THE STATE - SURVEY

What kinds of people love The State? What interests appeal to fans of The State? While pondering these questions, we decided an interesting new section to this page might be to conduct a short survey so that its readers may learn a few things about fellow State fans.

On February 20th 2002, this page launched an email-based survey whose goal was to learn what is popular among fans of The State. One hundred responces were recieved starting on February 20th and ending in late-June. The responces were tallied throughout the month of June 2002. This page thanks every one of the fellow fans who took a few minutes to help us out. And now, the results...

State Survey/Poll: 10 questions


Question One: Gender
Male: 50%
Female: 47%
Did not specify: 3%

Question Two: Ethnicity
White: 91%
Hispanic: 3%
White and Black: 1%
Asian: 1%
Native American: 1%
Did not specify: 3%

1% specified “Scottish”
2% wrote “Honkey”
1% wrote “Color challanged”
All of these were put into the “white” category.

1% wrote “Heinz 57”
1% wrote “Human”
1% simply wrote “Other”
All of these were put into the “did not specify” category

Question Three: Location
New York: 18%
New Jersey: 10%
Massachusettes: 9%
Pennsylvania: 9%
California: 6%
Ohio: 6%
Michigan: 5%
Florida: 4%
Arizona: 3%
Rhode Island: 3%
Washington: 3%
Alabama: 2%
Connecticut: 2%
Illinois: 2%
Kentucky: 2%
Maryland: 2%
North Carolina: 2%
Virginia: 2%
Washington DC: 2%
Georgia: 1%
Germany: 1%
Indiana: 1%
Kansas: 1%
Missouri: 1%
South Carolina: 1%
United Kingdom: 1%
Wisconsin: 1%

Question Four: Age
14: 1%
17: 5%
18: 6%
19: 14%
20: 11%
21: 13%
22: 14%
23: 9%
24: 10%
25: 5%
26: 6%
27: 1%
28: 1%
30: 1%
31: 1%
36: 1%
Did not specify: 1%



Question Five: Favorite State Sketches
For this section, we asked the fans to name somewhere between five and ten of their favorite State sketches. If it was too difficult for voters to narrow their choices down, we accepted less than 5 or more than 10 choices. (NOTE: For recurring sketches, many times people would simply write "Doug" or "Louie" without specifying to which exact sketch they were referring. In these cases, partial credit was given to every sketch that included the respective characters.)

Here are the TOP TEN choices by you, the fans...

01 Louie and the Last Supper: 28%
02 $240 Worth Of Pudding: 27%
03 Porcupine Racetrack: 21%
04 Doug And Dad: 19%
05 Taco Man: 19%
06 Barry Lutz Show: 18%
07 Eating Muppets: 18%
08 Blueberry Johnson: 17%
09 Hormones: 17%
10 Service With A Smile: 16%

15%:
Captn Monterey Jack (Cheese)
Toothbrush

14%:
Inbred Brothers
The Jew, The Italian, and The Red Head Gay

13%:
The Bearded Men Of Space Station 11
Doug III (serenade)
Pants
Prison Break
Sea Monkeys

12%:
Captn Monterrey Jack (Shoes)
Monkeys Do It
Tenement

11%:
Doug And Principal
Kabuki Doug
Old Fashioned Guy

10%:
Boy in a Barn
Cutlery Barn (fried bumblebees)
Kill Tim
Louie II (terrorists)

9%:
Barry & Levon (loveseat)
Bologna Foot
Captn Monterrey Jack (Lights)
Sleep With The State

8%:
Bacon
Bookworm
Dan, The Very Popular Openly Gay High School Student
Li’l Brown Dog Food
Louie (first Louie sketch)
The Personal State
Planet Groovy
Roughing It
Race (growin up’s hard timmy. i was little once too, ya know.)

7%:
Choking (international signs)
Grandma’s Potato Chowder
Terrorist Situation
Prom Photos
The Pope’s A-Visit

6%:
Asides (bozz’s bitch, that’s what I want to be)
Chip’s Party
Copy Shop
Dreamboy (skinkee skunky)
Hot Pursuits
James Dixon: Guidence Councilor
Jew II
Lincoln Logs
Origami
Sideways House Family
The Restaurant Sketch (funny because it’s not true)
What Am I Saying?

