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Season: 1  |  2  |  3
Year: 1999  |  2000


Season 1


"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Jerri uses her knowledge of drugs in a bid to become popular, killing a cheerleader and her pet turtle in the process.
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Season 1, Episode 1: Old Habits - New Beginnings

Original Air Date—7 April 1999
Meet Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old "boozer, user and a loser" who is trying to put her life back together again by going back to high school. One day Jerri tries to throw a party to become more popular, but when she finds out no one is coming, Jerri uses her knowledge of drugs to lure the popular kids to her party. During the process two lives are ended and Jerri, kind of learns a lesson.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 2 -- In order to teach students the responsibility of taking care of a baby, Coach Wolf gives each student a baby.

Season 1, Episode 2: A Burden's Burden

Original Air Date—14 April 1999
While in class Coach Wolf tries to teach a lesson on how hard it can be being a single mother. So she decides to teach everyone by giving them a real living 10 pound baby, and the first in line to take care of it is lucky Jerri Blank. She has know idea on what to do or what even to do with it. Chuch and Geoffrey still sneak around with each other.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Jerri’s starring role in the school play stirs up a dangerous cocktail of jealousy and regret in her stepmother, Sara.

Season 1, Episode 3: Dreams on the Rocks

Original Air Date—21 April 1999
Jerri lands the lead role in her high school play. This brings her stepmother back to her glory days which she misses so terribly, she turns to booze to forget.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 4 -- Jerri is told she must help Principal Blackman out by turning snitch and rooting out the school retard if she wants to go on the class trip to Good Time Island.

Season 1, Episode 4: Who Wants Cake?

Original Air Date—28 April 1999
When a school field trip to Good Time Island is coming up, Jerri couldn't be more exited. However Principal Blackman is out on a witch hunt to figure out who the school problem is. So Mr. Noblet asks Jerri to investigate her locker mate and snitch on her if it's she, and if Jerri chooses not to do this she will not be allowed to go on the field trip. Jerri is not sure what to do because she is not a snitch.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 5 -- Jerri falls for a transfer student and later discovers the terrible secret that will keep them apart forever.

Season 1, Episode 5: Bogie Nights

Original Air Date—14 June 1999
When a new student comes to Flatpoint High and the entire school is against him because he is a new student, everyone except Jerri who begins developing feelings for him, but if she wants to keep her rep in school she must act like she hates him just like everybody else. Another problem is that the school dance is coming up and Jerri really wants to go with him. Jerri also discovers a shocking secret that will end her relationship with the new student forever.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 6 -- Desperate to become homecoming queen, Jerri concocts some unique strategies to eliminate the competition.

Season 1, Episode 6: Jerri Is Only Skin Deep

Original Air Date—12 July 1999
When homecoming is around the corner, Jerri is desperate to become Queen. So she secretly removes all the nominees except her own and another nerdy student. The only problem is when she hears that everyone else is going to be voting for the other nominee because of her inner beauty, Jerri begins to think of a plan that will for sure make her win.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Flatpoint High is up in arms to find out ‘whodunit’ after someone scrawls a racial slur on the wall.

Season 1, Episode 7: Let Freedom Ring

Original Air Date—21 June 1999
When Flatpoint High is found with an awful slur on the wall in the school hall, everyone is pointing fingers at one another. There is one suspect who is number one and Jerri "befreinds" him when no one else will. An investigator (Tim Medows) comes to solve this crime in his own unusual way. This hilarious episode ends with a shocking ending on who really did it.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 8 -- Jerri finds her calling on the debate team, but can she make it through the dangerous physical training for the big competition?

Season 1, Episode 8: Feather in the Storm

Original Air Date—28 June 1999
When Jerri has a sudden interest in joining the debate team, she tries out to only find out you have to be incredibly thin to bring out a good argument. So Jerri results into bulimia to get a spot on the team.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 9 -- Noblet discovers that Jerri is a violin prodigy and ruthlessly grooms her to become the star he always wanted to be.

Season 1, Episode 9: To Be Young Gifted and Blank

Original Air Date—1999
After Jerri is kicked out of the orchestra by Geoffry, Mr. Noblet catches her playing a violin, and playing it well. Jerri's father hates the violin and everything involved with it so Jerri moves in with Mr. Noblet and he decides to give her more ruthless lessons to make her the prodigy that he always wanted to be. He also enters Jerri into a contest even though she would rather be off having fun with Orlando.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 1: Episode 10 -- Jerri reverts back to her old ways and succumbs to drugs in an attempt to win the affection of a beautiful female stoner.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Trip Back

Original Air Date—19 July 1999
Jerri is struggling for a passing grade to move on to Sophmore year. Mr. Noblet tells her if she can pass the final she will be able to pass the year, but instead of studying Jerri meets up with a crowd that makes her result into drugs again.

