Ted Lasso: Ted and Trent Crimm Indian Restaurant 

I sensed a little bit of belittlement and snootiness there as well.

Um. Not quite.

Although many find it cloying, we Americans genuinely enjoy small talk, it is one of the best ways to truly get to know a person. It’s not meant to be rude, or invasive, it’s borne out of that same Whitmanesque “curiosity that Ted talks about, during the dart game. I love how this show highlights the clash of manners and norms between America and England.

@@The_BobFather he’s in a line of work where people are either fake in their interest in him or honest about how much they dislike him To interview someone who genuinely likes him is new

@@discosecret6363 people like small talk over here too lol. it's more that in his line of work, people would certainly always say stuff like "was really great meeting you" or whatever, just as a courtesy but without any meaning

I've added that to every introduction I've made since seeing this.

This sucks

@@trple2 Huh?

@@jkornfeld The line. It sucks. The show/character appears to suck also. When everything funny or interesting becomes not allowed to be said in comedy this bland shit is what you're left with. It's selling a bunch of depressed TV viewers on the idea of being "positive" as a way to avoid certain topics.

@@jkornfeld I’ve tried doing it, but always remember just a little bit too late. I will get there (also, Justin and Debra, congratulations, you’ve both met a cool person)

Thank you for pointing this out, I’ve always thought this!!!! It’s so uncharacteristic of him, the pretentious journalist, to stutter like that but it’s so realistic and just a really nice touch.

That's the premise of the RU-vid series Hot Ones. Sean Evans is an amazing interviewer but the heat from the wings throws the guest off their usual interview game and Sean is able to have some great, in-depth conversations with them that you wouldn't get from any other interview.

@@PinkFloyd102489 I wanna see Sudeikis on Hot Ones at some point.

It's a lot like " the hot ones" interview show here on youtube.

“Hot ones, baby!” (In Beard’s voice)

You can also see Trent beginning to love Ted, but also seems to hate the fact that he loves him. It’s actually the exact same way I felt about Ted when I started watching. It’s the typical mega positive annoying Ned Flanders style character, but he ends up being one of the most loveable people you could ever meet.

Yes!! This show couldve made a villain out of many characters but would be cliche and predictable, instead they suprise us by making trent and ted buddies, jamie matures, ted forgives rebecca, simple stuff becomes "unexpected" because we r used to childish stuff i theses shows. This show makes Drama with REAL stuff, not childish stuff

I think it speaks to the writers of the show for them to make a side character like Trent Kim not only end up having a significant story arc but also being a likable character

This is what you get, when you have a pretentious snob who thinks they're a film critic.

I like how real it is. In movies you've always got mustache twirling evil douche characters who treat people terribly for no real reason and they and the world are fine with it..... in the real world if someone is just relentlessly friendly and nice in the face of you treating them poorly, even the meanest of people start to throttle it back pretty quickly, either because they feel like a heel or friends/society is basically like "why are you treat him like shit, he's been nothing but nice to you?"

That’s probably how most Asians are I presume.

​@@haziqshamsfamilies that are close with In-laws,anyway.

@@haziqshamsmiddle eastern

India's the middle east now?@@nolanmartin6833

@@nolanmartin6833 Nolan where do you reckon middle east is?

*tract

Shit I never thought about the physical aspect, I thought he meant the team

Just rewatched this scene and I thought he meant damage to his insides was the irresponsible thing

Ollie*

Makes me want to go out for a ruby Murray, but my wife can't stand the stuff. My mouth is literally watering.

True, but that level of altruistic or people-pleasing behavior can also be shaped by trauma. Which, in Ted's case, it certainly is, as subsequent episodes showed

Exactly! Why I love this show

If you want to make an english person the most uncomfortable they will ever be in your presence? Give them a genuine compliment, none of us know how to deal with them at all :)

I like that Trent Krimm hesitates when Ted asks him what he loves. Like he never asked himself and Ted answers for him like he could see it the whole time.

I need more Trent Crimm, in this show or a spinoff.

Freaking love Trent!

The conscious of the show.

