Strangers With Candy: “The Trip Back”
If you’re reading this, I probably don’t need to tell you that “The Trip Back” takes its name from the 1970 anti-drug…
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Strangers With Candy: “Jerri Is Only Skin Deep”
Over the course of nine episodes of Strangers With Candy, Jerri’s social status at Flatpoint has fluctuated more wildly…
Strangers With Candy: “To Be Young, Gifted, And Blank”
From episode to episode of Strangers With Candy, Jerri Blank’s hopes and dreams tend to shift rather dramatically. When…
Strangers With Candy: “Feather In The Storm”
During its original run on Comedy Central, the crude, politically incorrect Strangers With Candy drew comparisons to Sou…
Strangers With Candy: “Let Freedom Ring”
As we all know by now, Jerri Blank is a woman of contradictions: A social misfit who rejects the few people who…
Strangers With Candy: “Bogie Nights”
Writing about Strangers With Candy is fun, but it also presents something of an intellectual challenge. It’s such a…
Strangers With Candy: “Who Wants Cake?”
Strangers With Candy is often described as a “high school satire” or a “parody of after-school specials,” but as I’ve…
Strangers With Candy: “Dreams On The Rocks”
So far in our look back at Strangers With Candy, Jerri has grappled with big, scary issues like drug addiction, peer…
Strangers With Candy: “A Burden’s Burden”
Although I’m reluctant to start tossing out the superlatives this early in my look back at Strangers With Candy, it’s…
Strangers With Candy: “Old Habits, New Beginnings”
Strangers With Candy debuted on Comedy Central in April 1999—a cataclysmic moment in the history of American…