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*'''Sterling Malory Archer''' ([[H. Jon Benjamin]]) is considered the world's most dangerous secret agent. In reality, however, he's an incompetent loose cannon who usually succeeds either through blind dumb luck or the last-minute intervention of smarter colleagues, and his only real interest in the job is the opportunity to live a jetsetting lifestyle full of sex, alcohol, fast cars and spy toys. However, he does show proficiency in the stereotypical spy skills such as weapons, driving and martial arts, and even rival agents admit that no one is better in the field. As such, he is as likely to kill a room full of enemy agents as accidentally cause an international disaster. He is also notorious for taking every opportunity to have sex; Cheryl, his mother's secretary, claims that he "turns women into whores," and he is shown regularly frequenting prostitutes and impregnating his maid. Despite his bravado, he is dominated by his mother Malory, both professionally and personally - his code name is "Duchess," the name of his mother's dead dog. Archer has been shown to have had a very sad childhood, having been tortured by his mother with a wooden spoon, and living at boarding school since kindergarten where he had no friends. Despite this lack of friendship Archer is shown to be an accomplished lacrosse player all throughout boarding school. However he was also once left alone on Christmas Eve, after his mother moved and forgot to tell the school where she lived. Archer also has a love-hate relationship with fellow agent and ex-girlfriend Lana Kane, constantly claiming that she is still in love with him. He may also have some lingering feelings for Lana, continually seeking to undermine her relationship with Cyril, and even claiming that Cyril doesn't deserve to be with her. A recurring joke is that Archer will forget one liners he thinks up, forgetting just as he is about to say it, then swearing "I had something for this" before saying something else. He also refuses to wear anything other than [[turtlenecks]] during operations (such as taking the time to change into one rather than immediately disarming a bomb), and claims he was the first to recognize the garment's tactical potential. In the Season 1 finale "Dial M for Mother," it is shown that Archer may have fathered a child with the hooker from the episode "Training Day." According to a computer screen readout in the show's [[Mole Hunt|first episode]], Archer is 36 years old, 6'2", and weighs 184 lbs. |
*'''Sterling Malory Archer''' ([[H. Jon Benjamin]]) is considered the world's most dangerous secret agent. In reality, however, he's an incompetent loose cannon who usually succeeds either through blind dumb luck or the last-minute intervention of smarter colleagues, and his only real interest in the job is the opportunity to live a jetsetting lifestyle full of sex, alcohol, fast cars and spy toys. However, he does show proficiency in the stereotypical spy skills such as weapons, driving and martial arts, and even rival agents admit that no one is better in the field. As such, he is as likely to kill a room full of enemy agents as accidentally cause an international disaster. He is also notorious for taking every opportunity to have sex; Cheryl, his mother's secretary, claims that he "turns women into whores," and he is shown regularly frequenting prostitutes and impregnating his maid. Despite his bravado, he is dominated by his mother Malory, both professionally and personally - his code name is "Duchess," the name of his mother's dead dog. Archer has been shown to have had a very sad childhood, having been tortured by his mother with a wooden spoon, and living at boarding school since kindergarten where he had no friends. Despite this lack of friendship Archer is shown to be an accomplished lacrosse player all throughout boarding school. However he was also once left alone on Christmas Eve, after his mother moved and forgot to tell the school where she lived. Archer also has a love-hate relationship with fellow agent and ex-girlfriend Lana Kane, constantly claiming that she is still in love with him. He may also have some lingering feelings for Lana, continually seeking to undermine her relationship with Cyril, and even claiming that Cyril doesn't deserve to be with her. A recurring joke is that Archer will forget one liners he thinks up, forgetting just as he is about to say it, then swearing "I had something for this" before saying something else. He also refuses to wear anything other than [[turtlenecks]] during operations (such as taking the time to change into one rather than immediately disarming a bomb), and claims he was the first to recognize the garment's tactical potential. In the Season 1 finale "Dial M for Mother," it is shown that Archer may have fathered a child with the hooker from the episode "Training Day." According to a computer screen readout in the show's [[Mole Hunt|first episode]], Archer is 36 years old, 6'2", and weighs 184 lbs. |
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*'''Lana Kane''' ([[Aisha Tyler]]), a black woman with a curvaceous figure, is the other top agent at ISIS. She is portrayed as a smarter, tougher and better agent than Archer, but is constantly frustrated that she's still perceived as the second fiddle and passed over because Archer's mother is the head of the agency. She formerly dated Archer, with whom she still has a complex love-hate relationship even though she was in a relationship with ISIS comptroller Cyril Figgis, whom she claimed she dated because he was nothing like Archer. When she eventually catches Cyril having sex with another woman, she hatches a revenge plan in which she offers sex on Cyril's desk to every man in the office and Pam. In reality, she has sex only with Pam, and merely forces all the men to pay her for the opportunity to claim they had sex with her. Lana has a relatively good relationship with Archer's mother, despite the fact Lana dumped her son - Malory admitted once she was glad the two broke up as a long-term relationship with another agent would be too painful for Archer. Lana has incredibly strong hands, regularly referred to as mannish or [[Robosaurus|"Truckasaurus"]]-like by other ISIS staffers. |
