Title: Portlandia

Date: 2012

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season2,Ep.1

Category: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: dilemmas

Rating: TV-14

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A young man is trying to get signatures to ban plasitc bags in Portland for the Surfrider Foundation. When one resident is not interested the man’s parents intervene

Clip Start Time: 0.68611111111

Clip Description: Going door to door collecting signatures often leads to a great deal of rejection. The young man’s parents in this sketch attempt to shield him from that rejection.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Is this perception of late launching in society accurate? How does society perceive the timeframe for launching from the house hold? With changes in launching trends will society’s perception of late launching change?

Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Google Play, Itunes, ifc.com/shows/portlandia

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney