@@savagecatgt LMAO thank you, I actually did know this. That's what her whole character is based on, because Stephen Colbert and Paul dinello saw that documentary and they were completely blown away up how much she resemble Amy sedaris 😂😂😂 thanks for sharing 👏
@@Miniver765 So, you got this guy, right? He's like, "Ah, remember the good ol' days of chuckles?" Meanwhile, Colbert's out here evolving, but this guy's humor? It's like his clock got stuck on MAGA time... or at least that's the scuttlebutt, folks.
I remember this coming on tv when I was 12 and being extremely happy that I’d found it and then extremely disappointed when none of my friends knew or cared about it. Love this show.
I Think You Should Leave is an excellent absurdist sketch show. Tons of shit out there in the form of youtube channels and tv shows on streaming platforms.
@@returntosender2 "with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“Don’t lock eyes with them. Don’t do it. Puts them on edge. They may go in berserker mode. Come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows” 😅😅😅😅
This clip will help make you feel a little bit better. Promise. Underlying truth is that “in our heads” we never really want to admit that we are growing older. ruclips.net/video/JdlBOb56_oQ/видео.html
RIGHT??? Wth I ended up loathing tv shows post 2011/12ish cuz the quality went to shit . All about cameos n shitty gimmicks . I can tell this is an older show but it must’ve slipped passed everyone’s memory log smh . 3mins in and I can tell there’s something worth tuning in for even L8tr
I know right!? There's an actor in the scene where the two young lab workers were in a break area and one was using a ruler to flip syringes into the ceiling tiles(5:23). The one who was coming at him and eventually ended up having to go into the locker("escape pod"), looks a hell of a lot light Colbert. I checked the description for a cast listing but I couldn't find one I wonder if it is his son?
@@xxcrysad3000xx Hey, thank you for the reply on that! As I continued watching I realized that the character's name was Lawton. In a way I was right LOL because I kept looking at him going,"man that dude's face looks just like Stephen Colbert" but when Colbert wears the eyeglasses as the other character it gives it that Clark Kent effect and it kind of threw me.👍
Me too! It was the one where her dad gets ripped apart by dogs. And when Mr. Jellineck gets hit by the car. It was really late at night and I thought " what in the world is this?" I'd never seen anything like it. It was so weird,but hilarious!
This is just like my recurring nightmare. See I'm a HS drop out and I must have some unsettled issues with it. I always have these dreams where I go back to school but I'm my current age of 34 and in the dream it's normal to everyone but me. Very similar premise.
In mine I have to go back to school for some random reason and I’m trying to dodge some of the teachers who are still there from back when I was in my teens cause I don’t want them to see me. For whatever reason I’m never in a actual classroom, the dream usually never goes pass the front lobby/commons of the high school
In mine I forget my locker combination every day and begin to annoy the office staff and have to dodge the hall monitors because I don’t have a pass and I’m late.
Gawd, I loved this show as a kid when it was still on TV. Also Amy Sedaris played the teacher reading the books to the kids in an episode of Wonder Showzen.
I loved this show so much. All the actors are so funny. Jerry Blank we miss you!!!!!🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼
God damn, I've heard Colbert talk about this show, I've seen bits, but nothing could prepare me for this. Imagine trying to put this on TV these days, they'd hunt you down with torches like the ones at the end, but bigger and with lasers.
I didn’t know about the movie until years later around 2011 when I was looking for the show on RUclips cause I randomly remembered it and wanted to revisit it and introduce it to my girlfriend at the time. I was surprised to see I somehow completely missed that they made a movie along with the show
@@TurdLocked No not everyone, they had to recast Jerry's classmates as they were too old to comeback LOL! Plus the movie was the prequel to the tv series.🎥🏫📚🔔
I used to laugh at Jerri, then I became her.
Yikes sorry to hear that
m.ruclips.net/video/8vd7o2g6w7A/видео.html
If youre serious, jerri blank is based on a real woman named florrie
@@savagecatgt LMAO thank you, I actually did know this. That's what her whole character is based on, because Stephen Colbert and Paul dinello saw that documentary and they were completely blown away up how much she resemble Amy sedaris 😂😂😂 thanks for sharing 👏
@@halroxdynasty8683 My friend had the DVD boxset and it had that documentary on it...creepy, yet hilarious🤷🏿♂🤣
Same 😂😂
"during the 32 years i spent as a *teenage* runaway" god this is the funniest fucking show
No need to blasphemy.
