Moral Orel

Moral Orel
File:Moralorel image.jpg The opening title for the show, showing Orel waving at God.
Created by	Dino Stamatopoulos
Starring	Scott Adsit Jay Johnston Carolyn Lawrence Britta Phillips William Saylers Tigger Stamatopoulos
Country of origin	Vereinigte Staaten
No. of episodes	16
Production
Running time	11 minutes approx.
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network
Release	December 13, 2005 – present

Moral Orel is a stop motion-animated show currently airing on Adult Swim which was created by Dino Stamatopoulos (writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Mr. Show, and TV Funhouse). It has been described as "Davey and Goliath meets South Park." Despite advertising for the show, which portrays it as being in the vein of the Davey and Goliath cartoons to which it is stylistically similar, Stamatopoulos has stated that it is not a direct parody ([1]). It is aimed at mature audiences.

It should be noted that three episodes of the first season were held back due to concerns from Standards & Practices. Two were approved for air in May 2006, with the last "banned" episode airing July 31, 2006.

Adult Swim has announced on a bump of their schedule that Season 2 will begin airing the first 10 episodes of Season 2, which began November 13.

General overview

The program centers on Orel, who constantly tries to be clean and live by Christian morality. Most of the characters are miserable or jaded, with their Protestant brand of Christianity seen as the root of their problems (one episode reveals that being a Protestant means lacking any emotional warmth). Most episodes have the formula of Orel hearing a sermon in church on Sunday, and then having some sort of misadventure based around his misunderstanding of the sermon, resulting in varied types of chaos for either him or the town. The episode "The Best Christmas Ever", which premiered on December 13, 2005, for example, had Orel and his younger brother, Shapey, laying waste to a manger scene by the local church. Orel, believing Shapey to be the second coming of Christ, was merely following the mischievous, tantrum-throwing sibling's lead. Following the episode's premiere, 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.

Characters

Orel Puppington

Orel is an 11-year-old boy who constantly has morality on his mind. He collects religious action figures and makes short animated movies with them. In his attempts to remain moral, he listens to Reverend Putty's sermons very closely. Even though he's very attentive, Orel tends to misinterpret the minister's teachings, leading to chaos for both him and the town. He is voiced by Carolyn Lawrence.

Bloberta Puppington

Bloberta is Orel's mother. She's a strict, stereotypical housekeeper, always wanting to keep the house clean to the point of being obsessive-compulsive (she once complained about her cleaning products being dirty). However, it is implied that she hates her life as a housewife and that her husband forces her to spend every waking hour cleaning, since it both turns him on sexually and because he believes that women should be enslaved and only be able to find happiness through housework. Because of this, the two have a very strained relationship with Bloberta often refusing to have sex with her husband and instead giving all of her love and affection to Shapey (who was conceived during an affair that Bloberta had with an as of yet revealed man, most likely Couch Stopframe), a move that has turned Shapey into a spoiled brat who his mother refuses to discipline for the chaos he causes.

Clay Puppington

Clay is Orel's father. He's a strict, yet fair parent, trying to keep his home in line with a post-WWII style of living. He'll often bring Orel into his study to discuss various misdeeds Orel often does after dealing out a good belting to the boy. The lessons usually have little to do with the actual damage he caused. For example, after Orel brings back hordes of the undead using a "forbidden book," Clay tells Orel that the rampaging, brain-eating monsters aren't scaring the people, but their nudity is, therefore changing the moral of the episode from "don't bring people back to life, they'll end up terrorizing the town" to "Thou shalt be ashamed of thy natural anatomy." Clay is an alcoholic who hates his job and loveless marriage. Clay is often seen drowning his troubles in liquor in his study or at the local pub, where his relationship with Orel's gym coach teeters on the brink of turning into a homosexual affair. In addition, his relationship with his children is sexually ambiguous. He doesn't remember how old Orel is, once provided alcohol to Orel's friends, and at one point smokes a cigarette and a pipe at the same time. He is voiced by Scott Adsit.

Shapey Puppington

Orel's seven year old little brother is a misbehaving, spoiled brat; an emotionally stunted little boy who does nothing but yell and complain. His parents do nothing to stop this, preferring to let him have what he wants so he'll stay quiet. He is still breast-fed. It is revealed in the Christmas special that he is an illegitimate child. His real father is still a mystery, though Coach Stopframe is a possibility. He is voiced by Tigger Stamatopoulos, the six year old daughter of show creator and executive producer Dino Stamatopoulos.

