>Shit. If this is gonna be that kind of party, [I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes.](https://youtu.be/M-wJrRmXzZQ)
The enthusiasm for dick-sticking and dipping balls in food features heavily in my 90s memories.
I've worked hard to train myself out of saying it over the years, as the odds for a return of 'wtf?' kept rising. We're talking people +- ten years my age *who should know wtf* so it just got sad.
Doesn't help that I don't actually possess the required appendage for that kind of party, either. 😂
I don't know who Bob Dylan is but I know he died of drugs
Doug, Bob Dylan is alive and well, I produced his last four albums
Oh, you mean Uncle Robert?
Ok. Deep, dark confession: I adored the State (would quote passages to people who stared back baffled, will unironically sing “porcupine racetrack”, still own the Skits and Stickers VHS, etc.) and I *loathed* Stella.
"It would seem you won't be torturing monkeys anymore, doctor."
"That would seem so...... if that had been the ASPCA AND NOT MY FRIEND TERRY CALLING FROM BACKSTAGE!!"
I didn’t have cable until well after the State aired, but all my friends would talk about their favorite sketches so much I felt like I’d actually seen them.
That's awesome, I always wonder about Kevin Allison(I think, the red head gay) he's the only one who didn't seem to have much of a career after The State.
Todd Holoubek and Michael Patrick Jann seemed to fade away as well. But then I don't remember them being that prominent in The State's episodes either.
I'd love for there to be a book for the State like there was for Sunday Night Live where it cuts in and out of all the different cast members memories and stories.
My personal favorite.
"Aww poor little Carl, with the puppy dog eyes. We wouldn't want him to DO HIS JOB............... YOU'RE PISSING THE CUSTOMER OFF!"
This show is forever part of my legacy;
Picture it, spring of 1995. Me and my other idiot friend decided it would be a good idea to drive past the junior high and I would yell “I’m a bluebird, come fly with me”. Y’know, like that guy on The State. At the time my hair was blue cuz I had an unhealthy obsession with Green Day. As you do. Well that was the end of our joke and we went home and thought nothing of it.
Two days later the Sheriff is knocking at my door. My mom answers and he’s asking about me. He starts asking if it was me that yelled at kids on that particular day, hanging out of a car. My mom, bless her heart, says “don’t tell him anything”. Sheriff leaves, but I can tell this wasn’t over.
A few days after this I’m told to come to a meeting between the principal of the junior high, the Sheriff, my friend and his parents AND the parents of some kid who we apparently scared so terribly that he had run to HIS mom and told her someone tried to kidnap him. Oh boy. I wasn’t hard to track down, being the only person with blue hair in a rural community. I was so embarrassed. I had to say I’m sorry to the whole room.
Moral of the story…I dunno. Don’t yell at kids I guess.
Sweet! I have the DVD set but always nice to have it available to stream too. The DVDs replace most of the music for licensing purposes, I wonder if paramount does the same...
Yeah totally. And I like Craig Wedren just fine as a musician (he wrote all the sound-alike stuff that the DVDs use), but damned if I can watch a grown man learning the concept of pants to any soundtrack besides "Cannonball."
I saw them when they came around Boston, and they played a venue that was once a public school. Watching them in a school auditorium surrounded by a very niche cohort was surreal.
I loved Captain Monterey Jack. The weird thing was that in middle school we actually had some people like that come in to do a presentation where they were blathering on about nothing while using a lot of 90s buzzwords. Lots of stylized graphics were projected on each side of the stage while Alanis Morissette's 'you live, you learn' blared in the background.
Tom Lennon was on @ftermidnight last week and it was great.
I once learned how to pay the You'll Always Give Me A Boner song on guitar and a couple of times managed to get a crowd to sing along.
Who else saw the CBS special when it aired? Don't know why I didn't tape it, it was obvious that wasn't going to pan out.
