- Aluminum Christmas Trees:
- While this show likes to exaggerate Portland's quirkiness into oblivion, viewers who don't live in Portland are often amused and mystified to discover that a sketch is based on something people really do in Portland. The "canoe dancing" sketch is a great example.
- After watching "Brunch Village" some viewers incorrectly assumed that marionberries
were fictional with a Punny Name based on Marion Barry.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show is, at best, divisive in Portland, itself. Some even blame the show for the wave of gentrification that swept through the city in the New 10's.
- Growing the Beard: The second season was far more focused than the first.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Greta Gerwig's appearance As Herself in "Doug Becomes a Feminist", where she's prepping to star in a female empowerment-themed live action remake of The Little Mermaid (1989), since Gerwig went onto direct and co-write a female empowerment-themed live action Barbie movie.
- Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: Despite the show exaggerating and making fun of the Bourgeois Bohemian population of the Rose City, a lot of real Portlanders are fans of the show. It helps that the show has done its homework on hipster culture in the city, as well as only slightly exaggerating the Cloudcuckooland nature of the town.
- Misaimed Fandom: The people who believe this show is a Take That! rather than an Affectionate Parody.
- Unintentional Period Piece: The running sketch of "One Moore Episode" involving a couple's desperate need for more Battlestar Galactica (2003) was written just before the concept of "binge watching" went mainstream. As a consequence, it seems kind of quaint and silly now.
