;-)
Posted on 11/15/2013 5:35:27 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
"Representative Earl Blumenauer, whose congressional district includes most of Portland, Ore., told National Review Online today that a TV show skewering his city seemed pretty realistic to him. The third season of Portlandia, a sketch comedy that pokes fun at hipsters, progressives, and other West Coast denizens, is now on Netflix if you need something to binge-watch. And if you’re like Blumenauer, who often sports a bow tie and a bright-green bicycle lapel pin, you might forget it’s satire.
I asked him today before the Upton vote if he watches the show. He simply said, “Those are my people.”
“It was the first three episodes before I realized that it was a parody and not a documentary,” he added. “Those are my people. Naked bike rides, the people who really want to know the name of the chicken, where was it raised, how much space? We’re very free-range. The Allergy Pride Parade probably happens in Portland. It’s fun.”
Here’s one of the sketches he alluded to, on the struggle of ordering chicken at a restaurant.
And here’s the Allergy Pride Parade sketch
It wasn't?
>>It wasn’t?
It is, but the producers pretend that it is a sitcom to get people from outside Oregon to believe it.
I watched every single episode and then watched some of them again. I can't wait for the new episodes to start. Any idea when?
His name is Blue Manure?
Leftists ARE living parodies
Yes, it would be funny were it not for the fact that they have dragged us straights into their dysfunctional, dystopian hell.
If you would like more information about Oregon, please FReepmail me. I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed last month.
is it really filmed in Ithica?
Who would be able to tell?
Eugene, Oregon is the actual Commie/Hippiedom of America. It’s called the People’s Republic of Eugene and it’s far weirder than Portland.
I was kidding but that allergy rights parade looks like something for the Ithaca festival doesn’t it?
or the peanut-free football game that was held in some northwestern college, although that was probably in Wash state across the imaginary border.
Eugenists?
I grew up on the coast in Southern Oregon, had ample experience of Eugene, sufficient experience of Portland, and by the inscrutable movement of Divine Providence, went to school at Cornell (which I hated, at least so far as about 90% of the culture goes—I’m basically a Catholic redneck). I would agree that pound for pound, Eugene, Ithaca, and Cornell all have Portland beat for weirdness—it is just that Portland is so much bigger.
Berkley does deserve an honourable mention with this group—though I was nearly through high school when I discovered that the origins of hippiedom did not lie in Eugene. Eugene merely perfected the genre.
I grew up in both Portland & Springfield (Just east of Eugene), then spent 22yrs in the Navy, 12 in the Bay Area....trust me folks...Eugene & Portland are Wanna’ Be towns.....Berkley has been and still is the reigning Champion of Weird beyond Belief....followed closely by Vancouver, BC
Portland’s Congressman Kind Of Thought Portlandia Was a Documentary
It wasn’t?
As far as I am concerned it was, it’s how I saw it when I was there.
it could VERY WELL be filmed in the City of EVIL...
I saw Spinal Tap in the movies when it first came out. Of course that was back in the day and I was quite stoned.
Imagine my embarrassment years later when I found out it was a parody.
I also almost always fall for the lead ins to those “semi-news” threads that are posted here. They are so perfectly written.
So I can relate to this guy.
The goofball culture started in Eugene and trains in Eugene without a doubt, I have seen it. But Portland has the gravitational pull.
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