I think the main point of the coma seasons is that you feel like archer when he wakes up. You haven't seen this people or settings on years, just your mind's deformations of them. To me it works like that. It shows you how archer sees them and then it throws him back to reality completely disoriented.
@@dice9270so it’s funny you say that as I’m actually binging the show from complete “scratch” and have been able to scale 2 seasons on my break… Yes, I feel it DOES work better as a continuous watch through. If I were watching this in real time with the breaks and finales, I feel I’d lose interest… I’m losing interest now honestly 😭
@@whoozyyy the coma seasons felt fun to me but they weren't as funny as what came before them, they were almost purely pop culture references and undid much of the character development over the previous seasons. The seasons that followed the coma stuff started to improve on this, and season 13 felt like a proper return to form.
@@memoryfoam2285 I feel the jokes aren’t nearly as dark or offensive as they used to be. It feels like they know they don’t want to be cancelled. I think that was the appeal to me, being dark and racist lol or elitist lol seems soft now. Archer doesn’t care much, they should have gotten Lana and Archer together since Malory is gone. It just seems so weird now, I think ever since Adam Reed stopped writing.
@@whoozyyy the edgy humour has definitely taken a backseat but it's still got plenty of very intelligent jokes that point out things about the world around us. That's what always made archer interesting to me, the fact that it made you think and was full of interesting information and calling out bs power structures through humour.
The episode were Archer keeps citing historical aliagator attacks from memory In order to justify his crippling phobia of aliagators. Whom otherwise has a almost unbelievable fearless nature to life threatening situations. So f ing dumb, but had me rolling laughing, not only through the entire episode, but has often popped up in my mind randomly years later and still makes me chuckle.
Archer Vice may be the funniest season of any show ever, animated or not. Every episode is hilarious, the entire running gag of "phrasing" no longer being a thing is terrific. Pam on Coke, Kriegers boondoggle, great guest stars like Christian Slater, Lauren Cohan, Thomas Lennon among several others. Archer being confused for a messenger for Vognar and the case that may or may not have contained A human soul. OUTLAW COUNTRY WHOOOO!!! In fact, I think I may halt my Rick and Morty rewatch just to watch Archer Vice for like the 12th time.
I really liked this video but i have to disagree what you say about seasons 8-10, I have rewatched them all several times and if anything they show what Archer thinks of each character but they still feel familiar to me. Season eight explored Archer going through his grief of the death of woodhouse and the relationship Archer feels he has with his mother. Season nine explores Pam's and Archers Frienship, and season 10 explores Lana and Archer. If I am missing anything important to my understanding let me know but i find these three seasons to be chaotic and funny
YES PERFECT THANK YOU SO LICH FOR SAYING THIS, I commented something similar but he couldn’t be more WRONG about those seasons. They’re literally THE most insightful into who archer is as a character and who he wants to be. Along with his different perceptions of each other person.
I admit I have come to respect season 8 and 9. It was a bit of an adjustment, but I now really love season 8, and quite like 9. I swear that shepherds pie gag at the start of s10 is holding up the entire season though.
While I do think they're great, I still watched 8-10 with a bitten tongue just waiting to return to the agency and just have everything go back to near normalcy to be blindsided in season 11 with Archer being tossed to the side for most missions and not being given time to breathe. Pre-Coma and Vice especially were good but I much rather prefer the Coma seasons be part of their movies or shorts or even have them shortened down to semi-seasons or episodes. Though season 8 I understand given the passing of the VA for Woodhouse. Though, it was my first time watching Archer, it was hard to sit through and binge as easily as the earlier seasons.
I remember not thinking much of even seasons 5 and 6 when I first watched them, but after coming back to binge most of the show, I really came to appreciate how ambitious Archer is with it's overall storytelling - the show isn't named after Archer, it's literally just about him. All of it. I understand not liking the coma episodes as much, because I also am incredibly annoyed by cheap shit jokes, but once I clocked the tropical adventure pastiche as deliberately Flanderizing the other characters from Archer's perspective, even the "hurhur Pam fard" jokes started to grow on me as they began scanning more as metatextual jokes.
DUDE this is honestly a masterpiece. The transitions, the analysis, the cuts, the quips in between cuts, the story line. So. Freakin. Good. One of my favorite shows ever and I resembled with you on the downfall of it all. It was evident when they hit the eff it button and didn’t revere back to the blue print of what made it so good. All this aside, I resembled most with your message at the end, being able to expire yourself into something you have so much conviction / passion about, and then taking pride in the fact after you complete it saying you created it. LOVED what you did with this video, hope to see more like it and whatever comes your way can’t wait to follow! Keep logging in to the danger zone.
God I can't lie I was shocked this video isn't more popular! Brilliantly edited and analysed!! Although I would 100% recommend sticking with season 12. The will they/won't they of Archer and Lana is a little tiring at this point but I think it does a wonderful job of getting not just us, but Archer himself reacquainted with the other characters. The character arcs are beautifully done this season, especially Cyril, Archer and Lana! As someone who's just wholly obsessed with Archer - it's definitely a return to form (and maybe even one of my fave seasons!)
Thank you so much!!!! I think I will watch it eventually and I understand it isn’t horrific I think in the video though I wanted to make a sting stance for argument and entertainment sake but I’m really happy you watched my video (:
The choking joke went over your head then I guess, it's an alien reference. Spooky creature on the ship then while they're all eating around the table one of them starts choking and it bursts out their chest. The archer version is hilarious cos you see it coming straight away but then there's the anticlimax
The smaller scale/scope stuff is what kept me watching Archer for so long. There's so many shows and movies that I give up on because the stakes are so high that it can be stressful to watch, or just loses all realism and I feel detached from it. Archer did a surprisingly good job of balancing the huge consequence actions with minor everyday activities. I had the same thing as you when it came to the latest season of Archer. I gave it a try when it came to Netflix but I'd already struggled with the later seasons and I think I maybe made it through one episode but I can barely remember what happened in it. Same for most of the later series episode tbh. Feel like I'm much more likely to rewatch older series than I am to keep going with the new episodes.
I totally agree! I have thought a lot about this subject! I have never thought about it in terms of scale! but yeah that totally makes sense. people think bigger means better but it never really is, it's just louder! I may steal that for some future videos 😅😂
I also want to say thank you for being really nice and commenting on really interesting stuff on my videos!!! I really seriously appreciate it!!! I have had a look at your channel and videos and love your style! I was wondering if you could give me as a much smaller channel any advice on how you got to your level :)
@@NateGate Happy to give any advice I can. If there are any specific questions then ask away. As for me getting to the point I'm currently at, it's mostly been a case of trial and error and perseverance. I think I've made over 1000 videos/streams over the course of several years and I've made more mistakes than I have steps forward. When you mentioned at the end of the video about covering various different topics the first thing that jumped to mind was content variety and how that can sadly often hurt channels more often than it helps them. That's not to say you shouldn't try out that stuff, just keep in mind that it can often be a struggle to get views when there's a shift in what the channel is making. If certain things work out particularly well it can sometimes be worth considering making a secondary channel to focus on that specific type of content with more of a focus. The way to kind of look at it is "can I pitch my channel to somebody in a single sentence". If you can say "I make video essays deconstructing comedy series and movies" then great, people know what they're getting. But if it starts going to "I make videos talking about TV shows, sometimes films, I've covered a few books too and I was thinking about doing some music related stuff. It's mostly analysing it with a bit of comedy thrown in." The more succinctly you can describe your channel, the better it will likely be at growing an audience that comes back to videos time and time again.
