Production Note: Archer Producer —- and the man behind “Mulatto Butts” — Casey Willis will be dropping in this afternoon to answer questions and comment on last night’s episode. Please direct all questions @Casey in the thread.

I usually save my pop culture reference count for the last bullet point but “Midnight Ron” may have set a new Archer record for both quantity and quality. By my count — on top of the Midnight Run homage — we were treated to Human Centipede, C.H.U.D., “The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man,” Master P, The Flintstones, CW McCall, Psycho, Norman Bates, John Waters, Road Warrior, and — of course — a Pac-Man Jones callback. Phew. *chugs Red Beer*

And I’m sure there are several I’ve missed. Not to mention Ron Lieberman (aka Ron Cadillac) is the real-life husband of Jessica Walter, which seems like a reference in and of itself (this list can suck it).

In the midst of all of this goodness we were treated to a highway shootout (killer artwork btw), learned the Ron Cadillac (shockingly not his real last name) backstory, met a pack of sadistic transvestite truckers, and experienced some good old fashioned mother’s husband/son bonding via road trip.

Loads of notes, so here we go:

“Herd of Quebecian whores” vs. “Free penicillin compliments of the socialist republic of Canada”: Who ya got?

Nice to have you back, Pam’s lunch crockpot. Nice to have you back.

It only reaches “third biggest fear” status if the whore has bangs. Separately they’re much lower fears, I presume.

The “Ron Cadillac is freakin’ epic!” glass smash/trashed hotel room felt slightly out of place after viewing the entire episode. I have to presume this is just how old dudes get pumped for cross-border money runs, whereas I would popped in “36 Chambers.”

My guess at most underrated part of the episode: The Archer-needs-help phone call transfer-athon highlighting what everyone does during slow times in the office.

“And I basically own him.” Poor Woodhouse. I see a bowl of spiderwebs in your future.

“Of carbons many oxides.” Walter White approves of chemistry callbacks.

Rhinos can’t make phone calls > Ashton Kutcher’s terrible f-ing movie.

By my math Ron’s car-boosting flashbacks did not help with the Archer universe time displacement.

Verbatim cutaways are now just a rung below chubby kid Archer cutaways.

“Kickin’ it Bedrock-style” – most repeatable line of the night.

Tunt Railways: Where only the hobo-iest of hobos hobo.

And finally, old gypsy woman foreboding that wasn’t revealed as foreboding until the time of the incident? Archer 1,487; Tropes 0. Enough of my rambling?

Got it. Chet Manley GIFs on the next page as to not crash too many browsers.

Passport burning is ill-advised during international travel, but if you’re going to do it, do it for a drunken one night stand.

Equal parts brilliant, scary, and arousing.

I also take my absinthe with a splash of Poovey Farms.

Still got it.

What Chet said.

This moment is why Al Gore invented GIFs.

And now to wind down (while your servant eats spiderwebs).