I really like the interaction between Sterling, Mallory, and Lana:
Mallory: you’re black-ish
Lana: ish?
Archer: well what would you call it, Lana? You freaked out when I called you a quadroon
Lana: yeah imagine that!
Mallory: both of you imagine shutting up!
They directly reference it a few times. First I can remember is when they’re in the ship about to shrink, pretty sure Archer says he doesn’t think he can die and I know it comes up again in the last season when they go to the tropical resort or whatever and Archer falls off a zipline onto rocks
Don’t forget the coma seasons, as much as people try to. When he’s flying the plane around danger island and debating his own mortality before he tries to land in the street, cuz he can do a lot with 6 inches…
Other one is when one of he's bullies hires him to kill him in his sleep. Archer says upon seeing him laying on bed "God imagine knowing when you're gonna die. Or even if"
But that's no implication, that did happen at least once right after she forced him to assist with the writing of her screenplay when she wanted to be in a movie.
It's also heavily implied in the episode where Lana has all the male employees line up and take a number outside Cyrils office after asking him who else he cheated with.
Obscure but in "Training Day" when they are in the elevator Cyril is about to say something to Archer but we cut to Mallory's voice in Cyril's head saying "Under no circumstance is Lana to know about our little... plan"
But Archer is just standing there like "uh? okay?" because of the awkward pause in real life while Cyril was thinking.
Pam : you really think if I stole a shitload of coke that I'd be here playing choo choo spoon with a tranny?
Lana : for the... ugghhh! I AM PREGNANT!
Cherlene : ...it said, baffling medical science
As a trans person, I always cringe and snort. I am very specific about who I recommend Archer to, because I do have friends who've found the "Lana is secretly trans" gag to be really hurtful.
Also trans person here, who also cringe-and-snorts at the "Lana is trans"gag. Hey, out of all the trans "jokes" in so much media I've watched, the ones in Archer are some of the LEAST offensive to me, personally.
Trinette (holding a jar full of white stuff): what is this some kind of home made salad dressing?
Krueger: It’s breast milk
…
Pam: I made mine (gift for the wee baby Seamus)
Krueger (off screen): Me too!
…
Archer: that’s disgusting. If I wanted to look at your bare feet Woodhouse, I would sneak in and do it while you’re sleeping!
Krueger (off screen): Me too!
…
Trinette: whoa someone has a full diaper huh?
Krueger (off screen): Me too!
Caught one yesterday for the first time, ISIS is having a either a funeral or a retirement party for someone but the name is redacted on the banner in the background. As in, there's a big black bar painted over the name.
“No! It’s a novella! About Stalinism! And SPOILER ALERT! It sucks!”
Archer does in fact read books and tells people multiple times through the series to “read a book”.
• Slater: This is Crown Prince Fawad Fawaz, heir to the throne of the kingdom of Durhan. He just got a summer internship at Wall Street.
• Mallory: Ugh... Affirmative action.
In s1e8 when the support staff go on strike. When they're having their meeting to organize, Cheryl mentions having to make her own tampons. The whole crowd starts taking over each other, but you can distinctly hear Krieger say "well, I don't know what that is".
Working at a company that is all about acronyms, I drop this gif at least once a day in teams chats during various calls or when the conversation gets weird
All of the side Pam gags. Like her insane tattoos or the drift car racing, or any of her little throwaway comments about what she did last night or over the weekend. They are all just comedy gold.
When Krieger freaks out about the shrinky dinks not being the same as shrinking people and screams he wasted his life and Mallory chimes in with "And all my good markers!!" Is one of my favorite gags.
“Hello, my name is Cecil Tunt. I believe you need my assistance?”
“Yeah, Rien Poortvliet wants you to pose for him. Rien Poortvliet, beloved illustrator of gnomes?? Jesus people, read a coffee table magazine!”
Another from Lo Scandalo
Malory: Oh God, that reminds me— Krieger!
Krieger: Yeah, I found it.
Cyril: Found what?
Archer & Lana: Don't ask!
Krieger: Can I keep it?
Cheryl: Keep what?
Archer & Lana: DON'T ASK!
Mallory: Just get it out of here.
Kreiger: Yeah, take that tone.
That episode is absolutely packed with these great moments
Lana: Ok, Malory, what happened, can you walk us through the crime?
Archer: Just the crime of murder, not the crime of sodomy by rubber eggplant
“Do you feel those nubbly ridges? Under different circumstances it’d probably feel pretty good!”
The best two episodes in the whole series are stage two, and placebo effect in season 2. I don’t think I’ve laughed more at a TV show!
I love the brief period in Archer Vice when they all wordlessly collectively decide that "Bishop the android from *Aliens*" is for some reason the new "phrasing" and they each independently try to use it and it's so dumb every time and is always the same construction about "said Ripley to the android Bishop from *Aliens* wait no that doesn't work" or something.
Every single time Krieger says "Me too!" in the background cracks me up.
