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Fans of the irreverent adult animated comedy Archer might think that there is nothing off limits for the suave master spy.

But, according to creator Adam Reed, the network brass at FX did put a few restrictions on the activities of his hero, Sterling Archer, early on.

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It was for Season 2, a time when Reed and the network were still in the “getting to know you phase.” Reed wanted Archer to disarm a bad guy by throwing a baby at him.

“They said ‘We do not throw babies. Think of something else,'” says Reed, during an interview at the Banff World Media Festival. “I argued and wrote this whole essay about why is should happen. They were like ‘You’re wasting everybody’s time. We are not throwing a baby.'”

It was one of only two times that Reed remembers the network stepping in. The other involved Archer becoming the bodyguard of lustful German teenager in the Swiss Alps., who is constantly making sexual advances toward him. Reed wanted the teenager to be 14, which is apparently the age of consent in Germany. The network wanted her to be 18. They compromised.