More Ted Lasso Latin Motto Discoveries
I get it. It’s lost its charm. It’s no longer amusing. Once fine, twice eh, but three times (thrice?)? Way too much. (For the record, the stats for my second installment vs. my first, 80 (literally, 80) views vs. 11,300 (actually) bear this out in stark and unavoidable terms. Though, interestingly enough, the read ratio for the second installment is twice as much, 41% vs. 20%.)
But I’m in. I’m trapped. I can’t stop. It’s bordering on obsessive at this point. I sometimes will pause and scan just to make sure I didn’t miss any. And so you’re stuck with a third installment. And, let’s be honest, it probably won’t stop at the third. Because I maintain, in my blind obsession, that Ted Lasso (the show) continues to toy with me, to plant the motto in as many (obscure) places they can. Dare I think that they and they alone look forward to these reports?
So to the Latin.
But first some corrections. In the second installment, I identified the trash bin in the shower as one of the (oddest) places for a Latin motto to be placed, furthering my assumption that Ted Lasso (the show) was mining the depths of its sadism for obscure locations for the motto to be placed. I do not retract my statement that AFC Richmond appears to be the only place, at least according to Google, that brands its trash bins with its Latin motto. But I regret to admit that I did, in searching earlier episodes for further evidence (which I found; more on that below), find the same trash bins in the same shower in season 1, episode 2, with, miserabile dictu, the Latin motto.
Those trash bins (not necessarily those same trash bins) do show up in the most recent episode as of this writing, season 2 episode 6, in the lower left of the screen shot below.
Now to Ted’s office, or at least a view from Ted’s office, I believe, into the training room. In the screen shot below, from season 1 episode 2, you can see through the door into Ted’s office a window with Venetian blinds and only gray wall above it.
Compare that same view in season 1, episode 10 below. Same view, from the locker room into Ted’s office at the same angle, but now with yellow lettering above that same window.
In season 2, episode 6, we get what I think is the first close up view of that lettering. And the third screen shot is the wide view from the same angle of Ted’s office but only this time in the office itself rather than through the door from the locker room.
Next, the press box. In season 1, Arlo White and Chris Powell commentate with an industrial off-white / gray sheathing as their background, and this is the case for the entire season, the shot below from season 1, episode 2. In the final episode of season 1, they are broadcasting from the same setting.
In season 2, however, they are broadcasting from an official press gantry, including shadow text of various Richmond slogans and mottos, including, you guessed it, the Latin motto, visible just to the right of Arlo White (on the right).
Next, the walk through the Richmond ‘museum’. In the pilot, Nate walks Ted and Beard through the ‘museum’. Note the red sofas and the champagne bottle.
In season 2, episode 6, we are given a similar view, but with the now (in)famous Gradarius Firmus Victoria included. Note again the red sofas and the champagne bottle for reference.
And, finally, reception. As far as I know, this is the first view of this part of the complex. At the beginning of season 2, episode 6 this is what greets Ted as he enters from the parking lot (a relatively common location).
So you got me on the trash bins, Ted Lasso (the show). You snuck those past me early in season 1, and for that I applaud you. But the motto is clearly proliferating. And I’m here to provide evidence of that proliferation. Need evidence via side-by-side screenshots? I got you. This two hours was definitely well worth it. Because when that XL top, L bottom kit comes…. Oh right. But at this point, as I said, I’m in. So keep the Latin motto placements coming. I’ll find them, even if it’s a few episodes after the fact. I am happy to provide the evidence that no one needs or wants. To paraphrase a certain Liverpool coach, the most useless of the useless information.
