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[[File:port_4174.png|frame|The Dream of the '90s is ALIVE in Portland!]]
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''[[Portlandia]]'' is a sketch comedy show that ran for eight seasons on IFC from January 2011 to March 2018, starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. It is set in Portland, Oregon and most of its humor comes from mocking its hipster culture. Armisen is a current cast member on ''[[
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▲''Portlandia'' is a sketch comedy show on IFC starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. It is set in Portland, Oregon and most of its humor comes from mocking its hipster culture. Armisen is a current cast member on ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'' and Brownstein is a writer and the former singer and guitarist for [[Alternative Rock]] band [[Sleater Kinney (Music)|Sleater Kinney]] (she's currently a member of Wild Flag).
* [[As Herself]]: Aimee Mann plays herself as a down-on-her-luck maid, claiming she has to because the music industry is down.
* [[Be
** Women and Women First. The shopkeepers refuse to remove books from shelves for customers, are against alphabetizing the books on the shelves, and so on.
** A man calls the DMV to ask for a replacement title on his car. The operator tells him that he'll have to be transfered; when the operator finds out that the transfer won't be back in for another hour, he tells the caller that it'll only be a moment. {{spoiler|The caller eventually gets a ''letter'' in the mail that no, they can't replace his title.}}
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* [[The Cameo]]: Quite a few, including:
** [[Steve Buscemi]], of all people, is a hapless customer in the "Women & Women First" bookstore.
** Also, James Callis and Edward James Olmos (not to mention Ronald D. Moore) in the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: Keep Portland Weird indeed.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: The Mayor of Portland, which isn't surprising given his constituency. Examples include sitting on an exercise ball instead of an office chair, drawing a dog on a Post-It instead of actually taking notes in a meeting, and lending out framed pieces of Native American art. He also clearly carries a grudge against Seattle for overshadowing Portland's [[Bourgeois Bohemian]] culture.
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** Also, when they mean "print and distribute a book," they don't mean "get published." They mean physically printing a book from a printer
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Indie band the Nap change their name to Cat Nap and add their cat, Kevin, to play a scratch post. They suddenly experience runaway success.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The mayor of Portland is revealed to secretly be in a reggae band. The press conference on this played out like a sex scandal.
* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]: Played with: Carrie dates a man with [[Pearl Jam
** ... and she starts dating {{spoiler|Eddie Vedder himself}}. Who, in turn, [[It Got Worse|has a giant Ani DiFranco tattoo on his arm]].
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Carrie visits the grave of a man she just committed manslaughter against and dances around singing to Fred over the phone.
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* [[Happy Place]]: Sparkle Pony tunes out when meanies are talking, and goes to a magical forest where she wears pretty clothes and pets... a pony.
* [[Here We Go Again]]: Twice in "One Moore Episode":
** Carrie is turned off by a guy with an [[Pearl Jam
** In a convoluted fashion, a ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Hey,
* [[Hipster]]
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: The couple mentioned below in "[[What Do You Mean
* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]: "Okay, this guy's got a really weird neck. Don't say anything about it, but compliment it. ''Ooh, you have a neck like a movie star!''"
* [[Larynx Dissonance]]: Occasionally Fred and/or Carrie's voices are pitched for a role.
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* [[Medium Blending]]: "Cops Redesign" features a shift to stop motion for a sketch about rats in a supermarket.
* [[Meganekko]]: "All the hot girls wear glasses ''yeaahhhhhhh''!"
* [[
** The real Moore shows up later in the skit, playing a local actor hired for a table reading of the script. The character has never heard of ''Battlestar Galactica''.
* [[The Nineties]]: As the opening song notes, Portland is where the "Dream of the '90s" is still alive" as a reality.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: The giant box that previously contained a very small sex toy.
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* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: The city recently won the award for "Best Official Website for cities with populations under 700,000 in the Pacific Northwest area". Especially since there are no cities that big in the northwestern U.S.
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: A very frequent joke.
* [[Rant
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Feel It All Around" by Washed Out.
* [[Rhyming
* [[Running Gag]]: Birds on things.
* [[Safe Word]]: Cacao. Gets abused until female!Fred texts it to male!Carrie despite the two not even being in the same place at the time.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Carrie as she watches ''[[
* [[Shout
** During the "Over" sketch, one of the albums visible in the record store is [[Sleater Kinney]]'s ''Dig Me Out''.
** "One Moore Episode" has a plot about Fred and Carrie watching ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' and trying to get more episodes written.
** There's a send-up of [[Porky Pig]]'s "That's All, Folks!" in "One Moore Episode".
** ''Also'' in "One Moore Episode", Carrie watches ''[[
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The show gets all the stereotypes right, down to neighborhoods and individual streets.
* [[Sketch Comedy]]
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* [[Take That Me]]: Carrie Brownstein isn't shy about poking fun at her indie rock roots.
* [[Terrible Interviewees Montage]]: [[Inverted]] in that Fred and Carrie are terrible interviewers, but all the baseball team member candidates seem adequate enough.
* [[What Do You Mean
** Lots of examples, most notably the Portland Adult Hide-and-Seek League, and the man who "truly won", because he's been hiding since 1979.
** In "One Moore Episode", where there's tons of pumping music for, among other things, Ronald D. Moore's wife coming home.
** "Cool Wedding" features Carrie dropping her iPhone in slow motion with a [[Really Dead Montage]].
** Later on in "Cool Wedding", Carrie puts off watching ''[[
* [[What Do You Mean
** A couple totally loses their shit over someone tying their dog up outside a restaurant in "A Song for Portland".
** Jack McBrayer gets grilled by a cashier and manager for not bringing a reusable bag to a grocery store.
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