• Archer - What, your little go-kart battery?
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[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Archer_2010_Intertitle.png[/IMG] [B][B]Premise:[/B] [/B][release]Set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) in New York City, suave but incredibly self-centered master spy Sterling Archer deals with global espionage; his domineering, hypersexual mother/boss, Malory Archer; his ex-girlfriend (and fellow ISIS agent), Lana Kane; her ISIS accountant boyfriend (later ex) Cyril Figgis; and a less-than-masculine code name, "Duchess". The show has an unusual style, in which technologies/clothing styles of different decades coincide. The characters wear 1960s clothing and hair styles and several episodes feature references to the Soviet Union as a current nation (the episode "Movie Star" hinges on the assassination of "the new Soviet Premier"). The technological sophistication within the series varies, with characters using computers that are dated i.e. reel-to-reel mainframe systems, dot-matrix printers and punchcards, yet also use cell phones, GPS devices, laser gunsights, and modern day insults (such as "suck it", "screw you", and "douche bag"). Adam Reed was asked about the conflicting style, and concluded, "I just think it's ill-defined."[/release] [B]Characters: [/B][release] [IMG]http://archertv.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/sterling.jpg[/IMG] [B] Sterling Malory Archer[/B] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Jon_Benjamin"]H. Jon Benjamin[/URL]), codename: [I]Duchess[/I], is 184 lb, 6'2", 36 years old, and is considered the world's most dangerous secret agent.[/release] [release] [IMG]http://sharetv.org/images/archer_2009/cast/large/lana_kane.jpg[/IMG][B] Lana Kane[/B] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha_Tyler"]Aisha Tyler[/URL]) is the top female agent at ISIS. She has incredibly large and strong hands, which other ISIS staffers regularly call mannish or "Truckasaurus-like."[/release] [release] [IMG]http://sharetv.org/images/archer_2009/cast/large/malory_archer.jpg[/IMG] [B] Malory Archer[/B] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Walter"]Jessica Walter[/URL]), Sterling Archer's mother and the head of ISIS, is a self-centered alcoholic who regularly hatches half-baked, invariably disastrous schemes to use the agency's resources to her own personal advantage (she has staged a false assassination attempt on a U.N. official to secure a lucrative government contract and called in a fake bomb threat to get a luxury cabin on a dirigible "cruise").[/release] [release] [IMG]http://www.daemonstv.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cyril_ask-500x281.jpg[/IMG] Cyril Figgis: ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Parnell"]Chris Parnell[/URL]) is the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller"]comptroller[/URL] of ISIS. Cyril is portrayed as quite competent at his job but is plagued by a number of personal issues.[/release] [release] [IMG]http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/_img/chars/char_41561.jpg[/IMG][B] Cheryl Tunt:[/B] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Greer"]Judy Greer[/URL]) is Malory's secretary. She regularly legally changes her name, going by Carol, Carina, and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristal_(wine)"]Cristal[/URL] during the series.[/release] [release] [IMG]http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhm1o5cFNy1qgcedjo1_r1_400.gif[/IMG] Pam Poovey: ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Nash"]Amber Nash[/URL]) is ISIS's Human Resources Director. She condescends to the staff by talking through a dolphin puppet in disciplinary meetings, and she regularly gossips confidential information to the whole office (within an hour, everyone knew when Archer was on a secret mole hunt).[/release] [release] [IMG]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/276457_223394561026146_4697354_n.jpg[/IMG][B] Doctor Krieger:[/B] (Lucky Yates), is the head of the ISIS applied research department. He spends most of his time working on projects to facilitate his kinky sexual fantasies, including an advanced sex robot named Fister Roboto, a mechanical hand to choke Cheryl when his own hands are not strong enough for her taste, a drug that instills [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual"]homosexual[/URL] urges in its users (this eventually kills Danny the Intern), various animal-human hybrids, and a holographic girlfriend simulation so sophisticated that the state of New York legally allowed him to marry it.[/release] [B]Art Style: [/B][release]The artistic style of the series was designed to be as realistic as possible, so the character designers used as much reference material as they could. The character drawings are based on Atlanta-area models; they coincidentally resemble some of the voice actors in the series. As Chad Hurd, the lead character designer for the series, noted, the end result resembles "a 1960's comic book come to life." Television critics have also compared the show's overall visual style to that of the drama series [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Men"]Mad Men[/URL][/I], as well as noting that lead character Sterling Archer, in particular, bears a substantial resemblance to [I]Mad Men'[/I]s protagonist [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Draper"]Don Draper[/URL]. The artwork is also similar to the original "Jonny Quest" cartoon series penned by artist Doug Wildey in the 1960s.[/release] Not the best OP but the show is great.
Nice OP, but there's already a thread for it [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1053686[/url]
the two threads need to be combined because they're both good in their own ways
[QUOTE=phabeZ;32918587]Nice OP, but there's already a thread for it [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1053686[/url][/QUOTE] Bloody Facepunch search. [QUOTE=Valdor;32919116]the two threads need to be combined because they're both good in their own ways[/QUOTE] He can copy paste some of it if he wants to.
All this double thread posting is putting the OP in the. [i]DANGER ZONE[/i] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vuZ8jSVNUI[/media]
This show has ruined Gordon Freeman for me, I can't not think of Krieger when I see him. I have no pasted on his personality over Gordon. Not that it is a bad thing, it makes the games funnier.
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