Archer: How TV Ruins You
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- ARCHER: How did TV screw us all up?
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Sterling Archer is basically James Bond if he were a drunk with an Oedipal complex. But what if the real reason for his adult dysfunction is a childhood spent glued to the television? Let's find out in this Wisecrack Edition on Archer: How TV Ruins You.
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Written by: Michael Burns
Hosted by: Jared Bauer
Directed by: Michael Luxemburg
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Hey, Archer was raised by Woodhouse, and he did his damned best.
I think that if they reveal who Archer's father is at the end of the series, it should be Woodhouse
Sam Belcher Mallory was 9 months pregnant with Archer the night she met Woodhouse.
@@Lowlight91 And when has Mallory been known to tell the truth?
Rowknan Mallory didn’t tell us this. The flashback narrated by Woodhouse did. Archer then confronts Mallory about being born on a dirty bar.
@@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129 have you even watched the show mate? How can woodhouse be his father?
Archer's father gave him an alligator the time they met and, non-coincidentally, gators become his biggest fear
You would think that Archer's biggest fear would be the vacuum cleaner...
@@catjudo1 I mean, he is a dog so that is doubly surprising.
@@catjudo1 he’s afraid of cyborgs bc of the vacuum
@@catjudo1 that's literally why he's so afraid of robots
So archer isn’t afraid of crocodiles, he’s really afraid of facing his father and the reality he was never there for him
Yikes, as someone who also didn't have a great home life or a lot of friends and watched a whole lot of tv, this video hits way too close for home
Same. The only "functional" relationships in my early life were those created in a writer's room.
My life makes finally sense
I get it, mate. This video was both illustrating and horrifying as of why I'm so messed up. Guess I should've turn off the TV as they told
Same
Nailed. Hits hard. Hurts lots. I feel hella depressed right now. Btw, tks for explaining my life.
Ah yes being raised by tv is bad, that’s why I was raised by UA-cam
🥴
That’s sad
Much worse
I was raised by video games and cartoons tbh
What would being raised by youtube mean though? More natural but weirdly impersonal speaking? More low brow humor and hysterical laughing? Randomly asking people when they ask if they can help telling them follow their social media?
I don't know if "Archer" was deliberately trying to imply that screen time as a child ruined Archer's development, it always kinda seemed that the writers of the show wanted to insert as many pop culture references as possible for comedic effect. The negligent mother and absent father aspect seems to be more important than just the sheer amount of TV/movies it's implied that he watched growing up.
Nah, it's definitely implied. Mostly because of the fact he didn't have friends; we see throughout the series the troubles he faces socializing and coming across as a functional person while talking to people. He knows it, too; he even says it to the minor girl who wanted to seduce him: he overcompensates because of insecurity and ends up coming across as a snob.
Just because it's not intended doesn't mean that its not there. Those two common elements make the show make so much more sense. Art is more than the artists intent it is also the viewers interpretation.
@@Mvenven oooh, that's so true! Art can be breath-taking but it really is amazing how it brings people together and how the same thing can be interpreted differently by people with different experiences. The sharing of these perspectives truly enrich knowledge.
I see what you're getting at, but I think the fact that Archer himself is almost always the one making the pop-culture references is important. No-one else in the show drops them with the sheer density he does, and it's often used to call attention to the fact that people don't understand him.
So this reminds me of something I read about Stranger Things, which uses pop-culture references to make a point about communication as well, but does it both ways. In Strangers Things the kids often communicate in pop culture references (DnD, Star Wars, etc) but most of the adults don't get it - like, when the kids tell the police they took the "Murkwood" path (a Hobbit reference) the police are confused. The one exception is Joy, who regularly communicates with her son Will via pop culture, most notably with the lights on the wall (a Poltergeist reference). Pop culture is used to show bonding and communication.
What I'm getting at here is that I think Archer deliberately uses pop-culture references to highlight an inability to communicate, not just for comedy, and whether it comes from TV or neglectful parents is kind of secondary.
All of the other characters make jokes, but none of them make TV/movie reference jokes like Archer does.
this is like my dad saying hes leaving, and then showing up for dinner everynight
Lol
Ha...ha?
it's making me even sadder
fuckkkk lol dark
Are you sure he wasn't just 'leaving' for work?
Enjoy jared while u can ;-;
Could you explain to me why he left? Sorry, I haven't watched this channel in over a year.
