Love wasn’t the only thing in the air in Hallmark Channel’s new holiday movie Saturday night, Christmas in Notting Hill.
The film, starring Sarah Ramos and William Moseley, featured numerous cheesy moments and pop culture shout-outs, including a scene about Ted Lasso it was a direct response to the hit Apple TV+ dialogue about Hallmark movies.
In a season 3 episode of the Emmy favorite, Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) tells the team they’re “so inoffensive we could be a Hallmark Christmas movie.” When the crew looks confused, Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) asks what a Hallmark Christmas movie is.
“Hallmark Christmas movies are movies about big city women falling in love with their childhood crushes,” Ted begins. “It’s usually some guy who has a Christmas tree farm. Sometimes he’s also Santa Claus or a prince.”
Ted admitted, “They’re bad, but they’re great – but they’re also mostly bad, but they’re also kind of great. They’re good with the sound off.”
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Sarah Ramos and William Moseley in ‘Christmas in Notting Hill’ and Brett Goldstein and Jason Sudeikis in ‘Ted Lasso’.
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IN Christmas in Notting Hill (which is a good thing with the sound on!), where Moseley plays a famous soccer player who falls in love with an American girl, Ramos as Georgia skillfully delivers a speech with a similar cadence, which you can watch exclusively above.
After Georgia’s father admitted that he spent the flight to London watching Ted Lasso, Graham jokes that the show shows “just what it’s like to play pro football.” To which Georgia cheekily says, “Your coach is an American football coach turned football coach? No previous experience? Who bakes cookies and makes motivational signs? He’s very fond of folksy charm and still doesn’t know what offside is?”
Graham jokes: “Exactly. Minus the moustache.”
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William Moseley and Sarah Ramos in ‘Christmas in Notting Hill’.
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The clever moment was no accident.
“When we saw Ted LassoHallmark Christmas movie reference, we happened to be shooting a movie in London where our male lead is a professional football player,” Samantha DiPippo, senior vice president of development and programming at Hallmark Media, tells PEOPLE. “We thought it would be fun to throw in a few sassy lines about Ted Lasso — all in good fun!”
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Of course, Ted Lasso moment wasn’t the only pop culture Easter egg in the film. At one point, Georgia’s father is seen reading a magazine – and that’s it Horse and houndpublication that Hugh Grant claims to be writing to interview Julia Roberts in 1999. Notting Hill.
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Christmas in Notting Hill is available to stream on Peacock and will rebroadcast on Hallmark Channel on Wednesday, November 29 at 10:00 PM ET.
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