Anthony Carmine that was uncalled for, but it does really seems like these type of shows are getting more praise and recognition now than before, judging by the success of shows like Bojack Horseman and Rick and Morty (for better or for worse) and beside Moral Orel got canceled for being “too dark” for adult swim, I too believe the show could get better reception had it been aired today.
@@corpsemachine6949 why are u so mad at teenagers?? Bc you're old and sad? Or bc they're smarter than u were at their age so they can enjoy shows with deep meaning while u couldn't??
sometimes i get very sad because not a lot of people know about moral orel but clone high managed to somehow come back from the dead so maybe one day orel will get the attention it deserves too
I love to see that someone is comparing moral orel and clone high. they both are underated and shortlived shows. I did the math, and guys, I think its best to set you calendars to 2022, because that's when, hopefully, moral orel will come back. #bringbackorel
By the end of the series Orel renounces all of the garbage his father has been spouting out towards him. While his parents are miserable because they hate each other Orel grew up to marry that girl who was similar to him. Now he's happy and well adjusted. There was hope for him, he just had to realize that everyone around him was full of crap.
Nurse Bendy and Joe have a chance since they started living as son and mother, they were shown as happy in the last episode. Reverend Rod Putty and his daughter Stephanie were shown to have both grown happier since their reconciliation. Shapey and Block both have a chance with Orel's guidance, obviously Orel and Christina had a happy ending. Many of Orel's friends and classmates probably turned out better than their parents, it was said by the creator that Orel chose to stay in Moralton when he grew up to help make it a better place.
Yotsuba shapey and block were shown as a police officer and I think fireman in photographs the last episode. don't remember which was which but don't quote me on this it's been a few months since I watched through the series
Gotta say the comments saying shit like “I don’t even have a wife but this song/show make me hate her” is completely misunderstanding the point of both the show and the song. The point of both mediums isn’t “oh your wife is a nasty bitch and it’s ok to hate her” the point is that both characters, the wife and the husband, are deeply flawed people. But instead of growing to be better they decide to stay together and rot because that’s all they know. And the attitude “it’s ok to hate my wife because that’s just what marriage is” is LITERALLY the opposite of what both the show and song are trying to get at. Basically stop being a fucking idiot and be a better person before you make yourself and someone else you suckered into marrying you miserable. Because if you marry just to escape loneliness you will never be more alone.
@@Ms_Communication_ THIS yes, and Pat the Bunny’s solo stuff too, especially “Probably Nothing, Possibly Everything”. Great stuff, sad that he didn’t make much before leaving music
As a Protestant Christian, Moral Orel has been one of my favorite shows, since it lead me to Christ even more. And it's such a sad show too, mainly with this song that was featured. I'm sad the show is gone.
This is one of the brightest shining points of the show for me. It's able to use Religion as a solid point of satire and comedy, yet despite that, it never actually feels like it's dissing the idea of having belief and faith. The adults in the town use Christianity for appearances or to control each other. but Orel's genuine faith gives him strength to persevere. One of the most touching points in the show for me is during Orel's movie premiere - the scene where his dad's belt comes alive and loops and entangles him is painful but seeing the God action figure rescuing him from the belt is. . . idk it's poignant. It shows how the people around Orel cause him incredible grief but his faith allows him to push through it. thank God this show is funny as hell because holy can it be painful
Funny you say that, because it actually caused me to fall into a deep state of depression and existentialism. But just like a bad psychedelic trip, the bad brought out the good in me many months later. I was ripped from mother natures womb, baked in the sun to dry up, and eventually grew up to be the new person that I am today. Crazy shit, from a clay puppet show.
@@artiemilano378 Well I guess there’s that one saying, “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” You both got something important out of this show :)
lmao glad I'm not a brain broke poor me victimized sap. this is just an animated adult show not your fkn therapy session ffs people like you are a drag.
Why do we have to choose? Both shows are great. I think Orel is better, but why dismiss another as simple "edgy atheist" stuff. It's genuinely good. Ugh whatever, you probably don't care. You're just thinking about the annoying fans.
If you liked Clay and Bloberta (well, not "liked"...but understood), then you should read about the Alpha Couple. John Darnielle (the guy behind the Mountain Goats) wrote this song (and the entire album Tallahassee) as a concept album about a married couple he created called the Alpha Couple. They are basically Clay and Bloberta except in a different form. They're both self-destructive alcoholics who hate the person they're with, but they also can't imagine living a life without each other, and there's a twisted kind of "love" in being unable to imagine a life without the other. So they roam the country trying to escape their problems. Eventually, in the album Tallahassee, they finally decide to settle down in Tallahassee, Florida and simply drink themselves to death. It made such a huge impact on people when it was released in 2003 that a bunch of artists did an all-cover remake in 2013 called Tallahassee Turns Ten.
actually I'm pretty sure that at the end of the album/story (Alpha Rats Nest) they burn down their house with them in it? I mean, it seems to make sense if you read the lyrics-
But Bloreta was never a acholic. Though she may have OCD and a need to control EVERYTHING to the slightest detail including Clay but not Oral for some reason.
Maclover Mcellen It's hinted at that in her youth she was a closeted alcoholic- but then simply passed that trait onto Clay and became disgusted with the habit after watching him get worse
This show was prolific and deep. Starting close to the middle of the second season it really transitioned into a unique, disturbing, dark, heart wrenching series that transcended mere comedy. As comedians say, the best comedy comes from the darkest of places, and this series really hammered that into your soul. This song and this episode was just a gut punch. One of the best shows ever made and one people can learn a thing or two from.
