Moral Orel

	Moral Orel
	; The opening title for the show, showing Orel waving at God/the viewer.
Format	Clay animation; Black comedy
Created by	Dino Stamatopoulos
Starring	Scott Adsit; Jay Johnston; Carolyn Lawrence; Britta Phillips; William Salyers; Tigger Stamatopoulos; Dino Stamatopoulos; David Herman
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	43 (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	ShadowMachine Films
Running time	11 min. (approx.)
Broadcast
Original channel	Adult Swim
Original run	December 13, 2005 – December 18, 2008
External links
	Official website

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Moral Orel was an American stop-motion animated (specifically, Clay animation) television show, which originally aired on Adult Swim from December 13, 2005 to December 18, 2008. The show is rated TV-MA due to its strong sexual references and dark, satirical humor.

It has been described as "Davey and Goliath...meets South Park".^[1] Despite advertising for the show being stylistically similar to Davey and Goliath, Dino Stamatopoulos, the creator, has stated that it is less a direct parody of that and more a parody of 1950s and 1960s style sitcoms.^[2]

At the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, Stamatopoulos announced that the show would not be renewed for a fourth season.The final season was aired interspersed with repeats of the first two in an event named "44 Nights of Orel" hosted by Stamatopoulos and others since many of the episodes took place in parallel with events of past episodes. The event started on October 6, 2008, and ran until the series finale, which aired on December 18, 2008.The show has premiered on The Comedy Channel in Australia.^[3]

[edit] General overview

The program takes place in the fictional city of Moralton, in the fictional U.S. state "Statesota", which is made up of most of Kansas, western Missouri, north Oklahoma, and a portion of Arkansas. According to the globe shown in the opening credits, Moralton is in the exact center of the United States with the town's church at the exact center of the country. The globe also has the United States as its own continent on its own hemisphere. The rest of the North American continent and South America are present, but on the other side of the globe.^{[citation needed]}

The main character is Orel, a student at Alfred G Diorama Elementary School, who constantly tries to live by the show's description of the Protestant Christian moral code. Meanwhile, he interacts with townspeople.

Most episodes of the first season had a similar 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 — which ends when his father sternly puts a halt to the proceedings, only to "correct" Orel with an even more warped interpretation. However, later episodes began to depart from this tradition. The second season began to explore the backgrounds of several characters in Moralton and even incorporated much more serious ideas. In the second season finale "Nature", the show pushed the characters to a point so detrimental that it transformed the show entirely. The following season focused on the events leading up to "Nature" and the aftermath.

Following the series premiere, The Best Christmas Ever, the Adult Swim message boards received numerous posts (later reproduced on promotional bumps) from viewers believing that the show was too ludicrous to be an actual program and that it was aired as a joke.^{[citation needed]} Although The Best Christmas Ever aired first, it was produced to be the season finale. It aired out of order to coincide with the Christmas season.

Three episodes of the first season were held back because Cartoon Network's Standards & Practices found them to be too dark and explicitly sexually crude even for Adult Swim (one episode centered on Orel drinking alcohol in order to be more adult, the second centered on Orel and his new friend beating up two boys who are presumably homosexual, and the last was centered on Orel using his sperm to impregnate the women in town without having sex with them after being reprimanded for masturbating and letting his sperm go to waste, which, according to Moralton, was a sin). Two were approved for air in May 2006, with the last "banned" episode airing July 31, 2006.

[edit] Main characters

[edit] Orel

Orel is an 11-year-old boy and the main character of the show. He constantly gets into trouble while trying to discover how to be good and his adventures create the conflict in most episodes. Because of Orel's desire to be a moral, upstanding citizen and a good Christian, he listens to Reverend Putty's sermons very closely. Although he is very attentive and tries to act in accordance to the Pastor's teachings by staying "close to the line," Orel tends to misinterpret the minister's teachings, often leading to widespread chaos in Moralton.

Orel possesses many skills. In addition to having an uncanny talent for interpreting religious doctrine literally and drastically changing his belief systems on a weekly basis, he has practiced necromancy,had considerable prowess in physical combat against his own father, and his sexual stamina appeared to be without limit after he impregnated a large portion of the women in town with the help of a pastry bag. Orel is also a natural businessman, having made a considerable amount of money selling his urine as an energy drink and unknowingly prostituting the women of Sinville to the sexually repressed men of Moralton.

One of the show's motifs is Orel's slow awakening to the flaws of the people around him, as well as the expansion of his belief system beyond his original rigid, Christian fundamentalist doctrine. In "Praying," Orel defies his father's orders and uses Buddhist meditation to deal with his stress. In "Charity," Orel becomes a full-fledged drug addict. In "Orel's Movie Premiere," Orel uses rather harsh portrayals of the people around him in his home movies; most notably portraying his father as a sadistic, drunken snarling wolf. Dr. Potterswheel asks Clay if he was molesting his son based upon said representation. Orel is often oblivious to the flaws of other Moralton citizens. In "The Best Christmas Ever" Orel never understands why Clay and Bloberta split up or Bloberta's affair.

After a disastrous sequence of events in the two-part Season Two finale "Nature," Orel loses all respect for his father. This is due to Clay shooting Orel in the leg whilst inebriated and later denying the event. This incident culminates in Orel not only telling his father for the first time that he hates him, but also lying to Clay when his father shows concern over Orel's killing of a bear; an act for which Orel denies responsibility. After "Nature," Orel remains cheerful towards townspeople, but emotionally distant towards his father. As a result of the shooting and Dr. Potterswheel's incompetent job of healing his leg, Orel develops a permanent limp, shown in the Series Finale's depiction of the adult Orel.

In the series finale, Orel realizes the true nature of his father's relationship with Coach Stopframe, although it does not bother him. Orel gives his movie projector to his brothers for Christmas. A scene from Orel's adult life, shown at the end of the series finale, shows that Orel ultimately becomes a much better man than his father ever was: marrying his childhood sweetheart Christina Posabule and maintaining a happy family with two children and a puppy. Said scene shows a stark contrast between Orel's adult life and that of his parents' and grandparents' lives.

If the series continued, Orel would have met his paternal grandfather for the first time and shared a bedroom with him. In addition Orel's relationship with his dying grandfather, who would have helped further Orel's emotional growth and helped Orel reconcile his faith with reality, would have been explored. ^[4]

Voiced by Carolyn Lawrence

[edit] Clay

Clay is Orel's father. He is a cynical alcoholic who hates his job as mayor of Moralton, his marriage, his children, and his father.

As a child, Clay was the only child of his parents. Clay's mother was a religious zealot, and had many miscarriages due to her drinking, smoking, and dangerous activities. She spoiled Clay and instructed him in the various "lost commandments" of Moses. This created tension with Clay's father, who was neglected by his wife in favor of his son, to the point that he was forced to eat his son's leftovers. Clay's life collapsed however, when he faked his own death as a prank on his mother, causing her to have a heart attack and die. Clay's father (who was not deeply religious) never forgave Clay for his part in his mother's death and emotionally shunned his son, ultimately telling him that he "wasn't worth it" as far as refusing to slap his son. This deeply affected Clay, causing him to seek out his father's abuse (in the form of his father angrily slapping him in the face) as a means to gain any sort of emotional response. His father gave Clay his gun, "Ol' Gunny," saying he is ending the male Puppington tradition of handing it down from father to son, because it is tainted with blood, referring to how Clay used it in the prank that killed his mother, but Clay says he'll keep the tradition going because he didn't want him and "Ol Gunny" to feel responsible for the death of his mother. However, in "Nature" it fails terribly since Clay knows neither what the tradition was or its purpose. Presumably, the tradition is meant to have been a father and son bonding, rather then hunting and killing animals. Clay's love for his mother would develop into an Oedipus Complex many years later, as shown in "Nesting."

