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The State

351 statements
68 feature instances
40 referencing feature instances

The State	type	TVTItem
The State	label	The State
The State	page	TheState
The State	comment	Probably an essential key to understanding Gen-X American college humor, The State was MTV's first true Sketch Comedy. Featuring a cast/crew of eleven twentysomethings which first coalesced as an improv/sketch group at NYU, it brought some of the most gleefully Dadaistic comedy in history to the airwaves. The show ran for four seasons before the creators made an ill-advised decision to jump to CBS (who canceled them after one special). A surprising number of the group have since gone on to greater things, frequently working together on such movies as Wet Hot American Summer and Role Models, and shows such as Reno 911!, Viva Variety, Stella, Stella's Spiritual Successor Michael And Michael Have Issues, Childrens Hospital, and Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.
The State	fetched	2024-01-27T04:45:11Z
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The State	processingComment	Dropped link to TheMusical: Not a Feature - ITEM
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The State	isPartOf	DBTropes
The State / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
The State / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Subverted and Inverted. Doug is embarrassed by his dad for seemingly no reason other than he's a teen and unconsciously believes rebellion and being misunderstood make one cool. His dad is actually one of the coolest, most down-to-earth people in the world, to the point where his friends quickly prefer to hang out with his dad over him.
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The State / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The State / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Several, including an appearance by Gilbert Gottfried, and a split second of Alice Cooper walking through the background of a shot.
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The State / int_1d1d5951	type	Non-Verbal Miscommunication
The State / int_1d1d5951	comment	Nonverbal Miscommunication: The International Sign For Choking -> The International Sign For My Friend Is Choking, I Don't Know The Heimlich Maneuver, Can You Call For Help -> The International Airport Sign For I Did Not Understand Your Last Message, I Was Raised In The Mountains Of Japan And Am Not Familiar With All The International Signs -> Japanese Kabuki for My Friend Is Almost Unconscious -> Tibetan Dance for The Waiter Is On Fire -> The International Sign for I Am On Fire -> the Pueblo sign for I Hate Accountants -> The Accountant Dance of War -> The International Cry of It's OK, Big Misunderstanding, Everything's Fine, Except For The Guy At Table 4, Who's Unconscious -> signals to the busboy to get a stretcher for Table 4 -> the busboy gets Table 4 a year's supply of radishes -> the customer at Table 4 stops choking
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The State / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The State / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Many sketches have the cast members address the audience directly. Michael Ian Black is usually the spokesman for the group. Inverted by a sketch which actually showed the fourth wall — and blocked the audience's view.
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The State / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
The State / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: "The Inbred Brothers"
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The State / int_28ceeb9d	type	Muppet Cameo
The State / int_28ceeb9d	comment	Muppet Cameo: Played with in one sketch. Characters call out for help with simple tasks (like counting to 10 or tying their shoes) and a Sesame Street-like muppet appears to help out. The character then kills the muppet, so they can eat it.
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The State / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
The State / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: The first (and only) episode aired on CBS was The State 43rd Annual Halloween Special. Most of the sketches in the special have nothing to do with Halloween, with much of it devoted to the troupe's usually surreal and off-the-wall brand of humor, complete with mock interviews with Sting and Ric Ocasek reminiscing about growing up with The State's previous (non-existent) Halloween specials.
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The State / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
The State / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Intentionally invoked by Michael Patrick Jann and Todd Holoubek; both preferred standing behind the camera to acting. Parodied with one opening monologue by David Wain, where he states that he doesn't get as much screen time as other cast members, but enjoys expressing himself through his behind-the-scenes editing work... followed by the opening credits being very noticeably re-edited to feature him as much as possible.
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The State / int_36215b80	type	Sex Sells
The State / int_36215b80	comment	Sex Sells: Parodied in a sketch where a newspaper re-tinkers every headline to read "Porno Sex Addict Rocks New York".
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The State / int_3ac8ba6a	type	Ignorant About Fire
The State / int_3ac8ba6a	comment	Ignorant About Fire: A recurring sketch was "The Inbred Brothers", a duo from the Deep South who would continually do stupid things. One was having his arm set on fire and not knowing what to do about it, and the other was a fire IN A BOAT.