@@PunkDogCreations The verb is blaspheme, and I'l do what I want.
?😊😊@@michelerich1590
It's called Comedy. Get a life.
@@sabrina-hu4ri tf
What an acid trip Comedy Central used to be. Those were the days 😂
yeah pre-woke Colbert
Hate to sound stupid, but what's woke?@@andrewsorenson6750
@@andrewsorenson6750Yeah. Back when Colbert used to be funny.
I grew up on it, my friends say I’m funny. I think all the weird shit I watched might of helped. Lol
@@Miniver765 So, you got this guy, right? He's like, "Ah, remember the good ol' days of chuckles?" Meanwhile, Colbert's out here evolving, but this guy's humor? It's like his clock got stuck on MAGA time... or at least that's the scuttlebutt, folks.
I remember this coming on tv when I was 12 and being extremely happy that I’d found it and then extremely disappointed when none of my friends knew or cared about it. Love this show.
Lol i was like 14 but same
We were the same age
@@mikedestructive - Are you a robot who is learning how to communicate with humans?
@@BomChickyBowWow what is humans for $600(?), Alex.
@@mikedestructive lol yeah. Your AI needs tuning.
I love this show. This is all 680 of us who watched it.
Ahhh I thought I was the only one 🙏🫶
I was one of them 😂
681
I bought all three seasons on dvd when they came out. I wish they could have made a few more seasons.
I’m autistic with multiple sclerosis, and thanks to Amy, Stephen, and all the rest, I can stiffen my thorax in pride for I AM retarded!
Asperger syndrome makes me an undocumented retard.
However, others have unleashed the strength of an ape within me!
"User, Boozer, Loser" has been locked into my brain for so many years. I've finally found where it came from.
we don't have this kind of creative comedy on cable tv anymore
People still use cable?
Retarded is in the title and we can’t use that funny ass word anymore 😂
I Think You Should Leave is an excellent absurdist sketch show. Tons of shit out there in the form of youtube channels and tv shows on streaming platforms.
Jeri always sounds like she’s giving a testimonial at narcotics anonymous
That's the point, shes based off a real person named Florrie Fischer who was a motivational speaker in the 70's.
As a Brit this is one of the few American tv shows that’s as offensive as our comedy shows I’ve laughed my arse of watching this
Our glory days of comedy hahaha
there were a few Yanks who understood the humor from the bbc! the Young ones was one of my favs
Arse!!! lol!
Check in on some of these same comedians and they're woke af now 😂@@truthtoad
It has a very British-comedy vibe, doesn’t it? I’m speaking as an American, so correct me if I’m wrong.
I remember growing up just trying to imagine how wild and unhinged comedy of the future would be and here I am completely turned around
Strangers w Candy was the precipice 😢
Shit like this is the reason our humor is so damn crazy now
IKR?!🎉🤦🏻♀️🥴
It’s still weird it’s just on the internet now
@@returntosender2 "with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
You couldn't make a show that is as un PC as this one was. God, it was hilarious.
You could just have to make it funny though. See it's always sunny in Philadelphia
“Don’t lock eyes with them. Don’t do it. Puts them on edge. They may go in berserker mode. Come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows” 😅😅😅😅
That part was cut !? 😡
this show is the reason why I dream that I'm still in highschool at 40.
The fact that I still get high school dreams is the reason I stumbled upon this show.
Test day. Didn’t study. Again.
@@garysmith1863 That dream is the worst 🥴
This clip will help make you feel a little bit better. Promise. Underlying truth is that “in our heads” we never really want to admit that we are growing older.
ruclips.net/video/JdlBOb56_oQ/видео.html
Didn't know that was a thing with other people haven't been to school in 17 years still dream about it though
It’s so funny that this Pilot is 10x cleaner than the actual show
I found it identical. The mother is the coach. Her hair is black instead of brown and the bit about her being a volunteer is the only difference
you mean - Butch
Most of the jokes/scenarios were reused, but I don’t think the final scene was.
@@MrBiggysmalls87 coach of the track team Jeri is on in season 3 I think.