They still haven't found any donors?
peace
@@PaunchyPilate He said he got bored
I've enjoyed Jared dozens of times and he's always left me satisfied with a smile on my face
"He speaks like ten languages"
Cuts to some of the clunkiest, and funniest, attemps to speak finnish.
Yes, finnish is my native language.
On a scale of Hitler in JoJo Rabbit to Russian stereotype in a James bond movie, how bad was his Finnish?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Well for first thing, he forgets a whole word from the sentence. And therefore I'm not shure is he asking or stating.
What he is saying is "Hei, jätkät! Tämä suomalainen laskuvarjoklubi!"
Straight translation is "Hey, guys! This finnish parashuteclub"
If he would be stating, it would go: "Hei jätkät, tämä ON (is) suomalainen laskuvarjoklubi"
If he would be asking, it would go: "Hei, jätkät! ONKO (is this) tämä suomalainen laskuvarjoklubi".
@@samuellaakso7012 his accent probably isn't too great either is it?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Well, you can tell that H. Jon Benjamin was trying. Lucky for him there's not any doublewovels. Those are not shorten but said as a one long wovel.
But the biggest fall is in the ä:s. Ä, not A. As in jätkät and tämä. There is difference in pronanciation. If you mix them, it can change the whole meaning of the word. But it's very commong chalenge for foreigners to learn.
So while clunky, props for trying. Finnish is one of the hardest languages to learn.
@@samuellaakso7012 I do not envy your brood
There's an episode where Lana wonders (in all seriousness, she claims) if Archer is on the Autism spectrum. That wouldn't invalidate the conclusions drawn here, but it would complicate them. See also: Abed in Community. And Dan Harmon.
Abed was such a darn good character so well realized by the touch of Harmon and the acting chops of Pudi.
He comes off more as Bipolar with crazy ups and downs
This actually explains a lot about modern culture in general. We are having a difficult time communicating with one another and pop cultures emphasis on sarcasm and lack of empathy MAY have something to do with it.
Pop culture is a usually exaggerated but still accurate reflection of modern culture in general. It’s symptomatic.
Basically, blaming pop culture for the problems of modern culture is like someone blaming a fun house mirror for them being ugly
@@CountDVB yeah, but those mirrors do magnify things, so you become more self conscious and that builds anxiety.
Have a different theory.
The rise of mass media has led to pseudo-relationships where various details of celebrities are trickled out to give a false notion of intimacy and "knowing" somebody, but it is highly curated and only one way- I may know more about Taylor Swift's relationship drama than even my best friend's, but Taylor only knows me through her accountants and whether she has met her quarterly sales targets.
Except now through social media, I am also in the business of pseudo-relationships, trading exposure for likes and 15 minutes of fame or possibly being an influencer.
It is simulacra writ large on interaction and media divorced from reality.
@@quintessenceSL that is also a factor
gigantes imperator They’re an exaggerated reflection though. Blaming them is kinda pointless because they are a superlative reflection. There is a lot of deeper and more complicated trouble.
Financial concerns, societal constructs and so on. It’s like how parents blamed rock n roll or DnD for corrupting their youth.
You mean, like... Homer Simpson??? He also learned just about everything from TV, because his dad was an abusive jerk and his mom-- as much as she loved him-- was always running from the law until she died.
Yeah, I never excused her actions either.
She died!?
@@tabulldog2743 right i never liked her
@@joshuabowens7106 Yes, in "Mona Leaves-a": Season 19, Episode 19.
And even more so, Peter Griffin.
Jared: “I’m leaving the channel at the end of September”
September 25: “WhY iZ JaREd HerE?”
Just shows how the subject matter does NOT reflect the audience.
They've probably got a bunch of episodes he's already done left to edit and burn off.
thank goodness jared is here
Wait why is he leaving?
@@gandalf194 all things must come to an end. The video is on their channel
I love Archer. It's one of my favorite shows. If you think being raised on TV is bad, try being raised on social media.
Alternate title: Why TV shouldn't raise children. 32+ hours per week watching TV during childhood does kinda make TV the parent.
Jared:
Im leaving
Also Jared:
Hey wisecrack Jared here
pre recorded
I think he has vids until end of sept... T_T
@@kevincarter2020 just like how my dad left too. Very meta
Good job, Sean, we now know how stupid you are. I hope it was worth it for a joke.
