Its a shame this show was cancelled for taking on serious topics. It was an adult show on an adult network and it being cancelled for being ‘too depressing’ was such w mistake bc now all these ‘depressing’ and ‘dark’ animated shows are all the rage with shows like Bojack Horseman and Rick and Morty. I really hope the creator would take the chance to finish the show it was meant to be but he doesn’t seem interested and it’s so heartbreaking :/

Just a correction I want to make about Nurse Bendy (tho the video is a few months old now so it's probably already been said) Bendy doesn't just suffer from loneliness, what she is doing is age-regression which is a type of response to trauma. She is making a make believe family out of teddy bears and she is using very childish words and acting very child-like compared to how she usually acts in the show to everyone else. This age-regression is usually done as a hold on to a more innocent time, before the trauma. Since it's confirmed that her son is half her age, that would make Nurse Bendy 24, meaning she had her boy when she was about 12. Chances are the abuse was going on before that so what we really see in the episode is a victim having her cooping mechanism ruined and tainted

I think the theory about Doughy's parents is a little silly. We KNOW what they looked like as teenagers, and while yes they do look like they haven't aged at all and it COULD be possible they had kids that looked identical to them as teens, i feel like thats abit of a weird roundabout explanation. The reason they look like they haven't aged at all (in my opinion atleast) is for a thematic purpose. Its supposed to represent that these people truly haven't aged MENTALLY, they refused to grow up so they could keep being high-school sweethearts without a care in the world, and when they had Doughy they obviously weren't prepared at all, so they regressed even FURTHER. They completely ignored his existence so they didn't have to come face to face with the responsibility of becoming adults.

Moral Orel really deserves to be brought back, even though it was considered “too dark and depressing” I would still watch it. The story and animation was so good idk how they could just throw it all away.

it’s sad this show got cancelled for being “too dark and depressing” however most shows nowadays are like that, even kids shows. had this show premiered in the late 2010s or early 2020s, people would have really enjoyed it. what a shame because it’s such a good show, but i’m glad it exists and we get to watch it.

Moral Orel is blowing up dude. I remember waking up in the middle of the night as a kid and thought moral Orel was an actual Christian show until Orel smoked the crack

in case you didn't know, Sorry About Everything is Dino's band. So the creator of Moral Orel himself is the one singing that Closeface cover. He has stated that he wrote this song as a kid/teen and ended up adapting it into the show

Simply spectacular. I'm honestly surprised that stuff like Clay's bisexuality or the connections to Davy and Goliath (or lack thereof) wasn't mentioned, but oh well.

>watch Beforel Orel before starting Moral Orel Absolutely not. Part of the appeal of the show is watching it slowly transform from a thematically shallow satire into something deeper, and Beforel Orel ties a nice bow on the show's arc. Watching it first is putting the cart before the horse.

I’m totally with you on coma theories. When they exist as canon, I just find it extremely lazy, it’s hard to get right. When they exist as fan theories, they’re just unimaginative and boring. Why would I want Alice to be crazy or in a coma when the whole draw of the story is Wonderland??

This show was already disturbing itself, I’m interested to see what’ll be deeper on the iceberg. This is gonna be amazing, I can already tell.

I believe clay does love Orel in his own sick way. Not as a person but as an object. I think this quote from the book Coraline summaries this type of love: It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing

So pretty much, the "Please" script is a fanmade script that would've tackled the Bloberta/Papermouth affair episode. It starts off with Bloberta and Clay arguing about Clay not buying Orel new crutches, then we get a small glimpse at goth Orel, followed by Bloberta losing Shapey and having to call Papermouth to help her find him. The set up isn't the same as what Dino's description said, but again, it was a fanmade script. Not a whole lot of it was written.

47:04 I think the picture is a relatively recent pic of Orel's parents, as we see grey hairs on them. My personal headcanon is that they were both so worried of the public eye and so used to each other that they simply couldn't imagine getting a divorce. Clay got dumped, Bloberta never had anyone else actually care for her, and they just... kinda settled for each other. Like how grandmas tell stories like "I absolutely HHHATED your grandpa and never wanted to marry him. It wasn't until our kids were adults that he kinda started to grow on me"

I'd argue against starting with Beforel Orel. I think it works better after you've already finished the show. Sure, you don't _massively_ spoil anything by watching it first, but there are things about it that hit harder when you have the baggage of the old show already. On top of that, some parts of Beforel Orel do slightly contradict some small things about the old show, like implying that Clay and Daniel had already been friends before the first season when it's implied in the first episode that they didn't know each other until then.