It's definitely more retro and less mean
An absolute gem in the world of comedy. May this material be here forever.
I freaking love the principal’s voice.
you mean,mr BLACK MAN😝
@@pickleeggs3340 No he means BLACKMAN
His shirt and tie color combos are excellent, as well.
Best show ever
No doubt.
Hands down🍭
Nah, it’s like 3rd.
Tim Chapel you are
It really was
“Retardation....a Celebration” is my all time favorite title....🤣
Kimberly Timbers😂
God bless all of the people who worked on this, especially the core cast and writers. Made a weird kid feel seen and heard!
How did this racist and homophobic show that also made fun of retardation make you feel “seen and heard”?
Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Paul Dinello!
I adore Amy Sedaris. She has such good style.
To write and produce a comedy with your friends - a dream come true.
This is still one of my all time fave shows. It sucks that very few people know when I reference it because this show deserved it all.
Entire plot lines were built upon late 70's and early 80's after school specials.
Strangers with Candy was genius on so many levels. I'm sad I missed it when it originally aired
Dr Bronners peppermint soap in the shower scene. That stuff is great!
love Dr. Bronners! it's fair trade and has so many uses. plus lots of great scents.
Definitely a staple for my showers- nothing better to wash off all the retardation.
@@jackallenproductions Spike Nailer reaches for a Dr Bronners when he feels a Snickers aura coming on.. It's a family home remedy.
Thanks mistress nutmeg
The most obtusely offensive show I’ve ever seen lmao I love it
This show was the best.
TV Funhouse?
Only offensive if you’re sensitive
Jerri is a freaking mess! Love her.
Good morning Principal Blackman!
Jerri's dad is the best character.
His timing is perfection.
That frozen face and position gag in the regular version had to be hard as hell to maintain over time!
🫨
Isn’t it the same guy who played the grandpa in National lampoons Christmas? The one who wrapped the cat in the box?
@@tipsybass7060 Not any actor profile online lists that movie in his history of credits. See for yourself.
Thanks. I learned a lot about Brazil.
😂😂
How did it totally slip my mind that Stephen Colbert was her teacher?? I loved this show🤣🤣
And he WAS sexy AF
Probably because back then he was actually funny...
And the orderly.
@@pat557Still 90% funnier than anything else out there (cough, cough, Bill Maher).
How is he not cancelled for this? After all he is super woke and paid for by big pharma
I'm not sure how I missed this or why it has finally made its way to me but thank you blessed algorithm. You have blessed me on this day.
All 3 seasons are fantastic! hard to find now a days though.
RIGHT??? Wth I ended up loathing tv shows post 2011/12ish cuz the quality went to shit . All about cameos n shitty gimmicks . I can tell this is an older show but it must’ve slipped passed everyone’s memory log smh . 3mins in and I can tell there’s something worth tuning in for even L8tr
Same
@hailesankara480 but this show has Stephen Colbert. He's a star!
Right never seen it til now, yay
Why does Colbert look like he’s 50… 20 years ago
The potion from Death Becomes Her. Hes gonna head out soon.
the positive spin on that comment would be: why does it look like colbert hasn't aged in 25 years?
I know right!? There's an actor in the scene where the two young lab workers were in a break area and one was using a ruler to flip syringes into the ceiling tiles(5:23). The one who was coming at him and eventually ended up having to go into the locker("escape pod"), looks a hell of a lot light Colbert. I checked the description for a cast listing but I couldn't find one I wonder if it is his son?
@@charleskollin1221 nah the actor playing the hospital orderly is also colbert. he was about 30 at the time this was produced.
@@xxcrysad3000xx
Hey, thank you for the reply on that! As I continued watching I realized that the character's name was Lawton. In a way I was right LOL because I kept looking at him going,"man that dude's face looks just like Stephen Colbert" but when Colbert wears the eyeglasses as the other character it gives it that Clark Kent effect and it kind of threw me.👍
Omg. I’ve got the collector’s box set of this. GENIUS right out of the gate.
Daaaang, Principal Blackman’s got the sweet dance moves!
I randomly saw this on tv late one night back in the day, laughed my ass off then, rolling on the ground again today.
😂😂😂😂😂
Me too! It was the one where her dad gets ripped apart by dogs. And when Mr. Jellineck gets hit by the car. It was really late at night and I thought " what in the world is this?" I'd never seen anything like it. It was so weird,but hilarious!
