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Captain Monterey Jack

The State 1994 Season 1 Episode 102

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The setup

Captain Monterey Jack lectures a gym full of high school students about switching off the lights, but his pep talk keeps collapsing into nonsense.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Michael Ian Black's Captain Monterey Jack strides into a dim school gym to urge the seated students to turn out the lights whenever they are the last to leave a room. His message quickly wanders through nursery rhymes, pig Latin and garbled sneaker slogans. During a question-and-answer session he bullies Doug (Michael Showalter) and a student in a sweater vest (David Wain), explains that the light he really means is the one in their hearts, and declares hair dryers an exception before signing off with an unflattering aside about Thomas Edison.

The funny people

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Highly quotable.

I am not talking about these lights here. I'm talking about this light here. Your heart light.

Hair dryers are different. Excellent question. They have multiple settings and they keep food warm.

Thomas Edison was a great man, but he was a bastard to his wife and kids.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

This was Captain Monterey Jack's first appearance. The character spoofed the earnest anti-drug and anti-drinking spots MTV aired at the time, and he returned later in the first season to lecture students on tying their shoes and storing cheese.