That kind of left-y self-loathing defines the comedy of Portlandia, which is halfway through its eighth and final season on IFC. “They went to their houses and their decks and their cars - I mean, we wanted to smash the system!” Finally, Spyke admits, the person he really hates is himself. “They turned old in a way that we were against originally,” Spyke explains. They might be a little rusty, but as Spyke insists, “ What matters is getting our message to the government.”īy the end of the episode, fed up with America’s corrupt regime, Spyke has reached the Canadian border, where he pleads his case to a sympathetic guard who eventually coaxes the truth out of him: He’s not mad at the government he’s mad at his friends. They reunite in Spyke’s basement to rehearse Riot Spray’s defiant single, “I Refuse” (“ You wear a blindfold but complain that you can’t see/You pin the tail on the donkey or does the tail get pinned on me?”). For the bit, Armisen enlists a trifecta of indie stars of the Eighties and Nineties, who play Spyke’s friends and former bandmates: Henry Rollins, Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, and Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty.
In a sketch from the first episode of Portlandia ’s current season, Fred Armisen plays Spyke, an aging punk rocker with stretched ears and a goatee, who seizes on the dismal political climate as an excuse to get his old band, Riot Spray, back together. Henry Rollins, Fred Armisen, Brendan Canty, and Krist Novoselic, a/k/a Riot Spray Augusta Quirk/ IFC
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