“Archer,” Season 3, Episode 1, “The Man from Jupiter,” sees our favorite clueless secret agent stumbling badly in trying to pick up a woman from a bar. Note: Never say to a woman that her friend is “the hot one” when trying to seduce both of them.
Spoilers follow.
This is just a set up for Archer running into none other than Burt Reynolds, his favorite actor in the whole, wide world and basically his man-crush. He has seen all of his movies at least five times, though one wonders whether than includes “Starting Over” or the horrible American version of “The Man who Loved Women.” Archer’s excitement is tempered by the fact that Burt is there to pick up his own woman, Archer’s mom and boss Mallory. This time Archer only faints and does not vomit.
Archer’s attempt to separate his mom from Burt, by kidnapping the man and forging a note to his mom saying she has been dumped for a younger starlet, proves to be a distraction from the Cuban hit squad that is after him. Archer thinks that the tale of a bunch of Cubans who want the ventilate him is another of Mallory’s ploys. It would have been a good guess, but in this case the Cubans are real and if they have to shoot up the streets of New York to do it, they will have Archer’s blood and that of just about everyone else at Isis.
Fortunately in the Archer universe, Burt has all the driving and combat skills of some of the characters he has played in the movies. The chase scene involving Archer’s sports car, Kieger’s date rape van (complete with Japanese anime hologram) and several rusty SUVs full of murderous Cubans is an epic of crashed police cars and general mayhem. Cubans by the van load go flying into the nearby river. Enough bullets are fired to fight a world war. Burt has the best stunt driving since “Hooper.”
Most of all, Archer learns a few life lessons in allowing his mom to have a life. He is, at last, comfortable with Mallory dating a man, especially someone like Burt. Mallory, of course, is not impressed. She has her own issues to work through.
Source: Archer, The Man from Jupiter, TV.Rage