Would the tv show " Strangers With Candy" make it past the 1st episode in 2021?

Loved this show.

Love, love, love this show!

I thought Mr Jellineck was hot.

Oh yeah! SJWs would just love gems like:

Babies don’t cost money, they make money…especially the little white ones.

He’s Greek. And a Greek is just a Jew without money.

Jerri: Faggot. Mr Noblet: What did you say? Jerri: What did you hear? Mr Noblet: I’d rather not repeat it. Jerri: Then I guess we’ll never know.

You’re just a rack of bones covered in a thin layer of fat.

I’m not adopted and I’m not an Indian. It’s just a coincidence that I have a love of gambling and booze and a knack for catching syphilis

[Quote] I thought Mr Jellineck was hot.

HUGE penis!

OP, why did you spread those vicious lies?

I have the box set of this show. Don’t have anything to watch it on anymore. But there was one episode I remember seeing that I can never find. It’s when Jerri’s stepmom accused her of wiping her ass with the guest towels. Of course, she had.

R7, that would’ve been the series finale where Winona Ryder plays Fran, the cool girl who made Jerri her makeover project as part of a bet.

The Re-frangerator

Such a freaking phenomenal show

yes, because they order full seasons now out of the gate. Before, especially with networks, it was a long process to get to a pilot and then an initial order.

Come over and we'll watch it together. I'll make hot fruit. It was the best..

I loved the episode where they wanted to come up with a theme for the prom. The idea started as a 'purity dance' for those who championed their virginity. Somehow the idea morphed into 'racial purity' with Jerri's help.

Back when Colbert was funny and not a preachy loser. I miss the Colbert Report so fucking much, on that note.

OMG I loved this show!!! I remember the movie being such a letdown and not nearly as funny as most of the series episodes.

I just recently went back to re watch these. They didn't seem nearly as funny as I remembered.

When Jerri caught the Syphillis and infected her boyfriend and then made STDs the theme of their dance…

“I gotta leave early today. I have to get my uterus scraped. I brought a note”.

I just rewatched this over the weekend, and yeah, I questioned several times while watching how it stayed on the air for three seasons. I enjoyed the aggressive non-pc aspects, but people would freak out today. I especially enjoyed Mr Jellineck in a speedo. He was sure hiding his light under a bushel throughout most of the series.

Some of the Jerri shtick got a little old, and it was difficult to understand how any of her actual friends could put up with her. There were several cute high school boys that were interested in her that required a strenuous effort in suspending disbelief. One of them was blind, so that helped.

It's a hilarious show, but I really don't know if it would get by today. Even when it initially aired, they got away with a lot, because not that many people were watching. It was always a cult show, but like most cult shows, its reputation and audience has grown over the years.

Notice that most of the Twitter warriors don't get as up in arms about more culty TV shows and movies, because that's not going to get them as much attention as going after a bigger named movie or TV show. You'll get a few crazies here and there who'll make a big stink, but if you click on their profile, it's normally just some weirdo with 3 followers and way too much time on their hands.

my fav!

“Don't worry, Alan, I can't get pregnant. My ovaries are diseased.”

"I like the pole AND the hole!"

The DataLounge vocabulary would be so impoverished without this show.

Related thread with photo of Mr. Jellineck in speedo at reply 12.

I remember Jeri's sweet friends, Poorlando and Tammy Littlenut.

Orlando Pabotoy. Handsome.

I don't think that much programming from that era of Comedy Central would get made today. "Viva Variety," "The Man Show," "Frank Leaves For The Orient," "Upright Citizens Brigade," that game show with Ben Stein. They all had a vibe that now reads as alt-right.

Jimmy Kimmel has had to apologize for doing blackface to play Karl Malone on "The Man Show". I'm surprised no one has turned on Stephen Colbert for just being on "Strangers With Candy".

R6 Because you didn't spread those vicious thighs.

Pizza, pizza, pizza!

I'm as moist as a snack cake down there.