Coach Stopframe

The coach at Orel's school, Daniel (pronounced 'Danielle') Stopframe is a strange man. He seems to have an attraction to Clay Puppington. He's also not nearly as Christian as the rest of the town, once practicing satanic rituals in an attempt to make the track team run faster. It is hinted in "Loyalty" and "The Best Christmas Ever" that he is Shapey's real father. This, combined with Stopframe's near homosexual relationship with Clay Puppington, suggests that Stopframe is bi-sexual. He is also referenced to being a pedophile, as he watches the boys showering so closely he noticed Orel's "personal" piercing.

Reverend Putty

Putty is the minister for the local church and wears a very obvious toupee. A very lonely and bitter individual who is held in both high esteem and disdain by the citizens (case in point: his house is egged on Hallowe'en). Even though he's supposed to be the one telling everyone that God is great, 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". He is voiced by William Salyers.

Ms. Censordall

Fran Censordall is the town librarian. She's an elderly appearing (yet only 40 years old), puritanical individual who spends her time, as her name suggests, censoring and destroying books she considers immoral. She also fights very hard to keep children away from "filthy thoughts", whether it is tracking kids who are reading about Renaissance art or leading protests against the offending individual. She frequently leads protests in front of the local movie theater, even protesting such movies as The Ten Commandments.

Episode Guide

Season 1: 2005-2006

The first season consists of ten episodes, of which the final episode aired on July 31. The series first aired on December 13, 2005.

