I like both shows, but his voice seems much more suited to Bob’s Burgers. I’ve always felt the design of Archer never matched the voice of the character. But the same could be said for all the characters in that show, so maybe it’s part of the joke.
My perspective:
When Archer says something racist/offensive, I’m not laughing at what he said, I’m laughing at the fact that Archer thinks what he said was totally appropriate.
There’s a HUGE difference between the two.
I’d say that’s fairly classic Archer.
This.
When his Mother gives one of her acidic, anti-poor people snippy remarks, what is funny is how out of touch she is.
This might be the weirdest thing I’ve ever read in Cafe Society.
Since when have “stupid” and “bigot” been mutually exclusive categories?
They kinda overlap. Like, a lot.
I watched the first season and a bit. I wanted to like it—because I love Jon Benjamin and Aisha Tyler—but it just couldn’t hold my attention. It’s really just jackass, dumbass, and gross-out humor. It has no depth at all.
There is so much Archer love on this board that I am glad I am not alone in thinking the later seasons suffered. Season 4 definitely stumbled a bit, but season 5 was just a mess. Hopefully season 6 got things back on track–I have yet to see any of those episodes.
I suppose there’s a difference between “bigotry through ignorance” where you’re completely clueless how offensive what you said is and “bigotry through malice” where you’re deliberately being nasty, but it’s all bigotry.
We got a kick out of Archer the first couple of seasons.
Then it turned jackass-y in the “This is no longer funny, just stupid” kind of way.
We haven’t watched it since.
I love Archer (the show, not the character). When either Mallory or Sterling say something racist/homophobic/or whatever nasty thing they blurt, I’m laughing because I’m marveling at what horrible, horrible people they are. It’s kind of the same with Pam, too, although I do admire her farmgirl strength and willingness to get into physical fights with men. Carol/Sheryl is a hysterically funny freak show. The only character with any redeeming traits or maturity is Lana.
Ray started out looking like a competent agent, sort of the type keeping ISIS in business while Archer was being Archer. Then he became more of a main character so they had to play up facets and boil his character down to “gay” and “can/can’t walk”. I don’t know if they did anything new with him in the last season.
Season 6 started promising, but back slid. For some reason, the writers keep trying to get Archer away from what made it great. They keep wandering off the spy agency as a metaphor for everyone’s workplace; they kind of don’t keep up the weird disjointed timeline where it’s the the 1960s, 1980s and 21st century all at the same time; and the writing isn’t as crisp as the first season Chekov’s gun joke that came out of no where. Still, a crappy season of Archer is better than the best season of most everything else.
Think of Archer as Eric Cartman, Super Spy.
The closest thing I can think of in terms of movies is Burn After Reading, in which everyone’s an idiot, everyone’s incompetent, no one has a clue what’s happening, and problems are resolved to no one’s satisfaction.
Woodhouse has passed on, and…wait…I had something for this:
I’m real sorry to hear this. Woodhouse was among my favorite characters, not least because he was moderately competent. Oh, and a heroin junkie too, IIRC.
Come on guys, Woodhouse isn’t people.
I guess this means the Pope is dead too.
Be a lad, put on some Mingus.
It really is the lowest of low-brow humor. I loved it at the beginning, but the longer it goes the less I enjoy it. I think I’m getting desensitized to it, and without the “shock” of it, the humor isn’t as strong. I still* like* the show, but not nearly to the same degree that I liked the first couple of season.