Funny / Archer Dreamland

No Good Deed

• While it doubles as a Tear Jerker, the season opens on what seems to be Archer's funeral, but nope, turns out it's actually Woodhouse who has finally died (presumably of old age). Archer himself is on a coma, dreaming that he's a 1947 noir detective.
  • Oh, and keeping with the shows running gag about its timeline, the date of Woodhouse's death is blocked out by the funeral wreath.
• Dreamland!Archer is trying to find out who killed Dreamland!Woodhouse, and he interrogates the latter's heroin dealer (Krieger). When Archer asks if Woodhouse owed him money, Krieger tells him that not only did he not owe money, he paid in advance.
  Archer: Yeah, he wasn't great with money.
  Krieger: Right? I mean who tips their dope dealer?
  • Krieger sics a Giant Mook on Archer.
    Archer: Okay, so one of two things is gonna happen- [gets punched across the alley]
    Krieger: Wonder what the other thing was.
• Dreamland!Malory (a mobster) wants to hire Archer to help take down her biggest rival, Len Trexler.
  Archer: You want me to help you make a move on LEN TREXLER?! The guy who's hobby it is to dissolve people in acid?!
  Malory: Oh, he doesnt do the actual dissolving, that would be his enforcer, Dutch Dylan (Dreamland!Barry).
  Archer: I don't care who does the dissolving!!
• When Malory tells him she thought he had guts, Archer tells her he'd like to keep them inside himself, not dissolving in a drum of acid with his shoes and feet and face.
• Archer doing his own noir-y voiceover while driving. Turns out he's actually telling it to a stray dog he picked up.
• When Archer finds an LAPD car on the docks (it's actually Pam's), he carves a dick into the paint with his keys.
• Archer and Pam getting into an argument about whether or not the term "white slavery" is racist.

Berenice

• Charlotte Vandertunt. Taking Cheryl's regular insanity, and turning it up a notch.
  • For starters, it's implied she once hired a hoodoo priestess to try and resurrect her grandmother, and every year on said grandmother's birthday her family likes to remind her of it. And her father supposedly instigated the Spanish Civil War because he slept with his sister. And the best part is absolutely everything that Charlotte reveals about her family is completely within the realm of possibility with the real Cheryl given how insanely messed up the Tunts are.
• How quasi-incestuous are the Vandertunts? About a 4.
  Archer: Out of what?
• The poor dead maid who Charlotte plans to use to fake her own death. When Archer asked if Charlotte killed her, she's aghast and denies it, saying that it was her brother, then backpedals and says that technically the drunk abortionist killed her but if the maid had refused to get an abortion her father would have killed her personally.
• Getting the body through the lobby somehow reduces the thing to a flaming, trashed warzone.
• When Charlotte figures out Archer's crush on Lana, she prods him a friendly way to admit it. When he does...
  Charlotte: Me and him? WE JUST FUCKED!
  • What especially sells it is how utterly mortified and speechless Archer is.
• Len Trexler tells Dutch Dylan to pull himself back together, after Dutch's feet were severed by Archer crushing his ankles. Trexler quickly admits it was a poor choice of words as Dutch bursts into tears.
  • What's even funnier is the way that Trexler comforts the crying Dutch like a sick child. Especially since Dutch was portrayed as an unflappable psycho in the previous episode.
• Trexler yelling at Cyril over Archer saving the slaves in the previous episode. When Cyril offers to give Trexler back the bribe he paid him...
  Trexler: I don't WANT the MONEY! That is why I exchanged it for goods and/or services which is the core concept of economics!!
• Where did Poovey stash the rescued slaves? In their apartment.
• A mysterious car runs down Archer on the side of the road, the same car that Charlotte had noticed tailing them with their headlights off. Was it Trexler's men? Nope, turns out it was just a random couple with a car with broken headlights.

Jane Doe

• While Archer is in jail, he ends up sharing his cell with Ray and the orchestra from Mallory's nightclub. Turns out, they got busted for smoking a reefer cigarette. Better, it was Ray's fault they got busted (he yelled at them for hogging the reefer and a cop overheard). Even BETTER, this is the SECOND TIME the exact same thing happened to them.
  Ray: (previously) I AM LOVING THIS MARIJUANA CIGARETTE!!
• The bit where Archer tries to justify being the one to put on the unconscious cops uniform as a disguise, despite it being at least three sizes too big, and a perfect fit for one of the band members. This leads to a debate about the segregation of the armed forces and the menial tasks black servicemen were forced into.
  • After Archer finally agrees to let the band member be the cop, he demands that he gets the uniform of the next cop who shows up... only for the next cop to be way too tall and lanky to fit Archer, but is a perfect fit for one of the OTHER band members.
  • After they got arrested, Ray gave a fake name to the arresting officer. The name? Phil Mccracken, the name Archer made up for him during Season 5.
• Charlotte going batshit insane after 30 minutes in solitary. Specifically, she assumed she had been locked up for decades because the black band members were disguised as police officers, and she thought that would only be possible in the far future, only for the other characters to point out that the LAPD racial barrier had already been broken at that point. She immediately returns to her normal level of insanity.
• While escaping the station, the cast tries to lie about a prison transfer to another cop outside, despite everyone being beaten and bloody from getting into a fight with Pam down by the cells.
• After Lana's band is arrested, she attempts to do a stand-up routine. Revolving entirely around syphilis.
• Mallory wonders where the hell Krieger is instead of manning the bar. Turns out he's busy kidnapping Dutch Dillon from the hospital so he can give him robot legs.