I'm gonna be completely honest, orels_travels is honestly the most wholesome thing I've seen in a long time lol

adult swim's "depressing" must have meant only when it was overlayed with comedy. the one time a show, this show, decided to put these sexual trauma topics into a much more serious light and horrific is when it got too much for them. plenty of other shows have stayed running when characters bring up this stuff just because it's not layed out disturbingly and ends off being apart of their "perverted character" or something. very upsetting but i'm sure many can appreciate the episode not making such a huge light about that and it being made then aired in the first place.

I like to believe that Shapey and Block didn’t go into foster care but actually just grew up from their parents. At the end we see Shapey became a fireman and Block became a policeman, those two job roles follow a path of justice, isn’t it convenient that the two brothers became men of the law? I like to think that Shapey and Block always had themselves after Orel left, judging by Shapey’s first words at the end of the season it’s clear that these two were a perfect match, they both understood each other and learned from it. That should be enough to show that they didn’t need there parents, they just needed each other throughout their childhood at leas until they could grow up

that screenshot of grown-up orel with his family celebrating christmas makes me tear up every time i see it. just the fact that someone who went through all that can go on to lead a happy life really makes me so happy

About the autism theory, Orel also has some social skills issues, and can’t understand peoples relationships with each other or with him….for instance he doesn’t understand that Doughy is being neglected, he doesn’t understand that Bloberta and Clay are a TOXIC marriage, and that Joe is a bully. (Edit: The social skills about those relationships is a problem because Orel is old enough to notice the problems in them, since he is late elementary or early middle school. In Beforel Orel he takes everything as truth/literally as told, which is a common thing for ASD people to do, they can’t especially at young ages understand when things are literal/sarcastic/metaphorical.) In nature as well, he flaps his hands when nervous, and in Grounded he looses his mind in an almost meltdown way, because he can’t take part in his comfort special interest.

If we ever get a reboot or continuation, it would be neat to see shapey’s character develop.

I'm super glad that Moral Orel is having a resurgence of popularity! Take note Adult Swim.

Never thought I'd dig myself deeper into this fandom bc now I'm interested to read the plots for the potential future episodes. I wonder if there's enough obscure things about metalocalypse to make an iceberg lol

This show is a gem and I'm glad it's becoming popular again

I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Jay Johnston (the voice actor of Coach Stopframe) was at the insurrection on January 6th. I found out about it a few weeks ago and the thought of him being there boggles my mind. That being said, great video! It's always fun to see more Moral Orel content on KZfaq.

EDIT: Do NOT watch Beforel Orel first. I don't know why I even suggested watching that before the actual show. My brain must have been on autopilot while making this video. Watch Moral Orel first! I really hope you fellow Moral Orel fans enjoy this project. As always, the videos are never perfect, but hopefully you'll find the information somewhat interesting or my dumb jokes funny 😂If you have any suggestions on what I should cover next, leave a comment below! Also, timestamps are in the description!

Words can't describe how I felt during the course of the show Although Season 1 may have felt a bit basic, linear and even repetitive sometimes It was overall what I'd expected when going into this show for the first time(but I think you should rewatch it for reasons I'll get into later) But Season 2 felt like an over haul/improvement and it did a great job with introducing and bringing back various characters whilst also giving them a chance to develop in various episodes throughout the show And Season 3..... NOW THAT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE ALL TOGETHER But it overall gives you a completely different perspective of the characters, especially when rewatching Season 1 and sometimes even Season 2 as well But overall Moral orel is a breathtaking experience that I would 100% recommend to anyone interested in the genre

SO ITS NOT JUST ME SEENING ALL THIS MOREL OREL CONTENT. It actually peaked public interests lately. It really was ahead of its time.

