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Archer

A Going Concern

Season 2, Episode 2, Aired Feb 03, 2011

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Malory finds herself without money after she is wiped out by a Ponzi scheme. She decides to sell ISIS to a rival spy agency, ODIN.

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Clarke Peters

Popeye
CAMEO
Jeffrey Tambor

Len Trexler

H. Jon Benjamin

Sterling Archer
Judy Greer

Cheryl/Carol
Amber Nash

Pam Poovey
Chris Parnell

Cyril Figgis
Aisha Tyler

Lana Kane
Jessica Walter

Malory Archer

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By Neksmater, Feb 20, 2011

Malory decides to sell ISIS to ODIN's head Lenn Trexler after she loses everything in a Ponzi Scheme. Archer and the rest of the office decide to fight against this regime change by getting Trexler to fall out of love with Malory who also seeks to marry his mother as well. Meanwhile, Lana gets an offer from Barry of ODIN as the regional commander of North America, effectively removing Malory from her seat once Malory sells off ISIS. Archer and the others go to extreme measures, including giving some soldiers LSD and planting a micro chip in someone's brain. All together not the strongest episode of Archer but still funny enough to pull itself above most other animated adult shows of the like.moreless
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- Barry: It wasn't a conversation, Lana. I was just talking TO my gun. Not WITH it. Pretty big difference.
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- Barry: So don't try to do anything stupid. Archer: I don't have to try... ****, whatever, move. (throws Barry's takeout on the ground) Barry: Barry, is that how you get ants? Yes it is, other Barry, yes it is.
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- Archer: Can you put it in a person's brain?
  Krieger: It'd suffocate.
  Archer: Not the rabbit, you idiot, the chip.
  Krieger: Oh yes, absolutely.
  Archer: Without killing the person?
  Krieger: Oh... maybe?
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- Cheryl: Krieger's a doctor.
  Cyril: Not the medical kind!
  Krieger: Not even the other kind... technically.
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- Archer: (gesturing at dolls to demonstrate plan) Alright, those are ODIN guys, Ray, you're the little pink sailor and wait... why do we have so many damn dolls in here? Pam: For sexual harassment complaints. So people can non-verbally indicate where stuff happened on their bodies. Archer: Yeah, that takes like one doll. Pam: Not if there's ever a gang rape. (fingers crossed) (Cheryl nods her head in agreement)
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- Archer Pam, your job is to neutralize the ODIN agents. Pam: How the **** am I supposed to do that? Archer: With Krieger's magic breath strips. Krieger: But don't touch them. (holds up LSD breath strips) Lysergic acid is absorbed right through the skin. Even the tip of your finger... (accidentally touches one) Oh... Archer: Oh for ***** sake, Krieger! You're about to do brain surgery! Krieger: (warily) Yeah, so sooner is going to be better then later. Archer: Damn it, how much time do we have? Cheryl: For me, usually about twenty minutes. Archer: Usually!? Cheryl: (points to tongue) Less if I take two.
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- Cyril: If we could make Trexler fall out of love... Cheryl: How? Trust me, you can't control a person's heart. Krieger: You can with a little thing I like to call a deep cycle marine battery. (pause) Or LSD. Cheryl: (gasps) IS THAT WHAT YOU'VE BEEN GIVING ME!? Krieger: (pause) Yes? Cyril: Well, that explains a lot. Cheryl: (horrified) I just thought they were breath strips!
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- Original International Air Dates: United Kingdom: May 10, 2011 on 5*
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- Cheryl: You said you had a plan! Archer: My plan is to crowd-source a plan! (disapproving murmurs from the crowd) Cheryl: Thanks, Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, and activist. He is the author of over 150 books, many of them widely cited, and is a professor of linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Archer: (irritated at Pam pretending to be Jamaican) God, will you give it a rest... um... damn, I had something for this. Pam: Blob Marley.
  This is a pun on Bob Marley, the famous Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian.
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- Pam: Ja mon, I'm all Cool Runnings, mon. Cool Runnings is a 1993 comedy film loosely based on the first Jamaican Olympic bobsled team.
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- Cyril: (taking pills) Man, you have got a problem. Cheryl: Oh right, like you're one to talk! Pam: Yeah, Pill-bo Baggins! This is a pun on Bilbo Baggins, the main character in the JRR Tolkien novel The Hobbit, and a minor character in the novels/films The Lord of the Rings.
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- The rabbit's name is Rabbert Klein. This is a pun on Robert Klein, the actor and comedian.
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- Archer: Um... can we give Lennie the rabbit? This is a reference to the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men. Lennie is a large, strong man of limited mental capacity. His dream is to own a farm with his friend George and tend to and cuddle the rabbits on the farm. In 1992, it was also made into a move directed by and starring CSI: NY's Gary Sinise.
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- The "modified Ludovico" that they use on Trexler, where his eyes are held open while he is drugged and shown disturbing imagery, is a reference to the "Ludovico technique" used in the film/novel A Clockwork Orange.
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- Archer: He shoots me full of some kind of, I don't know, fish paralyzer... and then it was "drill baby drill."
  
  "Drill baby drill" was a campaign slogan used by Michael Steele at the 2008 Republican National Convention, referring to support for increased domestic oil production.
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