@@BADCompanySarge I see what you mean! Ironically it’s like you were saying,, bigger doesn’t always mean better! I’ve got to keep consistency so I can keep the same viewership coming back for more videos. If people like my content they want more similar to what they just watched and not completely different content! People want reliability :)
The intelligence agency I.S.I.S. came first, then the Islamic state started to make headlines so Adam Reed decided that the name I.S.I.S was to be dropped, then we got the fights agency, the coma and now it’s simply called ‘The Agency’.
@@raaustin777 Isnt it from deities preudonyms? But yep that came first and they late rdropped it understandibly Also "the agency" is also a fun joke , there is a around 2000 also fun romcom bt also drama, and scifi, series invisible man. That also does function as woekplace romcom, which i guess is part being setting efficient but its very fun too. Also has jokes like the agency, funded over the run ove several departments that other than the stuff they do, they have to do work for. And them introducing as , department of, like weights and measurements, wildlife , yada yada. And the boss until he gets wrongly accused and it slips , he insists just being called "the boss" and be very unnessesary mysterious. And the agency turns into till they blackmail later another department into permanent funding them into, the agency of, whomever they get nnow to sponsor them. Pretty fun. Also plenty pop cultures and. yeah the agency is also usabe for a fair bit of jokes. Also his best bud that is hired but underpaid due him blacklisted from othe agencies od being too paranoid. And yeah they are given the funding issues are underpaying him a lot.
Holy shit this channel is perfect! Editing, Comedy, Voice; they are all amazing. Cannot believe this channel is so small. I am subscribing instantly and honestly everyone should. The amount of effort and attention to detail is great. What a way to analyze one of the best running adult animated shows!
In all seriousness this comment made me really happy to read, I’m glad I entertained you!!!! Sometimes I feel like I’m waisting my time so it’s nice to know that there are people out there who enjoyed my work!!!
Dude your editing, voice over and organization this video were all top notch!!! Really enjoyed this and excited to check out more of your vids. Also, the show runners came up with the name "I.S.I.S." for their intelligence agency in the mid 2000s before the terror group rose to prominence. When they became a big name, the show runners changed direction in season 5 partially to keep things fresh, but to also explain how they left the agency then move on to another, etc.
Honestly, in the beginning of this video, I thought to myself "this dude doesnt know what he's talking about, Ive just watched season 13 episode 01 and it's just fantastic" Then towards the middle of the video I thought to myself "oh my God stop you're going to ruin my favourite show" Then towards the end, it became apparent how much work went into this video and this amount and time in editing and research is only put in when someone wants to express something he/she holds EXTREMELY close to him. I started this video, kicking, screaming and hating you, but now, at the end, I can only thank you and be glad that Ive watched the whole thing. You've dimensionally opened my perspective on TV analysis and used perfect examples (perfect to me) to bring clarity in what makes a show good and what deteriorates it. I'm also an avid Archer re-watcher, I really love the mash-up of that specific art style with the whole Espionage theme. I cant remember what the name of the show was (or any other details for that matter) but I'm VERY VERY sure that Ive watched an animated series back in the early 2000s (I was like 12) that had an uncanny representation of the same art style, but wasn't based on spies and covert missions, and seeing that style made me strongly crave a theme that fits that style.... Enter Archer and it had everything Ive ever wanted, Class, Charisma & Comedy. Anyway, I could ramble for paragraphs, but what I just really wanna say is THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, I subbed and liked and will check out your other videos too. And if you need any help on the music side of things, don't hesitate to let me know. Just tell me what style youre looking for and how long the music needs to be, and then give me like 3 to 4 days, and I'll send you an instrumental track that you can use for free, for which you don't have to credit me for, unless you want to (it's my little token of gratitude for the amazing work put into this video). If you dont need music, then that's okay too 😊 I hope this channel grows into the beautiful environment that you envision it to be and that it educates and enlightens (which might mean the same thing) many others, the way it did to me just now. God Bless You!
Really random but I stumbled across your comment and you might be thinking of Frisky Dingo (the show you saw in the 2000s). It came out in 2006, and was also created by Adam Reed. Not to mention the animation style of the show is really similar to Archer.
The editing on this video is stellar im so glad YT recomended me something intersting and actually passionate/effort-worthy for a change, but he fact this vid only has 3k views atm and 600 subs is an actual crying shame
Thank you! That really means a lot, I cannot emphasise enough how long this video took me, tbh I would have made it even if it got 0 views, it was kinda just a passion project! I’m really glad you enjoyed it!
@@NateGate Ik the feeling of just creating content for you regardless of who sees it, but I'm glad you've had a least one big blow up hopefully more in the future cus this was incredibly entertaining. I actually thought the editing might end up too much with how frequently everything was moving around but it kept me focused throught the whole hour ❤
The problem was really the “Flanderisation” of every character - especially Cheryl/Carol/Charlene/Cristal. Amazing video essay btw!! The editing, voiceover, analysis, love it!!!
yeah, I know they did crazy things in the first seasons but I always felt there was proper motivation there beyond just "this is my character trait so I have to do something crazy now"
Valid criticism, sometimes I think flanderization is a trap that's especially easy for comedy writers to fall into. I mean once a certain trait is found to consistently get laughs it would be hard to resist leaning further and further into it
Dude, you're like me, but with video editing skills and a youtube channel. I've never known anyone as obsessed with Archer as me. And I've pondered for countless hours why its quality declined in the later seasons. Like, I think about this a lot. Thanks for the analysis. I recently watched a video about the same topic that more or less pinned the decline on the better animation (which served as a crutch). At any rate, great video!
That’s a super interesting concept about the animation! Thank you so much for the really nice comment it really does make a difference to my day! What kind of videos do you make?
@@NateGate I don't. I do write... in vain... Hehe. I'm pretty good with scripted and unscripted audio editing but I've never attempted anything with a visual component though.
@@NateGate Haha. Honestly I love writing "Archeresque" style comedy. I made a small series of podcasts called Pitch and Roll with some voice actors to see how minimal I could go and still tell a short story.
I totally agree with you about the toilet humor being annoying, but I will say that I appreciated the dream seasons more after my third rewatch and I think they really brought things back in seasons 12 and 13. Also the series started like 4-5 years before the terrorist organization was really known.
This is a fantastic video and I agree with you on the vast majority of stuff. It's criminal that you don't have more views or subscribers, but please keep on, you have a gift for this.
