# Archer (tv show) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125 "2011-02-12T14:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/1 "2011-02-12T14:01:12Z")
The NBC sitcoms get a lot of press on the board, but i think Archer matches up as well as any thursday night “must-see-tv”. Why are all these awesome shows on thursdays? i wouldn’t mind if they dumped a few onto friday, or wednesday, just so i don’t have to sit on my couch for 3-4 hrs in a row. anyway, Archer is hilarious. the dialogue is witty, and the throwaway lines are phenomenal. go hulu this immediately, if you aren’t already watching it. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/2 "2011-02-12T14:22:17Z")
I agree, although I don’t like S2 as much as S1 so far. I want more spying hijinks, less office stuff. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/3 "2011-02-12T14:34:36Z")
this thread is approaching the danger zone ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/4 "2011-02-12T14:54:03Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > this thread is approaching the danger zone Phrasing! ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/5 "2011-02-12T14:58:14Z")
Hooray! ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/6 "2011-02-12T16:05:05Z")
I love the show. My wife sat on the couch working on a project while I watched last night. She doesn’t get the appeal. But perhaps it loses something when I have to explain why “I think I just did” was a laugh line. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/7 "2011-02-12T16:25:10Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I agree, although I don’t like S2 as much as S1 so far. The first two episodes I agreed. But I thought the third was hilarious - might just be that I needed even _more_ sex jokes per minute :p. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/8 "2011-02-12T19:16:37Z")
My favorite line from this season is when Pam says “I’m only human,” and Archer replies “are you?” ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/9 "2011-02-12T19:38:17Z")
I’m still loving it but i don’t think its as utterly hilarious every single second as it was the first season, and i highly doubt anything can ever match the whole “just the tip!” series of flashbacks from season 1. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/10 "2011-02-12T20:25:25Z")
I’m watching season 1 right now. I remember watching the first episode last year and really liking it, but then the rest of the series was delayed for a few months and I never picked it up. Finally, I remembered how much I liked the first episode, so I found the rest of the season and have been going through it. It’s hysterical. I just finished watching the ‘blimp’ episode, and I couldn’t keep myself from laughing uncontrollably through half of it. But it can be _very_ dark and very politically incorrect. I’m fine with that, but I wonder how much of the audience really is? I also like the visual design of the show. In some ways, it’s almost like those old Hanna Barbara cartoons with the fixed backgrounds, but the stylishness of it all makes it work. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/11 "2011-02-12T21:35:25Z")
Archer! You shit-ass! And the repeated “wee baby Seamus” had me laughing. I love the show. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/12 "2011-02-13T16:19:14Z")
Thanks to this thread, I laughed out loud for the first time in years watching the Skytanic episode. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/13 "2011-02-13T16:41:22Z")
It has gotten under my skin. Something suprised me while I was driving the other day, and I cried out ‘Holy shit snacks!’ [He touched my penis with his penis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kx_bQoTi5U&NR=1) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/14 "2011-02-14T03:21:52Z")
In the Skytanic episode: “Helium isn’t flammable, won’t don’t you understand about that?” Archer: “Well, the core concept, obviously.” ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/15 "2011-02-14T03:24:52Z")
I can’t stop reading threads in Archer’s voice, then carelessly dismissing them. ---
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/16 "2011-02-14T09:51:56Z")
I am a huge fan of this show, and I really feel like it’s clicking well in the second season. I always love it when Dr. Krieger the scientist shows up, his lines are gold! “The best part is… he’s _learning_” ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/17 "2011-02-14T13:14:13Z")
Paging Dr. Loggins! There are so many layers of hilarity to Archer. Standard jokes (the helium!), callbacks (Carol getting off on choking), sight gags (Pam eating an entire crock pot of goulash in the last episode), and literature references (they really love Of Mice and Men) are all present all the time. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/18 "2011-02-14T14:53:02Z")
The callbacks are brilliant. It took me a week to realize why Ray asking Archer if Mallory’s vibrator was “a slightly darker shade of black” was so funny - it was a callback to the pilot episode, when Archer bought 20 turtlenecks - 10 black, and 10 a slightly darker shade of black. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/19 "2011-02-14T14:54:38Z")
I love this show! I don’t know if I’ve ever appreciated voice acting so much. While I’m cackling everyone else in the house seems bemused or horrified so I’m not sure if we’ll see a third season. Here’s hoping though. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125/20 "2011-02-18T21:05:46Z")
Did anyone see last night’s episode, with the ecoterrorist? I think its the best one so far this season. Archer was so thrilled about the airboat. “This must be what it’s like to have sex with me!” And the whole bit where Pam never knew about the women’s bathroom was hilarious. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-tv-show/571125.md?page=2)