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{{quote|''"Portland is where young people go to retire."''|'''Jason from [[Los Angeles|L.A.]]'''}}
''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 ''[[
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* [[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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* [[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 Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' marathon leads to a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' marathon.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: If you know indie rock luminaries at all, quite a few of them turn up as guest stars.
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* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: Often.
* [[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-Out]]:
** 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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** 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 It's Not Heinous?]]:
** A couple totally loses their shit over someone tying their dog up outside a restaurant in "A Song for Portland".
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