Skytanic

Season 1, Episode 7, Aired

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A bomb threat jeopardizes a luxury airship's maiden voyage, sending the ISIS crew into action.
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  • A bomb threat makes the ISIS team go a maiden voyage of a blimp

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    By Neksmater, Jan 28, 2011
    When a bomb threat is sanctioned to ISIS for protection Malory sends Archer and Lana along with herself on the Blimp after a 50's style introductory film explaining the non-flammable nature of helium. Other ISIS crew members "accidentally" end up on the blimp also and as usual they find the usual excuse to get wasted and Cyril makes an ass out of himself as usual trying to fight off last week's mistake. An interesting twist in the hands of Malory and Archer's ignorance of the nature of the non-flammable nature of helium add to this even paced episode, even if Lana does shoot Archer again.moreless

  • The whole ISIS team ends up taking a ride on a Rigid Airship taking a cross Atlantic Cruise. Mallory was contacted about a bomb threat and Sterling and Lana were sent to stop the threat, but the rest of the team stows aboard for one reason or another.moreless

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    By jyarter, Jan 28, 2011
    The whole team is on as we sort of continue some of the antics from the past episode. Carol is still getting Cyril to take care of her as she plays on his fears about Lana and Sterling. Lana is just trying to do her job and keep her relationship with Cyril. Sterling is his usual bumbling self as he convinced that the airship will blow up any minute. He refuses to understand that Helium is not flammable unlike Nitrogen which is what they used on the Hindenburg.

    Lots of stereotypes like the person with the turban being Arab even though he isn't and the German with a patch being the bad guy automatically. The usually things you come to expect with this show in general. Ratings seem to be getting slightly better so we'll see if they renew this show or not. I for one am enjoying it while it's on. Thanks for reading...moreless
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    • Lana shoots Archer in the foot, in the exact same spot as she did in the previous episode, "Skorpio".

    • The bomb detonator's serial number is 934-TXS. This is a code which appeared frequently on another Adam Reed show, Sealab 2021, and will continue to appear on later Archer episodes.

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    • Archer: M, as in Mancy. Ray: What?! Lana: (clears throat) M, as in what? Archer: Mancy. What'd you think I said?

    • Lana: Why do you always do this?
      Archer: Why do you always not shut up?

    • Malory: Ugh. Bomb, bombers, vulvas. You people are just ruining my trip.

    • (Cyril and Lana are trying to push a bomb out of the airship)
      Cyril: Lana, we're not gonna make it!
      Lana: Yes, we are, Cyril! We are gonna make it!(they push the bomb out)
      Cyril: Oh my God! Lana, we made it!
      Archer: Hooray for metaphors!

    • (Learning him and Lana have to share a one bed room) Archer: Lana, lana, lana, lana (Shouts) LANNNNNAAAAAAA!! Lana: WHAT!!!? Archer: (snickers) Danger Zone....

    • Pam: (disgusted) So you're ruining Cyril's life because in your dream-the-impossible-dream world, it'll make Mr. Archer jealous? Cheryl: Oh, Pamela, you read me like a poem... Pam: Yeah? What's the poem gonna be about when Cyril snaps and murders you!? Cheryl: (shrugs) I don't know, "World's Gushiest Orgasm?"

    • (Cyril, wearing Malory's robe, is talking to Archer about Lana) Archer: Cyril, you should tell her this. Cyril: I tried, but you were naked, and it was all vulva this and... Archer: Yeah, yeah, and as you stand here, dick and/or balls being caressed by my mother's robe, ugh, Lana is waiting for you. Cyril: Really, where? Archer: The Led Zeppelin suite. Cyril: (pause) There's a Von Zeppelin suite... Archer: Which I'm sure is what I meant.

    • Pam: (to Cheryl and Cyril) Oh My God! (laughing) You two banged?! Cyril: I... uh... see, here's the thing... uh... FRUIT BASKET!! (Throws basket and runs out) Pam: (to Cheryl) Wow. You are just a dog in a manger. Cheryl: (snarky) I don't know what that means, Pam. I didn't grow up on a cheese farm. Pam: OH FOR THE...(glaring) It's called a dairy!

    • (Malory is in her bedroom with Pam, and Cheryl is unconscious and half naked on her bed) Pam: (nervous) Ok, so... Cyril got in over his head... Malory: Jesus, God, did he kill her!? Pam: (frantic) No, no! He ran from her, to go confess to Lana. But so then this one starts freaking out and long story short... I kinda had to drown her in the tub. Malory: So YOU killed her!? (Cheryl suddenly coughs up water, gasping) Pam: Apparently not... so... good news. Lana: (walking in) Shut up Pam. And did Cyril run by here crying in a woman's bathrobe? Malory: Well it wouldn't surprise me, you're driving him stark-raving mad. Lana: What'd I do? Malory: What'd you do?! Running around all up and down this stupid blimp... Pam: Against the rules. Malory: Half-naked, tits bouncing around like you're at a rodeo.

    • Lana: Cyril is already freaked out enough about us sharing this shoebox without you air-drying your unkempt bush! Archer: Unkempt bush!? You're one to talk. Lana: (gasps, goes to answer door) My vulva is a smoother than a veal cutlet! (Opens door in her underwear to reveal Cyril) With terrible timing...

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    • Archer: No, X-S, like INXS. INXS is an Australian rock band that was mostly popular in the 1980s and 90s, though they are still active as of 2011. Some of their big hits include "Need You Tonight" and "New Sensation".

    • Pam: (to Cheryl) You are just a dog in a manger, aren't you? The Dog in the Manger is an ancient Greek fable about a dog who sits on top of a pile of grain in a manger, preventing the horse from eating it but not eating it himself. The phrase is generally used to describe someone who takes something that they have no use for, in order to prevent someone else from having it.

    • Archer: The Led Zeppelin suite. Cyril: (pause) There's a Von Zeppelin suite...
      Led Zeppelin were a popular 1970s rock band, whose biggest songs include Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, and Rock And Roll. Archer is confusing this band with Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a German aircraft manufacturer who designed the rigid airship known as the Zeppelin.

    • Cyril: Did I interrupt something?
      Archer: Uh, rehearsal with your Commodores tribute band?

      The Commodores were a funk/soul band in the 1970s/80s.

    • Lana: What happened to that bartender?
      Malory: Right? Guy sees an empty glass, and all of a sudden, he's Judge Crater.

      Judge Joseph Crater disappeared in 1930 after leaving a restaurant in Manhattan, and was never found. The investigation was widely followed by the American public, and Crater's disappearance remains one of the most famous in the US.

    • Lana: Captain Lammers!
      Archer: Nice read, Velma.

      Velma Dinkley is a character on the TV cartoon show Scooby Doo. The show almost always ends with a scene where the characters unmask the villain, who turns out to be someone introduced earlier in the episode, with the characters shouting the villain's name as they recognize him/her.

    • When Archer snickers about the "Danger Zone" to Lana, he is referring to the Kenny Loggins song "Danger Zone". This reference is a recurring theme in Archer which started in the episode Diversity Hire, and also appeared in the previous episode Skorpio.

    • Archer makes several references to the Hindenburg disaster throughout the episode (such as when he cries "Oh the humanity!"). The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg, which used flammable hydrogen gas, caught fire and crashed during its first transatlantic flight in 1937.

    • The title of the episode is a reference to the Titanic, the large ship that sunk on its first voyage, killing 1,517 people. Archer is terrified that the rigid airship will also crash.

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