History Recap / TedLassoS2E09BeardAfterHours

After the disastrous semifinal against Manchester City, Beard decides to go shake off the loss instead of riding home on the team bus. Although they are broken up, Jane texts him inviting him out to a club with her; Beard types out a message telling her that he's tired of her toying with his feelings, but doesn't send it. He goes to The Crown and Anchor and bonds with Baz, Jeremy, and Paul. When the pub closes, the four of them sneak into a swanky private club where Beard sees a mysterious woman in a red dress.

This episode premiered on September 17, 2021.

!!This episode provides examples of:

* Irony: Once Jane finally admits she loves Beard and bumps into him at the club, he's dancing to "Hello" by Martin Solveig and Dragonette, a song about someone who's just here to enjoy the party and definitely isn't interested in the listener. To add further irony, the song would've fit Jane perfectly at the start of the episode, when Beard was upset that he said he loved her and she hadn't responded in kind.

* HopeSpot: Having lost his phone and wallet, Beard is looking for help getting back home. Walking into a tunnel, he sees three people approaching him and gratefully calls out to them, thinking he's been saved... only for them to turn out to be James Tartt and his friends.

Baz, Jeremy, and Paul pull up in a limousine hired with money they won playing pool at the private club. Beard thanks them for giving him a ride home by giving them directions to a secret entrance to Nelson Road stadium. Once they drive away, however, Beard's key breaks in the lock of his front door. Beard takes shelter in a church, where he hears distant dance music. He follows the sound and finds that the church basement contains the rave club where Jane has been all night. The two of them dance together. In the morning, Beard goes to review game tape with the other coaches, still wearing the sequined pants from his night out.

* BavarianFireDrill: Beard and the Pub Trio lure the receptionist to a swanky bar away from her station by calling to tell her that her apartment was burned down. Once she's been distracted, they walk in while pretending they always go there, and Beard later pretends to be an Irish Oxford Professor with the Pub Trio as his students.

* BreatherEpisode: This episode, following the ''very'' heavy "Man City", is a (relative) trifle light on plot and heavy on dreamlike and surreal imagery.

* CrazyJealousGuy: The LadyInRed's boyfriend has it out for Beard.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Beard's weird night plays out this way to the rest of the coaches. Ted asks how he got the bruise on his face and Beard brushes it off; Ted accepts that and let's Beard keep his night to himself.

* Main/StreetSmart: The Three Guys From The Pub beat the three Oxford guys. The Oxford guys know trigonometry... hell, they know what trigonometry even ''is'', but our boys play pool every night.

* NoFameNoWealthNoService: "Bones & Honey", the exlusive posh club, is members-only.

* ReferenceOverdosed: The episode is packed with [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''Film/FightClub'' and other reality-bending classics.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Beard ''finally'' finds Jane at the end of the night, after she's finally confessed her love for him, and what does she do? She hands him a ring. ''At a church''. Okay, it's a hula hoop at a rave in the basement, but still. At the same time, during all of his strange, surreal adventures, Coach and the audience both regularly see the moon shining bigger and more blue than usual. In the final scene Ted Lasso reminds Coach Beard that some things only happen every once in a blue moon.

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Beard wisely tries to fuck off and run away when he runs into Tartt Sr and his friends. unfortunately, he runs into a dead end and they kick the shit out of him.

** Beard says that [[Film/FightClub "Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Sarah Coombse's life."]]

* RapidFireNo: Beard lets out several “no”s when he realizes that he has a lot of missed calls and texts from his girlfriend.
* TakeOffYourClothes: The LadyInRed orders Bears to take his trousers off with a demanding voice. She only wants to mend them though.

* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Thierry Henry and Gary Lineker on the tTV make references to things in Beard's apartment.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Early on, Beard gets drunk while watching a sports TV show with Gary Lineker and Thierry Henry ([[AsHimself both playing themselves here]]) discussing Richmond's game from earlier that day. He repeatedly hallucinates the two criticizing him personally throughout the episode, responding each time with an indignant "Shut up, Thierry Henry!".

* PowerWalk: Beard and his three pals walking down the street in slow motion celebrating their new clothes.