When Clay was in his early twenties, he was a rather mild figure who wanted to spend his days studying the Bible at home. While attending a wedding, Clay met Bloberta Hymentact. The two got to know one another at the wedding reception, where an alcoholic Bloberta introduced clean-living Clay to liquor, suggesting that drinking "makes us better people" (something that would come back to haunt Bloberta.) During the reception, Clay told Bloberta a half lie by saying that his parents were dead, omitting thet fact that his father was still alive. Alcohol opened up a whole new side to Clay's personality, turning him into a manipulative drunkard and a womanizer, which provoked Bloberta to knock him unconscious in order to keep him from flirting with other women. Afterwards, Bloberta lied to Clay, telling him that he passed out and that she looked after him while he was unconscious. She then pressures him to marry her, citing that he needed someone like her to "help him" in an attempt to fulfill her own need of being needed. Clay agrees, but by this point the damage was done as Clay was now a full-blown alcoholic who spent most of his wedding flirting with other women, getting drunk, and ultimately getting arrested after the wedding for driving under the influence.

Clay largely hates his family as evidenced by his neglect, refusal to remember his children's names or caring when one of his children (Shapey) is briefly switched with another child. He pushes his wife, Bloberta, to cook and clean all day long, as it keeps her alcoholism under control, and because it sexually arouses him. He is close friends with Coach Danielle Stopframe, who secretly lusts after Clay. It has been shown that Stopframe is Clay's chief enabler as far as feeding his dependency on liquor and goes as far as to seduce and impregnate Clay's wife Bloberta in order to be near him.

Clay often brings Orel into his study to discuss Orel's various misdeeds after dealing out "a good belting" to the boy. The lessons typically have little to do with the actual damage he caused and are instead about "common sense," as well as outlets for Clays misplaced anger, often showing views of the Protestant faith even more warped than those Orel comes up with himself.

Clay also has an extensive collection of firearms in his study, including a Heckler & Koch PSG1 sniper rifle, among other powerful weapons shown in "Nature Pt.1." During a camping trip with Orel, Clay becomes disappointed with Orel's inability to shoot an animal and is disgusted with his son's display of peacefulness towards nature as opposed to what Clay sees as a "normal" urge to destroy it. A drunken Clay rants violently about how awful his life is and then accidentally shoots Orel in the leg. He responds nonchalantly and tears his son's lucky shirt to make a tourniquet, all the while insulting Orel. Clay also drank all the rubbing alcohol instead of using it to clean Orel's wound. As Clay passes out, Orel tells his father for the first time that he hates him. Clay sleeps for the next 16 hours, which leads to Orel's leg getting infected. Clay denies any responsibility for the shooting. He would apparently sink even lower when, in "Honor," it's revealed that he's continued to blame Orel for the injury, telling anyone who asked about the about the accident his son was either "clumsy" or that "he'd gotten in the way."

Moreover, Clay is unable to deal with life's problems and instead turns his insecurities and anger against his family and neighbors. After the hunting trip, Clay overhears Orel asking Bloberta why she married Clay and about his drinking problems. Clay blames the town for making Orel sensitive. He rants harshly about women and relationships. He tries to prove that life is terrible by trying to get people to hit him but the townspeople walk away, leaving him with a feeling of defeat. He shuns responsibilities and hates sacrifice. He also hates the truth; completely ignoring anyone who tries to tell him he's wrong, including Orel and Bloberta. He essentially stumbles into a stereotypical, small-town suburban life (due in no small part to Bloberta's scheming) and spends much of his energy and time maintaining a content and happy facade, but is ultimately an immature, cruel, self-centered man who is hopelessly trapped in his own life. He tries to act as though his marriage is perfect, but everyone in Moralton can see how miserable he and Bloberta truly are. DVD commentaries have said, "He doesn't know what love is. He can't recognize it when he sees it."

Clay often complains about his "dead-end job" and being "buried in paperwork". In the penultimate episode, it is revealed, to even Orel's surprise, that Clay is actually the mayor of Moralton. On a document in his office his full name is shown to be Clayton Middleinitial Puppington.

