"The chicken episode cracks me up to this day," says Portland artist MK Guth, "partially because I can kind of see myself a little bit in it, you know. Some locals joked that they bordered on documentary - like the infamous sketch about a couple at a farm-to-table restaurant asking after their chicken's provenance. The early sketches lovingly skewered the city's progressive optimism and "Keep Portland Weird" mindset. "Portland is a city where young people go to retire."
"I thought that died out a long time ago." It's a conversation between co-creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, intercut with a surreal music video featuring circus performers and hipster types.Īrmisen asks Brownstein, "Remember when people were content to be unambitious, sleep till 11 and just hang out with their friends? When you had no occupations whatsoever, maybe working a couple hours a week at a coffee shop?" The " Dream of the '90s" sketch in the first episode coined the phrase that would define the show's take on Portland. It was an image Portlanders embraced, then struggled with. IFC's Portlandia, which begins its eighth and final season on Thursday, put Portland on the map as the capital of earnest urbanism at a time when words like "artisanal" and "locavore" were sweeping the nation. There was a time when saying you lived in Portland, Ore., would get a response like, "That's above California, right?" Now, people not only know where the city is but also inevitably ask, "Is it just like the show?"
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