Airdate: October 21, 2012
Written by: Stephen Warbrick
Story editor: Janine DiTullio
The Warden is informed that Superjail will be experiencing its first parole ever in its history- that of Paul Guaye, one half of "The Gays". While Paul is excited for his freedom, his and Jean's relationship becomes strained from the idea of them ever breaking up. And the Warden himself, fearing the balance of his jail being upset, plans to circumvent Paul's parole at any cost.
"Sticky Discharge" contains examples of:
- A Day in the Limelight: For Jean and Paul, and the second overall episode to focus more on them.
- Bittersweet Ending: In a sense. By Jared's word, there's now no chance of Paul ever being free for society until after at least 50 years due to the Warden's manipulation and meddling. But Jean and Paul get to stay together, and wouldn't have it any other way.
- Censor Box: Used to hide the act of an inmate snorting cocaine, which the censors apparently decided couldn't be shown (late in the game). It's still censored on the DVD release, as the broadcast masters were used. The subsequent acts of inmates doing acid and injecting heroin passed by intact note
- Continuity Nod: The ending scene with the Warden and Jared seems to visually reference the end of the pilot, with the iris effect closing in on the Warden's winking face.
- During the Jacknife opening sequence, Jailbot attempts to cheer up a little girl who looks VERY similar to the "Bunny Love" version of Cancer. As with his attempt to cheer up Cancer then, it backfires, as the little girl is carried away by the balloons he hands her (while Cancer was hit in the face with the ice cream he tried to give her). Both versions of the sequence also use audio of an actual child crying for the little girls.
- Jared and Charise are still trying to keep in touch after "Stingstress", now through some instant messaging program.
- The starving inmate is wearing the pink dress that Alice forced him to wear in the pilot.
- The "Special Needs" inmates (see Early Bird Cameo) get a sneak-peek cameo before their official appearance. Guns is most visible, along with a differently-designed version of Slim.
- The two semi-occurring bored inmates can be seen behind Nicky and Gary at Paul's farewell celebration, with both men also cheering him on. Redneck is also shown later in the crowd, alongside the more recurring inmates also voiced by Chris McCulloch (Ash, Nicky, and Turban).
- One of Paul's fond memories of his and Jean's relationship shows them stabbing one of the sea people from "Superbar", possibly explaining what they were doing during the bloodbath in that episode. Another memory has them making out on top of a mutant creature (possibly one of the Doctor's mutants from "Superfail"), only to kill it afterwards.
- Cuteness Proximity: In the opening, Jacknife spots a bear cub and goes to pet it- only to be beaten up by its mother (who Jailbot then explodes from).
- Early-Bird Cameo: The deformed inmates ("those cripples from yesterday") mentioned by Jean will be rather prominent in the next episode, although this one was produced as the very first, long before the latter story (writing-wise, this episode was the second to be written while "Special Needs" was the sixth).
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Paul's prison profile reveals that he's 32 years old.
- There's a Warden glory hole in the bathroom wall that's "drooling", seen in the Warden's fantasy of an inmate-less jail.
- When Jean and Paul's cell is first shown, there's a photo hanging up of Jean's mother, dressed in KKK robes and breastfeeding her infant son.
- Paul's favorite vampire novel series is a clear parody of Twilight, labeled "Moonlight".
- Jean and Paul are in cell block 69.
- Aside from things like teddy bears and valentine hearts, Paul's drawer is filled with sex toys and lube.
- In the staff room, Jared's placard has "Haha, loser!" written next to it.
- Funny Background Event: As the Warden panics over the parole alarms and walks through a cell block, we can see: Turban sitting on the toilet, an inmate having his cellmate bent over and used as a table for his cereal bowl, another inmate strangling his cellmate, one inmate bashing another's skull in, Sweet Cheeks chained up in bondage in his cell, the starving inmate having apparently cannibalized his cellmate, Ash burning papers in a barrel, an inmate plunging his toilet, and Jacknife digging his way out of his cell and escaping the jail. Though despite Jacknife trying to escape here, he's later shown among the inmates bidding Paul farewell at his going-away celebration.
- As the Warden explains his logic about Paul being reformed to Jared, we see a bunch of inmates riding a loop on a roller coaster- only to fall straight to their deaths when gravity suddenly applies to them not wearing their seatbelts.
- Gag Censor: Paul wanders his way through Superjail's drug land with only a marijuana leaf to obscure his crotch.
- Imagine Spot: The Warden pictures a completely empty Superjail, after hearing that Paul will be paroled.
- Iris Out: Featured in this ending.
- Meaningful Name: Jean's temporary new cellmate is a masculine sports aficionado by the name of "Charlie Streyt". Charlie proceeds to look terrified as Jean forces him to make out with him, in an attempt to make Paul jealous.
- Sigil Spam: There are Warden-themed suits of armor made to slaughter trespassers into the solitary confinement tower, as well as giant monsters themed after him. The parole warning alarms are also patterned after the Warden.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Oddly, not with Fatty this time, but Ash becomes one of the several inmates to experience an unlucky death from the Warden's out-of-control fireworks in the climax.
