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* SpecialEditionTitle: The season has a 1940's version of the standard intro sequence, and remixes the music to boot.
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* SpecialEditionTitle: The season has a 1940's 1940s version of the standard intro sequence, and remixes the music to boot.
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* RunningGagged:
** Episode 2 onwards, an episode starts with a character saying "So what are we doing, are we just jumping right into this?" When one starts to say it in the last two episodes, they're cut off.
** Episode 2 onwards, an episode starts with a character saying "So what are we doing, are we just jumping right into this?" When one starts to say it in the last two episodes, they're cut off.
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* RunningGagged:
**RunningGagged: Episode 2 onwards, an episode starts with a character saying "So what are we doing, are we just jumping right into this?" When one starts to say it in the last two episodes, they're cut off.
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* BigBadWannabe: Len Trexler is definitely an intimidating presence, but other than buying the {{sex slave}}s at the beginning of the season all he does is threaten Cyril and then gets [[spoiler: usurped by Dutch.]]
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** Kreiger was a Jewish professor forced to make cyborg {{super soldier}}s for the Nazis.
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** Kreiger was a Jewish professor forced to make resign from his job when the Nazis rose to power. Out of revenge, he began to sabotage Hitler's robotics program, only to turn on his superiors and his assistant when they figured him out, having them torn apart by his cyborg {{super soldier}}s for the Nazis.dogs.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Archer finally learns the truth regarding Woodhouse's murder. Dutch receives his due karma, and Archer is no longer working for Mother at the moment. Unfortunately, Lana and Kreiger's dogs are dead, Cyril is still in debt to Trexler who has lost most of his men to Dutch, Zirk gets coldly rejected by Charlotte who herself hasn't been able to escape her dysfunctional family and Poovey's Chinese sister-wives left. However, Archer is trying to move on with his life, and the Chinese sister-wives are trying to make it on their own. In real world terms, Archer also hasn't woken up, but he isn't dead.]] The only characters who have anything even resembling a happy ending are [[spoiler: Cecil and Trinette thanks to an impulsive last-minute marriage]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Archer finally learns the truth regarding Woodhouse's murder. Dutch receives his due karma, and Archer is no longer working for Mother at the moment. Unfortunately, Lana and Kreiger's dogs are dead, Cyril is still in debt to Trexler who has lost most of his men to Dutch, Zirk gets coldly rejected by Charlotte who herself hasn't been able to escape her dysfunctional family DysfunctionalFamily and Poovey's Chinese sister-wives left. However, Archer is trying to move on with his life, and the Chinese sister-wives are trying to make it on their own. In real world terms, Archer also hasn't woken up, but he isn't dead.]] The only characters who have anything even resembling a happy ending are [[spoiler: Cecil and Trinette thanks to an impulsive last-minute marriage]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Archer is not only dealing with the loss of his partner, Woodhouse, but is also struggling with [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] from fighting in World War II, as he flashes back to it at random points in the series.
** Charlotte was raised in a highly dysfunctional, quasi-incestuous family and implied her mother was abused.
** Kreiger was a Jewish professor forced to make cyborg {{super soldier}}s for the Nazis.
** Archer is not only dealing with the loss of his partner, Woodhouse, but is also struggling with [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] from fighting in World War II, as he flashes back to it at random points in the series.
** Charlotte was raised in a highly dysfunctional, quasi-incestuous family and implied her mother was abused.
** Kreiger was a Jewish professor forced to make cyborg {{super soldier}}s for the Nazis.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Lana. Twice.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Lana. Twice. Twice:
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* HumanTraffickers: In the first episode of the season Archer saves Chinese images from being sold into [[SexSlave sex slavery]].
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* HumanTraffickers: In the first episode of the season Archer saves Chinese images immigrants from being sold into [[SexSlave sex slavery]].
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Archer is noticeably a lot more personable and mature in this series. At one point even apologizing for his poor behavior.
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* SexSlave: Archer thankfully saves a group of Chinese immigrants from becoming these in the first episode of the season.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance[=/=]PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Invoked, played with, and discussed repeatedly in-universe, much like the more typical seasons.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance[=/=]PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Invoked, played with, and discussed repeatedly in-universe, much like the more typical seasons.seasons:
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* HumanTraffickers: In the first episode of the season Archer saves Chinese images from being sold into [[SexSlave sex slavery]].
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* FriendOnTheForce: Archer gets along with Poovey pretty well, and he helps him in dealing with Trexler’s men.
* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler: Cecil and Trinette get married in the last finale with little fanfare.]]
* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler: Cecil and Trinette get married in the last finale with little fanfare.]]
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* FriendOnTheForce: Archer gets along with Poovey pretty well, and he helps him in dealing with Trexler’s Trexler's men.
* HistoricalAU: The contemporary cast is transplanted into 1947 L.A.
* LastMinuteHookup:[[spoiler: Cecil [[spoiler:Cecil and Trinette get married in the last finale with little fanfare.]]
* HistoricalAU: The contemporary cast is transplanted into 1947 L.A.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: Somehow manages to apply this trope to an entire season.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: Somehow manages to apply this trope to an entire season.season, turning a contemporary spy workplace comedy into a period piece noir dramedy.
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* IncestIsRelative: The Vandertunt clan not only has the reputation of being somewhat incestuous (on a scale of 10, "about a four"), but Cecil himself makes some... ''disturbing'' comments about taboos.
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* NoirEpisode: An entire noir ''season'' for the series as a whole.
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** When Dreamland's band is arrested Lana tries to entertain the guests with some stand up. Between her total lack of comedic experience and rushed, poorly written material, she fails miserably.
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** When Dreamland's the band is arrested arrested, Lana tries to entertain the guests with some her stand up. Between up routine. However, between her total lack of comedic experience and rushed, rushed poorly written material, she fails miserably.
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** People, especially Poovey, eating hot dogs in unusual places.
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* IncestIsRelative: The Vandertunt clan not only has the reputation of being somewhat incestuous (on a scale of 10, "about a four"), but Cecil himself makes some... ''disturbing'' comments about taboos.
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** Barry, [[spoiler:as he becomes more of a cyborg. Again.]]
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** Barry, Dutch, [[spoiler:as he becomes more of a cyborg. Again.cyborg.]]
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* AmbiguousGender: Pam is just called "Poovey" and has a more androgynous look, despite still being voiced by Amber Nash. Characters frequently threaten to kick Poovey in the "genitals" and the {{Flash Forward}} {{Imagine Spot}}s that occur with Poovey imagining life with the Chinese sex slaves depict Poovey as balding with a moustache, with one such spot, explicitly set in 1967 depicting Poovey at a graduation ceremony involving a number of Chinese-American students, which would imply Poovey is their father.
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* AmbiguousGender: Pam is just called "Poovey" and has a more androgynous look, despite still being voiced by Amber Nash. Characters frequently threaten to kick Poovey in the "genitals" and the {{Flash Forward}} {{Imagine Spot}}s that occur with Poovey imagining life with the Chinese sex slaves depict Poovey as balding with a moustache, with one such spot, explicitly set in 1967 depicting Poovey at a graduation ceremony involving a number of Chinese-American students, which would imply Poovey is their father. Poovey also yells at the Chinese women for leaving the toilet seat down.
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** Barry, as he becomes more of a cyborg.
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** Barry, as [[spoiler:as he becomes more of a cyborg.cyborg. Again.]]
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** Tossing food out of a moving car, hitting another car's windshield followed by the sound of an offscreen crash.
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* SanitySlippage: The lack of sleep ''really'' gets to Archer by the end.
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* SanitySlippage: SanitySlippage:
** The lack of sleep ''really'' gets to Archer by theend.end.
** Barry, as he becomes more of a cyborg.
** The lack of sleep ''really'' gets to Archer by the
** Barry, as he becomes more of a cyborg.
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* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: The show's usually an 8, but this season is violent enough to be level 9.
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** Later when Lana [[spoiler:reveals shes a treasury agent and tries to arrest everyone they just laugh and pull their guns on her. Archer lampshades this by asking if she seriously expected them to just cooperate and let her take them to jail.]]
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** Later when Lana [[spoiler:reveals shes she's a treasury agent and tries to arrest everyone they just laugh and pull their guns on her. Archer lampshades this by asking if she seriously expected them to just cooperate and let her take them to jail.]]
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: In "Berenice", Archer attempts to fake Charlotte's death using her dead maid. To get the corpse through a hotel lobby, they pretend she's alive, which somehow sets the lobby on fire.
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* CastingGag: Lana attempts stand-up comedy and is absolutely dreadful at it. Lana is voiced by successful stand-up comedian Creator/AishaTyler.
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* ForcedMeme: After [[spoiler: revealing herself to be a Treasury Agent, Lana]] tries to make "T-Man" a nickname for Treasury Agents, similar to "G-Man" for FBIAgent (itself a RealLife ForcedMeme by J. Edgar Hoover, apocryphally attributed to "Machine Gun" Kelly). Everyone who hears this assumes it to mean "transsexual man."
