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Most importantly, the town is paralyzed with an inability to admit they have a problem, blaming religion for showing them the right path and acting surprised when life doesn't follow the script.

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Most importantly, the town is paralyzed with an inability to admit they have a problem, blaming religion for showing them the right path and acting surprised when life doesn't follow the script.script.

[[WMG: The series takes place in a world that is standard-cartoon wacky, but Moralton has isolated itself to the point of being just plain crazy.]]
Running off the fact that ''a caveman was cryogenically frozen inside a block of ice in the mid-America'', the setting itself may be Gumball or Bojack-Horseman levels of wacky, but Moralton has isolated itself so thoroughly that the only time we question the physics and history of the setting is during that one episode. Talking animals and animate-inanimate objects are never seen because they're either ousted by the racist community or outright ''lynched offscreen'', the local news channels are intentionally self-sustaining to prevent news from the outside world from trickling in, and technology has been stuck in the 1950's while the timeline is actually between 2000-2010.
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Practically as an adult he would have confusing feelings about say, The figerille boy, and go to varying family members for advice. Firstly his mother before realizing she's to damaged to help, then his sister who we'll she is seeing someone now isn't much help due her lack of experience and age, even going to Uncle Danielle and Stephanie who also fail, before he ends up drunkingly spilling his issues to Oerl on a social visit at the bar, and getting the more sound advice. (The companion episode to this would be Oerl attempting to explain to his son why he allows Joe to still "pick on"/insult him and a mature Oerl attempting to explain turn the other cheek and knowing that Joe doesn't have much going for him) so the episode would end seeing the end of a slightly nicer interaction between Oerl (with son in tow) and Joe, before Joe gets the nerve to tell whoever he likes he likes them. The credits roll over what Joe is saying but the reaction is nice.

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Practically as an adult he would have confusing feelings about say, The figerille boy, and go to varying family members for advice. Firstly his mother before realizing she's to damaged to help, then his sister who we'll she is seeing someone now isn't much help due her lack of experience and age, even going to Uncle Danielle and Stephanie who also fail, before he ends up drunkingly spilling his issues to Oerl on a social visit at the bar, and getting the more sound advice. (The companion episode to this would be Oerl attempting to explain to his son why he allows Joe to still "pick on"/insult him and a mature Oerl attempting to explain turn the other cheek and knowing that Joe doesn't have much going for him) so the episode would end seeing the end of a slightly nicer interaction between Oerl (with son in tow) and Joe, before Joe gets the nerve to tell whoever he likes he likes them. The credits roll over what Joe is saying but the reaction is nice.nice.

[[WMG: ReligionIsWrong and no steps are taken to improve what they have]]
We might never know if there really is or is not a god / afterlife / divine edict in Morel Orel's universe, but whatever the truth is, there is enough horrifying evidence from the show to prove that whatever the townsfolk believe is the right way to live? That ain't it.

It's not the town's shallow faith that ruins them, but their inability to ''question'' and re-interpret their faith. Everyone in the series ends up going into one of two extremes: attempts at hyper-faith, which minimize their deviation from Orthodox Christianity only to quickly veer out of control as they are mindlessly taken to their logical conclusion (a core staple of Orel's PureIsNotGood [[ALessonLearnedTooWell hijinks]] up to and including ''attempting to murder his brother for God''), or faking it, in which they pretend to be faithful, even to themselves, but cannot believe that they can hold themselves up to the ridiculously stagnant church standards while keeping their own social standing (Clay especially, and pretty much everyone else).

Most importantly, the town is paralyzed with an inability to admit they have a problem, blaming religion for showing them the right path and acting surprised when life doesn't follow the script.
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** As mentioned above it’s very possible (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice, but unfortunately he lacks the strength to stop or become someone better.

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** As mentioned above it’s very possible (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice, but unfortunately he lacks the strength of character to stop or become someone better.
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** Adding to that theory, God/anything church related (and to a lesser extent, probably stop motion) would be his special interest.
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** As mentioned above it’s very possible (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice, but
unfortunately he lacks the strength to stop or become someone better.

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** As mentioned above it’s very possible (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice, but
but unfortunately he lacks the strength to stop or become someone better.better.

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** As mentioned above it’s very possible (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice, but lacks the strength to stop or become someone better .

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** As mentioned above it’s very possible (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice, but but
unfortunately he
lacks the strength to stop or become someone better .better.
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** As mentioned above it’s very possible (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice’.

