Portlandia (new comedy series on IFC)

the gadget overload scene was PERFECT.

aubrey plaza! kyle machlachlan!

2nd episode not as good as the first, i thought. but i still cracked up at a lot of stuff. i will never not love kyle maclachlan

cacao

I never want to see Carrie with a mustache again.

that voice was so creepy!

skit was next level imho

Dog sketch slayed me. Really feels like we're just listening in on the private jokes of a couple. I wish they didn't push so hard for the punchline and just let the characters play out.

"We're not like hippies at all, we like to think of ourselves as being more alternative."

haha, the sketch with buscemi and the hide and seek league one totally won me over

when you point your finger all i see is a penis

i love that character

put that down, please

put a bird on it hilarious, although punchline was kind of lame
fixed gear messenger dude was hilarious
dog sketch was good, but again the punchline was lame and totally unnecessary
bookstore sketch was better than the first ep
and Kyle M was of course amazing

saw episode one today. it taught me two things i never would have thought possible: first, former sleater-kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein can be funny; second, current snl cast member fred armisen can be funny.

when you point your finger all i see is a penis

^^^best line of the show so far. "cacao" close second.

fixed gear messenger dude was hilarious

yeah I did lol at this. "Cars, WHY?"

thought the fixed gear messenger gag was pretty boring and predictable, but maybe i'm just ~sensitive~

youre too close man, too close to the epicenter

eh i tried

Fixed gear guy not as OTM as Tyres in Spaced

mayors assistant in the machlachlan bit was the irl pdx mayor btw

ha!

fr real

im starting to really love fred armisten

'whole foods is corporate!' still has me lolling.

yeah, shakey mentioned above, but "cars, why?" was laughs

i liked him squeezing past the dumpster 'isn't there somewhere better you could be?' (or something)

crack up so hard & armistens parts of the song ideas back and forth ~ like where hes clipping his toenails

finally saw this show, it's p. great. it helps that i live in eugene where we have a complex about how great everyone thinks portland is. my close friend ran a feminist bookstore in her youth, so i find those skits extra hilarious.

aubrey: "who's 'they'?"
carrie: "goddesses."

haha that line was especially funny cause obvs she was just pulling goddesses out of her ass as a default in defending her partner

I like the feminist bookstore 1&2 and "dream of the 90's" skits the best. There's lots of individual parts of skits that I like as well. I thought "cacao" was the worst skit - mostly because the appearance of the characters made me uncomfortable. My favorite mocking of hipsters was the couple ordering chicken, the feminists (obv), animal rights couple going crazy, technology overload (I've been victim to that), how unphased the girl was about the guy who buys her a car (reminds me of certain people and summer isle residents), and all the folks in the "dream of the 90's" skit.

10 FEET RULE

still believe that the show would be funnier if they dialed back the punchlines

It probably would be funnier to edit out some of the less funny absurdist punchlines but a lot of these skits are leading to no ending because they are largely just characterization and dialog.

I would be fine with editing off the baby tied to the pole but the ending with Buscemi trapped in bookstore and the ending with the bird getting smashed were pretty good ways to close those skits.

feminist bookstore person: "That's the thing, book 13 you find out if she is a lady and it pains me to imagine you not knowing her journey."

like how else do you end the technology overload skit? the absurdist ending was as good as any other at that point but obviously the most funny part was everything else

Best part of the "PUT. A. BIRD. ON. IT." skit is all the breaking stuff.

the dream of the 90s is alive in portland been stuck in my head, dece song

― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 23, 2011 1:59 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mine too!

― tehresa, Sunday, January 23, 2011 1:59 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hah

― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 23, 2011 2:02 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It is a fucking catchy song.

― righteousmaelstrom, Sunday, January 23, 2011 4:23 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I've just now decided after a few youtube clips that I'm going to start watching this, but I came here to reiterate this FACT. That song is all kinds of rad.

AM I BLEEDING? MAAM AM I BLEEDING?

i liked the encore song going on in the background while they were waiting for Aimee Mann.

I didn't like much of that episode at all. I think I'll be calling the show quits but I'll give the 4th episode a chance. Every episode has been a less and less funny but I guess even the first episdoe wasn't completely all that great anyways.

The aimee mann bit was the first long-running episode gag that I thought really stood on its own and paid off. The "over" sketch was almost snl-quality lame, and the packaging sketch was pretty weak too.

Aimee Mann was great, so was the loljapanese one.

SARAH MCLACHLAN, SIT!

Carrie's also looking a lot more comfortable too now.

I am a fan of Aimee Mann

you are a poet and don't even know it

oh those japanese, they're so funny. looking forward to lol mexicans r lazy next week.

That sketch was lame except for the "impression" which just killed me.

Actually this was a weak episode overall.