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Superjail! is a 2007- U.S. animated comic TV series, airing on the
late-night Adult Swim channel. Set in the titular giant experimental prison, it
is perhaps best described as an psychedelically ultraviolent remake of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, only even more surreal and featuring
truly copious amounts of extremely graphic brutality.
Some flags occur in the penultimate episode of the first season, which
has the Warden (the Wonka character) snatched away by the Time Police
and put on trial for his future self’s murderous conquest of the world
(in an overzealous effort to turn the entire Earth into a giant
prison); footage of the upcoming war is shown as evidence.
Eugene Ipavec, 19 Sep 2010
by Eugene Ipavec, 19 Sep 2010
After the US president and other attending world leaders are vaporized
during the surrender-signing ceremony (all this in the said
footage), the Superjail flag is shown
being raised over the White House: purple with its logo, a shield
containing the angular letters "SJ", all gold. The colors are
perhaps based on the Warden’s costume, a purple tuxedo and top hat
with yellow gloves.
Eugene Ipavec, 19 Sep 2010
by Eugene Ipavec, 19 Sep 2010
In the footage showing the multinational army, a
fictional national flag can be seen
among other, familiar ones: A horizontal triband of red-green-red, with a
yellow fly triangle and a yellow crescent and star in the middle stripe;
I’m guessing a wrongly-colored attempt at Western
Sahara?
Eugene Ipavec, 19 Sep 2010
by Eugene Ipavec, 19 Sep 2010
Second, a bit later in the battle a flag resembling
Liberia’s shows up,
but the troops in question are identified in dialogue as being US.
Simplifiying the U.S. flag is a common shortcut in
animation, but here this is an odd choice given that the
unaltered US flag is shown elsewhere in the
series and indeed both earlier and later in the same episode.
Eugene Ipavec, 19 Sep 2010
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