Sterling Archer may very well be the most crass and offensive secret agent of all time (and that’s really saying something in the grand scheme of things), but for avid fans of the show, it’s also clear that he may simply be misunderstood.
OK, not really, but Archer actually does seem to be some kind of idiot savant, as he frequently drops some of the most truly dynamite literary references in television history, from Abelard to Zola, casually leaving the plebs behind in a perpetual state of retreating to Wikipedia.
As a public service for those of us who are a few years removed from our last medieval classics class, Press Play has wisely created a super-cut of (almost) every literary reference featured in Archer so far. Pour a glass of scotch (and maybe keep the bottle on standby) and saddle up for the mildly NSFW study session below.
