Does the dog die?
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Archer
TV Show • 2009 • Action
ReportSynopsis
Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path. His antics are only excusable because at the end of the day, he still somehow always manages to thwart whatever crises was threatening mankind.
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In one of the last episodes of season 8, dogs are graphically shown having their mouths ripped open/jaws ripped off by an enraged character.
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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Cheryl's pet ocelot Babou is shown to live in unsuitable conditions, without any toys and no enrichment. Archer himself takes notice that the animal is extremely bored, which is textbook neglect
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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It's a general theme that Archer was often abandoned by his mother, f.ex. in Christmas eve
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Abuse
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archer when he was a child.
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Are there abusive parents?
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its literally the main plot device of the main character...
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Archer is being emotionally abused by his mother and then proceeds to neglects his own son
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Both Archer and his mother abuse alcohol literally every day.
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Woodhouse has a heroin addiction and other characters are either seen using drugs or mentioning drugs throughout the show
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Is there addiction?
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archer is an alcoholic and pam becomes addicted to cocaine, cheryl sniffs glue, malory also appears to have a bit of an alcohol problem and krieger is a heroin addict
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Animal
Are animals abused?
313 supporters
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Krieger does many experiments on animals that can easily be considered animal abuse.
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Does a cat die?
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no domestic cats were harmed, but a tiger was shot in one episode
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In a particular episode in season 9, a snake and many Komodo dragons are brutally killed. Throughout the series there are also several animal deaths as a result of Krieger’s experiments
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Is there a dead animal?
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Can’t remember what season but Archer bonds with a tiger in a cage that ultimately is shot and killed
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Are there spiders?
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S13 E2 11 mins in. and again at 14:30 ish.
Also S13 E8 at 19:30
Also S13 E8 at 19:30
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Does a dragon die?
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Clarification: Komodo dragons, not fantasy dragons.
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Are there snakes?
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Season 4, Episode 6
Archer is bitten by a snake (on the taint)
Archer is bitten by a snake (on the taint)
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Ironically Sterling would very much have this trigger pinned as alligators are easily his biggest fear. With crocodiles at a close second
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Is an animal sad?
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no infact the attack osalat and the rabbit that had a brain chip implanted into it were both very happy, not to mention the lemur that was left locked in a room for a couple of years eating clothes to survive
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Assault
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A lot of things that happen constitute sexual assault and there are many jokes about sexual assault/harassment
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Is someone drugged?
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In Blood Test (s2 ep3) Cyril is drugged via heroin to collect a sample of his blood unknowingly for a paternity test, and is later implied to be sexually assaulted by Ray and Pam while unconscious.
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Is someone held under water?
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In Liquid Lunch (s7 ep8) Archer is consensually waterboarded…. if that counts ?
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
146 supporters
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In season 4 both Ray and Rip Riley get stabbed in the eye
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Is someone tortured?
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Archer get captured in Russia and is tortured at the Labianca
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Archer has to get stitches on his p***s in the 1st episode of season 2. It's not really shown, he just winces and mentions his stitches a few times.
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Is there body horror?
106 supporters
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season 14 episode 6 specifically
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Pam definitely loses some teeth at various points, either from drugs or fistfights or both.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Season 4, Episode 1 has numerous burns. At the beginning of the episode, a KGB agent has his face held next to a hot grill. At the end of the same episode, Archer and Lana hurl Molotov cocktails at other KGB agents, engulfing them in fire. Season 4, Episode 2 talks about another man being burned alive. Other assorted examples of this throughout the series.
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Is there cannibalism?
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The end of the Danger Island arc in Season 9 includes Archer and company coming across a tribe of cannibals. Numerous references to cannibalism in the last 3 episodes of Season 9 especially.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A Season 2 episode shows Archer shaving with a straight razor and dropping it by accident.
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Is someone buried alive?
52 supporters
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She ends up safe and gets out with much time to spare
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Is there amputation?
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Season 6, episode 9, Ray gets his hand ripped off by a plant
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Several scenes involving choking throughout the show
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Are any hands damaged?
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one character gets his hand bitten off roughly at the forearm but it's later replaced
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
137 supporters
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The plot of the episode Swiss Miss concerns a teenage girl that has issues with hypersexuality trying to seduce Archer, with his co-workers taking these incidents out of context and thinking he’s a predator
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Does a kid die?
