# Oh My God, They Killed Jerri! You Bastards! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 19, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702 "2000-09-19T07:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702/41 "2000-09-25T21:32:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DavisMcDavis \* > A) Forrest Gump wasn’t a caricature. > B) Forrest Gump sucked. a) I never said FOrrest Gump was a caricature. b) I’ve never seen it, just bits and pieces. > [@](#): > > You stick with “Touched By An Angel” Are you trying to make me vomit? > [@](#): > > You clearly didn’t understand the show. The whole concept was that it was an after school special where no one ever actually learned the lesson they were teaching. And Jerri was supposed to appear as lame as possible. Her character was unattractive, unpleasant, mean, vindictive, and she never learned the lesson. I understood the show fine. I even occassionally enjoyed it despite the actress. My complaint is that the actress sucked. Sucked bad. [/quote] > [@](#): > > I fail to see how Forrest Gump relates to this. _sigh_ I was giving an example of how a character could be played poorly. IE, a retard person could be played like a retarded person, or played like a horrible caricature of a retarded person. Jerri could have been played as an unattractive, unpleasant, mean, vindictive person, but instead she was played as a bad caricature of one. The crack about Touched By An Angel was funny though… it just proves you have NO CLUE whatsoever as to what I watch. You couldn’t pay me to watch that kind of crap (or just about anything on network TV for that matter, except Malcolm in the Middle) ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702/42 "2000-09-25T23:53:16Z")
Just stay the hell away from West Wing, mmmmkay? ---
**Author:** ![McKenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@McKenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McKenna)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702/43 "2000-09-26T19:15:32Z")
WARNING TO FLATPOINT FANS: THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE ☹ LAST EPISODE! Super-fan Tony Lagarto attended the last day of filming and the wrap party for poor old SWC last week; here’s his report, complete with pictures of the remains of Flatpoint High and the cast party: [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Heights/7498/myday2.html](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Heights/7498/myday2.html) There’s quite a few pictures of the cast, including a shot or two that shows that IRL Amy Sedaris, while not a supermodel, is prettier than average. I’m staying at a place that has no cable until this Friday; praying that my VCR and cable company were still speaking to each other last night when SWC was on. If not, they’re re-running the penultimate show Friday night at 12:30 am. Tony indicates that the show goes out true to its own spirit, so I guess Tradesilocon’s blaze o’glory post will ring true again. Don’t worry, Phouka, I intend to spend the 9 pm hour on Wednesdays fuming that they’re putting GIDEON’S CROSSING on opposite LAW & ORDER, and that goddamn MediaOne cable doesn’t let you watch one thing and tape another. At least there’s new BUFFY and ANGEL tonight! Woo hoo! Carolyn ---
**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702/44 "2000-09-26T20:37:41Z")
What the fuck happened to American High? Great show. FOX only aired two episodes and that was it. ---
**Author:** ![Saysha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Saysha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saysha)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702/45 "2000-09-26T21:30:10Z")
I just wanted to add that I SEARCHED for Cupid after my mom told me to check it out. I only saw the episode where he was convinced that these two people were meant for each other, and he died and she got his heart. Oh, the choked sobs of Terms of Endearment proportions… I was hooked, of course, having a boner for Jeremy Piven since he slammed his car keys into John Cusacks palm in “Say Anything” and then his later turn on Ellen. Anyway, I was sorry to see it go, shame on all of us that loved it. And SQUARE PEGS, too. \<\\> ---
**Author:** ![Saysha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Saysha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saysha)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702/46 "2000-09-26T21:33:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mojo \* > \*\*Rosie O’Donnell’s been cancelled? \*\* aahhaahahHAAHAHAHAHAHhhaa aaaaaaaaa… ha ha HA aaaa… oh, oh my… (wipes at eyes…) ---
**Author:** ![McKenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@McKenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McKenna)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702/47 "2000-10-02T23:42:46Z")
Tonight (Monday, 10:00 EST) is the very last episode of STRANGERS WITH CANDY, the show I, the Cancellation Goddess, made the mistake of watching and therefore killing. :mad: Apparently, Jerri gets a makeover. If you want to see a pretty Jerri, it’s your first and last chance. And I wouldn’t give it away like that if fucking Comedy Central didn’t fucking give away most of the plot in their fucking promos for the last show. NOW you decide to promote the show, you Mr. Garrison-felching bastards, just when you’re wiping it out to squeeze in more showings of Caddyshack. Why’d you have to just give it away like a crack whore?! Speaking of crack whores, of course, will now always make me think of Jerri, Chuck Noblet, Principal Onyx Blackman, Geoffery Jellineck, Sarah, Guy, Derek, Tammala, Orlando, and all the people of the sick and twisted town of Flatpoint. \ Depression. ☹ Carolyn [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-jerri-you-bastards/33702.md?page=2)