Archer Season 6 Release Date And Spoilers: Adam Reed, John Benjamin, And Aisha Tyler Talk Season 6 AT Comic Con: Episode 1 Spoilers! [PHOTO]

The 'Archer' team hit Comic Con to talk about season 6 of the acclaimed animated comedy. 

At comic Con FX showed off the Season 6 opener of Archer, in which the ISIS team returns to a digitized version of their spy office with Lana's baby in tow. Meanwhile, Archer - in Army fatigues - bonds with a Japanese despot amid bombs and blasts on a stranded island.

Showrunner Adam Reed said "we ran out of cocaine!" "We treated Season 5 as a vacation," he said. "We're happy to be home, and we're excited to get back to what we normally do after a fun summer of cocaine." Season 6 will continue to explore Archer's resistance to becoming a better person.

Spinoff Comic Book Resources was there and described the preview episode saying "The episode opens with Archer, groggy from a night of hardcore drinking, awakened by the ring of old school brick phone in a seedy tropical motel room with a bottle of cobra whisky on the nightstand and a newly pierced ear. His mother Malory is on the phone with information regarding a CIA freelance mission involving the retrieval of an American spy plane from the jungles of Borneo.

Archer gets dumped into the jungle, where he encounters a Japanese soldier from WWII, as the rest of the staff tours their new offices. As it happens, the $10 million ISIS headquarters renovation coordinated by Cheryl and Cyrus results in exactly the same office they had prior to Season 5′s explosion. Exactly.

Despite his best attempts, Archer completes his mission and returns to the newly refurbished headquarters only to be harassed by both Malory and Lana. And in another reveal from the premiere, Krieger got himself a secret hot tub."

Asked if there was any hesitation about leaving the "Archer Vice" behind following the Emmy nomination for the stand alone season, Reed explained it was never designed to be permanent. "We sort of treated it from the start as a vacation and all vacations come to an end," said Reed. "So while it was fun, for me I was excited to get back to what we normally do after a long summer of cocaine."

When the discussion turned to where the aforementioned baby came from. "She did steal his man substance and use it without him knowing it." When Patten compared it to heisting a car, Tyler responded "It's way harder to steal semen, by the way. I don't know if you know that. I mean, where do you put it? How do you keep it cold? Very difficult. Stealing a car, you just drive away."

Asked what year the show take place in, Yates responded, "All of the cool ones."

When asked what their favorite aspect of the 'Archer Vice' season was, each of the panelists shared a different answer:

Yates: "Building a submarine in an indoor pool, somehow. Krieger is so fucking resourceful."

Nash: "Mine was the tit bondage. Titty twister? What was it called?"

Greer: "Well, obviously the country music sensation. There's nothing better than that."

Parnell: "Being a dictator?" When prodded to explain what exactly he liked about it, he joked, "I guess I've personally always wanted to do that kind of thing. I did a lot of research and took a lot of time to get into that part. I went to a neighborhood in Los Angeles and sort of took over. I was a pretty benevolent dictator."

Tyler: "Having a baby without an epidural in a filthy, Third World airport that had been abandoned recently and was being shot at by drug dealers and dictator's minions. I also liked when I was breastfeeding Abijean and she held up her finger at me. I was like 'Aw. I just made a tiny, little bitch baby!'

 Benjamin: "Didn't watch it. No fucking interest."

Willis: "I think my favorite was the cool guest stars we had like Gary Cole, Fred Armisen and Christian Slater.

 "I really liked the episode where they were on the raft in Columbia and then set the raft on fire through sheer idiocy. And I always love exploring Archer's neurotic fear of reptiles." Asked if he could do that regularly, Reed responded, "We could give him a job at a reptile farm."

When a fan asked whether viewers will ever get to meet the all-knowing Gypsy Woman, Reed said it may happen in Season 6. This came as a shock to the other panelists, who thought the character had been killed off. When Tyler longingly hoped Christian Slater did the Gypsy Woman's voice, Benjamin replied sarcastically, "He needs the work."

Similarly, a fan offered his own theory about the enigmatic character. "Speaking of the Gypsy Woman who has impending doom for each of the cast, Trudy Beekman has impending doom as Malory's arch-socialite nemesis," the fan began. "I have a working theory - what if they are one in the same?"

Yates said, "I think you just wrote an Archer episode," adding that the credit would read, "'Story by man in the Batman shirt.' You win. You just won Comic-Con!"

So, look forward to that episode.

Also, ISIS will be working with the CIA more, so Christian Slater will return as a guest voice-over as Slater. In addition "Fargo" star Allison Tolman will also be guest-voicing as Edie, Pam's sister.

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