*'''Lana Kane''' ([[Aisha Tyler]]), a black woman with a curvaceous figure, is the other top agent at ISIS. She is portrayed as a smarter, tougher and better agent than Archer, but is constantly frustrated that she's still perceived as the second fiddle and passed over because Archer's mother is the head of the agency. She formerly dated Archer, with whom she still has a complex love-hate relationship even though she was in a relationship with ISIS comptroller Cyril Figgis, whom she claimed she dated because he was nothing like Archer. When she eventually catches Cyril having sex with another woman, she hatches a revenge plan in which she offers sex on Cyril's desk to every man in the office and Pam. In reality, she has sex only with Pam, and merely forces all the men to pay her for the opportunity to claim they had sex with her. Lana has a relatively good relationship with Archer's mother, despite the fact Lana dumped her son - Malory admitted once she was glad the two broke up as a long-term relationship with another agent would be too painful for Archer. Lana has incredibly strong hands, regularly referred to as mannish or [[Robosaurus|"Truckasaurus"]]-like by other ISIS staffers. In the episode "Blood Test," Lana constantly thinks of what life could've been as a mother had she had a baby, so far as to tearing up as she listened to Malory and Archer's conversation about how a baby may be the best thing for him. |
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*'''Malory Archer''' ([[Jessica Walter]]), Sterling Archer's mother and the head of ISIS, is a self-centered, alcoholic diva who regularly hatches half-baked and invariably disastrous schemes to use the agency's resources to her own personal advantage, including staging a false assassination attempt on a U.N. official to secure a lucrative government contract. During her days as a black ops spy she had clandestine affairs with [[KGB]] head Nikolai Jackov, rival spy agency boss Len Trexler and jazz drummer [[Buddy Rich]], and doesn't know which of the three is Sterling's biological father - she had told him that his father was John Fitzgerald Archer, an ace pilot who won the [[Navy Cross]]. She was a highly inattentive parent, shipping him to boarding school for thirteen years and once forgetting to tell the school she was moving to a new house, leaving him alone in the train station when he came home from school on Christmas Eve. As adults their relationship is highly antagonistic - she assigned him the code name "Duchess" after her deceased dog and at one point put out a [[burn notice (document)|burn notice]] on him after going on an absinthe binge in the wake of Sterling leaving ISIS for rival spy agency ODIN. However, she seems to have some affection for him, breaking down in tears when she thought he had been killed and being continually depressed during Sterling's brief stint at ODIN. |
*'''Malory Archer''' ([[Jessica Walter]]), Sterling Archer's mother and the head of ISIS, is a self-centered, alcoholic diva who regularly hatches half-baked and invariably disastrous schemes to use the agency's resources to her own personal advantage, including staging a false assassination attempt on a U.N. official to secure a lucrative government contract. During her days as a black ops spy she had clandestine affairs with [[KGB]] head Nikolai Jackov, rival spy agency boss Len Trexler and jazz drummer [[Buddy Rich]], and doesn't know which of the three is Sterling's biological father - she had told him that his father was John Fitzgerald Archer, an ace pilot who won the [[Navy Cross]]. She was a highly inattentive parent, shipping him to boarding school for thirteen years and once forgetting to tell the school she was moving to a new house, leaving him alone in the train station when he came home from school on Christmas Eve. As adults their relationship is highly antagonistic - she assigned him the code name "Duchess" after her deceased dog and at one point put out a [[burn notice (document)|burn notice]] on him after going on an absinthe binge in the wake of Sterling leaving ISIS for rival spy agency ODIN. However, she seems to have some affection for him, breaking down in tears when she thought he had been killed and being continually depressed during Sterling's brief stint at ODIN. |
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| Archer | |
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| File:Archer 2010 Intertitle.png Archer's intertitle | |
| Genre | Adult animation Comedy |
| Created by | Adam Reed |
| Voices of | H. Jon Benjamin Judy Greer Chris Parnell Aisha Tyler Jessica Walter George Coe Amber Nash |
| Country of origin | Template:TVUS |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 17 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Adam Reed Matt Thompson |
| Producers | Neal Holman Eric Sims Casey Willis |
| Running time | approx. 22–23 minutes |
| Production companies | Floyd County Productions, Radical Axis |
| Original release | |
| Network | FX |
| Release | September 17, 2009 – present |
Archer is an American animated television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. A sneak peek of the series aired on September 17, 2009.[1] The first season premiered on January 14, 2010.[2] The show carries a TV-MA rating.