Although this is an older video I wanted to comment. I love Archer and also feel that season 5 was the best. Someone further down in the comments pointed out that series had to reinvent itself due to the name ISIS. I actually liked the arc of Season 7, having Cyril (sort of) in charge was unique. I liked how the animation was layered and each layer had a slightly different style. Background, characters and the objects that they interact with. I loved your points and your presentation. It was well constructed and you sustained the manic (in a good way) energy for almost 70 minutes. Very entertaining.
it was called isis cause no one knew who isis was until around when archer hit its 5th season (when archer abandoned "isis" as its spy agency name). Also andy Reed stopped writing new seasons after season 10 and the flashback seasons were to get his mind back to wanting to write it again( this obviously didnt work out). I've noticed that in the new season it's bad not so much because of what is being said (although it is much much worse than early seasons) but because of the timing in line delivery, ie how soon after soemthing is said that someone will say phrasing or what not. I think the worse part of these recent seasons tho (especially for pam) is the writers flanderizing the characters and making them completely predictable and boring. Also after season 7 the show moved from airing on Fx to airing on Fx's backup Fxx which shows alot of drop in confidence in the show by the network. They need to end the show before the majority of it becomes bad like what has already happened to shows like the simpsons and family guy.
Yep, given a rival agency was called odin, it should be clewar why it was named that . Also isis/ishtar is a known female powerful godess its the deity themeing originally probably. honestly ishtar, mellory, fertility,. maybe?
Hey Nate, keep the goos stuff up, this Essay was one of the few clips in the past days i watched through and needed to slow down the speed to not miss out on any of the context, overflowing with input and thoughts, really good stuff. and insainly i thought i could listen to your compressed Essay at speed x2^^'
Don't know that I agree with all of your analysis, I quite liked the dream seasons, but the quality of your video is very high and I truly enjoyed it. Great work, I'll stick around!
I seriously love archer man! I hope there’s a movie or even an expansion of episodes in the future! I wanted Lana and Archer to end up together but WHATEVER. Anyway, great video I’m subbing!
Bro no lie Archer as a whole is fucken great no matter the season & the fact the writers are willing to take risks with these zany plots is just great & don't even get me started on season 10 which took place in space or maybe it was season 9 don't remember but regardless this man couldn't be anymore wrong when it comes to the archer coma seasons. Also I loved the Veronica Dean episodes & how manipulative that lady turned out to be I mean this dude may of found that character & season boring but I thought it was truly fantastic great comedy all around much love & respect to all involved in this show y'all did freakin great no matter how much some people may shit on some of the seasons
Upon rewatching after the first couple seasons, the biggest flaw became that they were actually good spies. The show needed to be about a group of keystone cops getting into a mess, but, BUT, still somehow via walking backwards into it, get the job done. Way to early, way to often they always failed the mission. But yes, also the potty humor got to common.
I couldn’t disagree with you heavier about the 3 “spin off seasons” they’re the perfect chance to develop archer and to look into how his mindset effects the people around him. You get to learn what his dreams are, in all three you see a slightly different person in each of the main cast because that’s the different attributes archer applies to those people in real life. I think looking into the plot of those seasons, could give a lot to think about when it comes to how archer sees himself and the world around him. It preps you for how he will act, and how he must cope, with being disabled afterwards.
I love different interpretations of tv shows, it just shows how non objective art is. That clearly so many people enjoyed change and others didn’t! Thank you for the comment :)
I want the almighty algorithm to know that in less than three and a half minutes, this inspired me to revisit archer and show my Hulu account some attention, but I liked and subscribed and I will be back!
New subscriber who showed up after searching "Archer Video Essay". Good job finding the secret words of the day! I'm with you on nearly everything up to about halfway in. I don't believe Archer's quality took a vertical journey. It was more horizontal. The age of serialization has come and with it the flanderization of mass media itself. Edit: Isn't Veronica Dean the same woman who shot Archer when he was a lacrosse player? Isn't Archer still in *that* coma, imagining his entire subsequent life as a spy? I thought that was a given. Boy, we are watching different shows.
You are welcome!!!! It took ages and I’m glad it’s finally out :) Any feedback is awesome! I’m going to be fully honest with you seasons 1-4 are pretty much all perfect to me. I have seen them all so many times out of order mentally they have blended into one! 😂
when I look at the coma seasons I like to think the overgeneralization of the character's and their loss of background is more of Archer's general impression of them and how he just sees them as (idk kinda speakin outta my ass mb)
I’m so shocked that archer is not much bigger in the mainstream. Maybe that’s our blessing 😅 but I notice those who are fans are FANS till the end! But man as you said the show is SO QUOTABLE. Outlaw country and Inappropes are my top ones 😂
Very BRILLIANTLY Done ! You got talent, kid... Stick with it! and yes, you've probably gone Insane- Completely Bonkers- Enjoy the 'Liberation' of Insanity!
havent watched this yet or archer in a while but i remember stopping my constant keep up and doing more binges of archer when they moved to the mansion, just felt like it lost its touch but still funny. But anyways 20 minutes in your video is amazingly edited and your commentary is entertaining, 2000 views is just crazy, just keep doin u bro good luck
Wauw this video was far more than I expected. Maybe it should have been a treeparter or something to please the algorithm and such if thats what you are going for and if you consider making another one of these of course.
Even though they’re not as good as the first 5 seasons I still love 6-12, just in a different way. I don’t think I’ve ever disliked an archer episode, it’s a charming show. What I mean is there’s not an episode I can think of that I’d skip in a rewatch
that knock in the middle of nowhere literally made me jump! I was so scared lol why did you do that?? God, other than that loved the video and I love Archer and the later seasons make me sad and I've stopped watching as well due to not wanting to see my favorite show go down.
43:50 That was utterly terrifying. I had headphones in and was alone in the bathroom in the middle of the night while this played. I actually yelped out loud.
43:51 dawg im in the bathroom and heard the knock coming from the wall opposite from the door had me questioning if there’s even a room on the other side of the wall
Not sure if anyone brought it up but the reason why it shifted after the spy theme is due to the agency name of isis and if connection to a real world terrorist group they had to change the name and pivoted the themes due to that and the way they pulled it off was extremely respectful to the real world situation of the time
Yo dude broski, you got some serious skill with making video content. 800 something subs and your video looks like one from a long-standing channel. Don’t ever forget that there is always more to learn though. You definitely have a lot of potential and with enough honing you could make a career out of this. By the by don’t worry about your friends and how much they care about the channel, I’m sure once you’re bigger you’ll appreciate the separation of them from content making. Ps in all honesty I loved pretty much all of archer but I’m no film critic, just don’t have the mind for it. Edit: I actually just realized something about the coma seasons, gonna finish the video then I might just write an essay about it
The only fart joke I ever liked was from parks and rec. after Jerry claims to have been mugged and everyone agrees to stop picking on him he farts and tears his pants during a meeting and it is hilarious how everyone is trying so hard not to react. The best jokes have layers and with enough well crafted layers even a fart joke can be great
i watched nothing but archer season 1 and 2 and top gear for like 6 months straight all out of order on justintv before it ended. frisky dingo is one of my favorite shows ever and i can still remember freaking out when i saw archer's art. bloody brilliant.
