History WesternAnimation / Superjail

Part of the Creator/AdultSwim lineup, ''Superjail!'' was a surreal and ''very'' [[{{Gorn}} gory]] comedy series about a magical jail and its deranged staff. The show takes place in the eponymous prison, built inside an extinct volcano inside an ''active'' volcano, and home to endless numbers of ultra-violent RedShirt prisoners. The series started in 2008 and lasted for four seasons.

--> [[EarWorm "Hey! Wait! You cannot, escape!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVyBG_aNFLE Never run away from the time police! You will not survive!"]]

* SerialEscalation: The sheer insanity and high-scale mayhem increase with every episode in the first season. The pilot starts off with a simple brawl in a kitchen that ends with a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever gigantic meat monster massacring everyone]]. The first ''real'' episode has a massacre taking place in a flooded bar. But things gradually get more grander. In the fourth episode, the inmates get into a fight with christmas-like creatures in a winter wonderland freezer, the sixth episode has a battle between the inmates and gigantic bugs in an overgrown battlefield, while the season finale is a mish mash of [[ContinuityCavalcade all the threats in the show]] crammed inside a giant time-controlled coliseum.

* SerialEscelation: The sheer insanity and high-scale mayhem increase with every episode in the first season. The pilot starts off with a simple brawl in a kitchen that ends with a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever gigantic meat monster massacring everyone]]. The first ''real'' episode has a massacre taking place in a flooded bar. But things gradually get more grander. In the fourth episode, the inmates get into a fight with christmas-like creatures in a winter wonderland freezer, the sixth episode has a battle between the inmates and gigantic bugs in an overgrown battlefield, while the season finale is a mish mash of [[ContinuityCavalcade all the threats in the show]] crammed inside a giant time-controlled coliseum.

* Jared: The Warden's vertically challenged, neurotic, and formerly alcoholic assistant. Often the ButtMonkey of both the prison and his co-workers. He harbors a crush on the Warden that he sublimates into sycophantic behavior.

->''Oh, life on the outside ain't what it used to be\\
You know, the world's gone crazy and it ain't safe on the streets\\
Well, it's a drag, I know\\
There's only one place to go\\
I'm coming home, oh yeah, I'm coming home!''

* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Vacation" has a photo of Charise displayed in Jared's bedroom at the start, as well as a cameo of Ultraprison on the videophone when he calls for help. It all leads up to that sudden twist cliffhanger with the UP crew bridging seasons 2 and 3.

* LizLemonJob: Jared's job description in a nutshell.

The series's trademark is that by the end of each episode, there will be a long sequence of nothing but surreal carnage from corner to corner of the screen. Also of note is the series' VisualEffectsOfAwesome, with detailed and highly expressive animation often running at twice the usual framerate of normal animation.

* Alice: The muscular, {{transsexual}} prison guard. The Warden has a crush on her (though is initially unaware of her trans status), but regulations prevent them from dating... not that Alice would want to, anyway.

* CampStraight: The Warden, despite his flamboyant personality he has only ever shown an attraction to women. With Alice he never seems to understand her transsexual status, although he does get a glimpse of her genitalia in the season 2 finale and either [[SnapBack completely forgets]] or [[IfItsYouItsOkay doesn't mind that at all]] (with him referring to her as his "Chef Aphrodite" in "Nightshift").

* DistaffCounterpart: Ultraprison is a women's prison staffed by female counterparts to the characters, including a [[SpearCounterpart female-to-male transsexual counterpart]] for Alice.

* Jacknife: A random, knife-wielding psychopath who gets captured at the start of every episode, only to conveniently escape by the end.

The series's trademark is that by the end of each episode, there will be a long sequence of nothing but surreal carnage from corner to corner of the screen.

* {{Gorn}}: Creator/AdultSwim has gone on record that ''Superjail'' has more deaths in one season than ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' did in its first two. In other words, it's pretty gory.

* {{Gorn}}: Creator/AdultSwim has gone on record that ''Superjail'' has more deaths in one season than ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' did in its first two. In other words, it's pretty gory. Although after the switch to Titmouse (the studio behind ''Metalocalypse'') for season 2, one of the criticisms was that it looked ''less'' gory.

* LittlestCancerPatient: Cancer ([[{{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}} San-ser]]). The fact that she's also the little girl whose father Jacknife killed in the first episode doesn't help -- [[WordOfGod the creators confirmed this.]]

* LighteAndSofter: Season two

* {{Gorn}}: Creator/AdultSwim has gone on record that ''Superjail'' has more deaths in one season than ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' did in its first two. In other words, it's pretty gory.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Fatty gets killed many times but always comes back the next episode.

* TheyKilledKenny: Fatty gets killed many times but always comes back the next episode.

* TheyKilledKenny: Gary and Bird's fat, balding, lecherous cellmate (the one who wants to show everyone his penis) gets killed several times but is always shown as a recurring character.

** Probably the first one, since in "The Trouble With Triples" all the games shown are of the 8-bit variety, including references to VideoGame/{{Centipede}}, VideoGame/DonkeyKong and SpaceInvaders.