Episode number	Production number	Original airdate
"The Best Christmas Ever"
01	10	December 13, 2005
In it, Orel learns from the reverend that some day Jesus will return to Earth. In fact, there may be a little child out there right now who's the second coming. He also won't be as nice this time around. After overhearing a conversation between his parents about Shapey's unplanned birth, Orel believes him to be second coming, and does everything in his power to make him happy. Meanwhile, his parents plan to get divorced. Orel's mother eventually sets him straight when Shapey begins destroying a manger scene at the church. She then tells Orel about the divorce. Orel finds his dad drowning his sorrows in liquor at the local pub, and remarks that this Christmas didn't turn out to be so great. There's still two minutes, though, and Orel has faith that God will fix it; the episode ends with Orel staring piously up at the Heavens in a long, tracking shot, waiting for an intervention from God which, we are led to believe, never comes.
"The Lord's Greatest Gift"
02	01	January 23, 2006
It involved Orel reanimating the town's dead relatives to make them enjoy "God's gift of life." Orel and his friend, Doughy, naïvely believing that the dead corpses smelled because of their clothing, ended up undressing them before reciting a chant from the Necronomicon to bring them back to life. The zombies terrorized the town, yet the lesson revealed to Orel by his father was not that brain-eating zombies were bad, but in fact nudity was (of course, nudity is prohibited by the "lost" 11th Commandment).
"Waste"
03	04	January 30, 2006
Orel began drinking his own urine so he wouldn't waste it, which is prohibited by the "lost" 14th Commandment ("Thou shalt always clean thy plate and not waste anything, whether thy stomach is full or not."). He eventually ended up selling his own urine as an energy drink which propelled his school to a state championship. The outrage was not that he allowed people to drink his urine, but that he charged them for it when it didn't cost him anything to make.
"Charity"
04	03	February 6, 2006
Orel was taught that good Christians should help the poor, so he gave a homeless man the money he made working at the drug store. The homeless man happened to be a drug dealer who gave Orel Crack-Cocaine in exchange for the cash. Knowing that good Christians never waste anything, Orel was obliged to smoke the Crack. He developed a habit, and became a regular user; first smoking it, then injecting it. Eventually, the dealer is arrested, and Orel has yet another meeting in his father's study. First, Orel's father lets him know that he wasn't helping a poor man; being a drug dealer, the man was actually rich and "lucky." Orel was then chastized, not for smoking and shooting up crack, but for using slang. "Crack is a gateway to slang," like "jonesing" and "jive," according to Orel's father. The episode closed with the 13th Commandment, "Thou shalt not bastardize the American language" and with Clay pocketing Orel's remaining stash (after being told that he could get double the money for it).
"Omnipresence"
05	06	February 13, 2006
In it, Orel learns that God is in everything and everyone. The next day, at school, he disputes the teacher's lessons when she tells him he's wrong. He believes that he can't be wrong since he has God in him. She then sends him to the principal's office. Thinking that everything, including himself, should be treated divinely, he excuses himself from school and goes on a trip across town. He eventually winds up at a lake, where he attempts to walk on water. Before he can, he sees a man try to kill himself. Orel calls 911 and the police arrive to arrest the man. Having saved someone, he decides to repeat his actions at the hospital. The nurse there humors him and lets him visit sick people. He first finds a man in a wheelchair. It's actually a doctor, so he gets right up. Thinking that he healed the man, he moves on to an old lady on life support. He can't heal her, of course. She asks Orel to take away her pain by pulling the plug. Orel does so. When the nurse finds out, she calls Orel's father, Clay. In his study, Clay explains that God's in everything, but there's not enough of him in those things to make a difference. Clay explains that Orel can't act as judge and jury, but just judge.
"The Blessed Union"
06	05	February 20, 2006
In it, Orel learns that people should do everything they can to keep their wives happy. That way, God has an easier time listening to their prayers. To that end, he goes around town asking about how to do that. He first asks his teacher, who is unwilling to answer any questions after class. The next is the librarian, who decides to protest outside Reverend Putty's church because he's putting these ideas into children's heads. Orel asks his mother next, but she is too busy cleaning. Finally, he goes to his father, who tells Orel to read magazines written by men who think they know what women want. Orel goes to the drug store and reads the magazines there. When the owner sees him reading, he recommends an adult magazine. It leads to Orel to a sex shop. There, he asks the owner Stephanie, a woman wearing all black who has many piercings, for a piercing that will increase the pleasure of intercourse. Stephanie decides to put a ring through his "johnston." After the procedure, Orel develops a crush on her, since she's nicer than everyone else in town. At the school gym, Coach Stopframe notices Orel's piercing. He calls Clay, who has written his number on a napkin with the phrase "Call me" emphasized. Back at the sex shop, Orel tries to find ways to spend time with Stephanie. She lets him down softly, telling him to go outside or he'll never grow. After he leaves, she gets "motherly pains," so she gives herself a piercing to get rid of them. Clay shows up as Orel leaves, taking him to his study. There, he explains that Stephanie was nice because she's different. When you're not different, you're allowed to be mean some of the time. As for his piercing, Clay explains that women don't need that because they're too smart. They've learned that cooking, cleaning, and bearing children will keep them happy. During all this, Bloberta is cleaning a bear skin rug near Clay with dandruff shampoo.
"God-Fearing"
07	07	February 27, 2006
