I'll second that.

It is for me too, and I grew up there.

Ditto, Grew up in Victoria BC.

Here's a sad thing for locals.

This aired a matter of months before Almost Live stopped production:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr5-Obhi1pE

Unless you grew up there, and watched these people take over.

No. The SNL skit would have been 17 minutes long.

PAT CASHMAN TAG.

The idea is that Portland is pretty much the same joke as Seattle was in the 90's. They even sort of mention it in their theme song. Almost Live was making SNL style sketches as this stuff was happening, it didn't have any irony to it.