Unpacking Moral Orel | An Underappreciated Masterpiece

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Published 2022-08-15
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Looking into the simultaneously hilarious and dark anatomy of the 2006 show Moral Orel.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Intro: (0:00)
Season One: (5:20)
Season Two: (22:19)
Season Three: (48:03)
Conclusion: (1:13:45)
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Music (In order heard):

No Children - Meromorphic (The Mountain Goats - Cover)

The Simpsons Intro Theme - Danny Elfman

Bughici - Suite for Violin
Bartok - Roumanian Folk Dances
by Advent Chamber Orchestra

Danse Morialta
Autumn Day
Inner Light
Impromptu in Quarter Common Meantone
by Kevin Macleod

Christmas Is Coming by MaxKoMusic | maxkomusic.com/
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Meditation Impromptu 01
by Kevin Macleod

Handel - Entrance to the Queen of Sheba
by Advent Chamber Orchestra

Danzi: Wind Quintet Op 67 No 3 In E-Flat Major, 2 Andante Moderato
by Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet

The Forest and the Trees
by Kevin MacLeod

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 3, 1 allegro
by Advent Chamber Orchestra

Clean Soul
by Kevin MacLeod

The Secret Within by Darren-Curtis | soundcloud.com/desperate-measurez
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Meditation Impromptu 03
by Kevin Macleod

Albinoni - Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Major Op9 no3, 3 Allegro
by Advent Chamber Orchestra

Winter Reflections
by Kevin Macleod

Vivaldi - Credo: Crucifixus
by Advent Chamber Orchestra

Smoother Mood
Windswept
by Kevin Macleod

All Comments (21)
  • My favorite “ joke” from the series was the reverend praying for a woman to love forever, but instead of a wife he gets an adult daughter
  • "it starts off rather innocent with orel getting addicted to crack" by far the weirdest sentence in this video.
  • @marcilenerose7488
    I always got the impression that doughys parents got married as teenagers just to avoid "the sin of premarital sex" and are only together for that reason
  • @megadude16
    "Your mom likes your dad?"
    Jeez, that line hit me.
  • @RocketboyX
    I always found it brilliant how the show starts with the horror trope of a Zombie take over, but a simple camping trip was the most terrifying thing that took place.
  • Literally just realized that the reason Orel never got punished for any of the laws he broke (and people he literally killed) and instead Clay just got to take him home is because Clay is the fucking Mayor.
  • @bigdank166
    Carolyn Lawrence (the voice actor of orel and sandy cheeks)

    Once stated; “There are moments where my heart broke for Orel while I was playing him, He touched me emotionally more than any character I’ve ever played.”
  • @foxarror
    imagine Clay and Bloberta living together after Orel, Shapey, and Block moved out. the deafening, deadly silence.
  • I wouldn’t call Nurse Bendy delusional. She is coping via age regression. She knows the stuffed animals aren’t actually people, she is attached to them because they comfort her. She functions as an adult outside of her house, but clearly it takes a lot of emotional effort and she needs a way to de-stress and process in an environment she finds safe.
  • @nateds7326
    The fact that Reverand Putty of all people was one of the few people who grew and bettered himself as a person by the end of the show,was the real plot twist.
  • @SunsetCompass
    Even if clearly the show wasn’t meant to end that early, I’m still glad to see that by the end, after everything that possibly happened after that last confrontation, Orel got to break the cycle of abuse.
  • @iyaniahtmlx7755
    I find it comical that with Orel's, the dads, the pastor and other mens stories were told it was just 'off the wall' but the plug had to be pulled when the WOMEN started to have more of a storyline with their trauma.
  • @A_L_Y2
    Something about Morels dog that really hit me was that his death is supposed to represent how the romans executed Jesus. He did nothing but spread love and even “cured the sick” (the girl in the wheelchair). His popularity and message of love made the adults (roman’s) angry because he posed a threat. Which is the exact reasons why Jesus in the bible was executed. So the same people who make their lives revolve around Jesus and being holy became the ones who killed him, metaphorically.
  • I can’t believe you forgot to mention during the camping trip with a drunk father, he simply utters “I hate you, dad.” Finally not just backtalking but accepting that he doesn’t blindly love his family anymore, in fact, the opposite, and he’s not afraid to say it. Also coach telling Orel that his dad did one good thing, make him, finally giving Orel his own internal self worth, not external from the church or his family.
  • @user-of8fj3fr1t
    Its sad, but also wholesome that Orel has his family framed on the wall. Despite all the abuse and neglect he dealt with throughout his childhood, he still honors them with a photo. Even Block And Shapey get their pictures on the wall. Block, even though not biologically related, is still considered a brother to Orel. One could argue that it was Christine that hung it up, but I like thinking it was Orel since we don't see Christine's parents present.
  • @tarrahrusso4514
    The mountain goats "no children" is obviously a extremely depressing song of a awful relationship where no love remains, but one lyric "Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
    We're pretty sure they're all wrong" seems to imply that this couple agrees on one thing, and no one agrees with them. I always interpreted it as the couple is so similar that that they can't help but hate each other because they hate themselves, and can't bare to be stuck with themselves in a way. Sort of a twist on "opposites attract", and that fits in nicely with moral oral parents i think
  • @Jackie-kd8wd
    My favorite part of the camping trip is when Orel looks up at clay and says “I hate you” he’s finally acknowledging the truth about his father and let’s himself feel his emotions instead of constantly denying them. I’m so glad he breaks away from the generational trauma and goes on to have a happy life <3
  • @Gen-he4fh
    i’m sobbing over the gay people they were so cute “you’re nice 😘” “you’re nice 😘”
  • @Charles-sd7xu
    The scene of clay saying I love you to the coach but still being unable to say it to HIM (by saying “I love you… Orel”) and the coach immediately losing any semblance of hope for clay in his eyes breaks me. Clay is a horrible disgusting person, but the coach was the one non-destructive force in his life and seeing clay’s acceptance of losing that as he enters his house with his wife he hates and kids he feels nothing for is really heartbreaking. It really is showing the karmic force of the show, saying clay was not worthy of this last little bit of happiness he had.
  • @Celeste_bowe
    In the episode alone, there is this heartbreaking scen with nurse bendy. She goes to clean something up and the bear falls on her behind. She gets really upset and starts sobbing "not you, you can't!" over and over. It's so awful because it implies quite heavily that she not only lost her children to her baby daddy, she was also being abused by him. In my opinion it recontextualises her scene with all of the men in the show. After trauma from abuse some people become hypersexual which would explain why she has relations with certain men despite disliking him. Although it being the reason the show got cancelled, I think that it's one of the best episodes. It's heartbreaking and brilliant