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** As mentioned above it’s very possible (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice’.‘Sacrifice, but lacks the strength to stop or become someone better .
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** As mentioned above it’s very possible that (as messed up as it sounds) all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice’

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** As mentioned above it’s very possible that (as messed up as it sounds) that all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were in reality his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice’‘Sacrifice’.
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** It’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice’

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** It’s As mentioned above it’s very possible that (as messed up as it sounds) all of Orel’s lectures and spankings in hands of Clay’s were his twisted way of showing his care and affection to Orel. Additionally it’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel and it’s aware of his abuse towards him based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice’
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** It’s subtly implied that Clay does loves Orel based on the speech he gave on ‘Sacrifice’
-->Clay: And that through your weaknesses, you built up a poison that poisoned others around you. '''That you love.'''
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* Orel is Lucifer?

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* ** Orel is Lucifer?
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* Orel is Lucifer?
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As is stated both here on the main article and on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki Moral Oral's happy ending was the product of a forced GeckoEnding by the Executives of Creator/AdultSwim. So It can be assumed that if Moral Oral was allowed to continue for a possible 4th and 5th season Oral's remaining childhood would have gotten [[FromBadToWorse increasingly worse]].
Since the Deconstructionist humor was on what seemed to be a increasing Slippery Slope along the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism regardless of what WordOfGod had said about Oral getting darker and yet growing as a person. Nothing would stop Orals creator from making things more and more miserable for his lead character and his universe. If oral didnt become just like his father the viewers would have either seen Oral become a miserable homeless drunken strung out wreck or some Evangelion type FateWorseThanDeath like some paranormal force of wrath or brutal justice killing everyone in town leaving only Oral alive a hollow insane shell.
** The happy ending wasn't the part that was forced, it was the abruptness of it. The creators have stated that Oral still would have gotten his happy ending.

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As is stated both here on the main article and on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki Moral Oral's Orel's happy ending was the product of a forced GeckoEnding by the Executives of Creator/AdultSwim. So It can be assumed that if Moral Oral Orel was allowed to continue for a possible 4th and 5th season Oral's Orel's remaining childhood would have gotten [[FromBadToWorse increasingly worse]].
Since the Deconstructionist humor was on what seemed to be a increasing Slippery Slope along the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism regardless of what WordOfGod had said about Oral Orel getting darker and yet growing as a person. Nothing would stop Orals Orels creator from making things more and more miserable for his lead character and his universe. If oral didnt become just like his father the viewers would have either seen Oral Orel become a miserable homeless drunken strung out wreck or some Evangelion type FateWorseThanDeath like some paranormal force of wrath or brutal justice killing everyone in town leaving only Oral Orel alive a hollow insane shell.
** The happy ending wasn't the part that was forced, it was the abruptness of it. The creators have stated that Oral Orel still would have gotten his happy ending.
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[[WMG: Oral and his brother(s) will be taken by Child Protective Service after the series finaly and adopted by Stephanie and her father]]
When Stephanie finaly hears what happens at his house (proably from Orel at work), she called CPS who then sent over a social worker to investigate. After Oral told the social worker about his hunting trip with his Dad, the Puppingtons soon lost custody and the boys were adopted by the closest thing to a loving/competent adult. That's why adult Oral is so well adjusted.

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[[WMG: Oral Orel and his brother(s) will be taken by Child Protective Service after the series finaly and adopted by Stephanie and her father]]
When Stephanie finaly hears what happens at his house (proably from Orel at work), she called CPS who then sent over a social worker to investigate. After Oral Orel told the social worker about his hunting trip with his Dad, the Puppingtons soon lost custody and the boys were adopted by the closest thing to a loving/competent adult. That's why adult Oral is so well adjusted.
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** Also, would that make Reverend Putty or Stephanie [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Gene]] [[Series/AshesToAshes Hunt?]]

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** Also, would that make Reverend Putty or Stephanie [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Gene]] [[Series/AshesToAshes [[Series/AshesToAshes2008 Hunt?]]
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Dino imagined that Orel would stay in Moralton to make it a better place, and where better than at the pulpit?

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Dino imagined that Orel would stay in Moralton to make it a better place, and where better than at the pulpit?pulpit?

[[WMG: Joe, later in life will struggle with his sexuality]]

Joe's go-to main insults are that something is dumb and old are shown to be projections of his own short-coming and fears. So it's safe to assume he may be a budding homosexual as well.

Practically as an adult he would have confusing feelings about say, The figerille boy, and go to varying family members for advice. Firstly his mother before realizing she's to damaged to help, then his sister who we'll she is seeing someone now isn't much help due her lack of experience and age, even going to Uncle Danielle and Stephanie who also fail, before he ends up drunkingly spilling his issues to Oerl on a social visit at the bar, and getting the more sound advice. (The companion episode to this would be Oerl attempting to explain to his son why he allows Joe to still "pick on"/insult him and a mature Oerl attempting to explain turn the other cheek and knowing that Joe doesn't have much going for him) so the episode would end seeing the end of a slightly nicer interaction between Oerl (with son in tow) and Joe, before Joe gets the nerve to tell whoever he likes he likes them. The credits roll over what Joe is saying but the reaction is nice.
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** Clay acted upon it in the only way he knew how to love. Which was warped and insane in itself, the way young Clay's eye lit up when he was about to get hit in the face.
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* Some evidence seems to exist that Christina's parents were actually worse than Orel's, so it doesn't seem likely that the picture is of them.




