Strangers With Candy - Season Three
by Adam Bernstein, Juan José Campanella, Peter Lauer
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Actor: Amy Sedaris, Deborah Rush, Greg Hollimon, Paul Dinello, Stephen ColbertDirector: Adam Bernstein, Juan José Campanella, Peter Lauer
Brand: Paramount
Writer: Amy Sedaris
Writer: Paul Dinello
Writer: Florrie Fisher
Writer: Matt Lappin
Writer: Mitch Rouse
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Unknown; English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 240 minutes
Published: 2004-09-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Comedy Central
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DVD Review: Not For Eschatologists Only
Summary: 5 Stars
Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert and Gregory Hollimon all shine in "Strangers With Candy," a sublime spoof of those ABC "After School Specials" we grew up with in the late 1970s and early 80s. "Strangers With Candy" is based upon the unlikely premise of 46 year-old ex junkie whore Jerri Blank turning around her life by returning as a high school freshman after 32 years on the wild side. Each week brings some new "crisis," which involves fitting in vs. conforming, trying drugs and alcohol, teenage sexual experimentation, retardation and special ed, etc. Naturally, half-wit Jerri always makes the wrong choice.
"Strangers With Candy" was Comedy Central's most clever and politically incorrect show (even moreso than "South Park"). Along with Jerri are her alcoholic stepmother (prudishly played by Deborah Rush), a classmate of indeterminate ethnicity ("Orlando," played by Orlando Pabotoy) who Jerri uses for the butt of her racist jokes, and the amazingly narcissistic faculty, headed by Principal Onyx Blackman (Greg Hollimon), the black principal with a penchant for "fine white women." Blackman has a thing for Jerri's stepmom, but it never pans out, because her stepmom is as big a racist as Jerri! Swishy art teacher Joffrey Jellineck (Paul Dinello) and uptight science teacher Chuck Knoblet (Stephen Colbert) confound students with their learned ignorance, and the pair carry on a secret gay affair in the boiler room.
But Sedaris really makes the show work for her over-the-top earnestness in playing Jerri. Sedaris wins the Chloris Leachman award for botching up her natural good looks with gaudy makeup, harelip overbite, twitching unibrow, wrinkled forehead and padded hips just to get totally into character. And like Lucille Ball, Sedaris will do anything for a laugh, but unlike Ball, we're talking NC-17 rated here!
It was a shame to watch it being given the boot in 2001 because of low ratings. For some reason, it never caught on. However, it is becoming evident that it was because "Strangers With Candy" was ahead of its time: All three seasons are now available on DVD.
This DVD compilation of the show's third and last season, is it's best, I think: The writing and acting were running on all eight cylinders, and the subtle in-jokes were finely hones. Best episodes: "Jerri's Burning Issue," in which Jerri manages to give her newly deflowered boyfriend syphillis, crabs and gonnorhea; "Freedom Isn't Free" -- Jerri has a run-in with the local televangelical preacher, who bans her naked photo, made under the influence of a hilarious send-up of Marilyn Manson, the immortal Buddha Stalin.
The lyrics to the end credits (a Buddha Stalin song) are a scream:
In the United Hates of Asscarica
They censor my words and it ain't fair-ica
I'll say what I want, I don't care-ica
So welcome to my nightmare-ica
Puppy Dog Pee in a doody stew
Booger souflee in a sea of poo
Doody Doo Doody, Doo Doo
Ca Ca Ca, Pee Pee, Poo Poo
In the United Hates of Asscarica
You try to trap me in a snare-ica
But I've lured you into my lair-ica
Now who's gonna answer your prayer-ica?
In "Trail of Tears," Jerri discovers she's part American Indian, and then is sent to a Native American Total Immersion camp run by paleface Will Ferrell, and learns to set fire to wagon trains and scalp pioneers.
"Blank Relay": Jerri and fellow girls' track teammates shave minutes off their time and hair off their faces after taking steroids.
"Bully" is a fun one: Pacifist ("I Pass A Fist") Joffrey Jellineck learns that violence never solves anything, except conflict.
"The Last Temptation of Blank" is the show's ultimate episode. Guest starlet Wynona Ryder comes aboard to give Jerri a cool makeover; Sheri Oteri and Mark McKinney guest as school board bureaucrats who have plans to turn Flatpoint High into a strip mall (Remember "Strip Mall," the actual short-lived program that replaced SWC?) and Principal Blackman torches the campus rather than letting it be taken over.
This would be your last chance to put this excellent series on your DVD player and be prepared to be entertained, humored and offended. However, great news! A "prequel" movie is in the works, with ALL the original major cast members, including the cute-as-a-button Maria Thayer and is actually in post-production.
Thank you, O Gods of Celluloid!!!
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