coralnathan Words cannot even begin to describe how much love I have for this show. In the twenty short years that I have been on this planet I haven't found a show/film that stuck with me as much as Moral Orel. The characters, the story, the always witty script, the quirky stop- motion style - I love it all! Orel Puppington is such a likable character and you can't help but grow fond of him. The show is absolutely hysterical but be warned: it does turn darker towards the end of the second season. You may be taken aback by how intense, real and raw things get. As the show goes on you learn more about the citizens of Moralton and their backstories - as well as a continuous progression of Orel's story and his character development. The rabbit hole goes deep. The whole show is a masterpiece. It never ceases to be charming even during the painful parts. A must watch.

Elizabeth Perfect I love this show, it's one of my favourites, and it's a real shame it got cancelled. That said, Moral Orel is not for everyone, far from it. It's offensive, there's a reason it's given an 18+ rating: it's cold, cruel and dark. This is not, in any capacity, a lighthearted show; more often than not, you won't laugh, you'll feel bad. And a show that can both make you feel bad and laugh, albeit not at the same time, certainly deserves some praise. Another commenter said that it had a quarter the laughs of South Park and four times the dirty feeling afterwards. That may be true, but that's part of the show that I would never want changed. Moral Orel is dark, and depressing, and just a little bit funny; when it's dark, it's very dark, but that just makes the humour all the more wonderful. Without the sad parts, we would feel nothing for the characters, and that's something I would never want to change.

liquidcelluloid-1 Network: The Cartoon Network; Genre: Parody, Satire, Animated Comedy; Content Rating: TV-MA (for scatological humor, strong sexual content and animated violence and gore); Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4); Seasons Reviewed: 2 seasons A straight-up, straight-faced parody of "Davey and Goliath", the stop-motion animated "Moral Orel" is going to be either loved or hated. It follows the adventures of the ridiculously named Orel, a grade school child of a repressively-angry fundamentalist Christian family in a repressively angry, fundamentalist Christian community trying to sort through the gray areas in life with only black and white scripture, commandments made up by his father and a seemingly deranged preacher to guide him. But when the ever-cheerful Orel takes the bible literally, all hell will break loose.Some will call it blasphemous and, if it where more popular, get it ripped off the air without having seen it. Others will call it enlightened, true to life and open-minded while at the same time telling you to ignore any other opinion about the show. So "Orel" succeeds in being divisive. The members of these two camps will all say the same things in their favor. Why? Because "Orel" is so superficial and one-note that it doesn't inspire more than a simple "for" or "against" thought about it. A great satire pin-points onto a topic, rips it apart at its very core and leaves you pondering your own opinion on the subject all the while - hopefully - making you laugh. Creator Don Stamtopoulos ("TV Funhouse") has a solid track record, but he mis-steps here in a big way.Stamtopoulos has one goal here: mount a full-scale attack on Christians. But "Orel" is too broad. If giving the characters names like "Clay", "Shapey" and "Stopframe" sounds clever than this may be right up your ally. If you belief the media line that America is being taken over by fundamentalist Christianity, then you might find the show useful too. But this show doesn't think, it reacts. It doesn't challenge anybody; it simply reaffirms a Hollywood message that Christians are dangerous, brainwashed lunatics. True satirical comedy takes on those beliefs that people think are sacred, however exercising free speech hardly makes anyone inherently funny or clever.Stamtopoulos can't resist the urge to wink, nudge and laugh to his own commentary right out in the open. Let's look at a specific example of why this mess fails so miserably: the sermons of the Reverend that are supposedly the catalyst for most of the episodes. The sermons are nothing that any Reverend would actually say. He is simply Stamtopoulos talking directly to us, giving us both the set-up and his response in the same breath. The religious characters in this universe constantly appear to be making fun of themselves and their own beliefs instead of Stamtopoulos making their beliefs feel genuine and then finding a logical way to rip them apart.Now don't mistake my total disdain for this show as an affirmation that religion should not be made fun of. I just want some originality to it. Look at Matt Groening: devout atheist, makes fun of religion every chance he gets, however when fashioning "The Simpsons" he gave the family and the show a strong religious, faith-based backbone simply because he recognized that it was something that you just never see on TV. He is still right.Even more so, it is hard to watch "Orel" and not think about the comedy gold that Trey Parker and Matt Stone could spin with this exact same material. One just need look at the "Christian Hard Rock", "Red Hot Catholic Love", "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?", "All About Mormons" or "Trapped in the Closet" episodes of "South Park" to see some really funny, sharp, insightful and no less punch-pulling religious satire. With a masterpiece like "Park" on the air and Adult Swim's own left-wing, iconoclastic masterpiece "The Boondocks" around, why settle for this 10-minute exercise in creative bankruptcy? In fact, "Orel" actually is what I would imagine "South Park" looks like to people who don't get "South Park" - scatological, shock humor for the sake of it.The show is so busy looking down on Orel, thinking of new ways to torment him and make fools of the family and town, that it doesn't give us any reason to like him, hate him or feel anything for anybody in its universe. Orel drinks his own urine to purify his body. Orel rapes neighborhood women in their sleep to stop himself from the sin of masturbation. His mother silently represses her rage, his father is a an in-the-closet drunk. Whoa, does the fun ever start? Let's also not forget how gut-less "Orel" is. As a satire its targets are stationary and passive. Parker and Stone will boldly go for an episode like "Cartoon Wars" in which they take on the image-of-Mohammad controversy where the penalty is a potential beheading from a radical Islamic terrorist cell. "Orel", at the very worst, might be the victim of an angry letter writing campaign. Ouch.* / 4

verbusen I'm a big fan of the following Adult Swim shows. First it was SGCTC, than the Brak Show, than AQHF, than Harvey Birdman, now its reruns of Stoker and Hooch, Metalpocalypse, Venture Brothers, Robot Chicken, in other words, I'm a regular viewer to Adult Swim (it's the only TV I watch regularly). Moral Orel is a one trick pony that South Park has done to death, make fun of Christianity. Not only that but it parodies a really good show for kids, Davey and Goliath, and thats it's whole thing. No creativity involved here, just lampoon a wholesome show that you knew as a kid and insult it in any way you can over the course of several seasons. What makes me like the other shows I mentioned is that they seem to make fun of everyone 9well not really I'm being generous), Moral Orel only makes fun of Christianity. Am I a bible thumper?, hardly. But I do see the hypocrisy of a so called "tolerant" segment of America, the left, and their unbridled hatred of anything that Christianity means. Also, isn't Cartoon Network getting old with all these baby boomer bashing shows? Hey, I laughed at the Simpsons, then South Park, and now these other shows which Adult Swim has done, but the bashing is wearing thin. Time for new ideas Cartoon Network. I can't believe there are enough people that get off watching a parody of a show the audience probably has never heard off or seen because it's no longer on the air because it's "too" wholesome. This show ranks at the bottom of Adult Swims talent along with 12 oz mouse, Tom meets the mayor and a few others I can't remember. Surprise me Adult Swim and come up with a show about whining city dwelling metro-sexual men and their bisexual dominating female friends. Oh yeah , that probably wouldn't be funny because they don't have any redeeming value to demean. Hey, heres a funny show idea, since there have been Christian bashing shows on the air since SNL started in the 70's and its been 30 years now, why not bash Muslim's? Why don't they? Because Ted Turner and his cronies are liberal wimps.