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Winter in Portlandia
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
After a bleak winter forecast, residents gather in a small patch of sunshine with folding chairs, food and music. Every time the light disappears, their brief celebration ends until someone spots another sunny place. The group chases it across the park and into the street, then pushes through a fence to keep the party going. Their frustration culminates in an attack on birds that can escape the season by flying away.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 2
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
This is like the only patch of light in the entire city.
I'm so excited to not be depressed for, like, six months.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This entry covers the sunlight-chasing cold open from the December 14, 2012 special, rather than the entire episode. Crew credits are listed at episode level.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:06
Speaker 1
weather forecast should be another great drizzly morning high in the low 40s by afternoon we may get a glimpse to the sun, but don't get your hopes up too high. We still got another eight months of winter.
- 00:18
Speaker 3
Hey, Hi. Hello. Hey, guys. Very nice.
- 00:26
Fred Armisen
This is like the only patch of light in the entire city.
- 00:29
Speaker 3
Summer is here. Yes. Winter, winter. We're through with you.
- 00:33
Carrie Brownstein
I'm so excited to not be depressed for like six months.
- 00:35
Fred Armisen
Me too. And we're- Wait.
- 00:37
Good
- 00:40
Fred Armisen
Oh, well, it was to see you guys.
- 00:42
Carrie Brownstein
I'm on like three antidepressants.
- 00:43
Speaker 3
All right.
- 00:44
Carrie Brownstein
In the summer, I just go down to one. I'm so tired of Portland in the winter.
- 00:47
Speaker 3
Hey guys, right there. All Go.
- 00:52
Speaker 2
It ain't even right, look at this. Don't look, man. Hello, man. Yum.
- 00:57
Speaker 3
Woo! Woo! Woo!
- 01:00
Fred Armisen
Aw! Damn.
- 01:04
Speaker 3
Oh, wow.
- 01:06
Speaker 3
Oh, right there. It's back.
- 01:11
Speaker 3
Hey, son!
- 01:14
Fred Armisen
Okay, okay, okay. Yes, you have a car and you exist. We are really intimidated.
- 01:18
Carrie Brownstein
What? Come on. Oh, man. Right, it's freezing.
- 01:26
Fred Armisen
Hey, guys, look across the way, right there.
- 01:30
Speaker 3
That's my spot! Down!
- 01:34
Speaker 2
Let's get together.
- 01:43
Speaker 4
Fly south for the winter.
- 01:46
Speaker 5
What are they doing?
- 01:47
Speaker 4
Oh, my God!
The rabbit hole continues
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