In "Honor," Clay states he has feelings for Coach Stopframe in front of his wife, his children and Orel. However, during Adult Swim's special 44 Nights Of Orel, series creator Dino Stamotopolous reveals that Clay is not a homosexual, but is instead starved for affection and "looking for a new fetish," which is fulfilled by Coach Stopframe. Clay's infatuation with Coach Stopframe is however largely platonic and Clay toys with Coach Stopframe’s feelings. Stopframe, after stalking Clay for the entire series, rejects Clay by playing on Orel's telling of Clay that "it was late" and saying "He's right, it's too late." Clay leaves with his angry wife and Orel, who doesn't fully understand the incident. The ending sequence of "Honor" shows a picture hanging on a wall of Clay and Bloberta, many years on, still unhappy and unsmiling; this suggests that Clay and Stopframe's relationship did indeed come to a complete end and that Clay is ultimately forced to remain married and unhappy.

He is voiced by Scott Adsit.

[edit] Bloberta

Bloberta (née Hymentact) is Orel's mother; the forgotten and shunned middle child of a family choir. She was forbidden from participating for a number of reasons, mainly her mother's blatant favoritism of her older daughter and younger son. Bloberta's Father was a weak willed man who was bullied by his wife and avoided confrontation at all costs.

Out of desperation, Bloberta manipulated Clay Puppington into marrying her as a means to run away from her family problems and to be accepted by her ring-flaunting friends. (Most of Bloberta’s friend's marriages have turned sour too, meaning she essentially got married for nothing.) Clay and Bloberta met at the Fakey's wedding and were married shortly after, having only known each other for a brief period of time. She is responsible for turning Clay into an alcoholic. When Revered Putty asks, "Do you take this man to be your husband?" she responds, "Why not?". After her marriage to Clay, her life was worse than before. She is a strict, stereotypical housekeeper known for her obsessive-compulsive cleanliness, once complaining about her cleaning product containers being dirty. The episode "Help" reveals that Bloberta turned to cleaning as a replacement for her alcoholism and as a means of coping with her mother's disdain.

Bloberta and Clay have a very strained relationship with Bloberta often shown to be emotionally distant towards Clay, although at times she acts somewhat nice to Clay by calling him "dear". In "The Best Christmas Ever" Bloberta thinks Reverend Putty knows that Clay didn't want Shapey after listening to one of his sermons. (But Reverend Putty really didn't know about Clay not wanting Shapey.) They get in an argument that ends with Clay walking out on her on Christmas morning. Bloberta lies in bed crying knowing her marriage has collapsed. To avoid embarrassment, the two eventually reunite, though only out of concern for what the other Moraltonians would think if they separated. Everyone is aware of how unhappy their marriage is except Orel, and it is possible that they remain together out of denial, believing that no one knows how miserable they are.

She attempts to find a sexual partner while Clay leaves with Orel for their ill-fated hunting trip only to be thwarted by the various men of Moralton who have no interest in her whatsoever. The episode "Numb" reveals that Bloberta hasn't had a proper orgasm in years and has even gone as far as to mutilating her genitals through the use of various tools for masturbation in order to win the attention of the local doctor. When he turns from her, this reminds her of the rejection she felt as a child. When asked by Orel why she married Clay, she simply responds "Why not?" (mimicking her response to her wedding vows) instead of giving an actual reason, only to break down crying upon leaving Orel's room, indicating that Orel is noticing the truth about the family problems that she and Clay were avoiding and keeping from Orel and Shapey.

During the first season, Bloberta comes across as a distant, disengaged parent. Bloberta mirrors her mother's behavior by blatantly favoring her youngest son Shapey, being ambivalent towards Orel and being disrespectful towards Clay. Shapey is the result of an extramarital affair Bloberta had had with Orel's bisexual gym teacher Coach Stopframe. Bloberta spoils Shapey rotten, largely as a means to silence his constant temper tantrums and frequently orders Orel to let Shapey get his way, even when Shapey's wishes puts both of them at risk for injury. After Clay finds out the truth about Shapey, Bloberta begins to turn away from her bastard son, ultimately not noticing when he is accidentally switched with their neighbor’s child Block Posabule.

