Archer Season 7: Oregon Trail to the Danger Zone

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Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

Barry's about to violate the First Law of Robotics

on my vagina

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:17

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 20:50

Carlosologist: Oct 13, 2013; Revelry in the Dark

Malory is definitely gonna end up icing Barry

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:18

Tuxedo Ted: Apr 24, 2007

I love those commercial break bumpers, too.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:18

smashpro1: Mar 1, 2009; Shirley, these things happen in video games. We can't get hung up on real-world morality.

Maxwell Lord posted:

Barry's about to violate the First Law of Robotics

on my vagina

Noice.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:18

Problematic Pigeon: Feb 28, 2011

Archer is to blame for this.

Problematic Pigeon fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Apr 22, 2016

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:18

Tuxedo Ted: Apr 24, 2007

Problematic Pigeon posted:

Archer is to blames for this.

That'd be a good thread title.

Or an epitaph.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:20

smashpro1: Mar 1, 2009; Shirley, these things happen in video games. We can't get hung up on real-world morality.

Didn't I murder you one time?

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:22

Kloaked00: Jun 21, 2005; I was sitting in my office on that drizzly afternoon listening to the monotonous staccato of rain on my desk and reading my name on the glass of my office door: regnaD kciN

WAIT, are we doing........

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:22

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

And then I'm going to kill EVERYBODY!

Jessica Walter rules.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:23

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

I was kinda saving this for... This other thing...

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:24

Tuxedo Ted: Apr 24, 2007

For a moment there, when Barry was berating Archer for taking his mother for granted, I thought it might turn out that Mallory was his mother.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:27

Carlosologist: Oct 13, 2013; Revelry in the Dark

that's honestly not the worst thing Krieger has come up with

# ? Apr 22, 2016 03:27

tarlibone: Aug 1, 2014; it's in the mighty hands of steel; Fun Shoe

Robot teabag dance... worth every penny I pay to the cable company.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 04:07

get that OUT of my face: Feb 10, 2007

I'd ask if the story behind "Edisoning an elephant" is real, but Archer is very good at these kinds of references. Also, Edison was a dick.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 04:18

Eifert Posting: Apr 1, 2007; Most of the time he catches it every time.; Grimey Drawer

Bagging Tea is going to be somebody's avatar.

Pocketfrog was the best part of that one.

Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Apr 22, 2016

# ? Apr 22, 2016 04:19

HopperUK: Apr 29, 2007; Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Y-Hat posted:

I'd ask if the story behind "Edisoning an elephant" is real, but Archer is very good at these kinds of references. Also, Edison was a dick.

Not exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)

# ? Apr 22, 2016 04:23

Space Cadet Omoly: Jan 15, 2014; ~Groovy~

Y-Hat posted:

I'd ask if the story behind "Edisoning an elephant" is real, but Archer is very good at these kinds of references. Also, Edison was a dick.

It's real (or at least close to real), Bob's Burgers did an episode about it. It had a musical number, here's a cover of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPze305aBdA

Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Apr 22, 2016

# ? Apr 22, 2016 04:24

tarlibone: Aug 1, 2014; it's in the mighty hands of steel; Fun Shoe

Y-Hat posted:

I'd ask if the story behind "Edisoning an elephant" is real, but Archer is very good at these kinds of references. Also, Edison was a dick.

Totally real. I explained it to my wife, actually.

Basically, Edison wanted to wire the world up with direct current, which can only travel a mile from the power plant. Small towns might get by with one plant, but big cities may well need hundreds. Westinghouse wanted to use the system in use in Europe, which was AC. AC could be sent over many miles of cable relatively cheaply because the voltage could be stepped up for transmission and stepped down for the consumer.

To prove that this AC was indeed the DEVIL'S CURRENT, Edison bought an elephant and electrocuted it to death using AC.

Since even this this was 'MURICA!!, people looked at the spectacle and thought, "OK, so AC works great, both as a power source for light bulbs AND as a handy method of execution!" And thus the AC standard and the electric chair were born.

Or so the legend goes.

tarlibone fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Apr 22, 2016

# ? Apr 22, 2016 04:26

Cat Hatter: Oct 24, 2006; Hatters gonna hat.