@@Bell_Matt Good job Matthew, we now know what an asshole you are. I hope it was worth it for a comment with no likes.
Jake from Brooklyn 99 and archer is a character type who i think will start to show up more and more as kids who where raised by tv get ways to share that experience
I love the irony of this video - analysing Archer's behaviour as if he were not a TV personality, with the rough conclusion that he was overly dependent on using TV personalities as reference for normal behaviour
😂I saw that too! Even the cut scenes in between weren't the real world, it was just a bunch of clip selling actors.
Jared: “Because maybe Archer's profound bond with 1980's cinema and tv can help us understand his inability to form healthy bonds with human beings."
Me: *I DON'T COME HERE TO BE CALLED OUT LIKE THAT!!*
He did see organic human interactions; it’s that they were generally horrific and troubling.
Jared is leaving Wisecrack for the.
"Danger Zone"
Haha read it in Archer's voice
"What's up, guys. Jared here."
Oh god. Here we go again... (starts crying)
Jared, why do you always ask "But what do you think, Wisecrack?"
Are we the Wisecrack?
I thought you guys were Wisecrack.
Man I'm so confused...
*we all are wisecrack*
Haha this is so cute
Wisecrack is the friends we made along the way
About as confusing as "Hi Vsauce, Michael here!"
"A bad-ass line may sound great on screen, but probably wont work when shouted in a rowdy Dave and Busters.'
Oh, *NOW* he tells me!
"A little more like Archer than we might think."
Bruh I'm way past that. Archer is like a case study of myself if I was a spy
Yikes
I have found happyness in knowing that I am not alone.
Nobody is "like Archer" unless he can sleep with dozens of women, get away with practically anything, and be totally fearless. Why does Wisecrack talk about Archer as if he didn't lead a successful and fulfilling life? Archer is not dysfunctional; we are. The dysfunction comes from being weak, timid, clingy, or unattractive. If we were fully "functional," we'd be strong, bold, independent, and sexy. We'd be more like Archer.
@@deleted01 Those are very shallow views of success.
So you're on the spectrum? Not a joke. Archer definitely is in real life lol
I never even realized archer was obsessed with tv...I thought he was just crzy and watched some spy movies XD
He's not obsessed with TV, he was raised by it.
I didn’t get most of the references... ;(
@@angelgjr1999 cause you are not cultured enough. Being raised by tv means culture
no wonder why I didn't care for the show... I rarely got the references, or when I did get them I didn't find them particularly amusing.
zero idea there was this idea of him "being raised by tv"
@@colinstu the references are just one portion of Archer's character. The humor from the show comes from the juxtaposition of our expectations from stories about spies (mainly james bond stuff) and the reality that such activities would carry. In other words, this show is a parody and a satire of james bond movies and the suave macho stereotype.
I just love that his coworkers soon devolve into his level of self-centered "above-it-all" nature. Everyone starts acting so entitled while fulfilling their respective archetypes. It's amazing.
One reason that archer behaves the way he does is because Apparently he’s actually autistic and someone to say people have a real hard time communicating and social boundaries and blurring the lines between reality and TV
I think that Archer has Asperger's, and one of his special interests is television, just like his obsession with guns
I find it pertinent the video doesn't address that Archer's theoretical dissonance is further exacerbated by the fact he exists in such a permissive environment. He doesn't just act like a super spy, he is a super spy, and on some level in an environment where normal people come up against structure and restriction, he is rewarded for his behavior even though he desperately wants to be stopped.
The first Archer I ever saw he drops a Stargate reference in the first scene. All I needed to get hooked on Archer.
"This is why Archer is raised by TV."
*Proceeds to mention a tonne of things I suffer through thanks to autism.*
Lol
i mean the. show did once discuss the possibility of archer being autistic himself
@@zeex4904 I think it would be great if Archer had Asperger's because he would represent Asperger's in a non stereotypical way
@@RandomSkyeRoses asperger's isn't a real diagnosis anymore lol
As a Latch Key Kid, I watched a ton of tv and have nothing but fond memories. This show is remarkable because it reminds of a cartoon philosophical version of a show called Dream On. Always in the back of my mind I want Archer to win by coming to realization that yes he off center because of his upbringing and someone appreciates that and he figures out to tone it down when necessary (probably the series finale).