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The State / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The State / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: If you were talking about your favorite fabric softer and a talking teddy bear appeared out of the clothes, you'd probably scream and beat it with an iron, too.
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The State / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The State / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The sketch in which a husband denies he's cheating on his wife, even as his mistress storms in on them. Avoids Implausible Deniability because his two-faced fast talk actually works.
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The State / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The State / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe. Parodied with a sketch about a high-school cheerleader who wants to be the next Laurie Anderson.
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The State / int_4dce8058	type	All Periods Are PMS
The State / int_4dce8058	comment	All Periods Are PMS: "PMS", in which Kerri Kenney's character transforms, in rapid succession, into several male members of the cast.
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The State / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The State / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Later recurring character Doug is shown bouncing on his bed with his friends in a not-for-laughs connecting scene before getting called downstairs by his father.
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The State / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
The State / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Voiceovers on the show — especially for the commercial parodies — were frequently provided by Larry Kenney, Kerri Kenney's dad.
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The State / int_53833817	type	Rip Van Winkle
The State / int_53833817	comment	Rip Van Winkle: Parodied in "Short Coma". He was in a coma for one of the most eventful early afternoons in history.
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The State / int_564d4e71	type	Tired of Running
The State / int_564d4e71	comment	Tired of Running: Played with in a sketch where a prison escapee turns himself in several years after the search for him has been called off. The prison still has the unguarded wide-open gate he walked out through.
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The State / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The State / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Kerri Kenney is the only female in a cast of 11. This leads to her being in almost every sketch.
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The State / int_60200c6	type	Former Teen Rebel
The State / int_60200c6	comment	Former Teen Rebel: Principal Wheeler of Doug's high school. As a youth he was involved with mysterious disappearance of the Westbury High Mascot.
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The State / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
The State / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: An infamous appearance on MTV Spring Break's Shut Up and Laugh where the cast acted out a scene, supposedly from Shakespeare's Macbeth, that contained an uncomfortable amount of focus on the ludicrously tight leotards worn by the cast. Somehow, even Kerri Kenney had a bulge under her skirt — and someone else had a bulge that went around his leg three times.
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The State / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
The State / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge / Food Fight: "The Pope's Visit" is just an excuse for some of the cast to throw food (and cooking oil) all over each other and the set while shouting in bad Italian accents.
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The State / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
The State / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: In-Universe. Parodied with a sketch about a high-school cheerleader who wants to be the next Laurie Anderson. Lampooned in a sketch where the art community rallies around the idle notebook doodles of a bored 15-year-old girl. Subverted with a sketch where a panel of snooty experts, asked to define "art", rapidly conclude that it's "like, paintings and stuff."
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The State / int_6eb04f1	type	"Everybody Laughs" Ending
The State / int_6eb04f1	comment	"Everybody Laughs" Ending: The Spaghetti with Bumblebees sketch. Goes on just long enough to be uncomfortable.
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The State / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
The State / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: The skit about high school students meeting in the hall.
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The State / int_7de0bcc4	type	Overused Running Gag
The State / int_7de0bcc4	comment	Over Used Running Gag: Parodied with Louie's constantly repeated Catchphrase, "I wanna dip my balls in it!"
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The State / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
The State / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Last name, in the case of Mr. Magina.
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The State / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
The State / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: "Maybe you should try... pants!"
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The State / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
The State / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: Played with in the "Grandma's Potato Chowder" sketch. It would seem that he doesn't know what they mean. He knows all too well.
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The State / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The State / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Totally inverted in the "Where's The Mousey?" sketch, where we see what happened, as a huge stuffed mouse crashes onto a family's dining room table, while they keep shouting about "the mousey" but admitting they don't know why.
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The State / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The State / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: ...of the usual sketch-comedy tropes, such as Recurring Character and Catchphrase.
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The State / int_910f8179	type	Cultural Cringe
The State / int_910f8179	comment	Cultural Cringe: In one sketch, Michael Ian Black admits that his birth name is "Michael Ian Schwartz," which he says he changed because he's "ashamed of being Jewish." (In reality, it was to avoid being confused with another Michael Schwartz).
