to go on a date with Jack.



* RescueRomance: Subverted. Rebecca forges a genuine connection with the man who helped her out of the canal, but they part without even learning each other's names, and are unlikely to ever meet again.
* VacationEpisode: The episode is set entirely in Amsterdam.

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* RescueRomance: Subverted. Rebecca forges a genuine connection with the man who helped her out of the canal, but they part without even learning each other's names, names and are unlikely to ever meet again.
* VacationEpisode: The episode is set entirely in (and around) Amsterdam.
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* MushroomSamba: Ted eventually drinks some of Beard's "special" tea, leading to have a vision where the Spirit of Adventure helps him figure out a new tactic for the team to try. Possibly subverted, in that the mushrooms in the tea were revealed to be inactive (at least, they didn't work for Beard or his supplier Kenneth).
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* RescueRomance: Subverted. Rebecca forges a genuine connection with the man who helped her out of the canal, but they part without even learning each other's names, and are unlikely to ever meet again.
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* QueerEstablishingMoment: Trent comes out to Colin after revealing that [[InternalReveal he knew Colin was gay.]]
** Possibly for [[spoiler: Will]] as well, because of the threesome.
* VacationEpisode: The episode is set entirely in Amsterdam.

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