It's Dec. 27, and you've got a gift card for Amazon or iTunes or Barnes & Noble or wherever burning a hole in your pocket, but dither no more over how to spend it: Pick up Archer: Season One (out this week from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment), since the chances are decent that you missed this spectacularly hilarious show during its initial run on the FX network.
Sterling Archer (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin of Home Movies and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist) is the top spy at ISIS, for reasons that may have something to do with the fact that his smothering mommy Malory (Jessica Walter, divinely channeling Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development) runs the operation. The most competent agent would actually be Lana Kane (Aisha Tyler), who used to date Sterling but is now rebounding with mousy ISIS accountant Cyril (Chris Parnell), who -- despite his general meekness -- has been having a bizarrely kinky affair with office tramp Cheryl (Judy Greer) whenever Lana is out of the country.
So yes, Archer is sort of The Office (ISIS' head of HR is a key character) meets 007 with a potty-mouth. But that doesn't begin to capture the cruelly brilliant and dryly deadpan wit of the proceedings. You've just got to see it for yourself, and then you'll agree that Archer was one of the best things to happen to American TV in 2010.