New Season!

There are much better episodes that do that. I think what bothered me about that one was how much of a letdown it was, story-wise. It had some really funny moments, in fact it has two of my all-time favorite scenes in the show. The first is the sequence of cutaway scenes showing Archer ending up on the no-fly and "no-train" lists, and the second is the fake-out parody scene as the plane is crashing when Archer calms Cheryl by kissing her and channeling Humphrey Bogart, only to drop her the next moment. As great as those scenes were, though, the rest of the episode wasn't nearly funny enough to cover for the fact that nothing really interesting happened. Pam and Krieger pursue aliens, but when they finally catch up to them they're not very interesting (or they might have been had they been given more screen time)

As for that fight scene, something about it didn't sit well with me. I guess it was because Archer could have avoided murdering all those soldiers (American soldiers at that, so there wasn't even the excuse that they were the enemy) if he hadn't let Pam and Krieger wander off because he was too busy fixing a drink (and if he had bothered to learn the name of the colonel who first interrogated them). When they got off the crashed plane, he acted competent for once by successfully conning the colonel into thinking he was Agent Slater (and by making a sinister reference to Project MkUltra to scare him into giving them Jeeps), but later when he's stopped by the soldiers it turns out he thought the colonel was a lieutenant named Colonel ("Lieutenant Colonel"), so he doesn't know who they should radio to vouch for his presence. That's a funny twist, but when he's left with no choice but to kill them that's taking the joke too far. It's not that scenes of Archer killing people bother me (the opening scene of the Bob's Burgers crossover is great), it's that he was killing American soldiers over a situation that was almost entirely his fault.