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Moral Orel

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Moral Orel	comment	In the town of Moralton, Statesota lives the Puppington Family. Twelve-year-old Orel Puppington, a devout Protestant Christian, thinks of Jesus as his biggest role model. He always pays rapt attention in church, taking the advice of the local preacher's sermons to heart, but due to his age, he doesn't always understand some of the topics, which leads to Orel acting on them in his own special way. Needless to say, Hilarity Ensues!... until it doesn't.Moral Orel is a Stop Motion animated show that first aired on [adult swim] from 2005 to 2008, created by Dino Stamatopoulos (writer for Mr. Show, Community, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien). Originally conceived as a satire of sitcoms from The '50s and The '60s, and designed to resemble an Affectionate Parody of Leave It to Beaver (not Davey and Goliath, despite the art style), the show, despite copious amounts of Executive Meddling, ultimately evolved into one of the darkest pieces of Western animation of the 2000s. It is notable for being one of the first animated dramedies on television, having come out a near-decade before the critically acclaimed Bojack Horseman hit Netflix.Every member of Orel's family shows some form of dysfunction: father Clay abuses alcohol, abuses Orel (emotionally and physically), and fails to hide his closet bisexuality; mother Bloberta cheats on Clay, often finds herself depressed yet hides it with a smile, and has an unhealthy obsession with cleanliness; and little brother Shapey is so neglected by his parents that he has the emotional maturity of a toddler despite being seven years old. The population of Moralton (a town placed precisely in the middle of the continental United Statesnote the show's intro positions the town near Burlington, Kansas) fare little better; most of the adults lead lives as dysfunctional as Orel's family — if not more so — while putting on a show of being Good Christians and Good Neighbors.With this in mind, Moral Orel is less a critique of Christianity itself than a deconstruction of religious fundamentalism. The show aims its real critique towards authority figures who pay lipservice to their inferiors' religious beliefs as a way of preserving their authority — especially when such people make horrible authority figures and role models. In short, it's not a criticism of religion specifically, but of hypocrisy itself — specifically those who don't practice what they preach.The show's shift from its satirical roots to a bleaker tone was initiated by Dino moving the focus away from Orel midway through the first season, caused by a rough divorce he was going through at the time. He then began to explore the dark underbelly of the seemingly happy-go-lucky townspeople of Moralton, which culminated in the two-part season 2 finale "Nature". The network higher-ups loved the two-parter, with Mike Lazzo, then the head of Adult Swim, asking Dino to make the show's third season as dark as humanly possible.Dino complied, but Lazzo and Adult Swim instantly regretted it.The show almost entirely stopped being a dark comedy and instead prioritized bleak psychological drama with only small bits of comedy sprinkled in (the season 3 premiere "Numb" only has one joke throughout the entire episode). While critically acclaimed, the lack of comedy caused Adult Swim to not only scale back the season's episode count from 20 episodes to 13 but cancel the series altogether.Fans kept hope alive for a revival, and while Adult Swim only played reruns of the show sporadically after 2007, the network began rerunning the show in chronological order on weeknights in late 2011. When Dino learned of this, he said that "[if] enough people watch, there may be hope for a special or two". A month in, Dino updated fans on a call he'd received from Adult Swim's head raving about the reruns' ratings, and said that at such a rate, a special would be "imminent."Dino followed up on this on Halloween of that year with a surprise appearance from Orel in the last bump of a Mary Shelley's Frankenhole mini-marathon, where Orel said a new Moral Orel special would come "sometime in the near future". At its May 2012 upfront, Adult Swim confirmed Orel's return with the announcement of Beforel Orel, a half-hour special that would explain "the origin of Orel's religious nature and the birth of his brother, Shapey". The special aired on November 19th, 2012.
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Moral Orel / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Moral Orel / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Averted. After all the crap they've put each other through, Clay and Bloberta genuinely hate one another, and their own children. The closest to some Aw Look moments even vaguely suggested in the show are the fact that Clay tears up for a split-second when talking about the mistakes he's made during a drunken rant, or Bloberta giving Orel fatty food after seeing a sign at the doctorâ€™s claiming this is good for you. The other residents of Moralton fare little better, though there are enough Pet the Dog moments to keep it from being an irredeemable Crapsack World.
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Moral Orel / int_1152876e	type	Faux Yay
Moral Orel / int_1152876e	comment	Faux Yay: Stephanie's best friend from school was this — Stephanie thought it was sincere.
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Moral Orel / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
Moral Orel / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: Coach Stopframe has rotating crosses to symbolize his constant vacillation between Christianity and Satanism.
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Moral Orel / int_1356acfa	type	Success as Revenge
Moral Orel / int_1356acfa	comment	Success as Revenge: Implied in the Distant Finale. Orel never sought revenge on Clay for the abuse and manipulation he endured throughout the series, but he got it anyway — him and his brothers have grown up happy and successful, while his parents are still trapped in their miserable facade of a marriage.
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Moral Orel / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Moral Orel / int_149ff4b0	comment	Hilarity Ensues: The usual result of Orel misinterpreting the sermons. (This is nonexistent after the middle of Season Two, though.)
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Moral Orel / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Moral Orel / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Season 3 turned the show (which was already dark in its own right) into quite possibly the darkest piece of western animation ever made, prompting the show's cancellation out of Mike Lazzo's buyer's remorse.
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Moral Orel / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Moral Orel / int_14ed6ab7	comment	The dog thing is all the more problematic because the dog was almost definitely the second coming of Jesus. note For example, carrying a cross-shaped stick to the scary looking hospital overhead, as the citizens of Moralton followed behind. Also, barking the name "Jesus" when Orel wonders what to call it.
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Moral Orel / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Moral Orel / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: A textbook example, really. Clay is alcoholic adulterer who emotionally abuses and neglects his whole family (Bloberta too for the most part); Shapey is a 7 year old who acts like he's 3 at best, and Orel, despite good intentions and the most 'normal', ends up doing very messed up things just to show his love for God.
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Moral Orel / int_17b72e30	type	Continuity Porn
Moral Orel / int_17b72e30	comment	Continuity Porn: It's got a surprising amount, considering it's an 11-minutes-per-episode Refuge in Audacity comedy show. The season two finale and all of season three downright revel in it.
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Moral Orel / int_19211122	type	Feel No Pain
Moral Orel / int_19211122	comment	Feel No Pain: In "Numb", sexually frustrated Bloberta Puppington starts using power tools as sex toys. Rather than addressing the actual problem, Dr. Potterswheel prescribes painkillers. After he increases the dosage a few times, she's seen humming to herself as her hand catches fire in the course of cooking without utensils.
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Moral Orel / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Moral Orel / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Clay Puppington is revealed to be a self-loathing alcoholic who shoots his son Orel in the leg during a hunting trip and later proclaims that he was glad that he shot him. He tries to invoke reactions from other people regardless if it ends with him being despised out of a desperate need for stimulation; he lacks empathy and remorse for any of his actions; and before his true nature was revealed, he acted like the stereotypical 1950's father as seen in television. Cecil Creepler, Moralton's ice cream man who tries to get Orel's friend Doughy into the back of his van. He later becomes a prolific Serial Rapist who assaulted eight women one in particular being Ms. Stopham. Miss Censordoll, a Knight Templar who has the penchant of burning books and later takes advantage of Clay's Oedipus Complex to get what she wants.
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Moral Orel / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Moral Orel / int_1994ba0b	comment	Any advice given to Orel will inevitably be twisted by his bizarre thought process and end up either as Gone Horribly Right or Gone Horribly Wrong. But horribly is the one component you can bet on, to the point where Reverend Putty warns the entire town to stop giving Orel advice under penalty of being sent to Hell. It goes about as well as you imagine it would.
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Moral Orel / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Moral Orel / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: "God's Blunders" ends with Orel literally standing on top of a soapbox to deliver the episodes' Spoof Aesop.
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Moral Orel / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Moral Orel / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Parodied by the other two boys in Orel and Doughy's circle of friends, Tommy and "him/the gang."
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Moral Orel / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Moral Orel / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "I Hate You Jesus" was by far the most memorable song of the school pageant.
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Moral Orel / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Moral Orel / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The plot of the episode "Grounded" revolves around Orel electrocuting himself.
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Moral Orel / int_1ea248b4	type	Neat Freak
Moral Orel / int_1ea248b4	comment	Neat Freak: Subverted with Bloberta. She cleans everything she sees, even her own cleaning products, not because of being a neat freak, but so she can feel like she's being helpful around the house. Even before she got married to Clay, she was obsessed with cleaning.
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Moral Orel / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
Moral Orel / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Played for Laughs Once an Episode (the actual threat is never made—we just see Orel pulling up his pants back up). In "Nature", it's Played for Drama. This "humor" becomes less and less funny as the series progresses, even though the "joke" remains the same.
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Moral Orel / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Moral Orel / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Especially by the final season. Though it was always crapsack, really. Orel (and the viewer) has just become more aware of it as its mask slipped.
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Moral Orel / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Moral Orel / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Really, really black comedy—with the comedy aspect eventually being ditched in Season Three. The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. On fire.
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Moral Orel / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Moral Orel / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Clay's father, introduced in a flashback episode in Season Three, was supposed to join the cast in the second half of the season; when the show was cancelled, the arc was deepsixed. Also deepsixed was the Miss Censordoll's scheming to take control over the town via seducing Clay (revealed to be the Mayor of the town in the second-to-last episode of the series) as well as the implications that Censordoll may or may not have manipulated Clay's shooting of Orel. Clay's father does play a role in "Beforel Orel". There were hints in the third season that something would happen involving Miss Sculptham and Mr. Creepler but once this was revealed in "Alone" the show was cancelled and some episodes were deepsixed. If one saw the scene in "Innocence" where Sculptham was clipping out a newspaper article, that article was about a serial rapist that turned out to be Mr. Creepler. A episode that was scrapped called "Raped" would've brought this to light and another scrapped episode "Abstinence" did show Doughy witnessing Creepler and Scultpham together but Doughy just brushed it off. To make things even more darker and disturbing, if the series continued, Miss Sculptham would have discovered herself pregnant with his twins and that she had aborted only one of them. With Dr. Potterswheel finding out about her pregnancy, it is possible she would have given birth to the child.
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Moral Orel / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Moral Orel / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: The episode "Dumb" has Joe responding to any of his half-sister's attempts to discipline him with the declaration of "You're not my mom!" Near the end of the episode, after Joe finds out that his mother (Nurse Bendy) is alive, and that his dad forgot about her due to his Alzheimer's, he asks his half-sister why she didn't tell him. She responds "Why should I tell you anything? I'm not your mom," giving Joe permission to be with his real mom.
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Moral Orel / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Moral Orel / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Reverend Rod Putty, who is ironically less blinded by so-called faith compared to everyone else as time goes on. His daughter also counts.
