When we hear the studio head on the phone near the end of the episode, it is the same voice that came out of Jakov's assistant's voice modulator earlier in the episode.
Brett gets shot for the third time in the series, with the previous two times in early season one.
Actress Rona Thorne's has starred in The Cost of Ivory, where she battles ivory poachers, River's Rage, where she battles a flood, and Consumed, where she battles tuberculosis.
Cyril: A spy comedy? Because that has been done.
Archer: How could she pick Lana over me? Woodhouse: The mind fairly boggles. Archer: Exactly. Wait, was that sarcasm? Woodhouse: No, sir. Archer: Good, because your opinion matters. And since you seem unclear on the concept, that WAS sarcasm. Woodhouse: Well played, Sir. Archer: Thank you. (long pause) Thank you.
Archer: (paralyzed, head in Lana's lap, laughs) Lana: Oh my god... you're getting off on this! Archer: And?
(after Rona injects Archer with paralyzer) Lana: (paralyzed) Archer... ook... out... Archer: (paralyzed, falling) Nice... arning... upid...
Lana: Well, if your aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle.
Archer: There's a sniper out there whose bullet could spark World War III and you idiots are tying up ISIS resources on high school bull****? Ray: No! Pam&Cheryl: Yes. Archer: Cause I don't really see a downside to that, Archer-wise. Here, load up. Should be a big box of grenades here somewhere.
Rona: You just have to find the right guy, who's not intimidated by your power. Lana: Or my twin TEC-9s. Rona: Or those big steam shovely scoops you call hands...
Cheryl: Sophomore year at my stupid college, I had a huge crush on the quarterback, this super-hot guy named Dick Sledge... It was like I was invisible. He wouldn't even sign my cast when I broke my own arm, but I thought, if I knew what he liked, then I'd have an in, so one Saturday, when he had a game, I broke into his dorm room, to see what kind of music he was into, or turtles, or roll around in his clothes, or whatever, but... Pam: (laughing) But you were so busy sniffing his jock, you didn't hear him come in? Cheryl: (angry) Because he totally snuck up on me! Then I guess I blacked out because I don't remember stabbing him at all... Pam: What!? Why did you have a knife!? Cheryl: I didn't! It was a stupid pair of scissors! (grabs scissors off desk, Pam and Ray take a step back) And it was his fault for grabbing me with his throwing hand! That's how his tendon got severed... Pam: Holy ****snacks. Cheryl: Yeah. They said he could have gone pro. Ray: So... glossing over why you broke your own arm... Cheryl: So he'd sign my cast...
Archer: She's gonna wish I was never born! Krieger: Just gonna softball it in like that?
Pam: Oh, come on! Haven't you ever snooped on somebody you thought was dreamy? Ray: No! Well, except Randy Muckler, who, turns out, was just leading me on to get out of the draft, so I made a phone call to the draft board and now who's laughing Mr. Hooks-For-Hands!? Pam: (shocked) Did... Ray: A booby trap blew his arms off. (emotional) They said it was in a coconut!
Rona: Oh my god, have you read Unleashing the Me?? By Reinhardt Schmoll??
Archer: (attempting to instruct Rona on the firing range) You're all rigid and stiff, which you know, I'm all for - rim shot - but not on the range. You gotta relax, let your weapon be an extension of your body. (fires at target) Rona: Oh my god. (bullet holes on target make a smiley face) Archer: Oh, I meant to make a frowny face. But hey, speaking of your body, and my body, and stiffness...
Lana: At least that time you fired downrange. Rona: And oh my god, seriously, I am so really super sorry about that. Brett: Totally my fault. Rona: Please go buy yourself a new suit at Bergdorf's and send the bill to my manager. Brett: I will take you up on that... right after I go to the hospital. Rona: Oh my god, if I, like, possessed the capacity to be embarrassed... Lana: Eh, I shouldn't have started you off with a fully auto.
