The BEST episodes of Strangers with Candy
Every episode of Strangers with Candy ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Strangers with Candy!
"Hello, I'm Jerri Blank and I'm a 46-year-old high school freshman. For 32 years I was a teenage runaway. I was a boozer, a user, and a loser. My friends were dealers, cons, and 18 karat pimps. But now I'm out of jail, picking up my life exactly where I left off. I'm back in high school, living at home, and discovering all sorts of things about my body. I'm finding out that though the faces have changed, the hassles are just the same."
#1 - Blank Relay
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/21/2000
Jerri joins the track team, but years of hard living have taken their toll on her physique. She turns to supplements of a most dubious nature to improve her performance, and the results surprise everyone at Flatpoint.
#2 - The Goodbye Guy
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2000
Jerri suffers a devastating loss and can find no sympathy for her grief, though Mr. Jellineck chips in with his special blend of self-important empathy. The Father-Daughter Sack Race plays a pivotal role in this Very Special Episode.
#3 - Old Habits/New Beginnings
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/7/1999
Jerri tries to fit in by mixing up a batch of the drug concoction Glint for Poppy, the most popular girl in school... with mixed results.
#4 - The Blank Page
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/21/2000
Jerri has a difficult time in Noblet's class when she's asked to read from Moby Dick. When she realizes that cheerleaders get all the guys, plus they're treated with kid gloves in class, she decides to try out for the Donkettes squad. She learns right away that cheerleaders need to know how to spell. Her illiteracy is quickly revealed and Jerri is immediately subjected to complete humiliation.
#5 - Let Freedom Ring
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/21/1999
Flatpoint High is up in arms to find out whodunit after someone scrawls a racial slur on the wall.
#6 - To Love, Honor and Pretend
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2000
Coach Wolf assigns marriages for her students for a class project. Jerri get paired up with Ronnie Leggett. After Jerri finds problems with her new “marriage,” she learns that it is not as easy as she thought it will be. Will Jerri be able to save her “marriage” and her grade?
#7 - The Virgin Jerri
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2000
Jerri's back out of prison and back to being a freshman at Flatpoint High. . . again. She's determined to be a proper girl, if only that little devil on her shoulder would stop trying to convince her otherwise. Coach Wolf encourages her female students to remain chaste and convinces Jerri that she can reclaim her virginity. All the girls take to wearing ""Never Been Touched"" ribbons with a cherry dangling from them.
#8 - The Blank Stare (1)
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/19/2000
Feeling rejected by her classmates and abandoned by her family, Jerri is seduced into joining a religious cult.
#9 - Bogie Nights
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/14/1999
Jerri falls for a transfer student and later discovers the terrible secret that will keep them apart forever.
#10 - The Blank Stare (2)
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/26/2000
After first attempting to stop Jerri from escaping, the leader of the cult realizes how annoying she is and tries to get rid of her, while Principle Blackman, Mr. Noblet and Mr. Jellineck try to rescue her.
#11 - Feather in the Storm
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/28/1999
Jerri finds her calling on the debate team, but can she make it through the dangerous physical training for the big competition?
#12 - Behind Blank Eyes
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/2000
Jerri falls for Alan, a blind boy at her school with football aspirations. The rest of the team, however, is skeptical about his abilities, but with Jerri's encouragement, Alan rises to the occasion.
#13 - Is My Daddy Crazy?
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/14/2000
Jerri's new daddy Stew starts to act very strangely, which makes Jerri reluctant to bring him to class for Occupation Week.
#14 - A Burden's Burden
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/1999
In order to teach students the responsibility of taking care of a baby, Coach Wolf gives each student a baby.
#15 - The Last Temptation of Blank
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/2/2000
Winona Ryder stars as Fran, the coolest girl in school, who makes a bet that she can make Jerri so cool that even Brent Brooks (Paul Rudd) will ask her out.
#16 - Yes You Can't
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2000
Everyone's got careers on the brain during Flatpoint's ""Yes You Can't"" career exploration week -- and not just the students. Mr. Noblet revisits his dreams of rockstardom, Mr. Jellineck quits teaching to pursue his art, and Jerri tries to decide between a career in the flower factory or as a junkie whore.
#17 - Sexual Harassment (a.k.a. There Once Was a Blank from Nantucket)
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/18/2000
Jerri is asked out at a school wrestling game, but the boy later takes back his offer because other boys are saying mean sexual things to Jerri and she does nothing about it. So Tamela tells her she was a victim of sexual harassment and she needs to stick up for herself. Jerri later starts liking another guy, but is afraid it will end soon because of the other guys harassing her.
#18 - To Be Young, Gifted and Blank
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/5/1999
Noblet discovers that Jerri is a violin prodigy and ruthlessly grooms her to become the star he always wanted to be.
#19 - A Price Too High for Riches
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/3/2000
Jerri struggles with class issues as the new shoe of the moment ("Flairs") is a wee bit out of her price range. She snags a job at the local shoe store and schemes to procure a pair of the salacious shoes in time for popular rich girl Melissa's party. However, Orlando has a party scheduled for that same evening, and Jerri's snobbery regarding his lower-income-bracket party threatens their friendship.
#20 - Hit and Run
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/28/2000
Someone hits Mr. Jellineck with their car, and the whole school is turned upside-down trying to find the culprit. Meanwhile, Jerri wrestles with her conscience, and Mr. Noblet considers revealing his secret feelings for Geoffrey in an effort to encourage his recovery.
#21 - The Trip Back
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/19/1999
Jerri reverts back to her old ways and succumbs to drugs in an attempt to win the affection of a beautiful female stoner
#22 - Dreams on the Rocks
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/1999
Jerri's starring role in the school play stirs up a dangerous cocktail of jealousy and regret in her stepmother, Sara
#23 - Who Wants Cake?
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/28/1999
Jerri is told she must help Principal Blackman out by turning snitch and rooting out the school retard if she wants to go on the class trip to Good Time Island.
#24 - Ask Jerri
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/11/2000
At the bequest of Mr. Noblet, Jerri takes over an advice column formerly penned by Mr. Jellineck, which results in diabolical intentions on Geoffrey's part towards Chuck, and anger from nearly everyone in Flatpoint High towards Jerri.
#25 - Bully
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/25/2000
A new student comes to Flatpoint High, who turns out to be a bully who everyone is afraid of. When Jerri stops a fight with the bully and her friend Tammy, the bully schedules a fight for after school. Everyone keeps telling Jerri that she shouldn't fight and find peace, but Jerri feels she should live by the street code and fight. Geoffry gets a bully of his own when a homosexual hater substitute confronts him.