I just spit my coffee out when she said "Im really in a k hole" nice.
One of the funniest and best shows ever. Strangers With Candy forever.
"can't you control that boy! my god, we can't have the team captain spilling his seed on barren ground!"
Did they find the concrete donkey?
I've really perfected my "and now im BACK in schooool."
"You may be screaming NO NO NO but all they hear is "Who wants cake"....this makes me howl like hell everytime I hear it
They all do... They all want cake...
I miss this show so much....😂
“Is it true they travel in packs and travel by night?” 🤣
Is that bit missing?
@@Jon.A.Scholt that part is cut out!
"My father will NEVER die! Do you hear me?!"
BWAAAAHAHAHAHA. I thought I’ve seen every episode! I am a big Strangers with Candy fan so this blows my mind! Thank you!
I like that they switched the pilot mom to the gym teacher. Who wants hot fruit?
i want hot fruit
Omg, that’s right! I totally forgot that. The actress who ultimately played the mom was perfect. Everyone was. Perfectly cast.
Only if you have glimmer or glint to.go with it
Gotta love doing a science project with Mega Watte
The mom as a drunk was hilarious!
😂💖Still needed this in 2023, thank you!!👏🏼💯💖✌🏼
We need more comedians like this again, laughter heals the wounds.
😊😊😊bbbbb😊😊j oooooo Noooooo bb
B Jon o
Oooos
This is the best piece of art I have ever seen.
The main character Jerri creeps me out.
@@mariac2343 She's s'posta be.
@@andylindsaytunes Can you imagine if this character was created to deter youth from drugs and crime?
OMG. Funny but art.
I loved watching this on Comedy Central, I would sneak out my room at night and tune in(christian home and I was 13). I loved watching the movie!
Try watching it in a muz-lihm home. 😂😂
Jesus saw you!
This is like if david lynch made a comedy
He did make a comedy. It's called DumbLand.
Wow. They really made some improvements when launching the real show.
This show was 20 years ago and still holds up like it could be on adult swim today
Yeah doesn’t seem like they needed the rehab centre. Plus having Colbert and dinello play multiple characters didn’t really seem necessary
Don't get a beef Stu lets not stir things up...
They had made a few very good tweeks. Overall, it was a good piolt.
The number of comments saying this makes me really fucking hyped to watch the rest of it
This is just like my recurring nightmare. See I'm a HS drop out and I must have some unsettled issues with it. I always have these dreams where I go back to school but I'm my current age of 34 and in the dream it's normal to everyone but me. Very similar premise.
In mine I have to go back to school for some random reason and I’m trying to dodge some of the teachers who are still there from back when I was in my teens cause I don’t want them to see me. For whatever reason I’m never in a actual classroom, the dream usually never goes pass the front lobby/commons of the high school
In mine I forget my locker combination every day and begin to annoy the office staff and have to dodge the hall monitors because I don’t have a pass and I’m late.
Damn that's gotta be tight.
I tried not laughing but that frozen dad of hers in the first scene had me
The day years ago my husband and I first saw an ad for this upcoming series, as soon as I saw Jerri, I was all like "I'm in!!!"
The wig change was a good call….
This is fantastic! Now I have to binge watch this series!
One of the least offensive shows of all time in that it doesn't attempt to insult the intelligence of its audience
"I dont care if they're just like ME and ME, they're a menace!" OMG gold
Back when Stephen Colbert was all most funny
Came here looking for this. He used to crack me up for years. Then he got Trump Derangement Syndrome and was never funny to me again after that.
I forgot how cute Paul Dinello was
Handsome as Cake, with a Caramel Potato, on top.
Handsome as a Caramel Potato Cake.
Great acting from Mr Blank every scene he was in really makes you think
His range, though.
He's so animated!
I met “Jerry” (before she was famous) in 1990-91 at a comedy club in Chicago during a tattoo convention. She and the other did a skit about me. 😅😊
Not a chance
Love this show. Have all seasons. Never gets old.
I just finished watching this series again, its on Paramount Plus. They actually used this exact episode in the series in the first season.
Gawd, I loved this show as a kid when it was still on TV. Also Amy Sedaris played the teacher reading the books to the kids in an episode of Wonder Showzen.
