
I feel guilty about posting the trailer for that god-awful Honey Boo Boo show and ruining everyone’s entire week on a Monday, so here is some honest-to-goodness positive TV news: There is going to be a Bob’s Burgers crossover on the upcoming season of Archer. Jesus, just typing that made me all giddy. From EW:
In an interview with EW, [Jon] Benjamin revealed that the Archer team has produced a crossover episode in which he’ll play both ISIS agent Archer Sterling and grillmaster Bob Belcher. The episode’s already been recorded, he says, and will air during Archer‘s next season (FX has yet to announce a premiere date).
“[Archer creator Adam Reed] really likes Bob’s Burgers,” Benjamin says. “And the fourth season has a Bob’s Burgers tie-in, which is really bizarre.”
“OK, DG,” I imagine you’re thinking, “but how are they going to do it? They’re not going to do some lame walk-on thing where Sterling Archer strolls into a burger joint and is all ‘Hey, your voice sounds familiar lol jokes and so on,’ are they?” NOPE. THEY ARE GOING TO BE AWESOME INSTEAD.
Indeed: “It’s like a Bourne Identity-type plotline. It starts off with Archer as Bob, making hamburgers, but he doesn’t know that he’s Archer. He’s at the restaurant and these, like, I think Russian thugs come in, and Bob dispatches them expertly. And then he’s like, What just happened? How did I do that? So he has to try to figure out why he’s so good at killing people.”
Adds Benjamin, “It was Adam’s idea.”
To recap: Archer and Bob’s Burgers smushed together with elements of The Bourne Identity and (kind of) A History of Violence sprinkled in. My feelings on this matter can best be summed up by the GIF below:




So… how would the art styles merge? That’s an important question, right?
If it were me… The segment would be Bob’s Burgers right up until he went Bourne on them, then it would switch to traditional Archer.
Which begs the question… how awesome will his family look when they’re Archerized!!!
Not really a question, as you can see by the substitution of 3 exclamation points for a question mark.
Blood just started to gush out of my nose after I read that. I think I may have had an aneurysm.
TODAY, WE ARE ALL PACMAN JONES.
I wonder if it will be Sterling Archer watching Bob’s Burgers on a TV and commenting about how much of a pussy Bob sounds like.
Or maybe it will be nothing like that and just like what was described rather thoroughly in the post.
Don’t shit on my fan fiction, sir.
Family Guy had a crossover with American Dad where Stewie thought Stan Smith looked like someone he knew. It all turned out to be a virtual reality simulation. Now THAT’S innovation
*gets football thrown at groin*
Oh my god Tina is going to try and rape Archer.
archer will replace jimmy pesto in her heart forever.
i’m very excited about this and all hypotheses above.
“Lana….
LANA….
LANA! ……
LAAAAANNNNNAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
“WHAT?!!”
“….can you pass me the franch?”
Oh, Reddit informed me that Benjamin said the Bob’s kids won’t be in the cross-over, unfortunately.
Also, it’ll all be Archer style.