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Weirdos Go to the Beach

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

The setup

Portlandia's goth couple trade their crypt-dark living room for a sunny day at the beach, if they can first replace their dead hearse.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Jacqueline confesses to Vince that she wants a summer beach day, and she persuades him that two gloomy goths in the sand might finally shock people again. When their hearse dies on the way, the Weirdos hold a solemn farewell for it and take their search for a suitably morbid replacement to a perky car rental clerk, who has no coffin straps but does have a car that came in at the stroke of midnight. At the shore Vince melts in his black clothes until Radu, a sunglasses-wearing stranger from Transylvania, dresses him in surf brands from his trunk, and the couple end up playing football with the beachgoers and planning a return trip.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 4

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Do you have coffin straps?

My hat would fly off within seconds of leaving the parking lot.

Sometimes to have a good time, you have to dress a little lame.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Misfits and Danzig singer Glenn Danzig guest-stars as Radu. The storyline gives this sixth-season episode its title, Weirdo Beach.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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