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Moral Orel / int_247b578a	type	NotSoHarmlessPunishment
Moral Orel / int_247b578a	comment	Not So Harmless Punishment: In "Grounded", when Orel's father Clay walks in on Orel bathing in blood, he grounds him. To Orel's surprise, Clay specifies that Orel is not grounded from playing with his friends; Orel can play outside to his heart's content. Understandably confused, Orel asks, "then what am I grounded from?" It turns out Orel's grounded from church! To a lot of children Orel's age that wouldn't be so bad. But Orel loves church with all his heart and soul, so to Orel, this is actually worse than not being allowed to play!
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Moral Orel / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Moral Orel / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Nurse Bendy has a teddy bear family at home she treats as actual family figures, up to making meals and talking broken child-talk with them. This is due to her loneliness and her feeling that men only want her for sex. Which is why she doesn't take it well when the Hubby teddy accidentally falls on her behind. Later on she is reunited with her real son and chooses to abandon the fake teddy-son for the real thing.
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Moral Orel / int_24a99217	type	Maternal Death? Blame the Child!
Moral Orel / int_24a99217	comment	Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Played with; Clay's mother, Angela, didn't die in childbirth, but rather died from a heart attack after Clay faked his suicide when he found out he had ten miscarried brothers and sisters, and therefore wasn't really Angela's "precious only living ever." Afterwards, Arthur openly blamed his son for killing his wife, but initially refused to physically punish him because "[he wasn't] even worth hitting." In response, Clay began to goad his dad by claiming Angela dying was Arthur's fault, causing Arthur to hit him in retaliation; this, in turn, led to Clay associating physical abuse with affection as an adult.
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Moral Orel / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Moral Orel / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: The head Satanist tends to say "and what not" in almost every end of his sentences and what not.
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Moral Orel / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Moral Orel / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: In "Nature," Clay shoots some other hunter's hunting dog, then proceeds to mount its head and eat it like a deer. Granted, he was drunk at the time, but still... Having Orel's dog Bartholomew put down, because the dog was making Orel love him more than Jesus. And annoying the adults.
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Moral Orel / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Moral Orel / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Provides the page quote with:
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Moral Orel / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Moral Orel / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Then Poppet does this to Block when she sees he prefers Bloberta.
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Moral Orel / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Moral Orel / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: At least once for all the running jokes. The most blatant was probably having a throwaway character called Ludwig von Stopmotionanimationname.
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Moral Orel / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
Moral Orel / int_2e0c6c38	comment	In the second episode, Clay admits that Orel's latest mishap is really his own fault for not being honest enough, something he'd never even contemplate doing in later episodes. In general, Clay comes off a lot more sincere and well-intentioned in the early episodes, though he's not really any better a person in practice. Orel also behaves strangely in that episode: when Clay tells Orel that God's chef is "a mystical fellow like Santa or Charles Darwin", Orel bluntly tells him, "I'm too old to believe in that stuff, dad"; the Orel of later episodes would never challenge an authority figure so brazenly (his Character Development post-"Nature" notwithstanding), though the Clay of later episodes would also punish him severely if he did.
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Moral Orel / int_2e7e9bb3	type	Brought Home the Wrong Kid
Moral Orel / int_2e7e9bb3	comment	Brought Home the Wrong Kid: The Posabules actually moved with Shapey. The Puppingtons got their kid back (but didn't switch) about half a season or a whole season away, depending on how you look at it.
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Moral Orel / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Moral Orel / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Clay is an interesting case. While he's shown to have relationships with both men and women, he's really only interested in people who give him the time of day, such as Coach Daniel (pronounced "Danielle") Stopframe.
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Moral Orel / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Moral Orel / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Shapey, Orel's little brother, is seven but he looks and acts three.
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Moral Orel / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Moral Orel / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: Christina, to Orel. She's pretty much Orel (even sharing the same Voice Actress, Carolyn Lawerence) but with a different last name.
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Moral Orel / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Moral Orel / int_30d2ae29	comment	Ironically Putty's advice backfired spectacularly because all of the people tried to pass off Orel to the next unfortunate shmuck, as well as trying to plea with God on a technicality that Orel was just "eavesdropping on them talking to themselves" so they don't end up in hell.
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Moral Orel / int_31aba995	type	Self-Abuse
Moral Orel / int_31aba995	comment	Self-Abuse: According to "God's Chef", masturbation is a sin worse than murder and a one-way ticket to hell.
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Moral Orel / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Moral Orel / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The last scene of the final episode skips to Orel as an adult, who was able to raise a fully functional family with Christina. Especially noteworthy is the picture on the wall of Orel's parents. As horrific as Clay was to Orel, Orel's above exiling the old man from his life. There are two other pictures of a fireman and policeman, presumably the adult versions of Shapey and Block.
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Moral Orel / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Moral Orel / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The townsfolk of Moralton do this quite a lot. Of particular note is putting Orel's dog down because it was causing him to sin—because he loved the dog more than Jesus. They also left a man's wound untreated and infected because it resembled Jesus, and destroying holy symbols is a sin. The dog thing is all the more problematic because the dog was almost definitely the second coming of Jesus. note For example, carrying a cross-shaped stick to the scary looking hospital overhead, as the citizens of Moralton followed behind. Also, barking the name "Jesus" when Orel wonders what to call it. Clay shooting his son Orel in the leg while drunk, then blaming the incident on him. Clay grounding Orel in "Grounded", forbidding him from going to church. Not to mention the unapologetic rubbing it in he did to his son, right in Orel's face.
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Moral Orel / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Moral Orel / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Clay and Bloberta marry after one date (and it's kinda hard to call it a date since they just decided to attend a reception together after attending the wedding separately). Subverted in that both of them know they're making a mistake, but they go through with it anyway since Clay wants someone to help him and Bloberta wants to be the one getting married. They were miserable before they even say "I do." Poignantly, when asked by Orel why they married, all Bloberta could answer is "Why not?".
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Moral Orel / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Moral Orel / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Orel and Christina are the most heartwarming couple you'll ever see on television.
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Moral Orel / int_3724dbcd	type	WakeUpMakeUp
Moral Orel / int_3724dbcd	comment	Wake Up Make Up: Deconstructed. Bloberta wakes up earlier than her husband, grooms herself impeccably, then pretends to go back to sleep. In this show, chances are better than even it's to make him feel inferior to her in one of the few ways she can.
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Moral Orel / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Moral Orel / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: At the beginning, Orel is practically in the wrong show, given how naive he is about the world. The world is deeply cynical, and Orel gradually shifts to a more cynical viewpoint as well, especially after "Nature". However, "cynical" for Orel is... admitting to himself that he doesn't respect and revere his father as he feels he ought, and thinking that perhaps, everything isn't as perfect as it ought to be. It's still a deep contrast, though not as extreme.
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Moral Orel / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
Moral Orel / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: Principal Fakey's receptionist and Joe's half sister, Ms. Secondopinionson, sounds like a soft spoken 30 year-old man unless she pinches her nose to sound like a female receptionist talking through a loudspeaker.
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Moral Orel / int_3ad27180	type	The Chain of Harm
Moral Orel / int_3ad27180	comment	The Chain of Harm: As a child, Clay was abused by his father. As an adult, he abuses Orel both physically and emotionally. Orel ultimately breaks the chain, being a loving father to his own children.
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Moral Orel / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Moral Orel / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Clay tries to act like a well-adjusted adult, but his selfishness, need for attention, and chronic inability to admit when he's done wrong show him to be deeply immature. Not to mention his Oedipus Complex that rules his mentality even as an adult.
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Moral Orel / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Moral Orel / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: How things start out, before the facades start to fall.
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Moral Orel / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Moral Orel / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: "I'm never gonna do that in there with those things for that long ever again." Averted after it's explained in a later episode.
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Moral Orel / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Moral Orel / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: The people of Moralton have a very messed up view of what is right and wrong. In "The Lord's Greatest Gift" for example, they didn't care so much that Oral made zombies, but more of the fact that he made naked zombies. And in "Charity", they don't care that he is becoming a crack addict, but more of the fact that he's also using slang words.
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Moral Orel / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Moral Orel / int_3e74b72e	comment	Some episodes hint that even Orel, despite being The Pollyanna, realizes on some level that the way the people of Moralton treat him and each other is not normal. Tellingly, when Clay forbids Orel from going to church (Orel's primary safe space) in "Grounded," Orel immediately starts undergoing Sanity Slippage.
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Moral Orel / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Moral Orel / int_469e3e2f	comment	Another In-Universe example is "I Hate You, Jesus", which is so catchy the Reverend leads a sing-along of it in church.
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Moral Orel / int_495c9e84	type	Escapism
Moral Orel / int_495c9e84	comment	Escapism: Nurse Bendy's room looks like that of a little girl, full of bright colors and toys. She acts out the role of a mother to a loving family with a teddy bear husband and teddy bear son. She does it to escape from being constantly used, being utterly alone, and having no one who really thinks about her thoughts and feelings and treats her like a real person. However, once she is reunited with her actual son Joe, she throws away her "son" doll, because she finally has a real son who cares about her a lot. Very arguably one of the most positive portrayals of anti-escapism in television.
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Moral Orel / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Moral Orel / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: One of Orel's hobbies is Stop Motion animation, eventually leading to a Recap Episode done in in-universe Stop Motion... in a Stop Motion show.
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Moral Orel / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Moral Orel / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: During most episodes, the closing credits run as Orel works on making a stop-motion movie with his toys and a clip of the finished product is shown. In the final episode, once he finishes working, he packs up all his equipment in a box and puts it under the Christmas tree as a present for Shapey and Block.
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Moral Orel / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Moral Orel / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Orel constantly gets told, directly or indirectly, never to be optimistic about anything. Could be Clay's intent, as a means of justifying his own shittiness by trying to show that Orel's own purity is built on a foundation of sand. Turns out, Orel's faith and purity are both a little stronger than that.
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Moral Orel / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Moral Orel / int_4c851777	comment	Orel impregnating all the women in town was a more out-there moment. Both did get mentions in season 3, with a flashback to the apocalypse, and a newspaper saying that the rapist (Mr. Creepler) wasn't Orel this time. Unreleased plans for the next series may have had Ms. Censordoll using voodoo to control Clay.
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Moral Orel / int_4d0372b	type	Everybody Knew Already
Moral Orel / int_4d0372b	comment	Everybody Knew Already: It's revealed some time in the second season that Orel's father Clay is actually the mayor of Moralton... and everyone but Orel and the audience knew it already.
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Moral Orel / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Moral Orel / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: There are so many, but the ends of "Nature", "Sundays", "Alone", and the Christmas Special are especially bleak.
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Moral Orel / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Moral Orel / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In "Nature Part 2", Orel to Clay: "I hate you."
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Moral Orel / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
Moral Orel / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: Orel getting grounded from Church does not go well, resulting in a Room Full of Crazy.
