Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein star in Portlandia. Fridays at 10:30 on IFC.

Portland finally has a television show of its very own.

And thankfully, it’s not the next regurgitation of “CSI:” or “NCIS.”

Far from it.

Producers of the show told the Oregonian that episodes would not make Portland the butt of jokes.

After watching one episode, it’s hard to say they kept their promise. That said, Portland has a lot of hilarious material to work with.

“The strange thing we all noticed, is no matter how far out on a limb we went, we always ran into that person within two days,” Brownstien told The New York Times.

Portlandia filmed six episodes in Portland last summer.

Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live,” who is also the executive producer of Portlandia, compared the show to the 1980′s sketch comedy “Kids in the Hall.”

“It’s light and it’s smart and it’s funny,” he told The New York Times. “It’s not going to be wildly popular, but I think it’ll find an audience.”

While the show lives in relative obscurity on IFC (Independent Film Channel), it has already become a viral success with the release of the “Dream of the 90′s” music video last month.

The music video, which also serves as the cold open for the series, tells us that Portland is “where young people go to retire,” and where people only work “a couple hours a week in a coffee shop.”

“Dream of the ’90′s,” creates a vision of the utopian Portland I both love and love to make fun of. Although, it’s not quite the utopia the song presents when claiming that it’s as if “Gore won and the Bush administration never happened.” Unfortunately, that happened here too.

Portlandia debuts on IFC this Friday at 10:30 p.m.

This show is for you if you like: The television show “Kids in the Hall”, the movie “Dodgeball” (see episode one hide-and-seek sketch), laughing at Portland hipster culture and/or yourself.

Watch the entire first episode here:

This story was originally written for Wired Oregon.