Coach, I got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” is a funny line Ted Lasso says to Coach Beard right when they get to London. That’s a very obvious nod to The Wizard of Oz and the AFC Richmond coach being from Kansas.

Many have pointed to that message at the heart of Ted Lasso as evidence that the show is, in a sense, a modern retelling of The Wizard of Oz. Since the show's premiere, fan theories have broken down everything from Roy Kent's tie-dye yellow brick road-esque shirt to Ted's red sneakers to the Wizard of Oz themed pinball machine in the show's penultimate episode.

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