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Home Theater

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

The setup

Two cinema proprietors promise the comforts of home, right down to the distractions, leftovers and inconveniently familiar television.

Community rating

– / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Wayne and Ursula welcome patrons to a movie theater designed to reproduce watching television in a living room. Their tour presents a small screen, competing remote controls, rented tablets and almost-empty ice cream containers as special amenities. With an open bathroom, personal mail to browse and only the second half of a familiar film on offer, the premium experience becomes an elaborate way to avoid paying attention to a movie.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

All of your cinema wands work, so they'll be working against each other.

Every container is almost fully eaten.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

IFC released the clip on January 30, 2017, ahead of the episode’s February 2 broadcast.

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One more couldn’t hurt.

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