#gezellig

[dutchjan]

31-03-2026

[the-cursed-wife]

In case anyone needs this today

[writtenndust]

Gezellig - Rebecca & Matthijs - Ted Lasso 💖

[keepingitneutral]

House Gezellig, Sydney, Australia,

Studio Prineas,

Photographs by Felix Forest

[meemalee]

Spoilers for Ted Lasso 3x6: Sunflowers

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So I seem to be one of very few people who got bad vibes from gezellig man.

From the “beautiful woman” line at the start, to chucking his phone in the canal, to the ‘accidental’ boo-boo kiss (there’s no way you’d mistake a grown woman’s ankle for your kid’s), to the ‘joke’ about drugging her tea, to the massive Tupperware of women’s clothes, to him failing to introduce himself, to him repeatedly coaxing her to drink alcohol (she said no to the brandy more than once, she said water instead of wine), to the “oh yes” at the end.

And everything else he said to her on the boat seemed a bit ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ - even down to the passive-aggressive “It doesn’t affect me if you stay or go” which has an unspoken “but if you were cool, you would stay”. And so she did.

None of this behaviour is charming, imho, even if the (male) creators of this episode want us to think it is - it feels manipulative.

Honestly, the only use I have for him is that Rebecca got her groove back a little - but she’s still letting the persistence of a man change her mind (cf Rupert turning up to the bar and Sam waiting behind her front door).

Combined with his dad jokes, his Kenny Rogers, his broken-hearted divorce, and the “fuck me” tea, gezellig man just felt like a parody of Ted to me.

In the same way that the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn was a parody of America.

Or Piggy Stardust was a parody of David Bowie (sorry Beardo - you know what I mean).

SHOOT, even Roy was saying Amsterdam was like a Disney version of an old city! (With apologies to Amsterdam)

Maybe ‘Sunflowers’ was all about parodies/bad tribute acts/pale reflections of the real thing!

PS I loved the episode otherwise, for SO many reasons (Colin and Trent! Roy and Jamie! Ted’s epiphany!) and the use of Brian Eno’s ‘Emerald and Stone’ for the Van Gogh scene was a genuinely beautiful moment that made me cry and made my husband very happy.

[minarachelle]

Roeselare, Belgium - 2023

[safeintheforest]

𝒞𝑜𝓏𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓇𝑜𝑜𝓂 𝒶𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓂𝓃 𝓋𝒾𝒷𝑒𝓈 𝒪𝒞. 𝒜𝓇𝓉𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀 𝒷𝓎: Imke illustrations

[kwistowee]

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