Superjail is one of the pilots Adult Swim screened this week. Created by Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick and Ben Gruber, and starring Stella’s David Wain as The Warden.
It’s fucking awesome.
It’s about a privately owned jail full of hallucinatory Heath Robinson devices of hideous violence, run by The Warden, a Willy Wonka-esque character with jail instead of sweets. Excellently, the Warden’s design pretty much looks like Wain, as well as having his voice.
The show is very reminiscent of the sort of thing you’d see on Liquid Television, but with more Looney Tunes and Yellow Submarine. That might have something to do with the creators having worked on some Mike Judge stuff, Judge having had shorts on Liquid Television. Another factor is that the studio making it is Augenblick Studios, who made most of the animation in WonderShowzen.
Apparantly it’s already picked up for a series. But they said that about Korgoth last year. What was up with that? Korgoth was THE best thing ever to show on Cartoon Network in years, and now apparantly we won’t get any more. Boo. Anyhoo, Superjail was almost as good. Which is still pretty damn good.
Oh and it’s theme tune is 10cc’s “Rubber Bullets”.
awesomely random show laughed my ass off the whole time whens the next air time?