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WATCH: Chambana Remake of Portlandia Open


If you’ve ever felt like Chambana was deserving of a TV show, here’s the opening credits.

A Youtuber named Cameron Kern decided that there were enough similarities between Champaign-Urbana and Portland, that the Twin Cities deserved their own “Portlandia” opening montage.

The video is nearly a shot for shot remake of the opening of the IFC show Portlandia.

In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the original.

And while it’s kinda campus-centric it gives a fairly comprehensive primer to our little city. Though not sure what our catchphrase would be?

“Put some corn on it” just doesn’t have the same ring as “Put a bird on it

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