![]() ![]() A quote that has been taken by critics to epitomize the show, is made early in the first episode. One of the more uncomfortable sketches was the gender bending Cacao Couple. “Coffeeland” is the title for a sketch, where Armisen and Brownstein play Japanese tourist school girls in a coffee shop. He portrays an aggressive bicyclist sporting a “tribal look” and loudly proclaiming “bicycle rights”. One of my favorite sketches involves Armisen as a Portland hipster. While ordering in a restaurant, Nance (Brownstein) asks about the chicken’s organic roots, “Is that USDA organic, or Oregon organic, or Portland organic?” The answer of course is, “Yes”. One of the best spoofs pokes fun at the city’s obsession with provenance. Like your typical SNL show, some sketches work and some don’t. All of the sketches involve Armisen and/or Brownstein. Of the later, some are just one offs, while others are recurring, from episode to episode. About half of the sketches string together the story for each episode, while the others feel like extemporaneous adlibs. “Portlandia” is structured as a series of comic sketches, as found on SNL. Also, Brownstein and her band once hailed from Portland, so she should be able to help keep it real. Portland seems to take its ribbing good-naturedly the real life mayor of Portland (Sam Adams) plays the harried assistant to the show’s caricature of the mayor (Kyle MacLachlan). It pokes fun, mostly gently, but sometimes with a bit of a bite. “Portlandia” pokes fun at Portland, Oregon. Created by Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live (SNL) fame (he most famously portrays Barack Obama on SNL), and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, the “seminal female rock band” (her quotes). ![]() Its second season has begun this January on IFC and the first season is now available on Netflix online. “Portlandia” is an Independent Film Channel (IFC) television series that debuted last January. ![]() "That's What I Said, Bunny Bread" - Sometimes Hip Needs to Growup with You ![]()
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