Archer, And Why You Should Watch It

I will admit, I have only seen the second season in anything approaching totality, but I can easily say I am looking forward to purchasing the box set and watching all of the series at my leisure at a later date. Until that time though, I can enjoy reruns of season two and catch any episodes that might have slipped through.

For the few cave dwellers who recently discovered network television and the Internet, Archer is an animated television show that takes the best from every spy film you've ever seen and hurls it against the wall and super-sonic speeds just to see how they splatter. Silly, sexy, and full of humor coming from unexpected places, Archer is a must see on TV.

Though I came in late, mostly because I assumed the show was a little too similar to Frisky Dingo for my tastes (hint, I didn't like that show AT ALL), I have come to greatly enjoy Archer, at the cost of missing the first season.

One of my favorite episodes Pipeline Fever, an episode where Archer(H. Jon Benjamin) and Lana(Aisha Taylor) are paired up to save America's largest natural gas pipeline from an eco-terrorist, and where the most memorable parts (for me) include Archer's horrible fear of alligators, pulling a shot gun out in a plane, and continuously mocking a nature activist code named after a character from J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings (I forget which, but that's because Archer keeps saying other character's names to make fun of him, such as Treebeard, and the line 'Suck it, Samwise!'). The other plot of the episode, meshing neatly with the mission, is when Malory(Jessica Walter) tries to make ISIS headquarters 'green', something that the other members of ISIS don't take to very well, especially Krieger(Lucky Yates)'s secret clones, who die in the tanks when power to the laboratory is cut down.

"He has an arrow sticking out of his head!"
"Yeah, I think that's what enraged him."

But my favorite episode has to be El Secuestro, where Pam(Amber Nash) is mistaken as Cheryl(Judy Greer), mostly due to Cheryl's instance that Pam was in fact Cheryl, and held for ransom. Revealed in the episode is Cheryl's incredible wealth and Pam's ability to take a punch, her history of fighting in underground fight-clubs to pay for college. Pam gleefully aids the kidnappers in infiltrating the ISIS HQ so she can get back at Malory's insult at claiming that her life was only worth a few thousand dollars offhandedly, culminating in Pam just stripping half naked, jumping on Malory and beating the crap out of her off-camera. While not having as many individually hilarious gags, it was certainly the best episode I had ever seen.

"Anybody want a piece of this?"
"Nope."

And though I don't remember what episode it's from, the best quote from the season, hands down, is when Malory talks to Krieger and says: 'Keep your friends close, and possible clones of Hitler, closer.'