Portlandia (new comedy series on IFC)

I liked when the two sets of parents decided to form a band in the parking lot. The band names were pretty funny. Plus the prog-rock kids band halfway through was pretty rad.

Carrie has a very nice smile!

"I am getting very stressed out that the head of our school does NOT know about Neu!"

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, January 5, 2013 6:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^i lol'd at this

I've never worked out when to go so I let other people go first.

The rules are pretty simple at a 4-way stop intersection. Right of way is granted in the order of one's arrival, as indicated by who first came to a full stop. If you arrived before the other guy, you can go ahead before the other guy. Otherwise, you wait until your turn arrives.

If two vehicles arrive simultaneously (or so near to this as to be indistinguishable), then it depends on where the other vehicle is located.

If the other guy is on the opposite side of the intersection and you're both going straight through, it doesn't matter if you go or wait, because you won't collide anyway. If the other guy is opposite you and one of you is turning left, the one not turning goes first. If the other guy is not opposite, but to one side, then the one to the right of the other goes first.

This would all go swimmingly if people paid attention, signalled their turns and generally followed all the rules. Because large numbers of drivers habitually disregard the rules, it's more like a casino.

Sorry. This is a hobby-horse of mine. When I spot it, I must mount it and ride it like the wind.

god I hate roundabouts

successfully navigated fourway stops are civilization at its breathtaking finest

Ah cool, so exactly like roundabouts except with less considerate motorists. Cool. xpost

roundabouts are clearly superior fuiud

in our self-driving car future this will all be moot

i wanted to like this show - in general glad to see comedy with a sense of time and place - but i just burned out on sketches that seemed to be written without an ending. So many where it was just a pair of clueless idiots milking a wacky conceit to death. "In this one Fred and Carrie will play a married couple really into boots. They'll talk about boots and then yell about boots, and then, I dunno, turn into boots."

― da croupier, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:41 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

This was my problem with the show too and, real talk, I think they fixed it in the third season

god I hate roundabouts

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:40 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait ... so you guys in California have roundabouts?!? i thought that that was just a northeastern USA thing!

they're few and far between out here. I have driven in other parts of the country/world tho

I went to chicago just before christmas walked into a bar and sat down next to Fred Armisen, He finished his dinner and left, The End.

Berkeley has a bunch of roundabouts, especially in the middle of highly residential areas. I think the idea is to dissuade people from running through intersections? And they often have little parks in them?

i wanted to like this show - in general glad to see comedy with a sense of time and place - but i just burned out on sketches that seemed to be written without an ending. So many where it was just a pair of clueless idiots milking a wacky conceit to death.

― da croupier, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:40 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"In this one Fred and Carrie will play a married couple really into boots. They'll talk about boots and then yell about boots, and then, I dunno, turn into boots."

― da croupier, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:41 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

I've noticed some of them have an even worse problem where the funny conceit is like ALL the sketch has. Like the Good Walls Bad Art sketch was a very funny idea but it died after like 10 seconds when you realize the whole rest of the sketch is just going to be more and examples of bad art. They are witty observers but it feels like they don't have much of an idea how to write a sketch at all.

A friend of mine used to wait tables with Armisen in the late 90's. I guess he was always doing shit like claiming to be the owner of the restaurant when customers asked to see the manager.

and then, I dunno, turn into boots.

This keeps making me laugh so maybe they should do this?

charlize theron nsfw

bemused-looking girl w striped shirt in front row at staff meeting in that sketch a good friend, an arizonan transplant but now officially canonized as Someone Who Looks Like She Lives In Portland

Matt Berry as Squiggleman!

I was effing BORN in Portland, and taking all things into account I've never really left it in the nearly six decades my life has spanned thus far, but no one would ever characterize me as Someone Who Looks Like He Lives In Portland. I am fitfully amused.

I like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbo-FBLdMH8

well sure to look like you live in portland you have to move there when you're 22

I didn't want to like this show and I didn't

how about that.

so wow this last episode was dull.

the targets of the jokes just feel like they've branched out, which would be good, except they've branched out to things i really don't even have a basis to think about, like so much b&b.

http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/kiran-herbert-portland-and-portlandia-two-worlds-of-whiteness/

that's a hellova weight to put on a show

Brunch Village episode was fantastic

Tim Robbins as the dungeonmaster character, just amazing. "I want you to tell me in a silent voice, using words."

"Silence!"
"Explain yourself!"
"Do you want me to be silent, or explain myself?"
"Explain yourself, in a silent voice, using words,"

also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJLQfOQbtyE

xp oops double-posted the last line

ok the celery episode was really solid straight through.

i loved the bacon guy

garage sale

How much would a car even cost? Seventy THOUSAND dollars?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2wyUiwCEl4

lol

opening sketch of going to a concert hit pretty close to home

Taped to my door this weekend:

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Pee-Wee Herman posted this today

Watched a couple of the new series. This show is so smug about itself it's hard to watch. It's got no jokes, punchlines or new ideas. Brownstein is still charming but Armisen is really vulgar and not funny at all as a woman which is pretty much all he did in the episodes I saw. Couldn't they just get a funny woman to play those characters? What a shitty show.

I liked the history of the women's bookstore episode

this show is hit or miss tho (and v repetitive)

Bookstore episode was like a slow victory lap of a previously amusing sketch.

it is quite painful at times. the bookstore for me has always been a bit of a one-note, mildly funny at best scenario. did not benefit from them fleshing out their backstory in a full-length episode.

smugness is def a feeling you get from the show, or complacency at least. they seem very pleased by the characters and situations they've made and will just persist with them interminably and aimlessly. also i increasingly find armisen just detestable, and while brownstein is much less obnoxious, i just don't find her a very compelling comedic performer.

I liked the episode where Spike proposed marriage too

may have been entirely due to remarkable similarity between Justin Long and Carrie Brownstein in a mustache tho

Armisen in a wig is not as funny as they think it is.

Are you having a laugh?
http://www.filmmisery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-shot-2013-10-21-at-2.06.20-PM.png

Is he having a laugh?
https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/011511_portlandia_episode_1_t.jpg

its still reasonably funny imo but so much of it is just structure and editing