The gang, sans Malory, get stuck in an elevator. Hilarity Ensues.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bottle Episode: Almost the entire episode takes place inside the elevator.
- Brick Joke: When Cheryl rattles off what all the characters want to do at that particular moment, she says Cyril wants to masturbate. In the last scene of the episode, he does exactly that.
- Call-Back: Once again, Ray closes the elevator doors while saying that he's trying to keep them open, claiming that it's "just like Maximum Overdrive" like in the previous episode, itself a reference to something Archer said in "Legs" in season four.
- Cellphones Are Useless: Because Krieger put a signal-jammer above the elevator for no good reason.
- Continuity Nod: Archer points out that he's been lost at sea.
- Foreshadowing: Within the first minute of the episode, we have this exchange. It wasn't revealed until much later on that Pam actually isn't wearing panties:Lana: Oh, keep your panties on.
Pam: One step ahead of you! ...Or am I? - Crossdressing Voices: Invoked. The 911 operator keeps referring to Ray as "ma'am" just because of his voice. Everyone laughs at him for it.
- Emergency Services: Ray dials 911 for help, but the person on the other line declares "being stuck in an elevator" a non-emergency and later a felony, the latter believing it was a prank. She blocks him after his second call.
- Gainax Ending: Nobody's entirely sure as to what happened at the end of this episode. Somebody who works on the show theorized
(but didn't confirm) that Archer set up it up a prank. The idea of the prank would be that Archer arranged for the elevator to get stuck, and had redirected calls from Malory's phone so they triggered the message to play on the elevator phone when someone tried to ring her. However, Archer didn't count on Kreiger setting a signal jammer above the elevator which caused the prank to backfire. So instead of them quickly trying to call Malory for help, the joke playing out, then them presumably getting outnote , they were stuck. - Hollywood Hacking: Somehow, Archer was able to rig the elevator's phoneline for his Elaborate Voicemail Hoax. Even more surprising, it was triggered when they tried to call Malory.
- Not Me This Time: Lana assumes Malory rigged the elevator and that everybody getting trapped was the team building exercise she was talking about. It wasn't.
- Potty Emergency: Pam chugs most of a forty-ounce bottle of malt liquor and moments later has to use the restroom. Despite Lana actively trying to tell her that they should hold off, as they're going to be stuck in there a while.
- Really Gets Around: When Pam strips from the waist down:Pam: Oh please, you've all seen it.
Lana: Wait, oh my God, we actually have. - Serious Business: Archer has no problem preparing to use Cyril's vest to soak up Pam's urine... until he's told it's a cashmere garment. Archer stops immediately and actually, sincerely, apologizes to him. When Lana wonders if it's non-absorbent, he simply responds:Archer: It's cashmere. There are rules!
- Shell-Shock Silence: Archer fires a gun to get everyone to stop fighting. When the dialogue resumes, it's everyone calling him an asshole while holding their ears and mawping. He then threatens to do it again if they fight again.
- Shout-Out:
- Trivial Title: The reason for the title doesn't come up until right at the end.
