Seriously ILX, call Kenny Loggins cause you're in the DANGER ZONE over Archer (on FX)

So, super funny show. Renewed for new season. All available on Netflix Watch Instantly.

love the art on this thing too

http://smallscreenscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/archer-fx-480x360.jpg

this show is like the Pelé of anal

actually what i mean is that this show is great yet indefensible

What makes this show great is the very thing that makes it indefensible!

A much more satisfying Arrested Development reunion than Sit Down Shut Up, that's for damn sure.

Was anyone else kind of disappointed they didn't get more mileage out of Chris Parnell, though?

eh not rly feelin it. this is FX? figured it was an adult swim show

apparently this comes back really soon!

was kind of amazed at how funny i thought the bomb-defusing scene on the blimp in the first season was. it's really drawn out in a way i didn't really expect from FLASHY CYNICAL QUICK-CUTTING CARTOON SHOW #243 (not that this show isn't just fine at being that too, when it is). plus it is Actually Suspenseful!

so yeah excited for this, also it is nifty-looking.

i think this comes back tmmrw nite!

I like this,tho could be a bit samey.will dl.

I find archer being mean to his butler far funnier than it probably is.

when i watch this show i get the same feeling i do when i watch rob dyrdek's fantasy factory, where i am constantly expecting the next joke to be the one where to make me realize what a bad show it is. but i never do.

so this is back and it is hilarious

last episode was great.

i love this show so fucking much

The LSD strips and the Modified Ludovico had me ROFLing.

"You only need one doll for that!"

"Not if it's a gang rape."

with the fingers crossed!

Interview with Adam Reed: http://www.avclub.com/articles/adam-reed,52336/

Dear ILX, plz tell me u are watching this show bc it is fucking hilarious.

Of course.

Last episode was the best yet really. Nothing happened!

was the last 1 the fan boat/gator ep? yea p good

lol @ this

We did have to tweak the season opener. The girl was originally 14 because I did a bunch of Wikipedia research and found out that that is the age of consent in Germany. They said they didn’t care where it was the age of consent, it wasn’t the age of consent on FX. The only other one was Archer threw an infant, really a newborn, to disarm a villain. They said that was going a little too far. The baby was going to slam into the guy’s chest, which I’m sure is terrible for a baby.

I <3 Pam

Captain Beefheart reference? Check.
Charles Mingus reference? Check.

But naming the rabbit Robert Klein? FUCKING GENIUS.

i feel like with heavily dialogue-driven comedies, especially these animated adult swim-type shows, the rhythm of the dialogue is really important. and i really like the rhythms of Home Movies or Venture Bros, but the rhythm of the dialogue on these Adam Reed shows is really exhausting and irritating to me. now and then they do make me laugh really hard, but half the time i'm just tuning out or feeling actively annoyed by the way the characters are hectoring each other.

this is a p dumm show

oh i went there

1960s

hahaha

The two cancer episodes were pretty awesome. Why do so few comedies neglect the boffo of a baby getting a tattoo?

it's consistently better than it has any right to be

a show starring H. Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler, Chris Parnell and Judy Greer has a right to be way better than this imo

it's pretty funny. one of the better animated shows currently running (tho maybe not as good as venture bros, at least as good as bob's burgers)

it's funny, and it's been growing on me this season because my wife really likes it, but Bob's Burgers is much more my speed. even Sealab i dug more (although Frisky Dingo was the worst shit ever).

i don't hate frisky dingo, and my brother swears by it (he actually thinks it's funnier than archer). sealab was good when it was really weird (the WHAT episode in particular was a highlight). the best of these imho of recent memory are venture bros, the last season of metalocolypse, moral orel. frankenhole isn't as good as moral orel which is really a special show. so brilliant. um -- maybe we should poll all these. some big american animation of the last eight years poll?

