iTunes Release Means No More State Secrets

The first season of The State is now on iTunes. Though much of its alumni have gone on to do incredible work in splinter groups including Reno 911 and Stella, the original sketches which featured the whole troop have been primarily unavailable, save for a 1995 VHS release entitled Skits and Stickers, which has a few sketches from the entirety of episodes, a far cry from our completist DVD releases today. Skits and Stickers is somewhat of a rarity now. Although eight people are trying to sell it from between $48 of $135 on Amazon, there’s four copies for sale on eBay under $10. I picked up a copy when it was originally released and the sketch involving a softened language version of the play Tenement is still one of my favorite bits ever.

There’s hope that strong sales on iTunes will lead to a full DVD release. To help promote the availability on iTunes, the State produced the following dark, dark non-promo-like promo for the release.