12 Ted Lasso-like TV mentors we love

Eric and Tami Taylor, "Friday Night Lights"
Clear eyes, afloat hearts, can't lose: Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) is simply a shot manager really coaching football, and his woman Tami (Connie Britton) serves arsenic the precocious school's guidance counselor. The brace not lone thatch the kids successful their football-mad Texas municipality however to play, but however to live, successful a amusement that ne'er became a large ratings deed but nevertheless remains among the champion bid of the 2000s.

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Miranda Bailey, "Grey's Anatomy"
Miranda Bailey has a estimation for pugnacious love, but her bosom is ever successful the close spot arsenic she molds the astir talented surgeons of tomorrow. And she's ne'er supra admitting erstwhile her students thatch her something, too.

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Jack Pearson, "This Is Us"
Jack Pearson mightiness not person the charm of Ted Lasso, but this dada shares thing overmuch much meaningful with Ted — a bosom of gold. Both men person a passionateness for bringing the champion retired of those astir past and challenging each america to bash and beryllium good. And similar each bully mentors, they're the dependable successful your caput successful pugnacious moments. Now, Ted, don't spell moving into immoderate burning houses, ya perceive me?

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Daniel LaRusso, "Cobra Kai"
When opening Miyagi-Do dojo, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) made his connection clear: All are welcome. Not lone bash we deliberation Ted Lasso would endorse this inclusive message, but he'd basal for these underdogs astatine the All-Valley Tournament.

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Abuela, "Jane the Virgin"
As the ma of a girl who gave commencement arsenic a teenager, the rubric character's grandma Alba (Ivonne Coll), a.k.a. Abuela, provides the CW dramedy's motivation backbone, teaching beingness lessons plucked from religion and telenovelas, and dealing with her ain challenges successful presumption of her migration presumption and a late-in-life romance.

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Marvyn Korn, "Big Shot"
The championship-winning hoops coach's temper got him booted each the mode from the pinnacle of the NCAA to a girls' high-school squad successful California, truthful he's a spot of a food retired of water. But contempt the information that Korn doesn't privation to beryllium there, John Stamos has made the quality into a disciplined but caring mentor for the teens successful this Disney+ series.

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Uncle Phil, "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air"
Philip Banks, played by the precocious histrion James Avery, guided Will Smith's character, on with a procreation '90s kids, done their teen years with integrity. While occasionally stern and a small gruff, Uncle Phil is besides hilarious -- similar that clip Will accused him of uncovering pleasance successful making him miserable and Uncle Phil responded, "That's not true. I person my vino collection." Well, cheers to you, Uncle Phil.

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George Feeny, "Boy Meets World"
Though their methods whitethorn differ, George Feeny (William Daniels) and Ted Lasso stock a guiding principle: If someone's consenting to learn, they're disposable to teach. For Feeny, his relation is some ceremonial — via his gig astatine John Adams High School — and informal, arsenic predominant mentor to brothers Cory and Eric Matthews (Ben Savage and Will Friedle) and their friends. Even for those who grew up without a Feeny of their own, a full procreation grew up with Mr. Feeny.

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Rupert Giles, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Like Ted, Rupert Giles is simply a antheral who recovered himself surviving and moving connected the other broadside of the pond. Admittedly, this British librarian's bid is simply a small taller than Lasso's; helium is helping usher a vampire slayer and prevention the satellite from aggregate apocalypses. It is simply a substance of beingness a decease — of course, British shot fans whitethorn accidental the same.

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Lydia Grant, "Fame"
We're beauteous definite Debbie Allen enactment the F in "Fame" with her Fabulous Lydia Grant. More than a dancer/teacher/lycra goddess, Lydia is simply a beingness manager who leads by illustration and reminds her students that occurrence indispensable beryllium paid for successful sweat. Want radical to retrieve your name? Move implicit and springiness Ms. Lydia Grant -- who lives everlastingly -- the floor.

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Dr. Mark Greene, "ER"
The halls of County General Hospital are filled with radical who could thatch bully medicine, but Dr. Greene wants to thatch his students however to beryllium bully doctors. He shows those nether his guidance however to spot the radical down the diligent — akin to however Ted ever sees the idiosyncratic down the subordinate connected the pitch.

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