Portlandia meets The Simpsons
It still can never top the absurdity of the real thing.
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Uh oh. Back in the early Nineties, when The Simpsons was still relevant, people in the industry joked about "The Simpsons Curse", where celebrities would watch their careers nosedive after doing a celebrity cameo on the show. After a while, it practically became a deadpool, too, with the number of guests who died a few years later. I'd be worried for Armisten and Brownstein, if the show was still anything but workfare for the Harvard Lampoon Mafia.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | December 7, 2012 12:56 PM
Just another reality TV show....
Posted by portland native | December 7, 2012 1:32 PM
No mention that the creator of the Simpsons was Matt Groening, a Lincoln High graduate and one of Portland's earliest Slackers. A moniker I'm sure he wears with pride.
The Simpsons is Portland only in a different time. Before it was hip or cool to either be from here or move here.
Posted by CBB | December 7, 2012 3:11 PM
Remember the Simpson's "Monorail" episode? Charlie Hales reminds me of the guy in the straw hat who was peddling the monorail to the inhabitants of Springfield.
Posted by Dave Lister | December 7, 2012 3:16 PM
All humor has an element of truth.
Other than street names and characters, Portland and Springfield share:
A dysfunctional school system staffed with incompetent administrators and cynical babysitter/teachers which has nothing to offer an over achiever.
A self dealing and corrupt political leader that is more interested in bribes & using his office for to get laid and knows the voters don't care.
Polluted river with fish unsafe to eat.
A police department in name only.
Typical DMV employees. Rusty Nails kids show.
An easily duped population.
Stop me now....
Posted by ltjd | December 7, 2012 3:47 PM
I loved Rusty Nails Allen. He was a family friend. As for the Simpsons: if the trailers are anything like the show (i.e., dim-witted), it's a relection of a lot of that which is Portland.
Posted by Rick Newton | December 7, 2012 4:45 PM
Sorry: reflection. It's Martini hour. (Talk about your reflection!)
Posted by Rick Newton | December 7, 2012 4:48 PM
Remember the Simpson's "Monorail" episode? Charlie Hales reminds me of the guy in the straw hat who was peddling the monorail to the inhabitants of Springfield.
One of many examples of how the Simpson's was ahead of its time. That episode aired in 1993. I suppose it's probably coincidental, but it would be interesting to know Matt Groening's thinking when creating that episode since it so accurately parodies Portland's rail transit mania, almost a full decade before it really set in (at least before westside Max was completed).
Posted by Ryan | December 7, 2012 7:29 PM