Portlandia's fifth season launches Thursday with a full-episode look back at how Women & Women First booksellers Toni (Carrie Brownstein) and Candace (Fred Armisen) first met "in 1991, when both worked in New York as high-powered executives for, respectively, the bookstore chains B. Dalton and Crown Books," the Oregonian reported.
When their companies merge, "the sexist pig of a boss pits Toni and Candace against each other to run the 'Chick Lit' department. After various Mean Girl competitive dirty tricks, and a hilarious dance-off, they both realize the boss has no intention of giving any woman the job. They hear about a bookstore in Portland, leave NYC behind, and so the Women & Women First legend is born."
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In related news, Portland's In Other Words, "the real Northeast Portland feminist community center and bookstore where Portlandia films its Women & Women First scenes," will stay open at least until December 2015, thanks to a November effort during which "an Indiegogo fundraising campaign helped raise about $15,000, and new volunteers and board members became involved," the Oregonian wrote.