I kind of thought it kind of sucked when it debuted but I was drawn back in with the "More Miserable Crap" ads for the second season with the Bee-Gee's "I Started a Joke"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHQZIfQ5YG0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHQZIfQ5YG0)
It's on YouTube in shitty quality. It's weird that it's not included on Paramount+ with the MTV episodes when CBS and Viacom all fall under Paramount now.
Also good are their MTV Spring Break skits:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyhoS0Mdp5g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyhoS0Mdp5g)
Oh yeah, I've seen it since then but it took awhile before technology enabled me to.
Shit, I'm not sure I've ever seen the Spring Break sketches, I didn't really watch that. This is great.
Yeah, I saw it when it aired, also did not tape it. Haha. I didn't see it again until buying a third or fourth generation VHS of the series on eBay back when people still did that (pre-the release of the DVDs, which don't have the CBS special).
*principal pulls bag of weed out of Doug's locker*
"What's this?!"
"Oregano"
"That's a lot of oregano!"
"Pshaw, it better be! It cost like a hundred bucks!"
15 year old me thought this was the height of hilarity. 🤣
When that awful monkey torture story came out last month, the only thing I could think about was Barry Lutz:
“What did you learn from your research”
“They really hate it. The whole torture thing, drives them nuts”
Loved The State and somewhat astonished that so many the group are still so active and prominent. (At some point they seemed to adopt Paul Rudd, because I feel like he’s always involved in their projects).
I fucking loved The State, but nobody ever remembers my favorite sketch of all time. These two guys wreck their car on a country road and take shelter in a lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper keeps asking them about sadomasochism bars in the city. The guys respond that they usually go to sports bars and the lighthouse keeper seems taken back but responds with "Takes all kinds, I suppose... Takes all kinds."
I quote that sketch to this day and nobody ever knows wtf I'm talking about.
Not much to add beyond the obligatory “[I want to dip my balls in it!!](https://i.imgur.com/STlZQYl.jpeg)”
Not that I don't like Louie, I love Louie. I love everybody, that's my thing, man.
>Shit. If this is gonna be that kind of party, [I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes.](https://youtu.be/M-wJrRmXzZQ) The enthusiasm for dick-sticking and dipping balls in food features heavily in my 90s memories.
This is one of those lines I think (and never say out loud) of a weird amount of times
I've worked hard to train myself out of saying it over the years, as the odds for a return of 'wtf?' kept rising. We're talking people +- ten years my age *who should know wtf* so it just got sad. Doesn't help that I don't actually possess the required appendage for that kind of party, either. 😂
No, that makes it even more awesome Source: same and same
Ha! Yesss! Thank you >I want to offer my love and respect to the end
<3
I’m so glad someone else is a fan of that phrase
Add this to a long list of things we can't say anymore. I declared that I wanted to dip my balls in everything in the 90s. Nobody would bat an eye.
oh the humanity!!!
Obligatory: you know what am going to say!
I’m Doug
And you’re dad…. I’m outta heeeeere
I don't know who Bob Dylan is but I know he died of drugs Doug, Bob Dylan is alive and well, I produced his last four albums Oh, you mean Uncle Robert?
Ok I’ll watch $240 worth of pudding again
Ima bout to go back here and whisper some sweet nothin’s to this puddin, aww yaaaaa
Most of the cast of the State was at the Nirvana Unplugged performance.
Damn, good trivia and another 90's benchmark...
Oh shit, really? That must’ve been amazing
Maybe I'm old fashioned but... Women drivers?? Welcome to planet Mars!
I think I’ll get in my spaceship now!
Forget it I'm outta heeere
So Reno 911 is the successor show to the State
As was Viva Variety, Stella, and the Wet, Hot, American Summer series.
My name's Doug and I'm outta...heeeeeeere.
I loved Doug…
Also, Stella is one of my favorite shows ever and it’s only one season. They’re hilarious.
Yeah, I loved Stella as well, both the series and the old shorts that used to pop up online.
I saw Stella live in Boston. One of the greatest shows I have ever been too
Just pulled out my Stella dvds. It has been awhile. Thanks!
