Today’s installment of UPROXX Archer Week also doubles as an intro to our new weekly recurring segment where we all come together and celebrate the best animated comedy television has to offer. We’ll race to lay claim to our new favorite lines, point out obscure awesomeness others may have missed, and share the finest new media as soon as it hits the web. It will pretty much be an all out attempt to out-geek each other in real time, which for me is a step up from attempting to out-geek myself in real time.
To add to the excitement (like me replying “I swear I had something for this” to all your comments isn’t incentive enough), FX has been awesome enough to provide us with some swagtastic goodies to award to tonight’s best comment. How does Archer seasons 1 & 2 on DVD + a copy “How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written” sound? Not bad, eh? Next week I’ll try to score Aisha’s ISIS mug for a giveaway, but for tonight the winner gets these three items.
Early talking points. What do we know going into tonight’s episode?
- The three-part miniseries, “Heart of Archness,” technically represented the first three episodes of season 3, so “The Man from Jupiter” is S03E04. I think.
- Burt Reynolds!
- “The Man from Jupiter” is a play on “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
- Archer has returned to ISIS after disappearing in French Polynesia (and becoming a Pirate King) for three months to mourn the death of his fiance, Katya Kazanova, at the hands of cyborg Barry Dylan.
- Ray Gillette is in a wheelchair after being shot during “Heart of Archness.” I assume we are to assume this is permanent based on the S3 banner above.
- Drug tests and beat boxing…
Anything of note I’m missing before things get cranked up?
Live blogging begins at 10PM EST (sucks to be you, West Coast). Please join in on the good times. Special guests tonight include Burnsy and Josh Kurp from Warming Glow.
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Say, how do you post images directly in a post?
That capability is just available for UPROXX staff right now. Going to be rolling it out for top commenters shortly though.
Toss out a link and I’ll embed it for you. If it doesn’t suck, of course.
Just some now stale Archer gifs; was wondering for future use:
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Pretty great.
Chet Manley officially at the top of the list.
I want to take Amber Nash out for a nice steak dinner and then introduce her my parents. Then I want to very discreetly fatten her up over the next few months, convince her to dye her hair blond, and finally get matching Lord Byron tattoos on our backs.
Hey Josh, anyone from WG gonna have an Archer GIF-fest up tomorrow? I’m too retarded to make my own, and there were some highly GIF-worthy moments tonight (perpetual elevator ride, obviously, plus a few others).
Well, I have to deem this first run a massive success even if there are no parameters for doing so.
Thanks to everyone for participating and enjoying drowning toddlers jokes as much as I do. We’ll name the giveaway winner in next Thursday’s live blog for “El Contador” (which is espanol for “The Counter” in case you suck at Google Translate).
Until next time. Don’t forget the tape.
Also…
And for posterity’s sake. Via: [fuckyeaharchergifs.tumblr.com]
As I check my news feed, I am sorely disappointed in the amount of posts about tonight’s episode (not counting mine – zero). Obviously, my friends are stupid assholes and I need new ones, because this is unacceptable.
Online friends almost always have superior taste. Unless you visit some of the sites I visit after midnight.
@Maske, That reminds me, I need more lotion and tape.
Oh look, it’s on again at 11 and then there’s an hour and a half of Archer starting at midnight.
Thanks, FX.
Oh look, a show about high school misfits, how original.
Pros: Comes from the It’s Always Sunny Guys and Adam Reed.
Con: Justin Long is involved.
Sounds like a wash to me.
And next week we get a Most Dangerous Game episode.
Already won over by Reed working jai alai back in.
That’s the best part of this show. Totally could have ended on “masturbate until my fingers bleed”, cue credits and music. But Reed always takes things to that next step and goes right over the top to slam it home with one more killer line. Phenomenal writing.
And great voice work (it’s amazing they’re not all in the same room at the same time) and editing, to cover up the fact that they’re not all in the same room at the same time. Everything’s just so smooth.
I really still can’t get over this. Editing is spectacular.
