I thought Cheryl naked holding a dress (was that a dress?) in front of her was the Barbarella homage.

I don't know about CYE, but that joke goes back to at least the early '80s.  There was a series of successful books called Truly Tasteless Jokes, and the "P.S. Your vagina's in the sink" one was in one of them.

If Bluto could chug a fifth of Jack Daniels in Animal House, Archer can chug a fifth of Glengoolie Blue.

I instantly thought of that joke.

I thought the fact that it was a Dodge Challenger WAS the Vanishing Point reference.

Todd, shouldn't you have said, "The show needs Barry and Katya to exit…stage left"?

When Woodhouse went "Um…" and looked the other way as Archer was rhapsodizing about the stripper with whom he assumed he'd had the best sex of his life, a part of me thought that the sex had actually been with Woodhouse.

"What year do you think this is?"

I've never seen Buffy, so your reference isn't meaningful to me.

"This isn't a war, it's a murder!"

I half-expected Barry's plan not to work because ISIS forgot to keep the gas bill current.  Which Barry wouldn't notice since he's a cyborg now and doesn't have a sense of smell.

I think you can replace "rarely heard" with "never heard."  I was an inveterate West Wing watcher, and I swear I never heard the closing theme until I started catching the re-runs on Bravo.  Okay, I did tend to tape the show and then watch it (prehistoric DVR), but I'm pretty sure every closing of the show had the end…

Also, this:

You left out the part about their originality.  What's the name of Cookie Puss's Irish (i.e., green) cousin for St. Patrick's Day?  "Cookie O'Puss."

First of all, while rendition gained prominence after 9/11, it can actually be traced back to presidential directives under George Bush the Elder and Bill Clinton (according to Wikipedia).  My "24" citation, which came at the end of the 2001-02 season, was almost certainly outlined before the season began—prior to…

Oh, yeah, that strawberry-allergy element's going to come back to bite Real Amanda in the ass.  But probably not for a few weeks, so we'll have forgotten all about it until she mentions it offhandedly.  This is not October Road, where they beat us over the head with that hereditary peanut-allergy bit in the pilot, so…

Funny, I logged in precisely to suggest just this.  Note what the lawyer said: "I believe your father is innocent"—present tense.  Of course, not just Emily but (most of?) the rest of the world seems to think he's dead.  So what I imagine is that he was renditioned to some secret prison overseas, and the reveal will…

If it's so obvious, then why are we the only ones mentioning it?  I find it of grave concern that more people—including Myles—DIDN'T seem to get that that's what they were doing.  And doing fairly well, I might add.

Oh.  Well.  Pardon me for expecting logic from a show based on strategic schemes that, y'know, require a certain logic to work.

Revenge also has that townie vs. rich, summer-in-the-Hamptons crowd dynamic that
parallels VM and the 09ers.  My first impression of this
show after the pilot was to compare it to Veronica Mars.  And maybe
Damages, but only because it started by showing where everything's
ending up.