5 Years Later, Ted Lasso’s Greatest Quote is Still a Total Lie

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Ted Lasso Made the Fake Walt Whitman Quote Immortal⛶⛶⛶⛶⛶⛶×The quote appears on Ted Lasso Season 1 Episode 8, The Diamond Dogs, which Apple released on September 18, 2020. It arrives during what I’d still call one of the best pieces of character writing Ted Lasso has ever produced. Credit: Apple TVWhitman scholar Ed Folsom, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, told Snopes that Whitman never wrote or said the phrase. The Walt Whitman Birthplace website itself even includes the saying on a “Famous Walt Whitman Quotes” page, demonstrating just how thoroughly the attribution has embedded itself online. All four seasons of Ted Lasso are streaming on Apple TV.