Why was this show so short-lived? Season 2 and especially season 3 had AMAZING writing and character development and got quite touching at times (which is hard to pull off in only 11 minutes) - granted, it was one of the most disturbing and dark animated shows, but it worked because when it used dark or twisted humor, it was mostly used for satire and the miserable, twisted situations of the people of Moralton felt so...real.
Because modern TV focuses on providing people what they want to feel: whether that's amusement, happiness, fake sorrow or fake anger. Real anger and real sorrow that actually relates to their lives and the lives of those around them makes them ACTUALLY unhappy. Which the TV executives are trying to avoid at all costs.
I heard it was because Adult Swim thought the show got too disturbing even for them. Which really makes no sense either since there were still some good happy moments that the creators of the show still had planned, especially with Grandpa being in the show. Sadly they could only have him in the prequel.
David Rivera "Disturbing" = "Dino, your original, well thought-out and emotionally deep series is harshing our primary demographic's vibe. 90% of them are stoned fratboys who only tune in for McFarlane's latest insult to human intelligence; if we can't follow that up with something involving fart jokes and people getting punched in the dick, they tune out, send us emails calling us faggots in all caps and stop buying our overpriced faux-indie merch. I've got a BMW payment to make. Sorry bro, but this is business." Williams Street has been dogshit since the day they realized the ethos that defined them wasn't making them or Ted Turner any money. I remember the days when something like Moral Orel would have been hugely popular.
Arshin Carnifex I agree with you man and the thing is that before Adult Swim cancelled the show Dino was able to make a finish and complete a few of the episodes we were not able to see. Now I am not sure if that is entirely true but if it is then I can only hope that they can be put back on, I can still believe that there is hope to watch those episodes especially since they would be so interesting too like Grandpa actually calling Clay and Bloberta out for being bad parents and Ms. Censordoll finally taking over the town only to be taken down, someway, by Orel. With the direction Dino was going for, it would have been an amazing watch.
You know, the first two seasons of this show were great on their own regards, masterfully satirizing the lifestyle of the fundamentalist, politically conservative Christian while also providing a harsh picture of dysfunctional familial relationships. A solid 9/10 overall, in my opinion. However, season 3... Now that was something completely outside of the bell curve. It had little to no comedy to speak of, and the few humoristic moments that were sprinkled around were dryly bleak and sardonic in nature. It became a dark psychological drama that explored the harsh and vapid facets of Middle America, and there's one episode in this season that I won't hame, but it is simply jaw-dropping in its direction. What a way to turn the series into a bona-fide masterpiece.
@@ItsAlwaysSlushie no the one with nurse bendy and why she’s the way she is. That everyone takes her for a idiot and she’s so scared that when her teddy bear fell on her behind she started to lose her mind as if the bear was trying to rape her
@@jacoryfrazier2593 man you don't pay attention congratulations you just explained the episode alone which the creator mentioned that other's asked for a more morbid story but after said episode became traumatized to continue the series
this song played during THE BEST Moral Orel episode ever with those words still ringing in your head... - hand in unlovable hand - - I hope you die, i hope that we Both Die! - as the camera pans out over the two of them lying in what now look more like corpses laid out inside of their coffins. Especially since at this point... And in all of the ways that actually matter in a life - they were indeed already dead. and not dead because they were breathless bits of clay either. I found myself completely forgeting that part of as I looked into their eyes and could Feel what they were 'feeling'. That bitterness of despair and broken dreams. very deep. And Great Writing! You know the writing has reached a brilliant HIGH when the story sucks you in, and glued-on eyes appear to truly see.
The scene that really stuck to my mind was Clay taking Orel to hunt, and the innocent Orel finally see through the all but transparent facade his parents have been maintaining all these years, seeing his father for the broken, alcoholic, abusive mess he is. And yet it shows him in a pitiful light. having gotten to know him over the series, you still empathize with him somewhat, just like a son naturally would even with the facade broken.
this song fits the mood so perfectly. it's also disturbingly beautiful. Also love the symbolism of Clay and Bloberta at the end. The way they're lying down looks like their in their graves
This is the video that simultaneously introduced me to the mountain goats and moral orel, which are both now staples in my life. I introduced this show and this band to a handful of people who now say Moral Orel is their favorite show and regularly listen to the mountain goats. All cause a couple years ago I clicked on this video.
That's so amazing, Moral Orel itself not only got me to find the mountain goats, but the whole indie-folk-punk genre. I thought I just kinda didn't like music before that. I'm so glad this impacted you like it did me
I was just thinking about how young both Clay and Bloberta must have been when they first got married. Neither of them were probably older than in their early 20s. And they more or less sold their lives away just to please everyone else.
So true. Seemed like Bloberta only got married because she was jealous of the fact that all of her friends were getting engaged and showing off their engagement rings. Ridiculous, if you ask me. I'm 35 and just got engaged 3 months ago on Christmas Eve to my fiancé. We're going to be together 5 years in August. Not once did we rush into anything at all for the sake of pleasing anyone. We got engaged because we love and want to spend forever with each other. All Bloberta wanted to go was get married to have a ring, house and that "picture perfect" life her friends had but she's no saint and neither is Clay. Clay is a repressed bisexual man who hides behind booze and hits on other women. Bloberta is just miserable because she aims to please others to make them happy but does nothing to make herself happy.
