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** And from the same episode we have Archer saving everyone from the Space Mutineers after having sex with Pam.
* In "Space Race: Part 2", after Archer decides to save the ISIS team rather then go fight {{spoiler|Barry}} on the space station, Cyril thanks Archer in a badass way, by {{spoiler|melting Barry's shuttle with his rocket thrusters so he's trapped there.}}
* In season 9, a layered [[Meta|meta]]-callback occurs in the temple, involving a gag about cannibals and bones.<ref>[https://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Danger_Island:_A_Discovery/Techniques_and_Trademarks Season 9 Episode 8 - Techniques] ''Archer Wiki''</ref>
** The gag has a complex build up - it is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Malory - ("why would those cannibals let us come all this way to find the damn thing ''if they knew it would kill us?"'') and set-up by Noah ("I really can't stress ''how much they hate white people''"), which is a callback to earlier references to their racism. The joke leads Noah to conclude that he must re-write his thesis - which is a simple callback to the previous episode, as well as to "Heart of Archness" - as "it's not often you discover a primitive people who understand 'the callback'". The joke [[Shout Out/Playing With| shouts-out itself]] (meta) and is a way of calling attention to all the layers that have gone into it's formation, making it a [[Brick Joke]] as well as a [[Chekhov's Gag]]. It ''also'' subverts itself as it isn't the ''cannibals'' who understand the callback, but rather ''Noah'', and [[Genius Bonus|hopefully]], ''the audience''.
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