History Archer / TropesAToC

* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Referenced by Pam in "[[Recap/ArcherS2E10ElSecuestro El Secustro]]," but ultimately averted. After showing the kidnappers where the building was, one asks if he could shoot her. Pam asks him how they expect to get past the biometric security, unless they were to [[EyeScream cut out her eyes]] and [[{{Fingore}} chop off her fingers]], then tells them not to be dicks and takes them to the ISIS offices.

*** In "[[Recap/ArcherS2E10ElSecuestro El Secustro]]", he takes a bullet in the stomach early on and spends the rest of the episode bleeding there, even getting yelled at for not picking up the ringing phone fast enough.

* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: Played for laughs in the episode "[[Recap/ArcherS2E10ElSecuestro El Secustro]]," Pam gets kidnapped in place of Cheryl, and the kidnappers, with a voice modulator, contact ISIS to discuss the ransom. Later on, [[spoiler: Cyril kidnaps Cheryl in order to get her to repay her debt to him, and stuffs her in a random room at ISIS. He then contacts Mallory ''from his own office'', again with a voice modulator, demanding the rather specific amount of $3,200. Mallory freaks out that the caller is calling from ISIS.]]

** In "[[Recap/ArcherS2E10ElSecuestro El Secustro]]," most of the office assumes Cheryl chained herself to a radiator as part of her murder fetish behavior (it was an attempted kidnapping). Lampshaded when Gilette calls her "Little Miss Cry-Wolf"

* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Referenced by Pam in "El Secustro," but ultimately averted. After showing the kidnappers where the building was, one asks if he could shoot her. Pam asks him how they expect to get past the biometric security, unless they were to [[EyeScream cut out her eyes]] and [[{{Fingore}} chop off her fingers]], then tells them not to be dicks and takes them to the ISIS offices.

*** In "El Secuestro", he takes a bullet in the stomach early on and spends the rest of the episode bleeding there, even getting yelled at for not picking up the ringing phone fast enough.

* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: Played for laughs in the episode "El Secuestro," Pam gets kidnapped in place of Cheryl, and the kidnappers, with a voice modulator, contact ISIS to discuss the ransom. Later on, [[spoiler: Cyril kidnaps Cheryl in order to get her to repay her debt to him, and stuffs her in a random room at ISIS. He then contacts Mallory ''from his own office'', again with a voice modulator, demanding the rather specific amount of $3,200. Mallory freaks out that the caller is calling from ISIS.]]

** In "El Secuestro," most of the office assumes Cheryl chained herself to a radiator as part of her murder fetish behavior (it was an attempted kidnapping). Lampshaded when Gilette calls her "Little Miss Cry-Wolf"

*** In "Stage Two", he is given a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Archer for [[spoiler:mocking his breast cancer]].

** The clothes Charles and Rudi bought Woodhouse in "[[Recap/ArcherS1E5Honeypot Honeypot]]" show up in "Stage Two."

** In "[[Recap/ArcherS2E4PipelineFever Pipeline Fever]]," Lana remarks how she became an ISIS agent and ends with "Three weeks later, I was in Tunisia killing a man." Three episodes later in "Movie Star," Malory talks about her becoming an agent and ends with the same line.

** In "Tragical History", Malory has to remind Archer that "most secret agents don't go around telling every harlot from here to Hanoi that they ''[[OvertOperative are]]'' secret agents!"

** In "Double Deuce," the sniveling former second-in-command who is likely behind the murder plot is also the only blond guy in the Double Deuce. [[spoiler: And then it's subverted when it turns out there is no murder plot to begin with.]]

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Dry ice is nowhere near as deadly as "Pipeline Fever" depicts it to be when Lana reaches into Archer's cooler. Also, keeping in mind that dry ice solidifies at minus 78 degrees Celsius, all the beer (and the one water bottle) in the cooler should have been frozen solid.

** "Pipeline Fever": Stops an eco-terrorist from destroying a pipeline. [[spoiler:Archer destroys their sole mode of transport and most of their equipment. The bomber reveals he went to university with Lana and decided not to destroy the pipeline.]]

