History WesternAnimation / Archer

* DisposableSexWorker: Referenced by Archer, though [[spoiler:SheGetsBetter]].

* AnachronismStew: 1960s decor, 1970s cars, early 1980s computers (which seem to be able to stream video from the internet), alongside modern cell phones and a number of modern pop-culture references. The Soviet Union apparently still exists, which makes this outright AlternateHistory, although [[PleaseSelectNewCityName Leningrad is referred to as St. Petersburg,]] and world map shown in "Tragical History" indicates that Russia and the former Republics are all independent, and Germany is apparently reunified.
** The computers at least are probably justified as ISIS is known for ridiculous cost-cutting measures and generally being outdated.
** Lampshaded - when Malory poses a rhetorical question "What year is this?!", Sterling responds with "I know, right?".
* AssholeVictim: Frequently. Sterling himself can count as a non-lethal version of this as well - the man gets [[IronButtmonkey shot and stabbed and beaten and tortured and cancer and generally abused]] a ''lot'', but he's such a {{Jerkass}} you just don't feel bad for it. Usually, HeHadItComing.

* BerserkButton: Archer tends to have a minor freakout every time someone so much as hints at his mother having sex.
** He also tends to have one per episode.

'''Archer:''' "And that is just IT for today, with people calling me a freaking pig! (''lights assassin on fire'') ...Holy shit, did you see that?
** Archer also really, ''really'' hates it when someone doesn't know how to poach an egg.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: In "Double Deuce," the sniveling former second-in-command who is likely behind the murder plot is also the only blond guy in the Double Deuce. [[spoiler: And then it's subverted when it turns out there is no murder plot to begin with.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The rigid airship is filled with inert helium. Even if a fire caught in the shell, the outpour of helium from the hole would suffocate it immediately, but Archer ''never gets it.'' He punches multiple times the investor who just wants to light a cigar and keeps pointing out the supposed redundancy of a bomb inside the airship.
** Though, to be fair, it was a no smoking area.

* BunnyEarsLawyer:

** Pretty much ''EVERYONE'' in this series. No matter how dysfunctional they are, they all turn out to be good at their jobs, if only when they are given a reason to be.

*** Well, possibly excepting [[ButtMonkey Cyril]], [[{{Flanderization}} at least in recent seasons]]

* MagnificentBastard: This is what Pam calls Lana when she explains that she got every man in the office to pay her 600$ to ''pretend'' having sex with her so Cyril will be jealous and none of their egos will ever allow them to reveal out loud they didn't really do the deed.

* ImAHumanitarian: When a party conversation [[ItMakesSenseInContext casually turns to cannibalism]], Woodhouse suavely mentions that south american tribes call it "long pig" and that he [[NightmareFuel "never cared for it."]]

* GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique: Archer's interrogation style during ''Placebo Effect''.

*** Possible case of FridgeLogic in this instance. In an interrogation ''Placebo Effect'', Archer [[GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique inserts a grenade into the rectum]] of a mook, and opines "The mark-II [fragmentation grenade] has kind of nubbily ridges, do you feel those? Different circumstances [it] might actually feel good."

* GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique: Archer's interrogation style during ''Placebo Effect''.

* GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique: Archer's interrogation style during ''Placebo Effect''.

** Ramon was probably lying to cover up the fact that he originally ''was'' planning to "frag" Archer, though. Claymores spray a lot of shrapnel, but only at in one direction in a sixty degree dispersal pattern--Lemon and Archer were able to use a wicker couch as cover from the blast! Old-fashoned high-explosives or fire would have been cheaper and more effective as a remodeling tool.

* Malaproper: Archer. "[[JuliusCaesar Cry havoc]], and let slip the hogs of war!"

** Pam pulls a little IKnowKungFu on this trope, suddenly revealing that she's an underground [[FightClubbing bare-knuckle boxer]] who can snap a man's neck and take a punch like a champ. She's even got "The Destruction of Sennacherib" tattooed on her back under 13 tally marks.

* YourApprovalFillMeWithShame: When Archer "trains" Cyril to be an agent and surprises him with the unexpected ice cube attack, his reflex is to use the escort as a human shield to block it. Cyril is mortified when Archer proudly cheers on this untrained reaction.