History YMMV / MoralOrel

* ContinuityPorn: It's got a surprising amount, considering it's an 11-minutes-per-episode RefugeInAudacity comedy show.

** [[WordOfGod Dino]] has admitted this is one of his pet peeves, saying "You don't call [[DennisTheMenace Dennis "Menace."]]

* CompleteMonster: There really isn't a more fitting trope to describe the true form of Clay when he's drunk. He may be a monster with a tragic pathos, but he is still a monster.
** Coach Stopframe is implied to be this in an early episode, intending to use Orel as a satanic sacrifice. [[spoiler:Even Stopframe is horrified at seeing Clay as he really is, though.]]

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The announcement on Halloween 2011 that a new ''Moral Orel'' special was coming "sometime in the near future".
** AdultSwim confirmed ''Beforel Orel'' at its May 2012 upfront. Hallelujah!

* TastesLikeDirt: It should be apparent enough reading through this...

** JerkAssWoobie: Adult Clay. There ''is'' a distinction.

* FreudWasRight: "Nesting" reveals that Clay has a lot of... interesting womb-related fantasies.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Adult Swim wanted Season 3 to go down the same dark road as the Season 2 finale, "Nature". The episode "Alone" went down that dark road -- then it got on the highway, swerved into oncoming traffic, and caused a multi-car pileup akin to ''FinalDestination 2''. After that episode was screened for Adult Swim executives, said executives cancelled the show and cut its final season down to 13 episodes ''despite getting exactly what they asked for in the first place''.

* {{Anvilicious}}: This is not done in regards to Christianity itself, suprisingly enough; the show is actually more of a critique of those who don't practice what they preach.

* SignatureScene: Clay shooting Orel in the leg in "Nature: Part 2," the precise moment when the show turned from dark to pitch black.

* AcceptableTargets: White, conservative, Middle American fundamentalist Christians. It's like an orgy of target acceptability. That's the point when the whole point is to deconstruct it to hell.
** In fairness, Orel himself qualifies as the above, as does Christina, and Reverend Putty's love for his daughter shows that he's not to be considered a strawman. For that matter, Clay Puppington, for all his monstrous actions, had such a thoroughly miserable life that he literally doesn't know how good he could have it if he just tried.
** In light of that, let's be specific and go for white, conservative, ''hypocritical'' fundamentalist Christians

* AngstWhatAngst: Orel takes [[spoiler: getting shot]] surprisingly well. Sure, he starts spiting his father, but to everyone else he's as sweet as ever.
* {{Anvilicious}}: Though, surprisingly, not in regards to Christianity itself; the show actually heavily critiques those who don't practice what they preach.

* {{Asspull}}: [[spoiler: The ending.]] Though this is mostly due to {{executive meddling}} denying the writers their chance to wrap things up properly.
* CompleteMonster: There really isn't a more fitting trope to describe the true form of Clay - drunk. A monster with a tragic pathos, but a monster nonetheless.
** Coach Stopframe is implied to be this in an early episode, intending to use Orel as a satanic sacrifice. [[spoiler: Even Stopframe is horrified at seeing Clay as he really is, though.]]
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: See the page
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome
* ContinuityPorn: It's got a surprising amount, considering it's an 11-minute RefugeInAudacity comedy show.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Adult Swim wanted Season 3 of the show to go down the same dark road as the Season 2 finale, "Nature". The episode "Alone" went down that dark road...then it got on the highway and caused a multi-car pileup. After that episode was screened for them, Adult Swim executives cancelled the show on the spot and cut its final season down to 13 episodes -- ''despite getting exactly the kind of content that they asked for in the first place''.
* MoralEventHorizon: Clay in "Nature" pushes the character over the Moral Event Horizon and then some, as far as shooting his own son in the leg, ruins his lucky shirt to make a tourniquet, drinks the medical alcohol which could have prevented infection, and then falls into a drunken coma for nearly twenty-four hours only to wake up and disavows all responsibility for shooting his son since he doesn't remember doing it, and only cares about the possibility of Orel killing a big bear (which Orel denies if only to spite his father). And while the writers do try and bring him back over the line in season three with flashback episodes showing how Bloberta tricked him into marrying him/turned him into a drunk by giving him his first drink as well as his childhood being abused by a father who never wanted children, they completely negate any regained sympathy in the final two episodes, with Clay telling Orel that he was HAPPY that he shot him, flaunting the "Thou shall honor your father" commandment as a means to emotionally break Orel's spirit, and in the character's final scene, cursing out Coach Stopframe for believing Orel's stories about Clay's cruelty and by-and-large being more concerned about keeping Stopframe rejecting him than he is about how he's fucked up Orel's life.
** This may or may not be the fault of the show getting cut down in season 3.
** Amazingly, Coach Stopframe's taking Orel to a Satanic ritual to use the boy as a VirginSacrifice somehow ''does '''not''' manage to be this''. Perhaps it's because Daniel seems ashamed of what he's doing, and eventually steps out of it. Or because the Satanists are so goofy.

* TastesLikeDirt: should be apparent enough reading through this...
** Also Clay's "dream" sequence showing his OedipusComplex; so [[NauseaFuel digusting]] it becomes outright NightmareFuel.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: The last season is considered a masterpiece of animation. It's also unfathomably bleak.
* TheWoobie: Orel, Florence, Nurse Bendy, Bloberta, young Clay... Hell, almost everyone.

* {{Asspull}}: [[spoiler: The ending.]] Though this is mostly due to {{executive meddling}} denying the writers their chance to wrap things up properly.

* {{Squick}}: The close-up of Ms. Censordoll sucking down "under-fried, extra-slithery" eggs

* AcceptableTargets: White, conservative, [[strike:Southern]] fundamentalist Christians. It's like an orgy of target acceptability. That's the point when the whole point is to deconstruct it to hell.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Despite usually being an impressive piece of claymation, the opening of "Nesting" was disappointingly amateur, a shame consisting the episode had a unique orchestral cover of the opening theme.

** And let's not forget "I Hate You Jesus".

* CompleteMonster: Coach Stopframe is implied to be this in an early episode, intending to use Orel as a satanic sacrifice. [[spoiler: Even Stopframe is horrified at seeing Clay as he really is, though.]]

* CompleteMonster: There really isn't a more fitting trope to describe the true form of Clay - drunk. A monster with a tragic pathos, but a monster nonetheless.

* AbusiveParents: People say that Clay is abusive because he beats Orel. (Well, admittedly that's not the end of it.) Let's see, Orel has raped women, killed men, beat another child to a pulp, became a drug addict, and raised the dead, who then feasted upon the living. Seriously, [[AccidentalInnuendo is he getting off so hard]]?

** Reverend Putty being romantically interested in his daughter (before he knew), Doctor Potterswheel's fetish for wounds and diseases, the closeups of eggs being laid...

** Amazingly, Coach Stopframe's taking Orel to a Satanic ritual to use the boy as a VirginSacrifice somehow ''does '''not''' manage to be this''. Perhaps it's because Daniel seems ashamed of what he's doing, and eventually steps out of it. Or because the Satanists are so goofy.

{{Asspull}}: [[spoiler: The ending.]] Though this is mostly due to {{executive meddling}} denying the writers their chance to wrap things up properly.

* MakeOutPoint: Inspiration Point, the place Christina invites Orel when their parents won't let them see each other. Subverted when, instead of going there to make out, they start ''praying''.