We prove that, in the choiceless Solovay model, every set of reals is H-Ramsey for every happy family H that also belongs to the Solovay model. This gives a new proof of Törnquist’s recent theorem that there are no infinite mad families in the Solovay model. We also investigate happy families and mad families under determinacy, applying a generic absoluteness result to prove that there are no infinite mad families under $A{D^ + }$.