Archer Season 6 (1 Viewer)

Premiere is tonight. 1/8

YES!

According to the FX press-tour, more Christian Slater on the way, plus Fargo's Allison Tolman will be showing up as Pam's sister Edie this season.

"Hey, we've got this new thing called 'a schedule'...!!"

*Archer unleashes hail of gunfire*

"We need a minute, Captain Shitnuts!"


Also:


"...Okay, so there was this guy, Steve Austin, and he was an astronaut....okay, so there's this thing called 'astronauts'...."


Also:


"I had a very specific vision, and it wasn't 'Japanese whorehouse'!!"


(Speak for yourself, Malory...)

I laughed a lot, and it was grand to have the gang back in familiar surroundings and Archer at his most irresponsible. Fun premiere!

Further awesomeness:


Jessica Walter's sheer utter, shrieking delight over the holo-drink cart like it was goddamn Gene Parmesan.


There were so many moments in this episode where I was sure Sato was going to be on the tragic receiving-end of some black comedy, like his family getting burned up at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or else catching a Commie bullet in the back of the head while talking to them on the beach.


I was very, very relieved when these fears proved unfounded. Sterling Archer may be a dickhole, as Sato points out twice, but that just makes the moments where he shows actual human empathy all the better. Hoping Sato somehow sticks around as a father-figure/parenting coach.


(And just for the record: poop-related septicemia is by far the least sexy septicemia.)

Thanks Jungle, eat a buffet of dicks!

H. Jon Benjamin live-tweeted the premiere with a surprise guest!


http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2015/01/h-jon-benjamin-live-tweeted-the-season-premiere-of-archer/2/

joshEH said:

H. Jon Benjamin live-tweeted the premiere with a surprise guest!


http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2015/01/h-jon-benjamin-live-tweeted-the-season-premiere-of-archer/2/

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LOL!!! LITERALLY!!!

Finally just caught last night's episode (the DVR apparently glitched).


Best visual of the episode: Dancing Bear-Terminator Skeleton.


Can we say, "Great fight-choreography in animation"? Because that was totally it. Not just great choreography, but fairly plausible CQB techniques, too. The combat on this show is a goddamn treasure. (Another fantastic visual: the mustache/blood-smearing on the window.)


More awesomeness:

• "You cannot make yourself a verb -- I will not allow it!!"
• "We'll help you find A.J...In, like, five-teen-forty minutes." Pam evidently learned how to tell time from Abed.
• Conway shooting Archer in the back, but then LOSING HIS RIGHT HAND.
• I loved how Conway was totally into it until he found out it was baby-weight. Dude's afraid of babies and not into MILFs.
• "From what? Your mom's antique vagina?!" Somehow, that now seems like the perfect comeback to any insult.
• "Is it too much to ask, during the goddamn workday, for two separate sessions of 80 uninterrupted minutes each, of quality dump-time?!?"

Also, Malory choking out Carol/Cheryl/Cristal ("That crazy Jew Santa-chick") didn't seem to pay off quite the way I expected...

Yep, I laughed out loud quite a number of times with this episode. All Archer has to do is put on that mustache to have me giggling.

"Anyway, I doubt the robot has any Bourbon, and I'm not really in the mood for a WD-40 and Coke...unless that is literally the only thing to drink."


Also:


"...Yeah, sounds like Krieger."

"Jesus Christ, will he not rest until we're all enslaved by Skynet?!?"


And:


"Wait...you knew the code??"

"Of course he did -- he's a cyborg. It was probably Gaius Baltar's --

[*Archer gets shot in the back four times*]

"...ZIP code ..."

Conan interviewed Archer.. kinda.

"Ray, if I ever have sex with a man, it'll be THE MAN WHO REMEMBERS THE GUM!! ...and, not that it matters, also black."


So, who else thought that the avalanche was going to end with a re-re-re-paralyzed Ray?


Also, I didn't know what to do with myself when I realized Malory had just played us all with the fake voicemail. I had to rewind a few times; there's a very good chance I blacked out from sheer happiness.

Yes, lots of good stuff in this week's episode. The running gag with the gum was really funny, and I was hoping by the end that Ray would show Archer an empty pack of gum as he chomped on the last piece. No go, sad to say.

Gillette: "Just like every car trip I ever took with Mama and Daddy...only I'm not getting whipped with a fanbelt."


(Regarding ceviche, I think Justified had probably the all-time greatest reaction ever.)

Any episode with that much focus on Pam cracks me up.. but the sequence "Cut me down"... RIOT.

Yep...Archer + Pam Poovey = must watch TV. Add in Barry? Holy cow, the only bad thing was that this episode wasn't long enough to get everything it COULD have had.


But even with Pam and Archer up to hilarity, we still get Krieger dropping a pants-shitting ray that used to be an ejaculation ray?!

I thought the inclusion of the Fargo theme at the very end was going to pretty much just be fan-service for "good TV"-watchers, but damn if they didn't make it utterly sinister.


Allison Tolman really did an amazing job of being a slightly-off version of Pam. Exactly what I'd expect Pam's mean asshole tunt of a sister to be like.


"If you don't want to spend the rest of the year signing for pieces of Pam's head and feet and shit..." Classic Barry!


Phase One: Crippled Agent. Phase Two: Six Million Dollar Man. Phase Three: Terminator. That actually has a great Frisky Dingo-evolution to it. It's perfect.

Pam and her horror of a sister. Barry back and evil as ever. Continual references to Archer's shaky heterosexuality. What's not to love? I laughed a lot.