@halfpintrr
I have to say I love the “You’re nice!” boys. They’re adorable and wholesome.
@KayGee_yt
"if the Lord were alive today he would absolutely have been bullied in middle school."
@eagleeyedan5094
As someone who grew up religiously (pun intended) watching the show that Morel Orel parodies, "Davey and Goliath", this show has always had a layer of extra meaning for me
@blubox2424
As an autistic person i immedeteatly recognized both shapey and orel as being on the spectrum in my own headcannon and i think theories based around that add alot to the psychological and societal meaning to the overall story. In considetation of the way they are neglected/abused especially within the religous space
@hermescarraro3393
I don't completely agree with your take on the depiction of Nurse Bendy, Ms. Censordoll and the Teacher. I do agree that they fall on the classic characterizations of the tragic female character, but I think that for the time it was a very nuanced portrayal. You yourself have said that s.a victims really liked the episode for its simpathetic depiction of the characters, and, to me, it does characterize them well and explains their behavior in a very good way by playing on their depictions in previous episodes. Censordoll's control freak nature and obsession with controlling every single thing and everyone around her to an overzealous degree is a coping mechanism because of her trauma, since she lost control of her body at such a young age, this made her become manipulative, bitter and insecure. Bendy internalised the opinions of everyone around her who considers her an idiot, even her brother Daniel thinks it, wich might imply some psychological abuse at home in her youth, and thus she regressed to the state she is. She is not a confrontational person and all she wants is for people to accept and like her for who she is, so she goes along with what everyone says and does every thing they ask, including sex. Later we find out that she was impregnated at a very young age, possibly 12, by a man who was probably in his 60s at the time, who groomed her with compliments, feeding on her insecurities and abandoning her after he did the deed. This influenced her lifestyle and behavior a lot, she might even have become a nurse hoping to get closer to him, wich obviously did not work out as she wanted. It was implied in the episode were Doey fell in love with her that the teacher is just lonely, probably for the same reasons as Bloberta. They are in fact very symilar, she used Doey in a symilar way and for symilar reasons as Bloberta did with Clay. What makes her more tragic to me is that she probaly got too close to her aggressor because of Doey in that very same episode. She is a lot more straight forward than the other two, but just as complex and saddening. There are women who are like her and who suffered the same thing unfortunately. The saddest thing is that if the show kept going she might have found happiness thanks to a jail guard who fell in love with her and accepted her surviving son as her own, as it was revealed that she actually had twins and aborted only one of them. It's also sad to know that she did the abortion on her own cause the town might have judged her and ostricised her even more than she already is... This a sad thing that happens in reality too, more than we like to admit. what makes me like this episode even more is that it was made years before the "me too movement", wich is why it was seen as off putting and too much by the executives, wich shows their double standards. It's fine to show rape in an adult show as long as it's for COMEDY, but when the writers point their fingers at you and make you feel shame for laughing at it in the previous episodes despite the obviously increasing realism in the series it's apparently too far. I see this episode as a statement, they made jokes about this stuff on purpose to make us feel bad after seeing this episode and make us all reflect afterward. Maybe I am seeing things that are not there, but it makes sense to me. Alcoolism and toxic relationships were also jokes at first, only to make them realistic and make us think about the world and ourselves and our moral standards. sorry for the long comment btw
@EricLeafericson
Everyone's interpretation of this show is so different. I could watch Moral Orel analysis videos covering the entire series, and get something different and valuable out of each one. This show has so much to say about white, evangelical, small town, Americans, and their implications of the rest of the country. We should all be talking about it more.
@Dwhataboutit
I'm sorry but I conpeltley disagree with the view that moral orel started off as a show mocking religion, it had always been about not parodying religion but rather parodying those who misuse it, not just that but the shows beginning is so formulaic and "basic" in nature because they wanted to mind fuck people following the show as the show would slowly devolve into a crazy mess Edit: Also the pilot episode was the Christmas episode adult swim didn't just sign the show cause it fit the "edgy and typical" adult swim stereotypes
@HadalStreetlights
I think you're onto something about Orel and Clay's relationships to pain, but you missed something crucial in the Clay's Bar Rant episode. A big reason for Clay's constant assault on everyone around him is as a product of his own relationship to pain as indicating his value. The other men almost fall right into his goals by hitting him, but their decision to instead just leave echoes his father's "You're not worth it."
@julealero7689
Really loving plenty of these moral orel analyses we r getting!
@carlosfleuricin2959
I’ve been mindlessly watching Moral Oral content but you broke this down to a T and I’m grateful to have came across your video. I’m definitely subscribing.
@arthurdurham
Apprently, Scott Adsit's (Clay's VA) sister is a devout Christian and made him quit the show bc she heard it was saying it was anti god and religion. She apparently didn't watch it and made the decision purely based on what she was expected and told to feel rather than created her own perspective. Which may be the most accurate real life depiction of something the characters of the show would do.
@manx18045
I think the real lesson of Morel Orel is that it’s not God or religion that make the world a better place because those principles along with politics and consumerism can be corrupted and often have negative influence on humanity more than good but love, compassion, understanding, and trust between people that we become our best selves. So in a way Orel’s journey was realizing that religion is not the solution to his broken life, it can’t save his family, it can’t save his friends, it can’t save his dog, and it can’t save his love for Christina. It’s Orel. It’s Orel who cares about his brother, it’s Orel who loves Bartholomew, it’s Orel who loves Christina, It’s Orel who befriends Stephanie, It’s Orel who saves the doctor, it’s Orel saves his father even after everything he did to his son, and it’s Orel who makes friends with his father’s lover . Because he’s Orel and that’s just the way he is not what god tells him he is. Hell even his father can’t turn him against his grandpa because Orel trusts and loves Arthur as his grandfather regardless of dogma and that is what defines him and the show as a whole. Its good people that make people good. Not religion nor god
@highjumpstudios2384
The bit where you talked about "good things happen to you if you're good" is something in Christian circles called prosperity doctrine. One of it's core tenants being of course that if you believe in god, and are Christian enough. Nothing bad will happen to you. This flies in the face of what the Bible actually says. Adversity is everywhere. And the world will not always accept you.
@auxiliomedesmayo1718
As a religious catholic I love this show. I related to a few things from it especially people using religion as a way to excuse their actions that are bad. I see this show as not mocking religion, but mocking the people in real life like the ones in morelton. I go to a catholic school with a religion teacher that made school hell for me and to other people. And I especially love the ending scene with older Orel because he got the ending he deserved and still kept his religion after all that he had to live thru and I find that very inspiring
@megy570
After watching the analysis, I’m astounded by both the quality and scarcity of people who have taken their thoughts to the comments! Excellent work!
@skyeguy7914
Something I want to say about Orel, is something that’s a bit dark. But this show made me realize that my own father was abusive to me. This show ironically, led to the death of my own innocence as a kid. As there were a lot of cruel and unnecessary things my father often did that I never understood beyond the context of “me being a bad person who deserved punishment.” It was the point where I first realized that I was in a horrible situation that nobody should ever be in as a kid. And I sometimes wonder if the creators knew this show would have that effect on someone.
@dingoflowers
i can already tell this is gonna be one of those videos i watch like every six months
@rodentdevisbetter228
" A short retrospective" Is longer than 110 minutes. A.K.A., longer than most films.
@addoworkman2173
I would also add that the lesson that Oral gets from Repression isn't so much about him, it's more about Clay's inability to take accountability-the mindset that he's a "good person" is directly linked to how his mother treated him and how he instilled his narcissism.
@rhaenyratargaryen1stofhern55