# Archer's coming back! Who's excited?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 3, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965 "2013-01-03T16:15:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/41 "2013-01-07T16:07:24Z")

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> [@fiddlesticks](#):
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> /shaking fist at **pancakes3** for stealing my joke. Worst case scenario, her cover got blown and Skorpio’s raping her senseless before he chops her battered corpse into fish food. What? I said worst case.

You remember that worst case scenario we were talking about?

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**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:** [January 7, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/42 "2013-01-07T16:20:27Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> Well imagine that.

You imagine it!

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/43 "2013-01-07T16:24:22Z")

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I haven’t checked - are they going to run a marathon before the new shows so we can refresh our memories, or are they expecting us to remember what happened last episode all on our own?

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**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/44 "2013-01-07T16:25:56Z")

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> [@pancakes3](#):
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> I understand that people want to make the Arrested Development connection what with the voice actors, the puns/wordplay, and the dysfunctional mother/son relationship but it’s a lot less wacky and drops more pop references. It hints at AD but doesn’t emulate it.

The creator, Adam Reed, did describe the show as James Bond meets Arrested Development.

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**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/45 "2013-01-07T16:58:11Z")

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It’s warmed-over Sealab 2021 with a Jon Benjamin character subbing in for Captain Murphy as the cast’s charismatic linchpin. But there’s no Sparks. ☹

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/46 "2013-01-07T17:46:51Z")

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Instead, there’s an ocelot. Sometimes.

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**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/47 "2013-01-07T17:53:19Z")

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He REMEMBERS ME!

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**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/48 "2013-01-07T21:13:57Z")

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Karate? You mean the ‘Dane Cook’ of martial arts?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/49 "2013-01-08T23:42:18Z")

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_You’re not my supervisor!_

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**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/50 "2013-01-09T01:34:06Z")

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I want to marry Cheryl.

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**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/51 "2013-01-09T02:12:45Z")

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> [@Onomatopoeia](#):
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> I’ve never seen this show. Can someone give me a quick synopsis before I painfully sit through episode after episode wondering if it’s ever going to get better or if I should just slit my throat and get it over with?

Zero chance of that happening.

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**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/52 "2013-01-09T02:14:30Z")

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I’m ready to board the boat to Whore Island!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/53 "2013-01-09T05:45:43Z")

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> [@The\_Tooth](#):
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> I want to marry Cheryl.

Do you have very strong hands and a high tolerance for the scent of ocelot urine?

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**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:** [January 9, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/54 "2013-01-09T06:28:42Z")

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Poor lonely, bored, crepuscular Baboo. Living in Meowschwitz.

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**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/55 "2013-01-09T14:59:52Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Do you have very strong hands and a high tolerance for the scent of ocelot urine?

You could just build a choke-bot.

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**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:** [January 9, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/56 "2013-01-09T15:08:56Z")

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I thought you said start _slacking_ off!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/57 "2013-01-09T16:18:24Z")

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Jesus, what’s my dowry - tetanus?

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**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/58 "2013-01-09T16:56:58Z")

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Am I excited?

Well, obviously!

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/59 "2013-01-09T18:08:39Z")

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> [@The\_Tooth](#):
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> I want to marry Cheryl.

That’s way too much commitment for way too much crazy.

One wild night with Framboise on the other hand…

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archers-coming-back-whos-excited/645965/60 "2013-01-09T18:11:03Z")

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Man’s gotta have a code.

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