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{{Infobox television |
show_name = Strip Mall|
| image = [[Image:JulieBrown-StripMall.jpg]]|
| caption = [[Julie Brown]] as Tammi Tyler|
| format runtime = [[Situation22 comedy|Sitcom]]|minutes
| creator(s) = [[Julie Brown]]<br />[[Charlie Coffey (writer)|Charlie Coffey]]|▼
runtime = 22 minutes|
| starring = [[Julie Brown]]<br />[[Victoria Jackson]]<br />[[Jim O'Heir]]<br />[[Bob Koherr]]<br />[[Juan Vidal]]<br />[[Amy Hill]]<br />Loretta Fox<br />[[Tim Bagley]]<br />[[Jonathan Mangum]]<br />[[Chris Wylde]]<br/>[[Allison Dunbar]]|▼
▲ creator(s) = [[Julie Brown]]<br />[[Charlie Coffey (writer)|Charlie Coffey]]|
| country = United States
▲ starring = [[Julie Brown]]<br />[[Victoria Jackson]]<br />[[Jim O'Heir]]<br />[[Bob Koherr]]<br />[[Juan Vidal]]<br />[[Amy Hill]]<br />Loretta Fox<br />[[Tim Bagley]]<br />[[Jonathan Mangum]]<br />[[Chris Wylde]]<br/>[[Allison Dunbar]]|
| country language = USA|English
| network = [[Comedy Central]]|
| first_aired = June 18,{{start date|2000|6|18}}
| last_aired = March 11,{{end date|2001|3|11}}
| num_seasons = 2|
| num_episodes = 20|
}}
'''''Strip Mall''''' is a [[situation comedy]] that aired on [[Comedy Central]] from [[June 2000|June]] [[2000 in television|2000]] until [[March 2001|March]] [[2001 in television|2001]].<ref>[http://tv.nytimes.com/show/160211/Strip-Mall/overview The New York Times]</ref>▼
 
▲'''''Strip Mall''''' is a [[situation comedysitcom]] that aired on [[Comedy Central]] from [[June 2000|June]] [[2000 in television|2000]] until [[March 2001|March]] [[2001 in television|2001]].<ref>[http://tv.nytimes.com/show/160211/Strip-Mall/overview The New York Times]</ref>
The series, a spoof of [[prime time]] [[soap operas]], was set in [[Van Nuys, California]] which is series star/creator/executive producer [[Julie Brown]]'s hometown. The titular "Strip Mall" was the fictional Plaza del Toro. Brown starred as Tammi Tyler, an ex-child actress who at 12 had stabbed her adult co-star to death after eating a cupcake laced with [[Phencyclidine|PCP]]. Now, as an adult,Tammi worked as a waitress at the ''Funky Fox'', a bar located in the Plaza del Toro. One of her fellow employees was Patti the barmaid ([[Victoria Jackson]]). In the series premiere Tammi married the owner of Starbrite Cleaners, Harvey Krudup ([[Jim O'Heir]]), who she thought was worth millions, but realized that Starbrite's lone location was at the Plaza. For the rest of the show's run Tammi would try (unsuccessfully) to end her marriage.▼
 
▲The series, a spoof of [[prime time]] [[soap operas]], was set in [[Van Nuys, California]], which is series star/creator/executive producer [[Julie Brown]]'s hometown. The titular "Strip Mall" was the fictional Plaza del Toro. Brown starred as Tammi Tyler, an ex-child actress who at 12 had stabbed her adult co-star to death after eating a cupcake laced with [[Phencyclidine|PCP]]. Now, as an adult, Tammi worked as a waitress at the ''Funky Fox'', a bar located in the Plaza del Toro. One of her fellow employees was Patti the barmaid ([[Victoria Jackson]]). In the series premiere, Tammi married the owner of Starbrite Cleaners, Harvey Krudup ([[Jim O'Heir]]), who she thought was worth millions, but realized that Starbrite's lone location was at the Plaza. For the rest of the show's run, Tammi would try (unsuccessfully) to end her marriage.
 
==Other businesses and main characters==
Other businesses at the ''Plaza del Toro'' included a Chinese restaurant, ''Wok Don't Run'', owned by Fanny Sue Chang ([[Amy Hill]]) and Althea (Loretta Fox), both of whom were lesbians; the ''Good Things'' gift shop, owned by Rafe ([[Maxwell Caulfield]]) and Bettina BarrettBellingham ([[Eliza Coyle]]); and ''We Shoot You Video'', which employed two college film graduates Barry ([[Chris Wylde]]) and Josh Macintosh ([[Jonathan Mangum]]), as well as a porn actress named Hedda Hummer ([[Allison Dunbar]]). There was also an insurance agency near the plaza, run by an agent named Dwight ([[Tim Bagley]]).
 
[[Bob Koherr]], who had directed Brown in the [[1997 in film|1997]] movie ''[[Plump Fiction]]'', played a biker named Blank and his identical brothers Blair and Blunt. [[Juan Vidal]] played Tammi's Latin lover, Fernando, in Season 2. Former [[Miss Alabama]] [[Kim Wimmer]] played Elyce Cantwell.
 
==On the set==
All twenty episodes of this series were written by the same writers. In addition to Brown and Koherr, episodes of the series were directed by [[Alan Cohn]]; [[Sam Irvin]] (who also directed Brown in ''[[Out There (film)|Out There]]'' and ''[[Fat Rose and Squeaky]]''); and [[Bobcat Goldthwait]] (the latter previously worked with Brown in ''[[Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful]]'' and ''[[Shakes the Clown]]''). Frequent guest stars on the series included [[Stella Stevens]], one of several actresses to play Harvey's mom, and [[Cindy Williams]]--like—like Brown, a Van Nuys native—who played herself in several episodes. Many of the behind-the-scenes crew came from Brown's previous series, ''[[Clueless (TV series)|Clueless]],'' which was also set in the [[Los Angeles, California]] area.
 
Every episode of this series ended with a cliffhanger. The final episode ended with Tammi being thrown from an airplane by Dwight, who yelled, "Goodbye, Tammi Tyler!" Brown, who along with [[Charlie Coffey (writer)|Charlie Coffey]] produced ''Strip Mall'', was about to plan the series' third season when Comedy Central decided to cancel the series because, given the recession at the time, it was too expensive to continue. ''Strip Mall'' was one of two Comedy Central sitcoms cancelled in June 2001 due to cost reasons; the other was ''[[That's My Bush!]]''
 
==References==
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==External links==
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{{Comedy Central programming}}
 
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