If I Had A Nickel For Every Time An English Television Show Brought Me Near Tears Over Van Goghs Sunflowers,

If I had a nickel for every time an English television show brought me near tears over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

“Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise” -The Avett Brothers

The shrink on the radio show in “Sleepless in Seattle” is named Dr. Fieldstone. That’s rom-communism, baby! Who else is keeping a tally of Nora Ephron references in the soccer show? Just me?

“The Mountain Goats are so esoteric and deep and poetic…” meanwhile:

Is it the butterfly effect if watching Ted Lasso results in me buying a book named after a John Prine song? Or is it just Apple TV?

(I only watched the pilot of the show. I’ll go back to it after I finish this.)

This is a shift, lads. This is a big shift. The sign is was? the front that Ted’s been putting up, and he’s done. He’s tired of that shit. It’s real now. The belief is inside. I mean right before the speech, we saw Ted successfully fucking COPE instead of hiding his pain. And he told Henry something REAL. This is a whole new ballgame, so to speak.

Now, about that Tedbecca scene—