UBC forestry prof name-dropped on Ted Lasso says she might have to start watching show
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University of British Columbia Prof. Suzanne Simard is into forests and the environment in a big way.
But streaming TV shows? Not so much.
So when people started sending congratulations after hearing her name and academic work mentioned on the hit show Ted Lasso, she was confused.
To start with, Simard had never heard of Ted Lasso.
"I started getting all these emails going, 'You just got mentioned by Ted Lasso and his TV show,' and I'm like, 'Who's Ted Lasso?' And people started sending me the clip and I'm like, 'Oh, that's cool.' Everybody seemed so excited about it."
The Simard scene takes place in the coaches' office of the fictional British soccer team AFC Richmond during Season 2, Episode 11 of the Apple TV series.
The character of Coach Nate, played by Nick Mohammed, is complaining he never gets credit for his tactical game planning. That's when the philosophical and wacky Coach Beard, played by Brendan Hunt, replies: