Archer is such a world-weary smartass for so much of the time that the contrast when he finds something he unabashedly loves is a huge burst of amazing energy, one that elevates just about any episode...

For once Dowd isn’t alone — critics all over the place are tearing this remake apart. Alas, it’s not gonna stop this thing from making zillions of dollars.

I always try to highlight good lines in the Stray Observations. Normally, that involves cutting a lot of great jokes, and the section still goes on too long. This was one of the shortest I’ve done, is all I’ll say.

The writer of two of this season’s other episodes, Mark Ganek, has said on Twitter that Archer doesn’t have a writer’s room—which makes sense, since, for 90 percent of episodes, Reed was the only credited writer. This is the only season where he doesn’t have a writing or story credit on episodes (he was always…

“There was nothing funny!”

Sure, there are some Barks stories that seem like downright survival stories, but the jokes are usually always there too and I can’t recall any dramatic moment in a Barks comic where I thought anyone was going to die. Just for example, one of the boys gets turned into stone by a sci-fi ray created by an eccentric…

That’s a kind of weird thing to say about Barks, who wrote a lot of comics where the danger is real and threatening.