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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 As Unhelpful As Possible]]:

** 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.

** ... 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.

** Carrie is turned off by a guy with an [[Pearl Jam (Music)|Eddie Vedder]] tattoo, and starts dating Eddie Vedder, who has an {{spoiler|[[Ani Difranco (Music)|Ani Difranco]] tattoo}}.

** In a convoluted fashion, a ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' marathon leads to a ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' marathon.

* [[Hipster]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Feel It All Around" by Washed Out.

* [[Rhyming With Itself]]: Fred rhymes "right" with "right" in "A Song for Portland".

* [[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.

** 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 ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Film)|The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' as sped-up sunsets with a [[Drone of Dread]] denote the passing days.

** 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.