For me and I think other people as well, the coma seasons for me is when i dropped off but it was because I just wanted him to wake up already, I did watch a good portion of the coma seasons but once he was awake I jumped right back in my spot
Thanks for the video about one of my favorite shows! I agree that the show has definitely gotten slower, but it still has it its magic, just I suppose not as consistently. The first 2 out of office seasons are fantastic, but I agree that the space season is pretty rough except for the episode, I forget if it's second to last, or last, where they find the woman who it turns out convinced everyone on her ship to kill themselves. Doesn't justify the whole season, but it could have totally supported an arc. The current season is good is good to have around, but I, the show, and the whole damn world miss Mallory, although I think it's really classy the way they let her go. Now I have to go watch a video about COMMUNITY, not sure if it was made by you. 6 sessions and a movie.
On a side note, slightly related to the topic, it is amazing that sources such as "Wikipedia" are becoming more reliable than so many hosts of "news" providers. (I'm not even including "news" providers who make it fairly clear that they are "opinion" outlets, and even the ones who sneak thru as legitimate "news" providers are generally always called out by honest people.
I’m very impressed with your efforts in this video. I think You may have clarified my thoughts on the later seasons. I do want to clarify if you have seen ‘alien’ and ‘aliens’ which is heavily referenced in the spacey season and explains the choking scene. It was an expectation joke.
A personal favourite of mine is the 'Free Wales Army' - as an English man, I was half expecting details to be wrong, but the Welsh pair being enraged, not by the real historical oppression of the Welsh people by England but instead citing a town that was flooded made me chuckle as the reactions of Archer going 'Oh my god, they drowned thousands of people' and then the increasingly confessed reduced scope of the incident ('well, no, they bought the homes at above market rate and most of the people life in nicer homes now' and '48' '48 thousand!?' 'No, 48') made me smile, especially when the FWA where like 'We're going to blow up a dam and flood a town. But it's only got English in it, not real people', it honestly feels like the Archer team either had some real British people on staff and/or spoke to real people from Wales and England. And whilst that sounds like a low bar, its one I frequently see US media not clearing when portraying Britain (which is 99% of the time London).
I'm so sorry you didn't enjoy those later seasons. They're some of my favorites. I'm baffled at your perception that the characters didn't remain when the settings changed, but I guess we're all entitled to our opinions.
30:00 it's not sad. As long as they support your ambition and dreams. But I understand the sting of the closest people not interacting. We got you though!
The most recent season has a slow start but I implore you to watch it, by the end it fully comes back. I wouldn't compare it to the first season at all, instead it's reborn into something completely different than the start. Please watch it
Malory Archer: “An erection???!!! The thought of me dead gives you an erection ???!!!” Archer: “No, just half of one! The other half would have really missed you”. Krieger: “According to my clinical research on drug induced amnesia..” Cyril: “Said the fake scientist.” Krieger: “Mmmm. And what are your parent’s names?” Cyril: “Wha? Their names are…um…uh…Dammit Krieger! Did you drug me?” Krieger: “You don’t remember ? Memory is such ‘fragile’ thing.” Russian Hitman Nr.1: “We are not robbers.”(speaking with a heavy Russian accent making it sound as if he is saying ‘We are nut rubbers’) Archer:“Oh my God. Ok, yes you can rub them but just please don’t hurt my family.” Russian Hitman Nr.2: “He mean we not robbers.”(speaking with a more audible accent) Archer: “Oh well. Then what do you want?” Too many quotable lines to remember. An all time classic show!
The AV club, of all places, made a really good insight. Once Reed departed from writing in Season 10, several different writers began to helm the show, some of which were better than others. So Seasons 11-14 were not only vastly different from seasons 1-10, but each individual episode varied in quality depending on who wrote it. And if I've said it once, I've said it a billion times. But if Mark Ganek wrote EVERY episode of Season 11 onward, it would have been wonderful. If Alison Zeidman wrote EVERY episode Season 11 onward, it would have been wonderful. Every other writer, Mike Arnold, Brittany Miller, etc., just didn't really get what the show was about.
I think the main point of the coma seasons is that you feel like archer when he wakes up. You haven't seen this people or settings on years, just your mind's deformations of them. To me it works like that. It shows you how archer sees them and then it throws him back to reality completely disoriented.
Seems like an accurate analysis to me
Nah the creator and main writer just wanted to do something different before he left the show.
Interesting perspective dude! Thanks for sharing!
I would understand that on a binge it works but imagine having to wait actual years for the main plot to actually continue
@@dice9270so it’s funny you say that as I’m actually binging the show from complete “scratch” and have been able to scale 2 seasons on my break… Yes, I feel it DOES work better as a continuous watch through. If I were watching this in real time with the breaks and finales, I feel I’d lose interest… I’m losing interest now honestly 😭
I think season 8 onwards the writing declined but season 12 was the beginning of a comeback and season 13 is great so far.
I will watch it now!!!
I think archer ended for me when he came out of the coma. I miss the coma seasons and everything before.
@@whoozyyy the coma seasons felt fun to me but they weren't as funny as what came before them, they were almost purely pop culture references and undid much of the character development over the previous seasons. The seasons that followed the coma stuff started to improve on this, and season 13 felt like a proper return to form.
@@memoryfoam2285 I feel the jokes aren’t nearly as dark or offensive as they used to be. It feels like they know they don’t want to be cancelled. I think that was the appeal to me, being dark and racist lol or elitist lol seems soft now. Archer doesn’t care much, they should have gotten Lana and Archer together since Malory is gone. It just seems so weird now, I think ever since Adam Reed stopped writing.
@@whoozyyy the edgy humour has definitely taken a backseat but it's still got plenty of very intelligent jokes that point out things about the world around us. That's what always made archer interesting to me, the fact that it made you think and was full of interesting information and calling out bs power structures through humour.
The episode were Archer keeps citing historical aliagator attacks from memory
In order to justify his crippling phobia of aliagators. Whom otherwise has a almost unbelievable fearless nature to life threatening situations. So f ing dumb, but had me rolling laughing, not only through the entire episode, but has often popped up in my mind randomly years later and still makes me chuckle.
Archer Vice may be the funniest season of any show ever, animated or not. Every episode is hilarious, the entire running gag of "phrasing" no longer being a thing is terrific. Pam on Coke, Kriegers boondoggle, great guest stars like Christian Slater, Lauren Cohan, Thomas Lennon among several others. Archer being confused for a messenger for Vognar and the case that may or may not have contained A human soul. OUTLAW COUNTRY WHOOOO!!!
In fact, I think I may halt my Rick and Morty rewatch just to watch Archer Vice for like the 12th time.
NGL, I think that's when Archer became must-watch TV for me too.
I’ve watched that season like 20 times Rick and morty too I can tell you have good taste
OUTLAW COUNTRY WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I really liked this video but i have to disagree what you say about seasons 8-10, I have rewatched them all several times and if anything they show what Archer thinks of each character but they still feel familiar to me. Season eight explored Archer going through his grief of the death of woodhouse and the relationship Archer feels he has with his mother. Season nine explores Pam's and Archers Frienship, and season 10 explores Lana and Archer. If I am missing anything important to my understanding let me know but i find these three seasons to be chaotic and funny
YES PERFECT THANK YOU SO LICH FOR SAYING THIS, I commented something similar but he couldn’t be more WRONG about those seasons. They’re literally THE most insightful into who archer is as a character and who he wants to be. Along with his different perceptions of each other person.
