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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    Sheryl said it, Archer was pleased.

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  • TicaldfjamTicaldfjam Snoqualmie, WARegistered User regular
    Archer's
    reactions to finding out he banged El Presidente's wifey
    ? Oh man, I lost it there.

  • Professor PhobosProfessor Phobos Registered User regular
    I wish Kazak had stuck around.

  • BolthornBolthorn Registered User regular
    I wish Kazak had stuck around.

    "He thinks he's people".

    We say that to our pets now when they do something human-like. I don't think they get the joke.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    MIKE DUCOCKLESS!

  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    This episode felt like it lacked momentum.

    It feels a little bit like Adam Reed is trying to preserve the setting a little too much to keep the story together, whereas previously they'd just assassinate the Russian premiere and not worry about it too much.

  • ViskodViskod Registered User regular
    It should have gone more places than it did. It was basically them standing around "trying to leave" the whole time. Although I still loved Cyrills bit trying to decide on what car to steal, and all of the Kreigers and a lot of the jokes were funny, I'm was just ready for something to happen this week since nothing really happened last week or the week before.

    I'm still more excited for this seasons finale more than any other though. I really want to see how this seasons plot wraps up and where it leaves them.

  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Oh yeah. My biggest objections are "why haven't they replaced the dictator yet and/or joined the rebels and unwittingly undermined them".

  • Wraith260Wraith260 Happiest Goomba! Registered User regular
    Viskod wrote: »
    It should have gone more places than it did. It was basically them standing around "trying to leave" the whole time. Although I still loved Cyrills bit trying to decide on what car to steal, and all of the Kreigers and a lot of the jokes were funny, I'm was just ready for something to happen this week since nothing really happened last week or the week before.

    I'm still more excited for this seasons finale more than any other though. I really want to see how this seasons plot wraps up and where it leaves them.

    well they've essentially just taken over the country so that could be what allows them to get back into the spy game.

    don't know about the rest of you, but despite not much happening till the end i found this episode to be pretty hilarious, especially the first half which just seemed to be gag after gag after gag. probably my favourite of the season so far.

  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    edited April 2014
    Wraith260 wrote: »
    Viskod wrote: »
    It should have gone more places than it did. It was basically them standing around "trying to leave" the whole time. Although I still loved Cyrills bit trying to decide on what car to steal, and all of the Kreigers and a lot of the jokes were funny, I'm was just ready for something to happen this week since nothing really happened last week or the week before.

    I'm still more excited for this seasons finale more than any other though. I really want to see how this seasons plot wraps up and where it leaves them.

    well they've essentially just taken over the country so that could be what allows them to get back into the spy game.

    don't know about the rest of you, but despite not much happening till the end i found this episode to be pretty hilarious, especially the first half which just seemed to be gag after gag after gag. probably my favourite of the season so far.

    Me too! Archer is primarily a show about megalomanics bickering, and this episode was juuuuust right. And Pam stealing "Michael Ducockless" was amazing. o/`

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  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    Yea I can't say I watch Archer for "where the story is going"

    I watch it to laugh. And it has been bringing that in spades this season.

  • ViskodViskod Registered User regular
    Since the rebellion is a communist rebellion which has already been stated to be backed by Moscow, I wonder if we'll get to see our cyborg duo in the finale.

  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    I was surprised at how how shocked and sad I was when they shot Pam.

    Then the whole "Not a pussy" sequence was hilarious.

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  • NotoriusBENNotoriusBEN Registered User regular
    I'm amazed Pam was able to get into cyrils vest. Despite her figure, Pam still has like 24 more inches to her chest than Cyril.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    One of the great things about the show is that they don't have to worry about aging. They can keep it going for a while. They just have to be concerned with Jessica Walter still being around. That is the beauty of animated shows.

  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    I agree that it feels a little bit directionless this season. Like in previous seasons the whole accidentally-trade-drugs-for-weapons scenario would've been handled in one episode, rather than stretched over two.