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Moral Orel / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Moral Orel / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Some season one happenings don't really jive with the rest of the series. The pilot had the use of magic to bring back the dead, and cause a zombie apocalypse. Magic is never used again in the series, aside from some moments regarding faith which fall into Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. The pilot has Clay and Bloberta mocking Reverand Putty while giggling together, a far cry from what we would see of their relationship later on. Clay also doesn't seem to know who Stopframe is during the peeing scene. Orel impregnating all the women in town was a more out-there moment. Both did get mentions in season 3, with a flashback to the apocalypse, and a newspaper saying that the rapist (Mr. Creepler) wasn't Orel this time. Unreleased plans for the next series may have had Ms. Censordoll using voodoo to control Clay. In the second episode, Clay admits that Orel's latest mishap is really his own fault for not being honest enough, something he'd never even contemplate doing in later episodes. In general, Clay comes off a lot more sincere and well-intentioned in the early episodes, though he's not really any better a person in practice. Orel also behaves strangely in that episode: when Clay tells Orel that God's chef is "a mystical fellow like Santa or Charles Darwin", Orel bluntly tells him, "I'm too old to believe in that stuff, dad"; the Orel of later episodes would never challenge an authority figure so brazenly (his Character Development post-"Nature" notwithstanding), though the Clay of later episodes would also punish him severely if he did. Some things were defined in Season One that were later undone for the purpose of drama. One such example is Joe's family. Joe is introduced as Coach Stopframe's nephew, and a second-season episode has him have a grandfather. Season 3 has him with a very elderly father (with last name that isn't "Stopframe") and no known mother. Nurse Bendy is called "Nurse Blinkless" in "Maturity". The animation in season one is a bit rougher than the later two, with character movement being somewhat stilted, characterâ€™s eyes sometimes not being positioned correctly and makes them look as though theyâ€™re staring out into space, and the use of clay around their eyes in certain scenes where they seem to completely wrap around their sockets looks quite off. This was fixed by the next season where it was dialed back to where it was only used for the eyelids, which looked more natural.
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Moral Orel / int_4ff19e3d	type	Defenestrate and Berate
Moral Orel / int_4ff19e3d	comment	Defenestrate and Berate: Principal Fakey finds out that he has an STD while having sex with Nurse Bendy. He immediately comes to the conclusion that his wife is cheating on him (even though it's obvious he got it from Nurse Bendy). He angrily marches down to his house and throws out his wife and then her possessions while calling her a whore. He has his pants down the whole time.
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Moral Orel / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Moral Orel / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Clay, "burdened" with a loveless marriage and a "stinking dead-end job", does this constantly.
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Moral Orel / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Moral Orel / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The Christmas special was aired as the pilot due to a scheduling mix-up; the series' finale is also a Christmas episode (and has a few callbacks to the former, such as the carol "If the Lord Were Alive Today"). Also, the show's opening credits all end with Orel waving up at God/the viewer. The final shot of the series includes Orel's baby daughter waving up as the camera pans out. D'awwwwwwwww. "Numb" begins and ends with the song "No Children" by the Mountain Goats playing. It also begins and ends with a top-down shot of Clay and Bloberta in their beds. "Help" starts with a slideshow of seemingly happy pictures from Clay and Bloberta's wedding. At the end, the camera zooms out on the pictures to show that they're all moments that were ruined by Clay's newfound alcoholism.
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Moral Orel / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
Moral Orel / int_535156bc	comment	Christmas Special: Two episodes take place around Christmas, one serving as the Grand Finale.
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Moral Orel / int_53677c0e	type	Generational Trauma
Moral Orel / int_53677c0e	comment	Generational Trauma: Clay Puppington is a monster in every regard. He takes no responsibility for the actions of his son, grooms him to be the model image of himself, and shoots him in the leg then forces him to say he did it to himself. The only care he expresses towards Orel is that he's willing to spank him with his belt. This is because after he accidentally killed his own mother with a prank, his father gestures to smack him, but stops himself saying "You're not worth it." From then on, he internalizes this as people only being "worth it" when they receive capital punishment.
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Moral Orel / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Moral Orel / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Most of the episodes in season three are flashbacks, or parts of earlier episodes told from the point of view of people that aren't a Puppington.
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Moral Orel / int_567f7ec	type	Shock Value Relationship
Moral Orel / int_567f7ec	comment	Shock Value Relationship: "Closeface". In a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, Reverend Putty reveals he was upset because the other girl Stephanie was kissing didn't care for her the way Stephanie wanted.
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Moral Orel / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Moral Orel / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Stephanie. Despite her "punk chick" look, she's generally one of the warmest (and easily one of the most sane) citizens of Moralton. Invoked in the episode "Holy Visage", in which the sheltering nature of darkness is mentioned. Unfortunately, the person stating this is a stupid, ignorant teacher referring to the Dark Ages in Europe.
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Moral Orel / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
Moral Orel / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks: In "Maturity", Clay tells Orel that adulthood means doing things that one hates doing. These things would be "dealing with people who make you unhappy, being stressed about things you have no control over and working soul numbing jobs". Joe develops a fear of growing up due to his very old father.
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Moral Orel / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
Moral Orel / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: Orel is a genuinely good kid with Incorruptible Pure Pureness. While Moralton has many horrible people (including his own parents), lots of them are sympathetic, most of whom have their own Freudian Excuse. His parents both had issues with their own parents. While Miss Censordoll is pretty awful, she has one of her own (it's hard not to feel bad for her when you learn her mother removed her reproductive system). Reverend Putty is a bit cynical and jaded, but he has his own Pet the Dog moments in regards to Orel and his daughter Stephanie. Joe's a brat who bullies Orel and beats up kissing boys but he's afraid of growing old and didn't know his own mother.
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Moral Orel / int_5d88876d	type	Chocolate Baby
Moral Orel / int_5d88876d	comment	Chocolate Baby: Clay and Bloberta are brunettes. So is Orel. That Shapey's blond is a hint that he might not be Clay's son. He is in fact Coach Stopframe's. Based on that same sort of clue, it's possible Block and Bloberta's brother Lunchbox were also Chocolate Babies.
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Moral Orel / int_5df06b20	type	Religion Rant Song
Moral Orel / int_5df06b20	comment	Religion Rant Song: "I Hate You, Jesus!" In-universe as Orel performed it at a pageant that required him to play up hostility against the Jesus character. Kinda subverted when Moralton start singing the song, because they just find it catchy.
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Moral Orel / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Moral Orel / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Orel was pretty chipper considering a plot point in season 3 had him standing in a bathtub full of blood let from a bunch of his friends.
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Moral Orel / int_5f76977a	type	Fake Crossover
Moral Orel / int_5f76977a	comment	Fake Crossover: With ''Frankenhole' as seen here.
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Moral Orel / int_5f798c84	type	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere
Moral Orel / int_5f798c84	comment	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: On an episode, Orel was grounded from church for a month. He started seeing churches everywhere, thought everyone was saying the word "church", had very weird dreams and even dressed like a church.
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Moral Orel / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Moral Orel / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Parodied in the first episode — the people are afraid of the zombies because they're nude, not because they're eating brains.
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Moral Orel / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Moral Orel / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: Variant; when Reverend Putty says that the beer goggles Clay has on makes Jesus's crucifixion look like Marilyn Monroe, he glares at Putty and declares that he never drinks beer.
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Moral Orel / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Moral Orel / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Orel in "Grounded" as a result of being forbidden to go to church for a whole month. It gets progressively worse over the course of the episode. By the end of the episode, when he has an epiphany about God and Heaven, Clay beats it out of him so he can keep up with Moralton's status quo.
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Moral Orel / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Moral Orel / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: The vast majority of the entire episode "Sacrifice" is set in the bar. Only the very beginning and end take place outside of it.
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Moral Orel / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Moral Orel / int_62f9d08e	comment	In a Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Alone", one of the headlines involving a serial rapist is "This time, it's not Orel!" Though, oddly, the cause for it is a Tear Jerker, we later see the "Papa Bear" from "Alone" tied into his seat.
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Moral Orel / int_648a4c38	type	"The Hero Sucks" Song
Moral Orel / int_648a4c38	comment	"The Hero Sucks" Song: Part of the school play, in which Orel is cast as Judas, is a song-and-dance number about how Jesus is a rotten little fink.
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Moral Orel / int_64b2ff00	type	Jesus Was Way Cool
Moral Orel / int_64b2ff00	comment	Jesus Was Way Cool: Orel certainly thinks so.
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Moral Orel / int_6531fa39	comment	Professional Voice Dissonance: Joe's older sister works as a secretary. When she's speaking on the phone, she holds her nose and speaks in a nasally, feminine voice. When she's speaking regularly, she has a deep manly voice.
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Moral Orel / int_657f77e4	type	Caught with Your Pants Down
Moral Orel / int_657f77e4	comment	Caught with Your Pants Down: Subverted. What appears to be a reaction to this is later revealed to be to something much more dangerous.note Not a Cerebus Retcon. Given this series, it was indeed a plot hook, not a case of going back to make what was funny darker. In "God's Chef", Clicky the janitor catches Orel in a bathroom stall—with his pants down.
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Moral Orel / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Moral Orel / int_66dfe36a	comment	Clay Puppington's life has been full of genuine tragedy: he accidentally gave his mother a fatal heart attack when he pulled a cruel prank on her, he began to associate self-worth with physical abuse thanks to his dad, and he's trapped in a loveless marriage with a woman who hates his guts (and vice-versa) and kids he didn't want (one of whom is clearly not his). However, he's also an unrepentant, sociopathic Jerkass who is well aware of his faults but consciously refuses to change for the better, making it hard for viewers to feel any kind of emotion about him, let alone pity.
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Moral Orel / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Moral Orel / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: When Orel is grounded from church in "Grounded", he makes up for it by drawing a crayon church on his wall decorated with various Bible verses, then builds a cardboard church and wears it like a Halloween costume.
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Moral Orel / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
Moral Orel / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Played Straight at first, as Orel would get beaten with Clay's belt as punishment for the dumbest of things, but subverted from the Season 2 finale onward.
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Moral Orel / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Moral Orel / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: In one episode Orel popularizes a song from the point of Judas called "I Hate You Jesus". It becomes a hit in town, and soon everybody starts singing it in church. Orel is at first pleased with its success, but then this trope comes into play as he says, "Wow, everybody sure hates Jesus! Whoops." Reverend Putty echoes this when he tries dismissing Orel's concerns about the song.
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Moral Orel / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Moral Orel / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: In "Loyalty", Clay actually gives Orel reasonable advice for once, telling him not to be loyal to Joe to the exclusion of all his other friends. However, being Clay, he misses the bigger picture and says nothing about Orel beating up other children for being homosexual.
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Moral Orel / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Moral Orel / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: When Oral goes to visit the mayor, he discovers that it's Clay's "lousy, dead-end job."
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Moral Orel / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Moral Orel / int_6bda9a30	comment	Doughey Latchkey exemplifies this trope, though, as his parents are stuck in a teenage mentality.
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Moral Orel / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Moral Orel / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Orel kills himself multiple times in "Grounded" in an effort to meet God.
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Moral Orel / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Moral Orel / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: Miss Censordoll has a miniature model of Moralton and its inhabitants so she can evoke this trope. Also to play God.
