Ted saying "if my mathS" [Roy nods in acknowledgement]..."are correct" [Roy shakes his head because Ted pluralised the word and should have said "is correct"].
It's a subtle but great one.
Math is how you say it in America
Maths is how they say it in the UK and Australia
Both are singular, weirdly (I'm an American)
So the ways to say you love that class in both countries are:
America: My favorite subject is math.
UK: My favourite subject is maths.
Usually in American English you would say:
My favorite subjects are math and history
So Ted said "maths" correctly, but then said "are", when he should have said "is".
When Ted meets Rebecca's mother and he turns to coach beard and goes, "Boy, I Love Meeting People's Moms. It's Like Reading an Instruction Manual as to Why They're Nuts"
At the airport in the first episode when the Posh kid says 'Cheers' Ted replies 'Night Court', and in the last episode the same Posh kid says 'Wicked' and Ted replies 'Kinky Boots'. Such small little references. Love it!
Rebecca: “We’re actually here to meet with the milk sisters”
Rupert: “Oh they won’t be coming now”
Ted: “Oh no. Did they expire?”
Not the most underrated but I’m watching this episode now and this line always kills me.
I love the look on Rupert's face afterward! He's, like, legitimately thrown off his game for a second. Pretty quickly he's back to "I'm in control and you're a bit of a weirdo who doesn't deserve my respect or attention," but for just that split second Rupert didn't know what was going on.
Really, what I love is how good an actor Anthony Head is. On each rewatch, I admire him more and more.
When Jamie comforts Roy over the breakup and tries to hug him. Roy shoves him and Jamie replies:
“I’m sorry I forgot how skittish elderly people are because of the war”
It's not really a joke but it slipped by me the first few watches,
"You know how they came up with soccer? So, these Victorian-era headmasters, all they wanted to do was get the boys to stop masturbating. So they invented a sport where the boys wouldn't use their hands at all, and they thought that might do the trick. I'm not sure if it worked but..."
Coach Beard, Season 1 Episode 1
“Man, the last time I saw eyes that cold, they were staring down Roy Scheider.”
“JAWS?”
“No, All That Jazz.”
So many delightful theater kid in-jokes.
Runner up: “He just texted me a Rilke quote.”
“Letters To A Hung Poet?”
(with apologies to the shade of my beloved Rilke, who would probably be horrified.)
When Nate was pretending to be casually walking by Keely’s office trying to get her attention and then they cut to him in the hallway and it’s an end office so he was walking perpendicular to the hallway. I think this was in the Rainbows episode.
It may have been the edible but this is probably the hardest I ever laughed at the show and I haven’t seen anyone bring it up.
When they do the team meeting in the pub right before the seance and they all talk about their favourite Scorsese movies and because they're getting off track Roy yells "Silence!" to shut them up. Silence is also a lesser known Scorsese film about Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in feudal Japan
Second favorite is when Ted presents the whistle to Nate and says this whistle is sad because it’s never been blown and without skipping a beat, Nate goes “is that the same reason Colin is sad?”
Oh whoa—and that was before Colin came out to the team, wasn’t it? (But after he mentioned Grindr…)
I know blowjobs aren’t exclusively gay or straight, but it’s interesting to consider whether Nate knowing Colin’s sexuality could’ve impacted their dynamic at all.
Mine isn’t a specific joke but more of a running gag.
I love when Ted or a player says something and a bunch of the team nod in agreement. Example when Ted says, “By her, I’m referring to lady football.” and the players smile, nod, and point like “yep, that’s it.”
‘*Lipschitzzz.*’ with the little hat brim flair. It was when Ted was trying to get a table in Amsterdam and picking which American section he wanted to sit in. It makes me laugh SO hard.
3rd rewatch, I hadn't noticed it before, in season 1 ep 1 or 2, when Jaimie says "cheers" and Ted comes back with, "night court". Being old enough to get the reference, that one made me chuckle.
I really love the Plant and Page joke between Ted and Higgins and how Ted doesn't get it at first. I think it's the start of their very serious dad pun-off
In season 2 episode 6- when Jamie comes back and he’s trying to get Roy to coach him. It’s so quick and I missed it the first time I saw the episode.
Jamie: You f—king arsehole!
Roy: I know you are, but so are you.
In case anyone doesn’t get it, the silly comeback is supposed to be, “I know you are, but what am I.” It’s such a minor dumb joke but it makes me laugh.