Archer was not raised by TV. He was raised by a heroine addicted British WWI veteran valet to at least a homosocial RAF pilot. And his dysfunction, such that it is, is in sync with his environment which is a parodic spy TV show. And ever since Neil Postman and David Foster Wallace nerdwallah dudes have to see the great American syphillis is the boob tube. The references are far and wide, and frankly only accessible at their most obscure to someone with an Ivy quality college education or Google/Wikipedia. As with Postman and Wallace, this analysis says much more about the analyst than the analyzand.
WHAT! JDOG IS DOING THIS VIDEO !!!! Didn’t expect to see him in another video, but I’m very happy he is.
He said he's in the process of leaving not that he's fully left
I was basically a mute raised to do as told & not answer back. I'm still struggling w/ keeping communication up now isolated for months & no 1 to bounce a sense of humor outside of pop culture references . .
Glad to have 1 more video w/ Jared
I mean TV did ruined my eyesight while canceling/ending Archer ruined my heart so you have got some part right.
What are you talking about? Season 11 is coming out right now. They're 3 episodes deep.
Archer's still going
I also think they will be going more then 11, no reason not to.
I have bad news, it wasn't TV, you are getting old.
@@dps8629 Oh my god, I didn't know. You made my day, time to watch Archer now.
What I love is that the coma seasons actually worked, what could have been a shark jumping moment actually turned out great
Remember when a character like Archer was a comedic character and not a possible description of a person?
I don’t know. I’ve met a lot of people that eerily resemble these characters.
@@Ken9284 No you haven't.
Jared: Let's take a look at who raised Archer...TV.
Woodhouse: Am I a joke to you, sir?
Woodhouse: Am I a joke, to sir?
Its not just being raised by a TV its being isolated a lot throughout childhood. Wether a person isolates themselves, or are isolated for other reasons, its not healthy to be alone for a long time, especially if you are also still going through psychological and physical development.
Its not only bad for your mental health its bad for your physical health too. If you are isolated and inside a room/house all the time
"He's learned how to be human through observing what he's seen in fictional programming meant to entertain not educate." This may also explain the impact "reality" TV has had on recent generations and the resulting decline in civility in American public discourse. Now, what sort of mass psychotherapy do we need in order to correct this?
A giant space squid, maybe?
Well, in the 17th century the Enlightenment caused any form of entertainment to be judged by how realistic it is. The Enlightenment, if successfully made into going through a renaissance, might solve this issue (and cause some neccesary democratic revolutions along the way).
Just imagine 20 years from now everyone behaves like Archer.
Jared!!!! Soooo happy to see you, will treasure every single video with you util you leave.
Where was he?
@@thomasmattern6410 he made a video saying that he will be leaving Wisecrack
God damn it... Now I now why I like Archer so much. We are the same. p.s - I did watched the gilmore girls when growing up. (and ER, friends, and whatever Aaron Sorkin made)
2:30 - "For the past few seasons, he's been in a coma" - And that's exactly how long the show hasn't been good. Hmm, coincidence? There's a reason that nobody likes to hear other people's dreams, because they're boring. This is no different. 🤦
I love hearing people's dreams. Literally anything can happen in them, how is that boring?
@@sethiddings7293 yeah I'm kinda with you. Hearing how others' dreams are chaotic but so different from your own is fun. There's a reason some people are dedicated to controlling their dreamscapes
@@spmil999Or learning that other people have similar dreams which is like having a shared experience.
So in a way archer is like Jim carry in the cable guy, he’s mom and dad were not there for him emotionally, and was raised by television. So much of charaters ideas of human interaction, espionage and how the world works is from it.
Are modern people like Archer?
... Big Bang Theory, with its "references only" humour would indicate - Yes.
Your example for real people being like a TV show is...another TV show?
It reminds me of how Jean Baudrillard wrote in Simulacra and Simulation, that we humans in general prefer signs and representations of things, than we prefer that actual thing itself. It sounds strange... and is, I suppose. People prefer abstract symbols of donkeys and elephants over concrete political platforms, with sets of policies prescribed specifically to address defined challenges. Sometimes we carry that forward through many layers of abstraction apart from the real objects. A gold prop microphone is a symbol representative of a regular microphone, which is a symbol representative of the activity done by a talk radio host upon who's desk the gold prop microphone sits.
