The fictional spy agency will no longer be known as the International Secret Intelligence Service. Prior to the release of the sixth season of "Archer," creator Adam Reed announced that FX's animated spy comedy will get rid of the name ISIS altogether as the association of the acronym with a terrorist group is not really a good way to go.
"It's just the most awful thing, and we didn't want to have anything to do with it," Reed told Daily Beast in an interview together with Archer's executive producer Mark Thompson.
"We won't say ISIS anymore, and the only visual representation of it will be that sign rolling off the show," Thompson added.
Creators and producers plan to ditch the name as subtly as they can without the characters showing the slightest care about it — by simply featuring a scene with movers taking down the sign. However, signs bearing the acronym from the first to the fifth season will still be intact. The name ISIS will no longer be in sight or talked about in the new season as the international spy agency will move on to work with the CIA.
"We got sort of lucky and could organically make a merger with the CIA and we just don't talk about it in dialogue," Reed added.
While the team strives to forget about ISIS for good, they would have to deal with the mountain of merchandise they already produced. Those not only include the items in stores but those they have as memorabilia. Reed told Daily Beast how weird it quickly became for all of them.
"I gave my Dad one of the ISIS hats and he said, 'You know son, I'm not going to be able to wear the hat anymore. I'm gettin' looks at the hardware store,'" said Reed in his best southern accent, as Daily Beast described. Jessica Walter, Malory Archer's voice, is faced with a tough decision to throw her ISIS cup away.
Creators haven't released an official plotline for the new season, but Reed hinted in Daily Beast that Lana and Archer's life with their new baby will kick off the plotline, while he told Enstarz that the show's villain, Barry, will come back in "a big way."
CraveOnline interviewed the cast in the New York Comic Con, and each had something to say about his or her character.
"She's gonna juggle the things that normal working moms deal with like daycare and trying to not blow up your baby with your pocket full of grenades," Aisha Tyler answered when asked about her character, Lana.
Julie Greer (Cheryl Tunt) explained that her character is back to being the "worst executive assistant in the history of executive assistants."
Season 6 of "Archer" will be released in January 2015.