    I guess mostly the issue is that they set up this season with a lot of urgency (sell the cocaine! Make some money quick etc), so when it just returns to episodic-spy-tomfoolery it feels off somehow

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    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • ViskodViskod Registered User regular
    edited April 2014
    I've still loved a lot of this season. The Jungle Adventures of Archer, Ray, & Cyril two partner is probably my favorite. Especially everything in the second episode.I had the episode paused because I was laughing so hard collectively from the jeep falling down the cliff and everything on the raft that my cable box recorded enough to let me fast forward through all of the commercials in the episode.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Yeah, the overarching (heh) plot has never been what's important. This season has been pretty funny, and that's what I'm looking for. I wonder if Algernop is going to have a change of heart, or whether the Russians get the bomb, or what. I'm pretty sure it's not going to do what Calderon thinks, though. Thanks to Krieger's idiot mods.

  • TubularLuggageTubularLuggage Registered User regular
    edited April 2014
    If I had one criticism of the 'Archer Vice' thing, it's that if anything, they didn't go different enough with it. At times it barely feels like a change.

    That said, this season has been really funny, and I've enjoyed it quite a bit, so it's not really much of an issue.

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  • TicaldfjamTicaldfjam Snoqualmie, WARegistered User regular
    Viskod wrote: »
    Since the rebellion is a communist rebellion which has already been stated to be backed by Moscow, I wonder if we'll get to see our cyborg duo in the finale.


    I was sooo waiting for
    Barry, head of the KGB to pop out of the tank that was driven
    by Cyril!

  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    Is it wrong I was cheering when Pam was shot?

  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    Karoz wrote: »
    Is it wrong I was cheering when Pam was shot?

    Yes.

  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    Truly then, I don't want to be right.

    :)

  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    I knew she wasn't dead. Because in an animated show where alligators can prove why they're the perfect killing machine, there wasn't enough blood.

  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    I thought right away the joke was going to be that her boobs were so big, they stopped the bullet.

    "The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
  • NotoriusBENNotoriusBEN Registered User regular
    I saw a lot of cocaine fly from the entry wound, I thought it would be her smuggling her personal stash of cocaine bricks, or something...

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    I saw a lot of cocaine fly from the entry wound, I thought it would be her smuggling her personal stash of cocaine bricks, or something...

    Also yes.

    "The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    I saw a lot of cocaine fly from the entry wound, I thought it would be her smuggling her personal stash of cocaine bricks, or something...

    Also yes.

    I'm a bit confused tho....are her tits now completely made of cocaine?

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Duh and/or ¡Hola!

  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    I've been kinda bored by the whole season. It lacks the manic energy of the earlier stuff

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    I love Archer being so angry that someone stole it the one time he had something for this.

  • TurksonTurkson Near the mountains of ColoradoRegistered User regular
    Finally caught up.

    This was the worst episode in the whole series. I chuckled at the clones. And that was about it.

    oh h*ck
  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    Karoz wrote: »
    Is it wrong I was cheering when Pam was shot?

    Considering what they've made her this season, I'd say "no".

    Past Pam was great.

  • Golden YakGolden Yak Burnished Bovine The sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
    I'd say this has been the weakest season, yeah. It was an interesting experiment, but I kinda hope they restore the status quo when all is said and done and they go back to zany espionage antics.

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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Or running the government of a small country caught in the middle of the cold war between communists and CIA interference. Just saying...

  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Or running the government of a small country caught in the middle of the cold war between communists and CIA interference. Just saying...

    -fuck yes-

  • Professor PhobosProfessor Phobos Registered User regular
    It wasn't the change in concept (which was marginal, anyway) that made the season weaker than others. Not sure what it was, exactly, to be honest. Just sort of lacked energy.

  • NotoriusBENNotoriusBEN Registered User regular
    edited April 2014
    It all changed when Benson died in the FBI shootout in the beginning of the season :p

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  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    I daresay the show has kind of run its course. But it still gets huge numbers so it'll keep on keeping on for another couple of seasons.

  • ViskodViskod Registered User regular
    I think the exact opposite. While I have enjoyed this season, and a couple of episodes in particular have been very funny, overall yes, as a whole it's not as good as others.

    But, the reason being the creator just wanted to do something different, wanted to get them out of the office and didn't want it seem to be the same old thing over and over and getting stale. He changed up the show's setting and it was a gamble, and while it didn't pay off in a season that's better than the ones before it I still respect him for wanting to try it.

    Just because this one foray into a different setting wasn't a huge success doesn't mean the show's over and there's nowhere else to go.

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