This is when comedy was funny and not woke and apologetic! I loved this show and how horrible they all were as people because it was realistic. Now we have woke weirdos shoving every shade of ugly down our throats and fatsos , so many FAT IS OK messages. No heart disease , diabetes and taxing the insurance industry IS NOT OK. FUCK you FAT ASSES.

At least we still have It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia for comedy where every character is a monster.

Count me in the love it column! It was ridiculous mindless fun.

SWC was the Disney Channel compared to Drawn Together.

Facebook puts you in jail for quoting lots of things from the show.

Ha! r32! Love you!

This aired when I was starting high school and I loved it so much. Hardly anyone watched it and the few who did said they thought it was too weird.

I saw a few episodes on PlutoTV a year or so ago. Just as funny as ever, but yeah it wouldn't fly today.

[quote]R19 I especially enjoyed Mr Jellineck in a speedo. He was sure hiding his light under a bushel throughout most of the series.

Or towels.

For the production of "Raisin In The Sun" all the principle roles go to white kids and all the black kids are trees. And they're OK with that.

[quote]But there was one episode I remember seeing that I can never find. It’s when Jerri’s stepmom accused her of wiping her ass with the guest towels. Of course, she had.

R7, I don't remember anything about guest towels. Could you be thinking of Season One, Episode One, '𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬,' where Sara Blank, Jerri's stepmother, admonishes her, "And don't rub your feces on the lampshade" (as Jerri struggles to pull down her pants)?

I always thought Paul Dinello was gay, because Amy talked about how her ex came out to her and she and Paul dated. Add to that, all the homoerotic shtick that they were doing on the show and he was writing most of the episodes.

There was a wiping-ass-with-towels story in one of David Sedaris's stories about his upbringing. I forget if he blamed it on Amy.

It was in the final episode with Winona Ryder. Winona Ryder's character came over to make Jerri cool, and her stepmother asked her if she wiped her ass on the guest towels in front of Winona.

Ah, R7, I found the exchange, but nothing to show which episode it was from. Perhaps from the movie?

Thank you, R44, for the answer. ;)

The right-wingers who bitch about Twitter warriors are stupid. All the people I know who love this show are liberal, none are conservative

There was way more censorship in the past, have you Republicans ever heard of the Hollywood production code?

The episode "Boogie Nights" when Jerry gets reunited with the son she abandoned as a baby and the only memento he has is a rotten tooth which he wears on a chain around his neck. To prove she's not his mother, she shoves the tooth where she has a missing molar and it fits perfectly, and the chain is hanging out of her mouth! So funny. So creative.

R32, Jerry was supposed to be fat. What do you have against fat people since I'm guessing you are. The right-wing cows who bitch about "woke" shit are usually enormous, the red states are usually the fattest states

Republicans, go away with your bitching about "woke" shit. This show isn't aimed at you, go listen to Larry the Cable Guy

R27, none of that shit is alt-right. Hardly any comedy is. Republicans aren't funny

[quote] They all had a vibe that now reads as alt-right.

I never read '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬' 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐝𝐞' and '𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲' that way, R27.

[quote]Jimmy Kimmel has had to apologize for doing blackface to play Karl Malone on "The Man Show". I'm surprised no one has turned on Stephen Colbert for just being on "Strangers With Candy".

Why, R28? I don't recall any blackface on SWC. That isn't to say they didn't have some fun with race, as with the character 'Principal Onyx Blackman' (Greg Hollimon) who, after having run Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello out of the school basement for screwing around, invites a female student down, saying, "Mmmm-mmm! Bring your fine, white ass down here!"

That series was funny as hell, pure gold. :D

I subscribed to Paramount Plus for a trial week just to binge this show over the weekend. I love the cult episode when Tudyk becomes sick of her.

[quote] You’re just a rack of bones covered in a thin layer of fat

She actually says, “You’re just a rack of bones covered in a thin layer of fag.”

Jerri called her brother fag a lot, and was always insulting telling him he was gay. The joke was that he did seem to be, he told his teammates they should go watch gay porn to get pumped up for a game, he didn't want to hide in the closet and masturbate while spying on Jerri's slumber party (his mother's suggestion) because he wanted to read his gladiator magazine, etc.. He would also get all tongue tied and doofy around pretty girls though, so who knows. They stayed vague.

