Unless there’s an instance I’m forgetting, every instance where the Roy Kent chant is used on Ted Lasso, it comes at a heartwarming moment.
Season 1 - After his devastating knee injury, the crowd chants for him as he gets up and limps off the pitch.
Season 2 - When he has his big rom-com moment and leaves Sky News to race to Nelson Road and accept his true calling as a coach, the crowd chants for him as he strides out along the side of the pitch in his black suit.
Season 3 - When Richmond plays against Chelsea, the Chelsea fans chant for him to show their continuing love for him, even though he left their team.
Taken on its own, I always hear, “He’s here, he’s there, he’s every-fucking-where!” and feel hyped. But within the actual show, that chant is exclusively used in scenes that make me tear up. I love that.
There’s a scene in Criminal Minds where an HR rep comes to give a presentation on sexual harassment in the workplace and it’s clearly based on actual behavior from Morgan and Garcia.
So now I’m imagining a similar situation with Roy and Jamie. All of Richmond AFC sitting through mandatory harassment training when the slide comes up of “Examples of Innapropriate Behaviour” and it’s like:
1. Asking coworkers to tie strings around their genitalia
2. Tying colleagues to a bicycle and yelling “mush”
3. Making employees repeat degrading remarks about their own appearance
I don’t have time to draw it right now but while driving home from the winco I saw a happy mustached man pedaling a bike, towing a cart built to look like a chariot, inside of which stood what I can only imagine was his completely expressionless 13 year old in a makeshift corinthian helmet