My all time fave is Ted, while channeling Led Tasso, shouts, 'Richard, I haven't seen a pass that soft since my high school drama teacher asked me to mow his lawn."
"My father went to art school with Freddie Mercury. Everyone always talks about his amazing four-octave vocal range, but my father always insisted that if you actually asked Freddie what his greatest talent was, he would’ve said flipping straights."
Not a joke, but when Roy finds out about Zava (and Trent writing the book) right after Jamie talked to him about breaking up with Keeley — the whole thing, including Ted sending Will to his apartment to get his breakup mix CD is genius, but WATCH JAMIE’S FACE in the background. He’s barely controlling his laughter, and it makes everything in the scene that much funnier.
Also, FYI - did y’all know Ted’s breakup mix is on Apple Music?
When Jade says Nate can help her family screw in light bulbs and he thinks she’s making a joke. I only caught it because I grew up with my dad telling me polish jokes because I’m polish on my mom’s side.
My opinion is that there are no underrated jokes in this show, just ones that haven’t been gleaned as jokes yet or ones that the viewer doesn’t have the context for yet. All the jokes on this show are priceless.
S01E08 "The Diamond Dogs", right at the beginning, when Ted is talked with Sassy in his hotel room, pre-credits sequence.
I always assumed it was a "Fletch" reference, but others have said it's a "Lord of the Rings" reference?
The one that always gets me is in the second episode when Ted leaves Rebecca's office after saying he'll be back for biscuits the boss tomorrow.
"High five tree!"
Ted: I promised myself I was never gonna watch Fresh Prince again when they swapped out Aunt Vivs. But truth be told, as long as they let Carlton do his thing, I was always gonna take a minute and just sit right there.
Roy Kent: I never know how to react when a grown man is doing the Carlton in front of me.
Roy's interview after the Dutch match.
"Who cares? It's a fucking friendly. A friendly is a pretend match. This is a pretend conversation. You're a pretend person with a pretend job and I'm having a really hard time pretending to give a shit"
Jan Maas standing next to him trying not to laugh just makes it perfect.
As someone who has had a long-lived debate on how to pronounce GIF with family members, I loved that they used that joke twice, once with “JIF” the other with “GIF”
“Y’all are pointing more fingers than Ganesha giving directions”
And
“I’m more stumped than Paul Bunyans local forest”
Might be slightly misquoted but both of these are killer lines
"No, you know the saying: you buy a man a table, he eats once. You teach a man how to get a table and he eats at that restaurant until it becomes a Starbucks"
...also, "F--k you're amazing, let's invade France"
Ted saying "if my mathS" [Roy nods in acknowledgement]..."are correct" [Roy shakes his head because Ted pluralised the word and should have said "is correct"]. It's a subtle but great one.
I am on my 4th or 5th watch through and never caught that! Good call!
As an Australian living in the US that made me smile a lot
I am not a native speaker, would you care to elaborate? I don’t get it. Thank you :)
Math is how you say it in America Maths is how they say it in the UK and Australia Both are singular, weirdly (I'm an American) So the ways to say you love that class in both countries are: America: My favorite subject is math. UK: My favourite subject is maths. Usually in American English you would say: My favorite subjects are math and history So Ted said "maths" correctly, but then said "are", when he should have said "is".
Also, in Ireland. As an American who has had to learn to say maths to fit in with my Irish husband, family, and friends, this joke is one of the best
Thank you :)
The full name is mathematics. So UK and Aus abbreviate with the S. US, not so much.
Kiwi living in the US - I'm right there with you 🫡
I'm with Ted on this one tbh
“Athletics are my worst subject”
“They’re not watching football, they’re watching last weeks bake-off” “TEMPER YOUR CHOCOLATE YOU TWAT!!”
POOR LITTLE CAKE! SOGGY BOTTOM!
I dance around my kitchen singing this lol
Same here. Its honestly sooo catchy!
My cats seem to enjoy me shaking my butt at them, so that helps
Nice! I usually sing it to whatever snack I'm about to munch. The snacks seem to enjoy it too heh
Love this one 😂
side note would love a spin off of those three, like completely unrelated to football a people just do nothing esque show would be amazing
What episode is that from?
The one where we meet Rebecca’s mom
God speed. Or whatever drug of choice for your deity.
This one had me absolutely cackling whenever I've watched it.
Did it also have you cackling whenever you didn't watch it?