Welp, this turned into a real tangent! Who would have seen THAT coming?! Keep it in mind next time you're on Jeopardy, I guess!
David Stinnett my example was the most popular show based on popular culture
You know clusters
Shaping popular culture
Unless you think Big Bang is the same as Senfeild , Married with children, all in the family , etc
Unless I’m off about the “Easter egg” and “reference” style of humour when it comes to Gen z?
Archer reflects Gen x “latch key kids” raised on tv with Gen Z humour
why don’t you watch wisecracks video on Big Bang theory to understand my point based on their analysis of that sitcom.
Comparing archer to big bang theory is like comparing apples and AIDS.
Robert Mishler I compared the real life audience who watch Big Bang theory to the character of Archer when it comes to their references based humour.
Following?
Still offended?
So happy you did an archer video while still around, Jared
“THE LAST OF JARED”
bro. i just learned why i suck at talking to people. TV. legit tho. in early years of being teenager i made all the Michael Scott and archer references. I've changed...a bit. pepehands
I met some of my little sister's friends and I realized they talk like people who learned social skills from online forms and memes. The conversation didn't quite flow. It was like each person was trying to introduce a new topic when it was their turn to speak. They were having a good time, though!
Yeah you're definitely projecting. Archer seems like a TV show because, news flash, it IS one. Pay attention to the other characters and you will see how wrapped up they are in the cultural references too.
Phrasing.... wait. Are we not doing that anymore?
Seriously
I am NEEDING to use that IRL!
Speaking two different languages doesn’t help...
XD
I feel like this might be a bit of a stretch. This isn't to say that I don't think that Archer's heavy use of references isn't leaked to his trouble connecting with people, but I don't know if the one is because of the other.
Archer strangely has a connection to video games as well
It's crazy, I didnt expect this video to be so relatable. I had a really hard childhood growing up, and the TV was my only friend. I was completely socially inept because I never had any example of social cues as I didn't have any role models. As a kid, I couldn't differentiate real life from TV shows. I thought people bragged, flirted, fought, and acted badass in real life the same way they did in tv shows. (Obviously it ended up driving people away more than often than not). Thank you for this vid, I didnt know I needed this, it made me understand my childhood better
I just thought that the writers wanted to include a lot of reference humour, but trust Wisecrack to make me feel like an idiot by explaining how a show I've been watching for years is 10x deeper than I ever thought it was trying to be
Also, is Jared back?
I love how the ad into this was for Archer's newest season.
I'm gonna miss ya man. May your road be nothing but awesome and epic!
I watch this just because I enjoy listening to Jon Benjamin and the cast bounce off each other.
it's just edited like that though. for the first several seasons (and all the way through the present, as far as I know) the actors record their lines separately and then everything is stitched together afterwards. if you think about it, it'd be really hard to have dialogue that snappy even with a *lot* of takes and rehearsals.
You've figured out the ideal music volume level to play over talkover!! Fantastic.
I was raised by tv! & Video games!
Basically fantasizing habits & distorted view of the world is what I got. Not interacting & experiencing the real world caused severe social odd behaviours, thoughts & thinking patterns that I've been discovering & fixing for a few years now.
Seriously distinguishing between the fantasy, fictional world (yes even books) from the real world, real universe is quite important as I have realised so I avoid them all as much as possible. I hate it that instead of living in the real world, I was living in fantasy basically doing nothing for most of my life. REGRETS!!
Now when I tell people I was addicted to films, music, gaming, they laugh. I wish I could effectively tell them how serious it in fact is but I guess they don't care or are ignorant so I guess I will just let them suffer & learn from their own life even if it will be like getting hit by a whole train of bricks of regret about wasting life.
Or maybe they just want to die in the matrix 😂complaining, whining & asking all the wrong questions or just want to live high (matrix) life without ever seeing the reality as it is. It's like seeing through the phone with a beauty or some fantasy filter on & acting like it without seeing the real ourself & the universe.
This explains why Archer fell for Katya so hard. She's a textbook Bond girl in real life. Naturally she'd be his dream girl.
