During the break between the MTV show's version and the ABC series prospects, the deal collapsed and it is not entirely clear why. Showalter complains: "It all broke up. They couldn't get enough of the associated stations to want to do it - I don't know. I have no idea."

Not only did they lose their contract with ABC, but they also lost Todd Holubeck, who felt his voice in the group anyway. But as Lennon confirmed, "Todd gave up, but Todd gave up because we were all pushing him to withdraw so hard because we were psychos."

CBS jumped into the equation as a new home for the "state" to record their network, but as Allison pointed out, "CBS was like the worst place to be at the time, because it was older people kind of network." Blacks echoed on those feelings, noting: "The average age of that audience was probably somewhere in the mid-80s", which is not the best place for a punk-rock comedy show that found MTV's success, the channel that many members of the CBS audience openly hated.

Jan recalls that CBS has encouraged their arrival because they hoped to change the whole brand and use the "state" as a way to bring them to that revolution. But even state entertainment officials encouraged them not to leave MTV for CBS.

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But they tried anyway. Before leaving the head of the SNL in the fall of 1996, the deal indicated that the state would make a series of special holidays in 1995, starting from the Halloween Special Halloween on October 27. The play was received by critics, including a review of four Michele Starvali from the New York Post, the same critic who initially panicked his MTV debit, which he wrote, "Then".

Unfortunately, Halloween's special rating was unusual, for the most part due to a lack of promotion, and CBS chose to cancel the next planned New Year's Eve, and their hopes for the appropriate CBS series were completely interrupted. Looking back on the shift attempt, Vain says: "We would probably have a longer, stronger MTV running than having a special CBS that no one was watching."

Instead, this was the end of the state, although Black thinks that they would not continue much longer if the outcome of CBS had not happened, "We are going to CBS probably accelerating our death, but probably not so much."

That is probably why Black doesn't waste too much time throwing harmful fun and instead decided to use their success by creating a spin-off of the "state". Black recalled: "When the group stopped, I liked it right away," Okay, let's do something else. "