I admit I have come to respect season 8 and 9. It was a bit of an adjustment, but I now really love season 8, and quite like 9. I swear that shepherds pie gag at the start of s10 is holding up the entire season though.
While I do think they're great, I still watched 8-10 with a bitten tongue just waiting to return to the agency and just have everything go back to near normalcy to be blindsided in season 11 with Archer being tossed to the side for most missions and not being given time to breathe. Pre-Coma and Vice especially were good but I much rather prefer the Coma seasons be part of their movies or shorts or even have them shortened down to semi-seasons or episodes.
Though season 8 I understand given the passing of the VA for Woodhouse. Though, it was my first time watching Archer, it was hard to sit through and binge as easily as the earlier seasons.
honestly my favourite seasons, love love love season 8, the noir goofy vibe is so fun to me
I remember not thinking much of even seasons 5 and 6 when I first watched them, but after coming back to binge most of the show, I really came to appreciate how ambitious Archer is with it's overall storytelling - the show isn't named after Archer, it's literally just about him. All of it. I understand not liking the coma episodes as much, because I also am incredibly annoyed by cheap shit jokes, but once I clocked the tropical adventure pastiche as deliberately Flanderizing the other characters from Archer's perspective, even the "hurhur Pam fard" jokes started to grow on me as they began scanning more as metatextual jokes.
Why didn't katya return in the coma seasons. She literally helped him grow a tiny bit emotionally.
He moved on from her already
@@onecoolcustomer4950 phrasing... BOOM
DUDE this is honestly a masterpiece. The transitions, the analysis, the cuts, the quips in between cuts, the story line. So. Freakin. Good.
One of my favorite shows ever and I resembled with you on the downfall of it all. It was evident when they hit the eff it button and didn’t revere back to the blue print of what made it so good.
All this aside, I resembled most with your message at the end, being able to expire yourself into something you have so much conviction / passion about, and then taking pride in the fact after you complete it saying you created it. LOVED what you did with this video, hope to see more like it and whatever comes your way can’t wait to follow! Keep logging in to the danger zone.
God I can't lie I was shocked this video isn't more popular! Brilliantly edited and analysed!! Although I would 100% recommend sticking with season 12. The will they/won't they of Archer and Lana is a little tiring at this point but I think it does a wonderful job of getting not just us, but Archer himself reacquainted with the other characters. The character arcs are beautifully done this season, especially Cyril, Archer and Lana! As someone who's just wholly obsessed with Archer - it's definitely a return to form (and maybe even one of my fave seasons!)
Thank you so much!!!! I think I will watch it eventually and I understand it isn’t horrific I think in the video though I wanted to make a sting stance for argument and entertainment sake but I’m really happy you watched my video (:
The choking joke went over your head then I guess, it's an alien reference. Spooky creature on the ship then while they're all eating around the table one of them starts choking and it bursts out their chest. The archer version is hilarious cos you see it coming straight away but then there's the anticlimax
It went over my head too
its a good reminder that references arent inherently entertaining. it does drag on too long
The smaller scale/scope stuff is what kept me watching Archer for so long. There's so many shows and movies that I give up on because the stakes are so high that it can be stressful to watch, or just loses all realism and I feel detached from it. Archer did a surprisingly good job of balancing the huge consequence actions with minor everyday activities.
I had the same thing as you when it came to the latest season of Archer. I gave it a try when it came to Netflix but I'd already struggled with the later seasons and I think I maybe made it through one episode but I can barely remember what happened in it. Same for most of the later series episode tbh. Feel like I'm much more likely to rewatch older series than I am to keep going with the new episodes.
I totally agree! I have thought a lot about this subject! I have never thought about it in terms of scale! but yeah that totally makes sense. people think bigger means better but it never really is, it's just louder! I may steal that for some future videos 😅😂
I also want to say thank you for being really nice and commenting on really interesting stuff on my videos!!! I really seriously appreciate it!!! I have had a look at your channel and videos and love your style! I was wondering if you could give me as a much smaller channel any advice on how you got to your level :)
@@NateGate Happy to give any advice I can. If there are any specific questions then ask away.
As for me getting to the point I'm currently at, it's mostly been a case of trial and error and perseverance. I think I've made over 1000 videos/streams over the course of several years and I've made more mistakes than I have steps forward.
When you mentioned at the end of the video about covering various different topics the first thing that jumped to mind was content variety and how that can sadly often hurt channels more often than it helps them. That's not to say you shouldn't try out that stuff, just keep in mind that it can often be a struggle to get views when there's a shift in what the channel is making.
If certain things work out particularly well it can sometimes be worth considering making a secondary channel to focus on that specific type of content with more of a focus. The way to kind of look at it is "can I pitch my channel to somebody in a single sentence".
If you can say "I make video essays deconstructing comedy series and movies" then great, people know what they're getting. But if it starts going to "I make videos talking about TV shows, sometimes films, I've covered a few books too and I was thinking about doing some music related stuff. It's mostly analysing it with a bit of comedy thrown in."
The more succinctly you can describe your channel, the better it will likely be at growing an audience that comes back to videos time and time again.
@@BADCompanySarge I see what you mean! Ironically it’s like you were saying,, bigger doesn’t always mean better! I’ve got to keep consistency so I can keep the same viewership coming back for more videos. If people like my content they want more similar to what they just watched and not completely different content! People want reliability :)
The intelligence agency I.S.I.S. came first, then the Islamic state started to make headlines so Adam Reed decided that the name I.S.I.S was to be dropped, then we got the fights agency, the coma and now it’s simply called ‘The Agency’.
Also, pretty sure it came from the Shazam Isis Hour TV show
@@raaustin777 Isnt it from deities preudonyms? But yep that came first and they late rdropped it understandibly
Also "the agency" is also a fun joke , there is a around 2000 also fun romcom bt also drama, and scifi, series invisible man. That also does function as woekplace romcom, which i guess is part being setting efficient but its very fun too. Also has jokes like the agency, funded over the run ove several departments that other than the stuff they do, they have to do work for.
And them introducing as , department of, like weights and measurements, wildlife , yada yada.
And the boss until he gets wrongly accused and it slips , he insists just being called "the boss" and be very unnessesary mysterious.
And the agency turns into till they blackmail later another department into permanent funding them into, the agency of, whomever they get nnow to sponsor them.
Pretty fun. Also plenty pop cultures and. yeah the agency is also usabe for a fair bit of jokes. Also his best bud that is hired but underpaid due him blacklisted from othe agencies od being too paranoid. And yeah they are given the funding issues are underpaying him a lot.
Sterling archers is not the world's best spy, he is definitely the world's most dangerous spy.
I think Archer calls himself that once in the series.
Holy shit this channel is perfect! Editing, Comedy, Voice; they are all amazing. Cannot believe this channel is so small. I am subscribing instantly and honestly everyone should. The amount of effort and attention to detail is great. What a way to analyze one of the best running adult animated shows!
