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10 Reasons to Watch Archer Over 30 Rock (As Per Archer’s Exec Producer)

Tonight at 10 p.m., comedy lovers face a conundrum: Watch 30 Rock on NBC or Archer on FX? The animated adults-only superspy parody returns for its second season, with more plot-foiling and mutual undermining by self-absorbed agent Sterling Archer (voiced by Bob’s Burgers’s Jon Benjamin), his inappropriate boss/mother (Jessica Walter, much better served here than on Retired at 35), his cantankerous ex (Aisha Tyler), and the nebbishy sex-addict agency comptroller Cyril (Chris Parnell). Yet it returns to the air to find itself pitted against the relocated 30 Rock, which attracts a similarly choosy (but larger) audience of humor snobs. What is a cable upstart to do? Archer executive producer Matt Thompson decided to take a bold step and has submitted to Vulture his ten reasons why you should watch his show over Tina Fey’s (all done with love, of course). Check out the following slideshow and see if you’re convinced.

30 Rock has Chris Parnell once in a while. Archer has him every fucking week!
Archer’s hair is what Jack Donaghy’s hair dreams about at night.
Lana Kane is an empowered female character who excels at her job. Her job includes wearing lingerie and hip firing an AK-47. Liz Lemon has glasses.
Our domineering mother is hotter than your domineering mother.
It’s ten o’clock at night. If you are up, shouldn’t you be smoking pot and watching cartoons?
Jack and Liz flirting is cute. AutoRobotic Asphyxiation is hot.
The creation of fake words like “Biggerization” are ruining our culture and making our children more intellectually impotent. We need to get back to the basics of watching dirty cartoons that feature a lot of sex and violence.
Offensive Stereotypes: Check.
Pound for pound, Archer is the best show on TV. (That is not a fat joke. It’s a masturbation joke.)
Are time slots still a thing? Can’t we all be friends? Oh my God, Friends was a great show. I really miss it. You should skip watching 30 Rock and Archer and just catch up on some Joey. How you doin’? Great! Joey is on.
10 Reasons to Watch Archer Over 30 Rock (As Per Archer’s Exec Producer)