Woohoo Jared did you tell us that you had some videos made before leaving? What a gift 🎁
So... Archer is basically Abed from Community but as a real spy with a narcissistic complex?
i dont appreciate being called out like that
Some of my most embarrassing moments as a kid were when I tried to say a line from a show, game, or heck, even a commercial. Every time, it fell flat and people were like "what's wrong with you?". Ugh, hate it so much. Thanks for reminding me of that.
lol
6:30 Can you really separate your professional life from your sexual life? People don't stop having sexual desires at work. They also don't necessarily stop having work related responsibilities that they worry about during sex. 10:50 Sterling has no facial or body hair. He has more in common with modern male models than with Burt Reynolds when it comes to looks. 12:35. The most popular commercial of last year didn't have a sex angle. adage.com/video/amazon-alexa-not-everything-makes-cut
But yeah. I was definitely a TV baby. I am the only person I know IRL who has seen Time Squad and Megas XLR. But saying that TV ruined Archer, is a stretch. The people he had to interact with IRL during his formative years where all substance abusers and relentless bullies as far as we know. The people he saw on the screen don't really seem to have been any worse than the people he saw in person.
I thought this episode was about how Archer was getting worse and worse, aka ruined, at least for the last 5 seasons.
But no, instead it's a case on how television ruins US, the real viewers of tv and youtube, and this video tries to prove that idea based on Archer, a man who's been shown exactly zero times to be chilling in front of a tv or even a pc and who's also fictional.
To make one thing clear, these people either haven't really watched Archer at all and got everything they needed from some wiki, or they are REAAAAALLY stretching the limitations of cherry-picking till it turns into a whole fanfic situation.
Archer, wasn't raised by the tv. The fact that he constantly makes references doesn't prove anything more than him having a possible developmental disorder, something for which we've seen signs throughout all the (good) seasons of this show. And still, at the end of the day, we got to keep on our wrinkle ass brains that he's a fictional character in an animated shitcom that parodies James Bond and the spy genre in general. Somethings happen in this show which has no explanation, no concrete, based on facts and specific scenes explanation anyway.
For fuck's sake, he was shipped off to a boarding school for most of his life!!! And if we are to correctly assume that the show takes place in a parallel dimension where tech from 2020 and beyond exists in a world where everything has an, at least 80s to 90s aesthetic, he wasn't allowed to spend vast amounts of time each and every day watching tv!
"(schools, church, dojos) helps us develop healthy social boundaries so that we don't get an erection in front of our mother inspired of the thought of her dying." Yes, you heard right, biology is shaped by schools, churches and dojos, and also, people who didn't attend those institutions, are getting boners when they think their mother's deaths... Wisecrack, you did again! You cracked the code of ridiculous claims! Thanks for nothing with dick jokes on top!
And there we go again, Archer grew with no structure and religion... in a catholic boarding school!!! Are you fucking kidding me?!
At the end of the day, if Wisecrack was right, and Archer did turn into such a dysfunctional, useless idiot, who can't function in a real-world situation (even though he's a pretty successful spy) and communicates through catchphrases and references, why is everyone else around him fairly similar or even worse than him!?! Oh, let me guess, it's because it's an animated sitcom, right!? But that somehow doesn't affect the very real and valuable study you did on Archer, an obviously real character who's mythos you haven't spitroast between your inability to find something interesting to talk about and your need to push a video out so you won't lose that ad money, ha?
9:13 9:29 A very good example about how little substance the claims wisecrack is bestowing on Archer and his supposed state of influence from the tv throughout his preteen and teen years comes with the form of misunderstanding this obvious developmental disability joke with... "Tv never shows or explains how autopilot works, so, archer doesn't get the idea" Which is amazing, been that we have never, ever, ever seen a scene with a plane that's on autopilot landing itself... unless we are talking about animated sitcoms with absurdist humor or straight up the movie STEALTH.
But the ace on the Wisecrack's sleeve is the idolization of Burt Reynolds from Archer himself. Which proves nothing about him been raised by the tv. Tons of outgoing rascals who figure watching tv all day as an attribute of nerdom are into the Fast and the Furious and are certainly NOT raised up by the tv. As for Archer overcompensating through sexual conquest for his lack of effective human interaction skills, that's just it! Has little to do with him being a fan on Burth Reynolds and vastly more to do with him being a fictional parody of Reynolds's characters and James Bond! I mean, seriously?! Was that all you had Wisecrack??? Damn!
At the end of the day, if we are to judge Archer as if he was a real character and critic everything he says for the sake of the show been entertaining as the failed attempts of a kid who grew up on a steady diet of tv (which hasn't been proven about Archer, we got to keep that in mind) then why does every other character from every other sitcom gets a pass?!? Ain't that devastatingly telling when it comes to how forced and fictitious this whole "analysis" actually is?!
That's, the level you have to suspend your disbelief to actually find this episode worth watching, and as I was thinking that I realized, Wisecrack ain't worth any of my eyeball work hours anymore!
Well said!
Wisecrack: "What's up, guys? Jared here."
Me: *Tear rolls down cheek.*
Alot of kids in modern countries which were in the Soviet Union can partly relate to this.
But... Why is Jared here?
With faith, Jared is always here.
ARE YOU COMPLAINING?!
Most UA-camrs record a backlog of content in case they go on a month long vacation so they don't miss their weekly upload. Recording was also more casual during Covid-19, so Jared was probably able to get a decent backlog going that editors are still working on.
Big props on the Kraftwerk Poster 🤙
I feel like I learned English as my second language through UA-cam videos and TV shows entirely. Maybe that’s why I feel odd talking to native speakers sometimes even though I speak English very fluently and almost without an accent:((
Like learning Japanese from anime
For me its that and working in IT. School never helped me much learning English except maybe some basic stuff. What was helping is being German.
I too have tinnitus from bullets whizzing about my head somehow not killing me. I was in the military lol
6:37 I got an unskippable HBO ad. Next level irony.
I got an Archer ad! XD
Whats worse about Archer is that I catch and know all the t.v. and movie references he makes. I thought it was hilarious. Now, I kinda hate myself.
Would explain his 3 anthology seasons of three eras of television genres 🤔
Lol, no wonder I love this show so much, I was also raised by tv, though it was 80s-90s TV
I think the title is wrong. ‘How tv makes you a super spy” is more apt.
TV saved Archer. What would have he done without TV? That's the only guide he had and he sort of turned out to be a 'successful' man
"Edible Complex"? Is that a subtle Community reference?
@@katianovakk - Never really heard people say Oedipal instead of Oedipus, threw me off when I heard it a second time from Jared.
Makes me wonder how I would've turned out if from the ages of 10-29 I hadn't spent every day dealing with suicidal depression, multiple personalities, mild schizophrenia, dissociative disorder, and hallucinations of being tortured in hell for millions of years.
Did anyone else get an ad for Archer while watching this?
TV did a better job raising me than my narcissistic mother did.
So Archer is basically if Abed Nadir became a spy? Nice
Cool cool cool cool cool
Wrong. Archer vicariously lives through fiction, trying to make fiction become reality. While Abed can tell the difference, but chooses not to act on that difference.
I got an actual ad for Archer while watching this.
Now that is Flintstone-style.
Archer's animation looks a lot like Henry Cavill
2:23 is the perfect frame for demonstrating "playing fast and loose", considering the slide on semi-automatic pistols definitely don't slide forward, and definitely don't cause the magazine to drop out
Welcome Back Jared
He ain't tho
I hope we can say that one day
Seeing Woody in this video, gives credence to the claim that dog owners and their dogs sometimes tend to develop the same look.
Also, the fact that it is at 4:20 is great.
I feel personally attacked by this one
11:07 Archer: "Right?!? It’s just like in Gator!"
Why is wisecrack playing with our emotions? Pre-recorded or not, the "Hey Wisecrack, Jared here" is still to soon.
Enjoy your future endeavors. Thanks for all the great videos and podcasts!
Ayyy Jared's back
Ah.
So constantly watching We Were Soldiers, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and all those military movies from before and during the 2000s is why I'm stuck in a perpetual drill sergeant state that doesn't trust anyone else and feels disconnected from the modern day world.
Makes sense.
Screenwriter:
Hey guys this is "phrasing" thing is a good catchphrase! We should keep using it!
Wisecrack:
Archer is an empty shell that need meaningless sex to compensate his lack of parental love
Jared talking about stepping away from the screen as he is getting ready to leave is an Ultimate meta moment. Just how he would want it.
His dysfunction has nothing to do with television. His dysfunction arises from his upbringing involving a distant, absent mother who barely showed him love, a lack of friends or proper socialization, and the amount of trauma his mother forced him to endure as a child.
Archer and Rick Sanchez are similar in that much of their audience relates to their characters without understanding these aren't desirable traits.