People like #1 try to make the show immune to criticism by countering all negative comments about the show (even the live show) with either "You just don't get it!" or "You must be taking it personally because it's all about you!" As if those are the only possible reasons someone wouldn't find it funny. Can you people be any more repetitive and predictable?
If one has to have been here to get it, it wouldn't be airing on IFC.
Also, people in Portland who are dipshits aren't as unique as a lot of you like to think. Whenever people start ranting about Portland and types of people they think are found mainly here, it makes it pretty apparent they've never spent time in other cities, like Seattle, the Bay Area, etc. etc. The only annoying kind of dipshit unique to Portland is the one who's constantly bitching about the people in Portland, who are supposedly inferior or more annoying than the person doing the complaining.

No, not defensive at all. I can't just be sick of people repeating the same mindless things? Thanks for providing yet another example of what I'm talking about.
So people living in New Jersey can't make any legitimate points about how Jersey Shore is shitty television? It's all just because the show is "TOO CLOSE TO HOME!!!11!!" ?

$36 a ticket sounds like a scam to me.

GODDAMMIT, GEYSER, I COULD KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH RIGHT NOW.

You just outed yourself, te he.

I don't find shows about brain-damaged people (played by Fred Armisen) to be funny. Like that bit about ye olde Portland of the 1890s. Clearly it's the 1890s. Carries asks "the 1990s?" and Fred grins like an idiot, pauses for what seems like 45 seconds, then says "no, the 1890s". Since we all knew that's what he meant were we supposed to laugh when he was able to find the phrase? You can fall asleep waiting for line delivery.

I hereby issue a challenge to Dan Zak to define the term "post-ironic." For that matter, I also issue him a second challenge to define the word "post," and a third to define the word "ironic." And while Zak may be right about the show for all I know, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't know an Ouroboros in a wormhole from an eagle claw up his own butthole...

Portlandia could be decent if they didn't just go for the low-hanging fruit and then pound said fruit into unfunny mush. There just isn't a lot of bang for the buck with this show.

To describe pickle-makers, I believe the word you're looking for is dill-ettante.

Armisten just isn't funny and Brownstein should really stick to playing music