While Bloberta seems uncaring towards Orel, she is not as abusive towards him as Clay. She also displays a somewhat maternal side towards Orel, such as knitting campaign signs for him so he could help a mayoral candidate, or making him breakfast. She also shows a little concern for Orel when he is shot (though she never confronts Clay about the incident) and when he is absent while the family goes Christmas caroling in "Honor". Orel also has always held her in relative good regard throughout the show, believing Clay to be the primary reason for the family's dysfunction. It is unknown to Orel that Bloberta is the true source of that dysfunction, having manipulated Clay into marriage in the first place. Bloberta mirrors Clay's denial by maintaining a perfect family, but the marriage is a lie and they are poor parents. She also mirrors her father's problems in having married a man who uses alcohol to cope with an unhappy life. Bloberta deeply regrets the mistake she made in marrying Clay, yet she does nothing about it for fear of embarrassment.

In "Honor", she is none too pleased when Clay admits his love for Coach Stopframe. She mirrors Clay's consequences for her actions. When Orel grows up, she is shown in a picture on the wall alongside Clay, both of them older and frowning, implying they are still unhappily married.

She is voiced by Britta Phillips.

[edit] Shapey

Shapey Puppington, Orel's seven-year-old half-brother, is a misbehaving, spoiled, and emotionally stunted little boy who does nothing but yell, complain, and act out. His parents do nothing to stop this, preferring to let him have what he wants so he'll stay quiet (they don't want their neighbors thinking they're bad parents). It is first indicated in "The Best Christmas Ever" that he is an illegitimate child. His biological father is conclusively revealed in "Numb" to be Coach Stopframe, who had only formed a relationship with Bloberta to get closer to Clay, Although in "Love" Clay gets a picture of Coach Stopframe and compares it with a picture of Shapey.

One episode Shapey hugs Coach Stopframe and said "MINE!!" indicating Shapey might have known who his real father is or Bloberta might have told him about Stopframe.

In the season two episode "The Lord's Prayer", Shapey is accidentally switched with the oddly similar Block Posabule, the son of the Puppington's new neighbors. The main difference between the two is their hair color (Block is a redhead, while Shapey is blond) and head shape (Shapey's head is round while Block's is more thin); their behaviors are largely the same. For a while, the switch is noticed only by Orel and, as revealed later, by Block's sister Christina, though their attempts to notify their respective families are invariably ignored due to the fact they really don't love them. In the episode "Numb", Bloberta finally figures out after going through a family album that Shapey is actually Block. When she goes to the Posabules' house to retrieve him, Mrs. Posabule returns Shapey but also abandons Block, forcing Bloberta to take them both. The two little boys bond with each other (like Orel and Christina Posabule). (Clay's obliviousness persists for a while longer; he chalks up the apparition of a second 'Shapey' in his house to his drink and shrugs the matter off.) At the end of the episode "Sacrifice", Shapey speaks calmly for the first time, telling Bloberta, "Mommy, when I'm thirsty, it feels how I feel when I'm alone." In the ending scene of "Honor" it is indicated that they have both grown up into functional adults hopefully Orel might have save them from the flaws of their parents and the people in Moralton, with photographs showing that Shapey has become a police officer and Block a firefighter.

Shapey and Block are both voiced by Tigger Stamatopoulos, the daughter of the show's creator and executive producer Dino Stamatopoulos.

[edit] Reverend Putty

Rod Putty is the minister of the local protestant church and wears a very obvious toupee. He is a very lonely and bitter individual who is held in both high esteem and disdain by the citizens (his house being egged on Halloween). His disdain for God often finds its way into his sermons, and he has a coffee cup in his office stating "I hate my boss," though sometimes it says "...and then you die," and in "Innocence", says "...Jesus, and the ass you rode in on." His resentment stems from being a prematurely balding virgin. Reverend Putty secretly covets the wives and families of his parishioner's and opportunistically watches them in hopes of exploiting a wayward wife.