Season 2


"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 1 -- During Career Week at Flatpoint Mr. Jellineck quits to follow his dreams of being a painter, while Jerri tries to discover just what her dreams are.

Season 2, Episode 1: Yes You Can't

Original Air Date—31 January 2000
Jerri and her classmates consider series of career options presented to them while trying to avoid the option of ending up in the local creepy artificial flower factory. Seeing the 'youngsters' ponder their futures cause Noblet and Jellineck to reconsider their own choices.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 2 -- Jerri falls for an ambitious blind boy named Alan who, despite staunch opposition from the school, aspires to play football for Flatpoint High.

Season 2, Episode 2: Behind Blank Eyes

Original Air Date—24 January 2000
Jerri meet a blind boy named Alan who she begins to fall for. Alan says he can do anything a person who has perfect vision he can do, so he decides to try out for the high school football team, without the support of the team players. But Jerri believes he can do it...kind of.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 3 -- Jerri reclaims her virginity and fights with her animal instincts as a date with a notorious cherry popper threatens to end her mission of purity before it's begun.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Virgin Jerri

Original Air Date—17 January 2000
Jerri participates in a school program to symbolically 'recover' her long-lost virginity. She takes it seriously, and works hard to fend off ever-present temptation.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 4 -- The Blanks are stricken with a death in the family, and now Jerri must learn how to deal with the loss of an important figure in her life.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Goodbye Guy

Original Air Date—7 February 2000
Jerri has to deal with a sudden death after he father is ripped apart by a pack of wild dogs, and now Jerri can't compete in the Father/Daughter race. Jerri feels isolated because no one understands , not even her step mother and she griefs her loss.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 5 -- Jerri and Mr. Noblet must deal with intense guilt after playing a part in a horrible hit and run accident which has robbed Mr. Jellineck of his most prized possession, his own face.

Season 2, Episode 5: Hit and Run

Original Air Date—28 February 2000
A horrible hit and run accident leaves Jellinek without his much-prized face, and Noblet and Jerri feeling guilty and morose. Blackman leads the charge to find the guilty party by recreating the circumstances of accident.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 6 -- With dreams of becoming a cheerleader, Jerri attempts to learn how to read, and overcome the shame of her illiteracy.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Blank Page

Original Air Date—21 February 2000
Jerri suddenly decides that she wants a spot on the cheer leading squad, but the only problem is that you have to know how to spell to be on he squad. Everyone in school finds out that Jerri is illiterate so Mr. Noblet takes on teaching Jerri how to read. Jerri also meets a person who is kind of in the same situation she in. A bus driver who doesn't know how to drive a bus.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 7 -- The lines of reality begin to blur during a fake marriage exercise in Health Class led by Coach Wolf and Mr. Jellineck who act as an example of a “good marriage” for students, including a clueless Jerri, to follow.

Season 2, Episode 7: To Love, Honor, and Pretend

Original Air Date—6 March 2000
Coach Wolf starts to teach a lesson of a "good marriage" to her students. She has all the students partner up and Coach Wolf herself uses Mr. Jellineck as her fake husband in the lesson, but things begin to get confusing when both of them begin to believe they are in a real marriage. Jerri becomes very territorial over her fake husband when she finds out that he has a very real girlfriend.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 8 -- Looking for love in all the wrong places, Jerri dumps Flatpoint High for a freaky cult.

Season 2, Episode 8: Blank Stare: Part 1

Original Air Date—19 June 2000
Feeling rejected by her classmates and abandoned by her family, Jerri is seduced into joining a religious cult.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 9 -- The Flatpoint faculty kidnaps Jerri in a desperate attempt to deprogram her from a cult clone back into a high school drone.

Season 2, Episode 9: Blank Stare: Part 2

Original Air Date—26 June 2000
After first attempting to stop Jerri from escaping, the leader of the cult realizes how annoying she is and tries to get rid of her, while Principle Blackman, Mr. Noblet and Mr. Jellineck try to rescue her.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 2: Episode 10 -- When an expensive sneaker takes Flatpoint by storm, a financially challenged Jerri learns that sometimes money is a girl’s best friend.
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Season 2, Episode 10: A Price Too High for Riches

Original Air Date—3 July 2000
Jerri becomes obsessed with making enough money to buy a pair of expensive sneakers in order to get invited to a rich girl's party.

