Archer/Awesome

• Pam, of all people, in "El Secuestro" for her ability to take torture and then delivering a massive What the Hell, Hero? to the whole of ISIS. Even Lana has no desire to tussle with her.
• Barry gets one in the Season 2 finale. After being abandoned in Moscow by Archer and left for dead, he's turned into a cyborg by the KGB. He then delivers his own Roaring Rampage of Revenge on Archer, and crashes Archer's own wedding. It requires a Heroic Sacrifice on the part of Katya Kasanova, Archer's bride and defecting KGB agent, just to save Archer's life. And Barry isn't even remotely hurt, taking a shot by Malory on the back with a shrug.
• Woodhouse's Roaring Rampage of Revenge in WWI must be seen to be believed. Let there be no doubt of its awesome though.
• Cyril, of all people, successfully bluffs an enemy with an empty gun, despite the fact that he is outnumbered three to one and Archer is rendered helpless.
• Basically whenever Archer has to do actual ass kicking, he's badass-incarnate. Like in Swiss Miss, where he kills all of the terrorists chasing him on snowmobiles without much effort, only acquiring a gun halfway through the chase.
  • His maneuver at the beginning of Job Offer is also awesome.
    • So is almost everything he does in Skorpio. So yeah, you get the picture.
• Noah finally getting fed up with Archer and Lana's endless bickering, during the Pirate Island arc.

Noah: Oh. My. God! Just screw already!

Rip Riley: Seriously...

• Doctor Krieger performing successful brain surgery while high on acid.
• Archer quoting a question Ruth asked him before her death and then shooting Franny Delany in the face.
• EVERYTHING that Burt Reynolds does in the car chase in "The Man from Jupiter".
  • And really, everything that Burt Reynolds does in universe.
• Cyril showing that he's not completely incompetent as a field agent in "El Contador." Unfortunately, the awesome is ruined by his utter incompetence as an agent in the next episode, "The Limited."
• Krieger being able to dispose of a dead body with minimal traces and being able to smell that there is too much salt in a tomato sauce from several meters and doors away in "Lo Scandalo."
  • The real moment of awesome in that episode, belongs to Mallory. She scams the entire crew, and literally gets away with murder.
• Pam of all people, being revealed to be, for a lack of a better term, a sexual beast.
  • "I'm like Chupacabra, but for dicks."
• At the end of "Space Race Part:1" Guest Star Bryan Cranston says "Danger Zone"
  • 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 Barry on the space station, Cyril thanks Archer in a badass way, by melting Barry's shuttle with his rocket thrusters so he's trapped there.
• In season 9, a layered meta-callback occurs in the temple, involving a gag about cannibals and bones.^[1]
  • The gag has a complex build up - it is 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 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 hopefully, the audience.

1. ↑ Season 9 Episode 8 - Techniques Archer Wiki