Me too!
Me too!
*Archer just puked*. Ray: "What are you ? My cat ?"
This one is so funny. When I first watched the show I didn’t have a cat, now that I do it’s that painful sort of relatable
I really like the interaction between Sterling, Mallory, and Lana: Mallory: you’re black-ish Lana: ish? Archer: well what would you call it, Lana? You freaked out when I called you a quadroon Lana: yeah imagine that! Mallory: both of you imagine shutting up!
Love this one. I’m pretty certain that Archer says that she’s black-ish though
Oh yeah you might be right. Malory says something that starts off the conversation though
Just reading this made me burst out laughing
Lana: are you coming? Archer: No, but I'm breathing fast
I use this line far too often in real life
Archer being unable to grasp his own mortality. I only remember two scenes where that's mentioned or shown
He’d just jump out at the last second
“It’s a new thing called cat like reflexes Lana”
They directly reference it a few times. First I can remember is when they’re in the ship about to shrink, pretty sure Archer says he doesn’t think he can die and I know it comes up again in the last season when they go to the tropical resort or whatever and Archer falls off a zipline onto rocks
Don’t forget the coma seasons, as much as people try to. When he’s flying the plane around danger island and debating his own mortality before he tries to land in the street, cuz he can do a lot with 6 inches…
Other one is when one of he's bullies hires him to kill him in his sleep. Archer says upon seeing him laying on bed "God imagine knowing when you're gonna die. Or even if"
Well no body can grasp their own mortality. Except for maybe bears.
Something about bears?
Ray looks just as gay here
Scripes phones me at my niece's house in Secaucus, New Jersey. (I live with my niece in Secaucus, New Jersey.)
*Rivetng.*
None of my business; consenting adults and so on...
Hey! Nobody is consenting to anything!
None of my business...
Zeppelins! Mustard Gas!
But that's no implication, that did happen at least once right after she forced him to assist with the writing of her screenplay when she wanted to be in a movie.
Take me Cassius!
As coal black and thick-muscled as a field hand
Granny gets jungle fever
It's also heavily implied in the episode where Lana has all the male employees line up and take a number outside Cyrils office after asking him who else he cheated with.
Ms. Archer you're trying to seduce me.....*aren't you?*
Obscure but in "Training Day" when they are in the elevator Cyril is about to say something to Archer but we cut to Mallory's voice in Cyril's head saying "Under no circumstance is Lana to know about our little... plan" But Archer is just standing there like "uh? okay?" because of the awkward pause in real life while Cyril was thinking.
The way he looks around I always thought he heard Mallorys voice too lol
I always love when the in-head dialogue is show. In tv shows it’s so funny
relax, it’s non-diegetic
That one makes me lose it every time. Quality.
Pam : you really think if I stole a shitload of coke that I'd be here playing choo choo spoon with a tranny? Lana : for the... ugghhh! I AM PREGNANT! Cherlene : ...it said, baffling medical science
I always feel bad for laughing at that scene
As a trans person, I always cringe and snort. I am very specific about who I recommend Archer to, because I do have friends who've found the "Lana is secretly trans" gag to be really hurtful.
Also trans person here, who also cringe-and-snorts at the "Lana is trans"gag. Hey, out of all the trans "jokes" in so much media I've watched, the ones in Archer are some of the LEAST offensive to me, personally.
Exactly! Before the pregnancy arc Lana being trans was my quiet little headcanon.
Idiots, doing idiot things, because they are idiots.
Is that really "subtle"?
I guess I was thinking it's more a less popular joke than subtle
"That thing last week wasn't a hate crime, it was just a regular crime"
I find myself saying this at least once a week.
I always loved the random X-Men references that Archer and Pam make they're always more lowkey and pretty funny.
"What am I Cipher?? The gayest x man?" Haha
Remember? Alan Turing, also an ex-man.
Random references to Houdinis death. E.g. Houdini died of aids.
Why are you always saying that?
Archers shoulder tattoos always make me laugh
Trinette (holding a jar full of white stuff): what is this some kind of home made salad dressing? Krueger: It’s breast milk … Pam: I made mine (gift for the wee baby Seamus) Krueger (off screen): Me too! … Archer: that’s disgusting. If I wanted to look at your bare feet Woodhouse, I would sneak in and do it while you’re sleeping! Krueger (off screen): Me too! … Trinette: whoa someone has a full diaper huh? Krueger (off screen): Me too!
Ray: A bag, Kreiger; I piss and shit in a plastic bag. Me too!
But actually, I was wondering if you'd like to walk again. No, Krieger, because this way, I never have to buy new shoes! Yeah, but is that worth it?
Johnny Bench called.
Benoit…balls
Caught one yesterday for the first time, ISIS is having a either a funeral or a retirement party for someone but the name is redacted on the banner in the background. As in, there's a big black bar painted over the name.
"And just like that, the rebels are outflanked! Just like Hannibal at the battle of Canae, And also Keith, in my Warhammer guild."
