Aside from the Giordano stuff being yeah, over-dramatic/oversimplified, I only had two real quibbles: first, depicting the asteroid belt a la THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK encourages the misconception that that's how dense with material they are (in fact there's vast distances between ay objects in the belt of noteworthy…

Every time I see a holographic interface in media, I can't help but think how ergonomically difficult that would be to actually use. Good to see that addressed in one of the funniest bits the show's done so far.

Is no one going to mention (or are they repeatedly mentioning too far down the comments for me to look/care) the homage to Gary Oldman in The Professional?

I have a theory that Archer (the show) is what happens to some guy (white trashy, like Carl from Aqua Teen) after he gets granted three wishes. He asks the djinni "I want to be an awesome superspy who can beat anyone up and drink all the time and have sex with lots of beautiful women."

Tom Servo, or that guy from Regular Show, or the Gumball Guardians from this show…man there's a lot of gumball machine people on TV these days. They're better represented than most ethnicities.

Kudos to the character designers: by the simple expedient of having the gumball machine be upside-down, they managed to anthropomorphize gumball machines without making them look like Tom Servo knockoffs, whilst simultaneously allowing for ample balls jokes. Heh heh. Ample Balls.

I do hope the river Troy mentioned taking to the ocean isn't the Colorado River, which has been drained so much it doesn't make it all the way there anymore.

No Dylan? Besides the stuff he recorded that got covered by everyone, I know he wrote some for Johnny Cash, off the top of my head…

Am I the only one who noticed, as Bolin was ripping his shirtsleeves off, the Popeye-Eating-Spinach theme could briefly be heard?

A better comparison than Adventure Time would be FLCL: both series are beautiful fantasies of adolescence, set in beautifully, affectionately characterized backwater towns dominated by surreal, monumental structures. They're about a pre-teen boy and the fascinating women and fallible men in their lives, set against a…

The joke where racist idiots assume they need translators for foreign-seeming people speaking perfect English bothered me. Not just because Rob Corddry's character did it in the Harold and Kumar sequel; it bothered me then, too.