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Moral Orel / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Moral Orel / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: The Distant Finale shows Orel and Christina happily married with a boy and a baby girl. Also a dog that looks similar to Orel's deceased dog Bartholomew.
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Moral Orel / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Moral Orel / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Bloberta masturbates with a jackhammer in "Numb". It ends up doing as much damage to her body as you'd expect. At first. Then, she manages to leave it in all night and is still alive when the power runs out hours later.
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Moral Orel / int_6f77ef8e	type	Anti-Love Song
Moral Orel / int_6f77ef8e	comment	Anti-Love Song: Used to great effect to highlight the hate-filled and miserable relationship between Stepford Smiler Bloberta and Clay Puppington with the Mountain Goats No Children bookending the episode.
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Moral Orel / int_704fb854	type	Crying Indian
Moral Orel / int_704fb854	comment	Crying Indian: Parodied with the mascot of Diorama Elementary. The mascot is called "The Vanishing American" and is a stereotypical Indian chief with a teardrop painted on his cheek.
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Moral Orel / int_71687bca	type	Stalker with a Test Tube
Moral Orel / int_71687bca	comment	Stalker with a Test Tube: Stephanie's mother, leading directly to Stephanie's conception.
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Moral Orel / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
Moral Orel / int_722171e7	comment	By the third season the show deconstructs itself, taking many of it's previously two-dimensional Straw Characters and examining just what made them such deeply dysfunctional individuals, while allowing some of them to finally find redemption and personal betterment.
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Moral Orel / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Moral Orel / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The opening of the 7th season 3 episode, "Help", shows the typical images of a wedding. The ending zooms out on them to show how screwed up and unhappy Bloberta and Clay's marriage has been from the beginning.
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Moral Orel / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Moral Orel / int_7464705c	comment	Each episode's title usually ends up littered throughout the episode as Arc Words, though "Nature" is one that has shown up throughout most of the series outside of its origin episode. Most poignantly in "Beforel Orel" as Orel's grandfather's explanation for things (as opposed to God).
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Moral Orel / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Moral Orel / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: There's a couple of shaking cars parked out at Inspiration Point when Orel goes to visit Christina.
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Moral Orel / int_79b5677	type	Belief Makes You Stupid
Moral Orel / int_79b5677	comment	Belief Makes You Stupid: Cleverly subverted. The people of Moralton are all either naive, clueless idiots, vain hedonistic hypocrites, or barely-hidden sociopaths (often more than one), and they're all very deeply religious. But as the series goes on, it becomes abundantly clear that religion has nothing to do with it; the majority of the townsfolk are just self-absorbed scum whose piety is skin-deep and mostly for the sake of appearances. The Reverend is actually one of the nicest and most intelligent people in the town, even though being the shepherd to this particular flock has given him a pretty heavy dose of cynicism.
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Moral Orel / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Moral Orel / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Type 2 is Parodied and Exaggerated in the intro. The United States is depicted as a whole continent separate from Latin America and the rest of North America. Moralton itself is a Type 2, a town full of middle class, self interested, bigoted and hypocrite protestants who believe their own lies.
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Moral Orel / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Moral Orel / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Well over half of the episode "Sacrifice" is just Clay giving these to Potterswheel, Papermouth, Putty, religion, love, and the world in general. He was trying to provoke a violent reaction, because the only way he could make his father acknowledge him as a child was by insulting him until he beat him. Joe's narration of the latter half of Orel's movie.
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Moral Orel / int_7e84a642	type	Serial Rapist
Moral Orel / int_7e84a642	comment	Cecil Creepler, Moralton's ice cream man who tries to get Orel's friend Doughy into the back of his van. He later becomes a prolific Serial Rapist who assaulted eight women one in particular being Ms. Stopham.
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Moral Orel / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Moral Orel / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: While a somewhat comedic line, this exchange between Bloberta and Orel provides a sobering look at the effects of alcohol and alcoholism.
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Moral Orel / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Moral Orel / int_808cbaeb	comment	Having Orel's dog Bartholomew put down, because the dog was making Orel love him more than Jesus. And annoying the adults.
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Moral Orel / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Moral Orel / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Everyone in Moralton is deeply and profoundly flawed.
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Moral Orel / int_835d1cd2	type	Satellite Love Interest
Moral Orel / int_835d1cd2	comment	Satellite Love Interest: Christina. Her relationship with Orel is rather sweet, but it's tough to define her character without him. Since she's just a female version of Orel, looking and sounding exactly the same, defining her character without him is not really possible.
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Moral Orel / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
Moral Orel / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: The show follows the titular Orel Puppington, a naÃ¯ve 12-year-old who struggles with growing up in a Christian Fundamentalist neighborhood. Orel's young age and unworldliness often leads to him doing unintentionally terrible things and the show also explores some dark subjects like alcoholism, infidelity, domestic abuse, mental illness and sexual violence (and it's not always played for Black Comedy either).
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Moral Orel / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Moral Orel / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Much of Moralton qualifies, but Bloberta stands out in particular. She cleans the underside of floor tiles. Some episodes hint that even Orel, despite being The Pollyanna, realizes on some level that the way the people of Moralton treat him and each other is not normal. Tellingly, when Clay forbids Orel from going to church (Orel's primary safe space) in "Grounded," Orel immediately starts undergoing Sanity Slippage.
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Moral Orel / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
Moral Orel / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: This was the obvious purpose of Orel's short lived dog Bartholomew, who was killed because he spread too much joy to the townsfolk.
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Moral Orel / int_84e289b8	type	Apathetic Teacher
Moral Orel / int_84e289b8	comment	Apathetic Teacher: Miss Sculptham's shown to only do the bare minimum of her job, often refusing to "teach" her students about anything after class hours. Like most of the characters in the show, she has deeply-rooted problems of her own.
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Moral Orel / int_8527b5da	type	Advice Backfire
Moral Orel / int_8527b5da	comment	Advice Backfire: Constantly. The third-season episode "Innocence" plays into this, as the town agrees to stop giving Orel advice in an attempt to avoid the trope's occurrence. Ironically Putty's advice backfired spectacularly because all of the people tried to pass off Orel to the next unfortunate shmuck, as well as trying to plea with God on a technicality that Orel was just "eavesdropping on them talking to themselves" so they don't end up in hell.
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Moral Orel / int_85f102ac	type	Symbolic Distance
Moral Orel / int_85f102ac	comment	Symbolic Distance: The Awful Wedded Life of Clay and Bloberta is a major focus throughout the series. Their blatant emotional separation is the result of years of destructive behavior and hatred to the point they will not even look at each other unless they are fully-clothed (shoes included). "Numb" showcases a divisive visual metaphor that serves as the page image for the episode, with Clay and Bloberta on separate beds with a wall between them, looking miserable.
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Moral Orel / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Moral Orel / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The aforementioned Bad Future and the story about Censordoll wasn't really explained. Executive Meddling. Season 3 was originally going to be 20 episodes, and scripts and animatics had been prepared for all of the episodes—then Adult Swim slashed the order to 13 episodes. This was done after the higher-ups saw rough cuts of the the first couple of episodes, most notably "Alone"—which featured the reveal that not only had one of the female characters purposely allow herself to get sexually assaulted by a rapist in order to have sex, but then be seen performing a coat-hanger abortion upon herself to kill the child conceived by the rape, AND obtain an orgasm as she mentally relives being raped. According to Dino Stamatopoulos, "Alone" got the series cancelled even though its tone was Dino simply following orders to create darker episodes following the success of "Nature". The episode count getting reduced meant that the entire second half of the season had to be aborted (no pun intended), leaving the show with two episodes to deal with the fallout of "Nature", which resulted in a slapdash finale and most of the Censordoll/Clay storyline getting cut. Word of God in online commentary expands on Censordoll's story. In "Alone", it was hinted that Censordoll's mother had her reproductive organs removed as an infant, in a form of female castration. This is what causes her obsession with eggs—and is probably why she aged so badly. As Reverend Putty's sermon in that episode says, we need other people in our lives to remind us we're not the center of the universe (which is what Censordoll believes). In "Nesting", Censordoll withdraws from the election when she realizes she can manipulate Clay's Oedipus Complex for his mother to get the town's egg ban lifted. Dino posted one of the lost episode's scripts online. It can be found here. The series never got around to featuring Arthur, Orel's grandfather and Clay's father, who was only seen in a flashback in Passing. Beforel Orel does redeem this to an extent, but what became of Arthur post-third-season remains unanswered. Orel's illegitimate children in "God's Chef." Dino shrugged it off, "written before continuity was an issue. Also, this show takes place during a very short period of time. I suppose most of them are toddlers by the end of HONOR."
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Moral Orel / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Moral Orel / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Doughy's dad. He has the mind of an immature highschooler despite the fact he's an adult.
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Moral Orel / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Moral Orel / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Unfortunately, as odd as it seems to most people. In fact, the show was produced partially as a response to how powerful and hypocritical bible belt America became during the Bush years.
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Moral Orel / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Moral Orel / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Clay is arguably the main character of Season 3.
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Moral Orel / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
Moral Orel / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: Many of Clay's "aesops" amount to this when correcting Orel.
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Moral Orel / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Moral Orel / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: When you can rival and "beat" the majority of other attempts at a deconstruction and how dark an animated television show can become, and how much you can rip apart every little thing about the "perfection" of the comedic aspects of the show you're watching, you're falling into this category. And indeed, not only is the series as whole a Deconstruction of the Moral Substitute, but most every episode also deconstructs a dubious or tautological Christian Fundamentalist tenet by way of having Orel follow scripture to horrifying — completely logical, but horrifying — conclusions. You might say Moral Orel is a deconstruction of biblical proportions. By the third season the show deconstructs itself, taking many of it's previously two-dimensional Straw Characters and examining just what made them such deeply dysfunctional individuals, while allowing some of them to finally find redemption and personal betterment.
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Moral Orel / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Moral Orel / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: The Lost Commandments are originally just a recurring gag throughout the first season, but by the third season, it's explained that Clay made them all up, and got the idea from his mother.
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Moral Orel / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Moral Orel / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Most of Season Three takes place before or during the events of the Season Two finale, "Nature"; episodes take place as either flashbacks or as events during / before the fateful hunting trip.
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Moral Orel / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
Moral Orel / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Clay's about to go cheat on Bloberta, so he says he has to "paint the lawn"!
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Moral Orel / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Moral Orel / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: In the second season finale, Clay gets drunk, accidentally shoots Orel, and promptly passes out after Orel calls him out. It is only then that a grizzly appears and begins sniffing around the camp. When Clay's drunken sleep-muttering attracts the bear's attention to them, Orel reluctantly empties the revolver into the bear, save himself and his father, but killing the bear.
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Moral Orel / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Moral Orel / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "Nature" stops beating around the bush about Clay, showing just how terrible of a human being he really is, and how abusive of a father he is towards Orel.
