By now you have undoubtedly heard of, the international terrorist organization, ISIS. The extremist group has been responsible for beheading of American journalist, and has promised an attack on New York. So it is understandable that the animated FX series, Archer, would not want any part of the evil that is ISIS. The series has featured unrelated organization, that shared the anagram with the terrorist group. Now the International Secret Intelligence Service, is disappearing. Last seasons Vice storyline, was used to separate the cartoon from the real-life terrorist.
Archer creator Adam Reed recently spoke to The Daily Beast, about how the shows has managed to silently kill their ISIS organization:
“We quietly did. We were waiting for it to go away--at least I was. Back in Season 5, FX said, ‘This might be a thing,’ and I thought, ‘Maybe it won’t be? Maybe it’ll be the mole that I’m gonna ignore and nothing will happen.’ We got sort of lucky and could organically make a merger with the CIA, so we went back and retroactively painted out the ISIS logos in parts of the show, and we just don’t talk about it in dialogue.”
Executive Producer Matt Thompson also chimed in about how they decided to handle the situation:
“We won’t say ISIS anymore, and the only visual representation of it will be that sign rolling off the show. It’s just the most awful thing, and we didn’t want to have anything to do with it.”
Thompson went on to discuss why they couldn’t handle the problem head on:
“There were people online saying that we should address it and say, ‘Oh, I can’t believe these guys have co-opted our name.’ That’s the way South Park would do it, coming after them and saying, ‘These assholes stole our name,’ but that’s not the way the Archer universe works, where it’s all our own creations. In our universe, they don’t exist.”
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