#but then to randomly be like 'oh he's swiss bc that's a funny joke' ???? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chaoswillcalmusdown · 1 year ago

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honestly, the list of offences the ted lasso writers have committed against moe......... it's so long.

like, let's start with the completely incomprehensible 'haha moe is swiss' thing. like, is the joke 'haha swiss people are supposed to be white' ... ? bc that's a very right wing train of thought which always appears when a football nt no longer is 100% white. so the whole 'ahaha can a black man be swiss?' is a strange punch line to attempt in a cutesy sitcom.

then we have the fact that they gave him a made up surname which sounds like 'cumberbatch' but most people see as some 'play on a silly british name' which is still my nr 1 gripe bc they either did this not knowing that cumberbatch is a common carribean name bc the family were slave owners in the carribean, or they knew and just thought it was a good idea. i have to assume they didn't know, bc i don't think they ever hinted at him being carribean, that's just what made sense to me.

add to this how every time moe gets a line the outcome is 'ahahaha what a weird guy' and it's honestly enough to make you wanna break something

#they even made it into a lil comedic moment that colin finds him attractive #i was already annoyed but the swiss joke has taken me out #it's just the disrespect of his identity not making sense #it seemed to me as if they were going for a carribean londoner #which 100% checks out and makes sense #but then to randomly be like 'oh he's swiss bc that's a funny joke' ????#ted lasso #some day i'll stop complaining about ted lasso #but like. every time i see someone be like 'ahaha he's such a weird guy' i get so annoyed #there are ways to write a quirky character that still feels thought through #they have too fucking many one dimensional characters of colour (aka all of them) and i'm fucking sick of it

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