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* [[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.

* [[Berserk Button]]:

* [[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".

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Five-Man Band]]: Although the group consisted of eleven people, certain members did tend to fall into certain archetypes.

** [[The Hero]]: Thomas Lennon

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: As long as Louie was clearly shown carrying a pair of ''golf'' balls, the network was willing to shrug it off as innuendo.

* [[Good Old Ways]]: The Old-Fashioned Guy thinks he's this, when in fact he's more....[[Cloudcuckoolander|eccentric.]]

* [[Home Version Soundtrack Replacement]]: 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.

* [[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. {{spoiler|He's not. They ''never'' are.}}

* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: "Maybe you should try... pants!"

* [[Inner Monologue]]

* [[Juxtaposition Gag]]: "Taco Mail", "Slash Infestation", etc. etc. etc.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: "Just The 160,000 Of Us"

* [[Menstrual Menace]]: "PMS", in which Kerri Kenney's character transforms, in rapid succession, into several ''male'' members of the cast.

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: "Coffee Family"

* [[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.

* [[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 [[Man On Fire|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''

* [[Open-Minded Parent]] and [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Featured in the "Doug" sketches, much to Doug's consternation.

* [[Out of Focus]]:

** Intentionally invoked by Michael Patrick Jann and Todd Holoubek; both preferred standing behind the camera to acting.

* [[Overused Running Gag]]: Parodied with Louie's constantly repeated [[Catch Phrase]], "I wanna dip my balls in it!"

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]

* [[Rip Van Winkle]]: Parodied in "Short Coma". He was in a coma for one of the most eventful early afternoons in history.

** 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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