'Ted Lasso' Recap, Season 2, Episode 4: At Christmas, Sam Gets His Goat

Game Highlights

The Christmas episode is a standard of television — and especially of British television, which Ted Lasso is not, but which it sometimes, for brief moments, feels like it is. In this particular Christmas episode, even though Ted is feeling blue, the team finds joy in bonding over dinner, while Roy and Keeley try out door-to-door dentistry.

Play-By-Play

We first find the team in the middle of a gift exchange, where "Christmas In Hollis" is playing, because that's the law. Colin has gotten a scarf, and everybody else has gotten booze. But in fairness, it's a really nice scarf — handmade! Isaac sits in the center of the room in his Santa outfit directing the action, because Isaac is the captain of the team and if you haven't heard, Santa is the captain of Team North Pole. Jamie, of course, has forgotten to buy a gift for Secret Santa (he may have changed, but he's still himself), so Ted and the rest of the coaches help him put together an emergency present. Jamie's response: "God bless me, every one." Never change, beautiful goober.

We've skipped ahead a bit in the timeline, because while the