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I finally decided to watch this show this week. I’m already on S5 E9. Holy crap, is it amazing! You’d think I’d be getting tired of it after binge-watching so much (my knee is currently jacked, so haven’t had much to do), but I’ve found I’m enjoying it even more - especially season 5. I like how they keep it fresh. Hopefully, it continues on this trajectory, at least for another 2-3 seasons. I guess I’ll find out over the next 3-4 days…

I feel like an idiot for just realizing this. After Katya fell off the building, we see archer on an island sleeping with a woman on her honeymoon. The same thing happens in the danger island season, except the woman is Cheryl. I’ve watched this show for years and just made the connection.

Anyway, who else has only two brain cells to rub together?

I'm on my third rewatch and I LOVE that the show is so insubordinate and cruel to itself and consistently tries to have the characters grow just to have them revert back - a little like the crabs in the bucket theory.

But - there are a few gems - that I'm like "these are so out-of-place" in this show which is designed to be so offensive and irreverent that they are so magical and the last watch-through I ended up getting teary eyed at a few:

ONE

S5, E5: Archer Vice, Southbound and Down

Pam and Archer are trying to avoid gangs, crooked cops and various thieves after Pam admits that she told several people at local truck stops that they have a box filled with cocaine.

Archer is angrily trying to avoid the cops who are shooting at them, while yelling at Pam for her naïveté and her dangerous cocaine addiction. Once they are out of immediate danger, Archer realizes something Pam said in passing and brings it back up:

Archer: Wait, let's go back a sec - you're endangering your life...for beauty?

Pam: Yes! Duh - look how how hot I am now! Let me answer that for you - AS BALLS! That's why everybody likes me now.

Archer: Who!? Your trucker buddies? THey only like you because you told them you have COCAINE!

Pam: Well - and the snowballs...

Archer: And for what it's worth, we all kinda liked you the way you were before

Pam: Really?

Archer: Well...we hated you less. You kind of turned into a gigantic asshole

Pam: Yeah! With gigantic big TITTAAAAAYS!

Archer: Oh for the love of...Pam...who cares?! That's just subcutaneous adipose tissue...albeit a shit-load of it...but I can't bang you if you die from an overdose.

Pam: Awwww! You wanna bang me?

Archer: Obviously! I mean look at those big bastards!

TWO

S2, E9: The Placebo Effect - Archer and his relationship with the older woman who died of Cancer

THREE

S6, E9: Pocket Listing

The gang is working with Slater from the CIA to discreetly collect biodata from a young prince from overseas. As a way to get close to him, Cheryl pretends to put her mansion on the market and is acting as a real estate and tour guide to the prince, his strict and beautiful mother, Queen Yasmin and their team of guards.

Pam and Archer are acting as a housemaid and butler respectively but Archer gets distracted by the queen's beauty and mentions his intent to have sex with her to Pam while also signalling that he still has feelings for Lana.

Pam: So you're just doing it to make Lana jealous?

Archer: No, her being jealous would just be the icing of what I imagine would be a VERY moist cake

Pam: Blorp

Archer: Because I've had sex with a baronness, a marquise, a vicomtesse, the 2 princess sisters, the duchess..but I've never had sex with a queen. Yasmin would be my greatest masterpiece Pam...my....hmmm

Pam: (chuckling) your...MOANING Lisa?

Archer: (chuckling) Dammit I was gonna say that

Pam: (laughing) Girl with a Pearl Necklace? The Potato Eaters?

Archer: Stop it!

Pam: But wait...why are you telling me your plan to NOT make Lana jealous?

Archer: I dunno...I --- wait...oh my god, Pam, I think you might be my best friend!

Pam: (Squeals in happiness and hugs him joyfully) Aww! Youre my best friend!!

Archer: Wait, what about Cheryl?

Pam: Youre my second best friend! Although....oh my god...

Archer: What?

Pam: Eh...I guess I thought I'd be doing a lot better in the friends department by now

Archer: (chuckles) I thought by now I'd be dead

Pam: Well...day's not over!

Archer: (laughing) Right?!

FOUR

Mallory staying 3 years by Archer's side and being there when he woke up

FIVE

Mallory's goodbye letter to Archer and the gang

SIX

Archer giving Pam relationship advice when she has the crush on Alessia

Awwwww - Parcher was one of my favorite combos

So I had a thought in the shower about Archer and how the characters are actually representations of the Seven Deadly Sins. I've done a rough draft, of how each character represents a sin. What do you think?