I went back and watched the last segment all over again. I too am truly amazed they all record their lines separately. The editing and the writing are just killer.
Definitely, Josh. Just a superbly talented group of people, both cast and crew. It’s mind-boggling that they don’t record together, because the timing is soooo perfect. I have a buddy who does TV editing, and it’s given me a new found respect for what he does (of course, he edited Wife Swap, so not too much respect).
I didn’t have time to write a full review for Warming Glow, but I think the next three episodes are better, with the fourth one easily the best of the bunch.
Two-bit review: a bit of an uneven start, but it gained momentum as it went along, turning the corner in the elevator and winning me over with the action set piece.
Pam is the new Judy Jetson. What? Too soon?
That. Was. Amaaaaaazing!
And “Just tape ‘em up” steals it at the end…and now I want to find Carol’s tape stash.
I kinda want to watch it again. Right now.
I think my favorite thing about this open thread is it gives me an excuse to run it back. Immediately.
If ever there was a time where Hulu could make obscene amounts of money, Archer episodes are it.
“Just tape ‘em up.” – Carol/Cheryl with a late hail mary!
I wonder if Hooper is on Netflix…
“Just tape them up.”
Just when you think the episode’s about to end, BAM.
And with bloody masturbation, we have another excellent episode.
I love Pam. So much.
I don’t even know what Amber Nash looks like but I would let her do anything to me.
Boom! [clatl.com]
Sure. I stand by it. “Not that you’d want to.”
Pam for the goddamn win!
I want to tape you all up.
“Is that a ghost?”
That line slayed me.
“Wait, was that the same footage?”
All this and a FOURTH WALL BREAKAGE! This show just gets better!
A Burt Reynolds tickle fight is illegal in all 50 states and most countries.
I want Burt to tickle me. There, I said it.
Correction. I want live inside Archer and Burt Reynold’s elevator conversation inside of Krieger’s rape van.
I want a rape van so bad.
You + Pimm’s Cup + Rape Van = Unstoppable
I want Burt Reynolds to tickle me, in the dirty way.
He tickles you with his hands AND his stache.
YES HIS FIANCE IS BACK
How does a cartoon make a car chase better than Michael Bay?
You can actually tell what’s going on?
I have a feeling that phrase will launch a new meme.
AWESOME!
I wonder how many straight males just wrote “GIANT, THROBBING ERECTION” on the Internet right now?
“HOLY SHIT BURT REYNOLDS!”
Burt’s stache smells like Mallory AND 70′s/80′s Loni Anderson? Lucky.
How I imagine the meeting went when they found out Burt Reynolds would do the show: [www.youtube.com]
You know, if you really think about it. Malory is a pretty nice piece…
I wasn’t sure how I’d be able to handle Ron Swanson and Burt Reynolds on the same night…but it has been pretty awesome.
Parks and Rec awaits on my DVR. Almost too much awesome for one night.
I may wake up with chest hair.
We can only hope that Burt gave Mallory a Smokey and the Bandit Tornado
God I want my own Burt Reynolds side kick. Unfortunately it would end with him telling me how much of a pussy I am.
Don’t forget the laugh at the end!
I’d stab someone to have Burt Reynolds call me a p*ssy.
That elevator scene was bloody awesome.
Burt’s right, $9000 for a Batpole is ridiculous.
Handicap shit is just the worse.
I want to live inside of Archer & Burt’s elevator conversation.
“I didn’t realize they sold those to men.”
I want their conversation inside of ME.
Elevator scene is my favorite one in this entire episode. And that includes the coming car chase. SPOILER ALERT!
DAMMIT MATT. GO BACK TO YOUR SPORTS.
That scene should be shown in every writing class.
I will have it committed to memory by the end of the night.
Nice! Crossbow for the motherfucking win!
Bandit 1?
Can Krieger’s rape van get nominated for line of the night? I guess that’s a question for myself.
I like that Krieger has been added to the main cast. He has the best vans.
Pims cup in a pimp cup-Line of the night?