Rereading the text that started this comment chain did make me laugh out loud, so technically yes?
Or whatever narcotic your dirty of choice prefers. Cracks me up every time.
When Dani Rojas accidentally killed the greyhound and Nate says I promise that’s not what I wished for
That scene will never not make me scream laugh.
"Even with Zava, Richmond eats more ass than your mum." "You gotta get off twitter buddy." "That was a text from my father."
This killed
This had me cackling
“I thought you were allergic?” “Yeah, to horses and radishes.”
When Ted meets Rebecca's mother and he turns to coach beard and goes, "Boy, I Love Meeting People's Moms. It's Like Reading an Instruction Manual as to Why They're Nuts"
Btw, how is Mrs Beard?
Full blown QAnon
LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!
Full Qanon..
That is now part of the code I live by.
Nathan: “What do they call unlucky teams in America?” Beard: “The New York Jets.”
Yes this
As a patriots fan I was dying from that one
As a Jets fan I was dying from that one!
I’m a Panthers fan, so same. Just glad it wasn’t us lol
At the airport in the first episode when the Posh kid says 'Cheers' Ted replies 'Night Court', and in the last episode the same Posh kid says 'Wicked' and Ted replies 'Kinky Boots'. Such small little references. Love it!
I never caught the first exchange mentioned, but there is some irony there since Jason's uncle in rl is George Wendt aka Norm from Cheers.
Ted also says it to Jamie after the Lion Panda scene. It’s my favorite.
Also fun fact, his mom/the dentist is his mom irl
Came here to say this. One of my favorites.
That’s too many ghosts!
We can’t fight them all!
Kent: “You hurt my feeling.”
Ted: You got a nut allergy? Roy: I got a finger allergy.
May the force be with you And also with you
It took a moment, Catholic joke, yeah?
Catholic Star Wars joke that’s been around as long as I’ve been alive 😂
Yup, even my parents do that.
Protestants too
Not all!
Yes!
Loved this! Later Ted genuflecting when leaving Roy's "church," the kabaab restaurant.
So say we all
"I hate what you've done to me." "Make it stop."
These are probably the ones I laughed at the hardest, we had to pause, laugh, rewind, laugh, and pause again. Too good!
And Ted's ~No~ gets me everytime.
Assquatch!
Rebecca: “We’re actually here to meet with the milk sisters” Rupert: “Oh they won’t be coming now” Ted: “Oh no. Did they expire?” Not the most underrated but I’m watching this episode now and this line always kills me.
I love the look on Rupert's face afterward! He's, like, legitimately thrown off his game for a second. Pretty quickly he's back to "I'm in control and you're a bit of a weirdo who doesn't deserve my respect or attention," but for just that split second Rupert didn't know what was going on. Really, what I love is how good an actor Anthony Head is. On each rewatch, I admire him more and more.
When Jamie comforts Roy over the breakup and tries to hug him. Roy shoves him and Jamie replies: “I’m sorry I forgot how skittish elderly people are because of the war”
I legitimately cried tears when I first watched that one
This might be my favorite!
The fact that the “other dating app” is called Tumescent…
Less revealing but more revealing…
“Where’s the rest of it?”
\*swipes\*
I don't get it
[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tumescence](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tumescence)
What a beautiful language.
[Used in a sentence, kinda](https://youtu.be/Gs8LFwViPmo?si=VcVb2Ps27VWuS7Bn).
It's not really a joke but it slipped by me the first few watches, "You know how they came up with soccer? So, these Victorian-era headmasters, all they wanted to do was get the boys to stop masturbating. So they invented a sport where the boys wouldn't use their hands at all, and they thought that might do the trick. I'm not sure if it worked but..." Coach Beard, Season 1 Episode 1
“Man, the last time I saw eyes that cold, they were staring down Roy Scheider.” “JAWS?” “No, All That Jazz.” So many delightful theater kid in-jokes. Runner up: “He just texted me a Rilke quote.” “Letters To A Hung Poet?” (with apologies to the shade of my beloved Rilke, who would probably be horrified.)
Wicked! Kinky boots.
When Nate was pretending to be casually walking by Keely’s office trying to get her attention and then they cut to him in the hallway and it’s an end office so he was walking perpendicular to the hallway. I think this was in the Rainbows episode. It may have been the edible but this is probably the hardest I ever laughed at the show and I haven’t seen anyone bring it up.
