As a Portland native and brand planner, I’ve found the IFC series Portlandia to be an accurate, almost ethnographic in detail, portrayal of my hometown (so far).  To dismiss the show as weird (which it is) would be missing the point.  Portland, as much as I love it, is an odd duck. 

Some of the jokes in the show are nuanced to the point that I’m rather sure many people won’t catch them if they haven’t at least driven among Portland’s herds of Volvos and Subarus.  This scene, however, is something that I’m sure almost anyone reading this blog can relate to.  Enjoy: