Clay grounds Orel from church, and Orel's mental and physical health both suffer as a result. With Carolyn Lawrence, Scott Adsit, Britta Phillips, Tigger Stamatopoulos. The program takes place in the fictional The main character is Orel Puppington, a student at Alfred G. Diorama Elementary School, who tries to live by the The first season of the show followed a standard formula: Orel would hear a sermon in church on Sunday, then proceed to have some sort of misadventure based on his attempts to live by his (usually warped) interpretation of the lesson. Because they're a family.
The episode centers around Doughy instead of Orel, and was originally screened only once at a special live event, "Sunday with Moral Orel" in San Francisco on January 18, 2009. At the 2008 San Diego Com
It is revealed that during the trip, Orel's father gets drunk and shoots him in the leg, afterward showing a complete lack of remorse or sense of responsibility.
The season culminated in a two-part episode dealing with a camping trip, during which Orel lost all faith in his father. Originally, before being cut down to a 13-episode third season and later cancelled, the show was supposed to have two more seasons and evolve into a show entitled The series was troubled throughout its run. The third and final season of the show was structured as a massive, interconnecting, 13-part story dealing with the events leading up to and during the camping trip, and their long-reaching implications. The series has been described as "Davey and Goliath... meets South Park". Created by Dino Stamatopoulos.
They have their hopes, their dreams, and their problems. Moral Orel is an American adult stop-motion animated television series, which originally aired on Adult Swim from December 13, 2005 to December 18, 2008. However, Dino Stamatopoulos, the show's creator, is wary of the comparison with Davey and Goliath, telling the New York Times that Moral Orel grew out of a concept for a send-up of a Leave It to Beaver-style 1950s sitcom that would star Iggy Pop. Meet the Puppingtons - they're a family. A parody of past religious-geared animated shows starring Orel, an optimistic God-fearing young boy in a world of cynicism. This article has a layout problem and either needs to have it fixed or cleaned up.. Although still the primary character, Orel became less a catalyst for each episode's events than an unwitting bystander often left confused and dejected at the end of an episode, who found himself unable to reconcile his optimistic nature and faith with the corruption and cynicism of the adults around him, particularly his father. The following is a list of episodes for the Three episodes in this season had to be cleared by Cartoon Network's Episode 1 of 13: "Numb" opens and closes with the song "According to Dino Stamatopoulos in the commentary for the series finale, there were seven finished episode scripts that Adult Swim chose not to produce due to their decision to cancel the series/roll back the number of season-three episodes from 20 to 13. The episode—which featured the culmination of numerous story arcs developed throughout the first season, and ended with a After the 2011 Halloween mini-marathon for The entire show has been available to buy at various digital Most of the season's latter half would focus on Orel's relationship with his dying grandfather, who would help further Orel's emotional growth into adulthood and help him reconcile his faith with life's realities. Probably a lot like your family. On May 26, 2015, series animator David Tuber uploaded the episode on his YouTube channel.
Other aborted plotlines would involve Clay's affair with Miss Censordoll and Bloberta's affair with Officer Papermouth, culminating in Orel's grandfather's death and Orel's transformation into a goth-type figure in the wake of the loss of the only good parental figure in his life.
The controversial Adult Swim series was created by Dino Stamatopoulos. The series culminates in the ultimate dissolution of Clay's relationship with Orel's coach, and the revelation that Orel will one day be able to put his unhappy childhood behind him to raise a better family than the one in which he grew up. Had the show not been cancelled and cut down to 13 episodes, its second half would have played out quite differently: Orel's paternal grandfather would have joined the cast, appearing in an episode that happens after the events of "Sacrifice" while Clay goes to retrieve the body of the bear Orel shot.
Adult Swim wanted to debut the show in December as part of a holiday-themed programming block. It was suggested that Adult Swim might be willing to make a "Moral Orel special" in the future, but Stamatopolous stated that he declined the offer to move on to other projects, resulting in the creation of "Honor" as a series finale for the character.