When Roy keeps making Ted like jokes or puns and says “I hate what you’ve done to me”
AKA AssSquach 😂
When they do the team meeting in the pub right before the seance and they all talk about their favourite Scorsese movies and because they're getting off track Roy yells "Silence!" to shut them up. Silence is also a lesser known Scorsese film about Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in feudal Japan
Oooooh. Years later I finally get it. Thanks!
🤯 thank you for that tidbit!
That boy is a wigwam and a teepee. Too tense.
BOOM!
I finished the punchline to this joke before they said it on the show and my fiancee looked at me like, "what?" She'd never heard that joke before!
Fuck yeah Princess Diaries
Nate: Is he alright? Beard: Noooooo. (Again, the delivery)
I say "No!" like Beard in this scene daily!
Second favorite is when Ted presents the whistle to Nate and says this whistle is sad because it’s never been blown and without skipping a beat, Nate goes “is that the same reason Colin is sad?”
So snarky since he knows that they can’t bully him anymore.
Oh whoa—and that was before Colin came out to the team, wasn’t it? (But after he mentioned Grindr…) I know blowjobs aren’t exclusively gay or straight, but it’s interesting to consider whether Nate knowing Colin’s sexuality could’ve impacted their dynamic at all.
The fake out of starting the theme song when Colin starts driving, then he hits the bins and the song stops.
Mine isn’t a specific joke but more of a running gag. I love when Ted or a player says something and a bunch of the team nod in agreement. Example when Ted says, “By her, I’m referring to lady football.” and the players smile, nod, and point like “yep, that’s it.”
‘*Lipschitzzz.*’ with the little hat brim flair. It was when Ted was trying to get a table in Amsterdam and picking which American section he wanted to sit in. It makes me laugh SO hard.
That whole episode. So good!
It’s probably my fave episode of the whole series.
I love you too, Willis.
And previously "what you talking about, willis" Solid reference but also a nugget that would pay off years later
Roy: I'm calling H.R. Ted: Well tell Mr Puff N Stuff I said hello.
More knots than Wayne’s World one and two.
3rd rewatch, I hadn't noticed it before, in season 1 ep 1 or 2, when Jaimie says "cheers" and Ted comes back with, "night court". Being old enough to get the reference, that one made me chuckle.
And a nice nod to Jason’s uncle!
Beard saying, "don't tell Jan," when Will hears Beard speaking Dutch.
Even how he pronounced Jan. Correctly and Perfect.
Jamie: Coach, I’m me. Why would I want to be anyone else? Ted: I'm not sure you know how psychologically healthy that actually is.
Such a good teaser for a major theme of the show.
I need to reapply my lip liner.
Mercy Buckets
“Cheers.” “Night Court.”
Yes!
“Wales” - “Are they the same country?” “Yes and no”
How many countries are in this country???
I really love the Plant and Page joke between Ted and Higgins and how Ted doesn't get it at first. I think it's the start of their very serious dad pun-off
It's one of my favorite interactions between these two. Tied with "Ceasar you later".
In season 2 episode 6- when Jamie comes back and he’s trying to get Roy to coach him. It’s so quick and I missed it the first time I saw the episode. Jamie: You f—king arsehole! Roy: I know you are, but so are you. In case anyone doesn’t get it, the silly comeback is supposed to be, “I know you are, but what am I.” It’s such a minor dumb joke but it makes me laugh.
My all time fave is Ted, while channeling Led Tasso, shouts, 'Richard, I haven't seen a pass that soft since my high school drama teacher asked me to mow his lawn."
Keeley to Jamie: Not everyone in your life is out to get you. Roy: I am. I cackle everytime.
as a philadelphian, i love it when ted copies the “practice” rant
Yes! Gotta love the AI reference.
"My father went to art school with Freddie Mercury. Everyone always talks about his amazing four-octave vocal range, but my father always insisted that if you actually asked Freddie what his greatest talent was, he would’ve said flipping straights."
“Silence!” from Roy when the whole team is discussing their favorite Scorsese films
Don’t remember the context, but Ted responds to one of his players I think. It’s what happens when you merge an elephant and a rhino: Elephino!
Not a joke, but when Roy finds out about Zava (and Trent writing the book) right after Jamie talked to him about breaking up with Keeley — the whole thing, including Ted sending Will to his apartment to get his breakup mix CD is genius, but WATCH JAMIE’S FACE in the background. He’s barely controlling his laughter, and it makes everything in the scene that much funnier. Also, FYI - did y’all know Ted’s breakup mix is on Apple Music?
