# Favorite "Archer" character
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 14, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220 "2013-01-14T21:08:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/1 "2013-01-14T21:08:58Z")
In celebration of the upcoming season I thought I’d start a little poll.
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### Author:  [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/2 "2013-01-14T21:36:59Z")
Mallory, Pam, and Nikolai Jakov are my favorite secondary characters, but Archer carries the show. He’s the star and he gets the best jokes.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/3 "2013-01-14T23:22:40Z")
Archer all the way. Seriously…Johnny Bench called.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/4 "2013-01-14T23:24:02Z")
Since I to pick _one_, I went with Pam. She’s killed several men with her bare hands (there’s an implication her total may be as many as 13 or 14) and she’s a drift-racer… she has far more potential as a field agent than Cyril, who is the only character I _dis_like.
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### Author:  [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/5 "2013-01-14T23:36:21Z")
Cyril was definitely misused last season.
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/6 "2013-01-15T00:06:49Z")
Crazy-ass, dumb-as-doorknobs Cheryl might be my favorite supporting character. But yeah, Archer _is_ the show.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/7 "2013-01-15T00:37:53Z")
> [@pancakes3](#):
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> Cyril was definitely misused last season.
Likewise Ray. Who, after Archer, gets my vote.
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### Author:  [@chinchalinchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chinchalinchin)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/8 "2013-01-15T00:39:16Z")
Adol–er…I mean, Kreiger.
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/9 "2013-01-15T01:16:11Z")
I’m afraid your authority isn’t recognized here in Fort Kick-Ass. Krieger ftw.
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### Author:  [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/10 "2013-01-15T01:32:47Z")
Cheryl “Tape-'em-up” Tunt.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/11 "2013-01-15T01:45:11Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#):
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> I’m afraid your authority isn’t recognized here in Fort Kick-Ass. Krieger ftw.
I want Krieger’s van.
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/12 "2013-01-15T02:07:55Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> I want Krieger’s van.
All aboard the SS Date Rape! Toot toot!
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/13 "2013-01-15T03:23:39Z")
I had to vote for Dr. Krieger. He is probably the most insane one out of the insane people. I love how he’s mostly a background character but everything he says is hilarious.
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### Author:  [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/14 "2013-01-15T03:42:13Z")
Definitely Kreiger, but I think it’s because he gets the perfect amount of screentime. Everything he says is great… anything more and he probably starts getting more lame lines.
Aside from that, Archer definitely gets all the best lines/jokes.
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### Author:  [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/15 "2013-01-15T04:00:50Z")
Kreiger is definitely my favorite.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/16 "2013-01-15T04:05:25Z")
> [@pancakes3](#):
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> Cyril was definitely misused last season.
I agree. They started him off as a semi-competent field agent…then it kinda all went downhill.
I’ve never cared for him. He’s my least favorite character.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/17 "2013-01-15T13:09:56Z")
Archer’s definitely the best character, but after him I’d go with Krieger or Pam.
The episode where Pam is getting beaten by kidnappers and keeps making fun of them (and then flashbacks to her underground fighting days) gets me every time.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/18 "2013-01-15T14:37:23Z")
Obviously Stirling Archer is #1, but I voted for Cyril – my sentimental favourite. Because I also like jacking it…you know…on the telephone.
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/19 "2013-01-15T14:39:11Z")
Krieger, Archer, then Ray, in that order.
Honestly, though, there are no bad characters on the show in my book.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-archer-character/647220/20 "2013-01-15T15:03:40Z")
Archer gets my vote, but I like them all in their own special, deranged ways:
Lana for her hawtness and sarcasm.
Malory for her narcissism, poor management style, terrible parenting skills and unapologetic alcoholism.
Cyril for his cluelessness but occasional - and thus all the more funny - competence.
Cheryl for her hawtness and clinical insanity.
Pam for her cut-the-bull attitude and utter lack of decorum.
Krieger for his thinly-veiled facism and utter lack of scientific ethics.
Ray for his drawl and his weary gayness.
Woodhouse for his long-suffering, deadpan quips.
BTW, it’s “Sterling,” not “Stirling”: [http://www.fxnetworks.com/archer/about](http://www.fxnetworks.com/archer/about)
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