** In "Pipeline Fever," Lana remarks how she became an ISIS agent and ends with "Three weeks later, I was in Tunisia killing a man." Three episodes later in "Movie Star," Malory talks about her becoming an agent and ends with the same line.

** In "Blood Test" [[spoiler: Cyril]], hopped up on heroin, brained with an absinthe bottle and passed out from having a liter of his blood drained, is raped first by [[spoiler: Pam]] and then [[spoiler: Ray]], both of whom are a ''little'' bit drunk at the time. Lampshaded by [[spoiler: Pam]], who mentions that "Things are about to get ''weird''."

** In "[[Recap/ArcherS1E10DialMForMother Dial M for Mother]]," while pushing a stroller through a park, Trinette has a confrontation with the assassin Mannfred at a playground. After Mannfred threatens her with a pistol, Trinette tells him that the baby's father knows Krav Maga, which "[[Recap/ArcherS1E2TrainingDay Training Day]]" establishes is used by ISIS agents. In season two's "Blood Test," its revealed that Trinette believes Archer to be the baby's father [[spoiler:(it's really Cyril)]].

* ChildHater: Cheryl, particularly in "Blood Test".

** Archer at the very end of "Swiss Miss". [[spoiler:[[RuleOfFunny He is accused (wrongfully) of molesting and propositioning a 16-year-old Anka throughout the entire episode]]. Not two seconds after he has to cup Anka's breasts to prevent nerve damage (a legitimate reason)[[note]]they were escaping terrorists on a snowmobile in Switzerland, and she was topless, having tried and failed to proposition Archer[[/note]], Lana shows up. Made even better due to Archer having looked around ''numerous'' times immediately before Lana's appearance.]]

** In "Dial M for Mother," while pushing a stroller through a park, Trinette has a confrontation with the assassin Mannfred at a playground. After Mannfred threatens her with a pistol, Trinette tells him that the baby's father knows Krav Maga, which "[[Recap/ArcherS1E2TrainingDay Training Day]]" establishes is used by ISIS agents. In season two's "Blood Test," its revealed that Trinette believes Archer to be the baby's father [[spoiler:(it's really Cyril)]].

** In "[[Recap/ArcherS1E7Skytanic Skytanic]]", Archer lampshades the fact that Lana shoots him in the ''exact same spot'' as she did in "[[Recap/ArcherS1E7Skytanic Skytanic]]". These scars are then later seen in "Dial M for Mother" when he is strapped to an operating table.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Lampshaded in "Dial M For Mother" when Manfred and Uta capture Archer.

** "Job Offer": Embarrassed a rival agency that tried to steal their two best agents. [[spoiler:Malory sends out a burn notice on Sterling while drunk on absinthe, causing him to be targeted by ODIN and is only saved when Lana black flags the burn notice as a FalseFlagOperation against ISIS.]]

** In "[[Recap/ArcherS1E5Honeypot Honeypot]]", there is a lemur in Archer's apartment, presumably owned by one of the prostitutes in schoolgirl outfits Archer had hired, that later bites one of them on the face. Later in the episode, we discover Woodhouse's [[SingleTargetSexuality "fondness"]] for a boy who died in the war, Reggie Thistleton. Later, in "Job Offer", we see that Woodhouse has kept the lemur, and named it "Reggie".

** "Skytanic": Archer and Lana stop a bomb threat. [[spoiler:The bomb threat they responded to was a hoax by Malory. The bomb they find was a coincidence, the bomber gets away due to Archer confusing helium with hydrogen, Archer fumbles the disarming procedure and causes the timer to speed up, and Lana and Cyril wind up pushing the bomb overboard, detonating over Wales.]]

** "Sea Tunt: Part I" calls back "Skytanic" with [[spoiler:"Oh my God, there is no bomb!"]]

** In "Skytanic", Archer lampshades the fact that Lana shoots him in the ''exact same spot'' as she did in "Skytanic". These scars are then later seen in "Dial M for Mother" when he is strapped to an operating table.