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The State / int_9952b10b	type	Re-Release Soundtrack
The State / int_9952b10b	comment	Re-Release Soundtrack: Since The State was on MTV, they got to use a lot of popular songs during their run. Most of it had to be replaced with sound-alikes when the DVD came out. There was even an insert written by the members of the group about how they worked to make it as close as possible.
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The State / int_9c379ef0	type	Cross-Cast Role
The State / int_9c379ef0	comment	Cross-Cast Role: With only one woman, happens a lot. Occasionally lampshaded.
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The State / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The State / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: "Hey Steve, you're the coolest. I'm glad you don't have a terrible secret that would threaten your status here in high school."
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The State / int_a0cdc32e	type	I Am Who?
The State / int_a0cdc32e	comment	I Am Who??: Parodied with a sketch where the proprietors of an orphanage tell an orphan that he's actually a super-powered alien named Tozog. He's not. They never are.
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The State / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
The State / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Everybody in the troupe (yes, including Kerri) has been naked in at least one sketch. A few sketches in fact had everybody naked at once.
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The State / int_a71980f8	type	Surreal Theme Tune
The State / int_a71980f8	comment	Surreal Theme Tune: "BOYS AND GIRLS! ACTION! ACTION! ACTION! ACTION!"
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The State / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
The State / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Barry and Levon... aww, yeah!
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The State / int_aa6043ca	type	Open-Minded Parent
The State / int_aa6043ca	comment	Open-Minded Parent and Reasonable Authority Figure: Featured in the "Doug" sketches, much to Doug's consternation.
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The State / int_ae5098a4	type	Summer Campy
The State / int_ae5098a4	comment	Summer Campy: A summer camp forgot to advertise, resulting in having only one camper for the summer. Hilarity Ensues.
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The State / int_afab5e94	type	Reunion Show
The State / int_afab5e94	comment	Reunion Show: the entire cast appeared in the Reno 911! movie, and a YouTube sketch was created to promote the initial re-release of the program on iTunes.
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The State / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The State / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Anything to do with the Burger Fool is one for the employees in the sketch "Service with a Smile".
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The State / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
The State / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: "Coffee Family"
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The State / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The State / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: A good 35% of the sketches were The State pretending to be another show.
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The State / int_c450b632	type	So Unfunny, It's Funny
The State / int_c450b632	comment	So Unfunny, It's Funny: "Porcupine Racetrack", "The Bearded Men of Space Station 11"- neither have any jokes but are fan favorites (or The Unfavorite).
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The State / int_c4c9bb40	type	Inner Monologue
The State / int_c4c9bb40	comment	Inner Monologue
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The State / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The State / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The first two seasons' openings used an MTV version of CBS's Special title card. The third season's used a version of Thames Television's (seen in such programs as The Benny Hill Show, Danger Mouse, and Count Duckula.)
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The State / int_c81a74cf	type	Juxtaposition Gag
The State / int_c81a74cf	comment	Juxtaposition Gag: "Taco Mail", "Slash Infestation", etc. etc. etc.
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The State / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
The State / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: The show often brought up the "negative two-star" review they received from the New York Times. And in fact, an early advert for the show featured their various bad reviews set to "I Started A Joke" with the cast in the background looking sad and depressed.
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The State / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The State / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Ten white guys and one white girl.
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The State / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
The State / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Deconstructed with "Louie, the Guy Who Says His Catchphrase Over and Over Again." In his introductory sketch, his whole shtick is asking for someone to provide a substance and then joyously declaring, "I wanna dip my balls in it!" while holding up a pair of golf balls. Everyone finds him hysterical, but he suddenly begins to doubt that his catchphrase is funny anymore. The crowd convinced him that it will never get old. Played straight with Doug, and his "I'm outta here" in increasingly bizarre inflections.
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The State / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The State / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Viva Variety started off as a skit on this show.
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The State / int_db212ca9	type	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
The State / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
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The State / int_dbd68b08	type	Half-Witted Hillbilly
The State / int_dbd68b08	comment	Half-Witted Hillbilly: The show had a recurring sketch called "The Inbred Brothers", which had two guys in union suits doing dumb things: falling down, eating leaves, lighting themselves on fire, etc. Also the people appearing in the "Little Brown Dog Food" commercial.
