Coach Beard heads into the night after ingesting the supposedly spiked tea and turns up the next morning in a mysterious van, wearing a full "Piggy Stardust" getup. It's clear that he's had a more lighthearted version of the epic bender depicted in the Season 2 episode "Beard After Hours" — only, this one happens completely offscreen.
It's not entirely difficult to understand why the episode chooses to only hint at Beard's misadventures this time around. After all, he's already had a full episode dedicated to his off-hours antics, and "Sunflowers" has an awful lot of plot to tackle, even for a "Ted Lasso" episode. However, almost all of the plotlines we actually do see in the episode are either comparatively serious (Ted's journey of tactics discovery), slow-paced (the jazz club), or even deliberately flirting with uncomfortableness (the houseboat, Trent and Colin) — only the team's loud non-stop bickering and Roy and Jamie's banter keep a lighter tone, and even they address much deeper mental issues.
All of the scenes we actually see in the episode are clearly necessary, and everything that happens here will almost certainly come into play big time once AFC Richmond returns to England. However, there's simply so many poignant scenes in the episode that it's easy to start yearning for the occasional glimpse of Coach Beard partying the night away like there's no tomorrow. After all, he's now officially the only person in the show who knows how to do so.
