The following is a list of episodes for the Comedy Central original series Strangers with Candy. The series started on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. A prequel film of the same name was released in 2005.
Series overview edit
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| Pilot episode | Unaired | |||
| 1 | 10 | April 7, 1999 | July 19, 1999 | |
| 2 | 10 | January 17, 2000 | July 3, 2000 | |
| 3 | 10 | July 10, 2000 | October 2, 2000 | |
| Film | June 28, 2006 | |||
Episodes edit
Pilot episode edit
| Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| "Retardation: A Celebration" | Adam Bernstein | Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse & Amy Sedaris | Unaired | 100 |
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Jerri is asked to spy on her lockermate, looking for signs of retardation. Later evolved into Episode 104, "Who Wants Cake?" | ||||
Season 1 (1999) edit
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 1 | "Old Habits, New Beginnings" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Mitch Rouse | April 7, 1999 | 101 |
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Jerri tries to make friends by supplying a classmate with drugs. | |||||
| 2 | "A Burden's Burden" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | April 14, 1999 | 102 |
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Jerri is assigned to take care of a 10-pound baby in order to learn responsibility. | |||||
| 3 | "Dreams on the Rocks" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | April 21, 1999 | 103 |
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Jerri must deal with her stepmother's alcoholism. | |||||
| 4 | "Who Wants Cake?" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Mitch Rouse | April 28, 1999 | 104 |
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Jerri is asked to spy on her lockermate, looking for signs of retardation. | |||||
| 5 | "Bogie Nights" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Thomas Lennon | June 14, 1999 | 105 |
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Jerri befriends the new student, Ricky (Fred Koehler) but discovers a secret that will keep them apart forever. | |||||
| 6 | "Let Freedom Ring" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Mitch Rouse | June 21, 1999 | 106 |
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Flatpoint High is in the grip of a racist who spray-painted an ethnic slur on the wall. | |||||
| 7 | "Feather in the Storm" | Danny Leiner | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | June 28, 1999 | 107 |
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Jerri must lose weight to be in physical shape for the debate team, which she thinks is her ticket to popularity. Meat man "Stu" (David Pasquesi) moves in with the family. | |||||
| 8 | "To Be Young, Gifted, and Blank" | Dan Dinello | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 5, 1999 | 108 |
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Mr. Noblet discovers that Jerri is a violin prodigy, and he strives to use her talents for his own purposes in competing against Mr. Jellineck's orchestra. | |||||
| 9 | "Jerri Is Only Skin Deep" | Danny Leiner & Bob Balaban | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 12, 1999 | 109 |
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Homecoming-Queen hopeful Jerri struggles with the Inner Beauty category. | |||||
| 10 | "The Trip Back" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 19, 1999 | 110 |
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Jerri turns back to a life of drugs after being seduced by a beautiful female druggie. | |||||
Season 2 (2000) edit
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 11 | "The Virgin Jerri" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | January 17, 2000 | 203 |
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Jerri becomes a virgin again, but struggles with keeping her funbox closed. | |||||
| 12 | "Behind Blank Eyes" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | January 24, 2000 | 202 |
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Jerri finds herself attracted to a blind classmate. While she tries to navigate the sightless world, he fights for the right to play on the football team. | |||||
| 13 | "Yes, You Can't" | Dan Dinello | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | January 31, 2000 | 201 |
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Jerri agonizes over what she wants to do with her life while Mr. Jellineck quits teaching to become a starving artist. | |||||
| 14 | "The Goodbye Guy" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | February 7, 2000 | 204 |
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Jerri’s daddy is eaten by high school mascots, leaving her out of the big Father–Student Sack Race. | |||||
| 15 | "The Blank Page" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & David Wain | February 21, 2000 | 206 |
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Flatpoint High discovers Jerri’s illiteracy, which she must overcome in order to make the cheerleading squad. Can she learn to read? | |||||
| 16 | "Hit and Run" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | February 28, 2000 | 205 |
