History Headscratchers / MoralOrel

* Why does Clay hate his "lousy stinkin' dead end job" as Mayor of Moralton anyway? He seems focused on money even though Mayor is a pretty good job.

** It is heavily implied that his parents were stuck living their high school days, not knowing or caring that part of their lives is over. However, what we're not clear on (or I'm not clear on, I haven't seen that episode in a while) is if the regression was always there, or if it started out and worsened over a time-frame. Perhaps what we see of them is something that happened maybe about 2 years ago or such and Doughy was at least able to use the money to feed and take care of some issues at the house. Again, without an exact time-frame, nothing is really certain. Comes with the name anyway, doughy "latchkey".

** It is heavily implied that his parents were stuck living their high school days, not knowing or caring that part of their lives is over. However, what we're not clear on (or I'm not clear on, I haven't seen that episode in a while) is if the regression was always there, or if it started out and worsened over a time-frame. Perhaps what we see of them is something that happened maybe about 2 years ago or such and Doughy was at least able to use the money to feed and take care of some issues at the house. Again, without an exact time-frame, nothing is really certain.

** What makes everyone so sure that it's Clay and Bloberta in the picture? Am I the only one that remembers that Christina's parents look ''exactly'' like Orel's?

** Clay would purposely try to instigate and emotional response as much as he possible could from his father in 'order' to be slapped,because he began to associate being phycically hit to actually being worth it,and as a result "loved" in Clay's twisted mind.

**** It seems like all the adults in Moralton hate responcibility period! My question would be why did it take a long time for the adults to realize their horrible advice is what causes Orel to cause chaos in town?

* If Clay and Blobberta hate eachother so much during Marriage then why did they have Orel in the first place? It also doesn't help that they neglect the boy and wordofgod says that Orel is not a accident.

* How the hell did Doughy even ''survive''? If they were that neglectful to him as a baby he'd have been long dead!

* Why did Orel shoot the bear rather letting it kill Clay? Besides, he's CompleteMonster and death is what those kind of villains get.

** Fundamentalist Christians aren't allowed to divorce, lest they be seen as ''unholy'' by thier fellow peers.

* What happened to all the babies conceived because of Orel's actions in "God's Chef"?

* Is it just me, or is Clay really not that sympathetic at all? Young Clay is listed as a Woobie, and older Clay as a Jerk Ass Woobie, but honestly I feel like Young Clay deserves the latter title (at best), and adult Clay deserves no such thing. [[spoiler:Young Clay was self-indulgent, accidently killed his mother, and seemed more concerned with chastising his step-dad for saying there was no Heaven than he was with the fact that his mother just died. To make matters worse, the poor guy tried to get on well with Clay, and even planned to give him his treasured 'Ol Gunny,' and while he wasn't a great parent self-indulgent Clay gave him nothing to workwith. Too make matters worse, self-indulgent Clay monopolized his mother's attention and affection, forcing Senior Puffington to make due with almost nothing. Then, after his wife died Clay provoked him and provoked him for his own selfish needs, not once considering the idea that he should try to comfort or identify with the man.]] And we all know about the atrocities adult clay commited.
** Well, Clay is essentially Satan in human form. He did have some redeeming qualities at one point in his life, but he tossed them away like garbage. He even admits to hating himself while drunk. In fact, by the last episode, Coach Stopframe, being the last person to really show him affection, dumps him. This shows what he is and what he has been all along: pathetic. He may not be very sympathetic, but he is pitiful, just like Satan. People like Clay really do exist in real life, and they are just as pathetic as he is. CryForTheDevil, indeed.
*** I feel sympathetic for Clay
*** I'd argue that what makes him sympathetic is that it's implied he does love his family, but he's such a weak and dysfunctional person that for a lot of complex reasons he doesn't make said love a positive influence in his life, and he just poisons everyone he's near, and so the smartest, healthiest, sanest decision you can make is to just avoid him enough to avoid getting hurt. There's also empathy for how empty and miserable his life is implied will be for the rest of his life, and frankly probably always was. Orel arguably had a worse childhood than Clay, yet still had a fulfilling life; Clay did not. Most audience members want to believe they'd be like Orel in the face of adversity, when most at least suspect deep down there's a very real risk of turning out like Clay did to some degree. Most people would be terrified of wasting their lives the way Clay did, and if you're someone who generally dislikes seeing others in pain or feeling empty and lonely, it can strike a lot of nerves.

* I'm sorry, but how is Bloberta a [[CompleteMonster monster]]? Clay I can understand, but Bloberta has actually been shown to love Orel.
** Bloberta is an enabler, and a very selfish one at that. She knows Clay is an alcoholic, but she not only condones but encourages his alcoholism because she's sure no sober man would stay with her. Sure, she shows some regret, crying when she is alone, but she does nothing productive.

* Does Shapey and/or Block even go to school? Surely behavior such as theirs would not fly there.

** Bloberta is an enabler, and a very selfish one at that. She knows Clay is an alcoholic, but she not only condones but encourages his alcoholism because she's sure no sober man would stay with her. Sure, she shows some regret, crying when she is alone, but she does nothing productive.

** Maybe because every beating is actually for the completely wrong reasons. Orel raped women? He gets beaten up because he did so in an unholy manner(using a kitchen utensil). Beat another child to a pulp? He gets beaten for abandoning his old friends. Became a drug addict? He gets beaten for using slang. So his intentions are rather questionable, and you can argue spanking isn't the best punishment anyway. What I think is odd is that the one time Orel gets punished for something he did(for bathing in his friends' blood in "Grounded") it's listed as a KickTheDog moment(even more so because the reason Clay resorted to grounding him was that the beatings were obviously not working anymore).

** Clay doesn't take the blame for shooting Orel, because, as Clay said, he doesn't remember. However, he takes the credit of shooting the bear, even though he doesn't know that he did shoot the bear. It's just a huge slap in the face for Orel.

* I'm sorry, but how is Bloberta a [[CompleteMonster monster]]? Clay I can understand, but Bloberta has actually been shown to love Orel.

** By default? He might have been the only person who ran and ended up voting for himself.

** By default?

* But in the first place, HOW did such a despicable person like Clay manage to [[spoiler:become a mayor?]] He had to win a vote, hadn't he?

** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint That's part of the joke, dumbass.]]

* But in the first place, HOW did such a despicable person like Clay manage to become a mayor? He had to win a vote, hadn't he?