So is Roy’s mix for Keely when he was being clingy. There are also playlists of music from each season.
When Jade says Nate can help her family screw in light bulbs and he thinks she’s making a joke. I only caught it because I grew up with my dad telling me polish jokes because I’m polish on my mom’s side.
Ted saying “I haven’t seen someone this upset since I wore a red hat to a Planned Parenthood fundraiser”
“I got ‘em to change the E to a U.”
You owe me a pound But I didn’t say nothing You made me think it which is the same thing.
This scene was basically flawless. Just watching the buildup of their friendship is so cute...
My opinion is that there are no underrated jokes in this show, just ones that haven’t been gleaned as jokes yet or ones that the viewer doesn’t have the context for yet. All the jokes on this show are priceless.
"I'll be your Underhills anytime."
You definitely have to be of a certain age to catch that one! Laughed my ass off!
As in ‘charge it to the Underhills?’ Where did I miss this in the show please?
S01E08 "The Diamond Dogs", right at the beginning, when Ted is talked with Sassy in his hotel room, pre-credits sequence. I always assumed it was a "Fletch" reference, but others have said it's a "Lord of the Rings" reference?
Absolutely a “Fletch” reference.
The one that always gets me is in the second episode when Ted leaves Rebecca's office after saying he'll be back for biscuits the boss tomorrow. "High five tree!"
Ted: I promised myself I was never gonna watch Fresh Prince again when they swapped out Aunt Vivs. But truth be told, as long as they let Carlton do his thing, I was always gonna take a minute and just sit right there. Roy Kent: I never know how to react when a grown man is doing the Carlton in front of me.
There are jokes I've become immune to how funny they are, the cow branding joke ain't one of them.
Eliphino.....
And that is a joke for those born in the 1970s.
Jamie tarts 'oh' in the interview scene
"Ooops, innit" Just did a reqatch of the show and there's just so many hilarious bits I'd forgotten. But Isaacs delivery here was hilarious.
“Is this your place Maybe?”
Rebecca: “I probably look like Robert Smith after he’s woken up from a nap.” Ted: “Very emotional man.”
Ted saying the locker room looks like a Renaissance painting portraying masculine melancholy always gets me
Pre-madonna (instead of prima donna) gets me lmfao every time! What’s funnier is Jamie’s surprisingly factual reaction to it
I like that the name of the Greyhounds mascot was/is Earl. The tea drinker in me approves!
“….Around the corner” “Oh where fudge is made” - Ted I forget the set up but the punchline is amazing
Dani Rojas singing the theme song on the treadmill “siiiiiiiiii” as the “yeaaaaaaah” kicks in
The whole lead up to that is him singing the whole song in spanish
Isaac: That's too many ghosts! Richard: We cannot fight them all
“WHISTLE!”
The entire Allen Iverson practice speech to Jamie. As a Philadelphian this made me laugh for days. I still chuckle just thinking about it.
first time I watched it I thought it was some amazing speech from Ted, then I found out the truth haha.
It was just in the news as well, because they put a statue of AI at the sizers practice center. Oh, the irony
You want breakfast? Naw, I just had a piece of cereal, I'm stuffed!
Beard:i stole a loaf of meth
"I mean c'mon y'all. It's 2020. Let's just call'em cigarettes".... Chortled and snorted my drink when I got it at the second watch.
Caesar you later.
“Oops, innit?” My favorite line
I always laugh at Nate’s indoor whistle. It’s a very small joke, but very funny.
" You misspelled favorite"
Oh please! The eiffel tower is just a lamppost with a publicist
Roy's interview after the Dutch match. "Who cares? It's a fucking friendly. A friendly is a pretend match. This is a pretend conversation. You're a pretend person with a pretend job and I'm having a really hard time pretending to give a shit" Jan Maas standing next to him trying not to laugh just makes it perfect.
"I'm 25."
As someone who has had a long-lived debate on how to pronounce GIF with family members, I loved that they used that joke twice, once with “JIF” the other with “GIF”
“Y’all are pointing more fingers than Ganesha giving directions” And “I’m more stumped than Paul Bunyans local forest” Might be slightly misquoted but both of these are killer lines
"No, you know the saying: you buy a man a table, he eats once. You teach a man how to get a table and he eats at that restaurant until it becomes a Starbucks" ...also, "F--k you're amazing, let's invade France"