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Not to my recollection but a few instances of kids being put in danger
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Death
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Does someone die?
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…that’s sarcasm right?
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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We see a flashback in which Mallory steals a young Sterling’s bike in a misguided attempt at teaching him responsibility (it’s not destroyed but not returned either). And the main plot of the episode involves her doing the same thing as an adult with his car
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Does a parent die?
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Cheryl’s parents were killed off screen in a car accident sometime before the events of S2E11
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Does a family member die?
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The below is very misleading, Mallory is written out as having retired rather than dying alongside her actress. There are other family member deaths though, such as Woodhouse’s brother dying off-screen
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Does someone cheat?
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Archer cheats on Lana in flashbacks.
Lana cheats on Cyril in a three-way on a mission.
Cyril cheats on Lana with Framboise.
Framboise cheats on Barry with Cyril.
Cyril cheats on Lana with Trinette.
Archer sleeps with a married woman in Polynesia.
Katya cheats on Archer with Barry.
Main cast attempts to get Archer to cheat on Lana with Katya (but he resists).
Archer sleeps with Veronica Deane while he and Lana are on a break.
Charlotte Vandertunt cheats on Whitney with Archer (Danger Island)
Lana cheats on Cyril in a three-way on a mission.
Cyril cheats on Lana with Framboise.
Framboise cheats on Barry with Cyril.
Cyril cheats on Lana with Trinette.
Archer sleeps with a married woman in Polynesia.
Katya cheats on Archer with Barry.
Main cast attempts to get Archer to cheat on Lana with Katya (but he resists).
Archer sleeps with Veronica Deane while he and Lana are on a break.
Charlotte Vandertunt cheats on Whitney with Archer (Danger Island)
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Fear
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Are there clowns?
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There is an episode in season 7 where the gang goes to an event/dinner party of some sort that gets hijacked by a group of criminals wearing clown masks
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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S2 E2 - Timestamps "5:25"
S3 E11 - After Archer drinks Cyril's scotch, Archer gets sick in the task can.
S5 E7 - After drinking two shots of snake alcohol, Archer gets sick.
S3 E12 - While training on a plane, the whole sequence is of everyone getting sick. You're safe once they get to the locker room. The rest of the episode of safe.
S3 E11 - After Archer drinks Cyril's scotch, Archer gets sick in the task can.
S5 E7 - After drinking two shots of snake alcohol, Archer gets sick.
S3 E12 - While training on a plane, the whole sequence is of everyone getting sick. You're safe once they get to the locker room. The rest of the episode of safe.
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Is there defecation?
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I'm not sure if that counts but Pam is shown sitting on a toilet in s3e10. no poop is shown and no sounds are present though
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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The show frequently makes (rather dark) jokes at the expense of the CIA and similar organizations
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LGBTQ+
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Is there bisexual cheating?
33 supporters
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many characters are implied to be/joked about being bisexual, including ones who cheat but their bisexuality has nothing to do with their cheating
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Yes, but in the final 3 seasons Archer becomes friendly towards trans and non-binary people, but this isn't out of character growth but a change in writing
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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There is a character with a heroin addiction in the first 7 seasons and Krieger is a "doctor" for the first 8 seasons and injects people with things.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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There is a scene where Malory mentions 'Cyril's trip upstate', the show cuts to Cyril in an institution, wearing hospital robes, taking pills, and having a conversation with a drink machine about his s*x addiction
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Does someone have cancer?
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In season 2, there was a two episode plot line about Archer's battle with cancer and the thugs that are giving fake chemo drugs to pharmacies.
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Mental Health
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There are multiple distasteful suicide jokes throughout the show and Katya jumps off the roof of Archer's apartment building to save him from his arch nemesis, Barry.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Despite being deathly allergic, Pam compulsively eats mock seafood to the point she cannot breathe. She does this before confirming an epi-pen nearby.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
64 supporters
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Idk if it's just me, but Archer does exhibit a couple of common autistic traits (including his vast knowledge on topics of his interest, the habilit of keeping track of how many shots he gives every time, also his weird lack of social skills)
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
52 supporters
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Pam is shown struggling with body image and binge eating
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Is autism misrepresented?
49 supporters
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S4E8 seems to somewhat confirm that the title character is on the spectrum. And the thing is that yes he’s NOT a good person ,but it has little to nothing to do with his neurodivergency.
