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{{quote|''CHICKEN SANDWICH, CAAAAAARRRRLLL!!! WHAT ARE YOU, '''DEAF?!?!''' ''}}
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 shows as ''[[Reno 911!]]'', ''[[Viva Variety]]'', ''[[Stella]]'', and Stella's
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: Wildly subverted in the case of Doug's dad - he's amazingly 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 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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* [[Embarrassing First Name|Embarrassing Last Name]]: Mr. Magina
* [[Executive Meddling]]: [[Crosses the Line Twice]] Louie was written at the request of executives for a character with a catch phrase. He was made as ridiculous as possible in the hope that the matter would be dropped. Instead the group ended up liking the character and placed him in future sketches.
** The team explains on commentary that the show was originally launched because MTV wanted their first foray into the "sketch show" genre, so the first season was very much about what the network wanted. They felt since MTV was a '''MUSIC NETWORK''' ([[Network Decay|Hey, imagine that!]]), that the sketches should occasionally have to do with a music theme. This explains the sketch where Slash from [[Guns
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Although the group consisted of eleven people, certain members did tend to fall into certain archetypes.
** [[The Hero]]: Thomas Lennon
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** Subverted with a sketch where a panel of snooty experts, asked to ''define'' "art", rapidly conclude that it's "like, paintings and stuff."
* [[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.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]
{{quote|'''Superman''': Aquaman... go talk to some fish! ''[[Butt Monkey|(rest of the Justice League laughs)]]''}}
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