The Double Deuce

Season 2, Episode 5, Aired

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The history of Woodhouse and his relationship with the Archers are explored when his involvement with a Tontine suggest foul play. With only three members left of the Tontine including himself, Woodhouse receives protection from Archer. As the story behind the Tontine unfolds, we learn more about how Woodhouse meets Malory, Archer, and how he ends up being Archer's loyal butler. Meanwhile, Archer has to struggle with protecting Woodhouse and taking care of baby Seamus at the same time. With news of a Tontine spreading, the rest of ISIS consider having one of their own.moreless
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    Archer must watch over the baby Seamus and Woodhouse discovers that members of his old WW1 flying troupe are being killed off mysteriously due to a pool that they all made and last survivor would receive what would account to a million dollars. Archer enlists Malory to babysit Seamus while he helps Woodhouse and his old colleague defend themselves against the other last soldier who they think is killing them all off. The office cronies start an ISIS totine of their own for financial gain. This episode is a definite improvement over many of the last weeks episodes and gave us some good insight into Archer's history and some genuinely funny moments of past flashbacks and lots of bloodshed. Keep it coming.moreless
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    • On Pam's tontine, there are a few employees listed that have never been seen: Bryan, Cody 2, Eric X, and Dennis.

    • Woodhouse's former squadron mates were named Wensleydale, Stilton, Gloucester, and Buxton. These are all English cheeses, named after the region they come from.

    • The plotline of this episode is an expansion on something Woodhouse said in the season one episode "Honeypot" about how he was "very fond of a boy at school once... Reggie Thistleton. But he died in the war, at Flanders."

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    • Reggie: Woodhouse, you came for me! Woodhouse: Of course I did, sir! I'm a... Reggie: Fag? Woodhouse: (pause) Sir? Reggie: Have you got one? Dying for a smoke.

    • Malory: (in baby talk, to Seamus) What's that? That's a bumblebee! You want a pretty bumblebee? There you go... (offers it, then throws it away and baby starts crying) Oh, what's the matter, what happened? (picks him up and comforts him) Did somebody trick you, hmm? (serious voice) See? That's how the world works, dear, and I'm the only one you can trust. Lana: (in doorway) Wow. A ton of stuff just started making sense.

    • Woodhouse: Oh no, the flat belongs to Mr. Archer, who's my... Stinky: None of my business, consenting adults, and so on. Archer: Hey! Nobody is consenting to anything. Stinky: None of my business. Archer: (to Woodhouse) You are going to eat so many spiderwebs later. Stinky: That's what he said.

    • (flashback) Reggie: Oh come on, lads, show some stones! Woodhouse: I'll show you my stones, sir.

    • Scripes: As for Stilton... there's no nice way to put it. Auto-erotic asphyxiation. Woodhouse: You're joking! Stinky: Oh, Stilton was always quite keen on that. Remember? Scripes: Was always looking for something sturdy to loop his Sam Brown over. Woodhouse: I do seem to recall an awful lot of loose doorknobs. Scripes: Plus, of course, what he named his plane. Woodhouse: I always thought that had something to do with the engine... well, here's to you, Choke and Stroke! Scripes&Stinky: To Choke and Stroke!

    • (after Woodhouse and Stinky knock Archer out) Stinky: Damn shame he'll send you packing when he comes to. Woodhouse: Oh, I'll just yank his pants off, splash a lot of scotch and women's underthings about, and then tell him he slipped and fell chasing a terrified Asian prostitute out onto the patio. It's not the first time I bashed his head in and had to cover my tracks. Happens three, four times a year.

    • Reggie: (after Woodhouse has failed to light his cigarette twice) Good god man, are you hourly?

    • Archer: Can NOT picture you as a fighter pilot. Woodhouse: Oh no, sir, not a pilot, a batman! Archer: Uh... Woodhouse: An officer's attendant, in charge of keeping his kit in good order, seeing to his personal needs... Archer: So... a servant? Woodhouse: Soldier servant was the official term, but... Archer: Yeah. Way to advance.

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    • Malory: You're only supposed to give them liquor if they have the croup! Archer: Well, I'm sorry Mr. Spock, I didn't... Malory: Or colic, or the jimmy legs, or...

      Mr. Spock is a Vulcan character on the original Star Trek television series. Archer is more likely referring to Dr. Benjamin Spock, an influential American pediatrician, who wrote the bestselling 1946 book Baby and Child Care. The two are often confused in the opposite way, with people believing Dr. Spock refers to the Star Trek character.

    • Woodhouse: Scripes was the toughest man in the squadron. Archer: Just the squadron? Or the entire pansy division? Archer is making a play on words in reference to German panzers, a type of tank that was primarily used in WWII. The term "panzer division" also refers to any armored German military unit from that time period.

    • (Woodhouse is describing his relationship with Reggie) Archer: Didn't Oscar Wilde get hard labor for that? Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. He was imprisoned for sodomy and gross indecency, due to several homosexual relationships. Archer is implying that the relationship between Woodhouse and Reggie was more than a professional one.

    • On Pam's ISIS tontine, the name "Cody 2" appears at the bottom-right of the list. This is the name of a character from Frisky Dingo, a show by the same creator as Archer, Adam Reed.

    • There is a scene where Woodhouse tries three times to light a cigarette for Reggie, and on the third Reggie is shot. This seems to be a twist on an old superstition that if three cigarettes were lit off one match, the third man would be shot. This was supposedly a common superstition during WWI, but actually may have been invented a decade later by a match tycoon trying to get people to use more matches.

    • Pam: (as Cheryl sprays aerosol disinfectant) Knock it off, Union Carbide. Union Carbide is an aerosol company famous for several major disasters.

    • Reggie: (when offered water) Oh I never drink the stuff. Fish **** in it.

      This is a line by the comedian/actor W.C. Fields.

    • The plot of this episode refers to "Bloody April", which was a real event in WWI. RAF losses were roughly three times the German losses in April of 1917.

    • Woodhouse: In the words of Henley, "bloodied but unbowed."

      Woodhouse is quoting from William Ernest Henley's poem Invictus.

    • Archer: Did you see that? That was like like Steve McQueen and John Woo had a baby and that baby was you, baby.
      Steve McQueen was an action movie actor and John Woo is an action movie director.

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