Season 3


"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 1 -- Jerri learns the hard way that “Chlamydia is not a flower”- just in time for the big school dance.
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Season 3, Episode 1: Jerri's Burning Issue

Original Air Date—10 July 2000
Jerri tells her new boyfriend that she's a virgin, but her claim is complicated by a case of syphilis she contracted while turning tricks, which she then gives to him.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 2 -- Jerri’s nude self-portraits ignite a censorship showdown at Flatpoint High. Guest starring Dylan Baker and Peter Benson.

Season 3, Episode 2: Is Freedom Free?

Original Air Date—17 July 2000
Flatpoint High is learning about freedom of speech, and Mr. Jellineck does an exercise where people express themselves in photos, but when Jerri wants to hang a nude picture of herself with the other photos, Principal Blackman and Minister Arsenew has it taken down. So Jerri learns from her role model Buddah Stalin to take a stand. To prove herself, she goes on a hunger strike.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 3 -- Jerri must confront her racist views when a secret from her past reveals surprising news about her heritage. Guest starring Will Ferrell, Andy Richter, and Tom Everett Scott.

Season 3, Episode 3: Trail of Tears

Original Air Date—24 July 2000
When Jerri discovers her American Indian heritage, she attends a camp run by a councilor who teaches adopted Indian children about aspects of their culture, such as alcoholism and gambling.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 4 -- Jerri learns the value of sanity when Stew, her mom’s meat man, goes nuts. Guest starring Heather Matarazzo and David Cross.
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Season 3, Episode 4: Is My Daddy Crazy?

Original Air Date—14 August 2000
Stew, Jerri's stepmother's meat man, goes insane days before Jerri needs him to appear at her school career day.

"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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Season 3, Episode 5: Blank Relay

Original Air Date—21 August 2000
Jerri tries out for the track team and is not that good. So to improve her performance and her fellow team mates, she uses steroids. On the day of the big race, their is a random selection on drug testing and Jerri is not sure on what to do. It is all on her shoulders because Principal Blackman wants that trophy!

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 6 -- Jerri learns the key to self-respect: keeping your boyfriend happy -- while making out with him in a trash can.
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Season 3, Episode 6: Invisible Love

Original Air Date—31 July 2000
Jerri sneaks around with a guy who is ashamed of her, however Jerri is in love, but Laird acts like that she doesn't even exist. Tammy is convincing Jerri that it is not right what he is doing. So Jerri is hoping that he will ask her to the fall make out festival so other people can know about their relationship. Stu the Meat Man is living with the Blanks and making life that much harder.

"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.
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Season 3, Episode 7: Ask Jerri

Original Air Date—11 September 2000
Chuck and Geoffry run an advice column, but when Principal Blackman comes in there office furious how no one reads the paper because it's hard to relate to, Chuck decides to find a student who could do the Job. So when he sees Jerri in the school hallway giving advice he asks her to replace Geoffrys jobs giving advice in the paper. However Jerri feels that she is not very qualified to give advice. When Geoffry hears the news he threatens Chuck that he will out him if he doesn't give him his job back.

"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.
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Season 3, Episode 8: There Once Was a Blank from Nantucket

Original Air Date—18 September 2000
Jerri is asked out at a school wrestling game, but the boy later takes back his offer because other boys are saying mean sexual things to Jerri and she does nothing about it. So Tamela tells her she was a victim of sexual harassment and she needs to stick up for herself. Jerri later starts liking another guy, but is afraid it will end soon because of the other guys harassing her.

"Strangers with Candy" (1999): Season 3: Episode 9 -- Jerri and Jellineck have close encounters of the school bully kind.
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Season 3, Episode 9: Bully

Original Air Date—25 September 2000
A new student comes to Flatpoint High, who turns out to be a bully who everyone is afraid of. When Jerri stops a fight with the bully and her friend Tammy, the bully schedules a fight for after school. Everyone keeps telling Jerri that she shouldn't fight and find peace, but Jerri feels she should live by the street code and fight. Geoffry gets a bully of his own when a homosexual hater substitute confronts him.

"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.
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Season 3, Episode 10: The Last Temptation of Blank

Original Air Date—20 October 2000
Jerri wishes she could find herself a cooler crowd to hang out with rather than the usual nerds shes with. When the cool girl at school Fran (Winona Ryder) bets that she can make anyone cool, she finds the perfect subject: Jerri Blank. Jerri however wishes everyone could be friends. When Principal Blackman finds out that Flatpoint High is going to be torn down to make a Mall, he decides to take matters into his own hands.

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