Archer - "Legs" - Review

I had been wondering for a while what the show planned to do with wheelchair bound Ray. There was no feasible way the series could keep having Ray being physically handicapped. Ray in a wheelchair means Ray can’t be a field agent and that in turn means the show is highly limited on the kind of stories it can tell. So it wasn’t all that surprising when the show jumped on the opportunity to get him walking again.

Obviously it decided to do it in manic, absurd fashion as per usual. Krieger offers a surgical solution that would add some robotic parts to Ray to get him back on his feet. This is amusing idea in of itself, but the episode enters into an even more madcapped, entertaining direction when cyborg-phobic Archer learns of Krieger’s plan and in gung ho fashion attempts to shut the surgery down. In turn Lana and Cyril realize they need to prevent Archer from doing something incredibly stupid and destructive (a goal that never thoroughly comes into fruition, seeing as Archer bazookas a blast proof room). 

I would have liked to have seen Cheryl and Malory used less sparingly. But otherwise this is another very good episode from the show this season; a feat that feels all the more impressive for the fact that this is a series in its fourth season. 

Stray Observations:

-“Vehicular hermaphrodite” is a term that ought to be used more often.

-“I piss and shit in a bag” “Me too!”

-“Common enemy” “Hey, that’s how Lana and I started dating”

-“It kind of worries me that you don’t know the real names to these things”

-The newspapers name: “The Paper”

-“He’s making a gay terminator”

-“I think it’s super creepy that you get turned on by physical violence”

-“The thermostat is becoming sentient” – How H. John Benjamin pronounces “sentient” is a thing of beauty.

Grade: B+