Why is the gay guy in archer in a wheelchair

After they are double-crossed by their employer on the mission and escape, Archer causes the space shuttle to crash land on earth, injuring everyone but himself. In the final scene, Ray leaves the room using his wheelchair, revealing he was genuinely paralyzed by the crash. Archer is confused by Ray's anger, insisting that he "already had the.

In the aptly titled episode "Honeypot," Archer is tasked with seducing a Cuban secret agent in Miami in order to blackmail them. Always eager to use his spy missions to bed as many women as. He likes being in the wheelchair. I forget which episode revealed that but he talked about how he liked other people thinking he was paralyzed or some shit.

Reply [deleted]• Additional comment actions. At the end of the last season, Ray was using a wheelchair after being paralyzed. But Reed hints that Ray may walk again (perhaps thanks to a pair of cybernetic legs), and also alludes that Ray. Archer's fear of cyborgs hits home when Krieger offers to make robotic legs for the wheelchair-bound Gillette.

Air-Vent Passageway: Archer tries to use these to get from the Armory (where he was locked in) to Krieger's lab (where Ray is being given bionic legs). This perspective on criticism is often forgotten or ignored but is invaluable for my posts. Ray Gillette pronounced like the razor; don't let his hillbilly family tell you otherwise was first introduced in a cutaway gag in the show's first season.

By allowing changes, Archer risks losing many of the easy joke setups that the other shows enjoy. Then he finds Archer stole his handicap parking spot two of them. You need to login to do this. Cut to: our first look at ISIS's openly gay secret agent. He's the bleach-blond gay from a sitcom-ready plot whose conservative family still believes he has a wife.

A New York City interior decorator? The episode also made terrific use of guest star Burt Reynolds, who is a perfect fit for Archer's hyper-masculine and action-packed world. Other animated comedies such as Family Guy and The Simpsons rely on their unvarying worlds to provide many of their jokes e. Despite the horrific nature of the procedure, thanks to Krieger's "proprietary blend" of drugs, being partially converted into a cyborg is apparently an outpatient procedure and Ray can go home immediately afterward.

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Log in now. It took Ray — a secondary character whose sole purpose to this point has been to throw out catty putdowns every now and then — and fleshed him out, as every good show needs to do with its supporting players. This season of Archer looks to continue expanding the show's world by putting the existing characters in new situations and interacting with peripheral characters. Meatgrinder Surgery : The surgery to install Ray's bionic legs gets incredibly messy.

Being Cheryl , she actually enjoys it and asks him to do it again, to his dismay. Gillette is how, in his swishy-ness, he's also a hilarious interrogation of the very obvious gay male stereotype he embodies. Jeremy Likes TV. Lana further thwarts him by having the facilities guy crank up the heat so that Archer passes out. Why couldn't she send Ray, a more appropriate agent for that job, Archer asks.

Oh, Crap! Always eager to use his spy missions to bed as many women as humanly possible, Archer is disappointed when his boss, who's also his mother, informs him the target is a gay Cuban secret agent.

In fact, while Hollywood smugly pats itself on the back for the inclusion of a queer Power Ranger or an "exclusively gay" moment in your favorite cosplay-as-remake Disney project, FXX's R-rated show has been showcasing the kind of complex and stereotype-smashing LGBTQ character we are seemingly always on the cusp of seeing on a mainstream pop culture property. But Malory, who hilariously runs the International Secret Intelligence Service an acronym the show has, for obvious reasons, phased out with as much pettiness as you'd expect from a character voiced by Arrested Development 's Jessica Walters, doesn't hide her disdain for Archer's colleague.

The focus on humor instead of dynamic and realistic characters seems to indicate "turn-your-brain-off" television a subject I've discussed with Allen from It's Primetime Somewhere but Archer continually rewards its viewers for close attention and consistent viewership. Which I assume is not only hot but also moist.