History WesternAnimation / ArcherDangerIsland

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Cheryl is the only one who comments (or in her case, freaks out) over Crackers ability to speak intelligently. The others just brush off his ability to talk as due to him "being a parrot".

With Archer still in the coma from season 7, ''Danger Island'' moves the setting from 1947's Los Angeles to the appropriately named 'Danger Island', somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, in 1939. Nazi Germany is preparing to march through Europe, the world stands poised on the brink of total war once again, and on Danger Island, Sterling Archer - the one-eyed pilot of the cargo plane the ''Loose Goose'' - has just woken to find himself in hot water with pretty much everyone. Most of all with Cheryl Tunt, the newlywed whose marriage he just wrecked through a drunken one night stand, but also with hotel-owner Malory, local police chief Reynaud, as well as his co-pilot Pam. About the only one who isn't pissed at him is his TalkingAnimal sidekick Crackers.

* TheAllegedCar: ''The Loose Goose'' is in pretty bad shape, with a faulty fuel pump and landing gear that can lower, but not retract, which prevents it from landing on water. [[spoiler: It doesn't improve when Archer crashes it in the first episode and loses its wings.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Archer and Reynaud show up just in time to save Pam, Lana and Cyril from getting swarmed by hundreds of Komodo dragons in the climax of the first episode.]]
* CannibalTribe: One of these live on the island, and is finally introduced at the climax of episode 6. They were originally going to eat Pam and Archer, but change their minds after Archer saves them from one of the Nazi soldiers, and make them tribe members. They're still cannibals, but they're not intending to eat any of the main characters. [[spoiler:They do sabotage Archer's equipment afterwards, just because.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Cyril and Archer]]

** In episode 3 [[spoiler: Pam and Archer sends Crackers into Cyril's cabin to open the door from the inside so he won't realize someone broke in, only for Pam to point out once he's inside that Crackers doesn't have any ''fingers'' and cant open the door]]

* DrugsAreBad: Cyril is shown to be a rather heavy drug-user, at first hinted at when he shoots up amphetamines to replenish his "lebenskraft" after sleeping with Lana, and in the last few episodes he's constantly snorting a mix of meth and cocaine (TruthInTelevision as many real life members of the Nazi government were heavy drug users to let them work for days on end). He understandably grows increasingly unhinged from his drug use.

* TheHeroDies: See HeroicSacrifice.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: As Pam is hanging off a cliff over some lava, Archer is hanging on to her foot and Fuchs in a giant mecha suit is hanging onto his. To save Pam and the others Archer lets go of her, killing both Fuchs and himself when they fall into the lava.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: After getting locked up in Reynaud's jail, the show implies that Cheryl has had a total nervous breakdown and descended into coprophilia. It's then revealed that what she has eaten and smeared all over the jail cell walls is just the chocolates from Reynaud's desk, which is why he was so pissed.

* CaptainCrash: The show portrays Archer as one of these.

* BaitAndSwitch: After getting locked up in Reynaud's jail, the show implies that Cheryl has had a total nervous breakdown and descended into coprophilia. It's then revealed that what she has eaten and smeared all over the jail cell walls is just the chocolates from Reynauds desk, which is why he was so pissed.

** In the first episode, we get a rather unpleasant view of Archer's empty eye socket.
** In episode 4, we get a first-hand view on how he lost it - glass shrapnel from an aerial fight.

-->'''Archer:''' [...]So we gotta fly to make money, but we gotta have the money to fly, so...
-->'''Pam:''' Yeah, that's a real [[Catch22Dilemma Catch 22.]]
-->'''Archer:''' Uh, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22 I don't think that's a thing yet.]]

With Archer still in the coma from season 7, ''Danger Island'' moves the setting from 1947's Los Angeles to the appropriately named 'Danger Island', somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, in 1939. Nazi Germany is preparing to march through Europe, the world stands poised on the brink of total war once again, and on Danger Island, Sterling Archer - the one-eyed pilot of the cargo plane the ''Loose Goose'' - has just woken to find himself in hot water with pretty much everyone. Most of all with Cheryl Tunt, the newlywed who's marriage he just wrecked through a drunken one night stand, but also with hotel-owner Malory, local police chief Reynaud, as well as his co-pilot Pam. About the only one who isn't pissed at him is his TalkingAnimal sidekick Crackers.

* AnachronismStew: Whilst the show is known for this particular trope, ''Danger Island'' sees it turned UpToEleven, with references spanning at least 500 years earlier and 50 years later than it's supposed era, ie. the 16th century cartographer Hendrik Hondius, to ''Film/{{Taken}}'' (2008).

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: I wouldn't recommend setting foot outside the settled part.

With Archer still in the coma from season 7, ''Danger Island'' moves the setting from 1947's Los Angeles to the appropriately named 'Danger Island', somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, in 1939. Nazi Germany is on the march through Europe, the world stands poised on the brink of total war once again, and on Danger Island, Sterling Archer - the one-eyed pilot of the cargo plane the ''Loose Goose'' - has just woken to find himself in hot water with pretty much everyone. Most of all with Cheryl Tunt, the newlywed who's marriage he just wrecked through a drunken one night stand, but also with hotel-owner Malory, local police chief Reynaud, as well as his co-pilot Pam. About the only one who isn't pissed at him is his TalkingAnimal sidekick Crackers.

** [[LampshadeHanging Lamshaded]] when the characters discuss the precise publication year of ''Literature/{{The Hobbit}}'' (1937) as being the year immediately before their presently 'perceived' era (1938). Also...