Archer: How TV Ruins You 

Yikes, as someone who also didn't have a great home life or a lot of friends and watched a whole lot of tv, this video hits way too close for home

this is like my dad saying hes leaving, and then showing up for dinner everynight

Hey, Archer was raised by Woodhouse, and he did his damned best.

"He speaks like ten languages" Cuts to some of the clunkiest, and funniest, attemps to speak finnish. Yes, finnish is my native language.

You mean, like... Homer Simpson??? He also learned just about everything from TV, because his dad was an abusive jerk and his mom-- as much as she loved him-- was always running from the law until she died.

Jared: “I’m leaving the channel at the end of September” September 25: “WhY iZ JaREd HerE?”

Ah yes being raised by tv is bad, that’s why I was raised by RU-vid

Enjoy jared while u can ;-;

Jared: Im leaving Also Jared: Hey wisecrack Jared here

Jared is leaving Wisecrack for the. "Danger Zone"

"A little more like Archer than we might think." Bruh I'm way past that. Archer is like a case study of myself if I was a spy

The first Archer I ever saw he drops a Stargate reference in the first scene. All I needed to get hooked on Archer.

I never even realized archer was obsessed with tv...I thought he was just crzy and watched some spy movies XD

Woodhouse: Am I a joke, to sir?

Phrasing.... wait. Are we not doing that anymore?

I mean TV did ruined my eyesight while canceling/ending Archer ruined my heart so you have got some part right.

Remember when a character like Archer was a comedic character and not a possible description of a person?

What I love is that the coma seasons actually worked, what could have been a shark jumping moment actually turned out great

Jared!!!! Soooo happy to see you, will treasure every single video with you util you leave.

“THE LAST OF JARED”

I was basically a mute raised to do as told & not answer back. I'm still struggling w/ keeping communication up now isolated for months & no 1 to bounce a sense of humor outside of pop culture references . . Glad to have 1 more video w/ Jared

I just thought that the writers wanted to include a lot of reference humour, but trust Wisecrack to make me feel like an idiot by explaining how a show I've been watching for years is 10x deeper than I ever thought it was trying to be Also, is Jared back?

Archer strangely has a connection to video games as well

So... Archer is basically Abed from Community but as a real spy with a narcissistic complex?

But... Why is Jared here?

Its not just being raised by a TV its being isolated a lot throughout childhood. Wether a person isolates themselves, or are isolated for other reasons, its not healthy to be alone for a long time, especially if you are also still going through psychological and physical development. Its not only bad for your mental health its bad for your physical health too. If you are isolated and inside a room/house all the time

Would explain his 3 anthology seasons of three eras of television genres 🤔

"Edible Complex"? Is that a subtle Community reference?

I feel like this might be a bit of a stretch. This isn't to say that I don't think that Archer's heavy use of references isn't leaked to his trouble connecting with people, but I don't know if the one is because of the other.

11:07 Archer: "Right?!? It’s just like in Gator!"

This explains why Archer fell for Katya so hard. She's a textbook Bond girl in real life. Naturally she'd be his dream girl.

I was raised by tv! & Video games! Basically fantasizing habits & distorted view of the world is what I got. Not interacting & experiencing the real world caused severe social odd behaviours, thoughts & thinking patterns that I've been discovering & fixing for a few years now. Seriously distinguishing between the fantasy, fictional world (yes even books) from the real world, real universe is quite important as I have realised so I avoid them all as much as possible. I hate it that instead of living in the real world, I was living in fantasy basically doing nothing for most of my life. REGRETS!! Now when I tell people I was addicted to films, music, gaming, they laugh. I wish I could effectively tell them how serious it in fact is but I guess they don't care or are ignorant so I guess I will just let them suffer & learn from their own life even if it will be like getting hit by a whole train of bricks of regret about wasting life. Or maybe they just want to die in the matrix 😂complaining, whining & asking all the wrong questions or just want to live high (matrix) life without ever seeing the reality as it is. It's like seeing through the phone with a beauty or some fantasy filter on & acting like it without seeing the real ourself & the universe.

