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The State
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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. | |
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Dropped link to Bowdlerize: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to TheMusical: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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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 Cameo | |
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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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Non-Verbal Miscommunication | |
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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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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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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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Deep South | |
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Deep South: "The Inbred Brothers" | |
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The State / int_28ceeb9d | type |
Muppet Cameo | |
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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 | |
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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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Out of Focus | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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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Blatant Lies | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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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Narrator | |
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Narrator: Voiceovers on the show — especially for the commercial parodies — were frequently provided by Larry Kenney, Kerri Kenney's dad. | |
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Rip Van Winkle | |
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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 | |
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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 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 | |
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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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Gag Penis | |
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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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Covered in Gunge | |
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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 | |
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"Everybody Laughs" Ending: The Spaghetti with Bumblebees sketch. Goes on just long enough to be uncomfortable. | |
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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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Embarrassing First Name | |
The State / int_829b958e | comment |
Embarrassing First Name: Last name, in the case of Mr. Magina. | |
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Inherently Funny Words | |
The State / int_8426d2ac | comment |
Inherently Funny Words: "Maybe you should try... pants!" | |
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Lampshaded Double Entendre | |
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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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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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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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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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Monochrome Casting | |
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Monochrome Casting: Ten white guys and one white girl. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
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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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Spin-Off | |
The State / int_d9ee7048 | comment |
Spin-Off: Viva Variety started off as a skit on this show. | |
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud? | |
The State / int_db212ca9 | comment |
Did I Just Say That Out Loud? | |
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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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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 / int_e2d457 | type |
The Ditz | |
The State / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: The Inbred Brothers | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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_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_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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Team Mom | |
The State / int_fb9e25e9 | comment |
Team Mom: Kerri Kenney, in one sketch. | |
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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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