- IFC
- Toni (Carrie Brownstein) and Candace (Fred Armisen) hold a fairly unsexy car wash.
When a show is consistently funny for more than a couple of seasons, it produces the uncomfortable tension of waiting for the other shoe to drop. The unfunny shoe. I’m not a religious Portlandia viewer. I watched all of the first season, and bits and pieces of the rest, and even saw Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s live show back in 2011ish, but I also suffered from butthole-puckering rage when “put a bird on it” became a thing people were compelled to say when they saw birds on things and sometimes, annoyingly enough, even when they didn’t see birds on things.
Now we just have to hope that “rent it out”—watch the first episodes and you’ll see what I’m talking about—doesn’t become the new “put a bird on it.”