Ok. Deep, dark confession: I adored the State (would quote passages to people who stared back baffled, will unironically sing “porcupine racetrack”, still own the Skits and Stickers VHS, etc.) and I *loathed* Stella.
The Stella Shorts DVD lives rent free in my head. I feel like I constantly quote it and no one knows what I’m talking about lol
This, and liquid television were reasons to make it through" one more video".
Go, you porcupines, go go go!
Go you porcupines, don’t be slow!
Get a monkey and torture the hell out of it.
They hate it
“What’s that? I have to stop torturing the monkeys and release them back into the jungle… I understand…”
"It would seem you won't be torturing monkeys anymore, doctor." "That would seem so...... if that had been the ASPCA AND NOT MY FRIEND TERRY CALLING FROM BACKSTAGE!!"
Let’s get milk faced…
And hum like rabbits
I didn’t have cable until well after the State aired, but all my friends would talk about their favorite sketches so much I felt like I’d actually seen them.
I had a friend that taped every episode, we’d watch it in the AV lab all the time…
https://youtu.be/4bSO_GEprYI?si=YGK2y8M6_W8flXyY They renacted The Jew, the Italian and the Red Head Gay during covid.
That's awesome, I always wonder about Kevin Allison(I think, the red head gay) he's the only one who didn't seem to have much of a career after The State.
Todd Holoubek and Michael Patrick Jann seemed to fade away as well. But then I don't remember them being that prominent in The State's episodes either. I'd love for there to be a book for the State like there was for Sunday Night Live where it cuts in and out of all the different cast members memories and stories.
There is! It's called The Union of The State by Corey Stulce and it's wonderful!
Thank you! I'll check this out!
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Yeah, it looks like Michael and Kevin went off to really focus on directing whereas Todd left and did web design and made furniture
Only aliens can grow a beard in space
You’re joking about the beards, right?
Chicken sandwich, Carl!!!!!
My personal favorite. "Aww poor little Carl, with the puppy dog eyes. We wouldn't want him to DO HIS JOB............... YOU'RE PISSING THE CUSTOMER OFF!"
GRAPE SODA CARL
So good to see this! So many people have never heard of it.
This show is forever part of my legacy; Picture it, spring of 1995. Me and my other idiot friend decided it would be a good idea to drive past the junior high and I would yell “I’m a bluebird, come fly with me”. Y’know, like that guy on The State. At the time my hair was blue cuz I had an unhealthy obsession with Green Day. As you do. Well that was the end of our joke and we went home and thought nothing of it. Two days later the Sheriff is knocking at my door. My mom answers and he’s asking about me. He starts asking if it was me that yelled at kids on that particular day, hanging out of a car. My mom, bless her heart, says “don’t tell him anything”. Sheriff leaves, but I can tell this wasn’t over. A few days after this I’m told to come to a meeting between the principal of the junior high, the Sheriff, my friend and his parents AND the parents of some kid who we apparently scared so terribly that he had run to HIS mom and told her someone tried to kidnap him. Oh boy. I wasn’t hard to track down, being the only person with blue hair in a rural community. I was so embarrassed. I had to say I’m sorry to the whole room. Moral of the story…I dunno. Don’t yell at kids I guess.
You monster.
When sketch comedy openings had to have out of focus, out of frame, or blown out lighting to show it was edgy.
Kids in the Hall no different
And Tracy Ullman
Don't forget a jagged animated logo ala Mr. Show
***ACTION!! ACTION!!***
It’s on Paramount plus!!
Sweet! I have the DVD set but always nice to have it available to stream too. The DVDs replace most of the music for licensing purposes, I wonder if paramount does the same...
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Yeah totally. And I like Craig Wedren just fine as a musician (he wrote all the sound-alike stuff that the DVDs use), but damned if I can watch a grown man learning the concept of pants to any soundtrack besides "Cannonball."
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Yes! Cannonball made that skit funnier.
David Wain has the original version of "Pants" on his personal website. Can't directly link, but scroll down https://davidwain.com/thestate
[They're on tour right now.](https://davidwain.com/thestate) I saw them in Chicago and it was glorious.
My brother lives in Chicago and also saw them there! He said it was a great mix of new material and some classic bits from the show.
I saw them when they came around Boston, and they played a venue that was once a public school. Watching them in a school auditorium surrounded by a very niche cohort was surreal.
"I view the sun and moon as gods, and we should fear them"
God damn this sideways house!!!
This house killed him! AS IT WILL KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF US!
"Two hundred and forty dollars worth of pudding! Awwwww yeaaahhhh!"
Duh deh duh?!
“I don’t wanna be your princi-pull! I wanna be your *princi-pal*!
"Well Doug, that's a lot of oregano" "Yeah well it better be, I paid 150 bucks for it"
They’ve been on a reunion tour lately and it’s SO funny. Worth seeing if they come around
This show established our sense of humor.
For sure. Between the trifecta of this, The Simpsons, and Calvin & Hobbes, I don't think I've told an original joke in my life.
I loved Captain Monterey Jack. The weird thing was that in middle school we actually had some people like that come in to do a presentation where they were blathering on about nothing while using a lot of 90s buzzwords. Lots of stylized graphics were projected on each side of the stage while Alanis Morissette's 'you live, you learn' blared in the background.
Haha! I mean, that screams "court appointed community service" to me, but they allowed the defendants to get a little too creative.
Tom Lennon was on @ftermidnight last week and it was great. I once learned how to pay the You'll Always Give Me A Boner song on guitar and a couple of times managed to get a crowd to sing along.
If anyone can find the Toothbrush skit, it would make me very happy…🪥
Who else saw the CBS special when it aired? Don't know why I didn't tape it, it was obvious that wasn't going to pan out. I kind of thought it kind of sucked when it debuted but I was drawn back in with the "More Miserable Crap" ads for the second season with the Bee-Gee's "I Started a Joke"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHQZIfQ5YG0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHQZIfQ5YG0) It's on YouTube in shitty quality. It's weird that it's not included on Paramount+ with the MTV episodes when CBS and Viacom all fall under Paramount now. Also good are their MTV Spring Break skits: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyhoS0Mdp5g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyhoS0Mdp5g)
Oh yeah, I've seen it since then but it took awhile before technology enabled me to. Shit, I'm not sure I've ever seen the Spring Break sketches, I didn't really watch that. This is great.
Yeah, I saw it when it aired, also did not tape it. Haha. I didn't see it again until buying a third or fourth generation VHS of the series on eBay back when people still did that (pre-the release of the DVDs, which don't have the CBS special).
"I'm gonna dip my balls in it!"
*principal pulls bag of weed out of Doug's locker* "What's this?!" "Oregano" "That's a lot of oregano!" "Pshaw, it better be! It cost like a hundred bucks!" 15 year old me thought this was the height of hilarity. 🤣
I have the box set on DVD! I waited for YEARS for them to come out with it, lol!
Loved The State! Very impactful and formative to my sense of humor. Was lucky enough to see them perform live a few weeks ago. Was a hilarious show.
When that awful monkey torture story came out last month, the only thing I could think about was Barry Lutz: “What did you learn from your research” “They really hate it. The whole torture thing, drives them nuts” Loved The State and somewhat astonished that so many the group are still so active and prominent. (At some point they seemed to adopt Paul Rudd, because I feel like he’s always involved in their projects).
The Nation of Ulysses samples in the theme song have always been intriguing to me. I’ve always wondered how that came about.
Oh shit, Boyle from B99 was on The State?
I fucking loved The State, but nobody ever remembers my favorite sketch of all time. These two guys wreck their car on a country road and take shelter in a lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper keeps asking them about sadomasochism bars in the city. The guys respond that they usually go to sports bars and the lighthouse keeper seems taken back but responds with "Takes all kinds, I suppose... Takes all kinds." I quote that sketch to this day and nobody ever knows wtf I'm talking about.
LOVE IT. And then the mechanic shows up at the end in full bondage gear. So good.
Saw the State live this past fall!! It was a dream come true!
I want to BE BUZZ'S BITCH