Reverend Putty has also displayed some racist tendencies, such as leading the segregation of the Figurellis, kicking out minorities in the Arms Length dance, and showing no interest in dating non-white women. The episode "Elemental Orel" implies that he was planning to use the money from the church collection plate to hire a prostitute. Eventually, he is approached for a lunch date by Stephanie, Moralton's resident punk-rocking piercing shop proprietor. Thinking he is about to get lucky, he is soon devastated to learn that she is his daughter, resulting from a spinster stealing his semen from a used tissue. He however comes around and accepts this relationship, offering some him happiness for a change. After the events of "Presents for God", in which Orel introduces the minster to a prostitute, apparently loses his virginity and starts smoking cigarettes. In "Alone", it is also revealed that he hosts his own radio show. Due to his cynicism, Putty is slightly more rational than the rest of the townspeople, though of course, this is only relative to the blind fanaticism of most Moralton residents. As the seasons have gone on, his character has evolved to a more laid-back and more accepting person, to the point he is accepting of his daughter's lifestyle and has been even been imparting fatherly advice and joking around with her. Reverend Putty also grows from this relationship and realizes what it means to be a father both symbolically and literally. Unsurprisingly, he is the only one who notices that while Orel is a good person, and means well, the faulty advice he and the other adults of the town give him always leads to him taking it to a high extremes, creating havoc in the town.

He is voiced by William Salyers.

[edit] Doughy

Doughy Latchkey is Orel's best friend. He is very God-fearing and always tries to look out for Orel, though he usually just winds up following Orel's lead. He is very fearful and not very bright; as a result, he is often indecisive and consistently fails to stand up for himself when pressed (such as by letting Orel and Joe throw rocks at his dad's car). In Courtship, Doughy's home life was revealed. His parents are a stereotypical red-headed jock and a stereotypical blonde cheerleader, who appear quite young and may or may not be Doughy's biological parents. Although they look and act immature this might be an elaborate form of sexual role playing for Doughy's parents. Doughy's parent's are also part of a love triangle including the owner of the towns sex store named Stephanie who is infatuated with Doughy's mother. Orel seems to be the only one who notices the difference between how his own parents treat him and how Doughy is treated by his parents. He points out that Doughy's parents never call him "son" or give him affection. His last name, "Latchkey," is a reference to the neglect Doughy suffers from his parents, who, being very affectionate toward each other, usually pay Doughy cash to get out of their hair, lock him outside the house and hide the key so they can have sex without their son around. He has never been seen without his beanie and has rapid mood swings from despondent to cheerful. In Trigger, it was revealed that he has a gift for marksmanship, evidently stemming from his belief that he and his actions don't matter. He tried to be part of Orel's family, only to be used to get Orel to shoot better and Clay throws Doughy aside. In "Honor" he gets bullied in gym everyday.

He is voiced by Scott Adsit.

[edit] Supporting characters

[edit] Stephanie

Stephanie is a woman who wears all black and has many piercings. She works at Moralton's sex-shop. She is the illegitimate daughter of Reverend Putty when her mother stole his heart-shaped wastebasket full of used tissues with semen. Her first appearance was in "The Blessed Union". Orel develops a crush on her, since she's nicer than everyone else in town. It is revealed in "Closeface" that she is a lesbian that was in love with Doughy's mother, and has a misguided notion that she cares for her. Her father Reverend Putty shatters this notion when he reveals that Doughy’s never cared for Stephanie and Doughy’s mother was using Stephanie in an adolescent game to make Doughy’s father jealous.

