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Ted Lasso · Season 3, Episode 8, "We'll Never Have Paris"

Ted's bedtime story: The Beast Beyond the Fence

Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) · Henry's bedtime

Ted's bedtime story: The Beast Beyond the Fence. Evidence card from Ted Lasso: The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the FenceGet credit for sleuthing this sceneDrop the frame
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Ted reads his son Henry the first Breakfast Club Adventures book at bedtime. M.B. Davis says it gets a better look than anything on Beard's desk that week. A reader on Books, Beans and Botany names the same title.

Sources: What's Beard Reading? (3.08), M.B. Davis on Medium · Books From Ted Lasso, Books, Beans and Botany · Ted Lasso, Goodreads list
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The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence

Marcus Rashford and Alex Falase-Koya · 2022 · novel

Marcus Rashford co-wrote it with Alex Falase-Koya after his free school meals campaign got the UK government to reverse course twice in 2020. A Premier League coach reading a Premier League striker's book to his kid is about as on brand as bedtime gets.

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Ted Lasso

2020 · Apple TV+
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Cover of The Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming Slang by Geoff TibballsTed's welcome basket: The Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming SlangS1 E1Cover of Coaching Soccer For Dummies by National Alliance for Youth Sports and Greg BachBeard's other flight book: Coaching Soccer For DummiesS1 E1Cover of Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics by Jonathan WilsonBeard's flight reading: Inverting the PyramidS1 E1Cover of The Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacTed's plane book: The Dharma BumsS1 E1Cover of Quiet Genius: Bob Paisley, British Football's Greatest Manager by Ian HerbertBeard's Bob Paisley biography: Quiet GeniusS1 E3Cover of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsRobbie's gift from Ted: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenS1 E3Cover of Ender's Game by Orson Scott CardSam's gift from Ted: Ender's GameS1 E3Cover of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott FitzgeraldJamie's gift from Ted: The Beautiful and DamnedS1 E3Cover of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleRoy's assigned reading: A Wrinkle in TimeS1 E3Cover of The Arco Book of Soccer Techniques and Tactics by Richard WiddowsBeard's desk manual: The Arco Book of Soccer Techniques and TacticsS1 E6Cover of The Greatest: The Quest for Sporting Perfection by Matthew SyedBeard's sports psychology read: The GreatestS2 E1Cover of Fever Pitch by Nick HornbyBeard's Arsenal memoir: Fever PitchS2 E5
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