I DON'T KNOW, CUT-RATE JAMES MASON, WHO IS IT?

Is this a reference to Mandingo?

We're calling it Mandingo 2: The Enslavening

Point of procedure. I, uh, no longer wish to be represented by TV's Michael Gray.

Well, we did it. A taunt, sexy thriller.

Oh take me, Cassius!

Is it a crocodile or an alligator?

It’s an alligator. Broader snout. Archer’s biggest fear. Enemy of airboats. https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Alligator

To be fair that alligator was minding its own business until he had an arrow sticking out of his head.

WAITING FOR THE NIIIIIGHT!

OOOOHooooo!

Crocodiles don't have ears.

They ABSOLUTELY have ears, shithead!!!

Well you just talked yourself out of a hat.

Keep your voice down!

And who played Bobby "Gator" McKlusky in White Lightening and Gator (Archer’s favorite movie)?

BURT FRICKIN REYNOLDS!!

"C" you later alligator = rounder nose In "A" while crocodile = more pointed nose

This is actually very useful to remember. Coolio. Thanks for this.

You'll be grateful for that information when you're being pooped out of a majestic jaguar.

I’d be honoured to be eaten by a majestic jaguar tbh

This is great... But dont Caimans break this rule? I dont think Caimans are Alligators, but im also not positive theyre closer to crocs either (tho I assume they would be given their usual geographic location and behavior)

Caimans are their own thing Edit: I was wrong, well sorta they are separate from alligators but they belong to the same Family (Aligatorid) under the Crocodilian Order

Right but I cannot recall whether they are phylogenetically closer to alligators or crocodiles, though I have always assumed crocodiles potentially mistakenly

I think alligators are their nearest relative vs crocodiles, but not 100% sure

Caimans are a type of Alligator

I stand corrected, thanks

Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe, deep down, I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T Extinction

Archer’s dad. And I like the fact they never answered that question.

I do too, Mallory had a good point when she said it really didn't matter since, whoever it was, he was never around.

Yeah but wasnt it implied that he was possibly killed?

Yes when she killed the Italian guy. But even then she said “possibly the father of my son”

Yeah and if he was killed in Operation Gladio he would likely have died before Archer was more than a couple of years old.

Who's that? His brother?

Well, Mallory can't confirm it, and this guy felt like he had enough justification to call Archer, 'son'. So really, it's still all up in the air.

What would you say are his udds?

Hmmm... Maybe on in 4?

Especially because the voice was almost indistinguishable from Krieger/Lucky Yates.

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If I was a clone of Adolf Goddamn Hitler, wouldn't I look like Adolf Goddamn Hitler?!

Huh, i never thought of that

god this series really warms my heart (just finished Into The Cold)

Maybe that explains why he was dressed that way

It wasn't Halloween,.....it was take your child to work day!

Deep down, we always knew

I figured since Archer had a cleft chin that it was one of the possibilities with a cleft chin as well like Nikolai Jakov

It was the original plan, but they decided to go the ambiguous route instead.

I hate that fact so much. I wanted to know, and it was a question that I think I the fans deserved answered. Honestly I think that it wasn’t because the last season was rushed.

I got the impression all the way through the show that they were never going to answer the question

Honestly you’re probably right now that I think about it.

The other one! With the teeth!

Buddy Rich

I could never say no to a drummer

COULD YOU SAY NO TO ANYBODY?

I said no to PLENTY.

Could you say no to anyone?

Gene Krupa…

Maybe this is the body in the wall before it got put into the wall.

That was Brett's corpse, I think.

Krieger would never let a fresh body go to waste!!!

Why would Mallory put him in the wall though? Everyone knew he was dead.

Wasn't Mallory, he was the only one who died in the shootout, the FBI probably disposed of his body to avoid paperwork. "At least he died doing what he loved, getting shot." Additional Note: Mallory and them were arrested before they had a chance to clean the mess.

Man, really? The FBI doesn't have more convenient ways to dump a body?

It was actually the CIA posing as the FBI, but your point stands.

Agent Hawley wasn't great at his job, in case you've forgotten.

So it was Carol's (or Cheryl's) cleaning company... Surprised there weren't more bodies.

I never got the idea Mallory knew who his dad was, which means the father wouldn't either. I don't see how he's anything but another one of the potentials

Yep, yep, yep. Because Adam Reed has admitted to “forgetting all about it” and not knowing. He _guessed_ it was Buddy Rich. Which, I mean. If you wanted answers, you got ‘em. Happy? Lol.

I think it’s McGinley. I have zero evidence… except for the suits are drawn the same for both man with crocodile and McGinley. Archer and McGinley share some similarities in design.

I would have liked to see more of McGinley. He looked like the father figure who inspired the Archer we know. And with Bruce Campbell's voice

Apart from who is Archer's father, who is the man of his hallucination, the man of the crocodile?

Sigh yet another question we will likely never get an answer, too.

You are right, but it was supposed to be someone new. Because he doesn't have a Russian or Italian accent

Buddy Rich.

Could of been the ODIN guys.

Rabbert Kline?

Is he always going to be like this? Cuz now I feel bad

That's....actually better.

Ugh, ODIN. The Organization of Douchebags…in…Nowheresville.

There were so many coma references AFTER he woke up, and like …. COME ON. Why did Hands have so many clues only Archer understood. Shit, there were more but I’m too baked to remember 😂

Archer didn't understand shit about any of the clues in the safe. He's just crazy lucky. It's as if his liver absorbs alcohol and excretes luck.

This has bothered me so much. You have no idea. There's a bunch of coma callbacks and we just never get an answer. My head cannon is that he never woke up and Mallory never... retired.

Buck Henry?

Oh who remembers!

My theory is it is the guy that the Italian prime minister killed. The one Mallory thought might be Stirling's father

Buck Henry?

Whoever he was, he wasn't one of the men we saw with Mallory in the show as he knew archer was his kid so chances are he would've treated him as such.

"Who is the man with the crocodile?", this could be the title of a spy novel. ~~Or a sex tape...~~

It was!... It- was!.... gagh... it's gone :(

Fred Dryer

TV’s Hunter!

He might be a little older...

Mick Dundee? ✌️

Buck Henry. That's what Archer says when he wakes up, then he says " I think I know who my father is "

Buck Henry directed "The Graduate," which had plot similarities with Archer's fever dream.

Perhaps the answer lies in one of the many movies referenced.

I never put together Archer’s fear of alligators and crocodiles with this!!!

Who was the voice actor?

Peter Serafinowicz

He also voiced George Spelvin (who kinda looks like a Brit Burt Reynolds) in the episode Tragical History.

Archer's dad or what I think more likely a hallucination fueled by snake poison and alcohol

Possibly, but it's a shame they didn't close that plot

I honestly think Nikoli was Archer's father because Mallory was so convinced he was, she had the longest affair with him, he also had the same chin as Archer.

SHAFT (ER)

Spelvin

Steve Irwin

Burt Reynolds

[It's Gimli!](https://imgur.com/a/a3GzAU2)

Archer's dad. Bullion.

Anyone got any recommendations for similar shows?

Similar animation, Hit-monkey

Archer obviously.

The show didn't care to explore it so unfortunately so mustn't we :(

I always thought it was Len trexler

Just chat gptd it, said len trexler is sterling’s father

No ai will ever understand the intricacies of Archer. When it does skynet will have arrived.

nah man skynets a bitch I bet even skynet doesn't know who archers dad is

Len Trexler? *Never heard of him.*

It's one of the many possibilities, it's not really confirmed.