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The State / int_dd3272bb	type	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
The State / int_dd3272bb	comment	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway??: Lampshaded with poor Aquaman.
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The State / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
The State / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: Played for Laughs when two of the boys play the strip version of Battleship, totally no homo, of course. One of them comments that the game would be more enticing if they actually wanted to see each other naked. They still have a good time.
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The State / int_e01e757e	type	Unplugged Version
The State / int_e01e757e	comment	An Unplugged song called "You'll Always Give Me a Boner".
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The State	hasFeature	The State / int_e01e757e
The State / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The State / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: The Inbred Brothers
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The State / int_e2d457	featureConfidence	1.0
The State	hasFeature	The State / int_e2d457
The State / int_e743ffa9	type	Good Old Ways
The State / int_e743ffa9	comment	Good Old Ways: The Old-Fashioned Guy thinks he's this, when in fact he's more... eccentric.
The State / int_e743ffa9	featureApplicability	1.0
The State / int_e743ffa9	featureConfidence	1.0
The State	hasFeature	The State / int_e743ffa9
The State / int_ea5c413d	type	Biting-the-Hand Humor
The State / int_ea5c413d	comment	Biting-the-Hand Humor: Many sketches parodied or outright mocked other MTV programs: their "Free Your Mind" anti-bigotry ad campaign, for pirates versus clowns, people with tape on their face, and "smokers are people too". An Unplugged song called "You'll Always Give Me a Boner". an MTV Sports episode for golf. One sketch involves Michael Ian Black complaining that The State doesn't get to be in the audience of Unplugged, pointing out the (supposed) employees who kept them out sitting in Unplugged's audience.
The State / int_ea5c413d	featureApplicability	1.0
The State / int_ea5c413d	featureConfidence	1.0
The State	hasFeature	The State / int_ea5c413d
The State / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
The State / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: The argument in "Hepcat" between Hepcat and his father, in which each line of dialogue is a melodramatic showstopper, despite not following from the previous line.
The State / int_eb0df85e	featureApplicability	1.0
The State / int_eb0df85e	featureConfidence	1.0
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The State / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
The State / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: One "Hi, we're The State" sketch, in which the cast goes over all of the good deeds they do, and points out that they don't do any of the terrible things possibly attributed to them. Except sell babies on the black market ("...and we're not even sure it's really all that bad.").
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The State / int_eef90616	featureConfidence	1.0
The State	hasFeature	The State / int_eef90616
The State / int_f197c220	type	Burger Fool
The State / int_f197c220	comment	Burger Fool: "CHICKEN SANDWICH, CAAARLLLL! WHAT ARE YA, DEAF?!"
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The State / int_f197c220	featureConfidence	1.0
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The State / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
The State / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: One sketch consists primarily of David Wain stopping to explaining the premise that "anything that isn't true is funny".
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The State / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
The State / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Kerri Kenney, in one sketch.
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The State / int_fb9e25e9	featureConfidence	1.0
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The State / int_ff9e9596	type	DVD Commentary
The State / int_ff9e9596	comment	DVD Commentary: On every episode and deleted scene. Quite informative and entertaining usually. And with 11 members, there are quite a few combinations of commentary groups.
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The State	hasFeature	Bad "Bad Acting" / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Breakaway Advertisement / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Broke the Rating Scale / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Burger Fool / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Cardboard Prison / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Cast Full of Writers / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Clumsy Copyright Censorship / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Credits Gag / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Cuteness Overload / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Don't Eat and Swim / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Half-Witted Hillbilly / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Hollywood Board Games / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	I Am Who? / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Ignorant About Fire / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Incredibly Lame Fun / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Indecipherable Lyrics / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Irishman and a Jew / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Juxtaposition Gag / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Magazine Decay / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Non-Verbal Miscommunication / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Our Product Sucks / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Overused Running Gag / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Remembered I Could Fly / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Rip Van Winkle / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Romantic Hyperbole / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Spoof Aesop / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Strip Poker / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Tired of Running / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Future / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Unplugged Version / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Wildlife Commentary Spoof / int_76cf3cc7
The State	hasFeature	Writer Revolt / int_76cf3cc7
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