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Moral Orel / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Moral Orel / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Joe delivers to his elderly, Alzheimer's-stricken father in "Dumb" should be horrific... except for the implications that Dr. Secondopinionson impregnated Joe's mother (Nurse Bendy) when she was just thirteen, and that his claims that she died in childbirth kept her and Joe apart for years. Clay Puppington's life has been full of genuine tragedy: he accidentally gave his mother a fatal heart attack when he pulled a cruel prank on her, he began to associate self-worth with physical abuse thanks to his dad, and he's trapped in a loveless marriage with a woman who hates his guts (and vice-versa) and kids he didn't want (one of whom is clearly not his). However, he's also an unrepentant, sociopathic Jerkass who is well aware of his faults but consciously refuses to change for the better, making it hard for viewers to feel any kind of emotion about him, let alone pity.
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Moral Orel / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Orel once had an epiphany—but was spanked into forgetting it—when he disagreed with church doctrine about Fluffy Cloud Heaven; perhaps more importantly, Clay has one about his behavior and apologizes for shooting Orel, only to take it back shortly afterward.
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Moral Orel / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Moral Orel / int_90c018ac	comment	The last minute of "Turn The Other Cheek", hilariously justified.
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Moral Orel / int_921932c7	comment	Activist-Fundamentalist Antics: Any group led by Ms. Censordoll falls under this, with her Establishing Character Moment in the first episode.
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Moral Orel / int_9397e726	comment	Passion Play: Orel's school puts on one of these written by the oft-forgotten member of a band in an attempt to resurrect his career. One of its prominent features is the Villain Song by Orel (playing Judas) about his animosity towards Christ.
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Moral Orel / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Season 3 is one long breakdown for Clay ending with him being rejected by Coach Stopframe.
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Moral Orel / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: "Nature" revealed that the opposite side of Clay's study (the one the 'camera' would be in) contains a vast, obvious hallway covered in weaponry. Orel says he never noticed it before, and is given the response "It sort of blends into the woodwork."
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Moral Orel / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Ms. Censordoll, after Orel gets her favorite food (eggs) banned from the town, goes to the Moralton black market to get her eggs like the rest of the townspeople. Reverend Putty in "Closeface," who bonds with his daughter after finding out that they both have a snarky sense of humor.
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Moral Orel / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
Moral Orel / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: Clay. Lampshaded and a source of discussion in the 2-part episode "Nature" and subsequent episodes. In particular, a conversation between Orel and his mom sums it up nicely:
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Moral Orel / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Moral Orel / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: One of the many, many strains in Clay and Bloberta's Awful Wedded Life is that their youngest son, Shapey, looks nothing like Clay. "The Best Christmas Ever" has the two argue about it directly, revealing that Clay didn't want Shapey because he was convinced Bloberta had an affair, something the entire town knows about. When Clay points out that he doesn't remember conceiving Shapey, Bloberta blames his lack of memory on his constant drinking. It's repeatedly hinted, and later outright confirmed, that Shapey is the result of an affair between Bloberta and Coach Stopframe, who ironically only impregnated Bloberta to get closer to his actual crush, Clay.
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Moral Orel / int_99f2522e	type	Hit Me, Dammit!
Moral Orel / int_99f2522e	comment	Hit Me, Dammit!: Clay ends up going into a massive "The Reason You Suck" Speech directed at both the people around him and at the world at large in order to get a negative reaction. However, they just ignore him. Clay wanted them to hit him; his father only ever showed him attention when he was hitting him.
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Moral Orel / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Moral Orel / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: "Help" shows that, at the end of the day, Clay and Bloberta's marriage is this. Bloberta's primary motivation for getting married in the first place was because all the other ladies her age were getting married, and she needed to save face (and as an added bonus, getting married could help her get away from her own dysfunctional family). She and Clay met at a wedding reception, and despite numerous warning signs (especially after Bloberta introduced Clay to alcohol), she took the opportunity presented to her. They've both been miserable ever since, but living in ultra-religious Moralton means that there's no way they can get a divorce without taking a severe hit to their reputations.
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Moral Orel / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Moral Orel / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Done for most episodes in the second season, and a little bit in the third. Notable examples are "Satan" for Coach Stopframe, "Courtship" for Doughy, "Offensiveness" for Ms. Censordoll, "Be Fruitful and Multiply" for Reverend Putty, etc. A notable third season would be the episode "Alone", one of the darkest which focuses a bit more on Ms Sculptham, Nurse Bendy and Censordoll; the former two were considered more one-dimensional before this episode. Creator Dino Stamatopoulos at one point wanted the show to be called "Moralton."
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Moral Orel / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Moral Orel / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Happens quite a bit, including in "Satan", "Repression", "Grounded", "Nesting" and "Beforel Orel" where the characters lack genitalia.
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Moral Orel / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Moral Orel / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Orel knows what to expect whenever his dad takes him in his study. He responds with a Loud Gulp.
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Moral Orel / int_9dffb45f	type	False Camera Effects
Moral Orel / int_9dffb45f	comment	False Camera Effects: The pilot used fake Jitter Cam for dramatic moments, mainly when Bloberta was alone.
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Moral Orel / int_9ed9d391	type	Quarter Hour Short
Moral Orel / int_9ed9d391	comment	Quarter Hour Short: Each episode is around 11 to 12 minutes a piece, with Nature being a two part episode and Beforel Orel being a full 22 minute special.
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Moral Orel / int_a06b62b7	type	Frozen in Time
Moral Orel / int_a06b62b7	comment	Frozen in Time: Subverted. The show is (possibly) set in the modern day, yet virtually everything in Moralton looks like it's either the 1950s or very early 1960s. Especially since we don't see any modern tech, not even television. Possibly the only indication that we get of the show being set in modern time is that there is a "metal" band occasionally referenced in the show. Clay does mention Lee Harvey Oswald in "Trigger" so the series most likely takes place somewhere during or after 1963. Played straight at the end of "Geniusis"; even after a million years, Moralton hasn't changed a bit.
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Moral Orel / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Moral Orel / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: The last minute of "Turn The Other Cheek", hilariously justified. Orel's father taking a long time and multiple sips before confirming that Orel's special energy drink is urine.
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Moral Orel / int_a2bff6bc	type	Rape Leads to Insanity
Moral Orel / int_a2bff6bc	comment	Rape Leads to Insanity: As shown in "Alone," being raped and impregnated by Cecil Creepler, and then aborting the fetus, has clearly taken a toll on Agnes Sculptham's psyche. Even worse, she seems well aware of how messed up it is that she feels both horror and longing for her rapist. From the same episode, Nurse Bendy is also shown to be suffering mentally due to constantly being taken advantage of sexually by the much older men in town with one encounter when she was only thirteen resulting in her getting pregnant. Her apartment is decorated like a little girl's, and once she steps into it, she literally plays house with a "hubby" and "sonny" bear in order for her to feel some semblance of a normal life. Thankfully, reuniting with her son, Joe, helps her get better.
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Moral Orel / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
Moral Orel / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: Orel cries one at the end of Rev. Putty's sermons for most of Season 1.
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Moral Orel / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Moral Orel / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: How the Puppingtons and Posabules (minus Orel and Christina) miss for months that Shapey and Block switched places. Doughey Latchkey exemplifies this trope, though, as his parents are stuck in a teenage mentality. Parental Abandonment: Then Poppet does this to Block when she sees he prefers Bloberta.
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Moral Orel / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Moral Orel / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: The people of Moralton take this phrase to heart. If anything goes against their dogma, they become upset and start a riot. In one case, Oral had a near death experience that contradicts their beliefs of Heaven and God, resulting in Clay literally beating the revelation out of him until he's back to his normal self. This is the reason why Clay and Bloberta refuse to get a divorce. Not only does Moralton's religious views frown upon such a concept, but if word got out that that they have troubles in their marriage, they would become the subject of gossip.
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Moral Orel / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
Moral Orel / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Orel lies to Clay when asked if he shot a bear, since he doesn't want to give Clay the satisfaction of making him proud.
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Moral Orel / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
Moral Orel / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: Implied with Doughy's parents. Not only do they act young, they're supposed to be the same age as Stephanie, who, as Reverend Putty's daughter would be significantly younger than most of children's parents. Nurse Bendy said her 12 year old son Joeâ€™s age was half of hers in the script for the scrapped episode Narcissism, suggesting sheâ€™s in her early 20s.
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Moral Orel / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Moral Orel / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Averted, and possibly inverted with all the Moralton townsfolk mocking and occasionally reviling Catholicism. As far as the people of Moralton are concerned, only Protestant Fundamentalists are true Christians, while Catholics might as well be godless pagans. And sadly, this is Truth in Television for certain fundamentalists. Notably to the point where speaking the profane tongues of the Necronomicon is still better than speaking in Latin like a Catholic.
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Moral Orel / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Moral Orel / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Every adult except Stephanie and maybe Nurse Bendy at least as far as Joe is concerned, also Reverend Putty later on in the series. And even Stephanie has some unhealthy qualities like getting a piercing every time she has a thought she doesn't like. Grandpa Puppington tried to avert this, at least with Orel, but Clay forced them to never see each other again after the events of Beforel Orel.
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Moral Orel / int_aa809887	type	Blipvert
Moral Orel / int_aa809887	comment	Blipvert: The last episode, "Honor" opens with the very end of the first episode "The Best Christmas Ever" with Orel believing deeply that God will fix everything, and he still has hope, followed by a rapid fire montage of scenes from the series during the one year between both episodes. The montage ends with Orel getting his cast off his leg after being shot in "Nature." showing the extreme contrast of the once innocently faithful Orel one year prior, to the more depressed Orel who's endured innocence shattering events by the end of the series.
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Moral Orel / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Moral Orel / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Orel in the Halloween episode. He decided that the only thing that can scare him is God—so he methodically breaks all of the Ten Commandments in one day.
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Moral Orel / int_aec9eb4a	type	Fictional Province
Moral Orel / int_aec9eb4a	comment	Fictional Province: The show takes place in the city of Moralton, the capitol of Statesota, the geographic center of the US. (In real life, if you're just counting the 48 contiguous states, it's just south of the Kansas-Nebraska border. Include Alaska and Hawaii, and the geographic center shifts to the western edge of South Dakota.)
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Moral Orel / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Moral Orel / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Less of a single unifying secret, and more the dark secrets most adults seem to have, and covered up by putting on a show of being a White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
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Moral Orel / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Moral Orel / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Clay Puppington is revealed to be a self-loathing alcoholic who shoots his son Orel in the leg during a hunting trip and later proclaims that he was glad that he shot him. He tries to invoke reactions from other people regardless if it ends with him being despised out of a desperate need for stimulation; he lacks empathy and remorse for any of his actions; and before his true nature was revealed, he acted like the stereotypical 1950's father as seen in television.
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Moral Orel / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Moral Orel / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Often a downright lie. It's usually "I Did What Was More Convenient" or "I Did What Would Get Me What I Wanted", but using this trope as a thin veneer.
