Wasn't that a running plotline back in Seasons 3 and 4? That Mallory had been accepting black hat missions and selling them to everyone else under the guise of white/gray hat.

Bionic legs that were twisted up like a pretzel. Also, "bionic" not "robotic", so there's still a working system of flesh attached to them, hence the sepsis and shock.

Chuck doesn't just not understand Jimmy, he doesn't want to. Jimmy being the screw-up, the disgrace, was like a safety blanket for his ego. If Slippin' Jimmy can get his act together and be a successful and respectable person, then all of a sudden Chuck's got to actually work for that moral superiority. "On some…

It also merges the two John Hamm "hand transplant" commercials from the one 30 Rock live episode. One had his new hands being black, the other had them try to strangle him.

Yeah… "force".

First time I saw this episode I was shocked they were allowed to show that on network television.

What about what?

So did anyone else notice that the CIA's mainframe is protected by a Mega Man password screen?

Not implying causality. Just that's one of the signs of the decline, the loss of running gags.

Wouldn't the fire go out the moment you put it in your mouth?

"Did you hear something?"
"No."
"Did I?"

"…this may well be the first time Burns has remembered Homer’s name without any prompting from Smithers."

I'm actually waiting for some payoff to that. Like it works as just a gag, but what if, say, the KGB (all three of them) totally take over the agency formerly known as ISIS and Archer goes all Die Hard on them and, ultimately, fails to save the day, and they're just about to, I dunno, kill someone, and Krieger hits a…

Don't get me started on the lack of singing. I watched an episode of a soap opera once and there was a complete lack of both lye-based cleaning products AND expression of plot via music.

Tangential to this discussion, one of those Neutral jokes remains one of my favorite Internet relics, this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I really like Zach too, but as far as I'm concerned they should have just posted your reviews—they've been great.

That's great, and a perfect representative summary of Rimmer, especially once you consider that all that "saving" ended up being for naught.

I do like the gag in the hallway of portraits that has empty frames for "Fry's Assassin" and "Fry's Assassin's Assassin", with Fry's optimistic outlook of "at least my assassin will get what's coming to him."

To be clear, "I grade on a curve" is a pun, right?

People keep forgetting this with gold. There's a reason that, outside of electronics, it's never used for anything practical. It's soft and it's heavy. During that scene I thought of Futurama. "Wouldn't a golden arrow weigh hundreds of pounds and fly crummy?"