Strangers with Candy

A 46-year-old ex-drug addict returns to high school as a freshman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast:Amy Sedaris , Paul Dinello , Stephen Colbert , Greg Hollimon , Deborah Rush , Larc Spies , Orlando Pabotoy , Sarah Thyre , Maria Thayer , Roberto Gari , Dolores Duffy , Troy Metcalf , Patrick Blindauer , David Pasquesi , Virginia Williams , Heather Magee , Matthew Sean Blumm , Chuck Caruso

0Season 1

S1.E0 ∙ Retardation: A Celebration

Sun, Oct 11, 2009

A 47-year-old prostitute moves back in with her father and returns to high school, where she's tasked with finding out if one of her classmates is mentally retarded.

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Old Habits, New Beginnings

Wed, Apr 7, 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.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ A Burden's Burden

Wed, Apr 14, 1999

While in class Coach Wolf tries to teach a lesson on how hard being a single mother can be. 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 no idea what to do with it. Chuch and Geoffrey still sneak around with each other.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Dreams on the Rocks

Wed, Apr 21, 1999

Jerri lands a lead role in a school play, prompting her stepmother to fall into a destructive pattern.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Who Wants Cake?

Wed, Apr 28, 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.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Bogie Nights

Mon, Jun 14, 1999

When a new student comes to Flatpoint High, the entire school is against him for being new. Jerri develops feelings for him and longs to ask him to the school dance, but to keep her rep in school she must act like she hates him. Then she discovers a shocking secret that will end her relationship with him forever.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Let Freedom Ring

Mon, Jun 21, 1999

An awful slur appears on a school-hallway wall, and Jerri "befriends" the number-one suspect when nobody else will. An investigator (Tim Meadows) comes to solve this crime in his own unusual way.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Feather in the Storm

Mon, Jun 28, 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.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ To Be Young, Gifted and Blank

Mon, Jul 5, 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.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Jerri Is Only Skin Deep

Mon, Jul 12, 1999

Homecoming is around the corner, and Jerri is desperate to become Queen. So she secretly removes all the nominees except her own and that of another nerdy student. The only problem is when she hears that everyone else will be voting for the other nominee because of her inner beauty, Jerri must come up with a plan that will make her win for sure.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Trip Back

Mon, Jul 19, 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.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Virgin Jerri

Mon, Jan 17, 2000

Participating in a school program to symbolically 'recover' her long-lost virginity, Jerri takes it seriously and works hard to fend off ever-present temptation.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Behind Blank Eyes

Mon, Jan 24, 2000

Jerri falls for a blind student named Alan. He says he can do anything a person with perfect vision can do, so he decides to try out for the high-school football team. He doesn't have the team's support, but Jerri believes he can do it--kinda.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Yes You Can't

Mon, Jan 31, 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.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Goodbye Guy

Mon, Feb 7, 2000

After Jerri's father is ripped apart by a pack of wild dogs, she must deal with his death - and with no longer being able to compete in the Father/Daughter Race. She grieves her loss and feels isolated because no one understands, not even her stepmother.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Blank Page

Mon, Feb 21, 2000

Jerri suddenly decides that she wants a spot on the cheerleading squad; the only problem is that you need to know how to spell. Everyone in school finds out that Jerri is illiterate, so Mr. Noblet takes on teaching Jerri how to read. Meanwhile, she meets a person in a similar situation: a bus driver who doesn't know how to drive a bus.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Hit and Run

Mon, Feb 28, 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 the accident.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ To Love, Honor, and Pretend

Mon, Mar 6, 2000

Coach Wolf launches a marriage course, partnering up the students and reeling in Mr. Jellineck for her fake husband, but she ends up thinking she has actual feelings for Mr. Jellineck. Meanwhile, Jerri becomes too territorial with her fake husband, going so far as to threaten his very real girlfriend.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Blank Stare: Part 1

Mon, Jun 19, 2000

Feeling rejected by her classmates and abandoned by her family, Jerri is seduced into joining a religious cult.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Blank Stare: Part 2

Mon, Jun 26, 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.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ A Price Too High for Riches

Mon, Jul 3, 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.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Jerri's Burning Issue

Mon, Jul 10, 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.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Is Freedom Free?

Mon, Jul 17, 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.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Trail of Tears

Mon, Jul 24, 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.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Invisible Love

Mon, Jul 31, 2000

Jerri sneaks around with Laird; she's in love, but he acts like she doesn't even exist. Tammi tries to convince Jerri that this isn't right, so Jerri hopes he'll ask her to the fall makeout festival so everyone will see that they're a real couple. Meanwhile, Stew the Meat Man moves in with the Blanks.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Is My Daddy Crazy?

Mon, Aug 14, 2000

Stew, Jerri's stepmother's meat man, goes insane days before Jerri needs him to appear at her school career day.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Blank Relay

Mon, Aug 21, 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!

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Ask Jerri

Mon, Sep 11, 2000

Chuck and Geoffrey run an advice column, but Principal Blackman is furious that nobody reads the paper because they can't relate to the column. When Chuck sees Jerri in the hallway giving advice, he asks her to take over Geoffrey's column. She doesn't feel qualified to give advice and thinks working on the paper would be dull, but Chuck and someone else change her mind. But when Geoffrey hears the news, he threatens to out Chuck if he doesn't give him his job back.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ There Once Was a Blank from Nantucket

Mon, Sep 18, 2000

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

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Bully

Mon, Sep 25, 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.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Last Temptation of Blank

Mon, Oct 2, 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.