Video: Brokelandia, It Was Bound To Happen

If you watch Portlandia, you've probably seen some parallels between the Oregon-centric show and our very own, precious Brooklyn. And now Brokelyn has started their own series, called Brokelandia, which brings us a Brooklyn-based version of the IFC show. The first one, below, is all about the food, with the characters discussing the borough's finer dining experiences—from Do or Dine's fois gras doughnut, to Dun-Well Doughnuts vegan faux gras doughnut ("I thought it needed more meat"), to that pumpkin off of Steve Buscemi's stoop.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on January 23, 2012 1:21 PM

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Nick

damn they could have made something good, but they blew it.

Ayres Haxton

I made it 47 seconds

pingrava

No oneis asking the important questions:

Was the baby locally sourced?

Does she take Mandarin lessons at Mother Gaia Day Care given by transgendered perfomrance artist who also sells wooden toys made of reclaimed lumber salvaged from ye Olde Breukelen Radium Werks?

Why wasn't child services called? the kid has hipster parents for crissakes. She was probably birthed publicly in an art gallery.

kevd

the original wasn't very funny.
this is less so.

and that coffee place is annoying. they turned off the velvet underground in the middle of a song! who does that? You change the music after a song has finished.

elhbomb

All this is is a poor take on Portlandia.
The fact that it was only 1 scenes worth of material didn't help the fact that it was not very finny.

Sean Russell

Without even clicking "play" I'm going to call it 2012's version of "Lazy Monday": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Rayski_LaRue

i will be the first to say that chick is hot.

Evan Watkins

What Portlandia does well, this does horribly. Epic fail.

smalll

go back to ohio.
Go back to Ohio !GO BACK TO OHIO ! ! ! !

Derek Munn

It's nice to know Brooklyn is Coney Island next to Clinton Hill/North-Bed Sty with a touch of Download and Atlantic/Pacific thrown in to make it look like it's not all brownstones and Cyclones.

poxod

I heard a rumor that the characters in Episode 2 will be Gothamist commenters. Look out people the satirists are gunnin for you next!

FutureMan

Proving once again that comedy is not as easy as it looks.

yetathirduselessaccount

I can't figure out how this could suck so bad. There's so much potential material to work with. Yet they chose to go too far with an arguably unfunny theme for the whole piece. SNL anyone?

suesmith

HAHAHA you guys are awesome! great comments! thanks!

bigtimegeek

As a huge Portlandia fan, I really wanted to like it, but this pretty much sums up why I'll never live in Brooklyn. Oh, and the actors need some serious practice.