Actually, I was thinking that a full old-style ILX animation poll could be fun too.

well, we did kinda do that:

BEST ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL PROGRAM
WORST ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL PROGRAM

also the end-of-decade TV poll kind of had a de facto animated top 10 within it

Moral Orel got robbed!

"i don't hate frisky dingo, and my brother swears by it (he actually thinks it's funnier than archer)"

Your brother otm. I loved Frisky Dingo. Archer is funny enough I guess.

I don't think it's even close to as good as Bob's Burgers but I still like it.

Frisky Dingo is great, Frankenhole is great, Archer is great, Moral Orel is great in certain dosages, Venture Brothers is all time, Metalocalypse is great, Home Movies is all time, Sealab is great, Bob's Burgers is bleh.

for shame

S2 of Archer has been pretty consistently awesome, a step up.

only seen first 7 of s1 but i love this show.

brace yourself: it gets even better

yeah this is the funniest thing on TV. by, like, a lot.

love bobs burgers too. what else should i be searching out?

have you seen Home Movies? that's the greatest H. Jon Benjamin cartoon of them all imo.

things i like archer better than: parks and recreation, inside the NBA, tower defense puzzle games, steamed green beans, greeting cards

will search out home movies, thanks sd

interview with Loren Bouchard: http://www.avclub.com/articles/loren-bouchard,56250/

“And whatever my equivalent of sploosh is. Which I guess is just sploosh. Only with semen.”

That episode was great. "Watch out for that Adolph Hitler, he's a bad egg!"

love this show so much

Archers of Loafcross

I've waited my entire life to say this exact phrase: "I'm commandeering this airboat!"

Returns tonight! Hilarious interview with Aisha Tyler over at The AV Club.

AVC: Were you getting it from both sides, feeling uncomfortable being the black kid at school and being the private-school kid at home?

AT: Oh yeah. You’re a perceptive fellow. I lived, for a good amount of time, in a black neighborhood and went to a white school. And at the school, I was this weird black kid who wasn’t even an archetypical black kid, you know what I mean? My family’s vegetarian.

AVC: So you can’t even be like, “I’m gonna teach you all about rap music”?

AT: No. “Hey, let’s breakdance! Time for the Electric Boogaloo 2 slide!” No, there was none of that. I was like, “I can teach you guys about tofu.” Which no one wants to learn about, by the way. And for all you vegetarian parents out there who think you’re doing your kid a favor: You’re not. You’re not doing your kids any favors. You’re just creating a terrible social circle, just a vacuum around them where no one wants to talk to them. ’Cause one of the big ways kids socialize is they trade, right? They trade lunches. And when you have nothing to offer, you’re just a beggar. You’re like, “I don’t have anything to give you, but please, whatever your cast-offs. The crusts of bread.”

AVC: “I have this seitan.”

AT: “Yes, I would like to offer you this date roll for your rejecta. I will eat your rejecta.” So there was that, and then when I went home, I lived in a black neighborhood and I talked, in their minds, like a white kid, and they thought I was fancy and putting on airs. And yes, I did get jumped every few months in that neighborhood, as well. As a result, it did two things: It made me an isolated kid, but it also made me relatively confident, which is weird, because I guess I just felt like, “Nothing worse can happen that this!” [Laughs.] So I just figured, “I’ll put myself out there, ’cause it can’t get any worse than it’s already gotten.” But I also was a huge reader and an academic, very much, and also loved fantasy. And that’s where all the nerdery came from. I loved fantasy and science fiction, and I was just this kind of crazy [Robert] Heinlein and [Ray] Bradbury reader, and would read books about time travel over and over again, and dream that I could fold myself. I was really an odd combination of factors. You know, science-fair queen, man. “Let’s go. Let’s grow some plants with UV lights and see what happens. Let’s use as our control plants grown in the sun. What’s gonna happen?”

It is fucking KILLING IT this season.

The ocelot!!

