Portlandia this week opened with finding out that Peter (Fred Armisen), also known as the worst driver ever, used to play percussion in a band called Bahama Knights along with his ex-wife Anita (Maya Rudolph). When Nance (Carrie Brownstein) reads the news that the "Bahama Knights" are playing a show in Portland, she encourage Peter to make contact with his old band. Anite and Peter reunite backstage before the show, with Nance awkwardly trying to remind Anita that she's with Peter now. "I wish we'd had kids together," says Anita. "Yeah. What happened with that?" replies Peter. "Well, I came along!" says Nance. Awkward.
To make matters worse, or rather just more awkward, once up on stage, Anita kicks off drummer Kirk and calls Peter up on stage to join the band (which also includes folk music duo Tuck & Patti). After the show, he is swept away on the tour bus, leaving Nance to finish the last cans of tuna fish and trying new almond milks alone. Peter, in his newly found joy at finding a new life, seems completely ignorant and possibly ambivalent to his stranding Nance to her lonely day-to-day life. His wild and distant Skype sessions show him doing photoshoots and parachuting, and barely paying attention to Nance. Nance is finally driven to shown up at a volleyball tournament where Bahama Knights is playing. She starts singing a ridiculous and hilarious song (or recipe) about how it takes two bananas to make a banana daquiri, which quickly evolves into a karaoke session with Pete, and eventually Anita ("adding a third banana"). And in case the analogy was missing on anyone, "The bananas represent a man and a woman."
It was great to see Maya Rudolph on television again, especially after "Up All Night" disappeared (where she played a hilarious television host and BFFs with the equally funny Christina Applegate). It would be great to see her on other episodes of Portlandia.