Ladyfingers

• After conking Figgis, Archer decides to stuff him in a morgue drawer naked. Cut to him and Poovey is stunned horror/amazement at his Gag Penis.
• Krieger's cyborg cat does nothing except lick itself, much to the frustration of his original Nazi employers, especially since this was all he had made in three years of research. Except not really; Krieger had secretly been sabotaging the German war effort and killing all the super soldiers he made with poison injections. When he's found out, he sics a pack of vicious cyborg dogs on his overseers. Why? Krieger is actually JEWISH.
• Malory tells Archer that he should bring a finger to Charlotte's brother to prove he has her, and Archer naturally refuses. Sure enough, he ends up demanding a finger (because Cyril called at the same time pretending to be the kidnapper so he could get the ransom money). After much back and forth stealing a finger from the county morgue, Cecil decides he doesn't need to see the finger after all, much to Archer's frustration.

Sleepers Wake

• Dutch's reaction when he leaves Krieger's lab and realizes it's right under the Dreamland nightclub, accessed through a hatch beneath the bar.
  Dutch: Dreamland has a GODDAMN NAZI ROBOT FACTORY in the basement?! In this economy?!
• Figgis setting his pubes on fire when he wakes up in the morgue drawer.
  • The coroner complains that the smell of Cyril's burning pubes has ruined his "second lunch".
  • After the coroner pisses him off, Cyril gives a long, biblical Badass Boast about coming back to the morgue and raining holy judgment on it. The coroner is comically unimpressed and just keeps eating his hot dog, stating "I'll be here".
• Pam saying that the smell of Cyril's burned pubes smells like roasted guinea pig AKA Qui.
  • When Cyril and Pam later go to Cecil's mansion, sure enough, Cecil is eating a meal of Qui, and goes off on a tangent about how delicious they are, "like all taboos".
  Pam: (while stuffing her face with Qui) You're freakin' weird!
• Cecil talking about how inconvenient the million-dollar ransom is to carry, consisting of unmarked $20, $50 and $100 bills which adds up to well over 50 pounds in weight, and points out that an envelope of Salmon's (the rare $10,000 bill which has former U.S Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase on it) would have been so much easier, only for Archer to point out that he'd have no way of spending a $10,000 bill. Cecil then asks what one could possibly spend 20$, and thinks its only worth "a single orange".
• Krieger's cat wakes him up by licking his face, much to Krieger's disgust due to the cat constantly licking its own asshole.
  Krieger: Ugh, that's my mouth! If I wanted your asshole on my tongue I'd do it while you were asleep!
• In a scene based on The Terminator, Dutch steals the clothes from a biker, who is clearly based on Marlon Brando's character from The Wild One.
  • And then he rides off triumphantly... only to run straight into a billboard ala Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
  Dutch: (sighs) Goddamn it...
• Charlotte is baffled that Malory is going to hand her over to her family after the ransom is paid and not keep her in a bomb shelter with limited air and send her family cryptic notes about how to find her in a race against time. When a baffled Malory asks who'd go through all that trouble, Charlotte says "Red Skull in my kidnap/rape fantasy".
• The Running Gag about Archer picking up someone in his car to give noir-narration to. This time he's actually paid a hooker to listen to him, then refuses to pay her for longer than an hour. When the Car Chase starts, he just gives her Cyril's badge and service gun he stole in the last episode and pushes her out.

