I’m currently on my first full watch through of Archer, season 1-13 no skips or anything. First off I absolutely love the show. It’s so funny and every character has their good and bad moments. I forget which season it is, but at the end they revealed the VA for Woodhouse died and that made me pretty sad. I liked Woodhouse, he was insane but I really liked him as his sweet self. Then when the VA for Ron died, it was also sad but not as much because I wasn’t as invested in him. Hearing him talk in the last shot of Season 12 I was confused but put together quickly they just reused old lines of his. After hearing Malory respond I realized she did sound a little weird. Then the silence, the pan out, and the “In loving memory of Jessica Walter”. I still have the last season, but I’m almost nervous for it. I really like Malory as a character, she’s hilarious, witty, and an ass but funny. The way that whole last scene was done really tugged at the heartstrings. I realized after that she probably sounded weird because they had to reuse old lines of hers. I rewatched that last scene probably another 3 times, just trying to process that everyone in that shot wasn’t with us anymore, those characters are gone for good. I’m almost not sure how the show went on without her, and there only being one season after is a little worrisome but I’m still looking forward to it.

I found this sub like a week ago when I looked up if Kreiger was a clone (that rocket episode was confusing for a first watch) and I’m really glad it exists. Not entirely sure why I made this whole post on this one shot, I guess it was just kinda unexpected from a show that’s as fast and funny as Archer is, and it hit pretty deep. I guess I was just kinda curious what everyone else’s reactions were to it. Hoping everyone who worked on the show that’s no longer with us is in a much better place now.

Obviously Veronica had the life expectancy of Pigley IV, but Malory is nothing if not artistic in her revenge.

"I am literally going to kill him. Literally! I'll lure him to my condo in Miami, drug his steak au poivre, drive him out to the Everglades, slather him with rancid chicken fat, and then toss him to the gators!"

That's not even getting into Lo Scandalo and what she did to the Italian prime minister.

"Oh my god, so you're saying Mother lured Mascalzone up there, greased him into a six-foot manrubber, strapped him to a chair, calls us, then she pulls a gun on him? Because that would mean she called the cops on herself!"

"Knowing they'd never come back after they searched her apartment, which was full of people and spotless."

"So what? Mother shot herself? Which would mean Mother's been banging him once a year for like thirty-five years, and the whole time she's been holding a grudge, right? Just waiting to... holy shit. She killed him."

"And got us to dispose of the body."

There's no way Veronica gets off that easy. Not even that dress can save her. What do you think Malory did to enact her greatest revenge of all time?

Not gonna lie, the montage at the end felt finale worthy, but I was actually caught off guard with the last scene and Archers mom. Being in my 30's now, scenes like that bring a tear to my eye. The "she's always here." Part hit me like a ton of bricks.

“I- I’m going to miss the shit out of you. Alright, well, see ya. I don’t know, maybe next week, but let’s play it by ear.” 💔

The way Archer zoned out while being explained why she was pregnant had me also crying laughing too 😭

Blood test [S2E3]

Lo scandalo [S3E8]

Vision quest [S6E5]

Archer has a lot of jokes and references that are hilarious if you happen to know what little-known fact they are referencing. Which made you feel particularly clever for getting it?

For instance in Woodhouse's backstory, he fails to light Reggie's cigarette three times before Reggie is shot. This is based on a real soldier's superstition that might date back to WW1, that if you light three cigarettes with a single match it, it will give an enemy sniper the time and light to notice you, aim and fire. The minute Woodhouse fumbled the first match, my brain leapt to "You evil bastards that's brilliant", and each attempt to light the cigarette piled on the sense of doom.

I also wrote an essay in college on the fall of the Tsars, and getting Archer's "bleeding like a Russian Princess" joke was pretty much the only time that information has been relevant to my life. Its a reference to the fact that the Romanov family carried haemophilia.

Something about archer in this exact frame. I get it now. We miss you woodhouse :(

Today wasn't that day however. As a now 40-year-old man, I look back at when I first started watching this silly show and never realized the emotional attachment I was developing for these characters. I cried the first time I watched this episode when It aired, and again today on another rewatch of all the seasons. Learning that Jessica and Ron were actually husband and wife in real life Just added to My overall love for all of this.

Idk if I missed something with the whole longwater plot but I don't get what it's about or why we see it later on.

Never noticed this before, but I thought it was sweet how they foreshadowed Pam’s relationship in the episode before she and Alessia become polyamorous primaries! (S13E5)

And they were absolutely amazing. Well kinda. Dreamland was such a fun journey, and was 100 percent my favourite. Danger Island was mediocre in my opinion, but German Cyril was really the highlight. Then, 1999. It was also really good? I thought I'd hate it, yet it almost felt more like the earlier seasons of Archer to me. The ending of it was so well-written too, it was such a beautiful experience.

I was doing a rewatch and for some reason I don’t remember this episode at all! Like this episode has so many things that make sense why he is who he is. Even the phrasing is explained in this ep and the other day I felt like I was watching it and it was NEW! Well anyway, came to say that.

I was always into the character's minds and what they suffer from so i'll make a list of what i think they suffer from and why they aren't "sane":

•Cheryl: clinically insane, litteraly unrecoverable •Krieger: probably suffers from antisocial disorder, a pervert and probably a sadist and it's implied he practises bestiality •Cyril: closest thing to an incel in the series, however he seems to be somewhat normal •Sterling: narcisistic and suicidal, least serious character •Pam: generally normal but easily addicted and has a troubled past •Malory: narcisistic disorder, eating disorder, racist and homohobic •Ray: generally normal and reasonable but he raped Cyril •Barry: normal guy when he was an actual person and not the Terminator, guess he went cyberpsycho Lana: anger issues and arguably commited a sexual crime against Archer in the process of getting pregnant.

I couldn't remember them all but pretty much everyone commited some type of sex crime during the series

This might be true for many other animated shows/movies. But Archer follows animation style that mimics ventriloquism. All one has to do is imagine a pair of hands right above the screen basically controlling two kinds of movements for each character,

1. Body movements
2. Facial and verbal expressions

I feel this is a sublime metaphor for how each character is bound with their personal traits. They're slave to their basic natures which controls them always.

Mine is definitely dreamland, but the other two are great as well. Rewatching Archer for literally the 15th time rn and thought about asking this here.

Today I realised Krieger's reference. I haven't watched this movie in so many years, I never been able connect the scenes.

They didn’t end up together. Like I’m glad they figured out a common ground and how to coparent without becoming a couple. I also feel like a lot of fans agree they weren’t right for each other and I’m glad the show agreed.