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"Sea Tunt: Part 1" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of Archer and the first part of the season finale.[1]

Plot

A bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb crashes off the coast of Bermuda. Meanwhile Cheryl's brother, Cecil Tunt, tries to get Cheryl's half of the fortune. Cecil fabricated the story of the hydrogen bomb to (1) gain secretly recorded stories from the ISIS agents regarding Cheryl's mental instability and (2) gain ISIS' help stopping Captain Murphy.

Trailer

Trivia

  • The title of this episode is a reference to the television series "Sea Hunt."
    • It could also be a double reference to Cheryl and/or Cecil, as an abbreviation of either sibling's name on a name patch would write "C. Tunt".
  • There is an error in the script near the beginning of the episode when Archer is converting the depth of the bomb from the 8000 feet  first quoted by Malory, Initially he correctly rounds the depth to 1333 fathoms but then incorrectly states it is 2.27 leagues. One league is 3 nautical miles of 6076 feet each, so 2.27 leagues is actually 41377 feet; 8000 feet is only about 0.19 leagues.  I believe they meant for him  to convert it into nautical miles, which would be about 1.27,  easily mistyped as 2.27, and then confused the units saying leagues instead of nautical miles.
  • When Malory says "We are going to beat the Russians!", Archer makes a reference to Mike Eruzione, the captain of the 1980 USA Olympic ice hockey team that beat the USSR.
  • When Cecil Tunt enters Malory's office, Archer says "Rien Poortvliet called; he wants you to pose for him." He adds that Poortvliet is the "beloved illustrator of Gnomes".
  • Pam is allergic to soy.
  • Captain Murphy is a reference to a character in Sealab 2021, show produced by Reed and Thompson on Cartoon Network from 2000 to 2005.
  • For six months, Cheryl thought she was a werewolf.
  • Cheryl burned down a gazebo in an act of arson as a young child.
  • When Cecil yells, "There is no bomb!" and Malory replies, "I guess I had that coming," it's a callback to "Skytanic" where Malory fakes a bomb threat to get a free ride on a rigid airship.
  • When Pam tells Cheryl she'll wish she was Michael Findlay. Findlay was a '70s director of sexploitation films who died when slashed to death by a detatched helicopter rotor.
  • This episode contains performances from the actors Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal, who, along with Jon Benjamin (Archer) act on the FOX series "Bob's Burgers".
  • Archer asking Malory if she smells toast when he thinks she is having a stroke is likely a reference to Dr. Wilder Penfield , a Canadian neurosurgeon. He pioneered a process of removing brain cells responsible for epileptic seizures. A patient of his said she "smelled burnt toast" before seizures, and he found the region of her brain that was responsible by stimulating it until she smelled toast.
  • The scene where Carol observes Cecil and Archer talking about her via video from a control room is a reference to a scene in The Abyss. Two characters are discussing how Lt. Coffey is losing his mind from high-pressure nervous syndrome. The movie then switches to video screen of them talking and zooms out to a delusional/paranoid Lt. Coffey anxiously watching them in a video control room. There's also a bit of diegesis when it zooms back to Coffey.
  • When Cheryl observes Cecil and Archer talking, she breaks the fourth wall by reassuring herself that the musical sting is "non-diegetic." This refers to the difference between diegetic sound, which is sound heard by characters with an explicable source in-universe, and non-diegetic sound, which is for the sake of the audience. This joke is called back to when Cheryl hears the non-diegetic musical sting when she confronts Tiffy in the cockpit.
  • Archer says that the Bermuda Triangle is his "fourth biggest fear."  In the episode "Pipeline Fever", we learn what his first, second, and third biggest fears are: alligators, crocodiles, and brain aneurysms.

Gallery of Images

There are 9 screenshots and images from "Sea Tunt: Part I" on this Wiki, visit the category page for a complete gallery.


Here is a sample of three images from the gallery:

References

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