OT: Archer Danger Island
Archer season 9 starts tonight at 10 ET on FXX.
FXX’s Archer is an original animated, half-hour comedy that, in its ninth season, centers on the semi-functioning alcoholic seaplane pilot, Sterling Archer, a lush on the lush South Pacific island of Mitimotu in 1939. While the rest of the world is concerned about the impending Second World War, Archer is only concerned with who’s buying his next drink. Along with his trusty co-pilot Pam, Sterling must navigate quicksand, cannibals, super-intelligent monkeys, poison darts, pirates, and did we mention quicksand? Welcome to the mysterious and deadly world of Archer: Danger Island.
The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin as the hard-drinking pilot, “Sterling Archer;” Jessica Walter as Archer’s acid-tongued mother and hotel owner, “Malory Archer;” Aisha Tyler as island royalty and local revolutionary, “Princess Lanaluakalani;” Judy Greer as the abandoned heiress, “Charlotte Vandertunt;” Chris Parnell as the obvious German spy posing as a businessman, “Siegbert Fuchs;” Amber Nash as Archer’s co-pilot and loyal sidekick, “Pam Poovey;” Adam Reed as impeccably uniformed French Capitaine, “Reynaud;” and Lucky Yates as the audacious scarlet macaw, “Crackers.”
Well, it seems there's already a Casablanca reference. Will Capitaine Reynaud (Renault) be shocked - shocked! - at gambling? Pretty funny that they cast a voice for the macaw.
Prepare for destruction.
Archer has really gone downhill the last few seasons unfortunately.
I agree. Use to love it
April 25th, 2018 at 10:17 PM ^
not use
April 25th, 2018 at 11:13 PM ^
I never would have known what he was trying to say. A true vigilante for board grammar. /s
Don't be a Dutchbag
Don't take it for granite.
They got bored with what they were doing but instead of ending the show decided to do weird things like this. Is he still stuck in a coma imagining all this happening?
Probably.
I blame Isis
April 25th, 2018 at 11:20 PM ^
Remember when people used to blame the Russians?
April 25th, 2018 at 11:36 PM ^
Heck, I remember when we used to blame the Soviets.
April 26th, 2018 at 12:06 AM ^
Soviets, hell. Russia was in charge.
I spent many a night cursing the Romanovs.
April 26th, 2018 at 10:34 AM ^
Damn you, Rasputin!
Not Isis...just thought I’d join the Correcto Mundo Party!
That is all!
April 25th, 2018 at 11:43 PM ^
There was a point when it was "had to watch, can't miss" but it's definitely not there anymore. Can still watch it and laugh ocassionally, but not the same.
I still apprecaite the pop culture references though.
April 25th, 2018 at 10:08 PM ^
Are we still doing phrasing?
April 25th, 2018 at 11:00 PM ^
Given the number of appearances of the referenced line / meme on this blog, I think the only logical conclusion is that we never did it in the first place around here. Still, we're hopeful that one day the question will be asked and that we'll be able to answer if it had once ben achieved.
"PHRASING!"
"On MGoBlog?"
"Oh, yeah. Disregard."
April 25th, 2018 at 11:50 PM ^
Little column A, little column B.
April 25th, 2018 at 10:34 PM ^
unfortunately Archer is firmly in that camp now.
April 26th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
Yeah it went downhill beginning with the Vice season, just stick to what worked.. but I’m still watching them when I’m bored
April 25th, 2018 at 10:54 PM ^
why do we never hear about quicksand anymore? In the 70s it killed more people than the Golden State Killer.
April 25th, 2018 at 11:05 PM ^
It was on Mythbusters.
Don't sleep on poison. If you watch Columbo reruns from the original NBC Movie of the Week era, it seems like every wealthy Angelino had ready access to a wide array of poisons at the drop of a hat.
Dunno where they are going with this season, but that was pretty weak IMO.
I just hope they don't do a repeat of last year where it just ends as Archer vs Cyborg Barry for the umpteenth time.
April 26th, 2018 at 10:36 AM ^
At least it was only like 11 minutes of weakness.
Speaking of H Jon Benjamin, if you haven't heard his piano album Well, I Should Have*, you should definitely check it out...
*learned to play piano
This NPR interview about his experimental jazz album is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever heard
I still had a good time, the plot lines are getting a little stale, but it's still one of the funniest shows on TV. Given everyone is into prestige and depressing drama and/or twee hipster comedies I'll take Archer any day.