This gets the award for my favourite comment ever, I have been described as many things but perfect is not one of them 🤣😂
In all seriousness this comment made me really happy to read, I’m glad I entertained you!!!! Sometimes I feel like I’m waisting my time so it’s nice to know that there are people out there who enjoyed my work!!!
@@NateGate keep at it, that shit was entertaining as hell I love your style!
Good luck man
@@spebtm8017 thank you so much!!! I would love for you to check out my tik tock or insta too!!!! I’m trying to expand a lot rn :)
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Bro, you have amazing editing skills. Keep doing your thing! Regardless of negative criticism about your topics, keep going man! subbed
randomly found this video cuz Archer is my favorite show. Keep up the work bruh. Didn't even realize you were this small until the end of the video
Dude your editing, voice over and organization this video were all top notch!!! Really enjoyed this and excited to check out more of your vids.
Also, the show runners came up with the name "I.S.I.S." for their intelligence agency in the mid 2000s before the terror group rose to prominence. When they became a big name, the show runners changed direction in season 5 partially to keep things fresh, but to also explain how they left the agency then move on to another, etc.
saw the view count only after i finished watching and i was shocked :^o deserves more recognition great video/editing/ analysis/everything
Thank you man, I really appreciate the support, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Honestly, in the beginning of this video, I thought to myself "this dude doesnt know what he's talking about, Ive just watched season 13 episode 01 and it's just fantastic"
Then towards the middle of the video I thought to myself "oh my God stop you're going to ruin my favourite show"
Then towards the end, it became apparent how much work went into this video and this amount and time in editing and research is only put in when someone wants to express something he/she holds EXTREMELY close to him.
I started this video, kicking, screaming and hating you, but now, at the end, I can only thank you and be glad that Ive watched the whole thing. You've dimensionally opened my perspective on TV analysis and used perfect examples (perfect to me) to bring clarity in what makes a show good and what deteriorates it.
I'm also an avid Archer re-watcher, I really love the mash-up of that specific art style with the whole Espionage theme. I cant remember what the name of the show was (or any other details for that matter) but I'm VERY VERY sure that Ive watched an animated series back in the early 2000s (I was like 12) that had an uncanny representation of the same art style, but wasn't based on spies and covert missions, and seeing that style made me strongly crave a theme that fits that style.... Enter Archer and it had everything Ive ever wanted, Class, Charisma & Comedy.
Anyway, I could ramble for paragraphs, but what I just really wanna say is THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, I subbed and liked and will check out your other videos too.
And if you need any help on the music side of things, don't hesitate to let me know. Just tell me what style youre looking for and how long the music needs to be, and then give me like 3 to 4 days, and I'll send you an instrumental track that you can use for free, for which you don't have to credit me for, unless you want to (it's my little token of gratitude for the amazing work put into this video).
If you dont need music, then that's okay too 😊
I hope this channel grows into the beautiful environment that you envision it to be and that it educates and enlightens (which might mean the same thing) many others, the way it did to me just now.
God Bless You!
Really random but I stumbled across your comment and you might be thinking of Frisky Dingo (the show you saw in the 2000s). It came out in 2006, and was also created by Adam Reed. Not to mention the animation style of the show is really similar to Archer.
By early 2000s similar looking cartoon, do you mean Sealab 2021?
The editing on this video is stellar im so glad YT recomended me something intersting and actually passionate/effort-worthy for a change, but he fact this vid only has 3k views atm and 600 subs is an actual crying shame
Thank you! That really means a lot, I cannot emphasise enough how long this video took me, tbh I would have made it even if it got 0 views, it was kinda just a passion project! I’m really glad you enjoyed it!
@@NateGate Ik the feeling of just creating content for you regardless of who sees it, but I'm glad you've had a least one big blow up hopefully more in the future cus this was incredibly entertaining.
I actually thought the editing might end up too much with how frequently everything was moving around but it kept me focused throught the whole hour ❤
The problem was really the “Flanderisation” of every character - especially Cheryl/Carol/Charlene/Cristal. Amazing video essay btw!! The editing, voiceover, analysis, love it!!!
I never heard of flanderizarion and looked it up and that's actually a perfect word to describe what happened
yeah, I know they did crazy things in the first seasons but I always felt there was proper motivation there beyond just "this is my character trait so I have to do something crazy now"
Valid criticism, sometimes I think flanderization is a trap that's especially easy for comedy writers to fall into. I mean once a certain trait is found to consistently get laughs it would be hard to resist leaning further and further into it
Love the candid editing, particularly bout 30:00. Your friends might not get it but I certainly do
Dude, you're like me, but with video editing skills and a youtube channel. I've never known anyone as obsessed with Archer as me. And I've pondered for countless hours why its quality declined in the later seasons. Like, I think about this a lot. Thanks for the analysis. I recently watched a video about the same topic that more or less pinned the decline on the better animation (which served as a crutch).
At any rate, great video!
That’s a super interesting concept about the animation! Thank you so much for the really nice comment it really does make a difference to my day! What kind of videos do you make?
@@NateGate I don't. I do write... in vain... Hehe.
I'm pretty good with scripted and unscripted audio editing but I've never attempted anything with a visual component though.
@@davidlericain ohhhh sorry I read your comment wrong 😂 what kind of stuff are you writing?
@@NateGate Haha. Honestly I love writing "Archeresque" style comedy. I made a small series of podcasts called Pitch and Roll with some voice actors to see how minimal I could go and still tell a short story.
I totally agree with you about the toilet humor being annoying, but I will say that I appreciated the dream seasons more after my third rewatch and I think they really brought things back in seasons 12 and 13.
Also the series started like 4-5 years before the terrorist organization was really known.
Deceptively high quality for such a small channel
Wish content like this was at the higher rungs of youtube compared to what we have now
This is a fantastic video and I agree with you on the vast majority of stuff. It's criminal that you don't have more views or subscribers, but please keep on, you have a gift for this.
Although this is an older video I wanted to comment. I love Archer and also feel that season 5 was the best. Someone further down in the comments pointed out that series had to reinvent itself due to the name ISIS. I actually liked the arc of Season 7, having Cyril (sort of) in charge was unique. I liked how the animation was layered and each layer had a slightly different style. Background, characters and the objects that they interact with. I loved your points and your presentation. It was well constructed and you sustained the manic (in a good way) energy for almost 70 minutes. Very entertaining.
it was called isis cause no one knew who isis was until around when archer hit its 5th season (when archer abandoned "isis" as its spy agency name). Also andy Reed stopped writing new seasons after season 10 and the flashback seasons were to get his mind back to wanting to write it again( this obviously didnt work out). I've noticed that in the new season it's bad not so much because of what is being said (although it is much much worse than early seasons) but because of the timing in line delivery, ie how soon after soemthing is said that someone will say phrasing or what not. I think the worse part of these recent seasons tho (especially for pam) is the writers flanderizing the characters and making them completely predictable and boring. Also after season 7 the show moved from airing on Fx to airing on Fx's backup Fxx which shows alot of drop in confidence in the show by the network. They need to end the show before the majority of it becomes bad like what has already happened to shows like the simpsons and family guy.