I feel like I learned English as my second language through RU-vid videos and TV shows entirely. Maybe that’s why I feel odd talking to native speakers sometimes even though I speak English very fluently and almost without an accent:((

You've figured out the ideal music volume level to play over talkover!! Fantastic.

14:08 This played during my 9th bathroom break at work. Man I feel called out

I got an actual ad for Archer while watching this. Now that is Flintstone-style.

I think the title is wrong. ‘How tv makes you a super spy” is more apt.

Some of my most embarrassing moments as a kid were when I tried to say a line from a show, game, or heck, even a commercial. Every time, it fell flat and people were like "what's wrong with you?". Ugh, hate it so much. Thanks for reminding me of that.

My old cat used to like to watch television, and as she'd look out the window at people passing by, I always kind of got the impression that she wondered why she saw more of a variety of people on the television than outside - science fiction people, cartoon characters, Zootopia characters, etc on the tv, but only humans, dogs, and magpies/crows outside.

woahh, its jared

I find it pertinent the video doesn't address that Archer's theoretical dissonance is further exacerbated by the fact he exists in such a permissive environment. He doesn't just act like a super spy, he is a super spy, and on some level in an environment where normal people come up against structure and restriction, he is rewarded for his behavior even though he desperately wants to be stopped.

Re "Phrasing"... my great-grandparents used innuendo. It predates TV. "That's what she said" predates the first time she said it, we've had double-entendres for a very long time.

Makes me wonder how I would've turned out if from the ages of 10-29 I hadn't spent every day dealing with suicidal depression, multiple personalities, mild schizophrenia, dissociative disorder, and hallucinations of being tortured in hell for millions of years.

I love how the ad into this was for Archer's newest season. I'm gonna miss ya man. May your road be nothing but awesome and epic!

I just realized Archer is back. Yes! This is a great show.

1:30 who else was raised by TV? The Cable Guy! ... I just remembered that when I was hearing the opening...

2:23 is the perfect frame for demonstrating "playing fast and loose", considering the slide on semi-automatic pistols definitely don't slide forward, and definitely don't cause the magazine to drop out

Why is wisecrack playing with our emotions? Pre-recorded or not, the "Hey Wisecrack, Jared here" is still to soon.

I haven't watched Archer, so at 9:17 all I can hear is Joe from Family Guy talking to Bob from Bob's Burgers.

His dysfunction has nothing to do with television. His dysfunction arises from his upbringing involving a distant, absent mother who barely showed him love, a lack of friends or proper socialization, and the amount of trauma his mother forced him to endure as a child.

Oh gosh, I was so disconnected from real human beings growing up, I ended up basing a lot of my personality and social nuances on the programs I watched and games I played. I've since worked through this in therapy 😅

3:15 Archer is not a gambling addict. That was a plot point in the Grand Prix episode. He had a lot of vices but gambling wasn’t one of them, which is why Isis entrusted him with the bearer bonds.

6:30 Can you really separate your professional life from your sexual life? People don't stop having sexual desires at work. They also don't necessarily stop having work related responsibilities that they worry about during sex. 10:50 Sterling has no facial or body hair. He has more in common with modern male models than with Burt Reynolds when it comes to looks. 12:35. The most popular commercial of last year didn't have a sex angle. adage.com/video/amazon-alexa-not-everything-makes-cut But yeah. I was definitely a TV baby. I am the only person I know IRL who has seen Time Squad and Megas XLR. But saying that TV ruined Archer, is a stretch. The people he had to interact with IRL during his formative years where all substance abusers and relentless bullies as far as we know. The people he saw on the screen don't really seem to have been any worse than the people he saw in person.

This is basically Jared supernova. Last bright shine of leaving star. Last but one of the most beautiful things we can get from him. Especially because we don’t know if this is THE last thing we see from him

Archer was not raised by TV. He was raised by a heroine addicted British WWI veteran valet to at least a homosocial RAF pilot. And his dysfunction, such that it is, is in sync with his environment which is a parodic spy TV show. And ever since Neil Postman and David Foster Wallace nerdwallah dudes have to see the great American syphillis is the boob tube. The references are far and wide, and frankly only accessible at their most obscure to someone with an Ivy quality college education or Google/Wikipedia. As with Postman and Wallace, this analysis says much more about the analyst than the analyzand.