It begins with the children at school learning how to be safe on Halloween. A police officer tells them that the only "safe" costumes are those that promote God. The children decide to go to a church-hosted haunted house that night. When they get there and go through it, Orel fails to be scared even once. He tells his friends it's because he has God and Jesus on his side, and there's no reason to fear anyone or anything. In church the next day, he learns that if you sin, all you need to do is repent and God will forgive you. Orel decides he can make God angry with him (and be able to get scared) if he breaks all the Ten Commandments, and then simply repents the next day. He breaks every commandment in order (his order, not the actual order), except for the third commandment, "Thou shalt not kill", which he has trouble with. He inadvertently breaks this commandment when he tries to help and old man across the street, and he is hit by a car and dies. Orel's dad sets up a meeting with the church pastor and Orel. The Pastor tells Orel that no matter what day of the year it is, God is the only thing you should ever fear because he creates hurricanes, diseases, and foreign cultures.
"Maturity"
08	09	May 15, 2006
Orel and his little brother Shapey are outside, and Shapey is aiming around haphazardly with his BB gun. Orel scolds his brother for being so careless, and Shapey begins a tantrum. Their mother, busy in the kitchen, tells Orel to play nicely with his brother, otherwise the neighbors will think her a bad parent. While Orel is preoccupied with explaining to his parents about the situation, Shapey gets the barrel of his gun under the boy's eye and shoots. Orel is then admonished by his father because of the accident, and told that he will have to be more responsible and mature. In order to learn more about adults, Orel decides to visit the local pub, where the adults of Moralton go to drown their sorrows. Orel absorbs from his experience that the key to being an adult is to drink the special "maturity juice". Returning home, he goes into his father's study and helps himself to the liquor supply. Orel is later given a talking to by his father. This time, he is told that one cannot simply drink alcohol to be more mature. You must experience stress over things you cannot control, as well as an unfulfilling job, among other things. This was the first of the three episodes awaiting approval from Standards & Practices.
"Loyalty"
09	08	May 22, 2006
When arriving at church one morning with his family, Orel runs into Coach Stopframe, who introduces the boy to his nephew, Joe. Stopframe tells Orel that Joe isn't quite settled into the Christianity scene yet, and so asks him if he wouldn't mind being the boy's "Bible buddy". Orel accepts. The two sit together during the sermon, and Orel learns that an important aspect of friendship is undying loyalty. Unfortunately for Orel, his new friend is a violent sociopath. After the service, the two "friends" head outside, and Joe suggests that they do something fun. His idea of fun, however, is to throw rocks at a car. Although Orel is skeptical about this sort of behavior, he remembers what he learned about friendship and loyalty, and so reluctantly joins in at the end. Joe eventually tires of his sport, and convinces Orel to ditch his other friends and follow him to a spot he knows where some strange stuff goes down. Orel's real friends have become concerned about his dangerous interest in Joe (especially since it was one of their father's cars that the two were wrecking), so they go off to find Clay and tell him about the situation. While Clay indulges them (over a few glasses of liquor), Joe leads Orel into the woods, where two small boys are sitting side by side, taking turns kissing each other on the cheek with innocent glee. Orel dismisses the scene, saying that he sees nothing abnormal here, but Joe stops him, commenting dryly that while he may not know much about Christianity, he does know for a fact that these two particulars are definitely "going to Hell." Orel is once again persuaded, and the two sneak up on the unsuspecting boys, wielding baseball bats. As they start pounding the boys over their heads with the bats, Orel tells God that while he wants to be loyal to Joe, he still can't shake the feeling that what he's doing is wrong. Suddenly, Clay comes driving up in his car, knocking down trees along the way. He orders Orel into the car and they have a talk in Clay's study. Orel is scolded not for having gone and done something he knew was wrong, like bashing two innocents with a baseball bat, but for neglecting all his other friends in favor of one single friend. Clay tells Orel that rather than ditch them, he should have invited all his friends along so they could all take part in whatever was going on. Thus does the Lost Commandment 18, come into play: "Thou shalt be loyal to all thy friends at the same time." This is the second of the three episodes to get cleared by Standards & Practices.
"God's Chef"
10	02	July 31, 2006
In an unseen event, Orel discovered masturbation a week ago and enjoys it to the point that he sneaks off to the bathroom at school where he is caught by Clicky, the janitor. He is then told, first by Principal Fakey, and later, Reverend Putty that masturbation, among other things, is worse than murder and that he'll go to hell for it. Putty explains that every sperm must be used to make babies. Seeking to continue masturbating without going to hell, Orel consults Clay on where babies come from. Using a book specializing in age-appropriate conception tales, Orel is told that "God's chef" comes down to sleeping women each night fills them with his 'delicious glaze from his holy pastry bag'. Taking this to heart, Orel borrows his mother's pastry bag and proceeds with breaking into houses each night, filling the bag with his sperm, and impregnating the sleeping women, hereby taking on the role as "God's chef". After a month, an entire block experiences a wave of pregnancies, raising alarm in the community as some couples hadn't consummated yet. However, Orel is caught in the act that night is about to be taken away by police when his father arrives to take him to the study. There, he first scolds Orel for being out past curfew. After Orel admits that he did it because he wanted to spread his seed, Clay first explains that "God's Chef" is more of mythical figure like Santa Claus and Charles Darwin, and in an odd turn of events, admits that keeping Orel ignorant about sex was wrong and incorrect behavior. Then proceeds to explain to Orel that there can only be one way to make babies the missionary position, citing the lost 12th Commandment and admonishes Orel for using the pastry bag as a fun and unusual implement. When Orel asks if he should spank Clay after he admitted that he was wrong, they share a laugh but Clay quickly refuses.

