FX Axes ISIS from Upcoming Sixth Season of 'Archer'
The upcoming sixth season of the popular FX cartoon series "Archer" will feature one slight change: ISIS will disappear. The show will unveil their changes when the new season airs in January.
The popular FX show, which tells the story of a rouge spy agency known as the International Secret Intelligence Service, or ISIS, and its employees, will drop ISIS in lieu of recent events and the rise of the terrorist organization by the same name.
In an interview the Daily Beast, "Archer" creator Adam Reed and executive producer Matt Thompson talked about the decision to drop the name.
"We quietly did," Reed told The Daily Beast. "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."
Though the channel and the show's creators decided to drop the acronym from the upcoming season, they did not remove the fictional organization's name from earlier seasons.
"It's just the most awful thing, and we didn't want to have anything to do with it," Thompson said when ISIS, otherwise known as ISIL, gained notoriety in the news. "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."
The actors who voice the characters in the show were not happy with ISIL's rise and their usage of the acronym similar to that from their show.
"I was like, 'Do you not watch "Archer" because we already have that name,'" said Judy Greer, who voices Cheryl on the show, according to the New York Daily News. "They need to come up with a new name."
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