The BeagleSword was Starbucks
and the rabbit hole was organic and local.
Portlandia is a satirical sitcom bashing “snob hip” cities like Portland and Austin. Yes, I made up the descriptor “snob hip” but I think it works.
In her story about Portlandia in The New Yorker, writer Margaret Talbot says the show revolves around what Sigmund Freud called “the narcissism of small differences: the need to distinguish oneself by minute shadings and to insist, with outsized militancy, on the importance of those shadings.”