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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.

 

 

 

 

Oh, and every episode [[Dance Party Ending|ends with a dance sequence]].

 

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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Fran from the finale.

* [[Anything That Moves]] - Jerri is frequently being shown as being attracted to men and women, although she rarely does much about the latter. Not to mention her history in Tijuana with Ramone the Donkey.

* [[Big No]] - Orlando at the mall when {{spoiler|Jerri leaves him to return to the cult.}}

* [[Biting the Hand Humor]] - the last episode.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] - Jerri addresses the camera at the beginning of the episode, and sometimes mid-show ("Let's read it now"). Winona Ryder also does it when she delivers the aesop in the finale.

* [[But You Screw One Goat!|But You Screw One Donkey]]: ''"Oh, Ramone~"''

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]

* [[High School]]

** [[Firefly|Wash]] as a cult leader

** [[Stephen Colbert]] as a history and English teacher

* [[Large Ham]] - Many of the characters, and moreso most of the faculty, but ''especially'' Principal Blackman.

** "And by audacity I mean huuubris, overweeeening priiiide!"

* [[Meaningful Name]] - Onyx Blackman.

** Stew the meat-man, Seamus the son of the closeted homosexual... Cassie Pines the grief counselor was meant to evoke "casket" and "pine box." Even Jerri Blank is sort of a retroactive example -- originally "Blank" was just the placeholder while they tried to figure out what her name should be, but they grew attached to it, deciding it was "just ugly enough," and it works in light of Jerri's unrelenting ignorance, apathy and naivete, and for double-meaning episode titles like "The Blank Page" and "Behind Blank Eyes." She's also one of the many white students cast as black characters in the school play whose last name suggests her whiteness.

* [[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.

* [[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."

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]

* [[Sadist Show]]

** Script typos such as "I'll be back in a shortly" and "This was this one time..."

* [[Trash the Set]] - the final episode

** "I've got 3,000 students and nearly a dozen teachers, surely one of them can prove to be exceptional."

* [[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 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.

 

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