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.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
---|---|---|---|---|
"Retardation: A Celebration" | Adam Bernstein | Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse & Amy Sedaris | Unaired | 100 |
Jerri is asked to spy on her lockermate, looking for signs of
retardation. Later evolved into Episode 104, "Who Wants Cake?" |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "Old Habits, New Beginnings" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Mitch Rouse | April 7, 1999 | 101 |
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 |
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 |
Jerri must deal with her stepmother's
alcoholism. | |||||
4 | "Who Wants Cake?" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Mitch Rouse | April 28, 1999 | 104 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Homecoming-Queen hopeful Jerri struggles with the Inner Beauty category. | |||||
10 | "The Trip Back" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 19, 1999 | 110 |
Jerri turns back to a life of drugs after being seduced by a beautiful female druggie. |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
11 | "The Virgin Jerri" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | January 17, 2000 | 203 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Flairs, a shoe with a ridiculously long lace, take the fashion world by storm and become the key to Jerri’s social success. |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
21 | "Jerri’s Burning Issue" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 10, 2000 | 301 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Bullies threaten both Jerri and Jellineck. | |||||
30 | "The Last Temptation of Blank" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | October 2, 2000 | 310 |
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. |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Release date (U.S.) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strangers with Candy | Paul Dinello | Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris, Mitch Rouse | June 28, 2006 | |
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. |
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.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
---|---|---|---|---|
"Retardation: A Celebration" | Adam Bernstein | Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse & Amy Sedaris | Unaired | 100 |
Jerri is asked to spy on her lockermate, looking for signs of
retardation. Later evolved into Episode 104, "Who Wants Cake?" |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "Old Habits, New Beginnings" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Mitch Rouse | April 7, 1999 | 101 |
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 |
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 |
Jerri must deal with her stepmother's
alcoholism. | |||||
4 | "Who Wants Cake?" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Mitch Rouse | April 28, 1999 | 104 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Homecoming-Queen hopeful Jerri struggles with the Inner Beauty category. | |||||
10 | "The Trip Back" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 19, 1999 | 110 |
Jerri turns back to a life of drugs after being seduced by a beautiful female druggie. |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
11 | "The Virgin Jerri" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | January 17, 2000 | 203 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Flairs, a shoe with a ridiculously long lace, take the fashion world by storm and become the key to Jerri’s social success. |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
21 | "Jerri’s Burning Issue" | Peter Lauer | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | July 10, 2000 | 301 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Bullies threaten both Jerri and Jellineck. | |||||
30 | "The Last Temptation of Blank" | Juan J. Campanella | Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris | October 2, 2000 | 310 |
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. |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Release date (U.S.) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strangers with Candy | Paul Dinello | Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris, Mitch Rouse | June 28, 2006 | |
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. |