Strangers with Candy
1999–2000Comedy CentralComedy
An after-school special inverted: a forty-six-year-old ex-convict returning to high school as a freshman.
Strangers with Candy opens with a main title sequence of 44 seconds.
It arrived on Comedy Central in 1999, when Mystery Science Theater 3000, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and The Man Show were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
44sPosted by a channel devoted to the series. Found on a second pass — the first returned a DVD's front matter.
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