Portlandia (new comedy series on IFC)

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.

Maybe it's just being from Seattle, but when I lived in Portland it felt like there were no Asians there.

In my neighborhood, about 70% of the local businesses appear to be Asian.

I hate the Japanese, so I was fine with it.

Actually, I think the reason that I liked this episode was because it came close to this.

yeah this was p. weak except for the aimee mann stuff, but i have to admire how consistent carrie was in making that exact same "aww!!" sound like 800 times in the dumpster diving sketch.

You can sell cds in portland for money!

Bored To Death is doing it well, The Goode Family did it poorly, this is probably somewhere in between.

OTM. I immediately thought of both of these shows - Bored To Death's secret WTF weapon is Ted Danson's character and Portlandia feels like it needs something similar to kick it sideways out of the same gentle satire + special guests. Maybe Philip Knight will show up...

Brownstein is funnier than you would think in equal proportion to how Armisen is less funny than you remember.

this ^^^

the more i think about it, the more weird it seems that a board where Hipster Runoff and Das Racist are hot topics would kind of reflexively recoil at a TV show satirizing alt culture.

Who's recoiling?

i just saw a banner ad for this on pitchfork and physically recoiled

― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, January 21, 2011 6:49 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i mean there are other negative posts upthread (which aren't without merit, i'm just saying), but the word 'recoil' actually did appear itt

housesitter sketch is killing it.

Edie McClurg had a face lift!

"it revels in a kind of surrealism that could best be described as "Tim & Eric: Produced By NPR," that is to say it's just weird enough to be boring as hell and have no punchlines, but it's nowhere near weird enough to be avant-garde
it's not even bad; that's the worst part. it's just *there*"

^^is this true? I haven't seen the show but that very accurately sums up my fears of what it'd be like.