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Moral Orel / int_b30c44b7	type	The All-American Boy
Moral Orel / int_b30c44b7	comment	The All-American Boy: Orel is a Deconstruction. He's raised to be something akin to the titular character of Leave It to Beaver; a hard-working, patriotic, God-fearing, authority-respecting American boy. But everyone in his hometown is so completely and utterly screwed up, sometimes irredeemably so, that all of Orel's hopes are dashed very quickly. What little he holds on to can be said to be a mask.
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Moral Orel / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Moral Orel / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Clay and Bloberta, despite having children. It stems from the fact that they absolutely hate each other.
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Moral Orel / int_b3c0ed0c	type	Spoof Aesop
Moral Orel / int_b3c0ed0c	comment	Spoof Aesop: The usual result of Clay's talks with Orel in his study take the form of a ridiculous and/or entirely irrelevant lesson. For example, in the first episode, Orel is chastised not for digging up dead people and zombifying them, but for stripping them naked. (He thought they smelled like death because their clothes were dirty.) Similarly, his crack habit earned him a scolding because of all the slang it caused him to learn. There's also the lessons Orel learns at the start of most episodes which fuel his antics, which come to a head in "Innocence" when, after Orel's antics in "School Pageant" result in the entire town singing about how much Jesus sucks, everyone realizes how much of a bad idea it is to give Orel any advice, and actively try to avoid him, resulting in Orel gleaning extremely reluctant bits and pieces of advice from random townsfolk that eventually result in him getting his friends to bleed themselves out into a bathtub so he can bath in their blood and gain eternal youth, making him eternally innocent in the eyes of God and allowing him to go to war and kill without divine consequence. This turns out to be the breaking point for Clay, who doesn't even bother delivering his usual end-of-episode lesson.
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Moral Orel / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Moral Orel / int_b486877f	comment	Orel's father taking a long time and multiple sips before confirming that Orel's special energy drink is urine.
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Moral Orel / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Moral Orel / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: After his movies aren't very well appreciated, Orel concludes that sometimes things are misinterpreted. When asked for an example, he scratches his head with The Bible trying to come up with an answer. Really, the whole series. Ms. Censordoll's full name is Francine Clara Censordoll (FCC). "Orel's Movie Premiere" seems to be one towards us viewers, Doughy calls Orel "Moral" at one point and Dr. Potterswheel asks if Clay molests Orel during the time in the Study... these are Word of God's pet peeves that we the viewers bring up.
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Moral Orel / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Moral Orel / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: An excellent example! Clay is emotionally distant and abusive, his wife is a cleanliness-obsessed basket case who married him for all the wrong reasons, Shapey is seven but developmentally is three, and Orel is the Only Sane Man. For a given value of "sane", anyway.
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Moral Orel / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Moral Orel / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling. Season 3 was originally going to be 20 episodes, and scripts and animatics had been prepared for all of the episodes—then Adult Swim slashed the order to 13 episodes. This was done after the higher-ups saw rough cuts of the the first couple of episodes, most notably "Alone"—which featured the reveal that not only had one of the female characters purposely allow herself to get sexually assaulted by a rapist in order to have sex, but then be seen performing a coat-hanger abortion upon herself to kill the child conceived by the rape, AND obtain an orgasm as she mentally relives being raped. According to Dino Stamatopoulos, "Alone" got the series cancelled even though its tone was Dino simply following orders to create darker episodes following the success of "Nature". The episode count getting reduced meant that the entire second half of the season had to be aborted (no pun intended), leaving the show with two episodes to deal with the fallout of "Nature", which resulted in a slapdash finale and most of the Censordoll/Clay storyline getting cut. Word of God in online commentary expands on Censordoll's story. In "Alone", it was hinted that Censordoll's mother had her reproductive organs removed as an infant, in a form of female castration. This is what causes her obsession with eggs—and is probably why she aged so badly. As Reverend Putty's sermon in that episode says, we need other people in our lives to remind us we're not the center of the universe (which is what Censordoll believes). In "Nesting", Censordoll withdraws from the election when she realizes she can manipulate Clay's Oedipus Complex for his mother to get the town's egg ban lifted. Dino posted one of the lost episode's scripts online. It can be found here.
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Moral Orel / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Moral Orel / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In many places; it forms most of the "lessons" Orel learns. A particularly good example: In "God's Chef" Reverend Putty tells Orel it's a sin to masturbate and yet he constantly does it himself and it was how Stephanie came to be.
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Moral Orel / int_b79ac005	type	Scary Librarian
Moral Orel / int_b79ac005	comment	Miss Censordoll, a Knight Templar who has the penchant of burning books and later takes advantage of Clay's Oedipus Complex to get what she wants.
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Moral Orel / int_b7c45771	type	Single Malt Vision
Moral Orel / int_b7c45771	comment	Single Malt Vision: Clay assumes this is the case, when we see from his point of view the events from the end of "Nature": he sees Shapey on the stairs, remembers he already passed Block in the living room, then just takes a look at his shot glass before continuing.
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Moral Orel / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Moral Orel / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: We have names such as Shapey, Block, Bloberta, Doughy and Nursula. Then thereâ€™s Orel (a normal albeit slightly rare name), and all of those mixed in with names like Clay, Agnes, Frances, Christina, Norm and Daniel.
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Moral Orel / int_b9f8c6f8	type	Sleeping Single
Moral Orel / int_b9f8c6f8	comment	Sleeping Single: Deconstructed; not only do Clay and Bloberta sleep in separate beds, there's a privacy screen between them. Based on appearances, Doughy's parents have separate rooms, though this is more because they're still at the mentality of high schoolers—Kim's bedroom is decorated like a high school girl's. And it has no effect on their sex lives whatsoever. Angela and Arthur, Clay's parents. When Clay was born, Angela focused all her attention on him and Arthur was left all alone, making him bitter.
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Moral Orel / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Moral Orel / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Season 3 makes it increasingly clear that Clay was a lot like Orel when he was a kid and young man, and both were victims of abuse. In the end, Orel manages to become a much better father and husband than Clay.
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Moral Orel / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Moral Orel / int_bf1255fa	comment	From the same episode, Nurse Bendy is also shown to be suffering mentally due to constantly being taken advantage of sexually by the much older men in town with one encounter when she was only thirteen resulting in her getting pregnant. Her apartment is decorated like a little girl's, and once she steps into it, she literally plays house with a "hubby" and "sonny" bear in order for her to feel some semblance of a normal life. Thankfully, reuniting with her son, Joe, helps her get better.
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Moral Orel / int_bf2412a1	type	Recap Episode
Moral Orel / int_bf2412a1	comment	Recap Episode: When Orel shows his movies to his friends and family, they are the first three episodes. Subverted in no old footage being reused.
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Moral Orel / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Moral Orel / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Shapey does this at the beginning of "Charity" when Clay messes with his hair. The audio of Shapey yelling is recycled in numerous episodes, including three times in "The Best Christmas Eve" and by his conterpart Block in the episodes "Numb" and "Closeface". Nurse Bendy says this when her toy bear lands on her back in the episode "Alone".
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Moral Orel / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Moral Orel / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The pilot has Ms. Censordoll forming a "To Burn" pile of books — among which was Fahrenheit 451. Unlike the rest of the Puppingtons and Posabules, who are either an Identical Stranger (Clay, Bloberta, Art, and Poppet) or a Distaff Counterpart (Orel and Christina), Shapey and Block only act alike. This didn't stop the parents from taking each other's youngest child for a good few months and not noticing any difference.
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Moral Orel / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
Moral Orel / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: Coach Stopframe seems to also enjoy getting â€œintimateâ€� with animals on occasion, such as bringing a dog with him to the bed in addition to three prostitutes in â€œPresents for Godâ€�, and is implied he was gonna do something to the stuffed bear that Orel shot in â€œHonorâ€�.
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Moral Orel / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
Moral Orel / int_c4d09d24	comment	One of the Couch Gags is Orel wearing Groucho Marx glasses and pretending to hold a cigar.
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Moral Orel / int_c50bd555	type	Make-Out Point
Moral Orel / int_c50bd555	comment	Christina has invited Orel to Make-Out Point after their parents have forbidden them from seeing each other. They meet up, are ecstatic to see each other, then slowly lower out of camera view while lovingly saying each other's names... then the camera pans down and you see they're praying.
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Moral Orel / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Moral Orel / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Any advice given to Orel will inevitably be twisted by his bizarre thought process and end up either as Gone Horribly Right or Gone Horribly Wrong. But horribly is the one component you can bet on, to the point where Reverend Putty warns the entire town to stop giving Orel advice under penalty of being sent to Hell. It goes about as well as you imagine it would. And the setup for this executed a nifty bit of logic twisting too, as the writer of the musical explains to Orel that Judas could be considered a hero of Christianity due to how pivotal he was in the formation of the religion.
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Moral Orel / int_c6d0ce84	type	Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
Moral Orel / int_c6d0ce84	comment	Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: The infamous hunting trip in both parts of "Nature" although "awkward" is a bit of an understatement.
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Moral Orel / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Moral Orel / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Among the weapons in Clay's weapon room are two golden guns. One of the Couch Gags is Orel wearing Groucho Marx glasses and pretending to hold a cigar.
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Moral Orel / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Moral Orel / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Clay's an asshole because his insanely religious mother raised him like a spoiled prince (because all of her ten previous pregnancies never made it to term because of her constant drinking and smoking which she stopped when pregnant with Clay because she was too preoccupied with praying to God that he would make it) and his father (who was never able to create a good bond between his son due to his wife's constant spoiling and protective nature and never forgave Clay for the prank that led to his wife's fatal heart attack) emotionally shunned his child, to the point of telling him that he wasn't even worth the effort of punishing him physically, which led to Clay becoming a hellion if only to get slapped by his father, which for Clay was the only emotional response he could ever get out of his father. Bloberta, meanwhile, is the unwanted middle child of an emotionally abusive mother who treated her second daughter like an unwanted pet; she became an obsessive-compulsive neat freak to replace her addiction to booze, after introducing Clay to alcohol and watching him become a massive jerk with his first drink. While it does explain much, it's not much of an excuse. Orel's childhood isn't far off from this. Which was likely the point: despite all the bad things that happened to Orel, he still got his life back together. Clay's abuse of Orel is to try to bring his son down to his level, so that Clay can convince himself that he's not responsible for what he's become. This is why Orel's continuing intent to goodness makes Clay even more miserable and hateful; despite all of Clay's cynicism and hate, it's not working. Ms. Censordoll is the way she is because her mother removed her reproductive organs as a infant which might explain why she looks old despite her age.
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Moral Orel / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Moral Orel / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: the redheaded boy that hangs out with Orel and his friends. He's always lumped in as 'the rest' or 'the gang'. Even in the commercial promoting Beforel Orel, he's cut off by Orel before he could say his name. But his name was revealed through a cast sheet in "Orel's Movie Premiere". It's Billy. Which may actually explain why his name was never given: its the same as Billy Figurelli's.
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Moral Orel / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Moral Orel / int_cb70651c	comment	Some season one happenings don't really jive with the rest of the series. The pilot had the use of magic to bring back the dead, and cause a zombie apocalypse. Magic is never used again in the series, aside from some moments regarding faith which fall into Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane.