** "Skorpio": Archer and Lana kill an arms dealer and destroy his latest shipment. [[spoiler:They're both made immediately and forced into a three-way with their target, are almost killed in a firefight and nearly die when Archer blows up the shipment and Skorpio's yacht.]]

** The pair of [[spoiler:CampGay assassins]] from "Honeypot". Outside of when they're trying to kill Archer and Ramon, they're pretty cool dudes. [[spoiler:They even let Woodhouse keep the expensive clothes they bought for him]].

** "Honeypot": Archer eliminates a threat from an enemy spy. [[spoiler:He fails miserably at seducing the target and is made almost immediately, is wounded by the target, is attacked by a hit squad and is only saved after bonding with the target, who destroys the tape and gives up Malory's South Beach condo because he bonded with Archer and must go into hiding.]]

** Ramon Limon's end of some phone conversations in "Honeypot." His responses imply that his mother is bugging him about [[StraightGay why he doesn't have a girlfriend]]...

** In "El Contador," Archer quickly [[spoiler: but incorrectly]] guesses that "the most dangerous game" is jai alai, calling back to his injury playing the sport in "Honeypot."

** Ramon, Charles, and Rudi, who first appeared in "Honeypot," come back four seasons later in "A Kiss While Dying" and make mention of Archer's exploits in the former episode.

** The clothes Charles and Rudi bought Woodhouse in "Honeypot" show up in "Stage Two."

** In "[[Recap/ArcherS3E8LoScandalo Lo Scandalo]]" Cyril complains that they have to get rid of a body every single time they go to Malory's house, Malory retorts that it's only been twice ("Killing Utne").

** In "Legs," we see a flashback of Krieger giving [[spoiler:Conway Stern a new hand, to replace the one Lana yanked off in "Diversity Hire."]]

** [[spoiler:Conway Stern loses his left hand in "Diversity Hire" (although it has gotten a robotic replacement as of "Legs") and his right hand in "Three to Tango".]]
** [[spoiler:Ray's hand is bitten off by a venus flytrap-like plant in "Pocket Listing".]]

** "Diversity Hire": Archer and Lana recover blueprints to a submarine drive and uncover and cripple a double agent. [[spoiler:Archer is almost killed by a Cuban hit squad, rescued and then literally stabbed in the back by the double agent. Lana saves him and the plans at the last minute by firing a spear into the briefcase, ripping off the double agent's hand.]]

** Cyril in "Training Day":

** Malory in "Training Day":

** In "Dial M for Mother," while pushing a stroller through a park, Trinette has a confrontation with the assassin Mannfred at a playground. After Mannfred threatens her with a pistol, Trinette tells him that the baby's father knows Krav Maga, which "Training Day" establishes is used by ISIS agents. In season two's "Blood Test," its revealed that Trinette believes Archer to be the baby's father [[spoiler:(it's really Cyril)]].

** "Mole Hunt": Archer uncovers and eliminates a KGB mole. [[spoiler:He found the mole by accident, then was taken prisoner. He was only saved by Lana investigating a break-in, then caused his mother to be taken hostage and only saved her and killed the mole by disgusting him by getting an erection at the thought of Malory's death.]]

** Most of the bits of Italian throughout "Lo Scandalo" are pretty banal ("Are you ready?" "Yes, my dear, I'm so ready!") right up until Malory spits on Mascalzoni and calls him a "fucking fascist".

* BottleEpisode: "[[Recap/ArcherS3E8LoScandolo Lo Scandolo]]," which takes place entirely in Malory's apartment, and "[[Recap/ArcherS6E5VisionQuest Vision Quest]]", which takes place in the office building elevator.

** In "[[Recap/ArcherS2E2AGoingConcern A Going Concern]]," Archer discovers a sex toy in his mother's desk, the color of which he describes as "aubergine." In "[[Recap/ArcherS2E13DoubleTrouble Double Trouble]]", Pam mentions that "nobody cares about your stupid eggplant" when accused of rifling through Malory's desk, and a season later in "[[Recap/ArcherS3E8LoScandolo Lo Scandalo]]," before his death in Malory's condo, Savio Mascalozoni apparently inserted a toy into himself in an act that Archer describes as "sodomy by rubber eggplant." The season after that, in "[[Recap/ArcherS4E7LiveAndLetDine Live and Let Dine]]," a celebrity chef points out aubergine and eggplant [[BilingualBonus are the same thing]].

