Strangers With Candy - Season Three

by Comedy Central

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Director:Adam Bernstein
Release Date:2004-09-28
Label:Comedy Central
UPC:097368776944
Binding:DVD
Published By:Comedy Central
ASIN:B0002JP4OQ
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STRANGERS WITH CANDY - SEASON 3 twists the conventions of the classic after-school special and follows the antics of 47-year old Jerri Blank. Back at home after 32 years as a teenage runaway, the well-intentioned Jerri picks up her life exactly where she left it: at home and flunking her freshman year in high school. Special guest stars include Will Ferrell, Andy Richter, among others.

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Classic. - Reviewed on 2007-02-07
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It's totally wrong.. but I love her so much! I cried beacuse it was so funny.

Jerry Blank.. come back, we miss you.
I Haven't Laughed This Hard in Years! - Reviewed on 2006-08-23
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2 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

I love this DVD. It makes me laugh, sigh, hope, giggle, howl, titter, and just go AHHH HAHHHH!
Packed full of all of the episodes, plus outtakes, plus behind the scenes features. My sides, cheeks, and brain hurt from laughing so hard. A Must Have!!!
Perhaps the funniest stuff ever made for TV audiences - Reviewed on 2006-01-25
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5 customers found this review helpful.

I'm a sucker for anything that tweaks and lampoons authority, and this is a fabulous example of that kind of fun.

I have a great many friends who can't get past how Sedaris looks in her role as Jerri Blank - but for me that's the least of the issues.

Laugh out loud funny - Jellineck and Noblet are wonderful, but the principal Mr. Blackman steals most of the show.

The FREEDOM episode in this set is brilliant -
Great expectations from the earlier seasons - Reviewed on 2005-10-30
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3 customers found this review helpful, 4 did not.

but these episodes just aren't as strong. I only vaguely remember seeing these on Comedy Central, probably because they are aired less than the previous seasons' shows.

Laughed more at the Chapelle "quickie" sketch included on Disc One than all the episodes combined on said disc.

Oh, and no commentaries on this season's DVDs. Again, not so much bad as not as good as their other work, including "Wigfield."

ADDENDUM--Upon further review and viewing Disc Two, this is a very funny set.
I've got something to say - Reviewed on 2005-04-29
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9 customers found this review helpful.

Strangers With Candy is by far one of the most brilliant cult series. Its brash and overtly racist and homo- (and hetero-) phobic views made it one of the greatest politically incorrect comedies. The anti-heroic characters are amazingly perfect and no doubt about it, the fact that a woman in lead role and a head writer makes it even better for its subculture overtones.

Season three pushed the limits of bad political tastes to the edge as Mr. Noblet (Stephen Colbert) says: "Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave John F Kennedy of case of syphilis so bad that it eventually blew the back of his head off". Or how about Jerri's realization that she's a Native American: "I thought that being an Indian had to do with ethnic pride, love of the Earth and the return of rightful lands. But now I know that being an Indian is about drinking, gambling and scalping". Let's not forget Buddah Stalin being Flatpoint's Marylin Manson and Jerri's 10 minute hunger strike to prove that freedom belongs in a cage. Jerri's use of steroids and her sudden growth of a beard will always stay an unforgettable image in my brain!

The DVD itself is actually not as impressive as the first two. Sorely missed are the episode commentaries by Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello as in the season one and season two discs. The packaging is actually slightly annoying having the discs being in two separate plastic cases although the year book theme is interesting. The bonuses are interesting but nothing out of the ordinary. The bloopers could have had more blooper/outtake material and not just a collaboration of outtakes and 'best of'. The dance sequence 'medley' is so-so, not to mention the silent dance sequence. However the menu selection as an old projection reel is very innovative.

For these reason, I chose to give the DVD 4 stars as a whole NOT the actual series which is a 5!
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