It’s from the series finale, R45.

SJWs have a sense of humor.

[quote] I just recently went back to re watch these. They didn't seem nearly as funny as I remembered.

Post-1980s glibsmug pseudo-humor ages like skim milk.

Why does your finger smell like his ass?

Will it make my tested shrivel?

Will it make my testes shrivel?

Hilarious 😀

Eat your beef, Stu.

Amazing series. Movie prequel was lame due to not being quite the same tone as the series as well as several characters having been recast.

It's because of the whole SJW/Snowflake/Cancel Culture movement that we can't get revivals of this show, Married with Children or Drawn Together. Also it's most likely why we'll probably never get another John Waters film.

[quote]Movie prequel was lame due to not being quite the same tone as the series as well as several characters having been recast.

The movie was a major disappointment. People (including me) were leaving the theater afterward grimacing and shaking their heads at one another.

Don’t get Amy at all…her brother David is way more talented and funnier than her.

[quote]The movie was a major disappointment. People (including me) were leaving the theater afterward grimacing and shaking their heads at one another.

The movie was awful; as was "Brain Candy" by Kids in the Hall.

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[quote] Don’t get Amy at all…her brother David is way more talented and funnier than her.

Oh Dear

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Strangers With Candy could never be made today.

The movie lifted parts of the series we had already seen, so it wasn’t that good. But I loved the series and all the actors.

Paul is definitely straight I’ve been told by several friends who have met him. What a waste.

I love the episode where Jerri try’s out to be a cheerleader and they realize she can’t read. Fandango. Hobo camp.

I constantly sing, "I'm gonna sit at the welcome table. . ."

One thing is for certain: Amy Sedaris would HATE Boris the OP.

You’re not on the same side.

The baby episode was my favorite, with Jerri acting like an abusive boyfriend to Tammy Littlenut in the cafeteria.

I honestly like Amy better than David. He's a bit of a snob and she's more eccentric.

I was accused of being Jeri Blank in some other thread. I think it was because I referred to my car as ‘a big old pussy wagon.’ Glad to see the spirit is still alive!

r73 = bipolar mental case.

I woke up with blood on my ass and then we got high. Good times!

R58 I was just coming here to post that! Okay, so I’ll say instead: Pee on me!

I loved the show so much, my favorite was the r-word episode, it was initially supposed to be the pilot, but they reworked it as episode 4. Who wants cake?

The show would never fly today. Back when it aired, the Indian episode caused a mini-scandal. My Native American coworker knew I loved the show & asked if I could record the episode for her. I did & loaned it to her (vHs) & she was horrified. I tried to explain it was satirical, like South Park, but she wasn’t buying it.

(R21) It really is the crown jewel of the series.

The original pilot is almost a completely different show. Jerri is a LOT less sleazy. Her stepmother was originally played by the actress who played the gym teacher. And Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello played multiple roles each.

"Protect me SATAN!"

"I've got something to say!.....I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY!"

"I used to do drugs. The only thing it fixed was my life. If you make the decision to smoke marijuana, be prepared to spend a lot of time laughing with your friends"

Retardation, A Celebration

Paul Dinello was at a film festival I worked (with the awful SWC movie) and he spent all his time successfully getting hook ups with lots of female groupies.

I love this show, But no one cares about it or Comedy Central anymore. They could show the beheading of Melania Trump live but it would only be seen by about 50, 000. Most of whoms are high. No one would believe it. As much as I loved Strangers With Candy, it wasn't that transgressive. In fact, it's a little dated today. Anything Jerri Blank said back then is being said again and again on cable, network and reality shows every single day. The only thing that I remember Comedy Central bleeping out from a Strangers With Candy episode was when she "stole the TV" and ended up back in jail. At the end of the episode, while alone in her jail cell looking at the camera, she wailed, "My asshole is HUNGRY!!" Now THAT is something you still won't hear or see on network or streaming TV channels. Unless you count Michael Strahan's behind-the-scenes preparation for "Good Morning America." Sorry, but that guy is a flaming homo hiding in plain sight.

