Nary a “GRILL ME A CHEESE” was shouted during the “Archer Live! Tour” show at New York City’s Irving Plaza last night. But that’s only because the cast and crew — H. Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler, Chris Parnell, Lucky Yates, Amber Nash, Jessica Walter, and Matt Thompson were all present; Judy Greer and Monday’s UPROXX live chat participant Adam Reed were unfortunately unable to attend — jumped into glorious fan service activities so quickly, no one even had a chance to obnoxiously butcher their favorite quotes. There were scene recreations, as seen above, and live readings, new clips from season four were screened, Sealab 2021 was mentioned, t-shirts were fired from cannons, and did I mention Jessica Walter was there? No one wants to offend or act rude around national treasure Jessica Walter.

UPROXX was also there (thanks for saying hi, guys!), and here are 10 things we learned about FX’s Archer and the cast during the show, with photos from Nadia Chaudhury.





Archer season three came out on DVD last week. This is important because one of the special features is Sterling’s homemade, low budget Gator 2 trailer, with you-know-who as Burt Reynolds and lovable ol’ Woodhouse as Guy Who Gets Dragged from High Speed Cars. The entirety of L’espoin Mal Fait from the season two DVD was screened, too, and if you haven’t seen Archer with H. Jon Benjamin’s face, do so now.

Lucky Yates, the voice of Dr. Krieger and former UPROXX live Q&A participant who totally looks like a skinny Jeremy Sisto, revealed that on the season four DVD, you’ll see some hot Krieger tentacle porn action. A clip was shown. I’ll never be the same again. Also, Yates isn’t a huge Rush fan in real life (unlike Aisha Tyler), but in high school, when he was trying to impress some friends, he went to a record store to buy something cool for his jacket, and he ended up purchasing a Rush pin. Also also, Krieger’s virtual girlfriend is voiced by Judy Greer.

H. Jon Benjamin was saved for last during the cast announcements, and instead of a balding, slouching comedian taking the stage when it was his turn, the real-life Sterling Archer you see above came out. Benjamin was backstage providing the man’s voice, though, and he appeared when it was time for “Archer” to kiss a lucky fan.

It took at least five minutes before she relented, before running off the stage as quickly as possible.

Jessica Walter had never fired a t-shirt cannon before — and now she loves it.

Speaking of the cannons, Matt Thompson had ordered special Archer shirts for the New York date, but instead of the distributors mailing them to Irving Plaza, where the event took place, they were sent to Irving, Texas, so the clothing fired into the crowd was blank. To make amends, Thompson said that anyone who caught one could come backstage after the show and have their prize signed by the entire cast.