* BriefAccentImitation: Everyone except Malory and Lana in "Lo Scandalo" when they're pretending to be New York yuppies having a dinner party.

** In the season 3 episode "Lo Scandolo," Archer questions his mother about her irrational hatred of the Irish (because they were not among the Allies during the Second World War) and he [[DoubleTake momentarily hesitates when he comes to the conclusion that the Irish were Nazis]], only to be told that they were neutral. In the season 6 episode "The Archer Sanction," Archer, who [[RunningGag only skimmed]] the mission dossier, could only recall that their target was from a former Axis power. Turns out, he mistook Ireland as that former Axis power because the target's name was [=McCarran=], and to top it off, [=McCarran=] is Scottish-Canadian!

** In "Lo Scandalo" Cyril complains that they have to get rid of a body every single time they go to Malory's house, Malory retorts that it's only been twice ("Killing Utne").

** Calzado in Season Three episode "[[Recap/ArcherS3E5ElContador El Contador]]" makes mention of "{{hunting the most dangerous game}}". Archer, being Archer, assumes he means jai alai which was last mentioned in the Season One episode "Honeypot" as a most dangerous game.
** In "A Going Concern," Archer discovers a sex toy in his mother's desk, the color of which he describes as "aubergine." In "Double Trouble", Pam mentions that "nobody cares about your stupid eggplant" when accused of rifling through Malory's desk, and a season later in "Lo Scandalo," before his death in Malory's condo, Savio Mascalozoni apparently inserted a toy into himself in an act that Archer describes as "sodomy by rubber eggplant." The season after that, in "Live and Let Dine," a celebrity chef points out aubergine and eggplant [[BilingualBonus are the same thing]].
** In "Blood Test," Archer, when a litre of blood is taken from him, expresses that he doesn't know how much blood that very common unit of measurement would contain. The brick comes back in Season Four's "Sea Tunt, Part I" when he knows about more obscure units of measurement like the fathom and the league and is able to convert between them mentally on the fly.
** In "A Debt of Honor," Archer thinks that "Danger Zone" is a country song. In "Baby Shower", Cheryl and [[AdamWesting Kenny Loggins]] turn it into one.
** In "Training Day", Archer gives Cyril his underwear gun with the warning that it could go off "for like, no reason." Four seasons later in the second part of "Palace Intrigue", Archer shoots Cyril to prevent El Presidente's wife from revealing they had slept together.

** The ending of "Diversity Hire" had Conway Stern reveal that the name he gave the gang was just an alias. Five seasons later in "Three to Tango" it's revealed that his name [[spoiler:actually is Conway Stern]].
** In "Skytanic", Lana angrily remarks that "My vulva is as smooth as a veal cutlet!" when Archer implies otherwise. In Season 5's finale, [[spoiler: Cheryl is grossed out at being forced to check Lana's dilation progress, but also comments that she is ''smooth'']]. Lana happily accepts the compliment.
** In "Skin Game," [[spoiler: the episode where Katya reappears as a cyborg, Archer becomes extremely unnerved by the presence of Katya's new removable vagina in his sink.]] Then in "Reignition Sequence," [[spoiler: Archer and Lana are dating, and the rest of the group call Katya to have sex with Archer so that they will break up. He convinces her to leave, however, just as Lana arrives for their dinner date. For a moment, Archer and Lana have a bit of a fight, and when Archer reassures her that he is a changed man...]]

** In "Blood Test," [[spoiler:Lana declares the last person on Earth she would have a baby with is Archer. Come "Arrival-Departure" ''three seasons later'', guess who Lana reveals the sperm donor was...]]

