The following is a list of episodes for the Comedy Central original series Strangers with Candy. The series started on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. A prequel film of the same name was released in 2005.
Jerri befriends the new student, Ricky (Fred Koehler) but discovers a secret that will keep them apart forever.
6
"Let Freedom Ring"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris & Mitch Rouse
June 21, 1999 (1999-06-21)
106
Flatpoint High is in the grip of a racist who spray-painted an ethnic slur on the wall.
7
"Feather in the Storm"
Danny Leiner
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
June 28, 1999 (1999-06-28)
107
Jerri must lose weight to be in physical shape for the debate team, which she thinks is her ticket to popularity. Meat man "Stu" (David Pasquesi) moves in with the family.
8
"To Be Young, Gifted, and Blank"
Dan Dinello
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
July 5, 1999 (1999-07-05)
108
Mr. Noblet discovers that Jerri is a violin prodigy, and he strives to use her talents for his own purposes in competing against Mr. Jellineck's orchestra.
Jerri becomes a virgin again, but struggles with keeping her funbox closed.
12
"Behind Blank Eyes"
Juan J. Campanella
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
January 24, 2000 (2000-01-24)
202
Jerri finds herself attracted to a blind classmate. While she tries to navigate the sightless world, he fights for the right to play on the football team.
13
"Yes, You Can't"
Dan Dinello
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
January 31, 2000 (2000-01-31)
201
Jerri agonizes over what she wants to do with her life while Mr. Jellineck quits teaching to become a starving artist.
14
"The Goodbye Guy"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
February 7, 2000 (2000-02-07)
204
Jerri’s daddy is eaten by high school mascots, leaving her out of the big Father–Student Sack Race.
Flatpoint High discovers Jerri’s illiteracy, which she must overcome in order to make the cheerleading squad. Can she learn to read?
16
"Hit and Run"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
February 28, 2000 (2000-02-28)
205
Jerri runs over Mr. Jellineck and has difficulty keeping the secret; Mr. Noblet discovers that the revelation of another secret is the key to Jellineck’s recovery.
17
"To Love, Honor, and Pretend"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
March 7, 2000 (2000-03-07)
207
Mr. Noblet grows jealous of the special fake bond between Mr. Jellineck and Coach Wolf as Jerri’s control issues threaten her own fake union in a marriage experiment gone awry.
18
"Blank Stare: Part 1"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
June 19, 2000 (2000-06-19)
208
Jerri is recruited by a cult of happy people who sing the same song (a lot), and Flatpoint High begins a radical change in politics, becoming a totalitarian regime, keeping its students/citizens to a code of strict anonymity and perfect obedience.
19
"Blank Stare: Part 2"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
June 26, 2000 (2000-06-26)
209
After Jerri becomes perfectly assimilated into the cult’s mindset, its leader finds that sometimes cults have to be selective with their recruits.
With the school "Purity Dance" days away, Jerri struggles with the decision to tell her popular new boyfriend that she has contracted an epic case of syphilis.
22
"Is Freedom Free?"
Juan J. Campanella
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
July 17, 2000 (2000-07-17)
302
Jerri’s "au naturel" self-portrait ignites a storm of censorship from the school.
23
"Trail of Tears"
Juan J. Campanella
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
July 24, 2000 (2000-07-24)
303
Jerri must again face her own racist views when she discovers that she is a full-blooded Native American Indian and is sent to a cultural-immersion camp for adopted redskins.
25
"Is My Daddy Crazy?"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
July 31, 2000 (2000-07-31)
304
Jerri wonders if she can cure her stepmother's lover's insanity in time for him to speak at Flatpoint High's Occupation Week.
26
"Blank Relay"
Juan J. Campanella
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
August 14, 2000 (2000-08-14)
305
Desperate to stay on the track team, Jerri abuses steroids and pushes them to her teammates.
24
"Invisible Love"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
August 21, 2000 (2000-08-21)
306
Jerri's secret relationship with the school stud makes her question her own self-respect.
27
"Ask Jerri"
Juan J. Campanella
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
September 11, 2000 (2000-09-11)
307
Jerri takes over the school newspaper’s advice column from Jellineck. Disaster follows, especially in the relationship between Jellineck and Noblet.
28
"There Once Was a Blank from Nantucket"
Peter Lauer
Paul Dinello & Amy Sedaris
September 18, 2000 (2000-09-18)
308
Jerri must deal with sexual harassment and prevent her new jazz-orchestra beau from finding out.
As Flatpoint High is set to turn into a strip mall, Jerri becomes friends with a popular girl (guest star Winona Ryder) and must decide if she wants to leave her old friends behind forever to finally find lasting popularity.
Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris, Mitch Rouse
June 28, 2006 (2006-06-28)
The film takes place before the series. Jerri Blank discovers her mother has died, her father, Guy, has remarried to the hateful Sara Blank, and she has an arrogant half-brother Derrick. To make matters worse, her father is in a "stress-induced coma". Taking the suggestion of the family doctor literally, Jerri decides to pick her life back up where she left it, beginning her high school all over again as a freshman at Flatpoint High.