Archer

Archer is probably the greatest thing to happen to Late night Tv since networks decided to extend their broadcasting day until 9 PM on weekdays an 11Pm on Saturdays.

The show follows the exploits of a dysfunctional spy agency that goes by the name of ISIS and its 30 something-year-old perpetual Man child main character that only seems to have a job because his Mother owns the agency he works for. The comedic element of the show follows the idea that even though Archer and his comrades at ISIS may seem to be retarded and only capable of fucking up everything they touch because of their group ineptitude, they are capable of pulling together and getting the job done when needed.

During season 6 of Archer, creators of the show dropped the word ISIS from their show believing that people might confuse their make believe spy agency ISIS with the Jihad Joe brand of ISIS. Like most people trying to avoid butthurt from parents' groups or getting blown up by offended Jihadists, the creators of Archer decided that it would be an all around better move to drop the word ISIS from all new episodes being made and to take the show in other directions that have the characters perforing other roles in show such as their becoming 1980s style, Miami Vice inspired drug dealers.

History

The origins of Archer and his mother

Archer is proof of and shows that no matter how times you step up to the plate and strike out, there is always that one good chance that you can still walk up to the plate and hit one straight out of the park. Before You take this as some sort of life lesson or affirmation and puff up your chest to mumble, "It's just a matter of time." This refers only to people who went to school and have jobs, not basement dwelling idiots that are convinced success is a matter of time and doesn't come from someone's own skill, talent or making.

Archer was conceived shortly after Adult Swim informed Adam Reed that his then show on Adult Swim, Frisky Dingo was an embarrassment to the network and was going to be canceled for more Stoner humour shows like Tim & Eric.

Like any good writer that has tasted failure, Adam Reed decided to revise his work and rework it. Instead of having a show about a retarded rich guy that wants to be a Superhero, Reed reworked Frisky Dingo into a story about an somewhat competant and functionally autistic mama's boy that is an international spy.

The way to look at Archer is to imagine Killface's son, Simon, from Frisky Dingo all of a sudden realizing his situation and deciding to take advantage of his father's position as a world class villain, along with his wealth, so he can bed down foreign hotties on his dad's credit card every other episode.

Plot

Although Archer represents itself as a James Bond style espionage/action show, it is really no differant from a sitcom like the The Cosby Show, Friends or Seinfield in that its plot is dependent on the interaction of the characters with regards to the situations they are in rather than being placed in a situation and trying to resolve it.

The first four seasons revolved around the spy angle and following such par for the course ideas like espionage, assination or retrieving data - such as the time the Main character of Archer was sent to a southeast Azn jungle to retrieve a computer from a downed fighter jet and 90% of the episode revolved around Archer coming across a 60 some year old soldier from World War II Japan and Archer trying to convince him that the war has been over since August 1945 and Japan lost. On the other side, like all good sitcoms, the moral of the episodes lies with the Japanese character teaching Archer the importance of Family after the Japanese soldier believes his family has been turned to Atoms because they lived in Nagasaki and he discovers that it was nuked after he stole Archer's smart-phone and watched the entire history of World War II on Youtube because he's Azn and can roll a +5 on technology.

Season 5 of Archer follows the Archer cast as being the most inept drug dealers in the business as they are secretly hired by the CIA to take 2,000 kilos of Cocaine, turn it into crack, then sell it to inner city residents and start the late 1980s crack epidemic. They fail spectaturaly because one character, Pam, starts a coke habit that has her eating half a key a day. More gets lost up when their resident scientist, who built a submarine in a swimming pool using coke as ballast, gets upset that it will never have a maiden launch blows up the sub along with the coke.

In season 6, they are technically back in the spy business but the season focuses more on the development of the lesser characters like Pam and The Character of Archer accepting that he is a father and doing father things like meeting his baby-mama's parents.

Recent seasons, seasons 7 and 8, follow a more film noir, Raymond Chandler Private Dick type genre where the story itself is secondary and only there to set up a world of absolute Shittines where the characters are made to believe that they have a choice in the decisions they make but it is everything around them that is actually making the decisions for them.

