The season also pays homage to the short-lived 1980s television series Tales of the Gold Monkey which featured a very similar premise to Danger Island.

"[2] The season sees Sterling Archer as an alcoholic seaplane pilot living on the lush and mysterious Pacific island of Mitimotu with Pam, his muscular co-pilot, and sidekick/best friend.

Cheryl is cast as Charlotte Stratton, a honeymooner and a member of New York's high-class society who becomes stranded when her husband leaves after Archer slept with her, Malory is a fancy hotel owner and once more Archer's mother and employer, Ray is a pompous French colonial gendarme, Capitaine Reynaud, Cyril is Siegbert Fuchs, the Nazi spy posing as a local businessman, Lana is Princess Lanaluakalani of Mitimotu's indigenous Polynesian population and Krieger is a sapient, wisecracking scarlet macaw named Crackers.

Archer, his mother, Princess Lanaluakalani, and the Germans compete with each other to find a valuable idol rumored to be hidden on the island.

On the Pacific island and French colony of Mitimotu, seaplane pilot Archer spends a drunken night with newlywed Charlotte Stratton causing her husband to abandon her.

Mitimotu's indigenous heiress Princess Lanaluakalani and local businessman Siegbert Fuchs charter his aging seaplane, the Loose Goose, for a flight around the island and they are accompanied by co-pilot Pam and the talking parrot companion Crackers.

Archer helps the tribe prepare to defend the village and set up booby traps, which has successfully wiped out the German troops and also defeated Fuchs who has donned a powered exoskeleton.