Inspiration behind Archer came to Reed while in a cafe in Salamanca, Spain. Finding himself unable to approach a beautiful woman seated nearby, Reed conjured up the idea of a spy who "would have a perfect line".[3] Reed conceived the show's concept while walking along the Via de la Plata in 2008.[4] Being a longtime "rabid fan" of FX Network and its original programming,[5] he pitched his idea to the network, who accepted it and ordered six episodes, along with an additional four scripts.[5] The show ended its first season on March 18, 2010, and has been renewed for a second season which premiered on January 27, 2011.[6] The DVD was released in Region 1 on December 28, 2010. On December 17, 2010 the first season of Archer also aired in Germany on Comedy Central Germany.[7]
Premise
Set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), suave master spy Sterling Archer deals with global espionage; a domineering, hypersexual, late middle-aged mother/boss, Malory Archer; his ex-girlfriend, Agent Lana Kane; her ISIS accountant boyfriend (later ex) Cyril Figgis; and a less-than-masculine code name—"Duchess".[8]
Archer has been described by its creator, Adam Reed, as "James Bond meets Arrested Development".[9] The series itself is comparable to Reed's former shows for Adult Swim, Frisky Dingo and Sealab 2021, in a series driven by rapid-fire dialogue and interaction-based drama. The series also features an anachronistic style: using fashion from the 1960s, technology that is a mix of 1980s era computer technology alongside modern technology, and an alternate-universe style political status quo in the form of the Soviet Union still being active in the year 2010.
Episodes
On February 22, 2010 the FX Network announced that they had ordered a 13-episode second season of Archer, due to premiere January 27, 2011, at 10 P.M. ET.[10]
Production
Each episode of Archer takes approximately one month to produce[1] and is animated by three different studios: Reed's Floyd County Productions studio in Atlanta, Georgia,[11] Trinity Animation (backgrounds) in Kansas City,[12] and Radical Axis (Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies), which does the bulk of the show's animation.[13]
The artistic style of the series was designed to be as realistic as possible, so the character designers used as much reference material as they could. In order to create consistency among the separate animators, the artists took photographs of each actor and use Adobe Illustrator to trace over them as a base for each actor's character. As Chad Hurd, the lead character designer for the series, noted, the end result resembles "a 1960’s comic book come to life."[14] Television critics have also compared the show's overall visual style to that of the drama series Mad Men,[15] as well as noting that lead character Sterling Archer, in particular, bears a substantial resemblance to Mad Men's protagonist Don Draper.[16]
Stylistically, the show is a mix of the 1960s and modern cultures. The women and men dress in period 1960s clothes and hair styles (Cyril Figgis wears browline glasses), the automobiles are of 1960s vintage and the Soviet Union is still the main adversary. However, much of the technology is current — including cellphones, GPS, high definition video, desktop computers and DVDs. Numerous plot details arise from contemporary culture — for example, a "diversity hire" of black/Jewish agent Conway Stern to partially balance out some of the minority agents that were killed off due to Archer's bungling. Another sign of contemporary culture is seen in the sexual harassment complaints personnel frequently file against each other; such an option was not available in the 1960s.
There are also references to modern pop culture — such as Archer calling karate "the Dane Cook of martial arts" and states that ISIS agents instead use Krav Maga, Archer comparing a crime scene to CSI, Archer telling Lana she is in the "Danger Zone!" as a reference to the Kenny Loggins song from Top Gun and a sex robot named "Fister Roboto".[17]
Characters
Main characters
- Sterling Malory Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) is considered the world's most dangerous secret agent. In reality, however, he's an incompetent loose cannon who usually succeeds either through blind dumb luck or the last-minute intervention of smarter colleagues, and his only real interest in the job is the opportunity to live a jetsetting lifestyle full of sex, alcohol, fast cars and spy toys. However, he does show proficiency in the stereotypical spy skills such as weapons, driving and martial arts, and even rival agents admit that no one is better in the field. As such, he is as likely to kill a room full of enemy agents as accidentally cause an international disaster. He is also notorious for taking every opportunity to have sex; Cheryl, his mother's secretary, claims that he "turns women into whores," and he is shown regularly frequenting prostitutes and impregnating his maid. Despite his bravado, he is dominated by his mother Malory, both professionally and personally - his code name is "Duchess," the name of his mother's dead dog. Archer has been shown to have had a very sad childhood, having been tortured by his mother with a wooden spoon, and living at boarding school since kindergarten where he had no friends. Despite this lack of friendship Archer is shown to be an accomplished lacrosse player all throughout boarding school. However he was also once left alone on Christmas Eve, after his mother moved and forgot to tell the school where she lived. Archer also has a love-hate relationship with fellow agent and ex-girlfriend Lana Kane, constantly claiming that she is still in love with him. He may also have some lingering feelings for Lana, continually seeking to undermine her relationship with Cyril, and even claiming that Cyril doesn't deserve to be with her. A recurring joke is that Archer will forget one liners he thinks up, forgetting just as he is about to say it, then swearing "I had something for this" before saying something else. He also refuses to wear anything other than turtlenecks during operations (such as taking the time to change into one rather than immediately disarming a bomb), and claims he was the first to recognize the garment's tactical potential. In the Season 1 finale "Dial M for Mother," it is shown that Archer may have fathered a child with the hooker from the episode "Training Day." According to a computer screen readout in the show's first episode, Archer is 36 years old, 6'2", and weighs 184 lbs.
- Lana Kane (Aisha Tyler), a black woman with a curvaceous figure, is the other top agent at ISIS. She is portrayed as a smarter, tougher and better agent than Archer, but is constantly frustrated that she's still perceived as the second fiddle and passed over because Archer's mother is the head of the agency. She formerly dated Archer, with whom she still has a complex love-hate relationship even though she was in a relationship with ISIS comptroller Cyril Figgis, whom she claimed she dated because he was nothing like Archer. When she eventually catches Cyril having sex with another woman, she hatches a revenge plan in which she offers sex on Cyril's desk to every man in the office and Pam. In reality, she has sex only with Pam, and merely forces all the men to pay her for the opportunity to claim they had sex with her. Lana has a relatively good relationship with Archer's mother, despite the fact Lana dumped her son - Malory admitted once she was glad the two broke up as a long-term relationship with another agent would be too painful for Archer. Lana has incredibly strong hands, regularly referred to as mannish or "Truckasaurus"-like by other ISIS staffers. In the episode "Blood Test," Lana constantly thinks of what life could've been as a mother had she had a baby, so far as to tearing up as she listened to Malory and Archer's conversation about how a baby may be the best thing for him.
- Malory Archer (Jessica Walter), Sterling Archer's mother and the head of ISIS, is a self-centered, alcoholic diva who regularly hatches half-baked and invariably disastrous schemes to use the agency's resources to her own personal advantage, including staging a false assassination attempt on a U.N. official to secure a lucrative government contract. During her days as a black ops spy she had clandestine affairs with KGB head Nikolai Jackov, rival spy agency boss Len Trexler and jazz drummer Buddy Rich, and doesn't know which of the three is Sterling's biological father - she had told him that his father was John Fitzgerald Archer, an ace pilot who won the Navy Cross. She was a highly inattentive parent, shipping him to boarding school for thirteen years and once forgetting to tell the school she was moving to a new house, leaving him alone in the train station when he came home from school on Christmas Eve. As adults their relationship is highly antagonistic - she assigned him the code name "Duchess" after her deceased dog and at one point put out a burn notice on him after going on an absinthe binge in the wake of Sterling leaving ISIS for rival spy agency ODIN. However, she seems to have some affection for him, breaking down in tears when she thought he had been killed and being continually depressed during Sterling's brief stint at ODIN.
