Featuring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein
Friday nights at 10:30e on IFC, starting Jan. 21
http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/
― busytits (rip van wanko), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIyI94acJv4
― busytits (rip van wanko), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVmq9dq6Nsg&feature=channel
― busytits (rip van wanko), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
they have been advertising the fuck out of this. was sorta not interested but the bit about "I don't like it to be taken for granted that a man doesn't menstruate" lol. mostly cuz northwest gender politics are very lol
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i lol'd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7VgNQbZdaw
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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― am0n, Friday, 14 January 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i enjoyed it and i live here
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 14 January 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
ep 1 is up:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/206160/portlandia-farm
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 14 January 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
wait how is "i feel it all around" the theme song
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 15 January 2011 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
because of indie
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 January 2011 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
buscemi!
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 15 January 2011 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
laugh count: 3
seems to be at it funniest when it's not straining to mock hipsterism and veers into absurdity. sudeikis was the best. kind of dire overall! buscemi was good too but that was the worst segment, ugh.
― busytits (rip van wanko), Saturday, 15 January 2011 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I read "Portlandia" and like usual, I'm pretty bummed out that it's Oregon, not Maine. MAINE NEEDS A TV SHOW!
― Rotating & Blunders (MintIce), Sunday, 16 January 2011 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Fred armisen lookin mad old
― Z-Ro Price (m bison), Sunday, 16 January 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I get a Hyundai hipster couple vibe from the previews. Feel like I would hate this despite liking both actors
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 16 January 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I was born in Portland and have lived here (with minimal interruptions) for 56 years. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't recognize my home town in this show. But, I'm old, you know, so it's probably not improtant.
― Aimless, Sunday, 16 January 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
aw aimless I wasnt tryina make an old guy dig, more like ae Fred armisen thinks he can be 25 forever joek
― Z-Ro Price (m bison), Sunday, 16 January 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
no umbrage taken
― Aimless, Sunday, 16 January 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought this was surprisingly funny.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 16 January 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
agreed!
― ullr saves (gbx), Sunday, 16 January 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't watched the ep yet, but i did watch the "Have Ya Read" sketch, which I thought was great once it hit its absurdist climax.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Sunday, 16 January 2011 06:43 (thirteen years ago) link
cant tell if i should hate this b/c its about 'hipsters' or like it cuase its making fun of 'hipsters' or maybe hate it b/c it assumes that there is an audience large enuf to support a show devoted to making fun of 'hipsters'?????
― max, Friday, 21 January 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
r u serious i cant tell
― David Warner (Princess TamTam), Friday, 21 January 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
max stop thinking and just laff, way better approach imho
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 21 January 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda hope carrie brownstein has second career as SNL cast member tbh
― children of the church planters (Edward III), Friday, 21 January 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
― David Warner (Princess TamTam), Friday, January 21, 2011 1:57 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i cant either
something just rubs me the wrong way--the jokes are spot-on and i do laff but theres something that rankles me about the whole like... "were all in the joke"
― max, Friday, 21 January 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess what im saying is that for someone to be effectively comedy-owned they need to not get the joke
max u are making up fake comedy rules
― children of the church planters (Edward III), Friday, 21 January 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
don't tell lex
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 21 January 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the real problem is brownstein + armisen are gently ribbing instead of savagely satirizing because they actually have deep seated fondness for hipsters
like "it's okay to laugh at ourselves!" gee thanks
― children of the church planters (Edward III), Friday, 21 January 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah edward otm - this is affectionate self-parody
(not that ive seen it or anything)
― David Warner (Princess TamTam), Friday, 21 January 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this sort of self-clowning is totallu viable as comedy, not everything needs to be a takedown. i think it works here. i also have never seen it.
― omar little, Friday, 21 January 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
otm, i get a lot more mileage out of self-clowning than vicious "beatdowns"
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 21 January 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
you might be on the wrong message board then
― children of the church planters (Edward III), Friday, 21 January 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://campusprogress.org/articles/portlandia_edges_into_stuff_white_people_like_territory/
― velko, Friday, 21 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Works best before it gets to the over the top climax of each skit.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ SNL, in a nutshell
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
but i did watch the "Have Ya Read" sketch, which I thought was great once it hit its absurdist climax.
opposite for me, i was dying and it gets all wacky and punchline-y, whatever.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the best satire is often insidery and affectionate to some degree. like repo man works because cox was familiar with and fond of punk(s). people making fun of supposed "hipsters" = automatically boring. self-admitted hipsters mocking themselves = at least potentially funny.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh I wasn't really passing judgment on portlandia, just trying to help max work through his issues
hipsterism is overdue for some OTM savagery tho
― children of the church planters (Edward III), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Friday, January 21, 2011 3:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
not true, mocking ppl who are different from u is actually the funniest thing
― David Warner (Princess TamTam), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
doesn't have to be either/or
fey as sarah palin / poehler as clinton SNL skit is a good case study
― children of the church planters (Edward III), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
this looks hilar
― ice cr?m, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
its not tho
― am0n, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't like it.
― polyphonic, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
the hulu full ep is expired so i cant tell either way, i like the clip where he comes back to l.a. all excited abt portland tho
― ice cr?m, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
all i've seen is the "did you read" thing but that was way better than i thought it'd be. i also live here.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
the oregonian had a front-page story about this btw, complete w/ quotes from people worried it would "draw more unemployed young people" to the city.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i just saw a banner ad for this on pitchfork and physically recoiled
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 21 January 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ok the celery episode was really solid straight through.
― eric banana (s.clover), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
i loved the bacon guy
― Treeship, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
garage sale
― eric banana (s.clover), Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
How much would a car even cost? Seventy THOUSAND dollars?!