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*** By design, Moral Orel couldn't turn out like Aqua Teen or Robot Chicken, in the sense that only the very forgiving or very perverse end up liking them after several seasons, if that's what is meant by the apparent consensus by tropers that those two shows have fallen into seasonal rot. AT and RC are focused on comedy and eschew continuity, whereas Moral Orel, from Season 3 onward, was more drama than comedy and EXTREMELY focused on continuity. If it had continued, it probably would've been even better. It was supposed to last five seasons, and its name would eventually change from Moral Orel to Moralton as it became focused on the town overall and not just Orel. If seasonal rot were to happen, it would be because of different reasons that AT or RC, and I think that Dino Stamatopolous would take special care to make sure that nothing like that happened. It was cancelled simply because the Ms. Sculptham scenes from "Alone" were too disturbing for Keith Crawford, Mike Lazzo, and Nick Weidenfeld to handle without humor to soften the impact, and they were afraid of Dino making it more disturbing. How you can get much more disturbing than the events of that episode, I have no idea, however.
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[[WMG:The BigBad is {{Satan}}.]]
Isn't Satan the Big Bad of all of Christianity?
* Or the BigBad is [[GodIsEvil God]], and the world in the show is exactly as His word dictates ours should be.

[[WMG:Everyone is TheAntichrist except for Orel.]]
And even the people who are nice to him.

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[[WMG:The BigBad is {{Satan}}.]]
Isn't Satan the Big Bad of all of Christianity?
* Or the BigBad is [[GodIsEvil God]], and the world in the show is exactly as His word dictates ours should be.

[[WMG:Everyone is TheAntichrist except for Orel.]]
And even the people who are nice to him.
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As is stated both here on the main article and on ThatOtherWiki Moral Oral's happy ending was the product of a forced GeckoEnding by the Executives of Creator/AdultSwim. So It can be assumed that if Moral Oral was allowed to continue for a possible 4th and 5th season Oral's remaining childhood would have gotten [[FromBadToWorse increasingly worse]].

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As is stated both here on the main article and on ThatOtherWiki Wiki/ThatOtherWiki Moral Oral's happy ending was the product of a forced GeckoEnding by the Executives of Creator/AdultSwim. So It can be assumed that if Moral Oral was allowed to continue for a possible 4th and 5th season Oral's remaining childhood would have gotten [[FromBadToWorse increasingly worse]].
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* Likewise, Doughy's "parents" are really dead, and he was left in the custody of his eighteen-year-old dumb JerkJock brother and DumbBlonde girlfriend, later wife. Hence why they barely act like he exists and look and talk like a couple of high-school kids.

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* Likewise, Doughy's "parents" are really dead, and he was left in the custody of his eighteen-year-old dumb JerkJock brother and DumbBlonde girlfriend, later wife. Hence why they barely act like he exists and look and talk like a couple of high-school kids.kids.

[[WMG: Orel succeeds Rev. Putty as reverend of the church.]]
Dino imagined that Orel would stay in Moralton to make it a better place, and where better than at the pulpit?
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** Also, would that make Reverend Putty or Stephanie [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Gene]] [[AshesToAshes Hunt?]]

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** Also, would that make Reverend Putty or Stephanie [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Gene]] [[AshesToAshes [[Series/AshesToAshes Hunt?]]
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Yes, he was genuinely sincere in his need and love for Stopframe, but it was purely emotional and not sexual for him, which was not the same for the coach. When you think about it, Clay isn't really a sexual creature outside of the episodes where he does roleplay with the other family and hires prostitutes from Orel. All his 'serious' relationships are just pure emotional obsession and attachment to another figure, less about sex and more about desperately trying to fill the need for parental affection in him. Clay is shown being lavished with attention in his early childhood by his mother before her death and taking desperate actions whenever he wanted his Father's. Bloberta roped him into a quick marriage by manipulating him into thinking he needed her and that she could provide him with love that he so craved. It's even implied later on that he's developed an OedipusComplex. Coach Stopframe's level of obsession with Clay reminded him of his mother's obsession. What Clay wanted most was to find someone who would practically worship him, even if it meant leading someone on that he had no real sexual attraction to. Stopframe and Clay's relationship was just an another example of how manipulative and uncaring of other's Clay is. 'Nesting' supports this very well, due to all the VERY Freudian imagery in Clay's head and Censordoll easily manipulating him as a mother-figure.

