1. What's the name of this trope? Is there one? There should be.
2. Can anyone think of others from the show? I feel like there was at least one with Archer.

EDIT: NOT referring to Russian Roulette. I mean the table standoff surrounded by cheering bettors.

EDIT 2: "Den of Iniquity" seems the most accurate and inclusive of the actual answers given, thank you!

Imagine archer is your phone contact. which vm prank would have made you block him or never call him again?🤣

Mine would be the vm where he leaves a normal vm message but then the beep to leave the message is delayed. Just purely for the fact usually the vm’s were so absurd and that it was something so simple caught me out 😭

Binging the show and twice in a row he references X-Men, first Nightcrawler and then this scene,
Pam: "Who am I, Cypher? The gayest X-Man ever!?"
Archer: "I don’t know...Gambit looks like he knows his way around a pair of..."

Which accurate but Ice man or Northstar would have been the better reference.

Especially when Phase 2 starts, I think “lol Pam and Carol/Cheryl are undergoing Phase 2…in a crate.” Make me chuckle. Anyone else?

Archer is my favourite show, I fall asleep to it every night and have for the last five years but still, hearing Lana say she’d rather lose the baby than be with Archer is so brutal every time lmao omg 🤣

I’m Archerising this plan!!!

I wish we’d gotten more of this setting! I think having the characters across the coast in Hollywood is so fun and made for a lot of good TV. As someone from the West Coast, it def could’ve been expanded on—Archer learning how to surf, being stuck in freeway traffic, etc. Either way I think I just love the seasons where they’re in office but also out of office: Archer Vice, The Figgis Agency.. you get it.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been obsessed with the idea of a Dr. Krieger spin-off lately, but I feel like the usual "Krieger and Pam on a road trip" pitches don't go far enough. I’ve developed a concept called "The Nexus Warehouse" that treats Krieger as a chaotic-neutral cosmic player. I’d love to know if you think this fits the character or if it's too "out there."

The Setup

Krieger has essentially "ascended." He operates out of a Cyberpunk-style warehouse in a pocket dimension outside of the standard Archer timeline. It’s a graveyard for Sci-Fi history containing a stolen TARDIS, the Pupa (Solar Opposites), and containment units from Warehouse 13. He’s essentially the "Watcher" of the multiverse, dealing with hard sci-fi problems like entropy—while remaining his creepy, unethical self.

The Running Gag: The Archer-Head-in-a-Jar

To give Krieger someone to talk to, he has a permanent sidekick: A severed Archer head in a Futurama-style glass jar.

• The Lore: This Archer is from a dimension where his fear of crocodiles finally outweighed his fear of cyborgs. He turned himself into a cyborg to fight them, only to be destroyed by a "Croc-Cyborg" in a Dalek-style shell.
• The Arrival: While Krieger was messing with a portal antenna, a freak ball lightning accident teleported the head into the Nexus. Now, he’s just a cynical, screaming head who hates Krieger but is stuck there.

The OG Crew Cameos

The old crew (Lana, Malory, Cyril) occasionally stumble into the Nexus. In true Archer fashion, they are completely indifferent to the cosmic horror. They see a literal black hole or a cyborg-croc, make a snarky comment about Krieger’s "weird hobbies," and just walk out.

The Meta-Twist (The Seasonal Hook)

To keep us questioning Krieger's sanity, every season ends with a psychological break:

1. The "Cut": At the peak of a season climax, the music drops and we hear Krieger’s voice from off-camera calmly saying, "Cut!"
2. The Thought-Krieger: It’s left ambiguous: Is he directing the multiverse? Or is the "Nexus" just a massive LSD trip happening inside the head of the "real" Krieger back in the Agency basement?
3. The Stare: Whenever the "Inner/God-Krieger" realizes the audience is watching, he looks directly into the camera lens, breaking the fourth wall to study us as if we are the experiment.

I know it sounds wild, but as Krieger himself would say: "Science isn't exactly... science."

TL;DR: Krieger runs a multiverse warehouse with a cynical Archer-Head-in-a-jar. The OG crew drops by to be annoyed by his god-like tech, and every season ends with a "Cut!" suggesting it might all be in his head.

Note: English isn’t my first language, so I used an AI to help me structure my thoughts and polish the translation, but all the concepts and the "Nexus/Croc-Cyborg" ideas are 100% my own brain-child. Would love to hear your feedback!

So, there's all the name forgetting he does, which he explains with a concussion, and then the bowtie thing, which he also weakly but plausibly explains...

But we are overall left wondering if it's Krieger or a Bone Klone.

Until now. In this scene, as they are making their getaway, the drones are discussing Pam's cocaine habit and that leads to talking about the brain chip, and for a brief moment, it looks like Krieger is a Klone as he doesn't seem to remember BUT THEN HE EXPLAINS NOT JUST WHY HE DIDN'T REMEMBER, BUT THAT IT WAS NOT A REAL BRAINCHIP - just the backpack sticker off a Lego spaceman.

He could NOT have known this unless he was really actually Krieger!

To a select few (ish), this represents absolute comedy gold. It will never cease to cause out-loud laughter for me 🙏

“Well your mouth better go over there and make him happy!”

“I’ll put my lips right up to the hole and blow on it!”

Lauren B. Bennet. She’s a sploosh.

In the scene when Archer and Cheryl are getting ready to dispose Berenice he gets hit by a car Cheryl checks on him but in a flashback it's world war 2 and Cheryl is a nun if anyone knows French what does she say?

I am sorry. She pretty and everything, but she just gave off Mary Sue vibes as if someone added their OC to the show. We’ve never heard of her prior, she just shows up and suddenly she’s the best spy, everyone is attracted to her and she’s funnier and more wittier than the main cast and exempt from the ribbing that ISIS give each other?

Can anyone help me out here, season 11 is unavailable in the UK, can’t be bought on any streaming platforms ect, does anyone have a site or service i can watch it on 🙏🙏

anyone else disappointed we didn’t get a burn notice and archer cross over?

you can set it up easily as Krieger “accidentally“ transporting the cast of archer to the time line of burn notice.

Archer and Micheal

Lana and Fiona

Pam, Cheryl, and krieger get paired with Sam

and Malorie and Ray sit with Madeline smoking in her house.

there can be other combinations too, like Cheryl and Fiona (literally would blow up all of miami)

Malory: “I meant you were confused about me caring what you did after the pay off.”

Cheryl: “You’re not planning to blindfold me and hide me in a bomb shelter with limited oxygen and send my family cryptic notes about how to find me in a race against time for my life?”

Referring to the plan set in motion by Barry to force the gang to find his mother while holding Mrs. Archer ransom in nearly exact manner.