*Edit to add - I didn't do this on Chat gpt, It was just an idea I had and rough draft I thought was interesting, if it was AI I would have said that I asked it to see what it thought. I've been watching Archer since it came out in what 2007/8, I didn't realise that people like Cyril would be fans of this type of comedy, but you live and lean.

Pride - Archer He literally embodies this fully. He is over-confident, arrogant, complacent, and pretentious. He hardly gets his comeuppance and even when it seems he might get his just desserts, things just usually work out for him. He does get humbled a few times, most notably with Tranet and the "potato faced spawn of an irish whore", getting his potential father Nikolai Jakov of the KGB killed, and being shot by Veronica Deane even though her butt was just kakow!

Archer takes great pleasure in demeaning, bullying and winding everyone up, however he often reacts poorly if anyone calls him out or makes a fool out of him.

Greed - Dr Kreiger Kreiger who "won't rest until we've all been enslaved by Skynet". He wants infinite power with his clones. And aww, Pigley. He's not hungry for fame, fortune and possessions. He wants power, status and to control people. He is a Hітlеr clone after all! He has clones of himself and you know the core group. Why he didn't create a physical clone of his holographic girlfriend Mitsuko Miyazumi after Lana destroyed her in a rage is baffling as he could have physically enjoyed some tentacle porn al a Fisherman's Wife! & Fisherman's Wife 2: The Re-tentacling!

Talking of Lana's rage...

Wrath - Lana Kane Lana Kane is angry due to putting up with Archers shitty attitude and because her hands are like Cricket bats! But in all seriousness, she is angry because everything comes easily to Archer, and he hasn't or rather didn't experience real hardship until his Cancer diagnosis, coma and Malory setting off into the sunset. Lana is extremely selfish and also gets angry when things don't go her way. She screams at everyone if things don't go her way, or if the guys ignore her suggestions.

Envy - Cyril He is envious of everyone around him, he lacks the skills that make the others strong. So Archer's ability to nail assignments/women without trying or preparing. Dr Kreigers intelligence, Lana's strength and accomplishments, Pam's literal strength, Cheryl/Carols Bank balance and Ray's self confidence. He puts all of them down to make himself feel better.

He is a smug, smarmy, condescending and arrogant ass. There's times when I want to slap him, that's how well his voice actor plays him.

Lust - Carol I mean does this need explaining? Choke sex, that's her kink. She is destructive in all areas of her life, she's a pyromaniac, likes autoerotic asphyxiation, sexual asphyxiation, wants to kill baby people, hates dwarves, then we have Babou. I was going to put Cyril as Lust however sex addiction still isn't the DSM so he can suck it (Phrasing, boom!)

Gluttony - Pam Coke Pam? Cocain cupcake Pam? it is better than all the whipped cocaine she was eating- because that's just empty calories! As Malory said she is the "Poster child for addictive personalities". She has no self control, self esteem or self confidence, and she over indulges to fill a hole, or offers BJ's and puppy stickers in an effort to get people to like her.

Sloth - Ray Now, Sloth in the context of the 7 deadly sins doesn't mean lazy as we know it today per se, its more apathy and lack of action. So everything Ray does needs to benefit him personally. If he doesn't get something out of an assignment, mission or activity then he won't do it. He'll also not complete stuff if it benefits someone else more than benefits him, or even though he's a literal Spy, if something could hurt him. Look at him running our of carburettor in Jeu Monégasque.

I'm still thinking of examples for Ray so watch this space!

Malory is all 7 deadly sins combined, and possibly a Virgil inspired character as she leads this ragtag group of Mujahideen idiots or in Cheryl's case "whorediot" through hell, purgatory and paradise.

Honorable mentions go to: Barry - Prick Other Barry - Psyco prick. Brett - He died doing what he loved. Ron - Not Archer's stepfather. Katia - Sploosh Veronica Deane - Kakow Woodhouse - how could I forget Woodhouse! I'm gonna go eat a big bowl of spiderwebs as a punishment!

I've probably missed a whole bunch of stuff, but what do you think of the idea that the characters are or could be based on the 7 deadly sins?

