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The basic idea behind Archer - an office comedy, only at an office full of secret agents - is hardly original.

Watch it: It's available on DVD and for digital download.

They're bureaucrats, I don't respect them." The whole show's like that: Rick deceiving Morty into helping him do unconscionable things and waving off his objections. Take the time where he orders Morty to shoot at a race of insect people, assuring him that "it's okay to shoot them, they're robots." Morty shoots, the insect person he hits cries out in agony, and Rick clarifies that the robot thing was "a figure of speech. He's just a bad person, and the show's much funnier for it. It shares the love of pop culture pastiche of Harmon's other show, Community, and refuses to take the easy way out of humanizing Rick by painting him as grumpy-but-ultimately-good. It shouldn't work, but Roiland (who voices both Doc-analogue Rick and Marty-analogue Morty) and Harmon have sustained it for 11 glorious episodes so far, without diminishing returns. On paper, Rick and Morty sounds like a good idea for a comedy sketch and a disastrous concept for a whole show: a parody of Back to the Future only with a sociopathic Doc and a more bumbling, idiotic Marty, and with space travel in addition to time travel. Created by: Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon