Moral Orel
| Moral Orel | |
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| Genre |
Adult animation Dramedy Satire Black comedy |
| Created by | Dino Stamatopoulos |
| Starring |
Scott Adsit Jay Johnston Carolyn Lawrence Britta Phillips William Salyers Tigger Stamatopoulos Dino Stamatopoulos David Herman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 44 (and 1 special) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Dino Stamatopoulos Scott Adsit Alexander Bulkley Corey Campodonico Victoria L. Howard Eric Blyer Keith Crofford Nick Weidenfeld Chris McKay Jay Johnston Ollie Green Jeanine Rohn |
| Running time | 11–12 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
ShadowMachine Films Fragical Productions Starburns Industries ("Beforel Orel" only) Williams Street |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Picture format |
4:3 SDTV 16:9 HDTV ("Beforel Orel" only) |
| Original release | December 13, 2005 – December 18, 2008 "Abstinence" screening: January 18, 2009 "Beforel Orel" special: November 19, 2012 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Moral Orel is an American adult stop-motion animated television show, which originally aired a sneak peek on Adult Swim on December 13, 2005, before it officially aired on January 23, 2006 to January 18, 2009. It has been described as "Davey and Goliath...meets South Park". However, Dino Stamatopoulos, the show's creator, is wary of the comparison with Davey and Goliath, telling the New York Times that Moral Orel grew out of a concept for a send-up of a Leave It to Beaver-style 1950s sitcom that would star Iggy Pop.
At the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, Stamatopoulos announced that the show would not be renewed for a fourth season. The final season was aired interspersed with repeats from the first two seasons, since many of the episodes took place in parallel with events of past episodes. The event, which was called "44 Nights of Orel", was hosted by Stamatopoulos and others and started on October 6, 2008, running through December 18, when the series finale premiered. A new special called "Beforel Orel" aired in 2012.
The program takes place in the fictional capital city of Moralton, in the fictional Bible Belt state "Statesota." According to the globe shown in the opening credits, Moralton is in the exact center of the United States, with the town's church at the exact center of the town.
The main character is Orel Puppington, a student at Alfred G. Diorama Elementary School, who tries to live by the fundamentalist Protestant Christian moral code as articulated in church or by his father, Clay. Orel naïvely follows this code to disastrous extremes. The series is a satire of the archetypes of Middle American suburban life, modern-day WASP culture, and religious fundamentalism.
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