Moral Orel is an American stop-motion animated television show currently airing on Adult Swim. 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, which portrays it as being in the vein of the Davey and Goliath cartoons that it is stylistically similar to, 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 Adult Swim 2007 Upfront it was confirmed that Moral Orel will return for a third season.[3] Adult Swim has confirmed in on Aug 6th, 2008 Schedule that Season 3 will premiere October 12th , 2008 at 12:15AM Eastern time.citation needed
At the San Diego Comic Con 2008 Stamatopoulos announced that the show would not be renewed for a fourth season[4].
General overview
The program takes place in the fictional city of Moralton, in the fictional U.S. state "Statesota", which is made up of parts of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and 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 (presumably) 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.
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. It seems, however, that most of the citizens of Moralton do not live the way a staunch Protestant is supposed to. Instead of loving your neighbor, they mock homosexuals, teach their children to close their minds to anything non-Christian, disavow rational scientific explanations of the universe's origins as fiction and heresy, distance themselves from nature, and dehumanize non-Christian faiths, and mock the Catholic Church. 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 around his (often misguided) attempts to live by that lesson.
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 over the top 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 around 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.
Characters
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Episode guide
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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 Gods 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. |
It's unknown if volume two will come out. [5]
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Music
Most original music for the show is created by musician Mark Rivers. A number of the songs heard throughout the show have been posted to the official Adult Swim download site. In the second season episode Satan, the song "Saturday" by IO Perry from the album Greybay was used. The only other episodes as of yet to have music other than Mark Rivers' is the 25th episode Courtship which featured "You" by Peter Blood from the album Osama's Daughter and the 32nd episode, which featured the song "No Children" by The Mountain Goats.
References
- ^ Bozell, L. Brent. "Shower after 'Adult Swim'". Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
- ^ "Adult Swim interview with Dino Stamatopoulos". Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
- ^ Adult Swim Announces 2007 Programming Slate at New York Upfront
- ^ Comedy Central's TV Funhouse - Comic-Con Report - TV Squad
- ^ { {cite web |url=http://whv.warnerbros.com/WHVPORTAL/Portal/product.jsp?OID=17304 |title=Warner Brothers DVD shop |accessdate=2007-03-09}}
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