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Line 2: {{quote\|''"I'm moist like a snack cake down there!"''}} ''[[Strangers ~~With~~with Candy]]'' was a [[Black Comedy\|darkly comic]] sitcom that ran from 1999 to 2000 on [[Comedy Central]] and created by comedians [[Amy Sedaris]], Paul Dinello and [[Stephen Colbert]]. Jerri Blank, a "46-year-old boozer, user, and loser", ran away from home when she was young and spent thirty-two years doing things we'd really, ''really'' rather not hear about, no matter how eager she is to tell us about that donkey show in Tijuana. After spending time in the slammer, Jerri decides to abandon her life of debauchery and go back to exactly where she left off- as a freshman at Flatpoint High. Of course, seeing as ''[[Strangers ~~With~~with Candy]]'' is based entirely on [[Spoof Aesop]]s, Jerri's intentions of leaving her twisted, drug-addled past behind her never come to fruition. In her own words: "Oh, I'm still doin' the wrong things, but at least I'm doing them the right way." This mockery of after-school specials focuses less on the students and more on the adults concerned with nothing but their own selfish needs. Jerri was based on [[wikipedia:Florrie Fisher\|Florrie Fisher]], and many of Jerri's stories about her past are taken directly from Fisher's film ''The Trip Back'', the inspiration for ''[[Strangers with Candy]]''. Some comparisons [http://www.jerriblank.com/swcmisc.html#florrie here]. Line 59: * [[The Other Darrin]] - They had to replace Jerri's brother in [[The Movie]] because he "looked like a lumberjack". Also Jerri's dad bares no resemblance to his actor in the show whatsoever. * [[Pass the Popcorn]] - As Jerri witnesses her father's death, she yells "Daddyyyyyyy!" and takes a bite of her hotdog. * [[~~You Are~~Playing a Tree ~~Charlie Brown~~]]: When the school put on the play [[A Raisin in the Sun]], the three lead roles were given to the only white people in the drama club. All of the remaining students, who were black, were given roles as trees.▼ * [[Porn Stache]]: In "Yes You Can't," Noblet has a prominent fake moustache to go with his "secret" dream of being a rock star. Hilariously, when he performs "Carry On Wayward Son" in the [[Dance Party Ending]], he rips off the moustache as if it's the badass thing to do. * [[Public Service Announcement]]: the episode about the fake marriages ends with one of these featuring Bebe Neuwirth: "Sadly, 1/2 of all marriages will end in divorce. That's 75%! The other 25% end in drunk driving accidents. So don't get married and then drink and drive." * [[Race Lift]] - [[Played for Laughs]]. School production of "[[A Raisin in the Sun]]" casts only white people as main characters. ** Jellineck [[~~You Are~~Playing a Tree ~~Charlie Brown~~\|casts the black students as trees]]. And says he had to fire one of them because of an "attitude problem." * [[Refuge in Audacity]] * [[Sadist Show]] Line 80 ⟶ 81: * [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] -- Everyone, but Jerri most of all. ** Colbert described the process of writing the show as taking basic morality plays and having everyone involved make "the wrongest choice possible." ▲* [[You Are a Tree Charlie Brown]]: When the school put on the play [[A Raisin in the Sun]], the three lead roles were given to the only white people in the drama club. All of the remaining students, who were black, were given roles as trees. * [[You Look Familiar]]: Virginia Williams played four different characters throughout the series. It would seem at first that Delores Duffy did this, too, playing the school secretary Iris Puffybush, a nurse, and the owner of an artificial flower factory in various episodes, but it looks like she's really supposed to be all those things at the same time. {{reflist}} {{TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever}} [[Category:Comedy Series]]▼ [[Category:~~Strangers with Candy~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:TV Series]] ▲[[Category:Comedy Series]] [[Category:Live-Action TV of the 1990s]] [[Category:Live-Action TV of the 2000s]]