You're tuned to the good stuff

Did You Read It?

Portlandia
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A café conversation turns reading the right magazines into an increasingly frantic contest.

Community rating

– / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Two friends compare the articles they have read, each determined to prove that nothing has escaped their attention. Their references grow more obscure while the questions and answers become a furious verbal loop. Soon they are consuming the printed word in a much more literal way, and their literary rivalry follows them out into the street.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I did not like the end of it.

Did you read that fortune cookie?

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Carrie Brownstein’s observation about competitive reading was developed into the sketch by Allison Silverman.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

More from Portlandia.

Explore the show