This was a great episode. Archie's speech near the end still gives me a chill.

This *might* be "Archie and the Lock-Up", where Archie is sent out to retrieve Mike from a protest. Mike gets away (not knowing Archie went there after him) and Archie winds up arrested. A chunk of the episode is spent in jail, where he has to interact with "Pinkos", "Commies" and "Hippies".

This *might* be "Archie and the Lock-Up", where Archie is sent out to retrieve Mike from a protest. Mike gets away (not knowing Archie went there after him) and Archie winds up arrested. A chunk of the episode is spent in jail, where he has to interact with "Pinkos", "Commies" and "Hippies".

This argument more or less reasserted itself a few seasons later when Mike & Gloria have a fight and Mike has to share the bedroom with Archie:

This argument more or less reasserted itself a few seasons later when Mike & Gloria have a fight and Mike has to share the bedroom with Archie:

No. "Two's a Crowd" is the one where they get locked in the storeroom of the bar and drink brandy. The one you're thinking of is "Archie in the Basement", when he gets locked in the basement of the house alone and begins to tape-record his last will. At the end of the episode he gets rescued by the oil man: "The…

No. "Two's a Crowd" is the one where they get locked in the storeroom of the bar and drink brandy. The one you're thinking of is "Archie in the Basement", when he gets locked in the basement of the house alone and begins to tape-record his last will. At the end of the episode he gets rescued by the oil man: "The…

This may explain why the live audience didn't react very strongly to the cockpit and rear propeller reveals.

This may explain why the live audience didn't react very strongly to the cockpit and rear propeller reveals.

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis…

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis…

Yeah, I thought much the same thing. Arlene said something more than once about Terry being off his medication, and how everything would be better once he got some therapy and started taking it again.

Yeah, I thought much the same thing. Arlene said something more than once about Terry being off his medication, and how everything would be better once he got some therapy and started taking it again.

No, he conceded in the following hour that he'd failed at that.

No, he conceded in the following hour that he'd failed at that.

I can't remember where it happened, but early in the series, Isaac mentions that he came out of retirement to do Sports Night. So he was pretty much out of the game when he came to CSC.

I can't remember where it happened, but early in the series, Isaac mentions that he came out of retirement to do Sports Night. So he was pretty much out of the game when he came to CSC.

Not so much with the first one (as Miller notes here), but in the sequels you definitely get the double-takes that take you out of the very joke they're punctuating. 

Not so much with the first one (as Miller notes here), but in the sequels you definitely get the double-takes that take you out of the very joke they're punctuating. 

I said much the same thing to my wife: "The other mole has to be the kid." "How do you know?" "Because if this plotline continues into next season they can't explain him being a foot taller, so they have to kill him now."