This reminds me of a friendship I had in my past. I struggled to make friends all my life so I was grateful for anyone's attention. But as I got to know him I hated him ( as a person) but I forced myself to keep interacting with him hoping maybe just maybe things would get better and maybe I'm just picky and my standards for friendships are just skyhigh. This song perfectly highlights how I felt about him and myself
No man I'm literally going through the same years I've been friends with this person for 10 years they're toxic but I keep holding on because like you I can't make social interactions that last I usually end up isolating myself because of insecurity
Here with the same history, tree years ago I met this dude, he was super nice with me, we do a lot of stuff together, I know every girl he dated and made friends with them but as time passed he turns into a different person, a kind of person I was afraid to be close, sadly before he change, I felt in love with him and I know he felt it to but maybe he was scared of coming out of closet or something, all of our friends tend to do jokes about being a couple even her girlfriends, but the only person truly hurt about all that was me, the moment he changed was the last drop and I run away from him, I literally disappeared and he never knew why, and I just feel kinda empty sometimes, and hurt, but at the same time I felt that I do the right thing, but sometimes doesn't feel like it, it just so hard to not get to attached to persons when you are not so mentally healthy.
after rewatching this show i'm at least glad they ended it with Orel growing up to have a happy life. that kid went through hell so to speak and it's satisfying that he was able to succeed at the one thing his parents couldn't which was being happy
season 1 was really funny, but as the show progressed, you start learning about the intense psychological disorders that everyone in Moralton has besides Orel. The series ends when Orel finally learns about his messed up family and towns people. The true ending is when you learn that Orel grows up to marry his true love and start a loving family, unlike everyone else.
Season 1, making fun of religion and people. Season 2, consequences for raising kids with these bad ideas, failed marriages, staying together with no love, alcohol abuse. What this show because is so much more than was Adult Swim gave it. Needs more attention I think.
Season 1: Making fun of the Nuclear Family while staying true to the Adult Swim parody concept. Season 2: Turing the Comedy into a more darker vibe while dissecting the Parody itself. Season 3: Completely turning the show into a Drama and turning the concept of Parody into the Reality it joked around with.
@@savagetv6460 you wanna know why nuclear families are called nuclear families? because they always end in an explosion that kills thousands of people and gives thousands of more cancer.
I love the fact that the singer is actually Christian in real life and that this song actually sounds like a modern worship song. It's so much more relevant and impactful that way.
What I want most, especially after seeing Before Orel, is a "sequel show" where we see Orel come to terms with how warped the fundamentalism instilled in him by Moralton is, preferably with the help of his grandfather that he restores his relationship with.
the last season of this show was just....i can't describe it in one word. it was so brilliantly done and deep, sad, poignant, what word can you really use? this is the best show i have seen in a long time.
This song is just pure, directed, uncontrollable hatred towards someone you liked. Now you're stuck with them and can never turn back, so the best you can do is try and make their life a living hell while they do the same to you. A constant rotation of hate and bitterness. Something that would be torture for even the most masochistic of souls.
A song about diving into unbreakable commitment, with fine print both parties kept quiet. Like a kid in a tantrum, they'd rather double down then talk about it, out of spite.
This is the show I've always wanted to see. It was hilarious, goofy, immature, ironic, dark, demented, mood shifting, the perfect melancholic blend to ask "what did you REALLY just watch?" It took a simple parody, and went further. It evolved the characters, took risks, went into dangerous terrains, and still had a good amount of humor. This MG song they used always gave me a strange chill, that I absolutely love every time I hear it. It, like the show, just finds a way to make you feel so much.
Possibly the darkest television show to ever air on Adult Swim. Moral Orel went places I never see most "mature-rated" shows only ever bring up with crude attempts of comedy.
wish they could make a reboot/comeback to orel’s life after the finale. like how he is as a teenager, if clay and bloberta are still together and just how the characters are changing
There's a bit of minor evidence that Clay and Bloberta are still together. When Orel is an adult, he has a picture hung up of of them looking unhappy together and you can guess that neither of them want to go through the embracement of divorce in that town, you know?
The wall isn’t there to keep them apart, it’s there so that just for a few seconds at the start of each day they can both almost forget the other one exists
I love that no one understands the beauty and sorrowful the truth of this song. The beauty of love gone so wrong, yet still commited. The horror of the commitment so embodied with endearing hatred, love, and inevitability.
This series always made me feel SO much better about my own life. It often left me wondering how many of these painful events actualy came from Dino's past.
" 'In marriage the greatest hatred that is possible between human beings can be generated, perhaps because of the constant proximity, perhaps because once there was love.'" From Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick.
for everyone who likes this show but wishes it was a TAD less emotionally raw: Dino made two other very short lived adult swim claymations, and they're both equally god tier. Frankenhole might be my favorite, imagine house meets moral orel. then the drinky crow show...and my god I can't even explain that one
Man, I know this song is a bit of a meme now, but GOD it fits this show so perfectly. We see how things soured so completely for all of these characters, and I’m genuinely impressed by how this show used the song, it’s an excellent meshing of two works of art!
Great job, a great song for a great series that got amazing towards the end. The focus on Clay and Bloberta was very appropriate for the Mountain Goats song.
Max Pauley I think you should watch the whole series to have a better understanding of the dynamics of their relationship. Its not the wife you should be hating on... It's an interesting story. Realistically, they should have never married each other, ones a closeted gay guy, and both still wanted the imagery lifestyle of a 'traditional' family. Ultimately this has caused both of them to be blinded by each other's differences that showed they're not compatible.... Oh well, that's life...I guess
Max Pauley and I hope when you think of this comment years down the line, you can't find one good thing to say. And I hope that if I find the strength to walk out, you'll stay the hell out of my way, I guess.
this and Wilfred are my two favorite shows EVER. So deep, relatable, and kicks me right in the fucking feels every time ♡ I am so very grateful for shows like this. we need more ♡
It's really sad/. Orel will always have his kind nature either ignored or abused and never recognized for the amazing kid he is. Shapey's "Father" doesn't care about him and neither does Clay, who sees him as a reminder of his failure. And his Mom has ignored him to the point that he is intellectually stunted for his age. And Block? His family straight up ditched him. And all three boys have to survive with two pathetic cowards who have let their hatred of one another completely poison their family.
wow, that made me tear up like i haven't in a good while. this show is too good at confronting you with the worst and darkest parts of yourself. i've thought nearly every line from this song before in some form or another, and way more often than i'd like.