- Cyril Figgis (Chris Parnell) is the comptroller of ISIS. He is Lana Kane's current love interest, although Lana refuses to classify them as boyfriend and girlfriend or say she loves him - traits she attributes to trust issues left over from her relationship with Archer. A nebbishy, buttoned-down type who wears browline glasses and chops vegetables for supper in his office, he's also so remarkably well-endowed that Pam and Cheryl are shocked when they hack into his company health records and discover that he once put in a claim for "penis ensmallment" surgery. He eventually is manipulated into cheating on Lana by Cheryl, and has trysts with Framboise, "Scatterbrain" Jane and Malory.
- Cheryl (Judy Greer) is Malory's secretary, who regularly has her name legally changed for dubious reasons - she has gone by Carol, Carina and Cristal at various points in the series. She thinks she is smarter than most of her coworkers, but regularly shows a startling lack of intelligence, such as trying to turn on her computer by typing O-N on the keyboard, wondering aloud who brings Jewish people their Christmas presents and thinking that a website can tell her whether she's pregnant. During the course of the series, she reveals recurring fantasies about being strangled to death during sex.
- Pam Poovey (Amber Nash) is the human resources director of ISIS. She condescends to the staff by talking through a dolphin puppet in disciplinary meetings and regularly gossips confidential information to the entire office - when Archer claimed to be on a very secret mission to find a mole in the agency, within an hour almost everyone knew about it. A heavyset woman, Pam is constantly belittled by her coworkers for her weight and subjected to cruel jokes about food. Pam is extremely desperate to get just one of her colleagues, male or female, to have sex with her, which Lana agrees to in "Dial M for Mother", though she claims that she imagined Pam as Alex Karras the whole time.
- Dr. Krieger (Lucky Yates) is the head of the ISIS applied research department, who spends most of his time working on projects to facilitate his own kinky sexual fantasies — including an advanced sex robot named Fister Roboto, a mechanical hand to choke Cheryl when his own hands aren't strong enough for her taste, and a drug that instills homosexual urges in its users and eventually kills Danny, the company intern. He's alluded to frequently drugging other co-workers while admitting to Pam "I've had good results with ether" when advising her on how to increase her odds for having sex with co-workers. For the first three episodes, 'Krieger' as he's often simply called, did not speak; suggesting a non-speaking role. He first speaks during episode 4 when passionately coming to the defense of his reasoning for creating Fister Roboto. Krieger has also alluded that homeless people are needed to be included in his sexual fantasies in order for him to achieve an erection. He also seems to become aroused when others around him are in an upset/yelling type of state. In the 2nd season's 2nd episode Krieger admits to not being an actual doctor of any kind, albeit under his breath and no one else was paying attention to this statement.
Recurring characters
- Woodhouse (George Coe) is Sterling's long-suffering butler, who patiently accepts the unending stream of abuse hurled at him by his employer. An occasional heroin user, he frequently hints at a mysterious military career which has included experience with cannibalism in the Queen's African Rifles and a romantic relationship with a young man in his school days who was killed during World War I.
- Ray Gillette (Adam Reed) is an openly gay intelligence analyst, and one of the few competent members of ISIS. He has a good friendship with Lana, to the point that he can discredit her clothes as knock-offs and not have her yell at him. He also lines up to have sex with her when she offers to bed the entire agency, saying "nobody's that gay" to turn her down. He loathes Archer and would quite happily see him blown to smithereens, although he does help Archer attempt to defuse a bomb on an airship during the episode "Skytanic."
- Len Trexler (Jeffrey Tambor) is the head of rival spy agency ODIN, a Paris-based organization which regularly undercuts ISIS for lucrative government contracts, which is revealed because they regularity bribe to get it. ODIN enjoys fancier offices, higher salaries and more advanced equipment than ISIS, but is bogged down in the same kind of petty office politics. He may or may not be Sterling's real father.
- Nikolai Jackov (Peter Newman) is the head of the KGB. He is in a controversial relationship with Archer's mother Malory; the two would be ruined should their affairs with a head of a foreign intelligence agency become public. He has a large video screen link directly to her office, which he uses to talk with her on a regular basis. He continually tries to persuade Malory into coming to live with him in Moscow, often going to extreme lengths such as staging the assassination of a U.N. official at her dinner party and using a whole KGB surveillance team to make a sex tape of her for blackmail purposes. Nikolai may or may not have fathered Archer, having spent a night under the Glienicke Bridge with her, after which she disappeared for nine months, and desperately wishes to be Archer's father, even calling him "son". Although his subordinates address him as "Major", this may be an in-joke among them, as he wears a lieutenant general's uniform with KGB royal blue colors.
