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Strangers with Candy
	File:Swc open2.jpg Strangers With Candy title screen from the second season.
Created by	Stephen Colbert; Paul Dinello; Amy Sedaris; Mitch Rouse
Starring	Amy Sedaris; Stephen Colbert; Paul Dinello; Greg Hollimon
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	30
Production
Running time	30 Minutes
Original release
Network	Comedy Central
Release	April 7, 1999 –; October 2, 2000

For the film based on the television program, see Strangers with Candy (film).

Strangers with Candy was a cult television series produced by Comedy Central. It first aired on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. Its timeslot was Sundays at 10 P.M., and the Comedy Central show Strip Mall replaced it. Strangers With Candy are a four piece pop group based in Sydney Australia. The group consists of 2 girls and 2 guys. With songs Shifty Eyes, Don't Call Me Love, What Do You Ask Of Me?, & Bump In The Night.

Origin

The series was first envisioned by Dinello and Colbert, both of whom had seen a public service Scared Straight!-type film called The Trip Back, in which motivational speaker Florrie Fisher recalled her days as a New York street whore to a group of high school students. Seeing that Fisher strongly resembled their friend Amy Sedaris, they showed her a copy of the tape, and suitably impressed with Sedaris' imitation of Fisher, began developing a series based around the idea of Fisher going back to high school herself. The three, along with Mitch Rouse, combined this concept with lampooning the after-school specials they had all been subjected to in high school, along with the short-lived mid-1990s teen series My So-Called Life. Much of Jerri's past is taken from anecdotes in The Trip Back, some of which were also included in Fisher's autobiography, The Lonely Trip Back. Several lines of dialogue in the series were taken verbatim from Fisher's public service film. It is arguable that Jerri Blank has become even more famous than the woman that inspired her; while Strangers with Candy became a cult success, Florrie Fisher sank into obscurity in the 1980s. Today, much speculation among fans of the series revolves around finding out whatever happened to Fisher.

Characters

Flatpoint High

Episode List

Film

On February 7, 2006, movie company ThinkFilm announced that it had acquired the distribution rights to a feature film based on the series. The film, a prequel to the television show, was completed in 2004 and acquired by Warner Independent at Sundance in 2005, but release of the film was delayed due to legal clearance issues. ThinkFilm also confirmed that Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello will reprise their roles for the film. Several other characters are recast (Orlando, Derrick Blank, and others) because the actors were now too old to believably portray teenagers. In addition to acting, Colbert is a co-producer and Dinello is a director for the film. Worldwide Pants, a production company owned by comedian David Letterman, is also a producer. This is the company's first feature film production. A teaser trailer for the film was released in April 2006 [1] (see "external links"). The initial theatre release was June 28, 2006, in the New York City area, followed by the remainder of the United States on July 7.

DVD Releases

DVD Name	Release Date	Ep #	Additional Information
Season 1	June 17 2003	10	This 2 disc box set includes all 10 episodes from Season 1. Bonus features include The Unaired Pilot, Commentary on selected episodes with Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert, Deleted Scenes, and Outtakes.
Season 2	November 4 2003	10	This 2 disc box set includes all 10 episodes from Season 2. Bonus features include Episode Commentary - Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris talk about four of their favorite episodes, An exclusive interview with Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello Greg Hollimon, Amy Sedaris and Executive Producer Kent Alterman.
Season 3	September 28 2004	10	This 2 disc boxset includes all 10 episodes from Season 3. Bonus features include Blooper Reels, Dance Sequence Compilation, Animated Opening Storyboards.
The Complete Series	June 27 2006	30	This 6 disc boxset includes all 30 episodes from all of the seasons of the show. Bonus features include Deleted Scenes, Optional commentaries on select episodes with Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello, Interviews with Principal Blackman, Jerri Blank, Geoffrey Jellineck, Chuck Noblet and Ward Sutton, The Museum of Televison & Radio Interview, A Message from Bob Whitely, Original unaired pilot, Easter Egg, Dance Sequence Compilation, Blooper Reel, Storyboard Animation, Film Strip Presentation, The Trip Back PSA.

External links

The Official Strangers with Candy Movie Web Site
Strangers With Candy at IMDb.
Strangers With Candy at TV.com.
Tony's Strangers With Candy Companion Site.
The Comfort Zone Strangers With Candy photo galleries and quotes pages, as well as Amy Sedaris pictures, audio downloads and interview transcripts
Strangers With Candy Movie Trailer on YouTube

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 '''''Strangers with Candy''''' was a [[cult following|cult]] [[television program|television series]] produced by [[Comedy Central]]. It first aired on [[April 7]], [[1999]], and concluded its third and final season on [[October 2]], [[2000]]. Its timeslot was Sundays at 10 P.M., and the Comedy Central show ''[[Strip Mall]]'' replaced it.
+'''Strangers With Candy''' are a four piece pop group based in Sydney Australia. The group consists of 2 girls and 2 guys. With songs Shifty Eyes, Don't Call Me Love, What Do You Ask Of Me?, & Bump In The Night.
-==Plot==
-{{main|List of Strangers with Candy episodes}}
-The series' main character, Jerri Blank (played by [[Amy Sedaris]]), was a runaway returning to [[high school]] as a [[Student#Years|freshman]] at the age of 46 at the fictional [[Flatpoint High (Strangers with Candy)|Flatpoint High School]], in the town of Flatpoint.
-Created and written by [[Amy Sedaris]], [[Paul Dinello]], [[Stephen Colbert]], and Mitch Rouse, the show was a [[Parody|spoof]] of the [[after school special]]s of the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]] and was also inspired, at least in part, by a 1970 public-service film ''The Trip Back'' that featured a reformed drug addict named [[Florrie Fisher]] (see "Origin" below). Sedaris, Colbert, Dinello, and Rouse were cast members of the short-lived Comedy Central series [[Exit 57]]; they, along with [[Greg Hollimon]] and many other stars of the series, were also alumni of [[Chicago]]'s [[The Second City|Second City]] comedy troupe.
-According to the show's animated introduction (used after the first season; in the first season, Jerri would give the introduction during the episodes' beginning, before the song started), after dropping out of high school as a teenager, Jerri ran away from home and became "a [[Alcoholic beverage|boozer]], a [[narcotics|user]], and a loser," supporting her drug habits through [[prostitution]], [[stripper|stripping]], and [[larceny]]. She has been to prison several times, the last time because, in her words, "I stoled a TV."
-Every episode featured a theme or moral lesson, although the lessons were often [[Amorality|amoral]] or warped; in an episode about eating disorders, Jerri learns that it's OK to become an anorexic, because it will get people to pay attention to you.  When Jerri's father passes away in the episode "The Goodbye Guy," Jerri learns the valuable lesson "You never really 'lose' your parents. Unless of course they die. Then they're gone forever. And nothing will bring them back." In another episode, Jerri learned that "Violence really isn't the only way to resolve a conflict, but it's the only way to win it."
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