Yep, given a rival agency was called odin, it should be clewar why it was named that . Also isis/ishtar is a known female powerful godess
its the deity themeing originally probably. honestly ishtar, mellory, fertility,. maybe?
What I never realized was that each episode has a self-contained running-gag.
You deserve more views, I watched the whole thing in one sit down just a piece of art
Hey Nate, keep the goos stuff up, this Essay was one of the few clips in the past days i watched through and needed to slow down the speed to not miss out on any of the context, overflowing with input and thoughts, really good stuff.
and insainly i thought i could listen to your compressed Essay at speed x2^^'
Don't know that I agree with all of your analysis, I quite liked the dream seasons, but the quality of your video is very high and I truly enjoyed it. Great work, I'll stick around!
I seriously love archer man! I hope there’s a movie or even an expansion of episodes in the future! I wanted Lana and Archer to end up together but WHATEVER. Anyway, great video I’m subbing!
Charlene was always my favorite character. She has all of the characteristics of my ideal woman. Young, rich, beautiful and stupid.
@AYVYN No. Sometimes they eat their young.
@@lyleswanson7557 Those are called crackheads.
Up until the quality drop its one important of my favorite shows of all time. Thanks for making this 🤘
Nice video man, I love archer and I think it’s my favourite show period. I also think that you’re going to love it more as you grow up
Bro no lie Archer as a whole is fucken great no matter the season & the fact the writers are willing to take risks with these zany plots is just great & don't even get me started on season 10 which took place in space or maybe it was season 9 don't remember but regardless this man couldn't be anymore wrong when it comes to the archer coma seasons. Also I loved the Veronica Dean episodes & how manipulative that lady turned out to be I mean this dude may of found that character & season boring but I thought it was truly fantastic great comedy all around much love & respect to all involved in this show y'all did freakin great no matter how much some people may shit on some of the seasons
Upon rewatching after the first couple seasons, the biggest flaw became that they were actually good spies. The show needed to be about a group of keystone cops getting into a mess, but, BUT, still somehow via walking backwards into it, get the job done. Way to early, way to often they always failed the mission. But yes, also the potty humor got to common.
I couldn’t disagree with you heavier about the 3 “spin off seasons” they’re the perfect chance to develop archer and to look into how his mindset effects the people around him. You get to learn what his dreams are, in all three you see a slightly different person in each of the main cast because that’s the different attributes archer applies to those people in real life. I think looking into the plot of those seasons, could give a lot to think about when it comes to how archer sees himself and the world around him. It preps you for how he will act, and how he must cope, with being disabled afterwards.
I love different interpretations of tv shows, it just shows how non objective art is. That clearly so many people enjoyed change and others didn’t! Thank you for the comment :)
Dreamland is, probably my favorite Archer season. I think It's brilhant.
@@NateGate
Season 7 was actually very good imo... After season 11 the show died 😂
the execution was god awful
Dreamland was mediocre, Danger Island was unwatchable, and the space one was genuinely bad and up its own ass.
2:57 No actually i found you through recommended. Giving ur like to pass it on to the algorithm. Hope you're keeping up the good work✌🏽
dude this editing style is fantastic. please keep doing this, i can't imagine how long this must've taken, respect
@@MXMXNTOMORI thanks man 💪
The coma seasons really burnt me out, but i still love this spy and hia cavalcade of friends
Wonderful, wonderful work! Liked, commented, and subscribed. Ps- the little notes you put throughout the video? I loved them. : )
Not many people notice them so I am glad you found the Easter eggs!!!
I want the almighty algorithm to know that in less than three and a half minutes, this inspired me to revisit archer and show my Hulu account some attention, but I liked and subscribed and I will be back!
New subscriber who showed up after searching "Archer Video Essay". Good job finding the secret words of the day!
I'm with you on nearly everything up to about halfway in. I don't believe Archer's quality took a vertical journey. It was more horizontal. The age of serialization has come and with it the flanderization of mass media itself.
Edit: Isn't Veronica Dean the same woman who shot Archer when he was a lacrosse player? Isn't Archer still in *that* coma, imagining his entire subsequent life as a spy? I thought that was a given. Boy, we are watching different shows.
Nah Veronica didn’t shoot him as a kid I don’t think
Season 4 has to be my favourite, Legs in particular. Thanks for a great video 👍
You are welcome!!!! It took ages and I’m glad it’s finally out :) Any feedback is awesome! I’m going to be fully honest with you seasons 1-4 are pretty much all perfect to me. I have seen them all so many times out of order mentally they have blended into one! 😂
22:00. I think the REAL callbacks are the numerous references to Sealab and Frisky Dingo :p
I remember watching Archer with my brother when I was like 8, I didn't know how foul it was then but I absolutely treasure it now
when I look at the coma seasons I like to think the overgeneralization of the character's and their loss of background is more of Archer's general impression of them and how he just sees them as (idk kinda speakin outta my ass mb)
I’m so shocked that archer is not much bigger in the mainstream. Maybe that’s our blessing 😅 but I notice those who are fans are FANS till the end! But man as you said the show is SO QUOTABLE. Outlaw country and Inappropes are my top ones 😂
But why *Carol, the one least impacted by outsourcing? 23:50
This young man is a genius. So very insightful. I am certain he could poach an egg properly.
Watched your IT Crowd episode on another account, idk how this ended up in my recommended. Glad it did though
Very BRILLIANTLY Done ! You got talent, kid... Stick with it! and yes, you've probably gone Insane- Completely Bonkers- Enjoy the 'Liberation' of Insanity!
well done - brilliant!
Fantastic video! The editing is amazing
I don’t think any show hit me like Archer when it first came out. I mean… we named our cat Babou.
havent watched this yet or archer in a while but i remember stopping my constant keep up and doing more binges of archer when they moved to the mansion, just felt like it lost its touch but still funny. But anyways 20 minutes in your video is amazingly edited and your commentary is entertaining, 2000 views is just crazy, just keep doin u bro good luck
Wauw this video was far more than I expected. Maybe it should have been a treeparter or something to please the algorithm and such if thats what you are going for and if you consider making another one of these of course.
Even though they’re not as good as the first 5 seasons I still love 6-12, just in a different way. I don’t think I’ve ever disliked an archer episode, it’s a charming show. What I mean is there’s not an episode I can think of that I’d skip in a rewatch
that knock in the middle of nowhere literally made me jump! I was so scared lol why did you do that??
God, other than that loved the video and I love Archer and the later seasons make me sad and I've stopped watching as well due to not wanting to see my favorite show go down.
Such a great vid, nice job with analysis and editing; this vid deserves much more views, good luck!
Your text at the first 20 seconds got you a like and subscribe. Keep it up bro!
43:50 That was utterly terrifying. I had headphones in and was alone in the bathroom in the middle of the night while this played. I actually yelped out loud.