Big props on the Kraftwerk Poster 🤙

I'm so glad they brought it back for one last season, in the latest episode when Archer got the robot suit I kind of hope the secret organization they was going against, I wish they would have made it to where Archer when he in the coma that he secretly woke up and they use mind-controlled to have him work for them and that's why I spy agency was so good that would have made the show way better have an arch as being a double agent spy being mind control fighting against his old teamand then finding out he's being mind-controlled would have made the show great

As an only child that grew up with no friends and my parents working most of the time this episode hits a little too close to home

I think there's also the implied autism, which would explain a lot of his behaviour. It is also mentioned in the show.

Could it not be argued that less television and more media in general raised Archer? Yes, he does site TV shows and actors often, but there is a long line of book and art references. I have been rewatching the show with my wife as of late, and someone retorts with "read a book" for several episodes in a row.

Lol, no wonder I love this show so much, I was also raised by tv, though it was 80s-90s TV

I love the fact that I just got an archer ad before the video started.

Completely random fact: The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches (38.1 cm) across.

Woodhouse raised Archer. The TV just helped.

got an Archer ad before this🥰

I thought this episode was about how Archer was getting worse and worse, aka ruined, at least for the last 5 seasons. But no, instead it's a case on how television ruins US, the real viewers of tv and youtube, and this video tries to prove that idea based on Archer, a man who's been shown exactly zero times to be chilling in front of a tv or even a pc and who's also fictional. To make one thing clear, these people either haven't really watched Archer at all and got everything they needed from some wiki, or they are REAAAAALLY stretching the limitations of cherry-picking till it turns into a whole fanfic situation. Archer, wasn't raised by the tv. The fact that he constantly makes references doesn't prove anything more than him having a possible developmental disorder, something for which we've seen signs throughout all the (good) seasons of this show. And still, at the end of the day, we got to keep on our wrinkle ass brains that he's a fictional character in an animated shitcom that parodies James Bond and the spy genre in general. Somethings happen in this show which has no explanation, no concrete, based on facts and specific scenes explanation anyway. For fuck's sake, he was shipped off to a boarding school for most of his life!!! And if we are to correctly assume that the show takes place in a parallel dimension where tech from 2020 and beyond exists in a world where everything has an, at least 80s to 90s aesthetic, he wasn't allowed to spend vast amounts of time each and every day watching tv! "(schools, church, dojos) helps us develop healthy social boundaries so that we don't get an erection in front of our mother inspired of the thought of her dying." Yes, you heard right, biology is shaped by schools, churches and dojos, and also, people who didn't attend those institutions, are getting boners when they think their mother's deaths... Wisecrack, you did again! You cracked the code of ridiculous claims! Thanks for nothing with dick jokes on top! And there we go again, Archer grew with no structure and religion... in a catholic boarding school!!! Are you fucking kidding me?! At the end of the day, if Wisecrack was right, and Archer did turn into such a dysfunctional, useless idiot, who can't function in a real-world situation (even though he's a pretty successful spy) and communicates through catchphrases and references, why is everyone else around him fairly similar or even worse than him!?! Oh, let me guess, it's because it's an animated sitcom, right!? But that somehow doesn't affect the very real and valuable study you did on Archer, an obviously real character who's mythos you haven't spitroast between your inability to find something interesting to talk about and your need to push a video out so you won't lose that ad money, ha? 9:13 9:29 A very good example about how little substance the claims wisecrack is bestowing on Archer and his supposed state of influence from the tv throughout his preteen and teen years comes with the form of misunderstanding this obvious developmental disability joke with... "Tv never shows or explains how autopilot works, so, archer doesn't get the idea" Which is amazing, been that we have never, ever, ever seen a scene with a plane that's on autopilot landing itself... unless we are talking about animated sitcoms with absurdist humor or straight up the movie STEALTH. But the ace on the Wisecrack's sleeve is the idolization of Burt Reynolds from Archer himself. Which proves nothing about him been raised by the tv. Tons of outgoing rascals who figure watching tv all day as an attribute of nerdom are into the Fast and the Furious and are certainly NOT raised up by the tv. As for Archer overcompensating through sexual conquest for his lack of effective human interaction skills, that's just it! Has little to do with him being a fan on Burth Reynolds and vastly more to do with him being a fictional parody of Reynolds's characters and James Bond! I mean, seriously?! Was that all you had Wisecrack??? Damn! At the end of the day, if we are to judge Archer as if he was a real character and critic everything he says for the sake of the show been entertaining as the failed attempts of a kid who grew up on a steady diet of tv (which hasn't been proven about Archer, we got to keep that in mind) then why does every other character from every other sitcom gets a pass?!? Ain't that devastatingly telling when it comes to how forced and fictitious this whole "analysis" actually is?! That's, the level you have to suspend your disbelief to actually find this episode worth watching, and as I was thinking that I realized, Wisecrack ain't worth any of my eyeball work hours anymore!

