"The Trip Back" PSA - Inspired Strangers With Candy - 2/3

This is kind of disturbing. It's a PSA that must have inspired Strangers With Candy. I can't believe the pace at which this woman speaks her story. Strange how they took this intense material and turned it into a comedy!

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[smallfrylol]

I don't know why...but watching this makes me want to smoke a cigarette.

[Russell218]

Crazy to hear someone from that era so knowledgeable about everything from H to Desoxyn. I thought people back then were in the dark ages when it came to drugs. Although I can't agree that LSD will make you crazy. Luckily we have benzodiazepines readily available today to snap you out of a "bad trip." They probably just knocked you out with barbituates back then when you freaked out. Not that I know anything about drugs... Stay in school kids.

[dulaneyj]

"I don't say God is dead, I only say that for many, many years we weren't on speaking terms." This is a lot better than I thought it'd be.

[PatrickDC202]

Oh! My! Goddess! Fast forward to 4:00 and watch her go off. It's friggin' PRICELESS!!!

[strawberryseason]

@ritter89 About the straight B student,: "I've found out since, that they fused her spine and neck,and she will always be stiff. But It doesn't make any difference because she is a raving maniac and her prognosis is nil!"

[ritter89]

@strawberryseason Believe me, she was back on opiates if she died from liver cancer---which is an excruciatingly painful way to die

[ritter89]

Sounds like most of her problems had more to with prison/legal issues than drugs. Synanon is a new-age religious cult, similar to Scientology. Florrie cleaned up and wound up dying from liver cancer and kidney failure just a few yrs later at 52 (most likely back on opiates administered to dull pain). Such irony

[ritter89]

BTW, this DID inspire Strangers With Candy. Sedaris's character, Jerri Blank, is based directly on Ms Florrie Fischer.

[ritter89]

LOL!! My favorite lines: "I was operated on by the same doctor who operated on the late Jayne Mansfield's son, Zolten, when he was mauled by the lion"............."straight B student"........."she was part Negro, Spanish and Indian; and believe me, she had the beauty of all three"......."Her prognoses is nil"......."I work for 52 dollars per week in a house of retarded children"

Oh, I love this. Those poor kids look like they're mortified. Sedaris even picked up on the weird eye twitch

[strawberryseason]

She is such a dynamic speaker. Too bad her life took a bad turn. She would make an excellent lawyer or professor.

[strawberryseason]

@TheJomogogo No, she didn't go back to drugs. She died of liver cancer.

[hollywoodhottie19]

then 'YOU END UP LIVING IN VANNNNNNNNN DOWN BY THE RIVER"... It reminded me of Chris Farley's RIP motivational speaker....