- Mannfred and Uta (René Auberjonois and Kathryn Cressida) are a pair of German freelance spies, who are in a relationship despite a considerable age difference - Uta is nineteen while Mannfred is middle-aged. Uta is fixated on having a child, going so far as to wear a prosthetic pregnancy bodysuit and convinced that she is pregnant while wearing it, delusions Mannfred reluctantly tolerates. The two are regularly hired by Jackov for New York-based activities, such as assassinating a U.N. official and kidnapping Archer to implant him with a mind-control microchip.
- Barry Dillon (Dave Willis) is Len Trexler's number two at ODIN, and has helped in his official actions with ISIS. He has a major grudge against Archer, as Archer was responsible for breaking Barry's leg.
Judy Greer and Jeffrey Tambor also voiced one-off minor characters in addition to their primary roles: Greer as Framboise, the human resources director at ODIN, and Tambor as Torvald Utne, a United Nations bureaucrat from whom Malory wants to secure a lucrative weapons contract.
Supporting characters have also been voiced by Coby Bell (Conway Stern), Maggie Wheeler (Trinette), Shelly Desai (Crenshaw/Kremensky), Audrey Wasilewski (Elke Huebsch), Ron Perlman (Ramon Limon), Thomas Lennon (Charles), Ben Garant (Rudi), Rafael Ferrer (Skorpyo), Stephen Stanton (Captain Lammers) and Clarke Peters as (Popeye).
Reception
Overall the show had generally favorable reviews on Metacritic with an average score of 78.[18] Entertainment Weekly called it a wittily raunchy spy spoof,[19] and the Miami Herald referred to it as "a millennial (and very much R-rated) Get Smart that acerbically and hilariously plays on our post-9/11 fears that 'U.S. government intelligence' might be a grim oxymoron."[20]
DVD release
| DVD Name | Region 1 Release Date | Region 2 Release Date | Region 4 Release Date | Ep # | Discs | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season One | December 28, 2010[21] | TBA | March 2, 2011[22] | 10 | 2 | Original Unaired Archer Pilot, An Unaired Network Promo, Deleted Scenes, A six-part "The Making Of Archer" Featurette, Bonus Episodes from The League and Louie. |
Awards
In 2010, H. Jon Benjamin was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for outstanding voiceover performance.[23]
References
- ^ a b Toomey, Johnathon (2009-11-16). "FX quietly plans sneak-peek of animated Archer". TV Squad. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^ Joyce Eng. "FX Sets Midseason Schedule". TVGuide.com.
- ^ Brophy-Warren, Jamin (2010-01-11). "New FX Series "Archer" Puts an Animated Twist on the Spy Genre". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Jan. 14 Thurs. 10 PM" (PDF). FX Network. p. 4. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^ a b Zahed, Ramin (2009-08-18). "FX Orders 6 Episodes of Archer Toon". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^ http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/02/fx-renews-archer-.html
- ^ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_%28Zeichentrickserie%29
- ^ "FX Official Site: About the Show". FX. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
- ^ Levin, Gary (July 16, 2009). "FX's 'Archer': Bond meets 'Arrested Development'". USA Today. Retrieved Sep. 15, 2010.
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- ^ "Archer Crew". FX Network. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^ "Local Animators Ready for Cable Debut with 'Archer'". FOX4 News. January 5, 2010.
- ^ "Atlantans create new FX spy spoof 'Archer' launching Thursday at 10 p.m." FOX4 News. January 13, 2010.
- ^ Hurd, Chad (2009-11-21). "Hey Everyone!". FX Network. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^ "Spy Spoofing in Archer". Animation World Network, January 14, 2010.
- ^ "FX spy satire 'Archer' a bull's-eye". New York Daily News, January 14, 2010.
- ^ "Archer" episode "Diversity Hire" Season 1 Episode 3
- ^ "Metacritic reviews".
- ^ "EW Archer review".
- ^ "Miami Herald Archer review".
- ^ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Archer-Season-1/10572
- ^ http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/817738
- ^ 2010 Emmy Nominations: Outstanding Voice-Over Performance