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Summary: Completely under-rated show. BRING IT BACK!
Review: "I've got something to say!"
I loved this show when it first aired on Comedy Central back in 1999. I'm surprised to see it on DVD but love the fact that it is. Either you think this is a funny show or you don't, there really isn't any inbetween. It's dark, edgy and racey and some people don't like that kind of humour. If you do, then get this or at least check it out. The premise of a bad after school special fits it well and I think that the movie (coming out in the summer of 2005) will cause a resurgence in the show.
"GOOD TIMES!"
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Summary: Sheer Brilliance
Review: Amy Sedaris and company are truly gifted writers. The comedy in Strangers with Candy is so smart. I can't wait for the release of Season Three!
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Summary: Packing a Musket
Review: Anyone who doesn't love Amy Sedaris and her comic stylings is a stupid blood fart.
Buy this, it's funny.
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Summary: Great Show. Great Season.
Review: I love this show, it is probably the funniest show ever aired on comedy central besides South Park and Dave Chapelle. I'm so glad that "SWC" was finally released on dvd, now I can watch all of these great old episodes that never cease to make me laugh. I highly reccomend you buy season one and two on dvd, especially if you have a sick sense of humor.
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Summary: Great Show. Great Season.
Review: I love this show, it is probably the funniest show ever aired on comedy central besides South Park and Dave Chapelle. I'm so glad that "SWC" was finally released on dvd, now I can watch all of these great old episodes that never cease to make me laugh. I highly reccomend you buy season one and two on dvd, especially if you have a sick sense of humor.
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Summary: Funny, but different
Review: I was initially disappointed after watching the second season. It wasn't as funny as season one. I thought about the episodes though, gave it a few days and watched them again. I realized that the humor was there but it wasn't as outrageous and shocking as season one. The jokes are extended to fill out the story which gives the shows a slower pace and the two-part episode about a lurking cult seems to go on forever. The original thrust of 'Strangers With Candy' was a 'Mad Magazine' type of parody of those insipid teen-targeted after-school specials that always had a wholesome and morally sound conclusion, but the pacing of the second season seems more like a parody of the daytime soap operas. As a friend of mine said, "It's funny, in a sad kind of way"which I remembered when I watched some of them for a third time and then I found them funnier.
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Summary: Heeelarious!
Review: If you love early John Waters, you will love Starngers with Candy! I mean how can you argue with a woman who sya "Babies don't cost money--they MAKE money. Especially the little white ones."
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Summary: Jerri Blank and Our Worst Impulses
Review: Jerri Blank is a hilarious embodiment of all our basest instincts, our most selfish thoughts, and the part of ourselves that we repress because we know it's not polite in public, politcally incorrect, goes against how we were brought up, and socially unacceptable. That's what makes her so fascinating and wonderful to watch: she gets to say and do the things we would never dare. She's cruel, prejudiced, sex starved (either gender), self-serving, and yet we sympathize with her. As one of the writers points out on the bonus interview "She's easily hurt for someone so cruel." A truly HIL-ARIOUS and original classic. Highly recommended for those with a dark but intelligent sense of humor. Black comedy at its best.
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Summary: One of the greatest shows ever
Review: Jerri Blank makes me as moist as a snack cake down there.
The Blank Page is probably Season 2's best episode.
Dvd is well worth it.
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Summary: She's starting her life all over again... again!
Review: Season 2 finds Jerri Blank just out of jail (again) and starting freshman year again (again). In this season she deals with the death of her catatonic father. We learn about choosing a career, helping the handicapped, virginity, illiteracy, and cults. And it is all presented by the most lovable 47 year old freshman ever, Jerri Blank, along with her gay art teacher, her gay history teacher, and her African-American egotistical principal, Onyx Blackman. Just thinking of some of the dialog brings a smile to my face: 'What was going through your head as those rabid dogs knawed on it? Did you see me eating the hot dog?'In many respects the second season of Strangers with Candy is better than the first. The characters are fully realized and their behavior becomes even more outrageous. The dialog is sharp and the scenarios more absurd. The writing and directing for this show does a fantastic job of playing up to the talent of the principal actors. Throw in some fantastic guest stars and this season is not to be missed.
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