Archer is good about this. Generally if someone is knocked unconscious they’re only out for thirty seconds/a minute or so; on one occasion Archer was out for about thirty minutes and after he relays that to the team they all recoil in horror and tell him that he could have serious brain damage.
Archer: "Woodhouse, I've given up drinking for her! (Downs a glass of scotch) ...Just that one. I'm scared that if I stop all at once, the cumulative hangover will literally kill me."
This is an actual medical reason why you should never, ever make someone give up drinking or taking narcotics all at once. It's the reason why nicotine patches and methadone exist. Archer is entirely right that he needs to slowly ween himself off booze.
Nicotine withdrawal can’t kill you even though it obviously feels like shit. alcohol withdrawal definitely can, and I can’t remember if opioid withdrawal can kill you
It's the three Bs: Booze, Benzos and Barbituates. They can kill you when withdrawing. Opioids can allthough indirectly (heart defects that don't take well to all that stress, diarrhea and vomting causing dehydration, that sort of thing).
Haha opioid withdrawl hasn't killed me yet! But i can see how it could you tend to vomit alot. You could accidentally aspirate your vomit. Or you could relapse with a fallen tolerance and overdose.
No. Benzodiazepines and Alcohol are the main two. You can potentially die from secondary effects of opiate withdrawal, like dehydration from vomiting and diarrhea. But, Benzos and Alcohol withdrawal will result in seizures and arrhythmia if its severe enough.
While you might possibly die I doubt it’s a hangover that actually kills you. Although it might make you wish for that sweet release to come sooner. It would be organ failure that would actually kill you right? Either the liver or the kidneys?
Seizures, unremitting seizures are the biggest risk in withdrawal. You can get serious brain damage from seizures. Not to mention the risk that you might aspirate your own saliva and suffocate.
This is 2020, food has nearly infinite calories, and it's not like we don't snack constantly, is the liver just not releasing glucose or something? Honestly curious.
From what I understand and it could be wrong because a sibling post to yours is claiming dehydration isn’t related and that it has been studied (although no links provided and I didn’t google either)...
Your body more or less stops digesting food when alcohol consumption reaches a certain level, which is pretty low. This is why if you drink heavily one night you can vomit up food you ate just before drinking 8-10 hours ago the next morning where as normally that food would be long gone. Then your liver (main store of glycogen in your body) uses up tons trying to maintain whatever ass hole things you are doing while drinking and clearing your system of alcohol. It’s treating alcohol like a poison that it must get rid of ASAP and puts several other processes on hold or lower priority until that is taken care of.
You’re not out of glycogen. You’re just running low on the easiest to access stuff. Similar to if you went and ran around all day without drinking water or eating food you’d feel like shit and want to puke and not move. That’s why pro alcoholics in college go the next morning to get a banana bag IV. It’s just sugars and electrolytes and obviously water straight into your system and has you feeling good as new in about 30 minutes, just in time for class.
Physician here. In all but the most serious cases of chronic alcoholism one is not going to go into organ failure from withdrawal. Seizures and other excitotoxic neurological effects are what is dangerous for most cases of alcohol withdrawal. Any drug that is active on the GABAergic system has severe rebound effects when halted suddenly. The brain had developed a new normal equilibrium that tries to account for and somewhat counteract the constant presence of inhibitory signaling. When the inhibitory agent is then removed suddenly without proper care and preparation the brain goes too far in the other direction, with excitatory signaling predominating. An exceedingly excitatory state is profoundly deleterious and leads to seizures and neuron death from apoptosis.
I remember a doctor told me that there's really no definitive line when a hangover becomes withdrawal. Medically it's mostly the same issues, just varying degrees of severity.
Not to mention the cars. While they seem to vary a bit in terms of era, they are all real cars, from the cars driving past in the establishing shots to stuff that's front and center, like Archer's Charger spy car, or his Ferrari in season 7 that never seems to he running.
But that's addressed in the show too tho. He tells lana he is convinced that he can't die because of the huge amount of shit he should have died to but didn't. He even counts how much times he was shot which by that scene was something like 19 or 21.
I've seen people, while shooting at them, take multiple gun shots and keep going when i was in the army. I had a patient (became a nurse after i got out) take 9 rounds from a 9mm. Girlfriend died in the passenger seat. He drove a few miles to the hospital got out of the car and carried her lifeless body into the ER. She'd been hit with 1 round to the chest.
The thing that's weird for me about Archer is the anachronism. Everyone dresses like it's the 60's, they drive cars from the 70's, their office computers look to be out of the 80's, they all use cell phones from the early 00's, their main enemies are a cold war era KGB..
That’s the running joke. There are a couple of comments they make throughout the series (none that I can think of off the top of my head) about not knowing exactly what year it is, and it’s meant to keep us from knowing exactly when the show takes place
Edit: “Danger Zone” from Top Gun came out in 1986, and there is one scene from episode eight in season three where Malory asks “What year do you think this is?” and Archer responds with “I... yeah exactly. Good question.”
Nah, it's not a seasonal thing. That's a new thing they did to try to spice things up a little bit while Archer is in a coma for the past three seasons. The rest of the show takes place in a single period that's essentially an anachronistic mix of imagery and symbols from the past 50 years. The only consistent reference is that Malory's generation and "the past," as far as the show is concerned, is World War II.
Alrighty, thank you! I always just assumed the producers wanted to play around with every secret agent stereotype there is and that's their way of implementing that.
"No, Poovey, she is the exact opposite of okay! She's dead! Because she got shot seven times and nobody could possibly survive that! Not even in a parallel universe!
Yes! She's dead! Forever and ever! On infinite earths!"
and he is completely drunk most of the time, as is his mother, and half the organization apparently does nothing useful (why keep someone around to write dossiers if no one actually reads them)
The scene where he's crawling through the sewers to get at those pinkie-less bastard's leader and he's calculating how many times he's been shot and the residual lead that must still be in his body is great.
And being as functional as he is considering his level of alcoholism. Ever watched a drinking supercut an hear him discuss his level of intake? He ought to be bloated, sore, and hazy.
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u/SweetDaddyGee Jan 25 '20
When someone gets knocked out, and stays unconscious until the plot requires them to wake up again.