Love the song. Wrapped up in the episode "numb" to make a deep experience. That episode was more thought provoking than funny, dealing with the issues of love loss in a marriage, pain, and getting to the point where you feel nothing at all. Powerful.
I love this show. There's just something so great about Clay and Bloberta's marriage. The fact theyre both so terrible and are completly tired of eachother. It's great.
In March 2022 i discovered Moral Orel for the first time. Later that year from mid 2022-2023 I was in a very dark time in my teen life. And ‘No Children’ was the most played song during my mental health crisis.
season 3 was the best for sure No Children bt The Mountain Goats is now me and my bf's official wedding song because "I hope you die, I hope we both die"
+Chronä BlackBlood "People ask me to play this song at their weddings. I'm flattered and honored, and I decline to play this song at anybody's wedding. I keep waiting for somebody to say, 'Well, we're having the final hearing. You remember I asked you to play this at our wedding? I was wondering if you'd come to this little office, it's off of Frontage Road, it's very nondescript-they share a space with a massage therapist and an insurance guy, and you could come and play this song at the hearing, and sing it like you mean it.' I keep waiting for that 'cause I think, don't tell anybody, but I think if somebody said 'John, come play No Children at my divorce hearing', how could I say no?" -John Darnielle
+John G I was thinking along the same lines... you truly capture the melancholy; that empty pit we oft fall into. Thank you for sharing your genius with us, John.
The fact that the singer's voice vaguely sounds like Clay himself is just perfect.
Clay’s voice is deeper than this, but the tone is pretty spot on.
@@definitelynotsiri4058 That's why I said "vaguely".
@@toasturhztoastbunz896 I can’t even see they vaguely
@@Galvatronover i can. He voices baymax in big hero so think of it that way.
Looking back at this comment I actually can hear at some parts haha
I feel like if this show aired today, it would do so much better.
Why?Because of edgy humorless teenagers like you who miss the point of this show?Eh,probably
Anthony Carmine that was uncalled for, but it does really seems like these type of shows are getting more praise and recognition now than before, judging by the success of shows like Bojack Horseman and Rick and Morty (for better or for worse) and beside Moral Orel got canceled for being “too dark” for adult swim, I too believe the show could get better reception had it been aired today.
Anthony Carmine I’m sorry i’m such a bad person for watching a tv show
@@corpsemachine6949 why are u so mad at teenagers?? Bc you're old and sad? Or bc they're smarter than u were at their age so they can enjoy shows with deep meaning while u couldn't??
@Seamus F haha!!! funny boomer go *"get off my lawn millenials!!!"* haha!!! funny boomer!!!!!
It took Clone High 17 years to get Rebooted.
Orel, your time will come
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sometimes i get very sad because not a lot of people know about moral orel but clone high managed to somehow come back from the dead so maybe one day orel will get the attention it deserves too
I love to see that someone is comparing moral orel and clone high. they both are underated and shortlived shows. I did the math, and guys, I think its best to set you calendars to 2022, because that's when, hopefully, moral orel will come back.
#bringbackorel
nobody can reboot this masterpiece.
@Nuggie Bunny I was thinking more of like another season of sorts
The fact a Mountain Goats song was used in an actual tv show is amazing
three different songs were used in that season
up the wolves was also used in the walking dead :D
@@linkinparkfanatic8956 wow, I never knew that! I never stayed caught up on that show but that’s still so cool that they were on such a big show
This song was used perfectly in the You're The Worst finale
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A depressing song for an irredeemable bunch of self destructive characters with no hope of redemption... well except for one.
By the end of the series Orel renounces all of the garbage his father has been spouting out towards him. While his parents are miserable because they hate each other Orel grew up to marry that girl who was similar to him. Now he's happy and well adjusted. There was hope for him, he just had to realize that everyone around him was full of crap.
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i love the end! it shows us no matter how bad we've got it, we can change our lives around! I LOVE THE FINAL SCENE!
Nurse Bendy and Joe have a chance since they started living as son and mother, they were shown as happy in the last episode.
Reverend Rod Putty and his daughter Stephanie were shown to have both grown happier since their reconciliation.
Shapey and Block both have a chance with Orel's guidance, obviously Orel and Christina had a happy ending. Many of Orel's friends and classmates probably turned out better than their parents, it was said by the creator that Orel chose to stay in Moralton when he grew up to help make it a better place.
Yotsuba shapey and block were shown as a police officer and I think fireman in photographs the last episode. don't remember which was which but don't quote me on this it's been a few months since I watched through the series
Orel is so pure it balance out the horribleness of the rest of the town
When the song said “I am drowning there is no sight of land” as he was walking down the hallway that hit me in the chest pretty hard
Its sign not sight.
Yeah that part of the song just hits a little close to home. I know this comment is late but I relate to it so much
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@@MomJeans1738 damn, top 10 insults
BUT YOU’RE COMING DOWN WITH ME
Gotta say the comments saying shit like “I don’t even have a wife but this song/show make me hate her” is completely misunderstanding the point of both the show and the song.
The point of both mediums isn’t “oh your wife is a nasty bitch and it’s ok to hate her” the point is that both characters, the wife and the husband, are deeply flawed people. But instead of growing to be better they decide to stay together and rot because that’s all they know. And the attitude “it’s ok to hate my wife because that’s just what marriage is” is LITERALLY the opposite of what both the show and song are trying to get at.