― très hip (Treeship), Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2wyUiwCEl4
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 4 April 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
opening sketch of going to a concert hit pretty close to home
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 4 April 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
Taped to my door this weekend:
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― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
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Pee-Wee Herman posted this today
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Friday, 12 September 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Watched a couple of the new series. This show is so smug about itself it's hard to watch. It's got no jokes, punchlines or new ideas. Brownstein is still charming but Armisen is really vulgar and not funny at all as a woman which is pretty much all he did in the episodes I saw. Couldn't they just get a funny woman to play those characters? What a shitty show.
― everything, Thursday, 12 February 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
I liked the history of the women's bookstore episode
this show is hit or miss tho (and v repetitive)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 February 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
Bookstore episode was like a slow victory lap of a previously amusing sketch.
― everything, Thursday, 12 February 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
it is quite painful at times. the bookstore for me has always been a bit of a one-note, mildly funny at best scenario. did not benefit from them fleshing out their backstory in a full-length episode.
smugness is def a feeling you get from the show, or complacency at least. they seem very pleased by the characters and situations they've made and will just persist with them interminably and aimlessly. also i increasingly find armisen just detestable, and while brownstein is much less obnoxious, i just don't find her a very compelling comedic performer.
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
I liked the episode where Spike proposed marriage too
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
may have been entirely due to remarkable similarity between Justin Long and Carrie Brownstein in a mustache tho
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
Armisen in a wig is not as funny as they think it is.
― everything, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Are you having a laugh?http://www.filmmisery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-shot-2013-10-21-at-2.06.20-PM.png
Is he having a laugh?https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/011511_portlandia_episode_1_t.jpg
― everything, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
its still reasonably funny imo but so much of it is just structure and editing
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 February 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
rapid-fire, back and forth cut conversations, i mean
i think that means the joeks don't have to be as good and it still sorta works
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 February 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
ok the feminism episode had some good lulz
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Friday, 27 February 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
I liked the Tiny House episode. Some well done physical comedy and that escrow VHS was great.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Friday, 27 February 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
Documentary Now! is pretty funny.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 28 August 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
Get that Old Navy money. Do what you have to do in this world.
― how's life, Friday, 18 December 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
Carrie did an American Express commercial a little while back too iirc.
Teenage me would've been bummed, but 30 something me would probably do the same thing.
― circa1916, Friday, 18 December 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
Would 30 something you already have, like, enough money from their entertainment career?
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 4 January 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
Rolling in all those Wild Flag airplay royalties.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Monday, 4 January 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Carrie & Mary Timony did some Price line ads w/Shatner back in the day: http://www.mtv.com/news/620299/helium-sleater-kinney-members-do-commercials/
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 January 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
this has worked the best as a broad city substitute
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 May 2016 01:13 (seven years ago) link
Season 7 premiere tonight, any watching?
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 6 January 2017 02:07 (seven years ago) link
*anyone
So good to see Abbi Jacobson on this while waiting for Broad City.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 24 February 2017 06:07 (seven years ago) link
Steve Buscemi's mannerisms are very Alan Alda in his apperances.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Is there a thread for Documentary Now?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
I just started watching this after years of going "eh I think I will hate this"; I'm in season 3 now and I think it's overall one of the funniest shows I've ever watched
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
curious what yr favorites are, mine is definitely they're gender-switched couple (Carrie in a mustache and muscle-t etc)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
their
I am listening to the cacao sketch right now actually, lol
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
I love Nance and Peter the most, oddly
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
Brunch Village is a masterwork
Dave and Kath are pretty great too
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
the milk council bits are also amazing
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah. I think I dropped it after season 2 and then picked it back up after it was completed and on netflix. It's really great. That one song "The Best Part is Going Home" (after seeing a band) has been a huge help in making me feel better about not going to shows anymore.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
otm about Nance and Peter. Oddly I skip all the gender switch couple bits. I think Carrie's voice freaks me out too much.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
Watched part of the 30 ROCK infomercial for NBCUniversal. More of their Dig Our Privileged World cut-rate comedy. I want to see a PORTLANDIA reunion deal with that city's police state a la Haskell Wexler's MEDIUM COOL. How funny is a pepper-sprayed Fred Armisen? pic.twitter.com/AlE2lBAWyg— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 18, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 July 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
Morbz on some midsummer night's dream shit with this Dennis Perrin infatuation
― this has been the best year fuiud (rip van wanko), Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:11 (three years ago) link
you guys can stick with Tom Cruise i guess
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
My assumption is that Dr Morbius follows exactly three people on Twitter: 1) Dennis Perrin, 2) Doug Henwood, and 3) Alex Pareene.
― jaymc, Monday, 20 July 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
i'm tempted to say even the worst episodes of 30 rock are funnier than dennis perrin but in all fairness the weather app on my phone is also funnier than dennis perrin
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
i'm not on Twitter
I also look at many film crix and sportswriters on it however
also the rock in the backyard is funnier than ilx
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 July 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
Portlandia already did a "let's take over the police department" skit and it was ridiculous and sort of bad, mostly because it existed in the extremely White sphere of "cops just answer our noise complaints, right" and ended up taking the cops' side. (On the plus side, the uniforms Fred and Carrie created to make the police more relatable to the community were pretty funny, as was the fashion show where they presented them to an increasingly incredulous chief of police.)
Most of the times that the show involves police officers, they're seen as largely benign government agents patiently dealing with increasingly ridiculous White/White-passing people, which glosses over the problems endemic to the modern police force. It's still usually funny, thought; the skit I reference above was an outlier.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 20 July 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link