I would agree that he's second to Higgins only. Trent embodies how you should treat a person with respect, while Higgins embodies kindness and patience. I also think of all the characters on the show, I believe that Higgins had the most character growth.

Higgins was always a great person. Good husband and father of several wonderful kids. He just needed permission not to hide his kindness again, and with Ted and a reformed Rebecca, he could. I suspect he did what he needed to do to survive under Rupert.

I love it because it reminds me of being treated to a dinner by an Indian friend. I came from a culture where it was polite to finish all the food on your plate, he came from a culture where a good host would provide more than enough great food to satisfy the guest. I was trying to wrap things up by finishing stuff, and he was ordering more things in a panic...we figured it out eventually.

It's getting a close rival to csi

Me too, what the hell, I can’t even take off my glasses without thinking of this guy now.

The final scene is better "Trent Crimm., Independent"

Darn now I’m gonna hear it too (I don’t mind)

this is awful. when everything funny has become essentially banned from TV this is what you're left with. geez louise.

@@trple2 sounding real bitter there bud

@@trple2 build yourself a bridge buddy

@@trple2 One of the interesting things about this show is that it is unapologetically wholesome, the comedy and the comfort go hand in hand for people who love the idea that a person could see the world the way Ted sees it, it’s inspiring. When a person types a try-hard cynical comment like yours about a show that is only trying to be wholesome and make people feel good, it makes it clear that the person is miserable, and most likely an assh*le. You don’t have to like the show, but why act like it’s some plague on the genre? It’s like being mad at rainbows or something. The show is not trying to be gratuitous, over-the-top, or cruel, there are more than enough shows like that.

@@tefweebz It's the opposite of wholesome. It's fascistic. Relgion used to be used on the public the way shows like Lasso are. As an opiate. To placate morons. "JUST BE GOOD". What is good? "WE WILL TELL YOU." Whether it's the crusades or genocides or governments run amok it always gets to this point when a group gets too much control. They start trying to dictate language, what is wholesome…and then recruit an army of Karens who buy into it and become the first layer of their enforcement arm.The second layer being state violence. Disagree with what is wholesome and want to speak freely? Oh, then to preserve wholesomeness violence will be used to protect it. In the nation the show is set, people are going to jail daily with use of violent force against them for just saying words that are "not wholesome". And those words can change any day. At a whim. WHOLSOME!!!! PROTECT IT!!! lol 1984, Brave New World, Farenheit…they all basically lay this out. As does every form of think tank paper. It's unfortunate you're so tied up in television fantasy world to see what's going on. It's a fun world out here in actual wholesome land, where people care about each other and use their brain to analyze what is aroudn them. I should be thankful for shows like Lasso. They keep people like you occupied like a day care center for dullards. You sickie.

It reminds me of the line from Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - "This is how I fight."

He’s like Waymond in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” where he deliberately uses kindness as a coping strategy in a cruel world.

The reply section is so nice.

😂

You make a really good point there. Trent is socially awkward and naturally introverted. He deals with it in part by becoming a journalist who can ask hard, blunt questions and get to the truth. Since meeting Ted, his view of life has changed. Here at the start of S3, he is feeling his way in a new role, researching a book on the ground at Richmond. He’s floundering a bit as Roy scuppers his rather shy attempts to connect with staff and players. Ted has his back though. I’m so interested to see how their dynamic plays out.

Or Nate.

Hits different after you watch the later seasons

Upstanding guy and a solid professional.

The crew/cast confirmed in a panel here recently that Trent and Sharon will be returning characters for season 3

@@talaperez3357 woohoo! Wasn’t so bothered about Sharon though. She was the psychologist, right?

@@johnwheatley5641 Haha right! And yeah, she was the team psychologist.

@@talaperez3357 not exactly a fan but I think she did a great job. Trent Crimm is the common man with a pen.(RK Lakshman)

It sure does after the dart scene and then the big reveal later. It's a gut punch to re watch it

I'm sure he's not used to the people he's interviewing being curious about him as a person. They're the star and he's the the chronicler. Except with ted, everyone else is the star

The way he looked a little startled at the question and then immediately agreed with Ted when he said “writing?” makes me wonder if he was worried Ted knew he was gay before he was out. Some good foreshadowing if true.

we know

“Trent Crimm, The Independent”

"Trent Crimm, The Independent"

“Trent Crimm, The Independent”

Trent Crimm. Independent.

lol

Actually Lasso didn't say no... he just agreed with a "mhm" noise.

Well, that was the original intent of that line, but it works for both the coaching job and the food :)

Well, until I had Indian food. . . . .I too had never had Indian food. Seems to me the best way to try something is to just go for it 😄

That was my reaction to Afghan food. One of my friends who's Afghan hosted a whole bunch of us one day. Her mom cooked everything, and I had to ask what each dish was, but by the end of the night, I was hooked. I have loved Afghan food ever since, and am open to eating anything this world has to offer.

my friend describes it as "Indian restaurant spicy" or "Indian family spicy" :D

I had the sense that Ted asked for what the chef would make for his own family because it's a warm thing to ask for, and that's how you get the best dish the chef can make, but given that Ted had never had Indian food, I sensed that he had no idea that he was ordering up the spiciest possible thing the chef could make from one of the world's spiciest cuisines. Put another way: Ted didn't imply that he wanted spicy food, but that was inferred.

This is wholly dependent on the chef, the popularity of the restaurant, and time of day.

Ted Lasso doesn't have a Southern accent per se. Jason Sudeikis is doing a spot-on version of the rural Midwestern accent you might hear in the belt that runs from southeastern Kansas around Wichita (I never made it further west), southern Missouri below the Missouri River (Joplin, Branson, Springfield, etc.), southern Illinois, and Indiana. He's from Kansas City (I'm from St. Louis) so it's not his native voice but for sure we heard it a lot growing up.

Shut up Sai

@@VaydaladaVodalada let the beautiful man speak, Roberta!!

TBH that is unlike any Indian restaurant I’ve been to in London…

@@gilwillia Granted, I've only eaten in a handful of Indian restaurants in London, Bombay Bustle in Mayfair looks a bit like that.

Sort of like Trent in this episode if you think about it

Hardly 'underrated' when TED LASSO won a ton of Emmy, Critic's Choice and Peabody Awards last year.

Yeah I would say it's far from underrated, but yet at the same time it's one of those incredibly rare shares that despite winning a lot of awards and pretty much being unanimously adored by viewers, it still doesn't feel like enough praise.

People REALLY need to start learning the definition of "underrated"

Just watched this episode after finally getting into the show. I’m glad someone else recognized that!

I really liked it too, but the last season was a little cheesy for me. My favorite episode was when Jamie Tartt went home. That was a special episode.

You forgot to add The Independent! lol

@Miscellaneaous, yes, and it is also the name of a spicy curry chicken dish. It is better to be thought a dumb ass than to speak and remove all doubt, bruh.

@Miscellaneaous, you might be taken seriously if you drop the ubiquitous ‘bruh’. The slang makes you sound like a punk.

@Miscellaneaous, by putting the Madras together with the Vindaloo (another, spicier curry chicken dish) it’s plainly obvious to anyone with two grey cells what I’m talking about. I am muting you because you are too dim to tolerate any longer.

Patia?

I mean, duh? These scene is meant to show Ted's nature and how just trying to be a good guy is getting him into sticky situations, but he rolls with it because that's the kind of guy he is. He probably rather not eat this very spicy food, but he feels the responsibility to respect the chef and his friend who is the son-in-law of the chef so he keeps eating it even though it's putting him through actual physical discomfort. It's an example of the core premise of the show, and shows that him becoming the coach of a British football club is an authentic display of his character, rather than it being born out of pure ego as some of the characters of the show expect.

Chicken Tikka masala is a native British dish? What?

@@sayanpoddar5580 yes it was conceived in Shish mahal in Glasgow

@@EvilGrapefruit Indians have been eating chicken tikka for centuries, adding gravy to an already existing dish hardly makes it a new dish.

@@sayanpoddar5580 it does make it a new dish. It is recognised as such globally. Recombinant innovation is innovation.

what's the other show?