Basically stop being a fucking idiot and be a better person before you make yourself and someone else you suckered into marrying you miserable. Because if you marry just to escape loneliness you will never be more alone.
Thank you
It's sad people jump onto the worst possible definition of a song lol
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who cares about growth? be a bad person and hate ur wife!
thank you for this comment
This is a depressing song but it isn't edgy, I wish there were more songs like this
ajj, the taxpayers, the mountain goats
@E J AJJ and Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, changed me forever
The Pretender by Jackson Browne is incredible
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@@Ms_Communication_ THIS yes, and Pat the Bunny’s solo stuff too, especially “Probably Nothing, Possibly Everything”. Great stuff, sad that he didn’t make much before leaving music
AJJ and pat the bunny
The hunting double episode is one of the most emotionally devastating moments in television history
“My life is full of bright” - Clay’s meltdown makes me absolutely weep for an absolute monster
@@jaredbellowwe all have a Clay deep inside us 😔
The only show on Cartoon Network that got cancelled for being too depressing.
Wait cartoon network 0.o
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I mean Adult Swim
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I'm just so glad they came back and finished this series the way it needed to be.
Yeah seriously! Like a bunch of people from Adult Swim watched “Alone” and they were so shocked that they cancelled the show outright.
"Why did you marry dad?"
"Well, why not?"
I finished this series less than a week ago, but I already know it's one of the shows that will stick with me forever
It was beautiful, right? I found this show to be cathartic for me. I was raised in a VERY Christian family
yup
same
As a Protestant Christian, Moral Orel has been one of my favorite shows, since it lead me to Christ even more. And it's such a sad show too, mainly with this song that was featured. I'm sad the show is gone.
Dude, troof.
a show made to mock Christianity... led you closer to Christ.
@@fauxmarble7439 it mocked the way some people carry out christianity, not the religion itself
@@priyakochar7545 exactly. it shed light on the hypocrisies of people who used the bible to fuel their own agenda, not the bible itself
This is one of the brightest shining points of the show for me. It's able to use Religion as a solid point of satire and comedy, yet despite that, it never actually feels like it's dissing the idea of having belief and faith. The adults in the town use Christianity for appearances or to control each other. but Orel's genuine faith gives him strength to persevere. One of the most touching points in the show for me is during Orel's movie premiere - the scene where his dad's belt comes alive and loops and entangles him is painful but seeing the God action figure rescuing him from the belt is. . . idk it's poignant. It shows how the people around Orel cause him incredible grief but his faith allows him to push through it. thank God this show is funny as hell because holy can it be painful
This series legit helped me cope with depression and existential crisis.
Funny you say that, because it actually caused me to fall into a deep state of depression and existentialism. But just like a bad psychedelic trip, the bad brought out the good in me many months later. I was ripped from mother natures womb, baked in the sun to dry up, and eventually grew up to be the new person that I am today. Crazy shit, from a clay puppet show.
@@artiemilano378 Well I guess there’s that one saying, “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” You both got something important out of this show :)
@@jillnyethegirlwhosbi3772 wait, that means I'm disturbed. Fair.
It still helps me get by to this day
lmao glad I'm not a brain broke poor me victimized sap.
this is just an animated adult show not your fkn therapy session ffs people like you are a drag.
I miss this show. literally underrated.
They discontinued cuz people are little bitches and it’s too depressing
@@omgstephanieify ikr, damn pussies
Figuratively underrated
Underrated was just fine
I would love a reboot or a continuation of this show
Why does rick and morty get so much recognition and not this? Oh my gosh, this show seems so much better written and a lot more in depth
Honestly!!! Moral Orel was ahead of its time. Rick and Morty has NOTHING on this series
zensoda Both are brilliant. But I like Moral Orel better.
Why do we have to choose? Both shows are great. I think Orel is better, but why dismiss another as simple "edgy atheist" stuff. It's genuinely good.
Ugh whatever, you probably don't care. You're just thinking about the annoying fans.
pinkfish The fandom is pretty annoying, but there's no reason to call R&M bad because of the fandom.
idk if you're talking to me, but I still believe MO is waves above R&M. This is coming from a fan of both
If you liked Clay and Bloberta (well, not "liked"...but understood), then you should read about the Alpha Couple.
John Darnielle (the guy behind the Mountain Goats) wrote this song (and the entire album Tallahassee) as a concept album about a married couple he created called the Alpha Couple. They are basically Clay and Bloberta except in a different form. They're both self-destructive alcoholics who hate the person they're with, but they also can't imagine living a life without each other, and there's a twisted kind of "love" in being unable to imagine a life without the other. So they roam the country trying to escape their problems.
Eventually, in the album Tallahassee, they finally decide to settle down in Tallahassee, Florida and simply drink themselves to death.
It made such a huge impact on people when it was released in 2003 that a bunch of artists did an all-cover remake in 2013 called Tallahassee Turns Ten.
actually
I'm pretty sure that at the end of the album/story (Alpha Rats Nest) they burn down their house with them in it?
I mean, it seems to make sense if you read the lyrics-
But Bloreta was never a acholic. Though she may have OCD and a need to control EVERYTHING to the slightest detail including Clay but not Oral for some reason.
Maclover Mcellen It's hinted at that in her youth she was a closeted alcoholic- but then simply passed that trait onto Clay and became disgusted with the habit after watching him get worse
Holy shit. I'm gonna listen to their entire discography now.
Alpha Omega.
I don't think there is a canon ending to the Alpha couple.
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Holy crap the official mountain goats tiktok just posted this!
glad to see that your still active lol
do you happen to have a link for the video btw?
Oh my gosh congratulations!
