There are a handful of “Friends” episodes that never get old, and “The One Where Everybody Finds Out” is one of them. Chandler and Monica have been dating in secret, but Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) quickly realize that the pair are hiding something. Joey wants to get the truth out in the open, but Phoebe and Rachel decide it would be more fun to play a prank on Chandler and Monica. Against Joey’s wishes, the ladies figure out a way to force Chandler to admit he’s dating Monica. It’s unnecessarily complex and indirect, similar to Roy and Beard’s strategy for the game against West Ham.
In the “Ted Lasso” Season 3, Episode 4 scene, Roy and Beard act as stand-ins for Rachel and Phoebe, while Higgins replaces Joey. The coaches are grasping at straws to find a way to beat West Ham, leaving Higgins as the voice of reason. They’re trying to outsmart Nate, a tactic that’s clouding their judgment. Even the dialogue of both scenes is vaguely similar. “So we gotta stop thinking like Nate and start thinking like Nate would think that we would think if Nate were thinking like us,” Beard tells Roy and Higgins. It’s in the same vein as what Phoebe says to Rachel and Joey: “They don’t know that we know they know we know!” Whether the moment is an intentional “Friends” reference is anyone’s guess, though it definitely feels like a purposeful throwback.
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