Archer: Vision Quest
February 6, 2015 7:18 AM - Season 6, Episode 5 - Subscribe

Everyone but Malory gets stuck in the office elevator.
posted by Small Dollar (10 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
I loved how they completely ignored the Krieger as clone thing.
posted by fullerine at 7:25 AM on February 6, 2015 [3 favorites]


This episode was pretty great. The show often explores the smaller combos of 2-3 (or even 1) so it was fun to see how everyone deals with each other when they're confined to a way-too-small space... without enough food and with too much alcohol. Lots of great lines, Archer may finally have given up on Phrasing!, Cyril jacks it, fluids everywhere, naked chokeholds. Now that's team building.
posted by Green With You at 8:35 AM on February 6, 2015


You've all seen it.
... oh god we have.
posted by phearlez at 8:45 AM on February 6, 2015


Thermos full of human soup.
And another winning performance by Milton.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:12 AM on February 6, 2015


"What is this, Soviet Russia?"
"Are you seriously asking?"

This is probably one of my favorite episodes in a couple of years, I'm pretty sure I missed a few jokes because I was laughing out loud. I loved how long it took Cheryl to get her idea out, Archer telling Ray to 'interface' with the elevator, and everyone mawp-ing at the same time.
posted by hobgadling at 10:05 AM on February 6, 2015


It made me oddly happy that all the women in the office approved of Cyril's sweater-vests, and that even Archer had to respect the cashmere.

I'm really glad Ray didn't get decapitated when Malory brought the elevator back down. That would have been a dream experiment for Krieger, though.

Poor Milton. He was trying to help, in his own, ineffectual way.
posted by ilana at 11:47 AM on February 6, 2015 [1 favorite]


I was expecting this to end with Ray being halfway through the hole and having his legs severed by the elevator starting up again.

I kind of miss Phrasing.
posted by bjrn at 12:08 PM on February 6, 2015 [1 favorite]


I love that Archer acknowledges Pam as being among the "strong" alongside himself and Lana.

Guess it's completely out of the bag that everyone knows that Krieger is a clone Krieger and nobody gives a damn.

Show's definitely back on form.
posted by porpoise at 12:11 PM on February 6, 2015 [3 favorites]


Great episode. But I don't really understand how the phone thing worked. Ray calls Mallory, the elevator phone rings, and it's Archer with elevator themed voicemail? Wha?
posted by Chrysostom at 9:27 PM on February 9, 2015 [2 favorites]


Phrasing never really did go away, did it?

But I don't really understand how the phone thing worked. Ray calls Mallory, the elevator phone rings, and it's Archer with elevator themed voicemail? Wha?

Archer has secretly had a bunch of savant-like abilities all along, and it's not a stretch that complicated electronic programming would be one of them.

The thing I'm still chuckling over is that (a) Malory tells everyone it's a mandatory meeting at 7 a.m., (b) she doesn't show up for presumably hours later, and (c) her alleged idea of a teambuilding exercise is watching Vision Quest on VHS. So knowing her, it's equally plausible that she either did plan for everyone to get stuck in the elevator (denials notwithstanding) or that she really doesn't give a rat about her staff.
posted by psoas at 8:46 AM on February 11, 2015


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