** "Stage Two" reveals Archer had a one-night stand with a nurse name Rita, whom he couldn't stop calling Peggy.
** In "Sitting":

** Cheryl/Carol, during an exchange in "Once Bitten":

** Archer, Pam, and Cheryl are amused by the pirate animation that accompanies the computer worm in "Tragical History".

** Pam, in "Space Race":

** Pam does it to herself, oddly enough, in "A Going Concern". Freshly returned from a NoodleIncident that got her deported from Jamaica, she spends the episode immersing herself in Rasta culture. When Archer tries and fails to think of a clever insult, she sportingly supplies one, chuckling at it as Archer walks away.

** Lampshaded by Archer in "Live and Let Dine":

** For ButtMonkey Brett, this is a RunningGag. He becomes increasingly decrepit from the gruesome injuries he receives off-camera until the episode "White Elephant", in which [[spoiler:Brett [[KilledOffForReal is shot in the head during an FBI raid]]]].

** Archer updates the "getting shot" total to twenty-six in Season 5's "A Debt of Honor".

** Franny Delaney and the rest of the Irish Mob members killed by Archer during the episode "Placebo Effect."
* AssShove: In an interrogation in "Placebo Effect," Archer [[TortureForFunAndInformation inserts a grenade into the rectum]] of a mook, and opines "The mark-II [fragmentation grenade] has kind of nubbily ridges, do you feel those? Different circumstances [it] might actually feel good."

** In "Viscous Coupling" Pam films an unconscious Ray and Cyril in a bathroom stall, with an octopus. Given that a running gag in the episode is a tentacle rape manga by the name "The Fisherman's Wife", it's obvious what went down.

* BottleEpisode: "Lo Scandolo," which takes place entirely in Malory's apartment, and "Vision Quest", which takes place in the office building elevator.

** During the "Heart of Archness" special, Archer fires one round from Rip's Colt 1911 (7 round capacity), then empties the rest of the magazine a few minutes later, crowing "All six in the ten ring!"
** In "Midnight Ron": "You already saw me shoot those mobsters! It has a finite capacity, it's not a ''phaser!''"
** Lucas Troy in "The Wind Cries Mary" reminds Lana how they called her [[ATeamFiring Spray and Pray]] in training, but that he always found it odd she only ever carried two magazines.

** In "Mole Hunt," Archer sleeps with a flight attendent who later shows up in "Skorpio" giving Lana and Malory a withering look as they are discussing Archer's spanking fetish. Guess what she did with Archer.
** In "Honeypot", there is a lemur in Archer's apartment, presumably owned by one of the prostitutes in schoolgirl outfits Archer had hired, that later bites one of them on the face. Later in the episode, we discover Woodhouse's [[SingleTargetSexuality "fondness"]] for a boy who died in the war, Reggie Thistleton. Later, in "Job Offer", we see that Woodhouse has kept the lemur, and named it "Reggie".

** Calzado in Season Three episode "El Contador" makes mention of "{{hunting the most dangerous game}}". Archer, being Archer, assumes he means jai alai which was last mentioned in the Season One episode "Honeypot" as a most dangerous game.

* AsideGlance: Archer does this occasionally, but often it's so subtle you don't notice it.

*** "And now I have to spend the first Friday I've had off in forever coming up with some bizarre punishment for you! So, don't be surprised if you end up eating a bunch of spider webs."

** Pam tranquilizes Ray and Cyril and uses the two to film porn in the men's bathroom. When they wake up, Cyril jumps to conclusions that Ray was did this, but then both notice the tranq dart in yjr other's neck. They then notice the live octopus in the toilet, and are {{squick}}ed out.

** Pam pulls a little SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat on this trope, suddenly revealing that she's an underground [[FightClubbing bare-knuckle boxer]] who can snap a man's neck and take a punch like a champ. She's even got the third stanza of "[[http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/destruct.html The Destruction of Sennacherib]]" tattooed on her back under 13 tally marks. Oh, and she drift-races against the Yakuza. She has, on several occasions ("Un Chien Tangerine", "Sea Tunt", "A Kiss While Dying") demonstrated that she can easily best every other ISIS employee--including Archer--in physical combat.

** Krieger is implied to have had sex with Piggley 3.