{"id":199,"date":"2009-06-18T23:07:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T04:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-06-26T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T04:50:00","slug":"i-want-to-dip-my-balls-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"I Want To Dip My Balls In It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after over 15 years, MTV is releasing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_State_(TV_series)\">&#8220;The State&#8221;<\/a> on DVD. \u00a0You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/State-Complete-Tom-Lennon\/dp\/B00274SITW\/\" target=\"_blank\">buy the entire series in one set<\/a>, which releases in less than a month. \u00a0I just pre-ordered mine for a nice discount from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The State&#8221; was a great sketch comedy show on MTV. \u00a0Some of the cast members have gone on to create some other memorable shows, such as &#8220;Viva Variety&#8221; and &#8220;Reno 911&#8221;. \u00a0Comedy Central has another new show premiering next month with two other State alums, &#8220;Michael and Michael Have Issues&#8221; (starring Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter). \u00a0In fact, it was this new show that prompted me to check Amazon to see if any new &#8220;The State&#8221; releases were scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>I have been waiting for this release for a very, very \u00a0long time. \u00a0I even sent Viacom an email years ago asking why they have not released the series on DVD or at least shown re-runs on Comedy Central (a natural fit, given the sensibilities of the show and the fact that cast members have had several shows on Comedy Central). \u00a0Of course, I never heard back from Viacom.<\/p>\n<p>In case you are wondering about the title of this post, it is one of the more memorable repeat sketches from the show. \u00a0The main character in the sketch, Louie, spends the entire sketch praising items by holding up ping-pong balls and declaring that he wants to dip them in the item. \u00a0Juvenile? \u00a0Yes. \u00a0Hilarious? \u00a0Definitely. \u00a0Which pretty much sums up the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after over 15 years, MTV is releasing &#8220;The State&#8221; on DVD. \u00a0You can buy the entire series in one set, which releases in less than a month. \u00a0I just pre-ordered mine for a nice discount from Amazon. &#8220;The State&#8221; was a great sketch comedy show on MTV. \u00a0Some of the cast members have gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}