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Strangers with Candy

  • TV Series
  • 1999–2000
  • TV-14
  • 22m
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Strangers with Candy (1999)
A forty-six-year-old ex-drug addict returns to high school as a freshman.
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A 46-year-old ex-drug addict returns to high school as a freshman.A 46-year-old ex-drug addict returns to high school as a freshman.A 46-year-old ex-drug addict returns to high school as a freshman.

  • Creators
    • Stephen Colbert
    • Paul Dinello
    • Mitch Rouse
  • Stars
    • Amy Sedaris
    • Paul Dinello
    • Stephen Colbert
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    6.8K
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    POPULARITY
    4,671
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    • Creators
      • Stephen Colbert
      • Paul Dinello
      • Mitch Rouse
    • Stars
      • Amy Sedaris
      • Paul Dinello
      • Stephen Colbert
    • 69User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Amy Sedaris
    Amy Sedaris
    • Jerri Blank
    Paul Dinello
    Paul Dinello
    • Geoffrey Jellineck…
    Stephen Colbert
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    • Chuck Noblet…
    Greg Hollimon
    • Principal Onyx Blackman
    Deborah Rush
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    • Sara Blank
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    Sarah Thyre
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    • Tammi Littlenut
    Roberto Gari
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    • Guy Blank…
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    Dolores Duffy
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    Troy Metcalf
    • Troy
    Patrick Blindauer
    • Chip Beavers
    David Pasquesi
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    • Stew
    Virginia Williams
    Virginia Williams
    • Ginger…
    Heather Magee
    • Shannon Tudyk
    Matthew Sean Blumm
    Matthew Sean Blumm
    • P-John
    Chuck Caruso
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      • Paul Dinello
      • Mitch Rouse
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    • Trivia
      The character of Jerri is based on motivational speaker Florrie Fisher, who travelled high schools in the 1970s talking about her fall from 1940s socialite to a heroin addicted prostitute in the 1960s. Many lines of dialogue in the show are taken verbatim from a recording of a speech she gave to a New York high school, which circulated for many years on the cult video market as "The Trip Back." In real life, Fisher fell out of the public eye in the early 1970s, and for many years was believed to be missing and presumed dead. In the late 2000s, researchers turned up an interview with Mike Douglas in a 1973 issue of the Rotary Club publication "The Rotarian," in which Douglas recounted interviewing Fisher. According to Douglas, Fisher's disappearance was due to her being taken to a Miami hospital in the middle of her lecture tour, where she was diagnosed with liver cancer. The disease resulted in kidney failure, and she ultimately died of a heart attack on May 26, 1972, at the age of 54, though her death went unknown for decades.
    • Goofs
      Derrick Blank is frequently referred to as Jerri's stepbrother. He is actually her half-brother.
    • Quotes

      Jerri Blank: Dear diary, I'm sorry for all those hateful racist things I said about you.

    • Crazy credits
      At the end of every episode while the credits are rolling you see the cast in that episode dancing.
    • Alternate versions
      In the complete Season Three Box Set, the episodes "Trail of Tears" and "Is My Daddy Crazy?" feature the original aired episodes, but in the Complete Series Box Set they are director's-cut episodes.
    • Connections
      Featured in Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America: Would Ya Hit a Guy with Glasses?: Nerds, Jerks & Oddballs (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Strangers With Candy Theme
      Composed by Mark Levenson

      Producer Bob Golden

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    Super Sit-Com!

    This new show from Comedy Central is completely loopy! Give it a few minutes of your time and you too will succomb! Amy Sedaris is outrageously funny as Jerry Blank, a 47 year old reprehensible ex-convict trying to graduate Flashpoint High "right where she left off." Her catatonic senior citizen father and alcoholic and abusive step-mother are both superb!

    Jerry always struggles to do the right thing. She rarely succeeds. Every episode Jerry has a new pet. A lobster (that is boiled accidentally). A turtle (who is shot out the living room sliding glass doors after a serious one-on-one with a golf club, and is later cremated and commingled with Jerry's mother's ashes). And a constrictor (nothing untoward it seems happens to this pet). Poor Jerry, as she struggles to gain weight to play Ma in Raisin in the Sun and spy on a nice classmate who the teachers feel is retarded!

    At the end of each episode I feel gratified that Jerry never does the right thing, but that is ok. In fact the episodes end happily because Jerry gave someone an overdose of home brewed drugs or she snitched on her retarded friend who stood up for her. The list of Jerry's misdeeds is long, but as her teacher, Mr. Jellinek, advises her, "...stick with what you know!"
    • achmura
    • May 7, 1999
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    • Release date
      • April 7, 1999 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Comedy Central
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Незнакомцы с конфеткой
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Comedy Central
      • Paramount Home Entertainment
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    • Runtime
      22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 4:3

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