The FX network's official Archer website displayed the pirate virus a week before the episode aired.
Cyril: (dramatically) I happen to be a kick*** accountant! Spelvin: Did that sound a lot better in your head? Cyril: Yes it did.
Cyril: I learned a huge valuable lesson that I will remember for the rest of my life. Archer: Which you will spend never knowing if I'm gonna rat you out. Yeah, so now what'd you learn? Cyril: To... never confide in you? Archer: There you go, see? As long as you learned something from it, it's not a mistake.
Malory: How is it still on? Krieger: Because the worm has transformed the mainframe (dramatic pause) into a sentient being! Malory: What?! Krieger: I'm kidding, there's a battery backup.
Archer: I have no idea how to fix this thing, not really my... legerdemain. Lana: You mean bailiwick?
Archer: Krieger is on this, I think. At least... I... have... a... Pirate Virus: (still going in the background) Hunch, hunch! Pam&Cheryl: (in unison with the virus) What, what!
Cheryl: And now we're on the brink of World War Two. Pam: Three. Cheryl: It's not a competition, Pam!
According to creator Adam Reed, Peter Serafinowicz (Spelvin) is a great ad-libber.
Original International Air Dates: United Kingdom: June 7, 2011 on 5*
Archer: Pam, wait up! C'mon, get me drunk enough and I might have sex with you Pam: Really? Archer: No. It's a Catch-22. The amount of alcohol I would need would literally kill me. But I do want to see how many pool balls you can stick in your mouth. Pam: My record's three. A Catch-22 is a logical paradox, a term coined by author Joseph Heller in his novel Catch-22. The idea is that a person needs something which can only be obtained if they are not in a situation to obtain it. The classic example from the novel is an Air Force bombardier who wishes to get out of combat duty. The only way to do this is to be evaluated and declared insane, but the act of requesting an evaluation would show that he is not insane.
Ray: I mean, the mainframe thinks they're nuclear missile launches... This is a reference to the 1983 film WarGames, where a hacker initiates a nuclear war simulation on a military supercomputer, and almost starts World War III. The computer believes the simulation is real, and tries to retaliate against false Soviet attacks with nuclear missile launches.
Cyril: I've still got one bullet. Spelvin: Does he? Archer: Who am I, Count Bullets-ula? Like Dracula. That was bad. Come back to me. I can do better. This is a reference to the iconic character Dracula, first created by Bram Stoker in the 1897 novel of the same name.
Archer: Great, now he's going to be moping around like Droopy Dog on downers for the whole day. Droopy is a cartoon dog who moves and speaks slowly. He appeared in various MGM cartoons, and later in Turner Entertainment cartoons.
Archer: Way to go, Chokely Carmichael. This is a reference to Kwame Ture, a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael, an activist in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He was a leader of the Black Panthers and popularized the term "Black Power".
The muffin in the briefcase gag is a reference to a Frisky Dingo episode "Meet Awesome-X" (a show by the same creator, Adam Reed).
Pam: How's the elevator supposed to work with a gillion pounds of frikkin' computers on it?
Cheryl: Who am I, Elisha Otis?
Elisha Otis invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke, and is remembered as a pioneer of elevator safety mechanisms.
Archer: Who am I, Alan Turing? Who's also from X-Men, remember?
Alan Turing was a famous English mathematician and computer scientist. He is not from the X-Men comic books/films, but Archer may be confusing him with Alan Cummings, the actor who played Nightcrawler in the films.
Krieger: (pounding the ground) No!! You maniac! You blew her up! Oh, damn you! God damn you all to hell!!
This is a reference to the ending of the film Planet of the Apes.
Archer refers to the metal door as being "like it's made out of Wolverine's bones", referring to the X-Men character whose bone structure was fused with the fictional indestructible metal alloy adamantium.
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