🎊🎉🎈🍾🤗🤗🤗
This show was prolific and deep. Starting close to the middle of the second season it really transitioned into a unique, disturbing, dark, heart wrenching series that transcended mere comedy. As comedians say, the best comedy comes from the darkest of places, and this series really hammered that into your soul. This song and this episode was just a gut punch. One of the best shows ever made and one people can learn a thing or two from.
This show needs to come back. #bringbackorel
What an upbeat and cheerful song.
Derp Derpington lol
Derp Derpington Sarcasm.
Why was this show so short-lived? Season 2 and especially season 3 had AMAZING writing and character development and got quite touching at times (which is hard to pull off in only 11 minutes) - granted, it was one of the most disturbing and dark animated shows, but it worked because when it used dark or twisted humor, it was mostly used for satire and the miserable, twisted situations of the people of Moralton felt so...real.
Because modern TV focuses on providing people what they want to feel: whether that's amusement, happiness, fake sorrow or fake anger.
Real anger and real sorrow that actually relates to their lives and the lives of those around them makes them ACTUALLY unhappy. Which the TV executives are trying to avoid at all costs.
Arshin Carnifex
Yeah, unfortunately that seems to be the case.
I heard it was because Adult Swim thought the show got too disturbing even for them. Which really makes no sense either since there were still some good happy moments that the creators of the show still had planned, especially with Grandpa being in the show. Sadly they could only have him in the prequel.
David Rivera
"Disturbing" = "Dino, your original, well thought-out and emotionally deep series is harshing our primary demographic's vibe. 90% of them are stoned fratboys who only tune in for McFarlane's latest insult to human intelligence; if we can't follow that up with something involving fart jokes and people getting punched in the dick, they tune out, send us emails calling us faggots in all caps and stop buying our overpriced faux-indie merch. I've got a BMW payment to make. Sorry bro, but this is business."
Williams Street has been dogshit since the day they realized the ethos that defined them wasn't making them or Ted Turner any money. I remember the days when something like Moral Orel would have been hugely popular.
Arshin Carnifex I agree with you man and the thing is that before Adult Swim cancelled the show Dino was able to make a finish and complete a few of the episodes we were not able to see. Now I am not sure if that is entirely true but if it is then I can only hope that they can be put back on, I can still believe that there is hope to watch those episodes especially since they would be so interesting too like Grandpa actually calling Clay and Bloberta out for being bad parents and Ms. Censordoll finally taking over the town only to be taken down, someway, by Orel. With the direction Dino was going for, it would have been an amazing watch.
You know, the first two seasons of this show were great on their own regards, masterfully satirizing the lifestyle of the fundamentalist, politically conservative Christian while also providing a harsh picture of dysfunctional familial relationships. A solid 9/10 overall, in my opinion.
However, season 3... Now that was something completely outside of the bell curve. It had little to no comedy to speak of, and the few humoristic moments that were sprinkled around were dryly bleak and sardonic in nature. It became a dark psychological drama that explored the harsh and vapid facets of Middle America, and there's one episode in this season that I won't hame, but it is simply jaw-dropping in its direction. What a way to turn the series into a bona-fide masterpiece.
Bruh big cities have more depressed people lol liberal cities are depressing
Was it the abortion episode?
A lot of people felt that way with "Alone". AS executives to begin with, therefore the show's cancellation.
@@ItsAlwaysSlushie no the one with nurse bendy and why she’s the way she is. That everyone takes her for a idiot and she’s so scared that when her teddy bear fell on her behind she started to lose her mind as if the bear was trying to rape her
@@jacoryfrazier2593 man you don't pay attention congratulations you just explained the episode alone which the creator mentioned that other's asked for a more morbid story but after said episode became traumatized to continue the series
this song played during THE BEST Moral Orel episode ever
with those words still ringing in your head...
- hand in unlovable hand -
- I hope you die, i hope that we Both Die! -
as the camera pans out over the two of them lying in what now look more
like corpses laid out inside of their coffins. Especially since at this point...
And in all of the ways that actually matter in a life - they were indeed already dead.
and not dead because they were breathless bits of clay either.
I found myself completely forgeting that part of as I looked into their eyes and could Feel what they were 'feeling'. That bitterness of despair and broken dreams.
very deep.
And Great Writing! You know the writing has reached a brilliant HIGH when the story sucks you in, and glued-on eyes appear to truly see.
The scene that really stuck to my mind was Clay taking Orel to hunt, and the innocent Orel finally see through the all but transparent facade his parents have been maintaining all these years, seeing his father for the broken, alcoholic, abusive mess he is.
And yet it shows him in a pitiful light. having gotten to know him over the series, you still empathize with him somewhat, just like a son naturally would even with the facade broken.
@@mainmanbumfuzz8983 Yea. but he shot that fucking bear. Well, Clay took responsibility for the kill.
Gay
this song fits the mood so perfectly. it's also disturbingly beautiful. Also love the symbolism of Clay and Bloberta at the end. The way they're lying down looks like their in their graves
The best thing to come from their marriage was Orel.
This is the video that simultaneously introduced me to the mountain goats and moral orel, which are both now staples in my life. I introduced this show and this band to a handful of people who now say Moral Orel is their favorite show and regularly listen to the mountain goats. All cause a couple years ago I clicked on this video.
That's so amazing, Moral Orel itself not only got me to find the mountain goats, but the whole indie-folk-punk genre. I thought I just kinda didn't like music before that. I'm so glad this impacted you like it did me
@@AMVslowkingMoral orel made this one of my favourite songs
I was just thinking about how young both Clay and Bloberta must have been when they first got married. Neither of them were probably older than in their early 20s. And they more or less sold their lives away just to please everyone else.
