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** One of the Irish mobsters at Archer's mercy laughs at him having breast cancer. After he had already killed one of them. It ended with a shotgun blast to his face.

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** One of the Irish mobsters at Archer's mercy laughs at him having breast cancer. After he cancer... after Archer had already killed one of them. It ended ends with a shotgun blast to his the mobster's face.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malory murdered the cleaning ladies in cold blood just because they unionized, but even she's appalled at the idea someone's making money off fake cancer medication. And is upset when Archer tells her his cancer has been growing.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malory murdered the cleaning ladies in cold blood just because they unionized, but even she's appalled at the idea someone's making money off fake cancer medication. And She is also upset when Archer tells her his cancer has been growing.



* KickTheDog: At the end of the episode, Malory says that he liked Sterling better when he had cancer, causing her son to call her out on it.

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* KickTheDog: At the end of the episode, Malory says that he she liked Sterling better when he had cancer, causing her son him to call her out on it.



* MeaningfulEcho: Before he decides to kill off Delany, Archer asks him "Did you see 'Regis' this morning?". If anything, it's a meaningful reminder to himself that he's going on this rampage for [[TheLittlestCancerPatient Ruth]], who should've been alive to see it just one more day.

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* MeaningfulEcho: Before he decides to kill off Delany, Delaney, Archer asks him "Did you see 'Regis' this morning?". If anything, it's a meaningful reminder to himself that he's going on this rampage for [[TheLittlestCancerPatient Ruth]], who should've been alive to see it just one more day.



* SteelEardrums: Lana suffers some temporary hearing loss after Archer fires his SawnOffShotgun next to her head. Then a grenade goes off and renders both of them temporarily deaf. Cue a trip to the [=ENT=] doctor and both of them sporting bandages over their ears for the rest of the episode.

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* SteelEardrums: Lana suffers some temporary hearing loss after Archer fires his SawnOffShotgun next to her head. Then a grenade goes off and renders both of them temporarily deaf. Cue a trip to the [=ENT=] doctor and both of them sporting sport bandages over their ears for the rest of the episode.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Archer finally located the head of the fake cancer medicine racket. His rampage started after he and the late Ruth became victims of it, but it was after the mastermind makes a comment about how his mother found an... interesting use of beads that he finishes him off.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Before he decides to kill off Delany, Archer asks him "Did you see 'Regis' this morning?". If anything, it's a meaningful reminder that he's going on this rampage for [[TheLittlestCancerPatient Ruth]], who should've been alive to see it that morning.

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* MeaningfulEcho: Before he decides to kill off Delany, Archer asks him "Did you see 'Regis' this morning?". If anything, it's a meaningful reminder to himself that he's going on this rampage for [[TheLittlestCancerPatient Ruth]], who should've been alive to see it that morning.just one more day.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malory murdered the cleaning ladies in cold blood just because they unionized, but even she's appalled at the idea someone's making money off fake cancer medication.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malory murdered the cleaning ladies in cold blood just because they unionized, but even she's appalled at the idea someone's making money off fake cancer medication. And is upset when Archer tells her his cancer has been growing.
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* CoolOldLady: Ruth, the cancer patient who Archer strikes up an OddFriendship with, is sweet enough to bring out the non-Jerkass side of Archer.

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* ShoutOut: Archer reenacts ''Series/FamilyFeud'' during his interrogation with the mobsters.

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Archer reenacts ''Series/FamilyFeud'' during his interrogation with the mobsters.mobsters.
** Archer's confrontation with Delaney is practically a shot-for-shot remake of the famous "Did you see the sunrise?" scene from the season 3 premier of ''Series/MagnumPI''. Cyril even lampshades this, suggesting Archer should name his movie "Magnum P.U.".
** The B-plot with Dr. Krieger possibly being a genetic clone of Adolf Hitler is based on ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil''. Pam lampshades this.
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** Dr. Krieger is willing to put his coworkers and innocent people in harm's way in order to advance his experiments (or to satisfy his dark sexual fetishes) but he also showed a genuine concern for Archer's health when he noticed his cancer medication wasn't showing any of the common side effects like hair loss or nausea which made him test the medication and find out it was fake. He was also saddened when Archer reminded him that "little kids get cancer".
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** Patrick might be a member of the Irish mafia helping run a phony medicine scam, but he thought it was treatment for male pattern baldness. Once he hears they were selling fake cancer medication he's stunned and spills the beans.

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** Patrick Mikey might be a member of the Irish mafia helping run a phony medicine scam, but he thought it was faking treatment for male pattern baldness. Once he hears they were selling fake cancer medication he's stunned and spills the beans.
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** Patrick might be a member of the Irish mafia helping run a phony medicine scam, but he thought it was treatment for male pattern baldness. Once he hears they were selling fake cancer medication he's stunned and spills the beans.
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* AssholeVictim: Even though he was a sick old man wheelchair, Delaney still sold fake medication to cancer patients. He got what was coming to him when Archer shot him.

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* AssholeVictim: Even though he was a sick old man in a wheelchair, Delaney still sold fake medication to cancer patients. He got what was coming to him when Archer shot him.
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Groin Attack requires going through with a threat. Simply threatening it is Freudian Threat.


* GroinAttack: Archer gets the pharmacist to talk by threatening to slowly shove a knife up the man's penis. The guy immediately starts talking about where he got his fake drugs from.

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