Season 2: 2006-2007

Twenty episodes are in production for the second season. The first ten episodes are scheduled to start airing from November 13, 2006-January 29, 2007. The remaining 10 episodes will air March 2007.

Episode number	Production number	Original airdate
"God's Image"
11	11	November 13, 2006
Orel's family reluctantly reunite as Orel helps the young Billy Figurelli when he gets hurt. Orel tries to put a band-aid on him with the same color as God's skin but the band-aid doesn't blend in with the kid's skin color. However, the band-aid's blend in with other kid's skins just fine. This leads Orel to prompt the city of Moralton to segregate God's people from the Figurelli's, the only Italian-American family in the town. But this, however leads to a form of reverse racism as the family is sent to live in a large mansion outside of town and become free from the repressive theocracy that controls the city of Moralton. This angers the male adults in Moralton, who become jealous of the fact that the Figurelli family have a better house than they do and don't have to live under the crushing sight of the church, resulting in Orel and his father having to deal with the wrath of the town.
"Love"
12	28	November 20, 2006
While at the park with his family, Orel finds a stray dog who immediately takes an attachment to Orel. After being permitted to keep him as a pet, Orel names him Bartholomew and the two become inseparable with the dog being very popular around town. Later, Reverend Putty delivers a sermon, announcing that God wants the faithful to "love Jesus more than anything else in the world". Orel takes this message to heart but soon develops a conflict, he loves his dog more than Jesus and is unsure what to do. He first goes to his father who tells him that love is merely temporary and Orel tries to distract himself. He cannot but Doughy, whom Orel told of his problem earlier, arrives with a group of adults (who all hate the dog for the love and attention he gets from the children) they convince Orel to give up Bartholomew and the puppy is led away to its destruction. After feeling sad, Orel perks up realizing that they'll see each other in heaven. This realization is dashed by his mother who informs him that because animals have no soul, they can't go to either heaven or hell and are meant to be eaten. It ends with Bloberta boiling a lobster who shrieks with agony, attracting Clay who is excited about dinner, hearing the screams of the boiling lobster: "Something sounds delicious!"
"Satan"
13	14	November 27, 2006
The storyline examines the enigmatic homosexual Coach Stopframe, who jumps between loyalty to God or Satan depending on which deity will give Stopframe what he wants. Seeking help from Satan to win the heart of Orel's dad, he contacts a secret group of Satanists who will help him craft a love spell if he brings a virgin to their next meeting. Stopframe choses Orel as the "virgin", but when he gets to the meeting, he is shocked at the truth about the Satan worshippers: the group is not the murderous disciples of Satan like Stopframe is but instead, a group of nerdy, overweight hedonists who get together to gorge themselves on junk food and have orgies. Stopframe and Orel leave the party and Stopframe resumes his ambiguous relationship with Orel's dad.
"Elemental Orel"
14	17	December 4, 2006
TBA
"Offensiveness"
15	20	December 11, 2006
Orel witnesses Mr. Figurelli giving Ms. Censordoll free, underfried eggs (eggs are her "only source of pleasure") to keep her from protesting his corner market. This inspires Orel to join her crusades against movies, books, and pretty much everything. Eventually he realizes that eggs come from a "naughty place between chickens' legs" and starts protesting them being served at Figurelli's market. This angers Censordoll, but she is incapable of telling Orel to stop the protest without losing her credibility as a protestor. Censordoll reluctantly joins in the protest against her beloved eggs, causing a townwide ban on all eggs save for Cesarean-born eggs. The episode closes with her sneaking off to an illegal egg blackmarket set up by a derranged farmer, who is sexually obsessed with the way that his hens lay eggs.
"God's Blunders"
16	16	December 18, 2006
TBA
"Pleasure"
17	12	January 8, 2006
TBA
"TBA"
18	21	January 15, 2007
TBA
"Holy Image"
19	13	January 22, 2007
TBA
"Praying"
20	18	January 29, 2007
TBA

Lost Commandments

The lost commandments are the extra (and fictional) Commandments that are used by characters to either justify their telling Orel off, completely turn the moral of the episode's story on its head or otherwise conveniently make use of in order to suit their own ends.

Number	Commandment
11	Thou shalt be ashamed of thy natural anatomy.
12	Thou shalt only have sex face-to-face, man on top.
13	Thou shalt not bastardize the American language.
14	Thou shalt always clean thy plate and not waste anything, whether thy stomach is full or not.
18	Thou shalt be loyal to all thy friends at the same time.
19	Thou shall not masturbate.

Texts of church sign display

Episode	Text
01	Yes kids, we lied about Santa, but Jesus is for real.
02	This week's sermon: Heaven or Hell — which would Jesus choose?
03	No church visit
04	Reminder: Ant poison on grass — 23rd Church picnic — 24th Picnic at your own risk.
05	"All Aboard the Censorship" ― Admiral God
06	Jesus died for your sins and had long hair so that you wouldn't.
07	The Holy Ghost: spooky or just a third wheel?
08	No Church Visit
09	"Sinfully Good" is not always that bad.
10	"Latin-And why it's the Devil's language."

