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
I think the real problem is brownstein + armisen are gently ribbing instead of savagely satirizing because they actually have deep seated fondness for hipsters
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
As a lifelong portlander I am pretty icked out by this whole thing. I dunno, maybe if I can summon the nerve to actually watch it I might have something to say other than "eww, really?"
― Clay, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Also a ton of ppl I know are very, like, proud (?) of this show representing the city/them and that sorta grosses me out too, maybe. Though they prob just like the "attention".
― Clay, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
portland in liking attention shocker
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I've never quite got what that's all about. burg has a Napoleon-complex.
― Clay, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i'm really happy here, but once i was walking down burnside and there were all these flyers taped to the side of the crystal ballroom that said in block letters PORTLAND IS COOLER THAN BROOKLYN and like, if you have to say it...
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
lol so perfect
― Clay, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
heard npr feature on this and immediately don't want to watch it because i can't stand carrie b and her annoying affected voice (she drives me insane every time she's on all songs considered)... but the concept seems really funny to me and i feel like watching it because i miss the pnw. totally torn.
― tehresa, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i think every city in this country has a weird napoleon complex about something except for, well, new york city.
― omar little, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought the bit about the chicken in the first ep was funny
― Young Guns aside, the western is not my favorite genre. (latebloomer), Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
xp -- does carrie b have an affected voice? i can't stand her on all songs considered either but that's just because she has The Most Boring Opinions Ever. (much <3 2 s-k and my girl corin though)
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
(n.b. have only heard carrie brownstein on all songs considered twice)
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
don't discount canadian cities, they also have this complex! maybe even WORSE! i feel by even typing that i'm ughhhhhh
― Postmodern Bourbon Development (Will M.), Saturday, 22 January 2011 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link
thought that 1st episode was funny enough, but this LOL HIPSTER shit is wearing very thin. guess this could be slightly more interesting as a "insiders' perspective" or whatever. at least that puts them in a position to make something more than LOL FIXED GEAR BIKES, OBSCURE MUSIC.
― circa1916, Saturday, 22 January 2011 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't have IFC, but they shd def have a scene in the Portland Eagle, both the funniest and 'nicest' Eagle of the ones in which I've actually seen leather and flogging.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 January 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
guess the first episode was funny enough, but I'm having a hard time imagining that this premise is sustainable.
― Darin, Saturday, 22 January 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
someone upthread said the worst sketch was the buscemi one but that was the one that made me really laugh (not so much for buscemi) and think about watching this for more than one episode. sleater-kinney girl is not really any good at comedy, though.
― gosamosapodin simgibmelreel (some dude), Saturday, 22 January 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
ilx search: hipster > this show could run for 20 seasons
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 January 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
white effete counterculture liberals making fun of themselves without turning it into a hilaaaaarious ironic rap song for once is okay by me, at least on a conceptual level. Bored To Death is doing it well, The Goode Family did it poorly, this is probably somewhere in between.
― gosamosapodin simgibmelreel (some dude), Saturday, 22 January 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
most otm Portland-based contemporary food culture humor since Achewood
― smang the DJ (I DIED), Saturday, 22 January 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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haha canada just i dont even know
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― smang the DJ (I DIED), Saturday, January 22, 2011 10:39 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
put a bird on it is cute but damned if i could actually watch 30 straight mins of this
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i watched this and it was pretty funny, shipley otm when he says "at least theres no rapping." theyre def shooting fish in a barrel but theyve got pretty good aim. laughed the hardest at the old woman in the hide and seek sketch
― max, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching this primarily for Carrie but the rest is good too
― calstars, Saturday, 22 January 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
is the full episode up anywhere else? seems like it was pulled from hulu. the 'I read it' sketch is pretty funny.
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
if you google around you can find it on megavideo
― max, Saturday, 22 January 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought it was pretty funny!
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 22 January 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
this sorta seems like what stuffwhitepeoplelike should have attempted to do
― iatee, Saturday, 22 January 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
it made me really nostalgic!i miss seattle. some of the portland funny, but a lot cleaner/less hipster?
― tehresa, Saturday, 22 January 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the idea of portland alt culture as a 1990s legacy counterfactual is p lol
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 22 January 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
loved the nod to clowning in the opening btw
― tehresa, Saturday, 22 January 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought the hide and seek league was funny.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 22 January 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
are portland hipsters more socially/enviromentally conscious than brooklyn hipsters? serious question.
― busytits (rip van wanko), Saturday, 22 January 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
theyve just got to be
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 22 January 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ime new yorkers who think they are green are at like 33% of pnw-er environmental consciousness, but i'm not sure how that breaks down with hipsters specifically.
― tehresa, Saturday, 22 January 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
their
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
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