The Goodbye Guy

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The Goodye Guy
The Goodye Guy

Season 2, Episode 4, "The Goodbye Guy," first aired on February 7th, 2000.

Jerri Blank's father, Guy Blank, dies just as he and Jerri were getting to know each other. Mr. Jellineck takes the news harder than anyone, and when he forces Jerri to realize the hard truth of it, her post-dead-daddy depression kills the school spirit for the upcoming Father-Student Sack Race.

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[edit] Quotes

  • Well naturally, as a student counselor, my first responsibility is to the teachers. And I think they're going to be okay. — Student Counselor Cassie Pines
  • I don't want to seem insensitive, but wasn't your father torn to shreds by wild dogs? — Tammi Littlenut
  • I should tell you that Guy's last wish was that no darkies attend his wake. — Sarah Blank
I understand. — Principal Blackman
  • This is how I deal with your grief, Geoffrey. I eat. — Chuck Noblet
  • You know, I think I saw him today. He was waiting for a bus, and I screamed 'Daddy, daddy! You're not dead!' But I think he had to go somewhere because he ran away really fast. — Jerri
  • Granted, you may never jump in a sack with your father again. — Grief Counselor Cassie Pines
  • Well I'll tell you something! My daddy's alive and yours is dead, and ain't nothin' gonna change that! — Grief Counselor Cassie Pines
  • Noblet! Hop in this sack and call me daddy! — Principal Blackman

[edit] Trivia

  • The part where Jerri opens up her fathers closet and a Klan uniform is hanging on the door is based on writer Stephen Colbert's real-life sister-in-law. When they went through her grandfather's possessions after his death, they found KKK uniforms.
  • The dogs that were supposed to be angrily devouring Guy Blank were in fact very friendly, and they had to cut that scene together as the dogs were "licking him to death."
  • Greg Hollimon was completely nude.
  • A stand-in played Guy Blank in the funeral scenes, since Roberto Gari refused to act inside a coffin.
  • According to Stephen Colbert in the DVD Commentary, this is the episode that made his family stop watching. (Colbert's father and two of his brothers were killed in a plane crash when the actor was only 10. This episode deals with the death of a patriarch in a very irreverent way.)
  • In the DVD commentary, it is revealed that some of Jerri's eccentric phrasing (as in this episode's, "This was this one time...") resulted from typos in the script that the Strangers crew decided to leave in.
  • Not counting the opening scene in the sack(shot from the waist down), the final dance sequence is the only time in the series in which Guy Blank is shown moving, as he dances with Jerri.

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Crew

Writers: Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris
Director: Peter Lauer

[edit] See also

List of Strangers with Candy episodes
Characters from Strangers With Candy

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