“ if I had any kids that I kept .....!”
"I have to have my uterus scrapped" 🤣😂🤣
I read the note.
We all read the note.
🎵🎶I'm going to sit at the welcome table one of these days! Hallelujah! 🎶🎵
🎵sing about it!!!!
I'm gonna sing about it one of these days
my fav episode
This show has always been so clever..😂
Where has this show been my whole life
On Pirate Bay
“STUPID BLOOD FART” LMFAO
I can't believe that Coach Wolf was originally cast as Mrs. Blank. I'm glad they made the changes they did to the show.
One of the BEST SHOWS EVER!!!
The cameraman on this is awesome
This is like 30 Rock, if Tina Fey was a very bad person with genuine psychological problems.
30 Rock isn't fit to carry out Strangers With Candy's trash.
Okay wow! What did I just stumble into. What a fucking cool show!
So offensive on so many levels
I love it and it’s precious
Oh, that’s right…Colbert was once a comedian.
Last I saw, he was a bitter old woman in a cardigan lol
On the verge of being a paid ISISræli shill now 🤗
Then he became a bore.
Liberalism turned him into the monster he is today.
Blackman is like a black Tim Curry
"your very own cheese pizza"
Omg he is!!!
Dude those eyes cinched it alone then he has the body mannerisms and voice intonnations
Haha true
I always come back to this, and it's always just as good as it was when it was on.
Lost and Recovered Gold from the dank abyss of cable television! 😮
Oh wow!! So glad I found this!! This show should’ve had way more seasons!
I gotta watch this with headphones. This was a twisted little show right here, son.
YES YES YES YES THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS
Agreed
Omg I laughed so hard when mr Blackman was on the phone to mr blank😂😂
I used to love this show. Thanks for showing this episode.
I'm shooketh I didn't know about this
Watch the 3 seasons of Strangers with Candy. The pilot is ok.
I did.
I loved this show so much. All the actors are so funny. Jerry Blank we miss you!!!!!🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼🦋🌹🌼
god bless the algorithm. always loved this show and the other show in the same time block, ucb.
God damn, I've heard Colbert talk about this show, I've seen bits, but nothing could prepare me for this. Imagine trying to put this on TV these days, they'd hunt you down with torches like the ones at the end, but bigger and with lasers.
Back when Colbert was funny. R.I.P.
Last time Colbert was edgy.
With Colbert leading the mob.
Watch the whole series theres nothing better
Because society is too stupid to understand satire.
Me and my mother love this show ❣️Rip mommy
R.I.P.🙏 I grew up watching this show.👍
So sorry for your loss! Now she is watching this show with Jesus on a 5,000inch TV
You had an awesome mom. ❤️
@@indarkdecemberofficial8615you never go full retard.
I absolutely love SWC. I got all the seasons on disc years ago. It killed me that it didn’t continue past 3 seasons.
I was shocked that they made an actual movie in actual movie theaters with everyone from the show. That blows my mind.
I didn’t know about the movie until years later around 2011 when I was looking for the show on RUclips cause I randomly remembered it and wanted to revisit it and introduce it to my girlfriend at the time. I was surprised to see I somehow completely missed that they made a movie along with the show
@@TurdLocked No not everyone, they had to recast Jerry's classmates as they were too old to comeback LOL! Plus the movie was the prequel to the tv series.🎥🏫📚🔔
That’s my high school! I know they shot a couple of scenes there.
For real? That’s awesome!😁
@@evanabbott2737 yup Verona high school New Jersey
Thats cool af
Best series Ever made.
Thanks for sharing! I always loved this show....Quirky, offbeat humor like this is my jam :)
Jerri is goals for not giving a f, she rules
Not sure if you've seen it, but you might like "Toast of London"
@@yellowblanka6058 Never heard of that, I'll have to check it out! Is it funny in the same way?
that was unbelievably hilarious from start to finish!!! need more...
Who ever thought that Gerri would become so fashionable with time? Gen z would love to raid this closet
What a great show, freaking hilarious.
Let's read it now.
My favorite line…
Fan-dan-go?....Hobocamp?....Hobocamp!
I’ve never heard of this and am so glad I stumbled upon it. It’s the funniest stuff I’ve seen in ages!
“Boot of skag” 🤣