5%:
Amish Gang Fight
Antonio
Free Market Economy (froggy pops and chocodiles)
Hits From The 70s
In The Bathroom
PMS
State Intro (sell babies on the black market)
Tape People

4%:
$7000 Pyramid (sid and nancy)
And
Babysitter
Can I Go Play III (cuban immigrants)
Carter’s Lineage
Dixon: Jedi Talent Agency
Freaks
Hepcat
Jerry’s Audition (tom lennon auditioning for a beer commercial)
Leonard Harris Show
MTV Sports
Old Fashioned Guy (women voters)
Old Lighthouse Jeffers
Prom
Senator Cavanaugh
Sal & Frankie
Strip Battleship
Superfriends
Wild Town

Question Six: Favorite Recurring State Sketch

Doug: 21%
Captn Monterrey Jack: 19%
Barry & Levon: 15%
Inbred Brothers: 12%
Old Fashioned Guy: 12%
Louie: 9%
Jew, Italian & Redhead Gay: 4%
James Dixon: 3%
Watch The Monkey’s Do It: 3%
Free Your Mind: 1%
On-Air Personality: 1%
Boogeyman: 0%

Question Seven: How often do you watch The State?

At least once a day: 3%
Every few days: 27%
Once a week: 15%
Every few weeks: 24%
Once a month: 7%
Every few months: 15%
Once a year: 1%
Less than once a year: 7%
Did not specify: 1%



For the last three questions, voters were asked to list between five and ten of their alltime favorite TV shows, movies, and music artists or rock bands.

Question Eight: Favorite TV Shows
We did not specify whether or not to include "The State," and so 30% of the voters ended up choosing it. The other 70% most likely assumed that this was understood, and not worth including in their choices. Either way, votes for The State were not included in the final results.

01 Simpsons: 47%
02 Friends: 20%
03 Saturday Night Live: 17%
04 Seinfeld: 14%
05 Daily Show: 13%
06 Kids In The Hall: 13%
07 Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 11%
08 Late Night With Conan O'Brien: 11%
09 Family Guy: 10%
10 South Park: 10%

8%:
Will And Grace

7%:
Ed
NewsRadio
Six Feet Under

6%:
Mr. Show
Osbournes
Sex and the City
Sopranos
Undeclared

5%:
Futurama
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Law and Order
Space Ghost: Coast To Coast
That 70s Show
Upright Citizens Brigade
West Wing
X-Files

4%:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Malcolm In The Middle
Scrubs
Sealab 2021
Sifl & Olly
Who’s Line Is It Anyway
WWF Raw


Question Nine: Favorite Movies

01 Wet Hot American Summer: 25%
02 Clerks: 15%
03 Fight Club: 15%
04 Chasing Amy: 12%
05 Mallrats: 9%
06 American Beauty: 8%
07 Big Lebowski: 8%
08 Dogma: 8%
09 Office Space: 8%
10 Rushmore: 8%

7%:
Billy Madison
Goonies
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Lord Of The Rings
The Matrix
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction

6%:
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Requiem For A Dream
Shawshank Redemption
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

5%:
A Clockwork Orange
Evil Dead

4%:
Back To The Future
Braveheart
Fargo
Ferris Bueler's Day Off
Ghostbusters
Goodfellas
High Fidelity
The Labyrinth
Mulholland Drive
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Reservoir Dogs
Royal Tenenbaums
Star Wars
Trainspotting
Usual Suspects
Welcome to the Dollhouse

Question Ten: Favorite Bands/Music Artists

01 Weezer: 15%
02 Pink Floyd: 14%
03 The Beatles: 12%
04 Radiohead: 11%
05 Ben Folds (Five): 10%
06 Bjork: 7%
07 Nirvana: 7%
08 Pearl Jam: 7%
09 The Pixies: 7%
10 U2: 7%

6%:
The Cure
Led Zeppelin
The Ramones
Smashing Pumpkins
Stone Temple Pilots
The Who

5%:
Beastie Boys
Beck
Bright Eyes
Dave Matthews Band
Green Day
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Eat World
R.E.M.
Tori Amos

4%:
Ani Difranco
At The Drive In
Barenaked Ladies
Cat Power
Incubus
Simon & Garfunkel




Final Bonus Question
What is your opinion of this survey?
a) Cool: 45%
b) Sucks: 3%
c) Whatever: 44%
Did not specify: 6%

Additional responces to the bonus question included the following...
d) Gay: 1%
Somewhere between cool and whatever: 1%

Java would be better: 2%
Email is better: 1%

For those who decided to help us out, we greatly appreciate your time. Thank you!