An excellent start to one of my current favorite shows. Laundry list!:
-"YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!....wait, who is my supervisor?" is a terrific continuation of that Season 2 running gag.I also loved how they played up Gillette's new handicapped status ("OK I GET IT!") and Krieger's van is once again destroyed. Cyril firing blindly out a window and screaming was also great.
-Drunken, sobbing Malory will never stop being hilarious. Neither will Pam's lack of a filter between her brain and her mouth.
-Burt was classy and funny as hell, and I love how Jon Benjamin played the war within Archer between gushing over Burt and agonizing over the idea of his hero dating his mom. I liked how they concluded it too: Burt gives him some crucial advice, and Archer makes one small step forward by confessing that he wrote the note (followed by Malory bashing him in the head with her purse: "What is wrong with you?!").
-Woodhouse confusing Burt for Clark Gable=solid, fried gold. So was Archer giving himself away by thinking people still refer to Hollywood as "Tinsel Town".
-The Cuban hit squad mistaking Gillette for Archer by using the photo of the latter in the awful gay disguise from Season 1's "Honey Pot" was a damn good callback.
-I simply can't get over Archer's hilariously douchey "Leave a message" voicemails.
-I think my favorite Burt film shout-outs were the reference to him directing Gator and his sarcastic referral to Archer as Hal Needham.