[edit] Nurse Bendy

Nurse Bendy seems to be at an arrested stage of development. In most episodes she is seen painting her toenails, ignoring the children seeking her care as school nurse or responding mechanically to sexual advances from Principal Fakey. In one particularly revealing episode, she is seen coming home to a studio apartment decorated in a child-like fashion, with a 'family' of teddy bears waiting for her, supposedly as her husband and son. In this scene, while sitting to dinner with teddy bears, the 'husband' teddy bear accidentally falls on her in a suggestive manner while she is cleaning up spilled milk, with the milk also splashing on her in even more suggestive way. Particularly revealing about this scene is the insight it lends to her character; that she sees herself as being used by the men around her, that the teddy bear was someone she thought she could trust, who was "different" from the rest of the men around her who only enjoy her company because she is not particularly virtuous. We later learn that Nurse Bendy mothered a son with an elderly doctor, the town bully Joe, also adding to her back story of being rather vulnerable as a good looking, naive woman in a town of misogynistic men.

[edit] Miss Sculptham

1st Appearance: Pilot

Orel's grade school teacher is the ultimate historical revisionist. She was previously "raped" and impregnated by Mr. Creepler. She subsequently gave herself an abortion—as strongly implied by the bloody coat hanger she fixes—but remains infatuated with him due to having experienced sexual gratification through him. It is also implied that she may have even sought out the rapist’s attentions in the first place by dying her hair dark when the news reported that he only attacked brunettes.

Miss Sculptham is voiced by Dino Stamatopoulos

[edit] Ms. Censordoll

1st Appearance: Pilot

Ms. Frances Clara Censordoll (FCC)is the head librarian at the Thomas Bowdler Public Library. Her favorite pastime is picketing and book burning. She was with Orel's mother when she was young. Her obsession with chicken eggs is due to the fact that she is barren: when she was an infant her mother had her sexual organs surgically removed. It is suggested that her immaculacy has given her a God complex and that she might be plotting something sinister as evidenced by her keeping a scale, model replica of the town with everyone in it. Ms. Censordoll later toys with both Orel and Clay by providing them with emotional support.

Ms. Censordoll is voiced by Jay Johnston.

[edit] Joe

1st Appearance: Loyalty

Joe is the resident bad kid in Moralton, a lack of parental authority has affected Joe. He acts out in order to receive attention (steal money, break car windows, beat up gay people) to Joe all attention is good attention. Joe is disrespectful, cruel, immature and spiteful. Orel is too blind to see through Joe. (because Clay never taught Orel to see though people and also, he didn't teach Orel from right to wrong.) Joe insults everyone in Moralton, yet no one does anything to stop him. They are either too incompetent to do anything, or don't do anything because he's not their kid.

Nurse Bendy is Joe's mother and his father is an elderly doctor who suffers from senile dementia. Eventually Joe learns Nurse Bendy is his mother and the two are able to form a relationship. Thinking his father lied to him about Joe's mother being dead, Joe beat his father up so badly Joe's knuckles were covered with blood. Joe said to his father before he taught him a lesson "For lying to me and just for that, you get beat up. Stupid, Dumb, Dummy, etc..." He tackle, kick and punch with all his might. Joe’s father is dutifully attended to by his spinster half sister who has sacrificed her life and happiness to take care of her father and Joe. Joe rejects his half sisters affection yelling “your not my mom” whenever she tries to care for him.

[edit] DVD releases

Volume releases

DVD Name	Release Date	Ep #	Additional Information
Volume One	April 24, 2007	15	This 2 disc boxset contains the first 15 episodes of the series, uncensored, and in production order (The Lord's Greatest Gift through Offensiveness). Special features include a director's cut version of God's Chef, deleted scenes, a "behind the scenes" featurette, and an edited for content (to remove footage from other Adult Swim shows) video of the Adult Swim 2006 Comic-Con panel.

[edit] References

^ Bozell, L. Brent. "Shower after 'Adult Swim'". http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=8&num=10790&printer=1. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
^ "Adult Swim interview with Dino Stamatopoulos". http://www.adultswim.com/shows/moralorel/stuff/interview/index.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
^ http://www.thecomedychannel.com.au/WhatsOn/Detail.aspx?id=327
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