Strangers with Candy

- Season 1

(1999)

A 47-year-old prostitute moves back in with her father and returns to high school, where she's tasked with finding out if one of her classmates is mentally retarded.

Meet Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old "boozer, user and a loser" who is trying to put her life back together again by going back to high school. One day Jerri tries to throw a party to become more popular, but when she finds out no one is coming, Jerri uses her knowledge of drugs to lure the popular kids to her party. During the process two lives are ended and Jerri, kind of learns a lesson.

While in class Coach Wolf tries to teach a lesson on how hard being a single mother can be. She decides to teach everyone by giving them a real living 10 pound baby, and the first in line to take care of it is lucky Jerri Blank. She has no idea what to do with it. Chuch and Geoffrey still sneak around with each other.

Jerri lands a lead role in a school play, prompting her stepmother to fall into a destructive pattern.

When a school field trip to Good Time Island is coming up, Jerri couldn't be more exited. However Principal Blackman is out on a witch hunt to figure out who the school problem is. So Mr. Noblet asks Jerri to investigate her locker mate and snitch on her if it's she, and if Jerri chooses not to do this she will not be allowed to go on the field trip. Jerri is not sure what to do because she is not a snitch.

When a new student comes to Flatpoint High, the entire school is against him for being new. Jerri develops feelings for him and longs to ask him to the school dance, but to keep her rep in school she must act like she hates him. Then she discovers a shocking secret that will end her relationship with him forever.

An awful slur appears on a school-hallway wall, and Jerri "befriends" the number-one suspect when nobody else will. An investigator (Tim Meadows) comes to solve this crime in his own unusual way.

When Jerri has a sudden interest in joining the debate team, she tries out to only find out you have to be incredibly thin to bring out a good argument. So Jerri results into bulimia to get a spot on the team.

After Jerri is kicked out of the orchestra by Geoffry, Mr. Noblet catches her playing a violin, and playing it well. Jerri's father hates the violin and everything involved with it so Jerri moves in with Mr. Noblet and he decides to give her more ruthless lessons to make her the prodigy that he always wanted to be. He also enters Jerri into a contest even though she would rather be off having fun with Orlando.

Homecoming is around the corner, and Jerri is desperate to become Queen. So she secretly removes all the nominees except her own and that of another nerdy student. The only problem is when she hears that everyone else will be voting for the other nominee because of her inner beauty, Jerri must come up with a plan that will make her win for sure.

Jerri is struggling for a passing grade to move on to Sophmore year. Mr. Noblet tells her if she can pass the final she will be able to pass the year, but instead of studying Jerri meets up with a crowd that makes her result into drugs again.