Portlandia (new comedy series on IFC)

it made me really nostalgic!
i miss seattle. some of the portland funny, but a lot cleaner/less hipster?

the idea of portland alt culture as a 1990s legacy counterfactual is p lol

loved the nod to clowning in the opening btw

i thought the hide and seek league was funny.

are portland hipsters more socially/enviromentally conscious than brooklyn hipsters? serious question.

theyve just got to be

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.

honestly i think the platonic portland stereotype is really more a hippie thing. i mean there are keffiyehs and coke but that's not really what you make fun of when you make fun of portland.

http://grab.by/8wGV

you can just see brows furrowing and tension rising on the way east.

Yet another solid indicator of Oregon's high unemployment rate.

any explaination for the ohio/michigan price dip?

dorm room plants

I've already met a few Portlanders that were actually offended by this show. Of course, these guys are living, breathing Miranda July characters who spend their weekends creating hand-made board games and won't eat anything that comes out of a plastic bag. So mission accomplished, I guess.

I mean they acted like Sarah Palin wrote that first episode or something.

beatniks

humorless people not liking being made fun of shocker

the piece i heard yesterday on npr in which carrie b describes a pet shop who will sell her animal carcasses for her dog to chew on, but is outraged at the thought of carrying leather leashes.

thanks for that link

Watching this primarily for Carrie but the rest is good too so much whatevers

― calstars, Saturday, January 22, 2011 9:25 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

mine too!

hah

It is a fucking catchy song.

the piece i heard yesterday on npr in which carrie b describes a pet shop who will sell her animal carcasses for her dog to chew on, but is outraged at the thought of carrying leather leashes.

― tehresa, Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:39 AM (Yesterday)

I think I know the place she is talking about. It's in the Buckman neighborhood. I've never been there but that sounds like what I've read about the place.

When those 20 year olds retire and have kids, they all wind up going to Buckman Elementary.

I guess episode 2 isn't online anywhere?

Waiting for the skit on juggalo drama on MAX

really enjoyed this! the whole chicken farmer thing went on a bit too long and the payoff was v predictable but it had good things in it too.

from the opening lol

http://grab.by/8xKS

haha i immediately thought of the ilx thread when i saw that!

Watched the first episode of this last night...my word it was terrible.

this was meh - not bad but not great either.

also Fred Armisen is like the ugliest motherfucker in the world. shudder to think of his hideous couplings with Peggy Olsen

trenchmouth was such a great band, fred rules as a drummer

anyway the skit about how local the chicken was was pretty funny IMO, i've gotten a pretty similar jive talk from waitresses at places in mpls

The aggressive marketing and co-promotions on Facebook are pretty gross.

the "put on a bird on it" thing kinda cracked me up

i watched my first ever ep of parks and recreation last night and didn't laugh once

immediately watched this and was in STITCHES.

agreed that buscemi sketch was the worst part but my god. the rest was just brilliant. so many of the lols weren't "in the script" so to speak - it wasn't all about clever-clever quips (like p&r) it was about armisen and brownstein just nailing certain attitudes and ways of speaking

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.