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Weirdos Go Shopping

Portlandia
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

Portlandia's goth couple discovers their crypt is buried in dust and ventures into a bright home-goods superstore for a vacuum.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Vince's new black light reveals that the house he shares with Jacqueline is coated in years of dust, so the morbid pair reluctantly head to Bed Bath & Beyond. Among the cookware and bath mats they pepper a cheerful store employee, Jamie, with questions about pans for unusual meats and appliances that could thaw whole animals, then ask for a vacuum shaped like something out of a nightmare. Jamie keeps finding the bright side, and the Weirdos grow strangely fond of her, until a domestic mishap back home brings the outing to a ghoulish close.

The funny people

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I just assumed the witch's brooms were working.

Do you have a pan that would be good for blood?

None that are living.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

IFC released this sketch online in December 2016 as a preview of Portlandia's seventh season, which premiered with this episode on January 5, 2017.

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