Aug. 10, 2026

DCN Live: Ted Lasso Season Premiere Rant, Ricky Gervais’ “Alley Cats” Letdown, and Why Friends Isn’t #1

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A quickie video for the Youtube Channel. An experiment.

Johnshares quick thoughts on a few topics: they disliked the Ted Lasso season premiere, arguing the show needs more reality and that it’s unbelievable Ted—after finishing second in the Premier League—would be working part-time at a supermarket instead of coaching, doing TV, or taking another high-level job, and they also can’t buy the idea he’d return to the UK to coach a second-division women’s team. They then say “Alley Cats” was very bad despite liking Ricky Gervais, feeling it was mostly cursing and quitting a couple minutes in. Finally, they react to Ranker’s best sitcoms poll (1.3M votes, 101K people) naming Friends #1, calling it insane and arguing it wasn’t even better than Seinfeld, while also mentioning The Brady Bunch’s cultural impact and that Everybody Loves Raymond is underrated.

Ted Lasso Season Premiere Rant, Ricky Gervais’ “Alley Cats” Letdown, and Why Friends Isn’t #1 Poolside, the host shares quick thoughts on a few topics: they disliked the Ted Lasso season premiere, arguing the show needs more reality and that it’s unbelievable Ted—after finishing second in the Premier League—would be working part-time at a supermarket instead of coaching, doing TV, or taking another high-level job, and they also can’t buy the idea he’d return to the UK to coach a second-division women’s team. They then say “Alley Cats” was very bad despite liking Ricky Gervais, feeling it was mostly cursing and quitting a couple minutes in. Finally, they react to Ranker’s best sitcoms poll (1.3M votes, 101K people) naming Friends #1, calling it insane and arguing it wasn’t even better than Seinfeld, while also mentioning The Brady Bunch’s cultural impact and that Everybody Loves Raymond is underrated.

Poolside, the host shares quick thoughts on a few topics: they disliked the Ted Lasso season premiere, arguing the show needs more reality and that it’s unbelievable Ted—after finishing second in the Premier League—would be working part-time at a supermarket instead of coaching, doing TV, or taking another high-level job, and they also can’t buy the idea he’d return to the UK to coach a second-division women’s team. They then say “Alley Cats” was very bad despite liking Ricky Gervais, feeling it was mostly cursing and quitting a couple minutes in. Finally, they react to Ranker’s best sitcoms poll (1.3M votes, 101K people) naming Friends #1, calling it insane and arguing it wasn’t even better than Seinfeld, while also mentioning The Brady Bunch’s cultural impact and that Everybody Loves Raymond is underrated.

00:04 Ted Lasso Rant
00:25 Reality Check Complaints
01:27 Alley Cats Letdown
01:47 Best Sitcom Debate

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0:00 He not pop on pool side. I just got a couple of random things I want to talk about Ted Lasso. Did you watch that season premiere? It is not good. Now, can we get to the soccer please? But my big problem with it was, and I might be a crazy person, I need some reality in my comedy. I get that it's a sitcom, I get it. But the idea of spoilers, spoiler spoilers, the idea that ted Lasso is working at a supermarket. And again, fine, he wants to be near his kid, whatever, But this guy, I looked it up right. Season one, Ted takes over Richmond in the Premier League. They struggle and they're relegated. Then he wins the championship in season two, and then in the season three they finished second in the Premier League and he walks away. Okay, so this guy who was a college football coach was successful in the Premier League, and you're gonna tell me he's working at a supermarket part time. He's not on NBC's Premier League coverage. He's not the coach of the Kansas City MLS team. He's not coaching a women's team in Kansas City. He's just sitting around doing nothing. He's not on TV, he doesn't have a podcast, he just works at the store. And I just couldn't buy into it.

1:09 So the thought that he's going to move back to the UK, Yes, we love Rebecca and all the people at Richmond, but he's going to move back to the UK to coach a second division women's team as opposed to making a couple million dollars coaching Premier League team. I'll remind you he finished second, so he's apparently good at this. That just doesn't work for me. Did you watch Alley Cats? It was so so bad and I love Ricky Gervais, but I got a couple of minutes into this thing and I was like, it's nothing but cursing, and just I wasn't feeling it. A texted a friend, I'm like, I don't know if you can make it three minutes into this thing because I can't. And the other thing. Maybe we'll get to this on the audio show over the weekend ranker has the best Sitcoms of all time. It got one point three million votes from over one hundred and one thousand different people. Best sitcom of all time according to these crazy people Friends, Now stop Stop that's madness. That that that's insane. There's Friends.

2:11 Friends wasn't even the best sitcom on the night it was on things. You can tell me. Let's just make this simple. You can tell me Friends was better than Seinfelp. Come on, stop, you sound crazy. You know I could go into all the classic sitcoms we can argue about. I Love Lucy and the Honeymooners and all that. But like I was thinking, the Brady Bunch has more cultural impact than Friends. I mean, especially if you're old with the gray hair like me. You know, Brady Bunch a couple of movies? What Friends? Are you insane? I'll also advocate for everybody who loves Reemond is really underrated. I don't have a definitive list for you. You can jump in the comments and let me know who you think. It might be a good sitcom of all time, But Friends, get out of here.