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Moral Orel / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Moral Orel / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God in online commentary expands on Censordoll's story. In "Alone", it was hinted that Censordoll's mother had her reproductive organs removed as an infant, in a form of female castration. This is what causes her obsession with eggs—and is probably why she aged so badly. As Reverend Putty's sermon in that episode says, we need other people in our lives to remind us we're not the center of the universe (which is what Censordoll believes). In "Nesting", Censordoll withdraws from the election when she realizes she can manipulate Clay's Oedipus Complex for his mother to get the town's egg ban lifted.
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Moral Orel / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Moral Orel / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Mr. Creepler. According to "Alone" he was found dead in his Prison cell, hinting he committed suicide.
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Moral Orel / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Moral Orel / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Parodied with Link McMissuns, the evolutionary "missing link" between apes and humans who Orel thaws out, and is eventually converted to Christianity and becomes a radio talk show host where he argues against his own existence.
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Moral Orel / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Moral Orel / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: You'd expect Orel and Shapey to be sent to a foster home due to the immense abuse and neglect both of their parents give them. Then again, considering this is Moralton, this may be justified.
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Moral Orel / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Moral Orel / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Clay as a child, prior to one of his tantrums leading to his mother's death and the subsequent abuse at the hands of his father.
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Moral Orel / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Moral Orel / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Everything from the second half of the second season on. The show dropped any pretense of being a comedy in the third season, after which it's just religious hypocrites torturing each other socially, physically, and mentally.
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Moral Orel / int_d02a7d70	type	Divine Race Lift
Moral Orel / int_d02a7d70	comment	Divine Race Lift: Parodied somewhat where Buddha has the voice and mannerisms of an effeminate southern man.
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Moral Orel / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Moral Orel / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: About half of the first and second season episodes have these, but all of the third season episodes have them.
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Moral Orel / int_d1673f5c	type	Bad Humor Truck
Moral Orel / int_d1673f5c	comment	Bad Humor Truck: Mr. Creepler, the local ice cream man, is a serial rapist and a pederast. By the third season however, he's revealed to have died in prison.
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Moral Orel / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
Moral Orel / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou
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Moral Orel / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Moral Orel / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Before every Spoof Aesop spouted by Clay, he would find Orel and say a sentence that ends with "In my study." Cue gulping.
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Moral Orel / int_d3a49315	type	Toy-Based Characterization
Moral Orel / int_d3a49315	comment	Toy-Based Characterization: Orel, a young boy living in a fundamentalist Christian town, owns Bible-themed action figures like Regular God and Super God.
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Moral Orel / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Moral Orel / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: "Waste" is a rare example of this trope without Vulgar Humor. Orel learns from his camp counselor that, in a survival situation, one can drink one's own urine to conserve energy and nutrients, which immediately brings Orel to the conclusion that he has to drink his own urine (and he even starts selling it to the rest of the town as an energy drink) because wasting - even something which is explicitly a waste product, like urine - is a sin.
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Moral Orel / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
Moral Orel / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: The Puppingtons and the Posabules hate each others' guts because they use slightly different versions of the Lord's Prayer. Slightly as in "Forgive us our debtors" and "Forgive us our tresspassers." One word. This sticking point also doubles as a "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate.
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Moral Orel / int_d53ad027	type	Cheerful Child
Moral Orel / int_d53ad027	comment	Cheerful Child: Orel almost always remains happy and hopeful in spite of everything around him. Downplayed with Block and Shapey, who are only really cheerful when they're spoiled.
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Moral Orel / int_d71073b5	type	Subverted Kids' Show
Moral Orel / int_d71073b5	comment	Subverted Kids' Show: Understatement.
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Moral Orel / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
Moral Orel / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: Everyone in Moralton works hard to convince everyone else that things are perfect.
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Moral Orel / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Moral Orel / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Clay's father.
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Moral Orel / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Moral Orel / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Orel, upon hearing that God is in him (as well as everyone and everything else), starts acting this way, going so far as to pull the plug on a dying woman; granted the woman asked him to do so, but still... it's one of the few times Orel actually outright acts like a jerk. This is how Censordoll acts naturally.
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Moral Orel / int_dc335a04	type	Ear Worm
Moral Orel / int_dc335a04	comment	Ear Worm: In-Universe, the titular song from "Turn The Other Cheek" becomes this after Orel plays it over and over again. It gets to the point where even Bloberta starts singing it with Orel. Another In-Universe example is "I Hate You, Jesus", which is so catchy the Reverend leads a sing-along of it in church.
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Moral Orel / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
Moral Orel / int_deb39de3	comment	Bad Future: At some point in the future, Moralton will encompass all of the United States and will be the only landmass on the planet. Damn. Which is exactly how the fundies want it. Coincidentally, despite it being several years into the future, technology has not changed in the slightest. Perhaps a deeper statement of how conservatism can lead to stagnation?
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Moral Orel / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Moral Orel / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Clay and Bloberta are an unfunny example. Clay's alcoholism, in particular, has ruined both of their lives. And they refuse to get a divorce because Moralton is a strong believer of the phrase "'til death do us part" and they don't want to be the subject of gossip.
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Moral Orel / int_e0113647	type	Decon-Recon Switch
Moral Orel / int_e0113647	comment	Decon-Recon Switch: Eventually the show becomes one of these for the very concept of faith and religion, while many of the authority figures and religious leaders in Orel's life are horrendous role models, religion itself was not solely to blame for their issues. The first two and a half seasons are largely dedicated to showing how destructive religious ideology can be when taken to extremes, its dangerous effects are a result of cruel and damaged people misinterpreting it to justify their own actions — but crucially, for characters like Orel and Reverend Putty, they refuse to allow the cruelty of the world destroy their faith in God, (and in Orel's case, his Incorruptible Pure Pureness ultimately motivates Reverend Putty to change for the better) and that faith is ultimately what grants them some measure of personal happiness and salvation instead of giving in to despair and wallowing in misery and self-pity for the rest of their lives.
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Moral Orel / int_e03533c8	type	Blood Bath
Moral Orel / int_e03533c8	comment	Blood Bath: The episode "Innocence" sees Orel learn about blood's powers to show one's innocence to Godnote Lamb's blood on the door for Passover and remain young forever (based on Elizabeth Bathory) in separate conversations with the Christians and Coach Stopframe, as well as seeing him recruit Doughy, Billy, Tommy, and Maryenetta to provide blood for Orel to bathe in. The episode "Grounded" begins with Clay finding Orel in the tub and covered in blood with the other kids around him, bleeding from their wrists. The show itself, however, presents all this in Anachronic Order with the conclusion to these events in "Grounded" being aired first and the set-up in "Innocence" being shown later.
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Moral Orel / int_e0d0fb13	type	Please Put Some Clothes On
Moral Orel / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: Clay explains to Orel the "Lost" Eleventh Commandment which states, Thou shalt be ashamed of thy natural anatomy and that nudity is a horrible thing that should only be committed as a last resort in "The Lord's Greatest Gift".
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Moral Orel / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Moral Orel / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Doughy's parents, who still act like horny teenagers despite having a grade school-age kid (who they regularly neglect so they can make out.) Doughy's father is even constantly wearing his old varsity jacket. Nurse Bendy is probably a better example of this trope in Moral Orel than Doughy's parents, given her living conditions as revealed in "Alone."
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Moral Orel / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Moral Orel / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Orel in the first part of "Nature". Not so much in part two.
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Moral Orel / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Moral Orel / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Four year old Orel takes everything at face value in Beforel Orel.
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Moral Orel / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Moral Orel / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The blue bird in "Nature"—likely meant to symbolize Orel's innocence, the bird appears in key scenes throughout the first part before flying off at the end of the episode when Orel finally fires off his dad's pistol. It stays missing until the end credits of the second part. Likewise with the flies that appeared in the same episode, symbolizing Clay's desolation. They appear in the end credits with Orel's bird, symbolizing that his innocence has been stained. Florence (a name associated with cows in reference to the character's weight) has a fixation with zebras. Cows resemble zebras in that they both have black and white coats, but the latter is generally thought to be prettier; Florence yearns to be a zebra rather than a cow.
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Moral Orel / int_e390612a	type	Hollywood Satanism
Moral Orel / int_e390612a	comment	Hollywood Satanism: Subverted, this is what Coach Stopframe had attempted to get Clay to love him, when he took Orel to an actual Satanist gathering, it turns out they were all just a bunch of sloppy hedonists.
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Moral Orel / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Moral Orel / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Season 3's art is a drastic improvement from the art of seasons 1 and 2. For one, the character movement is much more fluid and sometimes quite realistic looking compared to the slightly more stilted movement that the first season had. â€�Beforel Orelâ€� is an even bigger improvement, with even more fluid movement, as well as better effects, whereas the effects in the original show looking quite obviously superimposed and cost-effective.
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Moral Orel / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Moral Orel / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Orel to Clay in "Nature." Joe and his father (much more violently) in "Dumb", though this is more due to Joe being furious that his elderly alzheimer-stricken father wants nothing to do with him. Or rather is unable to be the kind of father Joe wants because of his age and his illness with the added revelation that he lied to Joe about his mother and kept the two apart.
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Moral Orel / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Moral Orel / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Orel and his Distaff Counterpart. It works out in the end.
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Moral Orel / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Moral Orel / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The town of Moralton is set in a Crapsaccharine World where many of the denizens mask their true intentions behind a veil of religious convictions. Of those individuals, these two are the absolute worst: Clay is the abusive patriarch of the Puppington family who insults and mistreats those around him as a means of boosting his self-worth regardless of it being good or bad. He reveals his true colors when he shot his son in the legs and then drinking the rubbing alcohol in the first aid kit. While claiming to have no recollection of the incident, Clay later takes pride in what he did when his son was assisting Miss Censordoll when she was running for mayor. Despite having a sympathetic upbringing in the form of his mother dying when he was a child and his father resenting him for it — and getting goaded into a marriage he did not want — Clay nevertheless refuses to acknowledge his own faults, instead pushing the blame onto others, especially in his attempts of molding Orel into becoming like him. Cecil Creepler is an ice cream man who sells biblical-themed ice cream to Moralton's youth. In Alone, Creepler is exposed as a Serial Rapist who sexually assaulted 7 dark-haired women and later rapes and impregnates schoolteacher Agnes Sculptham when she used herself as bait.
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Moral Orel / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
Moral Orel / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: In the Nature two-parter, a deer licked Orel's face like a dog would.
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Moral Orel / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Moral Orel / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: Nurse Bendy, while praising Principal Fakey's maturity to her teddy-bear family, says that "he must be more adulterer than anyone I know!"
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Moral Orel / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
Moral Orel / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The reason the show got cancelled was that the third season got so dark and depressing that Adult Swim execs developed buyer's remorse and cancelled the show out of fear that it would only get more depressing and disturbing.
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Moral Orel / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Moral Orel / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Ms. Censordoll, who's only forty, but easily looks like she's in her seventies or eighties.