So true. Seemed like Bloberta only got married because she was jealous of the fact that all of her friends were getting engaged and showing off their engagement rings. Ridiculous, if you ask me. I'm 35 and just got engaged 3 months ago on Christmas Eve to my fiancé. We're going to be together 5 years in August. Not once did we rush into anything at all for the sake of pleasing anyone. We got engaged because we love and want to spend forever with each other. All Bloberta wanted to go was get married to have a ring, house and that "picture perfect" life her friends had but she's no saint and neither is Clay. Clay is a repressed bisexual man who hides behind booze and hits on other women. Bloberta is just miserable because she aims to please others to make them happy but does nothing to make herself happy.
This reminds me of a friendship I had in my past. I struggled to make friends all my life so I was grateful for anyone's attention. But as I got to know him I hated him ( as a person) but I forced myself to keep interacting with him hoping maybe just maybe things would get better and maybe I'm just picky and my standards for friendships are just skyhigh. This song perfectly highlights how I felt about him and myself
No man I'm literally going through the same years I've been friends with this person for 10 years they're toxic but I keep holding on because like you I can't make social interactions that last I usually end up isolating myself because of insecurity
Here with the same history, tree years ago I met this dude, he was super nice with me, we do a lot of stuff together, I know every girl he dated and made friends with them but as time passed he turns into a different person, a kind of person I was afraid to be close, sadly before he change, I felt in love with him and I know he felt it to but maybe he was scared of coming out of closet or something, all of our friends tend to do jokes about being a couple even her girlfriends, but the only person truly hurt about all that was me, the moment he changed was the last drop and I run away from him, I literally disappeared and he never knew why, and I just feel kinda empty sometimes, and hurt, but at the same time I felt that I do the right thing, but sometimes doesn't feel like it, it just so hard to not get to attached to persons when you are not so mentally healthy.
This show does a great job making you feel like you're suffocating under all the tension and pain no one can discuss
Man of all the cruddy reboots among us, the ones that actually deserve it fades into obscurity....BRING THIS SHOW BACK!!
AMONG US
@@beatrilll SUS???
Y’all ever just having a happy day and then you click on this song?
And then I cry for the rest of it
after rewatching this show i'm at least glad they ended it with Orel growing up to have a happy life. that kid went through hell so to speak and it's satisfying that he was able to succeed at the one thing his parents couldn't which was being happy
season 1 was really funny, but as the show progressed, you start learning about the intense psychological disorders that everyone in Moralton has besides Orel. The series ends when Orel finally learns about his messed up family and towns people. The true ending is when you learn that Orel grows up to marry his true love and start a loving family, unlike everyone else.
Season 1, making fun of religion and people. Season 2, consequences for raising kids with these bad ideas, failed marriages, staying together with no love, alcohol abuse. What this show because is so much more than was Adult Swim gave it. Needs more attention I think.
Season 1: Making fun of the Nuclear Family while staying true to the Adult Swim parody concept.
Season 2: Turing the Comedy into a more darker vibe while dissecting the Parody itself.
Season 3: Completely turning the show into a Drama and turning the concept of Parody into the Reality it joked around with.
@@mrmoviemanic1 nuclear family is still the best
Religion isn't bad ideas asshole
@@savagetv6460 who the fuck asked
@@savagetv6460 you wanna know why nuclear families are called nuclear families? because they always end in an explosion that kills thousands of people and gives thousands of more cancer.
this show was so ahead of its time, i'm happy to see more people appreciating it. it's a painful watch, but such a fucking good one too
I love the fact that the singer is actually Christian in real life and that this song actually sounds like a modern worship song. It's so much more relevant and impactful that way.
Moral Orel is one of the greatest tv shows/series that I never want to watch again, the pain was indescribable
The worst part is clay cant divorce her because it'll ruin his reputation
What I want most, especially after seeing Before Orel, is a "sequel show" where we see Orel come to terms with how warped the fundamentalism instilled in him by Moralton is, preferably with the help of his grandfather that he restores his relationship with.
holy hell
I get that this comment is literally 3 years old and whatever but?? that sounds amazing??? why aren't people funding this?????
the last season of this show was just....i can't describe it in one word. it was so brilliantly done and deep, sad, poignant, what word can you really use? this is the best show i have seen in a long time.
This show was a masterpiece of all the things wrong with life that nobody will talk about until its time to see a schrink!
I finally saw The Mountain Goats live the other night and they closed the show with this song. I met John after the show, it was awesome!
im plowing through moral orel as fast as i can just so i can watch this spoiler-free AAAA im excited
just finished and came to watch this, very well done 10/10 ;-;
Where did you watch it?
@@SoulDevoured Its on youtube
This song is just pure, directed, uncontrollable hatred towards someone you liked. Now you're stuck with them and can never turn back, so the best you can do is try and make their life a living hell while they do the same to you. A constant rotation of hate and bitterness. Something that would be torture for even the most masochistic of souls.
A song about diving into unbreakable commitment, with fine print both parties kept quiet. Like a kid in a tantrum, they'd rather double down then talk about it, out of spite.
This is the show I've always wanted to see. It was hilarious, goofy, immature, ironic, dark, demented, mood shifting, the perfect melancholic blend to ask "what did you REALLY just watch?" It took a simple parody, and went further. It evolved the characters, took risks, went into dangerous terrains, and still had a good amount of humor. This MG song they used always gave me a strange chill, that I absolutely love every time I hear it. It, like the show, just finds a way to make you feel so much.
Possibly the darkest television show to ever air on Adult Swim. Moral Orel went places I never see most "mature-rated" shows only ever bring up with crude attempts of comedy.
2:08 It looks like they’re lying in their graves.