Sorry about the "whoms" typo above. Not sorry about outing Strahan, though. And while we're at it, Baseball Hall of Flamer Derek Jeter ain't exactly heterosexual, either. Soooo many homos in sports, but everyone's afraid to out them.

"Paul Dinello was at a film festival I worked (with the awful SWC movie) and he spent all his time successfully getting hook ups with lots of female groupies."

Sure, Jan.

Oh, silly delusional fanboy, R89

Dinello and Colbert play gay characters on a TV show so they MUST be gay in real life, too!

You're an idiot.

Whatever, R99. The funniest part of your post was your belief that Strangers With Candy has fanboys. About 100 people saw it, Paul. Doesn't make you less of a homosexual though, does it?

[quote]It's because of the whole SJW/Snowflake/Cancel Culture movement that we can't get revivals of this show, Married with Children or Drawn Together.

Complaining about political correctness is so last century...and so Republican.

You might be surprised what you'll find if you look beyond CBS and Lifetime.

R91 "Paul"

So, now you think I'm Paul Dinello.

You really are quite stupid.

Damn! that’s a long lace!

I love the cult two-parter.

At breakfast, spooning the porridge: "After passing what I'm guessing will be a memorable stool..."

(Quoting from memory...couldn't find it on YouTube.)

God this thread made me lol.

I loved this show so much.

Amy used to date both Paul and Steven. Back in the day. Paul has married, to a woman, and they have a kid, and Amy is the Godmother. A few years back, I took my kid to the MPHC pool, and Paul, his wife, his kid and Amy came in. We all played in the pool, and I was SHITTING my pants. I couldn't tell them about my love for SWC. My kid is older now, and loves "At Home with Amy" and "SWC". He doesn't remember playing with them in the pool...

I worked with Stephen on some commercials pre Late Show. The wittiest person I have ever met. When I mentioned that I had never seen SWC, he gave me the complete series when we wrapped.

You don't want to beat me or screw me? What kind of marriage is this? Bring a book!

“You don’t want to hit me or screw me? What kind of a marriage is this? I mean, bring a book.”

Whoa, jinx R99

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r100 BESTIES!

[bold]Another basic idiot concept of a thread.[/bold]

PARODIES of racism, homophobia, sexism, etc are STILL ALLOWED. There's plenty of comedies which do so but, because most of them aren't done by white people, none of you watch them.

All of you "back in my day" types are fools who perpetuate and buy into every generational stereotype.

Back in the era when a successful TV show was naturally expected to create a “movie version” for theaters, the Strangers With Candy movie version joined The Kids In The Hall and The Simpsons films as being done too late, or changing the formula too much, trying to stretch one episode or sketch into a 90 minute film, or simply just having never been done at all.

Instead, they really should have focused on trying to do a fourth season (but it had been cancelled, and the cast and creators apparently didn’t want to anyway).

As a huge fan of the tv show back when it was bing aired, I and many others were disillusioned by how bad the film version was.

They switched or replaced some cast members for actors that couldn’t or didn’t want to do it. They also switched the two major locations: the school setting and Jerri’s home setting. It all was very unfamiliar.

Also, the TV show had benefited from tight, quick cinematography that seemed designed for the small screen. Close-ups of faces, cutaway details. This kind of look and editing worked great for sight gags and slapstick comedy acting. The movie version suddenly opened up the photography, and had broad shots more like a “film,” which diluted the one-two punch look of the TV show.

*being

One of the funniest shows but in todays woke , triggered cancel culture , this show would not be green lit. I hate today’s snowflake generation.

Florida… beautiful state, harsh penal system.

The criminally insane make passionate lovers.

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How delicious!

[quote]I just recently went back to re watch these. They didn't seem nearly as funny as I remembered.

I just finished rewatching the first season after having not seen it in many years and it's BETTER than I remember! It's refreshing to see something non-woke. People's heads would explode off of their bodies if this show was aired today.