I love that a new generation is finding out about this gem.

finding out TMG would have done music specifically for the show is so bitter sweet. it's so cool they were into it but i wish it had actually happened. this show deserved so much more it was incredible

Moral Orel is one of my favourite shows of all time. It’s rare that I find something that can be extremely funny and simultaneously depressing.

i think in terms of the theories, we know that doughy’s parents were in high school when stephanie was, and stephanie’s sbout 30 now, so i think the joke was that theyre teen parents who never progressed in maturity after high school/“peaked in high school” i think the rev putty as god one is really good though, even if it was kind of implied that orel’s dog was jesus???

I actually quite like the ending. On one hand it does feel like a bit of a non-sequiter, since it doesn't particularly feel like anything really happened. At least not to justify it as a finale. On the other hand, what it shows is clay losing his last hope for redemption. The one person who still cared about him, including his own son, finally putting the last nail in the coffin. While not everything got the wrap up it needed, it did serve narratively as the last chance for anything to change. Between his vile parents, between Orel and his Father, nothing could grow from here. Things could get worse, sure, but everything was finally beyond salvaging.

No children by The mountain goats is probably one of their most darkest songs with somehow an upbeat rhythm.

Morel Orel is made by Orel while Robot Chicken is made by Shapey

Funny thing about the first entry. When I was a kid, I legit thought Moral Orel was a robot chicken skit that went on for wayyyy too long. Until I released it was a different show and that somehow made me believe there was some twisted dark humor that I didn’t understand yet. Since it aired around the time, the much more violent shows aired like robot chicken. Now watching the show, I was sorta right. But not in humor. Awesome video btw 🔥🔥

i don't see how doughy's parents could be 18 considering stephanie went to high school with both of them lol

40:40 this theory could also come from the episode "god´s blunders", in wich it is lightly implied that he might have a mental disability. Not saying that it confirms any theory, but it can be seen why people would speculate so from that episode, not just from his behaviour throughout the show.

This is a show you EXPERIANCE. Not watch, you cannot get a spoiler and enjoy the show the same way. Thank you, so much for this-

We live in a post-Bojack Horseman world, we can handle the depression. Give us the Morel Orel revival!

I almost never see these videos about the show mention the show it is parodying, "Davey and Goliath" from the 1960's which should probably be in the top tier of the iceberg. I grew up in the hyper-conservative Protestant community watching re-runs of Davey and Goliath and seeing Moral Orel after deconstructing my faith gives it a whole other layer of meaning. So sad the show didn't get to see its full potential

Great video! As a huge Mountain Goats fan, I do want to give a few words on them. First and foremost, The Alpha Couple saga is great though not perfectly mapped out chronology. I’d recommend listening to the album Tallahassee first, and then checking out the other Alpha songs afterwards. Tallahassee tells a complete story, and the rest of the Alpha songs tell their own individual stories. Notably, the song Alpha Omega is only questionably canon. Secondly, Love Love Love comes from the album The Sunset Tree, a concept album covering John Darnielle’ experience with his abusive step-father. Which is why it ties so well into Clay and Orel. I’d be surprised if the cut episode where Orel goes goth didn’t feature The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton. A song about two teenagers named Jeff and Cyrus starting a death metal band, but Cyrus gets sent to a boarding school after he gets caught with a pentagram (implied religious reasons). The song end with a Hail Satan chant. I’d heavily recommend checking them out. The essential albums are Tallahassee, The Sunset Tree, and All Hail West Texas. Though check out their other stuff. My favorite from them is The Coroner’s Gambit. Also nearly all their albums are concept albums.

"I'm not sure if moral would name another soul Bartholomew". Remember, his mom told him dogs don't have souls, so it'd be plausible that he would name his son that

i noticed that he accidentally said “moral orel” instead of “one of the greatest pieces of media ever created.” it’s okay, it’s a common mistake! /lh

First "Dan vs." And now "Moral Orel" there's so many shows I'm finding now because I didn't watch TV much when the shows where airing

@ZeroOmens I appreciate the shout out. Having two sons on the spectrum I definitely see some of the signs. Youve done this show a great justice. People shouldn't forget what a well constructed and unique show this was.

30:55 Bro really hit me with a nostalgia bullet of something I had completely forgot existed. I know I read a few of the Flat Stanley books as a wee child

I'm SO glad I'm not the only one who thought moral orel was robot chicken... I always saw it as a kid and got Immediately scared due to how gorey and violent RC was. Glad I gave this a shot as an adult, its one of my favorites.

