# "The State" appreciation thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-state-appreciation-thread/273927>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 9, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-state-appreciation-thread/273927 "2004-11-09T23:44:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SilentButDeftly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SilentButDeftly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SilentButDeftly)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-state-appreciation-thread/273927/21 "2004-11-12T15:39:51Z")

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> [@saramamalana](#):
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> Oh man I’d forgotten about _Porcupine Racetrack_! (approximating) “I know I’ve been a sinner, but G-d make this a winner, or the orphanage will clooooose”

\<nitpick\>  
"I know that I’m a sinner…  
But I really need… a winner…  
Or the orphanage will cloooose… " (combined with overdramatic hand-closing)  
“So God if you’re above…  
and it’s orphans that you love…  
Please help the porcupine I chose.”

And then Tom Lennon comes in to close it out…

“I’m the slowest porcupine in town  
But knowin’ that… don’t get me down  
it’s just that they don’t see  
So when they blow that whistle,  
I will move my little bristles  
‘cause there’s nothin’ [pause] stoppin’ [pause] me!  
At the porcupine!  
Porc-U-Pine!  
Racetrack!  
Racetrack!  
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

\</nitpick\> Wow, I didn’t even realize I was doing the whole thing there, I just couldn’t stop myself!

> [@](#):
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> Anyone remember _Fragments_? I always felt like other State fans didn’t recall that sketch.

How could I forget? I am _fragments_.

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**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-state-appreciation-thread/273927/22 "2004-11-12T18:57:12Z")

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“It’s time.”  
“Aww yeah, it’s that time.”  
“Aww, you know it’s that time.”  
“I’m Levon.”  
“And I’m Barry. Sagittarius.”  
“And it’s time.”  
“And it’s time for two hundred…”  
“… and forty dollars…”  
“…worth of puddin’.”  
“Aww yeah.”  
“Aww yeah.”

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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-state-appreciation-thread/273927/23 "2004-11-12T19:31:13Z")

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Awww yeah. I cook…and then I chill.

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-state-appreciation-thread/273927/24 "2004-11-12T19:43:34Z")

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I loved the sketch in which Lois Lane discovers what Clark Kent is up to whenever Superman appears in Metropolis…

“We are little biddie CAREFREE girls!” (or something like that…)

And the State was the first group ever to mock Aquaman’s rather…ahem…“limited” superpowers.

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-state-appreciation-thread/273927/25 "2004-11-12T20:13:39Z")

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> [@saramamalana](#):
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> “Most people don’t know, but me and G-d are like _this_!” and from the same sketch (singing) “Please kill Tim.”

See, I would’ve contributed sooner, but this is my favorite moment, and the OP mentioned it straight off.

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