History Recap / TedLassoS3E06Sunflowers

* CheckhovsGun: Beard immediately recognizes Ted's new strategy as Total Football...because there's an entire chapter on Total Football in ''Inverting the Pyramid'', a book Beard has been reading studiously since the very first episode. [[DramaticIrony Ironically]], Ted also started reading the book at the start of the season, he simply hadn't gotten past the first chapter yet.

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

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, Beard reveals that the psilocybin was from a dud batch. When Ted shows the new strategy to Beard, who informs him that [[ItsBeenDone the strategy is called Total Football and was invented in the Netherlands in the 1970s]], but agrees that it could work for Richmond. The team gathers on the bus, content after their own adventures, and Rebecca leads them in singing "Three Little Birds" by Music/BobMarley.

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 [[ItsBeenDone the strategy is called Total Football and was invented in the Netherlands in the 1970s]], but agrees that it could work for Richmond. The team gathers on the bus, content after their own adventures, and Rebecca leads them in singing "Three Little Birds" by Music/BobMarley.

** 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.

-->'''Jacob:''' You wrote it in Spanish, bruv.\\

* EagleLand: Ted ends up eating dinner at a kitschy that boasts "American food served in American portions" with servers faking Texas accents and seating in Wendy City, Big Apple, or Hollywood. It takes Ted three tries to inform the server that he wants to sit in Windy City because he makes Chicago references that the server, from Melbourne, doesn't get.

'''Danny:''' Yes, ''someone'' did.

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. The team gathers on the bus, content after their own adventures, and Rebecca leads them in singing "Three Little Birds" by Music/BobMarley.

** When presented with psilocybin tea, Ted refuses on account of it being ''tea'', which he's stated a dislike of repeatedly in previous seasons.

* CurbStompBattle: The episode opens on the closing moments of Richmond losing 5-0 to Dutch side in Ajax in a Friendly game.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* TakeThat: When Dani suggests that the team get some Dutch food, Richard angrily tells him that he would rather DIE.

** 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.

* ExtraLongEpisode: This episode is much longer than previous ones, clocking in at around an hour and 40 minutes.

** 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".

** 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]].

* {{Irony}}: While Roy participated in several international competitions, including the UsefulNotes/UEFAChampionsLeague and UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup, he never actually found himself in Amsterdam until this episode.