43:51 dawg im in the bathroom and heard the knock coming from the wall opposite from the door had me questioning if there’s even a room on the other side of the wall
The abject horror on my face hearing the knocking gag while im listening to this video in my car 😂
I dream of being able to edit like this. I can't even imagine how long this probably took to make. Good work
I like the idea of you predicting shows tanking bc you can reflect on these predictions in future vids
Not sure if anyone brought it up but the reason why it shifted after the spy theme is due to the agency name of isis and if connection to a real world terrorist group they had to change the name and pivoted the themes due to that and the way they pulled it off was extremely respectful to the real world situation of the time
Never considered that, thanks for the comment :)
It's a load of crap though, they easily could of changed the agency's name, they didn't have to jump the shark.
'there are some words here and you are reading them.' Thanks for that.
"this video was made by an 18 year old, on a laptop... with no money"
BANGER ALERT !!!!!
Yo dude broski, you got some serious skill with making video content. 800 something subs and your video looks like one from a long-standing channel. Don’t ever forget that there is always more to learn though. You definitely have a lot of potential and with enough honing you could make a career out of this. By the by don’t worry about your friends and how much they care about the channel, I’m sure once you’re bigger you’ll appreciate the separation of them from content making. Ps in all honesty I loved pretty much all of archer but I’m no film critic, just don’t have the mind for it.
Edit: I actually just realized something about the coma seasons, gonna finish the video then I might just write an essay about it
Quality vid good job, you’ve convinced me to watch it
The only fart joke I ever liked was from parks and rec. after Jerry claims to have been mugged and everyone agrees to stop picking on him he farts and tears his pants during a meeting and it is hilarious how everyone is trying so hard not to react. The best jokes have layers and with enough well crafted layers even a fart joke can be great
The 30 seconds of choking joke that went over your head is a Ridley Scott Alien refference
Great quality dude best of luck on your channel
Why the fuck didn't the algorithm pick this up, you did such a great job talking about archer. God damn dude
Thank you so much! That is really really kind of you, it looks like even now months later it is getting more views than ever so let’s hope :)
This video is awesome deserves a million views
Thanks man!!! Just happy some people liked it :)
i watched nothing but archer season 1 and 2 and top gear for like 6 months straight all out of order on justintv before it ended. frisky dingo is one of my favorite shows ever and i can still remember freaking out when i saw archer's art. bloody brilliant.
Fantastic video. Great insight.
And only with a laptop and no money.
Way to put me in my place.
I find it so funny that you talk about season 7 being bad, while showing what is by far the best part of season 7.
For me and I think other people as well, the coma seasons for me is when i dropped off but it was because I just wanted him to wake up already, I did watch a good portion of the coma seasons but once he was awake I jumped right back in my spot
Thanks for the video about one of my favorite shows! I agree that the show has definitely gotten slower, but it still has it its magic, just I suppose not as consistently. The first 2 out of office seasons are fantastic, but I agree that the space season is pretty rough except for the episode, I forget if it's second to last, or last, where they find the woman who it turns out convinced everyone on her ship to kill themselves. Doesn't justify the whole season, but it could have totally supported an arc.
The current season is good is good to have around, but I, the show, and the whole damn world miss Mallory, although I think it's really classy the way they let her go.
Now I have to go watch a video about COMMUNITY, not sure if it was made by you.
6 sessions and a movie.
12 isnt all that bad, 13 was a bit better, and i have high hopes for 14 it looks likes its gonna be good
Will check it out!!! :)
Busy in my workshop an that knocking sound came up, nearly pissesd myself l,good one😂😂
Amazing video mate!!
On a side note, slightly related to the topic, it is amazing that sources such as "Wikipedia" are becoming more reliable than so many hosts of "news" providers. (I'm not even including "news" providers who make it fairly clear that they are "opinion" outlets, and even the ones who sneak thru as legitimate "news" providers are generally always called out by honest people.
awesome video, incredible, cheers mate good job
Nice video man keep up the good work bro👍
i can sense good writing and scripting. u nailed it
I'm thinking of Watching this, because I Loved Arrested Development and Jessica Walter as Lucille. Maybe I'll give it shot.
Do!!!! You really should!!! Love those shows too!!!
The ending of season 10 is what made me obsessed with this show
Also archer vice is the best season of tv ever
I’m very impressed with your efforts in this video. I think You may have clarified my thoughts on the later seasons. I do want to clarify if you have seen ‘alien’ and ‘aliens’ which is heavily referenced in the spacey season and explains the choking scene. It was an expectation joke.
A personal favourite of mine is the 'Free Wales Army' - as an English man, I was half expecting details to be wrong, but the Welsh pair being enraged, not by the real historical oppression of the Welsh people by England but instead citing a town that was flooded made me chuckle as the reactions of Archer going 'Oh my god, they drowned thousands of people' and then the increasingly confessed reduced scope of the incident ('well, no, they bought the homes at above market rate and most of the people life in nicer homes now' and '48' '48 thousand!?' 'No, 48') made me smile, especially when the FWA where like 'We're going to blow up a dam and flood a town. But it's only got English in it, not real people', it honestly feels like the Archer team either had some real British people on staff and/or spoke to real people from Wales and England. And whilst that sounds like a low bar, its one I frequently see US media not clearing when portraying Britain (which is 99% of the time London).
I'm so sorry you didn't enjoy those later seasons. They're some of my favorites. I'm baffled at your perception that the characters didn't remain when the settings changed, but I guess we're all entitled to our opinions.
Yeh cool, made this a while ago but thanks for being chill :)
30:00 it's not sad. As long as they support your ambition and dreams. But I understand the sting of the closest people not interacting.
We got you though!
I love all of them. Archer needs to make a salad dressing and call it "Dangers own"
The most recent season has a slow start but I implore you to watch it, by the end it fully comes back. I wouldn't compare it to the first season at all, instead it's reborn into something completely different than the start. Please watch it
Malory Archer: “An erection???!!! The thought of me dead gives you an erection ???!!!”
Archer: “No, just half of one! The other half would have really missed you”.
Krieger: “According to my clinical research on drug induced amnesia..”
Cyril: “Said the fake scientist.”
Krieger: “Mmmm. And what are your parent’s names?”
Cyril: “Wha? Their names are…um…uh…Dammit Krieger! Did you drug me?”
Krieger: “You don’t remember ? Memory is such ‘fragile’ thing.”
Russian Hitman Nr.1: “We are not robbers.”(speaking with a heavy Russian accent making it sound as if he is saying ‘We are nut rubbers’)
Archer:“Oh my God. Ok, yes you can rub them but just please don’t hurt my family.”
Russian Hitman Nr.2: “He mean we not robbers.”(speaking with a more audible accent)
Archer: “Oh well. Then what do you want?”
Too many quotable lines to remember. An all time classic show!
Hope you are doing well mate whatever you are up to
The AV club, of all places, made a really good insight. Once Reed departed from writing in Season 10, several different writers began to helm the show, some of which were better than others. So Seasons 11-14 were not only vastly different from seasons 1-10, but each individual episode varied in quality depending on who wrote it. And if I've said it once, I've said it a billion times. But if Mark Ganek wrote EVERY episode of Season 11 onward, it would have been wonderful. If Alison Zeidman wrote EVERY episode Season 11 onward, it would have been wonderful. Every other writer, Mike Arnold, Brittany Miller, etc., just didn't really get what the show was about.