Archer’s send off to Jessica Walter was perfect and made me tear up. 🥺
Jessica Walter, who voiced Mallory Archer — Archer’s mother and boss — passed away during the production of Archer, season 12. While she had recorded most of her lines for the season prior to her death in March of 2021, the show’s writers changed the end of the season’s arc for Mallory to make a graceful exit from The Agency, which she ran.
The season’s finale ended with her peaceful and sitting on a beach living out her secret spy retirement with her husband, Ron, who had been voiced by Ron Leibman — Jessica’s real life husband.
Ron and Jessica were married from 1983 until Ron’s death in 2019. Season 11’s Episode 2: Bloodsploosh, was dedicated to him.
Archer, 12x08: Mission: Difficult
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my anxiety: imagine if you fail your classes. imagine if your cat dies today. imagine if you never find love. imagine if you sleep through your class despite your alarms all properly set. imagine if you have a panic attack! imagine if you…
my depression: imagine that no one cares about you, not even yourself. imagine getting out of bed tomorrow morning. imagine how others see you if you are the worst person you know. imagine how perfect your friends on instagram’s lives are. imagine that you…
me, literally just trying to go to sleep at a goddamned reasonable hour:
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I think pretty much as soon as they can officially (in capability, rather, not numerically) outnumber Bruce, the Batkids institute an official Old Man Policy.
Because they can't stop Batman from pulling overtime completely. They know this.
BUT.
For every night he works in a row past three,
("Now hang on," Bruce had whined. "The average work week is five days, I should at least be able to-" "Literally every study has rebuked that, and also quit your CEO job then.")
he is conscripted to a middle-of-shift nap on the couch in Gordon's office of at LEAST an hour.
It doesn't have to be smack in the middle, he's not expected to drop everything and head back to the center of town, just.
At some point in the shift (barring extreme or extenuating circumstances, confirmed as such by a majority batfam and/or justice league vote) he is contractually obligated to find a winding down point to pause and regroup or let someone else handle for a bit.
He of course, hates this.
Gordon's office couch was actually the compromise - the kids wanted him to come back to the manor or the tower to rest, but he put his foot down about needing to be somewhere he could be reached immediately and hop right back into action, and the GCPD was the perfect midpoint for that.
He's sheepishly explaining this to the Commissioner by the floodlight, flanked on either side by his various companions, and Jim throws his head back and just laughs.
He's wiping the last tear from his eye when, from out of nowhere, betrayal.
Nightwing wheels around on him, wagging a finger. "Don't think you're exempt from this rule either, old man. We've been clocking those triple shifts."
"Now you wait just a goddamn minute, son, no way I'm hell am I gonna agree to-"
So now Batman and Jim routinely have to schedule alternating shifts on the sofa in the Commissioner's GCPD corner office. Bruce intended to stubbornly tough it out on the ratty old couch until the kids felt bad for him and caved, but when they proved unrelenting (and after the first time both men were just so damn exhausted they collapsed on it together, and paid for it the next day in various aches and pains) he succumbed and bought a nice top of the line sofa.
With the touch button footrests and fully reclining massagey backs.
And okay maaaaaaaybe both he and Jim are starting to look forward to their allotted relaxation time. And maaaaaybe there's some cucumber slices and gel facemasks in one of the refrigerated armrest beer cooler compartments for when their timing lines up and they want to have a spa kvetching session.
But the kids don't need to know that.
In fact.
"No, Jim, I'm serious. As far as they're concerned, we hate this. It's unnecessary. It's insulting. The moment they think we aren't grumbling about it enough, they're gonna start getting suspicious. And soon as Dick finds our stash? You can kiss it goodbye."
"...you're still not over him using all your good conditioner, are you?"
"It was limited edition."
"Hey wait a minute. Why don't they enforce 'naptime' for Alfred, too? He works two jobs, and he's older than us!"
"One, I'd like to see them try and make that man do anything. Two, that man has never actually butlered for me a day in his life."
"...but he's always dusting around whenever I've been over-"
"Yeah no the snoop just grabs the duster and pretends to be busy so he can eavesdrop. We have a cleaning service that comes by for all the manor rooms, and the world's most expensive Roomba for the Batcave."
"-but... but your laundry-"
"Throws it all out at the end of the week and buys replacements. Unlike us, Al actually sleeps during the day."
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