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Lana. Twice. See RealityEnsues below.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Lana. Twice. See RealityEnsues below.
** When Dreamland's band is arrested Lana tries to entertain the guests with some stand up. Between her total lack of comedic experience and rushed, poorly written material, she fails miserably.
** Later when Lana [[spoiler:reveals shes a treasury agent and tries to arrest everyone they just laugh and pull their guns on her. Archer lampshades this by asking if she seriously expected them to just cooperate and let her take them to jail.]]
** When Dreamland's band is arrested Lana tries to entertain the guests with some stand up. Between her total lack of comedic experience and rushed, poorly written material, she fails miserably.
** Later when Lana [[spoiler:reveals shes a treasury agent and tries to arrest everyone they just laugh and pull their guns on her. Archer lampshades this by asking if she seriously expected them to just cooperate and let her take them to jail.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Happens quite a bit.
** When Dreamland's band is arrested Lana tries to entertain the guests with some stand up. Between her total lack of comedic experience and rushed, poorly written material, she fails miserably.
** Later when Lana [[spoiler:reveals shes a treasury agent and tries to arrest everyone they just laugh and pull their guns on her. Archer lampshades this by asking if she seriously expected them to just cooperate and let her take them to jail.]]
** When Dreamland's band is arrested Lana tries to entertain the guests with some stand up. Between her total lack of comedic experience and rushed, poorly written material, she fails miserably.
** Later when Lana [[spoiler:reveals shes a treasury agent and tries to arrest everyone they just laugh and pull their guns on her. Archer lampshades this by asking if she seriously expected them to just cooperate and let her take them to jail.]]
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* RunningGag:
** Any time Charlotte describes her family as "quasi-incestuous", the person she's speaking to replies "How quasi?" to which she always responds, with no further explanation, "About a 4."
** The drummer of Ray's band does a {{Rimshot}} syncing with a DoubleEntendre joke, followed by Ray telling him to stop.
** Any time Charlotte describes her family as "quasi-incestuous", the person she's speaking to replies "How quasi?" to which she always responds, with no further explanation, "About a 4."
** The drummer of Ray's band does a {{Rimshot}} syncing with a DoubleEntendre joke, followed by Ray telling him to stop.
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** Any time Charlotte describes her family as "quasi-incestuous", the person she's speaking to replies "How quasi?" to which she always responds, with no further explanation, "About a 4."
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In addition to the CerebusSyndrome, the comedy manages to be [[BlackComedy even darker]] than before.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In addition to the CerebusSyndrome, the comedy manages to be [[BlackComedy even darker]] than before. Special mention goes to "Waxing Gibbous" and "Gramercy, Halberd!" which effectively delve the series into actual PlayedStraight ''horror''.
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** Every episode starts with a character saying "So what are we doing, are we just jumping right into this?" When one starts to say it in the penultimate episode, they're cut off.
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** Every Episode 2 onwards, an episode starts with a character saying "So what are we doing, are we just jumping right into this?" When one starts to say it in the penultimate episode, last two episodes, they're cut off.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Lana and Barry.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Lana and Barry.Barry (Dutch). Dutch dies from being attacked by Krieger's dogs. Lana is shot by Mother, before shot multiple times to death by Poovey; both by complete accident.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dutch dies from being attacked by Krieger's dogs. Lana is shot by Mother, before shot multiple times to death by Poovey.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dutch dies from being attacked by Krieger's dogs. Lana is shot by Mother, before shot multiple times to death by Poovey.]]
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* ChandlerAmericanTime: Set in CityNoir Los Angeles in 1947, even though strictly speaking that genre originally meant right before the American entry into UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (i.e., in 1941), and then again, parent series ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' was quite gleeful at mixing-and-matching elements from various eras together in the same setting anyway.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Lana. Twice. See RealityEnsues below.
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** When Lana [[spoiler:tries to arrest everyone they just laugh and pull their guns on her. Treasury agent or not shes just one person surrounded by criminals who would rather not be sent to jail.]]
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** When Later when Lana [[spoiler:tries [[spoiler:reveals shes a treasury agent and tries to arrest everyone they just laugh and pull their guns on her. Treasury agent or not shes Archer lampshades this by asking if she seriously expected them to just one person surrounded by criminals who would rather not be sent cooperate and let her take them to jail.]]