As has been said, Edison had a hand in the electric chair using AC due to the War Of The Currents, but Topsy was killed a decade after Edison got out of the electrical business. People just confuse the two because A) Edison's film company filmed the execution and B) its something Edison would have done had someone wanted to electrocute an elephant during the War O' Currents.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 04:36

CBJSprague24: Dec 5, 2010; another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

I like any allusion we get to Mallory's abilities as a former spy.

The Poor Man's Frank Langella. Great reference. Frank Langella is Gabriel in The Americans.

Problematic Pigeon posted:

Archer is to blame for this.

"To be fair, most of the things involving me could be attributed to this."

# ? Apr 22, 2016 04:53

Hollismason: Jun 30, 2007; An alright dude.

Maxwell Lord posted:

Barry's about to violate the First Law of Robotics

on my vagina

It's even funnier when you know the first law of robotics

A Robot may not harm a human being or through inaction allow a human being to be harmed

# ? Apr 22, 2016 05:10

JD: Jan 11, 2003

smashpro1 posted:

Didn't I murder you one time?

Then she twirls her hair

That line got me good. I feel like I'm the only one that likes Barry

# ? Apr 22, 2016 05:21

Combed Thunderclap: Jan 4, 2011

JD posted:

Then she twirls her hair

That line got me good. I feel like I'm the only one that likes Barry

He's fun but there's something about his character (his apparent indestructibility?) that's faintly annoying and does seem to put most people off. Archer without the charisma is just too much to take, I'm guessing? :shrug:

I loved this episode and all episodes that remind us that Mallory's entire existence on the show is essentially her lazy retirement after an exceedingly mysterious career of badassery.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 05:30

get that OUT of my face: Feb 10, 2007

Replace Archer's snarky wit with rage and vengeance and you have Barry. I think he's good in small doses. Barry sounded like an angry Carl from Aqua Teen a few times in this episode, which makes sense since they're both voiced by the same guy.

Hollismason posted:

It's even funnier when you know the first law of robotics

A Robot may not harm a human being or through inaction allow a human being to be harmed

Well, we all know how ~~Pam~~ Cheryl feels about pain and sex.

get that OUT of my face fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Apr 23, 2016

# ? Apr 22, 2016 05:41

Hollismason: Jun 30, 2007; An alright dude.

I think the thing I like most about Mallory is that she was obviously a hell of a spy. I like it when she gets to do spy stuff.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 06:44

taqueso: Mar 8, 2004

Hollismason posted:

I think the thing I like most about Mallory is that she was obviously a hell of a spy. I like it when she gets to do spy stuff.

It's only really great because it doesn't happen very often, but I hope there is more of her spying this season. Just not too much.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 06:49

PhazonLink: Jul 17, 2010; Can't post for 24 hours!

That would be a cool spin off prequel.

Mallory doing WW2 stuff?

# ? Apr 22, 2016 08:40

X_Toad: Apr 2, 2011

HopperUK posted:

I saw an episode last night where Malory called the supporting ISIS dudes 'A Nazi, a nerd and Queen of the Robots'.

Un Chien Tangerine, Mallory being doubtful of Pam's fighting abilities.

It's incredible how easily her quotes can be put back into context, I love it!

Y-Hat posted:

Well, we all know how Pam feels about pain and sex.

Don't you mean Cheryl?

Hollismason posted:

I think the thing I like most about Mallory is that she was obviously a hell of a spy. I like it when she gets to do spy stuff.

I don't know, it feels like she must have been as good as Archer, extremely skilled but sometimes lacking common sense and often screwing things in the most unlikely way possible.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 09:26

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Most of the first two seasons revolved around Mallory setting up missions to serve her own greed. So she does gently caress up as bad as Archer, but the motivation is different.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 09:54

Shockeh: Feb 24, 2009; Now be a dear and
fuck the fuck off.

So, I'm just gonna pause my watching of Ep4 to say: Someone is cracking all the alphanumeric strings on Krieger's monitors, right? Because they're totally trying to say something.

# ? Apr 22, 2016 11:57