As someone who grew up in church. The stuff God did in the old testament was absolutely wild

i love how everyone loves moral orel again

I just want to mention other things that could complement this video. 1 Another theory about the name of Orel's son could be Arthur, in honor of his grandfather. 2 The angel theory is very funny and good, but it would make more sense if the punishment was to complete a life as a mortal in a very toxic family (and city), but he could only enter heaven if he ends up being a good person. 3 This last one is very crazy, I don't know if anyone else thought it, taking into account that Orel loves stopmotion, could it be that in his universe Orel is the creator of Robot Chicken? I'm sorry if you don't understand, I had to use a translator, it's still hard for me to write in English.

Evangelionism: the belief that baka Shinji will one day return and finish the third impact

I consider Moral Orel to be a claymation soap opera

It's insane that the show got canceled for 2 women traumatized about sex when Quagmire exists 😞

Watched Moral Orel a few months back and just got around to watching Beforal Orel and I’m ready for this video.

Of course adult Orel had a photo of his parents on the wall. Even though they were shitty parents, you have to turn the other cheek. Turn the other cheek. Show the world how strong you are by simply acting meek...

I love Moral Oral. It's fantastic. The depressing dark stuff was the best parts. I would of loved to seen Moral's grandfather help him come to terms with the dark side of life and help Moral reach adulthood. It would of been a fitting end.

This is my first time hearing of or watching you. I just wanna say thank you! I got into moral abt 3 years ago and caught episodes whenever I could (mostly eps from s1 and s2). I REALLY got into it last year and when thissideofstress uploaded all the eps I watched them in order and I related so hard to certain aspects of the show.

I haven’t watched any piece of Moral Orel media, yet I sat through this entire video. This was utterly captivating and enjoyable, and I will also be checking out your band for sure! Keep up the great work!

"I'm not your thicc mommy or dom daddy" "Did you lose weight?" I SWEAR HE'S LOOKING DIRECTLY AT ME

Genuinely one of the best adult TV shows I've ever seen. Best animated satire. Fight me on this (don't I tire easily)

12:12 hey, I just wanted to touch on this but mentally disturbed is really the wrong word here. I am not surprised or mad the general audience would jump to this considering she is talking to well, not alive objects and seems to be childish. What she’s doing is actually a coping technique for those suffering with ptsd called “age regression”. It’s a way many with ptsd stemming from childhood cope in a healthy way. Unfortunately its very misunderstood and shamed so not many talk about it. A reason Morel Orel is so amazing to me is that not only does it tackle these subjects head on, it shows accurate representations of the feelings thoughts and coping mechanisms people have. I suffer from C-PTSD my self and have used age regression coping mechanisms. Its comforting and makes up for my lack of childhood. Id really like if you made the clarification and help de-stigmatize it.

It's interesting to see moral orel make a bit of a resurgance recently! Great video!

I was watching it with my friend and their dad walked in and said “is that robot chicken” lmfao

love that this was in my recommendations. i watched the whole series in basically a day. wish it didnt get cancelled so soon :(

Loved this! I've been obsessed with moral orel since I've finished the series :) thanks for the awesome content, i have to check out those rev putty sermons now! 😊

Damnit, I just realized I'm Clay,

Did anyone else when Zero said Bibble say in Master Shake’s voice say to the screen: YOU DARE QUESTION THE WORDS OF THE MIGHTY JIMMY?! 😅

Another show that was cancelled for being “too dark” is Infinity Train!! At least, as far as I’m aware.

Oh my gosh, I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembers the Flat Stanley thing!

52:23 I like that theory, but disagree at the same time. It seems like them acting and dressing like teenagers is supposed to show how emotionally stunted they are. Also don't recall the other parents commenting on how young they are.

This show is insanely underrated thank you for making this man ❤️❤️

Moral orel is like If the binding of Isaac had an cartoon lmao Nice video dude !

I just watched the series over the weekend because my sister brought it up and I've never seen it. Absolute masterpiece and I hate that it got cancelled when they were just starting to cook. Also, dope video. Thank you.