I thought this was going to be about Woodhouse raising him... that would have been interesting too: How being raised by nannies and outside help affects childhood development while ignored by your real parents💔💔

Just imagine 20 years from now everyone behaves like Archer.

I see Jared I press like. even with all the post modernist authors :P

Beautifully said , Stories give us esthetics to the world with wonderful stories . But today we consume way to much of it. Interesting question and wonderful episode

Wow,....I didn’t even notice Archer had this issue, but I also have this issue. So it would make sense that I wouldn’t notice.......this whole issue hits way too close to home.

Hmmm.. Guess there was more to that show than the three episodes I managed to catch while I had CableTV and the occasional clip in RU-vid!

10:10 -10:20 “What makes perfect sense on screen-“... The *fast & the furious* movies...? *PERFECT SENSE ON SCREEN?!?!* Are you fucking kidding me?!? 🤣🤣🤣

12:30 which now that I am 40 BORES ME TO VIBRATING RAGE

Ayeee Archer!!! How come not that many people talk about this show?

Every video with Jared going forward is such a blessing 💖

This reminds me of a tv series "Dream on". P.S : Glad to see Jared one more time.😊

That end of the last season that told us all the previous few were a coma induced reality made the show make a lot more sense. Great writing !

jared, it will be so sad when you're gone. but good luck with your new adventures

Enjoy your future endeavors. Thanks for all the great videos and podcasts!

All I know about being good, I learned from TV. -bojack horseman America's most wanted and mad tv on fox every Saturday was my childhood. (Lol no dad, mom supported us and worked all time)

To be fair, it's the Tunt mansion they're in, so even I'd expect there to be a Scrooge MCDuckian vault there.

If TV ruins kids... Imagine what social media does. It was already bad before but now is way worse.

Jared talking about stepping away from the screen as he is getting ready to leave is an Ultimate meta moment. Just how he would want it.

Broooo you're voice is so welcoming for education. Like a friend helping me understand instead of feeding tube of facts.

It's great to see Archer cuming back for another season... *PHRASING BOOM!*

1:43 Hey, I am voting in a state election today! How auspicious!

When I saw Jared, the first thing I thought was aww he's still here. Bless, got excited for a second, thinking he is rethinking the decision.

4:18 "Where are my balls Jared?"

i dunno Archer also seems pretty well read too

♪ OOOOOooohhh Jared... Please don't go ♫

TV did a better job raising me than my narcissistic mother did.

"9th bathroom break at work" 😅😨

One of Jareds last episodes talking about Archer? Wisecrack sure knows how to play with my emotions.

I got an ad for this show while watching this

So, Archer is basically like Cable Guy but with access to firearms and spy gadgets? Makes sense... Very interesting indeed

11:26 he’s also scared to death of them

Definitely down to analyze archer with the new season finally out

Yesterday i finished rewatching, this is perfecr

I re-watched "Buffy the vampire slayer" a couple of months ago; because the "quar". The show aired on tv when I was 11 years old. As I watched it; the realisation of how much it had informed my world view at the time crept over me accompanied by a bit dred and a spiraling shame of the person I was during my teens.