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Jerri runs over Mr. Jellineck and has difficulty keeping the secret; Mr. Noblet discovers that the revelation of another secret is the key to Jellineck’s recovery. | |||||
| 17 | "To Love, Honor, and Pretend" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | March 7, 2000 | 207 |
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Mr. Noblet grows jealous of the special fake bond between Mr. Jellineck and Coach Wolf as Jerri’s control issues threaten her own fake union in a marriage experiment gone awry. | |||||
| 18 | "Blank Stare: Part 1" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | June 19, 2000 | 208 |
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Jerri is recruited by a cult of happy people who sing the same song (a lot), and Flatpoint High begins a radical change in politics, becoming a totalitarian regime, keeping its students/citizens to a code of strict anonymity and perfect obedience. | |||||
| 19 | "Blank Stare: Part 2" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | June 26, 2000 | 209 |
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After Jerri becomes perfectly assimilated into the cult’s mindset, its leader finds that sometimes cults have to be selective with their recruits. | |||||
| 20 | "A Price Too High for Riches" | Peter Lauer | Nicholas Stoller, Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 3, 2000 | 210 |
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Flairs, a shoe with a ridiculously long lace, take the fashion world by storm and become the key to Jerri’s social success. | |||||
Season 3 (2000) edit
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 21 | "Jerri’s Burning Issue" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 10, 2000 | 301 |
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With the school "Purity Dance" days away, Jerri struggles with the decision to tell her popular new boyfriend that she has contracted an epic case of syphilis. | |||||
| 22 | "Is Freedom Free?" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 17, 2000 | 302 |
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Jerri’s "au naturel" self-portrait ignites a storm of censorship from the school. | |||||
| 23 | "Trail of Tears" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 24, 2000 | 303 |
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Jerri must again face her own racist views when she discovers that she is a full-blooded Native American Indian and is sent to a cultural-immersion camp for adopted redskins. | |||||
| 25 | "Is My Daddy Crazy?" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 31, 2000 | 304 |
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Jerri wonders if she can cure her stepmother's lover's insanity in time for him to speak at Flatpoint High's Occupation Week. | |||||
| 26 | "Blank Relay" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | August 14, 2000 | 305 |
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Desperate to stay on the track team, Jerri abuses steroids and pushes them to her teammates. | |||||
| 24 | "Invisible Love" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | August 21, 2000 | 306 |
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Jerri's secret relationship with the school stud makes her question her own self-respect. | |||||
| 27 | "Ask Jerri" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | September 11, 2000 | 307 |
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Jerri takes over the school newspaper’s advice column from Jellineck. Disaster follows, especially in the relationship between Jellineck and Noblet. | |||||
| 28 | "There Once Was a Blank from Nantucket" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | September 18, 2000 | 308 |
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Jerri must deal with sexual harassment and prevent her new jazz-orchestra beau from finding out. | |||||
| 29 | "Bully" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | September 25, 2000 | 309 |
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Bullies threaten both Jerri and Jellineck. | |||||
| 30 | "The Last Temptation of Blank" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | October 2, 2000 | 310 |
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As Flatpoint High is set to turn into a strip mall, Jerri becomes friends with a popular girl (guest star Winona Ryder) and must decide if she wants to leave her old friends behind forever to finally find lasting popularity. | |||||
Film edit
| Title | Directed by | Written by | Release date (U.S.) | |
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| Strangers with Candy | Paul Dinello | Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris, Mitch Rouse | June 28, 2006 | |
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The film takes place before the series. Jerri Blank discovers her mother has died, her father, Guy, has remarried to the hateful Sara Blank, and she has an arrogant half-brother Derrick. To make matters worse, her father is in a "stress-induced coma". Taking the suggestion of the family doctor literally, Jerri decides to pick her life back up where she left it, beginning her high school all over again as a freshman at Flatpoint High. | ||||