"you fox eared asshole"

Okay I am finally seeing this thing thanks to my girlfriend's fandom and yeah, this is ridiculously great. OD'd on the entire second season today (and had already seen the Katya android episode that just ran so I'm caught up there). H. Jon Benjamin has this perfect asshole voice for Archer that I'm still amazed at every time.

I <3 Pam

I pretty much said to my sweets that Pam had to be like a lot of her old coworkers. I wasn't surprised when she immediately agreed.

I can't remember, did we start a Bob's Burgers thread? Tonight's premiere had cindy lauper singing over the end credits.

I cannot remember the last time I laughed at anything as hard as I laughed at the joke with the Post-It note in Tina's bed during Bob's Burgers last night.

catching up on Archer season 1 via Netflix; I had forgotten how ridiculous this show was from the get-go

Adam Reed and Matt Thompson definitely make shows that crack me up

The Caress of Krieger. They get so much mileage out of the Rush thing.

this got much better. kudos, dudes.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1qhgk8kS21qaaldso1_500.jpg

OMG

Hahahha

Rei Toei looking pretty fly there

have been watching this on netflix. it kills me. i love it.

I watched the first season when my friend shoved the dvd at me, right before it appeared on netflix. Back to it now. I think I stopped watching (off and on) after the pirate adventure time? Looking forward to the rest.

So glad some of you are into this cause this is crazy underrated on ILX. Stoked for S4.

season 3 was somehow even better than season 1 & 2, which i would not have thought possible
both of my brothers and some other friends have been watching and loving this show too, because i said WATCH THIS NOW
yeah i can't believe ilx isn't all over archer

equally stoked for S4

hard not to say DANGERZONE sometimes when i know i should just say danger or an entirely other word

In my mind S2 is ever so slightly better than S3, if only for the incredible cancer arc, but they're both great.

Can't wait for this. One of the two or three funnies things on TV right now. (When we went to see "Skyfall," at the climax of the whole opening sequence, my wife and I looked at each other and without a beat quietly said, "All I want is to fight on top of a train! Is that too much to ask?")

Hahaha I totally thought that too! It was hard not to laugh

I mean, I laughed

this underrated on ilx? I love it

I think it's kind of like the bands that ILM never talks about and then votes top ten at the end of the year.

this got better after the first season (which was still p good)

i still feel very partisan about Bob's Burgers over Archer

which is crazy

I've definitely read some dismissive comments here and there but they may all have been Whiney tbh

You guys know Bob's Burgers is doing an Archer crossover episode later this season, right?

Isn't it Archer crossing over into Bob's rather than the other way around?

Love this show. Cancer plot, katya plot ("who taught you guys to SHOOT?!" every time they all missed him), wee baby Seamus. Its all gold.

I was gonna go as Mallory for a halloween party but then I realised I'd have to find an approximation of a Chanel suit somehere.

still one of my favourite Archer things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXa9wipv6j8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gdj62aqx-w

Haha I always wondered about that bit. Did he ask that to give himself an additional reason to shoot Delaney?

(or is it a ref that I'm missing?)

iirc (it's been a while), there was a discussion earlier in the episode about the guy liking Regis. I think in the Magnum PI it was supposed to be a poetic "I'm going to kill you, so I hoped you got to see the sun rise one last time."

Ha! That makes sense.

rewatching season two, since it was so long ago and I'm catching up

Rasta-Pam just said "Bob Marley" as a complete sentence, stared at the camera, and smoked up

apparently she is from ilx

wow, what is French for "broken record?"

"'ere."

"... racist."

Haven't read much about it yet, but they had an ARCHER LIVE event to kick off the new season. Apparently the preview showed Anthony Bourdain as "bastard chef" appearing at some point.

Animation World Network interview with Adam Reed: http://www.awn.com/articles/people/adam-reed-talks-the-smilthy-good-fun-of-archer

DS: You had some really great guest stars this past season and some interesting story arcs. The season started out with The Heart of Archness episodes with Patrick Warburton. You had the arc of course with Burt Reynolds. I know you are a fan of Mr. Reynolds. I watched all his films when I was growing up. He was one of the biggest actions stars when I was a kid.

