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Recap / Superjail S 1 E 5 Dont Be A Negaton

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Airdate: October 26, 2008
Written by: Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick, Aaron Augenblick, Chris Burns, M. Wartella
Revisions by: John Lee

The motivational speaker D.L. Diamond rises to fame within Superjail, charming the Warden and everyone else with his special religion designed to get rid of "Negatons".

However, Jared becomes suspicious of D.L. Diamond, and decides to uncover the real story.


"Don't Be A Negaton" contains examples of:

  • Church of Happyology: D.L. Diamond's cult resembles this.
  • Creator Cameo: The animator M. Wartella voices D.L. Diamond, as Karacas and Warbrick liked the wacky voices he'd perform while working at the studio.
  • Depending on the Artist: D.L.'s two saleswomen are first depicted as a blonde and a brunette after the inmates strip them down. However, a later scene depicts one of them with long red hair.
  • Fan Disservice: After D.L. Diamond flirts with her, Alice takes off her underwear- then shoves it in the guy's mouth (after using the underwear to mop up her excess sweat, no less). D.L. Diamond himself even points out how gross it all is.
    • D.L. Diamond also displays a rather unsettling image of a Galactoid woman to the inmates, describing her six breasts and "14 pleasure holes" (with the picture censored accordingly). However, the inmates are still turned on by the idea.
  • Foreshadowing: The Cold Open has Jacknife impersonating a bride and then running into a casino. The main plot is about a fraud named D.L. Diamond who scams the entire jail.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: There's some graffiti in the gay inmates' cell letting the viewers know that an inmate named Roy was killed there.
  • Funny Background Event: As the Twins ride on the skyway, we see a Warden-themed airport with a dinosaur having torn apart one of the planes and proceeding to devour the inmates inside.
    • The gay inmates can be seen prancing about at the beginning of the staff and inmates' drug trip.
  • Gonk: Although D.L. Diamond appears to be an average-looking man when in costume and when first seen shirtless, Jared soon gets a glimpse at his real appearance: a bald, near-toothless and noseless man with festering sores all over his body.
  • Groin Attack: Although Gary's perverted cellmate doesn't die this time around, one of the gay inmates DOES roughly grab his groin, then punch it.
  • Karma Houdini: D.L. Diamond escapes with frauding the cast and is invited to party with the Galactoids, although he initially fears that they came to punish him. Thus, the only thing the Warden and others are angry about is that Jared denied them their chance to see the Galactoids. That said, the Galacoids don't take the money that he scammed from the cast.
  • Mushroom Samba: The Superjail staff and inmates all experience this due to D.L.'s drugs. To make things even creepier, the monsters in the hallucination seem to even become real.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: D.L. Diamond was inspired by "Diamond" David Lee Roth, as well as taking a few visual elements from Klaus Nomi. His scam religion was also inspired by the Heaven's Gate cult, along with L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology.
  • Real After All: The Galactoids are at first thought to be part of D.L.'s big scam, but turn out to exist in the final sequence.
  • Stock Footage: The crowds of inmates at D.L.'s performance are all basically the same character models duplicated for each row, for ease of the layout artists to not have to draw as many original models for the shots.
  • Trouser Space: D.L. Diamond keeps a spare cassette tape stashed right down the front of his speedo.
  • Visual Pun: "I'm your biggest FAN!", as the Warden retrieves a spare fan from his hat.

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