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Anonymous asked: When will you bring up the first time Portland was known by any number of Americans, the influential \"Hello Larry!\" With a great opening! Goofball comedy with a single father with two daughters working as a shock jock.
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Hell, the main character is practically you, a middle aged white guy who moved to Portland from L.A.!

First off fucking oof on \u201cmiddle aged\u201d, second off never heard of it.

So that makes two sitcoms with protagonists who moved to Cascadia to be radio call-in hosts?

Here, check this, Pillars of Portland, a locally produced TV show from 1983 (the height of the Dallas/Dynasty primetime soap boom) based on a newspaper column with characters broadly representing (and named after) different neighborhoods.

It never got past the pilot because that\u2019s a terrible idea.

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