AR: The biggest. I think it was either five or seven years in a row he was the number one box-office man.

DS: What was it like working with him? Was it as much fun as you imagined it would be?

AR: We normally do our recordings over the phone because we are in Atlanta, and our talent is in LA or New York or filming a movie somewhere. But for Burt, Matt Thompson and I actually flew down to Florida to meet him. [We were] Just giddy. I had his big hardcover autobiography and I was like, “Would you mind signing this please?” Just total gushing fanboy. He was super, super cool and funny and adlibbed a bunch. Matt and I just kept looking at each other with just our mouths hanging open and our eyes wide, “We’re actually here, recording Burt Reynolds!”

Episode 1, Season 3: The Man From Jupiter. Archer is shocked to learn that his mother Malory is dating his idol/hero/man-crush, Burt Reynolds.

DS: I bet it was a hoot. You know, his little trademark laugh was really great. It was a really funny story arc. Are there any guests or special story arcs for next season that you can share?

AR: Yes. We have Tim Olyphant, speaking of Justified and cool dark haired guys. He’s in an episode. He plays an old spy colleague of Archer’s who shows back up. We’ve talked about Sheryl’s billionaire brother. We’ll see him for the first time this season. He’s going to be played by Eugene Mirman. Kristen Schaal will be playing his girlfriend. In the Bob’s Burgers family, actually, in the season premier, I don’t know if crossover is the right word, but yeah, I guess maybe Bob’s Burgers Crossover is the phrase that I am looking. That starts out our season.

DS: It will be interesting how those two would crossover.

AR: We are doing another epic two-part season finale and the guest star in those two episodes will be played by a guy named John Hamm. I don’t know if you’ve heard of him.

DS: Don’t think I have.

AR: Speaking of other handsome dark haired guys.

DS: But of course.

AR: We’re just inundated with handsome dudes this year.

John Hamm v.o.! Dream come true.

I hope every season now ends with a two-parter featuring the lead actor of a prestige drama series.

this week's ep had some of my favourite recurring jokes - ears ringing after an explosion and archer making that strangely addictive mawp sound, brett getting shot again (and archer trying to track how his bullet got to the lower floor was good fun, especially liked how easily he gets sidetracked).

Is this one that just showed? The last one I saw was the Archer's gay friend who is totally not gay for him and not gay honest ep. Which was pretty hilare.

All of the *drop mic* jokes were the best.

"I happen to love negros and jazz" —Bob Marley

yeah trayce i'm talking about the one that came out this thursday. i wasn't that into archer's gay friend episode though. which well, for this tv show just means i really liked it instead of loving it.

No thats cool it just means theres a new ep for me to hunt down :)

The gay friend one was bothersome in a few obvious ways, but its hard to take this show to task for things we know it's horrible about anyway - irredeemable assholishness etc

The final scene of that ep after we learn (by inference at least) Archer got one up the arse from his gay bff and theyre all sittin in the car saying nothing looking shell shocked... I didnt quite know what to make of that. I mean on the surface i laughed , but then.

amused that "archer's gay friend" is tim olyphant

I did wonder who was doing the voice!

Some great stuff here:

http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/archer-characters-real-life-models.html

Apparently the models for the characters are a bunch of very random people Adam Reed knows from around Atlanta.

OK that is freaking me the crap out.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18efr7iewlgmojpg/medium.jpg

OMG

Er, I mean, "Sploosh!"

I laughed for five minutes straight at this:

http://www.entertainmentfuse.com/images/articlethumbs/thumb_8014-1361561744.png

Hahah yes that scene was hilarious.

