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Distraction Cancelling Glasses

Portlandia
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

Fred and Carrie pitch blinder-style glasses that freeze the world before an online rabbit hole or a pang of envy can pull the wearer off task.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Borrowing from the horse blinders their company has sold for generations, two upbeat pitchmen introduce glasses that shut out whatever is about to pull a person off task. A husband looking up flights for his wife freezes before an endless chain of tempting web videos and comes back with the fare; a party invitation that would have prompted gloomy comparisons gets the same treatment. The commercial ends by suggesting the blinders can also screen out anything unpleasant on the street, leaving their wearers content and oblivious.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Without blinders, these horses would be running around like a bunch of maniacs.

Finally, a world where you can focus on the original thing you were doing.

Distraction blinders remove the distraction.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

IFC posted this sketch online on February 5, 2018, three days before "Abracadabra" premiered.

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