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Moral Orel / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Moral Orel / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Actually, this probably describes everyone in Moralton except for Orel, Stephanie, and Christina. Some characters like Reverend Putty start out this way, but develop into fairly benevolent characters by the end of the series. Clay is the embodiment of this. A self-centered asshole who cares only about himself and will only give someone the time of day if he's given attention.
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Moral Orel / int_ed567db9	type	Christian Rock
Moral Orel / int_ed567db9	comment	Christian Rock: A pious heavy metal band named Multiple Godgasm.
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Moral Orel / int_ee9b6573	type	A Lesson Learned Too Well
Moral Orel / int_ee9b6573	comment	A Lesson Learned Too Well: Several episodes have Orel taking what an authority figure says to its "logical conclusion" and doing something bizarre.
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Moral Orel / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Moral Orel / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: A poster for "The Crucibles" shows up well before the episode featuring them does.
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Moral Orel / int_f1a36f8e	type	Delivery Stork
Moral Orel / int_f1a36f8e	comment	Delivery Stork: There's an entire book out there with stories of this nature to tell children instead of telling them the truth about where babies come from. Clay telling Orel about 'God's chef injecting women with his glaze' to make babies is what sets the main plot of the second episode in motion.
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Moral Orel / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
Moral Orel / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Nurse Bendy. Hidden Depths reveal that being this has also crippled her psychologically. Sadly, she's (dimly) aware of this.
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Moral Orel / int_f273b1cb	type	Devil in Plain Sight
Moral Orel / int_f273b1cb	comment	Devil in Plain Sight: Joe. Though, since he's still a child, it's more of a Jerkass In Plain Sight. He lacks the power to do real damage... for now.
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Moral Orel / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Moral Orel / int_f27ec906	comment	Unlike the rest of the Puppingtons and Posabules, who are either an Identical Stranger (Clay, Bloberta, Art, and Poppet) or a Distaff Counterpart (Orel and Christina), Shapey and Block only act alike. This didn't stop the parents from taking each other's youngest child for a good few months and not noticing any difference.
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Moral Orel / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Moral Orel / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Moralton itself has an "evil" twin in the form of Sinville, which is only a bus ride away and is filled with prostitutes and—to a visiting Orel's horror—Catholics.
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Moral Orel / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Moral Orel / int_f3626b09	comment	Orel, upon hearing that God is in him (as well as everyone and everything else), starts acting this way, going so far as to pull the plug on a dying woman; granted the woman asked him to do so, but still... it's one of the few times Orel actually outright acts like a jerk.
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Moral Orel / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
Moral Orel / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: Clay took Orel hunting when he thought "it was time." After Orel couldn't shoot a helpless (and adorable) deer, Clay started drinking and ended up killing and eating a hunting dog before accidentally shooting Orel and leaving him to deal with the wound as he went to sleep. Orel was forced to kill a bear to save his horrible father, but when Clay woke up, he lied and told him Clay had killed the bear.
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Moral Orel / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Moral Orel / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The finale. And boy, is it a case of "earning" it. Orel finally escapes the clutches of his parents and grows up to be happily married with a family of his own, while his mother and father continue to be stuck in a loveless marriage.
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Moral Orel / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Moral Orel / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: "Nature Part 2", maybe.
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Moral Orel / int_f81d8982	type	High-School Sweethearts
Moral Orel / int_f81d8982	comment	High-School Sweethearts: Mr. and Mrs. Latchkey, Doughey's parents. Not only are they high school sweethearts, they still act like they're in high school, wearing the same jock jacket and cheerleader clothes they did twelve years ago.
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Moral Orel / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Moral Orel / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Ms. Censordoll's protesting and censorship, the "Lost Commandments", the fact Shapey is not weaned off breast milk yet, Clay standing up after beating Orel, which causes his pants to fall because he forgot to put his belt back on. The second and third seasons have Shapey switched with the son of their short term neighbors. Bloberta (who eventually figures it out) and Clay never seem to realize that Block is not Shapey even as Orel tries pointing it out time and time again. Clay endlessly complaining about his lousy, dead-end job as mayor of Moralton.
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Moral Orel / int_fabd6906	type	Everytown, America
Moral Orel / int_fabd6906	comment	Everytown, America: Played straight and lampshaded; notice the obvious generic-ness of "Moralton, Statesota?"
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Moral Orel / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Moral Orel / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Many of the characters have names related to the process of stop-motion animation. Eventually parodied with "Ludwig von Stopmotionanimationname". "Passing" reveals that Clay would have been one of eleven siblings with names starting with the letter C. All of them but Clay were miscarriages.
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Moral Orel / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Moral Orel / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: There's a few. Orel bathing in blood and, earlier, declaring he'll "never do THAT with THOSE, in THERE, for that LONG ever again!", and the Lost Commandments. Clay's lousy dead-end job is ultimately revealed to be mayor. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Alone", one of the headlines involving a serial rapist is "This time, it's not Orel!" Though, oddly, the cause for it is a Tear Jerker, we later see the "Papa Bear" from "Alone" tied into his seat. "Nature" and the first few episodes of season three are where it evolves into straight-up Continuity Porn. "Nature" starts with Orel delivering the "never do that with those" line, which is then explained a few episodes later. Said episode ("Grounded") also starts with Orel inexplicably bathing in his friends' blood, which is then explained in the next episode ("Innocence"), which was also the direct aftermath of the ending of "School Pageant", when Orel realized he accidentally got the entire town to sing about how much they hate Jesus, and now thinks he started The End of the World as We Know It, interpreting events from past episodes as signs of the apocalypse. During Orel's Near-Death Experience in "Grounded" there's also a line from "Innocence" of the Reverend saying "You think God can't see into the future?" which plays over events from "Nature", which chronologically takes place after either episode.
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Moral Orel / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
Moral Orel / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: The episode "Help" reveals that Bloberta married Clay immediately after meeting him at a wedding reception in order to prevent becoming this. They've both been miserable ever since.
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Moral Orel / int_ffae1b5e	comment	Larynx Dissonance: Miss Censordoll and Joe's half-sister are both voiced by men. In the case of Joe's half-sister, it's very obvious... when she stops holding her nose.
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Moral Orel / int_ffbf846d	comment	Suspiciously Specific Sermon: Reverend Putty likes to keep things topical.
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Moral Orel	hasFeature	Golden Moment / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Gun Accessories / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Gut Punch / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Harmful to Minors / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hates Their Parent / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Head-Turning Beauty / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hemisphere Bias / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Henpecked Husband / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Heroes Love Dogs / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Heteronormative Crusader / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hiding Behind Religion / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	High-School Sweethearts / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hired for Their Looks / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hit Me, Dammit! / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Holier Than Thou / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hollywood Atheist / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hollywood Satanism / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hope Spot / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Horrible Camping Trip / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Human Popsicle / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Hunting "Accident" / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	I Can Change My Beloved / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	I Take Offense to That Last One / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Ignored Epiphany / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Implausible Deniability / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	In Vino Veritas / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Inexplicably Identical Individuals / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Innocence Lost / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Irony as She Is Cast / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	It Kind of Looks Like a Face / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	It's Always Spring / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	It's the Best Whatever, Ever! / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Jealous Parent / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Jesus Was Way Cool / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Jitter Cam / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Jizzed in My Pants / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Kavorka Man / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Kiddie Kid / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Kitsch Collection / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Larynx Dissonance / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Leave the Camera Running / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Left the Background Music On / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Lesser Star / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Lies to Children / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Little Jimmy / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Living in a Furniture Store / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Living Prop / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Lonely Bachelor Pad / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Lonely Doll Girl / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Long Song, Short Scene / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Love to Hate / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Luke, I Am Your Father / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Luke, You Are My Father / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Make-Out Point / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Manly Men Can Hunt / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Marathon Running / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Marriage of Convenience / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Mass "Oh, Crap!" / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Maternal Death? Blame the Child! / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Mature Work, Child Protagonists / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Microwave the Dog / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Monochrome Casting / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Mood Dissonance / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Moral Guardians / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Mouthing the Profanity / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Narcissist / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Neat Freak / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Nepotism / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Never Heard That One Before / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Nightmare Fetishist / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	No-Dialogue Episode / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	No Party Given / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Nocturnal Emission / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Nom de Mom / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Not Afraid of You Anymore / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Not So Similar / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Not Worth Killing / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Nuclear Family / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Obscene OB-GYN / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Old Maid / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Once More, with Clarity / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	One of the Kids / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Only a Flesh Wound / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Out-of-Clothes Experience / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Parental Favoritism / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Parental Obliviousness / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Passion Play / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Permanent Elected Official / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Politically Incorrect Villain / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Pragmatic Hero / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Preacher Man / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Precocious Crush / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Professional Voice Dissonance / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Puppy Love / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Quarter Hour Short / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Raging Stiffie / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Rape Leads to Insanity / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Ready for Lovemaking / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Religion Rant Song / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Renewed Before Premiere / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Resentful Guardian / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Resolved Noodle Incident / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Room Full of Crazy / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Satellite Love Interest / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Satire and Switch / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Scary Librarian / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	School Nurse / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Self-Abuse / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Self-Harm / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Self-Surgery / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Serial Escalation / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Serial Rapist / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Seven Dirty Words / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Sex God / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Sex Is Evil / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Sex Is Liberation / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Shadow Discretion Shot / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Shock Value Relationship / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Signature Scene / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Silent Treatment / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Single Malt Vision / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Single Tear / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Sleeping Single / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Smoking Hot Sex / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Son of a Whore / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Spoof Aesop / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Stalker with a Test Tube / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Standard '50s Father / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Stock Sound Effects / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Stop Motion / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Straw Hypocrite / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Success as Revenge / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Suicide Is Painless / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Surprisingly Happy Ending / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Suspiciously Specific Sermon / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Symbolic Distance / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Teacher/Student Romance / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Teen Pregnancy / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The '50s / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The All-American Boy / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Chain of Harm / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Corrupter / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Gadfly / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	"The Hero Sucks" Song / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Immodest Orgasm / int_a144cb39
The Millennium Age of Animation	seeAlso	Moral Orel
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Mistress / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Nothing After Death / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Pastor's Queer Kid / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	The Voiceless / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Time-Shifted Actor / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Too Good to Last / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Toy-Based Characterization / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Transparent Closet / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Troubled Abuser / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Turn the Other Cheek / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Twisted Christmas / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Unfinished Episode / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Unholy Matrimony / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Unspecified Role Credit / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Used to Be a Sweet Kid / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Virgin-Shaming / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Voiceover Letter / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Vomit Indiscretion Shot / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Wall of Weapons / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Was Too Hard on Him / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Western Animation of the 2000s / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	What Does She See in Him? / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Where Did We Go Wrong? / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	White-and-Grey Morality / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Why Couldn't You Be Different? / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Wound That Will Not Heal / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Wrong-Name Outburst / int_a144cb39
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Recap Episode / int_a144cb39
moralorel	sameAs	Moral Orel

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