Here's every movie and TV show easter egg featured in Archer is an animated sitcom that debuted in 2009, and follows the titular, James Bond-aping superspy. While he's good at his job he's also an egotistic, womaning alcoholic with a boatload of personal hangups and, quite often, a hangover. While the show features Archer getting into dangerous missions in exotic locales, it quite often focuses on his incredibly dysfunctional workplace and colleagues, including his mother and boss Mallory.
Miami Vice, where season 8's Archer: Dreamland was a noir detective story literally dreamt up by the title spy when he fell into a coma, with the following two seasons retaining the coma fantasy concept.
Archer season 7 episode 9 "Deadly Velvet" saw The Figgis Agency hired by film director Ellis Crane to protect the star of his new movie. Ellis' Deadly Velvet cast his ex-wife Veronica Deane in the lead, and several suspicious accidents make him think someone is trying to sabotage the production. The entire team goes undercover on the set, while Patton Oswalt's lawyer character Alan Shapiro also returns.
Archer season 7 episode 9 is loaded with easter eggs to other movies and TV shows, some of which are subtle and others glaringly obvious. Falling into the latter came is Cheryl's angry "You maniacs! You blew it out!" when the crew puts out a raging fire, which is a reference to the ending of Rain Man." There are lots of posters littered around the film set, with Shanghai Moon being a play on Jackie Chan action comedy Shanghai Noon, while a poster for fake spy movie Disavowed is a callback to a season 2 episode.
When Lana is attacking Archer in Deane's dressing room she's using the title object from 1941's The Maltese Falcon, while fans of Archer creator Adam Reed's previous series Sealab 2021 will be able to spot cast from that show in the background. Archer season 7 episode 9 ends on a cliffhanger involving a murder, with the season finale "Deadly Velvet: Part II" later setting up the coma storyline that would run for a few years.
