History Archer / TropesDToG

* EveryoneIsBi: The cast seem to be quite open to sleeping with both sexes, with even the openly gay Ray expressing interest in sleeping with Lana because "Nobody's ''that'' gay.".

** Season 6: Reverts back to the original spy themed backgrounds, except Archer's credit is heavily edited to cover up any mention of ISIS due to the real life ISIS.
** Season 7: The backgrounds are changed to represent the private investigation theme, and the new Los Angeles location.

** Season 9 (Archer Danger Island): The backgrounds are changed to represent the jungle theme, and the theme song is changed to a island themed cover. As with the previous season, some of the character's silhouettes are changed to fit their roles:

** Ray doesn't appear until the fifth episode.

* FiveManBand: The ISIS field agents form one quite nicely now that there's five of them.
** TheLeader: Archer, "The World's Most Dangerous Spy".
** TheLancer: Lana, who works closest with Archer and is his direct foil.
** TheBigGuy: Pam, who has superhuman strength, practices bare knuckle boxing and is generally batshit crazy.
** TheSmartGuy: Ray, who is the only one who consistently knows what he's doing.
** TheChick: Cyril, who is the most sensitive and least skilled of the five.

** FiveBadBand: In Season 5, the group changed tactics to become a drug cartel rather than a spy agency, resulting in a shuffling of roles.
*** BigBad: Malory, who runs the cartel and ultimately makes most of the decisions.
*** TheDragon: Archer, working directly under his mother and acting as a primary enforcer.
*** TheBrute: Pam, who's constantly making foolish decisions that endanger the cartel but also contributing with muscle when the chips are down.
*** TheEvilGenius: Shared by Cyril, who's typically making smart choices and decisions on jobs, and Krieger, who takes a non-action job by working out the mechanics of their drug operation.
*** TheDarkChick: Shared by Charlene, who's mostly uninvolved with the drug cartel and only working with the group to become a country music star, and Lana, who's forced by her pregnancy to take a non-action role in the group.

** In the ''very first season'', and every season after, Sterling Archer's [[spoiler: phone ringtone plays the lyrics "Mulatto Butts - Black Ass Momma, White Ass Daddy". The lyrics (whilst catchy) seem to refer to a mixed race baby with a Black mother and White father. Cue Season 5, in which Lana's pregnancy is revealed to be a mixed race baby from Archer's donated sperm.]]

** [[InvertedTrope Inversion]]: Malory got GenreSavvy and assumed Archer, in a call, was another of his messages leading her on before faking her out, only to be told the recordings don't call ''her''.

* GeniusDitz: Sterling is pretty incompetent in most things, but he's the best field agent there is. He's also incredibly slow on the uptake on a number of occasions, but he also displays a surprisingly hefty education, apparently coming from his years at a boarding school. In one exchange that exemplifies the dichotomy, he overhears two mooks on a space station make an ''AnimalFarm'' reference. Archer knows that ''Animal Farm'' is "an allegorical novella about Stalinism by George Orwell," but thinks they were talking about an actual animal farm. On another occasion he references Creator/HermanMelville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" and is surprised that no one gets it. [[WordOfGod According to Adam Reed]], he's often being willfully obtuse just to see what will happen.

*** Likely inverted since Cheryl's personality started changing after her relationship with Krieger who admitted to giving her LSD in Season 1, Episode 8 "[[Recap/ArcherS1E8TheRock The Rock]]." In Season 4, Episode 1 "Fugue and Riffs" Cheryl is seen eating LSD gummy bears and has a hallucination at the end of the episode. Combine this with her constant abuse of glue and her history of mental illness and it explains the continued personality changes.
** Pam is reverse-flanderized, going from the tubby, unloved and rather pathetic HR lady to a fight-clubbing sexual goddess.

* DontExplainTheJoke: In "Live and Let Dine":
-->''[[[spoiler:The Ambassador]] chokes and dies]''\\
'''Cheryl:''' ''[[Film/WhenHarryMetSally I'll have what he's having]]!''\\
'''Man:''' He's dead!\\
''[Everyone gasps and murmurs]''\\
'''Cheryl:''' [-Then I don't want what he's having.-]

** Pam also probably counts. Maybe not "depraved", so much as "desperate", but definitely an "any time, any place, any how, any one" kinda gal.

'''Reggie:''' ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish Have you got one]]? [[AccidentalInnuendo Dying for a smoke]].''

** Pam saying "Inappropriate" after people react this way to a joke she tells.

'''Repairman:''' ''*{{Beat}}*'' [[RuleOfThree Huh?]]\\

** Season 6 has Archer point out the danger of him and Lana both flying on the same plane - if it were to crash, [[spoiler: ''[[AbusiveParents his mother]]'' would become AJ's guardian]].

* ForgotICouldFly

'''Ray:''' I don't know, do you go around thinking about how you have ''real'' legbones?

*** Likely inverted since Cheryl's personality started changing after her relationship with Krieger who admitted to giving her LSD in Season 1, Episode 8 "[[Recap/ArcherS1E8TheRock The Rock]]." In Season 4, Episode 1 "Fugue and Riffs" Cheryl is seen eating LAD gummy bears and has a hallucination at the end of the episode. Combine this with her constant abuse of glue and her history of mental illness and it explains the continued personality changes.

** In "[[Recap/ArcherS1E6Skorpio Skorpio]]" [[InsistentTerminology Nikolai Jakov, Head of the KGB]] is seen reading a magazine that has an add for the Excelsior, the rigid airship that's the subject of the very next episode, "[[Recap/ArcherS1E7Skytanic Skytanic]]".

* ExtremeLibido: In the second season, Creator/PaulRudd [[TheCameo guest-stars]] as Annie's fiance, who tells her moments after she accepts his proposal that, by the way, he's a sex addict who has had literally thousands of partners. [[spoiler: Not surprisingly, the engagement doesn't last long.]]