Characters

Name	Description	picture
Sterling Malory Archer Codename Duchess	Sterling Malory Archer is what you would get if you started with James Bond, gave him a shit load of Mommy issues that included his mother never being there so he was raised by the butler, raising him with parental trust breaking techniques like cheating at gambling to take all his Halloween candy, paying a nigger to steal his bike because Archer's mother feels he doesn't appreciate it enough by kepping it locked up when not in use, using a ping-pong paddle to discipline him that becomes a sexual fetish later in life and then topping it all off with a Narcissic Personality Disorder along with a bit of Autism. Sterling Archer is known as "The world's most dangerous spy," not because of his skills but because of the number of enemy agents he has dispatched. All around, as an agent, Archer excells at spontaneity and can be rather creative and unpredictable when his back is to the wall. Unfortunately he has to be tempered with a more level headed agent who won't put up with his Shit and can keep him half-way in line like Lana. Archer tends to fancy himself as a Hemingwayesque style man of men/lady's man. He is mostly compassionless and bullies his team mates and co-workers, only having respect for a few like Krieger because Krieger scares the hell out of him because Krieger has the skills to engineer it so you wake up in a mental hospital without a clue of what your name is and shitting all over yourself if you piss him off. Lana, because she won't put up with his shit and can kick his ass. Obviously, his mother. It was because of his mother that Archer has a child with Lana. It was Archer's mother Mallory who convinced Lana to have some of Archer's sperm unfrozen after his near death experience with cancer. Archer's codename, "Duchess" was given to him by his mother who was missing her beloved Dog Dutchess that died eating chocolate it got from the garbage. Archer has four major fears in life. Aligators, Crocodiles, Brain Aneurysms and Terminator style robots or androids taking over the world. Archer's favored weapon is the Walther PPK chambered for .357 rounds. Archer's favored martial arts style is ✡Krav Maga✡ which was developed for the ✡Israeli Defense Force✡
Malory Archer	Malory Archer is the all around evil and completely capable CEO and owner of the spy agency ISIS. She once killed 20 men when her water broke when she was pregnant with Archer, had Archer with no Anaesthesia while on a bar table in Morocco then killed another 30 men right after she cleaned off Archer and named him Sterling because she liked the sound of Sterling Silver when her soon to be butler, Woodhouse, told her what the rattle he gave her was made of. So what have you done with your life? Malory is your basic over managing parent and boss that will do everything to see her child succeed through the use of Skinner and Wendel Johnson styled behavioral modifications. She used dishonest, emotional blackmail, abandoment and overly protective parenting tactics that she told Archer were life lessons when he was a kid that she rationalized were for his own good. These same tactics can be seen when Malory cares for her granddaughter A.J., stealing her toy to make her cry and then telling A.J. that this is life and that she, Malory, is the only person she can trust. Malory is very elitist, a trait that can also be seen in Archer, and holds ideas, such as when her secretary brings her her lunch she should also serve it to her. For some reason or another, her son Archer has a debilitating proclivity to become physically and mentally sickened by the thought of his mother having sex, even when she was dating Archer's man crush Burt Reynolds. Out of all of the characters, Malory is the most likely to kill you Just Because it's Tuesday.
Lana Kane AKA Spray And Pray	Lana is the recuring love interest of Sterling Archer, has a child named A.J. with him and is that HOT Half-White Nigress Chick that everyone wants to fuck and does't care who will see them with her. Most of her romantic complications with Archer originate with the relationship he has with his mother that borders on psychotic or as other have described it - Norman Batesish. Some examples include Archer wanting to talk to his mother on the phone while watching porn and having sex with Lana or Archer getting a Hard On when a rogue agent held a gun to his mother's head and threatened to kill her. Lana is your basic left leaning enviromental warrior and was recruited by Malory when she was protesting fur and just as Lana was about to throw a bag of paint on Malory's fur, Malory pulled a gun on her. Not seeing her flinch and even daring Malory to pull the trigger, Malory recruited her. Lana aspires to be a master spy much like Malory Archer but her Left leaning ways and distrust of the government often get in the way of this goal. In the show, Sterling Archer has been shot 35 times. 16 of those times were by Lana in his foot or leg to get him to shut up. Called Spray And Pray because of her habit of firing her favored Tec 9s on full auto.