Before I even get past the first minute I hope this has something about the promos that would air before every episode of season 3 of Moral Orel with Dino talking about the episodes beforehand during the 40 days of Orel special event

an underated gem of a show

Morel Oral is definitely in contention for one if the greatest cartoons of all time, if Adult Swim had completed its five seasons. This show is one of the deepest cartoons in terms of plot development and character diversity. To center a cartoon around a religious ideation and parody Davey and Goliath is an extremely cool and original project in my opinion. And to make it a claymated project is just icing on the cake. Everything about this show was a risk taken and and an extreme effort by both the animators and storyboard teams part. I’m extremely glad this gem of a series is gaining popularity far after it was prematurely canceled.

Infinity Train may have also been cancelled for getting too dark, actually. A damn shame, really.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, i love moral orel so much and I was so sad about it not having that much content

30:58 I remember someone doing this with Bluey figurines Also, Stanley looks like Shapey

I was scrolling through my KZfaq the other day and saw this video so i put it in my watch later and decided to watch the show and I really liked it. And I just got done watching the video and I really enjoyed it and definitely can’t wait to see more icebergs

never seen the show but seeing The Mountain Goats mentioned was a cool surprise

No way, I just finished the show a week or two ago. Looking forward to watching this!

This is a good day to be Australian, now to actually find somewhere that still sells the DVDs

Moral Orel has another indie rock connection besides the Mountain Goats, as well as a connection to a classic 80s cartoon. Britta Phillips, the voice actor for Bloberta Puppington, is a member of indie-rock band Luna (since 2006), and duo Dean & Britta, both alongside husband Dean Wareham (of Galaxie 500 fame). She was also the singing voice actor for title character Jem in the classic 80s animated series of the same name. On that show, Jem, along with her band the Holograms, toured the world fighting evil rival band The Misfits using mystical powers derived from gems embedded in her earrings. The series ran for 65 episodes from 1985 to 88. While the series was of American origin - a Hasbro/Marvel property - it was animated by the Japanese studio Toei, which also did Transformers and GI Joe around the same time. Jem featured an early example of the “magical girl transformation” later featured prominently in the (also Toei-animated) Sailor Moon (1992) and Viz Studios’ Legendary Girl Utena (1997). Phillips went on to voice Elizabeth Frankenstein on Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole, which was also created by Dino Stanatopoulos. (Please credit me if this text is used in updates or in other works on this or other channels/sites. Thank you! -Donutposse/Devin Collins)

So excited for this

YOOO let's gooo this is awesome I'm ngl with content like this I've been becoming a big fan of your channel and I can definitely see your blowing up. I'd be down for a metalocalypse iceberg, superjail iceberg, robot chicken iceberg, or tbh any content u choose to bring

This was wonderful explaining of a wonderful series iceberg. You earned a sub after the babe bit lol. Can't wait for more amazing content

You actually got me to watch this entire video, and the entire show. Goddamn legend. Take my like.

I need more Morel Orel after binge watching the seasons

I had heard of Moral Orel but only enough that I assumed it was a children's show about god (basically what it's satirizing). But I hadn't actually seen any of it until I was recommended a clip about Oral having to kill his dog because "he was taking away love that should have gone to god". And yeah I'm gonna be honest, I did think it was a Robot Chicken clip parodying the show. I didn't realize what the show actually was until Meromorphic's video about it

Just yesterday I was thinking of a Moral Orel iceberg... Finding this is rare lmao

i peed a lttle

When I watched Moral Orel for the first time, I noticed that Clay acts and looks very similar to Stephen Stotch from South Park. Both are concerned about their appearances, use abuse as somewhat of a crutch, among other things.

Yeah there'd be zero way that the Morel Orel crew could put the original SCP-173 design into the show due to the original was part of an art installation and is the copyright is owned by its creator.

Tell me why I showed my boyfriend Moral Orel then proceeds to ask me, “Is this Robot Chicken?”

been watching yr iceberg videos for a while, didn't know you were part of a metalcore band 😂 that's cool. (when you plugged your IG onscreen i had to check the "vocalist of [band here]" thing)

Don’t know what took me so long to watch this video but it was a good one👍

Waiting for the episode ... looks like it's gonna be a fun one

beautiful video man every iceberg is better than the last