As season seven nears, we look back at what makes Portlandia truly out-of-the-box television.
A city like Portland is a haven for idealists, nurturers of individualism.
And Portland is a silly place, co-creator and starCarrie Brownstein told Good.
It also features a running plot involving the bizarre tropical fruit, the durian.
It acts as a good example of what the shows capable of doing when it gets so silly.
And plus, this ones got Penny Marshall chilling in the feminist bookstore so how can you go wrong?
For a long time, I thought that it was the strongest thing that the series has turned out.
Its a clever idea that offers up plenty of ammunition on topics like minutiae and social niceties.
Does anyone end up ordering pancakes?
Im not spoiling that for you!
How about reuniting MTV News hosts Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, and Matt Pinfield for keeping things weird?
Blackout showed that Portlandia could step out of its sketch comfort zone and string together season-long narratives.
This episode certainly opened the door for more experimentation with form in the following seasons.
What follows is Steve Buscemis characters life getting eviscerated as he continues selling the beaten down schlub routine.
I was a bit of a wiz kid… Toni the Pony, they called me.
And I was a wiz woman.
When I went to the bathroom it wasloud.
How do you top this though?
