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"Strangers with Candy" (1999) More at IMDbPro »TV series 1999-2000

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"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 10 -- The final episode.  Jerri fall in with the cool crowd as part of a makeover bet while Flatpoint High is slowly turned into a strip mall.
"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 9 -- Jerri and Jellineck have close encounters of the school bully kind.
"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 8 -- When Jerri finds herself the victim of sexual harassment, she must decide whether to put out, put up, or shut up.
"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 7 -- When Flatpoint High turns to Jerri for an advice column, Jerri turns to sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 5 -- Jerri tries to boost her track performance and gets trapped in a sordid world of steroid abuse.

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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 full episode list
Release Date:
7 April 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
Good times! more
Plot:
A 46-year-old ex-drug addict returns to high school as a freshman. full summary
NewsDesk:
Dinello heats up 'Burnout'
 (From ioncinema. 14 August 2006)

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"Hobo camp" more

Cast

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Stephen Colbert ... Chuck Noblet / ... (30 episodes, 1999-2000)
Greg Hollimon ... Principal Onyx Blackman / ... (30 episodes, 1999-2000)

Amy Sedaris ... Jerri Blank / ... (30 episodes, 1999-2000)
Deborah Rush ... Sara Blank (30 episodes, 1999-2000)

Paul Dinello ... Geoffrey Jellineck (29 episodes, 1999-2000)

Larc Spies ... Derrick Blank (27 episodes, 1999-2000)

Orlando Pabotoy ... Orlando Pinatubo (22 episodes, 1999-2000)

Maria Thayer ... Tammi Littlenut / ... (14 episodes, 1999-2000)
Sarah Thyre ... Coach Cherri Wolf (13 episodes, 1999-2000)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
22 min (30 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:TV-14
Company:
Comedy Central more

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Trivia:
The characters Jerri Blank and Principal Blackman received their names from the script, but in a uncommon fashion. The script notes described the principal as a black man, and the writers had not yet come up with a last name for Jerri, so they left a blank (e.g. "Jerri _______"). These descriptions struck the writers as fitting, so they were used in production for the characters' actual names. more
Quotes:
Jerri Blank: Florida. Beautiful weather - harsh penal system. more
Soundtrack:
Strangers With Candy Theme more

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What does the title "Strangers with Candy" mean?
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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
"Hobo camp", 15 June 2004
Author: Andrew Harmon (aharmon1973@hotmail.com) from Washington, D.C.

"Hobo camp," a term 46-year-old Jerri Blank uses after spelling V-I-C-T-O-R-Y during a cheerleader try-out, revealing her lifelong illiteracy and causing Coach Wolf to postpone the rest of the try-outs until "we can all recover … from Jerri's shame."

It took me about three months to actually muster the energy to watch Strangers With Candy in late 1999, and I did it only because it was advertised so heavily on Comedy Central, right alongside the Upright Citizens' Brigade. Once I saw it, though, I was hooked. It took only one episode.

I got friends into the show, and we'd throw out the oddest of lines to each other just on the off-chance that we'd all "get it." We'd say things with no relevance like "massage each other's ... clitorises" or "but I want to be a cheerleader" or "Greeks are just Jews without the money." It was hard not to find a line we didn't like or want to repeat after seeing this show.

That's not to mention all the minorities who were skewered by obviously unfeeling and unthinking characters. No one was spared the branding iron here.

From David Sedaris' sometimes crazy little sister Amy and a cast of Second City alums emerged a truly unique and gut-busting but, at the same time, subtly humorous opus to the After-School Special. From racism and classicism to bisexuality and class bullying, Strangers With Candy made the case for smart writing in an irreverent setting. Every line could make you think or laugh, but the timing was so quick that all one could do was chuckle and move on. It was hard not to pay attention to every minute of this show.

Of course it's a shame that Comedy Central canceled the show after only two seasons, but at least the show went out with a bang (literally – Flatpoint High was blown up).

What made the show most memorable for me was that, no matter how well-written and acted each of the offbeat characters was, none could add up to the unbelievably insane Jerri Blank. Everyone made a point to chastise, take advantage of, and downright abuse Jerri, but somehow she could pick herself up and move on and still come out with the best lines in the entire show. Sometimes, when a show takes off, although an ensemble is most important, you find that incidental and auxiliary characters become the mainstay of the show's success (like Kramer and Costanza surrounding Jerry on Seinfeld). In this case, Sedaris held her own with a kind of aplomb that only a seasoned professional can do.

Whether she was being threatened by her brother Derick ("dick lick"), overlooked by her step-mother (the brilliant Deborah Rush), pleaded with for restraint by her hapless pal Orlando, happily ignored by her art teacher Mr. Jellineck (longtime co-conspirator Paul Dinello), forced into community service by the Hitlerish Principal Onyx Blackman, or harassed unnecessarily by the ultimately selfish and tight-fisted Mr. Noblet (writing the word "me" on the board when instructing his students to "tell me..."), Jerri somehow survived countless challenges and came out learning the absolute wrong thing.

My favorite lesson: "The poor are a filthy, thieving people." You have to see the episode to understand it.

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