DVD Releases

Volume releases

DVD Name	Release Date	Ep #	Zusätzliche Informationen
Volume One	March 20 2007	15	This 2 disc boxset will contain the first 15 episodes of the series ("The Best Christmas Ever" through "Offensiveness"). Special features are yet to be announced.

Music

Original music for the show is created by Mark Rivers. In the second season episode "Satan", the song "Satuday" by IO Perry, from the album "Greybay" was used.

Trivia

• According to Adult Swim's bumps, the Christmas special was, in fact, the season finale.
• The Christmas episode shows the complete credits in the opening and, as a result, has no closing credits.
• The setting for the show is fictional Moralton, Statesota, as shown in the credits sequence; the fictional state is carved from parts of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, states that are, appropriately enough, stereotyped as overly conservative and Christian.
• The globe shown in the opening credits is missing all of the Western Hemisphere except the United States.
• The name Orel is a possible reference to Christian televangelist Oral Roberts.
• The show has a recurring gag at the end of each episode in which Clay will stand up and his pants will fall down (he never remembers to put his belt back on after using it to beat Orel). "The Best Christmas Ever", "God Fearing" and "Offensiveness" are the exceptions to this.
• Orel goes to Alfred G. Diorama Elementary School.
• The schools in Moralton have the students recite an extended version of the Pledge of Allegiance to match their religious views. It is as follows: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God and Jesus Christ who died on the cross for all of our sins and then rose on the third day, indivisible, with liberty and justice for most."
• Orel's school teaches the "evolution of man" using a chart resembling the familiar one with humanoids in postures which become less hunched from left to right, but in which the stages of man are labeled Bible Man, Dark Ages Man, Wild West Man, and Clean Cut Man.
• Suicide is a federal offense in Moralton. This is odd since, by definition, a federal offense is a crime everywhere in the United States, not just in Moralton.
• In the episode "The Lord's Greatest Gift", the local librarian is collecting a stack of "special" books to be burned. Among these are Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, the Necronomicon (which Orel steals in order to revive the dead), and How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
• Moralton's library is named for Thomas Bowdler, likewise the dedication date of the front of the building is 1818 — the same year The Family Shakespeare was published.
• Orel's teacher says that the French being our allies in World War II was one of the bad things about the war.
• Although Orel's "Ten Commandments" costume uses the Judaic numbering for the Commandments, the list he makes later in the episode is randomized. The ordering and wording in his list is below.

1. Honor thy father and thy mother.
2. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors possessions.
3. Thou shalt not kill.
4. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
5. Thou shalt not steal.
6. Thou shalt not take the lord's name in vain.
7. Thou shalt not have any other gods.
8. Thou shalt not worship graven images.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness.
10. Honor thy sabbath.

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Clay's bumper plaque from "God-Fearing".

• Clay has two fish badges attached to the left side of his bumper. The first is a Jesus fish, with "God" written within it. The second is a Darwin fish, with legs. The Jesus fish is urinating on the Darwin fish. This is a satirical amalgamation of two common bumper decorations, the "Jesus fish eating Darwin fish" badge and the ubiquitous "Fake Calvin pissing" stickers.
• Clay's license plate reads JDH501, and says that Statesota is the home of Freedom County Prison.
• Many (if not all) the characters' names are a reference to the animation style, or the medium used to create the objects on screen. A few examples are:
  • Clay Puppington: Every character is made from clay (they are actually made from liquid latex for skin, with cloth for clothes).
  • Coach Stopframe: Stop-motion animation is the process used to make the show.
  • Reverend Putty: Putty is another term for clay.
  • Shapey Puppington: Shapey refers to the shaping of each character from clay (or as a parody of Sculpey brand polymer clay).
  • Puppington: This refers to the fact that everyone is a puppet.
  • Officer Papermouth: This refers to the cut-out paper mouths used to make the characters speak.
  • Bloberta Puppington: A possible reference to a "blob" of clay.
  • Doughy: Possibly a reference to Play-Doh, a substance similar to clay.

External links

• AdultSwim.co.uk - Watch Moral Orel on Adult Swim UK
• Moral Orel at the Voice Chasers Database.