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Yes, he was genuinely sincere in his need and love for Stopframe, but it was purely emotional and not sexual for him, which was not the same for the coach. When you think about it, Clay isn't really a sexual creature outside of the episodes where he does roleplay with the other family and hires prostitutes from Orel. All his 'serious' relationships are just pure emotional obsession and attachment to another figure, less about sex and more about desperately trying to fill the need for parental affection in him. Clay is shown being lavished with attention in his early childhood by his mother before her death and taking desperate actions whenever he wanted his Father's. Bloberta roped him into a quick marriage by manipulating him into thinking he needed her and that she could provide him with love that he so craved. It's even implied later on that he's developed an OedipusComplex. Coach Stopframe's level of obsession with Clay reminded him of his mother's obsession. What Clay wanted most was to find someone who would practically worship him, even if it meant leading someone on that he had no real sexual attraction to. Stopframe and Clay's relationship was just an another example of how manipulative and uncaring of other's Clay is. 'Nesting' supports this very well, due to all the VERY Freudian imagery in Clay's head and Censordoll easily manipulating him as a mother-figure.mother-figure.

[[WMG: A few more theories....]]
* Orel has autism, hence his childlike, unquestioning faith, gullibility, and tendency to take things at face value and frequently misinterpret what he's told, with hilarious and even chilling results. His grandfather was the only one who ever recognized he isn't stupid, the boy just ''learns'' a little differently. Not having responsible adults around to help put things in proper perspective for Orel can't help matters.
* Joe's deep-voiced "sister" is actually his father, a pre-op transsexual, and his aged, senile "father" is really his grandfather. When "she" says, "I'm not your mother", "she" is only telling half the story. He fathered Joe as a teenager with an equally as young, and maybe a bit ditsy (though far from around-the-bend childlike, that came later) Nurse Bendy. Later he realized he was a woman trapped in a man's body and broke it off with Bendy ,which may have precipitated her madness. His father soon forgot who his son really is, this being about the time Alzheimer's set in. In effect, he became his own "sister", raising his "nephew" and doting on his aging, incontinent "grandfather" as penance.
* Likewise, Doughy's "parents" are really dead, and he was left in the custody of his eighteen-year-old dumb JerkJock brother and DumbBlonde girlfriend, later wife. Hence why they barely act like he exists and look and talk like a couple of high-school kids.
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* They don't have anything against the show, they just wanted it to end as one of Creator/AdultSwim's best shows, [[SeasonalRot so that it ends before it turns out like]] ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' or ''RobotChicken''.
** Considering how not long after the creator moved on to MaryShelleysFrankenhole, possible at least.

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* They don't have anything against the show, they just wanted it to end as one of Creator/AdultSwim's best shows, [[SeasonalRot so that it ends before it turns out like]] ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' or ''RobotChicken''.
''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''.
** Considering how not long after the creator moved on to MaryShelleysFrankenhole, WesternAnimation/MaryShelleysFrankenhole, possible at least.

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** The happy ending wasn't the part that was forced, it was the abruptness of it. The creators have stated that Oral still would have gotten his happy ending.
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** Also, would that make Reverend Putty or Stephanie [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Gene]] [[AshesToAshes Hunt?]]

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** Also, would that make Reverend Putty or Stephanie [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Gene]] [[AshesToAshes Hunt?]]Hunt?]]

[[WMG:Clay wasn't really Gay or Bi. Or even all that sexual.]]
Yes, he was genuinely sincere in his need and love for Stopframe, but it was purely emotional and not sexual for him, which was not the same for the coach. When you think about it, Clay isn't really a sexual creature outside of the episodes where he does roleplay with the other family and hires prostitutes from Orel. All his 'serious' relationships are just pure emotional obsession and attachment to another figure, less about sex and more about desperately trying to fill the need for parental affection in him. Clay is shown being lavished with attention in his early childhood by his mother before her death and taking desperate actions whenever he wanted his Father's. Bloberta roped him into a quick marriage by manipulating him into thinking he needed her and that she could provide him with love that he so craved. It's even implied later on that he's developed an OedipusComplex. Coach Stopframe's level of obsession with Clay reminded him of his mother's obsession. What Clay wanted most was to find someone who would practically worship him, even if it meant leading someone on that he had no real sexual attraction to. Stopframe and Clay's relationship was just an another example of how manipulative and uncaring of other's Clay is. 'Nesting' supports this very well, due to all the VERY Freudian imagery in Clay's head and Censordoll easily manipulating him as a mother-figure.
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* Or the BigBad is [[godisevil God]], and the world in the show is exactly as His word dictates ours should be.

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* Or the BigBad is [[godisevil [[GodIsEvil God]], and the world in the show is exactly as His word dictates ours should be.
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*Or the BigBad is [[godisevil God]], and the world in the show is exactly as His word dictates ours should be.

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