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Superjail!

Superjail's title screen

Superjail! is an American animated adult television series produced by Williams Street. The series aired on Adult Swim (Late night programing on Cartoon Network) and was created by the talents of: Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick, and Ben Gruber. The show first aired on May 13th, 2007 as Adult Swim aired the Pilot episode. Later the episode "Superbar" was aired unfinished on April 1st, 2008 as part of a sneak peek of possible shows. "Superbar" was re-aired finished on September 28th, 2008 and so started Season 1. It has been known for its graphic violence and psychedelic splendor.

Setting[]

The Universe of Superjail takes place mainly in the titular prison, which is located inside a volcano (which itself is inside a larger volcano) and seems to perceive its own reality, in which The Warden bends life and reality on a whim.

Plot[]

Each episode of Superjail follows a similar pattern: the criminal Jacknife is brought to Superjail by Jailbot in the cold opening. During this time, or occasionally as a result of his arrival, one event or another will inspire The Warden to carry out some sort of crazy scheme, with which The Twins almost always interfere. The combination of these two factors eventually leads to a spectacular psychaedelic bloodbath when the prisoners/convicts/inmates are driven to violence. Several prisoners end up dying, often in humorously horrific ways, while Jacknife escapes amidst the commotion. This cycle repeats in the next episode.

Development[]

In many ways the show was pre-dated by Bar Fight! (A four minute long animation) which was made by the animators, Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick. It has similar style that included a fight much like the ones shown in the Superjail show.

Episode Guide[]

Main Characters[]

  • The Warden (voiced by David Wain) - The Creator and proprietor of Superjail, The Warden, clad in a purple suit, hat, and grey gloves, has been described as a sadistic Willy Wonka on LSD. He has a huge crush on Alice, who has no romantic interest in him. He has displayed shapeshifting abilities in some few episodes. Wain himself was the last voice actor to be casted as him.
  • Jared (voiced by Teddy Cohn) - Superjail's high-strung mess of an accountant with an abnormally large head and a history of being a former cocaine-addict and a recovering alcoholic. He is always wondering what The Warden will do next to jeopardize the budget.
  • Alice (voiced by Christy Karacas) - the extremely well-built guard at Superjail. She has several masculine qualities, such as a deep voice, hardly visible facial hair, and a bulge under her skirt. Christy Karacas confirmed that Alice is transsexual, describing her as working in Superjail because no other jail would hire her after her operation.
  • Jailbot - a mute, levitating, tombstone-shaped robot with a dot-matrix screen for a face. He mainly acts as The Warden's gofer and is Jacknife's sworn enemy. He'll often capture Jacknife and take him over to Superjail in the cold openings of almost every episode, with some exceptions.
  • Jacknife (voiced by Christy Karacas) - a barely articulate, unrefined, crude, dumb-ass thug who never learns. He is almost always committing some low-level, white trash crime at the beginning of each episode, only to screw up and get taken back to Superjail each time (with the exceptions of "Cold-Blooded", "Time-Police Part 2", and a few others). Somehow or other, he always manages to escape Superjail at the end of the episode. However, in some episodes, such as in "Combaticus", his escape is never shown to the viewers.
  • The Twins (voiced by Richard Mather) - a duo of superpowered and trouble-making Twins who always try to mess up The Warden's plans, often for their own personal amusement.
  • The Doctor (voiced by Chris McCulloch) - Superjail's resident physician who frequently experiments on the inmates.

Trivia[]

  • Every season in the series, with the exception of Season 4, has had over ten episodes each.
  • There is an entire article on the wiki, List of Deaths, that lists almost every single death that has occurred in Superjail.
  • The series has had over three DVD releases of the first three seasons, with Season 4 being the only season of the series not to get a DVD release of any kind. All of the DVD releases of these seasons are given an "Uncensored" label. However, the Season 1 and Season 3 DVD releases still remain censored, despite the DVD's stating otherwise. The Season 2 DVD release is the only one out of the three DVDs to actually be uncensored.
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