Overall though, the last 2 eps have confused the hell out of me. Did I miss something, or was it a deliberate "wait, what?" moment that Katya is still alive (and bee-onic) and all that head of KGB stuff. WTH is going on there!? And this week's Archer snakebite hallucination ep was just nuts.

head of kgb was a reveal but katya came back bionic last season and ran off w/ barry (giving him the condition that he not kill archer). the katya death arc was good, kinda wish they'd left that alone.

Shit I must have missed that episode, it did seem like something had skipped over. That'd explain it.

yeah the return to the katya/barry plot kinda a let down after "Midnight Ron" the week before. a season high point for sure.

iirc, Adam Reed is fond of dropping in random shit and explaining later. I had the same "ok, I blacked out at some point last season" reaction to Ron Cadillac's first appearance.

wait people pay attention to the plot on this show?

ron cadillac is voiced by ron leibman, jessica walter's real life husband

there's usually no reason to (other than getting callbacks maybe) but the 'arcs' they had prior to this season - cancer, katya - were pretty great

Yeah I wouldnt call it an ongoing plot, but there's definitely back-referring stuff often going on that I think it helps to know/remember.

actually started coughing from laughing because of snake drawing = bread with olives in it

"what sort of language has the same word for bread, dog, Friday and snake!?"

Latest episode was pretty damn hilarous. Was it meant to be Anthony Bourdain they were imitaing, I assumed that was pretty obvious? Archer as secretly wanting to be a chef = gold.

That was actually Bourdain guesting.

Ha, how did I not realise! Awesome.

archer's conflicted emotions about secretly wanting to be a chef hit a little too close to home at times

Did I link this yet?
http://maloryarchersofficeart.wordpress.com/

i swear i've been considering trying to glaze a pot to look like the one behind her desk
they have great attention to background. always loads of pottery!

You should call her vase guy.

thank you vased guy

Ha thats great! I had always noted the artwork on the walls. I love the artwork in this show in general, sometimes it is extremely elaborate and detailled!

...er which forks just said.

loved the "surveillance" joke

This pseudo Sealab 2021 crossover is excellent

something something DANGER ZONE?!

I'm really looking forward to finally meeting Bub someday.

seems apropos to post here

did kenny loggins die?

http://www.geekosystem.com/starcher-trek/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7HkG6OSo3E

Has anyone seen the 1st ep of the new season? I was under the impression it aired on monday. I wanna know if the writers were telling the truth about the [spoiler I wont mention to do with the plot arch]

hrrm, I might buy this sucker online and get back to you later

Its not up on justanimedubbed yet so I havent seen it. Itchin' to!

If by "spoiler" you mean they got Kenny Loggins to record a country version duet of "Danger Zone" with Cheryl...then yes:

http://www.avclub.com/article/archer-creator-adam-reed-talks-about-blowing-up-hi-200818

Does this mean season 4 is up on Netflix now, finally?

Not yet.

OK so if the Cheryl becomes a country singer thing is true (which is the bit I thought was most trolly-sounding!) then I guess the rest of the "what happens to ISIS" bit is too (I dont wanna spoil it.. but its been spoken of in interviews)

cheryl performed a fine rendition of 'baby please don't go' in this last ep

It should be pointed out for anyone who cares abt that stuff that the AVClub link above spoils the shock of S5. I already knew/dont care but others might.

The episode has already aired!

yeah, I watched it Monday night... if you've heard rumors about where they're going with season 5, they seem to be true. the first episode isn't really a very good episode... it just sets up season 5. a third of the episode is like a reverse clip show.

...or IS IT!?

OK I just saw it, and that was aamaaaaaaziiiiiinnnnggg. But I'm left wondering if that whole storyline, with the montage, is some dream sequence. Hm. Be interesing to see how next week pans out. For some reason my instincts are sniffing red herring.

Mainly because of the montage!

To wit: at the end of S4, they had to escape from underwater and Archer had to be revived afterwards cos he'd been unconcious. I mean... it could work...

