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  • The "Birds on Things" sketch.
  • "No, Sarah, sit!"
  • "Com-" "-pleting" "each" "oth-" "er's" "sen-" "-tenc-" "-es!" "$$$"
  • "Cacao."
  • "We have thirteen vagina pillows. It looks like a bunch of women exploded on it."
  • The Steampunk Cosplay skit. Everything about it.
  • Basically all of the Women and Women First/Feminist Bookstore sketches. Toni and Candace are just wonderfully passive-aggressive (and sometimes just full-on aggressive) to anyone who isn't them and have no business or people skills whatsoever. Watching regular people wander into the madness that is their store and then becoming desperate to escape it is never not funny.
  • The Lucky Seven Punk House skit, especially Fred's impression of a self-righteous punk.
    "Look what the government dragged in. What's the matter? Congress got your tongue!"
  • The "this is an art project" sketch, ending with the revelation that Portland itself is a conceptual art project.
  • In the episode "Alexandra", a guy calls Victini from Pokémon a "chicken fox".
  • The episode where the Mayor comes out as reggae. The best part is how deadpan everyone is during the press conference.
    Reporter: “What part do you play, Mr. Mayor? Do you play an instrument, are you a singer? What do you do?”
    Mayor: “Yeah I sit in as a bass player.”
    Reporter: “What kind of bass do you have?”
    Mayor: “I had a Rickenbacker 4003 that was just killer, but right now I'm playing a classic Fender Precision.”
    Reporter: “Must have a great low end.”
    Mayor: “Unbelievable.”
  • Of all Jeff Goldblum's appearances on the show, his turn as the Pull Out King might just be the Jeff Goldblumiest.
  • Jello Biafra's punk character who woke up from a coma after being knocked out in 1986 and ranting about all the "Yuppies" (Hipsters) he sees after getting out of the hospital! Especially funny with the punk witnessing the Yuppies doing expensive recreational activities (e.g. the foodies), relaxing in the middle of the day (e.g. the Yogis, while most people that time of day would be at a job) and/or having expensive pets (e.g. "It's a corgi!") and calling them out by name while they retort a Hip term for their activity. Culminating in finding two homeless punks with drums and begging them to tell him how people have let Yuppies take over, and doing an impromptu song with them, "No more yuppies! Die yuppie scum! No more yuppies!" before the male punk annoyingly tries to recompose the song:
    Male Punk: I thought it was two 'No more yuppies'?
    Biafra: Okay...
    Male Punk: Right?
    Biafra: And a one, and a two and a... *Smash Cut to opening credits*

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