For a while now I’d leave the tv on Adult Swim after Aqua Teen Hunger Force and now cancelled Moral Orel would come on and I’d either change it or not pay attention to it, it didn’t seem very funny at all. It seemed like a crappy Davey and Goliath knockoff.
But as the show went on I began to notice just how dark it was. Nearly every adult on there was messed up in some way. The dad’s an alcoholic, the mother is obsessive, neither of which particularly cares about their kids. Orel’s friend, Doughy, doesn’t really have parents. All they do is give him money to leave them alone or lock him out of the house. He was also pursued by a child molester.
The episode “Sacrifice” had Clay, Orel’s father, rant about women (I love the rant for some reason):
" …And then when you finally get one of these, BUM BA BUM BUMMMM!, coveted pieces of tail that have been built up as the grand trophy in your nothing-life, you try desperately to keep it. Not to protect it, but to hoard it. To keep it away from the other wolves and jackals circling your territory. And you realize, all too soon, that you’re not good enough. That maybe there was a jackass called Darwin after all, and that you never acknowledged his existence because you knew deep inside that you were really what you feared you were; weak and passive and ultimately broken by the ones that were made the fittest. And that through your weaknesses you built up a poison that poisoned others around you…that you love. And the only true justice was to let those dominate jackals feed on you, survive off you."