Pocket listing [S6E9]

I really enjoyed archer and it was becoming one of my favorite shows it entertained me and made me happy and after these bulsht coma seasons the show feels sad and hard to watch. How do you guys feel about the coma seasons?

Since I can’t keep watching the series while I wait for a new season…. What would the new archer series be about? What character will make cameos and which ones have left the building ?

Idk if this is the right sub for this question, but I really want to someday take an extended off-the-grid tropical vacation à la Archer S3E1 where he becomes “Randy” in French Polynesia. Not saying I want to ruin (doomed) marriages, but where in the world would be the best places to (ethically) pull this off? Actual French Polynesia? Maldives? Seychelles? Also picturing Skyfall vibes where Bond stays on that Turkish island for awhile

Also what cause his fear of them? He said he loved them when his "dad" gave it to him. Maybe Mallory destroyed it and traumatized him or just naturally became afraid of them.

I read Bartleby the Scrivener in high school and loved it ever since. I was cackling when it came up on the show. "I would prefer not to" is in my regular rotation of things to say. I guess I'm a big Melville fan.

It’s been a few, but I think the biggest was from Season 10, episode 4 when Carol said she was Artemisia I of Caria. It was definitely the most interesting. What obscure reference did you need to Google?

We get:

A peak into Mallory’s past/the fucked up way her brain works

Allusions to a real operation from NATO and the CIA

Some of the best lines such as “the classic Irishman’s dilemma” and “black, bitter, and preferably fair-trade”

Archer annoying Lana but without any of the shrill Lana-lectures we get later

Kriegar at his absolute finest: he knows the sauce is off by smell, he comes up with the smiley face plan

The gangs personalities are all at play without it being overbearing: Cyril is whiny, Ray is dismissive, Mallory is casually racist, Lana is “mission”-focused and Archer, Pam and Carol/Cheryl are just fucking around

Lana wears a French maids outfit

The gang is SUCCESSFUL (or, rather, Mallory is) and completes the “mission”

We end with a teaser of who Archers father could be

& Mallory spitting venomous Italian as she exacts revenge is super fucking bad ass

I just finished rewatching archer and I wanted to know

Fanart by drawmoorepictures.com

Mine may be more personal because I am a newish father, but Lana is the worst. She went from one of my favorite characters to the worst. The way she is using AJ as a weapon against him is the scummiest thing. I genuinely hate what kind of mother she is. She turned exactly into Malory and I hate it. Call it extremely personal, but I will never get over how she turned out.

I just watched the last episode (literally 5 minutes ago) and dude, It's been long since the last time I felt this void inside after finishing a show. I swear I could watch 40 seasons of it, and I don't care if it ends up being other kind of show like... a more dramatic one, a Krieger spinoff, or whatever.

Anyway, I gotta say that I didn't like too much this last season. Zara is annoying, some of the characters kinda lost the development they had been going through the show (everyone got very childish somehow) and they changed the voice actor that dubbed Krieger in Spain (which has a very unique voice and tone), just to use the same actor that dubs Brian Griffin, Bojack Horseman, Charlie Sheen, Jeff Goldblum...and it's just not a voice to interpret a mad scientitst.

Also, I liked how Archer basically ended up >!penetrating his friend Barry, but I don't like how Katya comes back like nothing has happened, and how Archer falls for her. !<As I said, I feel like we just lost part of the Sterling's development arc. I really though he was going to get closer a closer to Lana to maybe end up together again, but these last couple of seasons (I've been binge watching and can't even tell how many seasons I've watched this weekend) that possibility completely dilluted. Archer is like 40-45 years old by the end of the show, so it would've been nice seeing him adapting to the fact that his body is fucked inside, that she has a daughter, that his mother retired and has zero contact with him, etc.

I just wanted to share my thoughts and ask for your opinions on this topic.

What kind of spin off would you like to watch if there was a chance? I would LOVE if they gave Krieger his own show.

PS: sorry for my grammar mistakes, I'm still improving my English

My problem with Archer is it ran for too many seasons and the latter half didn't have enough episodes. Around season 7 when they reduced it from 13 episodes to 10 started to lead to a decline in the show. Dreamland, the first of the coma fantasies, started off good but went downhill, primarily because they made 8 episodes which made it feel rushed. The post coma episodes could've been two seasons instead of four with thirteen episodes per season instead of eight.

What does everyone else think?