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Portlandia is IFC's hit sketch comedy series created, written by, and starring Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (WILD FLAG, Sleater-Kinney vocalist/guitarist). The show is driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in "Portlandia", the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon where 90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage. Armisen and Brownstein play an array of colorful and unique characters in these six hilarious episodes
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00:00I want it to be about Portland, you know, I mean all about the inspiration that you get from the city.
00:05Bridges, mountains, rivers, nature, bicycles, all of that.
00:10All of that fits in.
00:11One word of warning, please don't make it like Seattle.
00:18Our version of Portland is how we experience it or how we want to experience it or how we
00:23sort of hope other people experience it.
00:24It's not really a city that gets portrayed a lot on TV or movies.
00:29Bike, bike, bike, bike, bike.
00:30Ugh, cars, man, why?
00:33I don't have a driver's license.
00:35I don't need it.
00:35Get a bike lane here.
00:36Hey, I get this whole lane.
00:3710 feet rule.
00:38Oregon state law, 10 feet.
00:40Hey, birds, you guys have little bikes?
00:43What are you looking at?
00:44You can never encapsulate everything about a city,
00:46but I think that we're going through it with a spirit of benevolence and true affection for it.
00:57It squirts.
00:58Is anyone home?
00:59Stuart, Stu, you home?
01:03Please don't be working at the co-op.
01:05Please.
01:05A lot of our crew has talked about having a harder time like walking around Portland
01:10because they just see characters from our show all the time.
01:13What are you drinking?
01:14Oh, it's Kemper Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Tea.
01:16I guess I do have a question about the chicken.
01:18If you could just tell us a little bit more about it.
01:20The chicken is a heritage breed.
01:23This is local?
01:24Yes, absolutely.
01:26I'm going to ask you just one more time, and it's local?
01:28It is.
01:29We used the city as a framework around our relationship.
01:39I'm Carrie.
01:40I'm Fred, and we're from Portlandia.
01:43You're watching IFC.
01:44A new IFC original comedy series.

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