I found a quirky show on Netflix awhile ago, Portlandia. It stars Saturday Night Live player Fred Armisen and writer/musician Carrie Brownstein. It is sketch comedy show about all things Portland, and to a greater extent the Pacific Northwest.
The show is always setup Fred and Carrie living in Portland and observing the random things that happen, but after that they go in to sketches with a whole range of Portland themed stereotypes: super hip bike rider, feminist book store owners, crazy animal rights activists, hippie liberal mayor, and many more.
Some of the sketches miss the mark or are to overly risque for my taste, but some of them are dead on: there is sketch about a couple that find a dog tied up outside a restaurant and freak out and try and find the owners, and they can’t believe how inhumane that is, and the pay off is that their baby is tied up around the corner, or the couple that had to visit the farm where their chicken was coming from at a restaurant before they would order it.
It is a pretty funny show, and you can tell the humor is coming from love and not hate. Carrie Brownstein who writes most of the sketches grew up in Seattle and still lives there, so her observations are pretty spot on. The show is good for a laugh and there is good chance if you live in the Pacific Northwest you have met most of the characters in the show.