Wow, Archibald is quite the douche! That was fantastic. There were so many fun little bits in this story, I was laughing to myself as I was listening on my walk. I think I actually snorted when Archie tossed the emergency beacon at the sharks.
I've, thankfully, never personally known anyone quite as over-the-top as Archibald in real life, but I felt the caricature painted here of the entitled, narcissistic, misogynistic, clueless and obnoxiously wealthy grad student is perfect. As Graeme points out, we've all had people take, or try to take, credit for our own work before, but the way Benjamin wrote this was great, in that Archibald REALLY thought he was the savior-of-the-day. Just wonderful.
No reflection of Norm's personality, I'm sure, but he really nailed egotistical that voice. I loved this.