Strip Mall

I actually love this show. I place it in the line of "Strangers with Candy," and "League of Gentlemen." All dark comedies. Each show is like the sequel to the one before it, it sorta keeps you on the edge. But I find the show extrememly funny. Julie Brown was a perfect fit for (basically) the lead role of this show.

I loved this show, it had always had 4 or more different story lines running at once. Definitely not for kids, of course. I thought it was great right after South Park. I'd love to know what happened to the show. I've tried to find out information as to what happened, but to no avail. If anyone has info. Please post it.

Strip Mall is a very stupid TV show. The entire show is built upon sex jokes and murder jokes. It's very dark and I usually like black-comedies but this one is very dumb. The story goes like this: Tammi Tyler (Julie Brown) is a former child star turned murderer turned cocktail waitress at a strip mall. She meets a fat guy who's broke and gets married to him because he's the first man she sees. Then there's some guys in a wedding taping studio which makes dirty movies in the back room. And then there's a store run by bickering lesbians.

That's it. That is the entire show. It looked like "Strangers with Candy" from the previews (That's a good show) but it ended up being like "Veronica's Closet" (That's a bad show). If a fat guy getting rushed to the hospital because of the pains in his butt sounds funny to you, then watch this. If not, wait a day and watch the hilarious black-comedy "The League of Gentlemen" * out of ****

If it wasn't for West Coast Julie Brown, I probably would have never cared to watch the show. She plays a former child star, Tammi Tyler, who operates a strip mall with lesbian Chinese restaurant owner played by the wonderful Amy Hill. The show was silly at best with stupid plots about killing and sex jokes. The show was dark comedy more like a dark soap opera with comic overtones. The show was filmed at a strip mall in Los Angeles. The show aired it's full season on Comedy Central. The show had it's moments with Julie Brown and Amy Hill who ran the Chinese restaurant with her lesbian lover until she got killed. I remember the actual name of the place, "Wok Don't Run." Like I said, Amy Hill was unforgettable and I wished that she would get more jobs.

I know a lot of people thought the show wasn't that good, but it made me laugh soooo much. The different story lines that ran parallel and sometimes intersected were pretty clever. Dark humour? Sure. Cringey at times? Most definitely. But watching some of the characters try to extricate themselves from their disappointing lives at the strip mall led to some hilarious situations. Chris Wylde's character seemed to be the only one having a good time ("Another day of booty duty at Port Porn!"). I hated the way it ended though. It was not only abrupt, but hastily conceived. It was like "Ok, yesterday we got canceled, so today we need to wrap this up in the worst way possible." Made me sad!