History TearJerker / Archer

* Archer awakens from his three years coma only to see his mother litteraly LIVED in his room. Sterling looks very concerned about his mother, and even if it looks like CringeComedy at best, her creepy last lines looked like she was getting a little insane from all the worrying about her son's condition. It's painfully tragic.

* Archer starting to see his dream crewmates as the canonical Archer series characters is pretty moving. It's been three years since we haven't seen them !

* Archer's childhood was disappointment after disappointment, and was scarring enough to make him the person he is today. Most of the flashbacks to his past we see are quite sad. For example, when he talks about how his boarding school/lacross buddies were like the family he never had, and then it [[spoiler:cuts to him as a child, sitting alone on the bench with his net]], and when he did get attention from other boys, it was vicious emotional and physical bullying, so bad that at one point it even put him in the hospital. When Malory finally showed up in his life after being completely absent for his first 5 years, he claimed he didn't have a mother, and if he did, he would hate her. Oh, and not to mention, he went through statuatory rape ala his nanny when he was 12. Jesus.
** In "Training Day," Archer saves a guy from an assassin. The guy, wearing a red-bloused military uniform and sporting white facial hair, thanks him profusely, to which Archer replies, "I love you Santa Claus! ''[holds his hand to his face to cover sudden tears]'' I do..." It's played for laughs, but when you think about the fact that Santa loves all children, and that Archer grew up never knowing his father and with a mother who shows more affection for her ''dog''...

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[RealLifeWritesThePlot Rest in peace, Woodhouse.]]-]]

* In "The Holdout", the season opener, Archer finds an elderly Japanese WW2 soldier who's under the impression that the war isn't over. As funny as the running gag of Archer explaining to him what he's missed (including how Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan had this same plot) it turns to sorrow when [[spoiler:the soldier learns about the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan and thinks his wife and child were among the casualties. Happily, the episode ends on a heartwarming note when Archer uses his phone to track down and call the soldier's wife and reunite them.]]

* Hell, the whole season finale is largely a tear jerker. [[spoiler:Archer gets nothinging for his troubles (except for finding out Barry murdered Woodhouse only [[DisproportionateRetribution because the later cut him off in traffic)]], Pam accidentally shoots Lana to death, Kreiger's beloved cyborg dogs die by Zerk's hands due to turning on their master, Zerk saves Cheryl's life but his affections are cruelly rebuffed by her, and the briefcase with the money turns out to be filled with german nudism magazines.]]

* The opening scene of "No Good Deed" is a funeral, but [[spoiler: it's not Archer's, it's Woodhouse's, who'd been missing ever since Season 6.]]

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-->''I always do shit like this! All I wanted to do was find out who killed my partner, Woodhouse, and the next thing I know, I've disappeared up my own asshole, and I'm manumitting sex slaves, and grossly abusing corpses, and trying to sort some finger for some weird psycho-sexual kidnapping, and then, to top off all the bullshit, getting chased by goddamn robots! I mean, fuck halberds, Jesus Christ!

* "Drastic Voyage Part 1 and 2" has Ray in tears after [[spoiler: being handicapped ''again'', stuck with a bionic hand on top of his now inoperable legs, and he's been [[MistakenForRacist]] because everyone thought he was complaining about the hand being African-American]].

* "Drastic Voyage Part 1 and 2" has Ray in tears after [[spoiler: being handicapped ''again'', stuck with a bionic hand on top of his now inoperable legs, and he's been [[MistakenForRascist]] because everyone thought he was complaining about his hand being African-American]].

** Heck the entire reveal that [[spoiler:Katya was using Archer to get Barry off the moon.]]
* Ray reveals in "Once Bitten" that his father forced him to kill a bear with a bow and then eat said bear's heart. He cried the whole time.

*** Everyone's horrified reaction when they think [[spoiler: she is dead]].

* In "The Holdout", the season opener, Archer finds an elderly Japanese WW2 soldier who's under the impression that the war isn't over. As funny as the running gag of Archer explaining to him what he's missed (including how Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan had this same plot) it turns to sorrow when [[spoiler:the soldier learns about the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan and thinks his wife and child were among the casualties. Happily, the episode ends on a more heartwarming note when Archer uses his iPhone to track down and call the soldier's wife and helps create their reunion.]]

* "Drastic Voyage Part 1 and 2" has Ray in tears after [[spoiler: being handicapped ''again'', stuck with a bionic hand on top of his now inoperable legs, and he's been MistakenForRascist because everyone thought he was complaining about his hand being African-American]].

* The death of George Coe, the first voice of Woodhouse. The tribute they gave him on their Facebook page is actually really touching and ends with the scene where Archer actually admits to Woodhouse that he respects him (from Stage Two) and the words "Thank You George Coe"...... Thank you.