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Is there misophonia?
48 supporters
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A running gag about tintius that involves sound effects of ears ringing
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
47 supporters
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Defiently Cheryl!
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
35 supporters
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Seasons 8-10 are infamously referred to as “the coma seasons”
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E9
I think the season 10 finale could fall into this category
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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most of the main cast has some mental health issues but cheryl is heavily depicted to be mentally ill in some way
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Noxious
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Are there sudden loud noises?
54 supporters
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“Damn tinnitus!”
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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E6
At the end of the episode the theme of Fargo plays because Pam's sister's actor plays in season 1 of Fargo. Barry then opens his eyes and makes performative robot noises at the audience
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
37 supporters
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Both Mallory and Lana have arcs that depict childbirth. The actual birth appears offscreen, but both women are shown in the position used to deliver babies.
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Are there abortions?
24 supporters
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Season 1, Episode 6
Archer pays for multiple abortions for his chef
Archer pays for multiple abortions for his chef
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Are there babies or unborn children?
21 supporters
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At least two major characters have children over the course of the series
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
64 supporters
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Pam Poovey, head of HR at ISIS, is the b**t of many many fat jokes throughout the series
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Malory often refers to Ray using female names and pronouns, as part of an overall homophobia
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
52 supporters
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Ableist joke about deaf people and "people with hooks for hands" being "disgusting"
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Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
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A character named Ramon fakes his death with two members of a Cuban hit squad. This same hit squad appeared earlier in fhthe series; while Archer did attempt to kill them, we find later in the series he was unsuccessful. Season 4 Episode 2 shows a heteroflexible character die (repeatedly says he's not gay "for other men," but has a crush on Archer).
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Are there usages of the n-word?
41 supporters
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Often referencing Lana. Sometimes referencing offscreen POC.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
40 supporters
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S6
E1
Kathoey - often referred to by the slur "L*dy b**s" - are misrepresented several times throughout the show
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Are there homophobic slurs?
1 supporters
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S1
E1
Cyril's surname 'Figgis' is turned into the F-slur
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Race
Is there blackface?
46 supporters
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No
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S7
E2
off-screen, never shown but joked about
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
46 supporters
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S1
E4
A 19 year old is dating an old man with white hair
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
16 supporters
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S4
E11
The cast is tasked with preventing the Pope from being assassinated
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
119 supporters
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Krieger is a very strange man and sexual deviant, and it’s heavily implied that one of them was having intercourse with one of his experiments which was a pig creature
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There are occasional jokes about Archer having a Freud-like desire to bang his mom, and in season 8 there are a handful of incest jokes, but no actual incest is shown
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Is someone sexually objectified?
54 supporters
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both men and women are repeatedly objectified throughout the show
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Is there BDSM?
38 supporters
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Two of the main characters (Cheryl and Krieger) have particularly non-conventional sexual interests (sometimes borderlining on illegal)
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Does someone lose their virginity?
22 supporters
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There’s a couple of throwaway jokes mentioning that Sterling was a victim of statutory rape at the hands of his au pair but it’s described as him “losing his virginity”
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
27 supporters
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On multiple occasions, Cyril is mocked for crying
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Sickness
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
44 supporters
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0
No
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Malory's anti-choice opinions are the butt of several jokes
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
89 supporters
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Season 7 cuts off at a cliffhanger where the title character is believed to be dead or seriously injured. Subsequent seasons reveal this to be a coma, from which the character recovers from in Season 10.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
33 supporters
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No
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S5e8 long lasting car crash through the jungle
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Does a plane crash?
23 supporters
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Both fighter planes and multi-passenger planes.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
80 supporters
Yes
12
No
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not real obviously, just animated
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Does someone drown?
46 supporters
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No
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In the finale of season 4 Archer drowns to save Lana, but is revived when the group gets back to the surface of the ocean. In season 7, Archer is waterboarded.
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Is there gun violence?
41 supporters
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14
No
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3
A running gag involves a certain character *always* getting hit by negligent discharges in I.S.I.S. headquarters.
Gunfights.
Gunfights.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
16 supporters
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There is not one happening in the plot, but in episode 2 of season 2 a photo of a nuclear mushroom is shown briefly in a rapid sequence of images
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