Cop: You! Get your fricking hands up! Cheryl: You're not my supervisor! Pam: Shut up, we're gonna go to prison. Cheryl: No, we're not. Say the right stuff and they just send you to a mental hospital for ten months. Ray: I, just this second, realized why you do macrame instead of knitting. Cheryl: Yeah, no sharp objects on the ward. They were super strict about that. (waving macrame at cops) Whooo was? Cop: She's got a weapon! Drop it! Cheryl: (screaming) YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
Rona: Kelp tape! It's amazing. These, like, kung fu monks make this fifty-foot tape like a cloth measuring tape, but it's kelp! And you swallow it over, like, three days, and you start to, you know, pass it, then you slowly, slowly pull it out of you over three more days... Lana: Wait, what? Rona: And it pulls all the toxins out of your body and you just feel (gasps) soo clean. Archer: (laughs) Oh yeah? While you're tangled up in a half-mile of ****-covered tape? Fricking actresses.
Original International Air Dates: United Kingdom: June 14, 2011 on 5*
Creator Adam Reed realized after writing this episode that the plot bore some resemblance to the movie Salt, which was about to come out at the time, but this reference was unintentional.
Rona: Oh my god, I won't be famous anymore! Archer: I don't know. Oswald's pretty famous. Rona is talking about movie fame, but Archer is talking about the infamy that comes with a high-profile assassination. He is referring to Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated former US President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Jakov's assistant: (to Jakov) Is my new favorite device of ever. (uses voice modulator) I mean it! With the schnoz and the comb-over, you're a dead ringer for Karl Malden! (pause) C'mon, buddy. Karl Malden was an American actor whose work spanned seven decades. Some of his famous film roles include A Streetcar Named Desire and Patton. Jakov does bear a slight resemblance to him.
Rona: It's tetrodotoxin. From the fugu fish. Fugu, a.k.a. pufferfish, contain lethal amounts of the poison tetrodotoxin. When preparing the fish, care must be taken to cut away the areas of the fish where the poison is the most concentrated. Tetrodotoxin is a neurotoxin which causes paralysis, and most victims eventually die from asphyxiation. Treatment involves stomach pumping and life support until the poison dissipates.
Archer: But that's not all! If you order now, you'll also receive... Archer is using a line commonly used on TV infomercials in order to sell more product.
Pam: (about forgetting porn in the VCR) You rub one out, flip back to regular TV, Superstars is on, and all of sudden here's Joe Frazier's dumb*** drowning, you forget it's in there... until mom and dad come to visit to tell you she's got Lou Gehrig's disease... Ray: Why would you think it's ok to share that? Superstars was a multi-sport competition show, recorded in 1973 and broadcast in the 1970s and 80s. There were ten sporting events, and athletes were not allowed to compete in the sport they played professionally. Heavyweight champion boxer Joe Frazier almost drowned in the first event, which was swimming. When he was rescued, he admitted that he didn't know how to swim.
Archer calls the tech Count Snack-ula, another pun on the iconic character Count Dracula, first portrayed by Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel Dracula.
(Technician is explaining political details of a mission) Archer: Who am I, Kissinger? Broad strokes. This is a reference to Henry Kissinger, a German-American political scientist and diplomat. He was heavily influential on US foreign policy from 1969-1977, serving as National Security Advisor and later as Secretary of State.
Ray: Little Miss Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers! This is a reference to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a 1956 sci-fi film (and later a 1978 remake) about a group of people who discover the human race is being replaced with alien clones, devoid of emotion.
Malory: I was on my way to a callback for a TV commercial, doing a crossword on the 41 bus, and a man leans over and says "If you like puzzles, I may have a job for you" and guess who he was? Pam&Cheryl: Wild Bill Donovan... Malory: Wild Bill Donovan, head of the OSS! William Joseph Donovan, often seen as the father of central intelligence, is best known for heading the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII. He got the nickname Wild Bill Donovan during his time playing college football.
Archer: What voice is that? Is that from Bullwinkle?
Archer is referring to The Bullwinkle Show, a TV show from the 1960s. The title character had a comical dopey-sounding voice.
Malory and Cyril end up writing a sequel to Mandingo, which is a 1975 lurid historical drama about an 1840s plantation. It was heavily criticized for having excessive sex scenes, and many critics labeled it racist as well. From what we hear of Malory's racy script, it sounds like an appropriate sequel.
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