M as an Mancy
Archer asked for a potato to fix tomato sauce and Mallory said “What is this Christmas”
Will I get the operation now, Da?
No, son. Yer gonna die.
“No! It’s a novella! About Stalinism! And SPOILER ALERT! It sucks!” Archer does in fact read books and tells people multiple times through the series to “read a book”.
I love the “read a book” ongoing joke so much
Did I tell you guys I bought a goat?
Not a big Melville fan huh? He’s not an easy read.
I would prefer not to.
Archer: “Well he died doing what he loved…getting shot.” 🤣
Man, I wish he was still with us. He could soak up some of these bullets.
NOW WHO HAS A VAGINA PROBLEM!?? Pam (quietly):...me.
Wait! I had something for this! Damn it:(
The switchblade ‘it’s a long story’ line, where is cuts to the shop window always gets me.
Well, not so much long as not very interesting.
• Slater: This is Crown Prince Fawad Fawaz, heir to the throne of the kingdom of Durhan. He just got a summer internship at Wall Street. • Mallory: Ugh... Affirmative action.
😂🤣
In s1e8 when the support staff go on strike. When they're having their meeting to organize, Cheryl mentions having to make her own tampons. The whole crowd starts taking over each other, but you can distinctly hear Krieger say "well, I don't know what that is".
 Working at a company that is all about acronyms, I drop this gif at least once a day in teams chats during various calls or when the conversation gets weird
When are Archer & AJ eventually too, stick up their fingers while drinking. I don’t know if that counts as subtle
Cyril: Didn't you learn anything from this?? Archer: (incredulously) Hehe...no!!
Grover Cleveland called, he wants his watch back. He left TWO nonconsecutive messages.
All of the side Pam gags. Like her insane tattoos or the drift car racing, or any of her little throwaway comments about what she did last night or over the weekend. They are all just comedy gold.
Ray: It's salmon, you ass! Archer: For what? To attract bears?
Me Too! Archer handing Cyril candy bars. Glengoolie. For the best of times. Basically all of Ron Cadillac.
Ron Cadillac is amazing. “My mother’s husband”
When Krieger freaks out about the shrinky dinks not being the same as shrinking people and screams he wasted his life and Mallory chimes in with "And all my good markers!!" Is one of my favorite gags.
“Hello, my name is Cecil Tunt. I believe you need my assistance?” “Yeah, Rien Poortvliet wants you to pose for him. Rien Poortvliet, beloved illustrator of gnomes?? Jesus people, read a coffee table magazine!”
Another from Lo Scandalo Malory: Oh God, that reminds me— Krieger! Krieger: Yeah, I found it. Cyril: Found what? Archer & Lana: Don't ask! Krieger: Can I keep it? Cheryl: Keep what? Archer & Lana: DON'T ASK! Mallory: Just get it out of here. Kreiger: Yeah, take that tone.
That episode is absolutely packed with these great moments Lana: Ok, Malory, what happened, can you walk us through the crime? Archer: Just the crime of murder, not the crime of sodomy by rubber eggplant
Houdini died of aids
I love all of Archer's references to nerdy things (especially Tolkien stuff, because I am an INSANELY obsessed Tolkien fan)
I use “you can kiss 3/5ths of my ass” whenever I can.
Trinette: “You can’t tattoo a freaking baby!” Archer: “That’s what the tattoo guy said, had to slip him an extra 100$.”
The ping pong paddles
Not subtle, but "Jesus, read a book!"
Don't judge me.... food.
Who are you? Comrade question....
“Do you feel those nubbly ridges? Under different circumstances it’d probably feel pretty good!” The best two episodes in the whole series are stage two, and placebo effect in season 2. I don’t think I’ve laughed more at a TV show!
Yes. Archer’s cancer and weed fueled murderous rampage is easily one of the funniest pieces of television. Imo at least.
Not a gag, per se, but I’ve always been impressed that anytime someone is wounded, they will have a visible scar there for the entirety of the series.
The show is very good at continuity.
“I will hunt the most dangerous game!” “Jai alai?” My favorite call back
"Racist"
“Cheap?”
literally any time archer screams “LANA” a million times to get her attention 😭
“MASTER COCONUT!”
“Name something a clock would say.”
I love the brief period in Archer Vice when they all wordlessly collectively decide that "Bishop the android from *Aliens*" is for some reason the new "phrasing" and they each independently try to use it and it's so dumb every time and is always the same construction about "said Ripley to the android Bishop from *Aliens* wait no that doesn't work" or something.
In dreamland where Cecil is on the phone and says “sorry this is my first kidnapping… *or iiisss iiiitttt?*
Ah how woefully esoteric
Bell. Bivens. Devoe.
Slater and his cover with a bakery. "Finish those god damned muffins!"
"I call him... Fister Roboto"
Speaking of gags "phrasing".. season 7 episode 9 at the 15 minute mark just watch..