Malory tries to make ISIS more environmentally friendly, while Archer and Lana head to the Louisiana bayous to prevent a dangerous Eco-Terrorist from bombing America's largest natural-gas pipeline.
This episode provides examples of:
- Atrocious Alias: Joshua Grey, aka Gandalf. Archer is not impressed by this.
- Artistic License – Chemistry: Bottled beer does not have the alcohol content to remain stable enough to be cooled by the massive amount of dry ice Archer packs in the cooler, because extremely cold temperatures and small spaces cause the pressure inside the bottle to release with explosive force, usually shattering the bottles in the process.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Lana invokes this as Archer is redlining the airboat's engine.
- He later goes a step further with the ice chest, which he's packed with just beer and dry ice.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Lana shouts a very long (censored) swear after she burns her hands by touching dry ice.
- Cutting Corners: Malory issues an energy-saving mandate for ISIS which involves low-energy light bulbs and low-flow toilets. This causes issues for the copy machine and Krieger's cloning project. The last straw is Pam using the toilets after going to the women's bathroom. Malory decides to scrap the mandate and get rid of all of the aforementioned items, as well as barring Pam from the women's bathroom.
- Dramatic Irony: Archer loudly spouting about finding an eco-terrorist while riding the plane alerts Joshua (who’s riding the same plane) that he's being targeted by ISIS, which causes him to have second thoughts about bombing the pipeline, and he decides to not blow it up.
- Eco-Terrorist: Joshua "Gandalf" Gray is an eco-terrorist who wants to blow up oil pipelines in the Louisiana bayou. Archer and Lana are dispatched to stop him.
- Fingore: Lana injures her hands from dry ice, the only thing keeping bottles of beer cool thanks to Archer.
- From Bad to Worse: Archer's stupidity gets himself and Lana stranded in the Louisiana bayou with an airboat out of fuel, Lana getting injured by dry ice Archer stuck in the cooler trying to get bottled water, has an alligator attack them which makes Archer sink the airboat, and finally they become stranded next to the pipe (and Archer turned out to have bottled water, much to Lana's frustration).
- Hammerspace Hair: Lana's afro was used as a weird desk drawer for Gray; he was able to fish out pencils and a spliff from it.
- Irony: Lana was actually a former afro-sporting eco-hippie who tried to smear Malory with blood for wearing a fur coat; they both end up staring each other down, and Malory offered Lana a job as an ISIS agent. The next thing Lana knew, she was already in another nation trying to kill a target under Malory's orders.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After his buffoonery gets Lana injured and both of them stranded in the middle of the swamp with no supplies, Archer gets his comeuppance when Joshua, who changed his mind to blow up the pipe when he saw Archer and Lana on the plane, arrives on a tiny boat meant to carry two people, and brings Lana with him for a night in bed as he drives out of the swamp, leaving Archer alone in a swamp surrounded by his worst fear and no way to get back home anytime soon.
- Locked Out of the Loop: There's actually a reason no one told Pam a women's bathroom exists.
- Nerves of Steel: How we discover Lana got her job. With a .44 Magnum pointed at her head and no sign of fear, Malory offered her a job on the spot.
- Toilet Humour: There are many implications of Pam's deuces being worse than average person's; Cyril described what he saw, when the low-flow toilets were installed, was something of a "war crime". Said implications are why she was never told of the women's bathroom in the first place thanks to Cheryl, why she was forbidden to go back by Malory, and why Malory was later forced to scrap the Eco-friendly project.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: After Archer blows the engine of the airboat, he drags the boat through the bayou in waist-deep water, claiming that he's facing his "three greatest fears" in the process. After some alcohol and prying from Lana, it turns out one of his greatest fears is alligators, so much so that he's memorized the name, age, and location of every fatal gator attack in the country. Earlier, as he's bowfishing, Archer tries to haul in some trout... and is met instead by an enormous, angry gator with an arrow in its head.