Waxing Gibbous

• Cecil continues his abject weirdness. Even weirding out Trinette with his gross role-playing requests.
  • When they arrive at Trexler's mansion, Cecil is telling Trinette about his fondness for Qui.
  Trinette: Ugh, seriously, your family tree must look like a telephone pole!
• Archer doing his noir-y voiceover again, only to reveal, to his own surprise, that there's no one sitting next to him this time and he'd just been talking in his own head due to being loopy from sleep-deprivation and mixing medications.
• Malory forces Archer to tell her what happened to the ransom while her Giant Mook is choking him to death, so first he has to pantomime that he wants a paper and pen (to which Charlotte keeps guessing he's saying Palm Reader), and when he finally gets it, he just draws a little picture of two stick figures driving away with the money instead of writing down Cyril's name. Malory finally gives up and has the mook release Archer before he passes out.
• Archer STILL hasn't slept since the season started (4 days in-universe) and has to take more of the drugs Charlotte offers him, though unfortunately she's mixed up which drug is which.
• Pam telling Cyril that as a white, divorced cuckolded male with access to a firearm, statistically speaking he's already dead ala suicide.
• Undercover IRS agent Lana getting into an argument with Trinette (the hooker Archer threw out of his car in the last episode) about the cases the IRS law enforcement unit has solved. Lana first brings up Al Capone dying in prison because of them (which he didn't, he died after being released), with Trinette pointing out that syphilis killed him. Lana then brings up the Lindbergh baby case.
  Trinette: Oh yeah, I'm sure they were thrilled to get their dead baby back.
• "You make being kidnapped just awful!"
• Trinette insisting that the glove compartment is called the "potato compartment" and she even asks Cecil what he calls it to settle the argument with Lana. He also calls it the potato compartment.
• Archer thinks that the source of the massive blood smears in Trexler's mansion is from a werewolf due to the full moon.

Grammercy, Halberd!

• Archer mocking Dutch for his biker clothes, and getting his ass kicked when Dutch realizes that Archer was the one who ran over his legs in the first episode of the season.
  Dutch: You turned me into a freak!
  Archer: I think you're confusing me with your personal shopper. What are you wearing? You look like- *PUNCH*
  • When the characters try to shoot Dutch, the bullets keep ricocheting off him metal arms, and hits Cecil. THREE times!! Understandably, he's not in very good shape when they flee the mansion.
    Trinette: Did you eat a bunch of magnets?!
  • Archer slapping Trexler with a raw steak to get him to snap him out of hysteria, them slaps him twice more just for giggles.
• Dutch trashing Trexler's kitchen with a halberd while looking for him and Archer.
  Trexler: Can't have anything nice!
• The Running Gag about the characters being surprised about Lana being an undercover IRS agent.
  Cyril/Pam/Archer: Whaaaat?
  Cecil: Right?
  • Related to that, people keep thinking that "t-man" (treasury agent) is slang for "transvestite".
  Archer: Okay, but I'm almost certain that's an insulting phrase for-
  Lana: For the last time, I AM NOT A TRANSVESTITE!!
  Archer: Well, probably not the last time...
• Trexler lampshading Archer's continued use of prescription drugs to stave off pain and exhaustion.
  Trexler: Should you be doing that?
  Archer: Probably not.
• Cyril's "suppressing FIIIIIRE" Running Gag hits a new low as he completely misses Dutch who's only a few feet away at the time and right in front of him.
• Archer backing into Dutch with his car.
  Archer: Eat a dick, Gort!

Auflösung

• On the ride to Dreamland, Archer gets sick of everyone griping, so he ties them up and stuffs socks in their mouths. Cyril points out that it's weird that Archer has so much rope in his car.
  Lana: Besides rapists?
  Archer: Uh, mountain climbers?!
  Lana: Climbing up to their mountaintop rape sheds.
  Trexler: Are the victims already up there?
  [Cutaway to everyone having socks in their mouths]
  • When Dutch hijacks a car, claiming that he's "commandeering" it, the driver asks if he's a cop. Dutch just incredulously points out his blood-splattered biker outfit.
    Dutch: Do I LOOK like a cop?!
• Some of the blackest Black Comedy in show history, as Lana just keeps on getting shot by Archer's gun.
• The hilariously anti-climactic reveal about who killed Woodhouse: Dutch did it, basically just For the Evulz. Also because Woodhouse cut him off in traffic. There was no conspiracy behind his death.
  • Not to mention the massive Hand Wave about what was in the envelope that got stolen. It's not actually revealed, but Archer figures it was probably just Woodhouse's will.
  • At Woodhouse's grave, Archer leaves some heroin as a tribute (and hopes some kids won't walk by and eat it). And a rock, like in Jewish tradition. He doesn't know if Woodhouse actually WAS Jewish or not, they never talked about it.
• When Dutch attacks the cast in Dreamland, Krieger begs him to stop, saying that he could use his power for good. Dutch points out how ridiculous that expectation is, since he was a remorseless murderer BEFORE becoming a cyborg, and hasn't gotten any nicer in the meantime.
• After all the fighting and back and forth over the ransom money, it turns out there's not even any money in it! Cecil just stuffed it full of weird German incest fetish porn.
  • Oh, and for some reason, he and Trinette are getting married in the hospital.
• When Zirk is fighting Krieger's cyborg dogs, Krieger begs them to be spared because they're all he has left of his life's work. When his cyborg cat meows off-screen, Krieger yells at it that it doesn't count.

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