Comment by chatmasta

1 day ago

And I’ve just made the Woodhouse from Archer connection!

It is absolutely wild and baffling to me that people don’t make connections like that, and so I wonder what kind of equally obvious (to other people) connections I haven’t made.

  • This happens to me with words I know every few years.

    I think I was in my 30s when I realized rational numbers are numbers that can be expressed as a ratio. Mind blown.

Archer has a whole load of obscure literary references that are easy to miss.

e.g. in the very first episode, the flight attendant's dog is named Abelard

> The name Abelard is a reference to Pierre Abélard, the French philosopher and monk, who is famous for his work in the fields of dialectic and theology, along with his tragic romance with Héloise d’Argenteuil. Additionally, Abélard was known for the studies of the Greeks, which is referenced when Abelard (the dog) "laughs" at Sterling's Greek joke.

You can find a list of cultural references here: https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Cultural_References