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We Can Pickle That!

Portlandia
SKETCH-O-VISION
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The setup

Bryce and Lisa promise to solve Portland's problems with jars and brine.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Bryce Shivers and Lisa Eversman turn a surplus of cucumbers into a pitch for their pickling expertise. Soon they are preserving eggs and increasingly unsuitable objects, from discarded ice cream to used bandages and surplus CD cases. Their enthusiasm survives even an unhappy taste test. After advertising their service as a cure for almost any problem, they appear beside a couple struggling in bed, ready to extend their help into a more private predicament.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 4

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

We can pickle that!

Everything should be pickled.

Pickle juice tastes like garbage. It sucks.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Armisen and Brownstein said the sketch grew out of seeing increasingly elaborate pickle plates at restaurants and noticing the popularity of jars and old-fashioned presentation.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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