WHEN SEASON FOUR NETFLIX WHEN :(

srsly this has become one of my favorite comedy shows. i have rewatched the first three seasons multiple times now, whenever i can't figure out what else to watch.

ian - check out justanimedubbed.tv if you dont want to wait. They have all of S4, as far as I know (the only bits they seem to be missing is "arch of darkness" storyline for some odd reason).

arch of darkness was in season 3, no?

also :THANKING U

Yeah it was, what I meant was afaik none of S4 is missing (if it is, I wouldnt know haha)

oh :D

LOL I didnt realise they were calling S5 "Archer Vice", by the way. hahahaha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archer_(season_5).jpg

Carol/Cheryl waxing ecstatic about being tased while Pam had her hand down her skirt was one of those "I can't believe I'm seeing this/I can't stop laughing" moments.

Hahah yeah that made me do a doubletake.

lol at you guys thinking Archer's montage of fantasy is in any way a reflection of the rest of the season

I mean, lol at me if they do it, but I thought it was a fun one-off gag. Completely possible they do something with the cocaine sale angle, but I doubt it's that

Yeah thats what I was saying. I think Reed has red-herringed everyone, and it was just thatone episode. Cmon the start was a blatant dream sequence!

Mind u, them as drug runners would fit fine with the overall feel of the show anyway.

even if it's an actual trailer, as they're claiming it is, when the hell have Archer's daydreams been anything close to reality? not sure about that as a framing device

Wait, who is claiming the whole episode is a trailer?

Um.

Wait nm I get what you mean, mis-parsed it.

Hannibal Montana.

Poor Woodhouse in the empty pool!

lol at you guys thinking Archer's montage of fantasy is in any way a reflection of the rest of the season

lol at u mh!

(and me too, tbf)

I'd not read a lot of interview spoiler crap

still think it was a little weak

can't wait for more burt reynolds pastiche

The montage was def unnecessary. I liked ep2 fine enough. Pam zipping back and forth off her head was hilarious.

I just finished watching season 6, this series has gone kinda soft, hasn't it? But I like it, they couldn't have the kept the whole ultra-cynical approach going without sacrificing character growth, and looks like they do actually want the characters (well, at least Archer and Lana) to evolve. Which I think is the right choice, as funny as the first couple of seasons were, I'm not sure if I'd wanted to watch those same jerkasses for four seasons more.

I found the whole Archer/Lana/AJ situation surprisingly touching, but I don't think they can stretch it much more, so I'm kinda hoping season 7 will be the last one. The whole thing is like Rachel/Ross in Friends (right down to them having a kid without being in a relationship), but if Friends thought us anything, is that you can't milk a "will they or won't they?" situation for years without it getting extremely tedious. Also, while the other characters have settled into niches of their own and are still funny, they should get their own character development too, like Archer and Lana got. I guess the episode with Pam's sister's wedding was going into that direction, but I'd like more of that.

I got about halfway thru season 6 and stopped keeping up, mainly cos my other half, rather bafflingly, HATES this show. He loves crude cartoon shows like Bojack and whtnot, so I honestly dont get it, but eh.

That's kinda funny, considering that season 6 is closer to BoJack than any of the previous seasons (in that it isn't all cynical black humour anymore, and some of the asshole characters are actually showing some personal growth).

He said he found the humour puerile. Its baffling, he loves puerile humour.

Archer: Danger Island

This season of the animated spy comedy finds Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) as a semi-functioning alcoholic seaplane pilot — a lush on the lush South Pacific island of Mitimotu. It’s 1939, and while the rest of the world is concerned about the looming Second World War, Archer is concerned only with who’s buying his next drink. Along with his trusty co-pilot/sidekick Pam (Amber Nash), Archer must navigate quicksand, cannibals, super-intelligent monkeys, poison darts and pirates in this dangerous and mysterious land.

So, drawing on Casablanca, Only Angels Have Wings, and Panama Lady?

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