Airdate: November 11, 2012
Written by: Stephen Warbrick
Story editor: Janine DiTullio
After the cafeteria staff has wound up slaughtered in yet another one of the jail's bloodbaths, Jared gives Alice the chance to take over their work for a nightshift. Although unimpressed at first, Alice learns to cook and her food becomes a success to the Warden and the inmate population. There's only one problem: Not all of the lunch ladies died, and they're not amused that someone's trying to take over their job. Then there's the matter of giant vegetables attacking the jail...
"Nightshift" contains examples of:
- A Day in the Limelight: Primarily an Alice-centric episode.
- The Vegetable Garden and the Lunch Ladies also get a large role in this episode.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The giant vegetables menacing the jail, as well as the lunch ladies utilizing giant mixing bowls, microwaves, blenders, and flying eggbeaters against them. Alice's pig even joins in on the action.
- Big Damn Heroes: The inmate population and the lunch ladies step up and get to defeat the giant vegetable monsters with their combined firepower.
- No Ending: A rather infamous example.
- Continuity Nod: Aside from the vegetable garden and the lunch ladies being utilized once more, the starving inmate also gets a bit of the role as the unlucky test subject of the Warden's new electric chair. The balding, unibrowed inmate from "Superbar" can also be seen among the inmates pigging out at the buffet set up by Alice (and he dies when he gets a candle shoved through his head).
- A tabloid magazine in the Jacknife arrest sequence references his capture by Jailbot from "Terrorarium", with the title pondering the existence of UFOs.
- Lower-Deck Episode: The more minor characters such as the Vegetable Garden, Skinny, and the Lunch Ladies, have more prominence than the main staff (sans Alice).
- Mushroom Samba: The Warden winds up in a delirious drugged state after he's force-fed mushrooms by gnomes.
- Power Crystal: Used by the Twins to turn the vegetables into monsters.
- Stock Audio Clip: The woman screaming in the supermarket in the Jacknife intro actually has her disgusted "AUGH!" re-used from the Mistress in "Ladies' Night" (when she leaves the Warden's bedroom in disgust).
- Stock Footage: A shot of one lunch lady sliding into her mecha cockpit is repeated three more times, to save on animating four separate sequences. These four lunch ladies also are shown to utilize the same character model (with duplicated marching animation), when Janice summons them.
- When the inmates at the banquet cheer for Alice to come out of the kitchen, the front five inmates are actually two inmate models duplicated and flipped, with one model repeated twice and the other duplicated three times.
- Temporary Bulk Change: Jacknife winds up extremely inflated via Jailbot squeezing cake frosting into him, to the point where it's pouring out of his eye sockets and wounds. He winds up back to his normal size after he's thrown through the lobster tank.
- The Warden gets a brief Balloon Belly after swallowing some of the vegetable slime.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Fatty gets slit open by another angry inmate in a rage, causing still intact burgers to spill from his guts (and the inmates and Jared eat said burgers). Later, he's completely immolated by Ash's out-of-control fire breath.
- Vomit Chain Reaction: Jean vomits on Paul after tasting the sabotaged truffle soup, and the other inmates soon follow after getting their own taste of it. A second chain occurs after Jared takes a spoon to his eye, leading to all the other inmates vomiting- except Gary, who simply falls over in his seat.
- Wrap Around Background: The same bunch of chairs and inmates get looped as the delirious Warden rushes across the banquet table.
- Another batch of inmates and chairs are looped when Fatty gets set on fire by Ash, and runs in panic.