Bet it was intentional
they basically are
Ha ha what a funny little show that criticizes people who use religion to abuse others, I sure hope nothing soul crushing happens
by talos this can’t be happening
Skyrim belongs to the nords!
wish they could make a reboot/comeback to orel’s life after the finale. like how he is as a teenager, if clay and bloberta are still together and just how the characters are changing
There's a bit of minor evidence that Clay and Bloberta are still together. When Orel is an adult, he has a picture hung up of of them looking unhappy together and you can guess that neither of them want to go through the embracement of divorce in that town, you know?
I used to watch this when I was twelve, great show
If this show was produced today it would get the recognition it fuking deserves...
The first adult cartoon to have a mid life crisis
The wall isn’t there to keep them apart, it’s there so that just for a few seconds at the start of each day they can both almost forget the other one exists
I love that no one understands the beauty and sorrowful the truth of this song. The beauty of love gone so wrong, yet still commited. The horror of the commitment so embodied with endearing hatred, love, and inevitability.
If this show gets a reboot with the same animation for God I will bee happy and praised
This series always made me feel SO much better about my own life.
It often left me wondering how many of these painful events actualy came from Dino's past.
" 'In marriage the greatest hatred that is possible between human beings can be generated, perhaps because of the constant proximity, perhaps because once there was love.'"
From Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick.
BRING BACK MORAL OREL 😭
for everyone who likes this show but wishes it was a TAD less emotionally raw: Dino made two other very short lived adult swim claymations, and they're both equally god tier. Frankenhole might be my favorite, imagine house meets moral orel. then the drinky crow show...and my god I can't even explain that one
This was the song that tied the whole series together and everything started making sense.
I love how you can see Dino’s problems in the last season. It makes it so human
Man, I know this song is a bit of a meme now, but GOD it fits this show so perfectly. We see how things soured so completely for all of these characters, and I’m genuinely impressed by how this show used the song, it’s an excellent meshing of two works of art!
When I was younger I thought this mashup was cool. But after living through this exact thing it’s heartbreaking.
This is the most depressing song I've ever heard in my life.
Thats what makes it good
A very memorable show, even to this day
Thank you poster, whomever posted this... thank you...
Man sometimes I forget I put this up.
When you've seen this show on repeat the visuals really hit.
I have an alcohol problem, and this show together with this song is helping me stop relying on it.
I love every delicious, desperate, despondent, despairing, despicable second of this.
The fact that this show was cancelled for being too dark really shows how some people can’t handle stuff like this
This show is the greatest work of American animation ever made.
A brilliant, underrated show and one of my favorite songs for life.
A long lost show so far ahead of its time.
man. i get so uneasy listening to this song despite the raw beauty of both the lyrics and the piano. so fucking powerful
This show man... Ive never seen another like it
Great job, a great song for a great series that got amazing towards the end. The focus on Clay and Bloberta was very appropriate for the Mountain Goats song.
I dont even have a wife and this song already made me hate her.
I haven't read that many of the comments yet but you already win.
Max Pauley I think you should watch the whole series to have a better understanding of the dynamics of their relationship. Its not the wife you should be hating on... It's an interesting story. Realistically, they should have never married each other, ones a closeted gay guy, and both still wanted the imagery lifestyle of a 'traditional' family. Ultimately this has caused both of them to be blinded by each other's differences that showed they're not compatible.... Oh well, that's life...I guess
+Shayen Henry Fuck, dude. i was just making a joke. i mean thanks, i guess
Max Pauley and I hope when you think of this comment years down the line, you can't find one good thing to say. And I hope that if I find the strength to walk out, you'll stay the hell out of my way, I guess.
Shayen Henry Clay isn't a closeted gay. He's more bisexual because he'll fuck anyone who will pay attention to him
I will forever see this video when I listen to this song. One of the best videos-to-a-song-it-wasnt-intended ever.
this and Wilfred are my two favorite shows EVER. So deep, relatable, and kicks me right in the fucking feels every time ♡ I am so very grateful for shows like this. we need more ♡
This song makes you hate your wife, even if you aren't married.
Trejo Pendejo you just hate other people’s wives xD
You missed the point, unless you hate yourself just as much.
@@Euroflounder May I get an explanation ?
It makes you hopeful for the future by embracing the hate you hold for your spouse, who you used to love.
@@eatmyphatphuckingass the singer takes just as much responsibility, if not more, for making them miserable. At least that's how I've always heard it.
Adult Swim's Masterpiece, which they couldn't appreciate for its time. God bless everyone on Moral Orel, one of the best shows of all time.
Bojack Horseman doesn't hold a candle to Moral Orel
This video shows that this isn't about marriage, orel and shapey and block! They They're just trapped.😢
It's really sad/.
Orel will always have his kind nature either ignored or abused and never recognized for the amazing kid he is.
Shapey's "Father" doesn't care about him and neither does Clay, who sees him as a reminder of his failure. And his Mom has ignored him to the point that he is intellectually stunted for his age.
And Block? His family straight up ditched him.
And all three boys have to survive with two pathetic cowards who have let their hatred of one another completely poison their family.
that last verse is very eerily similar to thoughts i had when i was depressed a year ago
This reminds me of my parents
i nkow
Same
I wish I wouldn't have to agree, but yeah. My folks too.
Same
Sadly I think this reminds many of us of our parents.
wow, that made me tear up like i haven't in a good while. this show is too good at confronting you with the worst and darkest parts of yourself. i've thought nearly every line from this song before in some form or another, and way more often than i'd like.
Love the song. Wrapped up in the episode "numb" to make a deep experience. That episode was more thought provoking than funny, dealing with the issues of love loss in a marriage, pain, and getting to the point where you feel nothing at all. Powerful.
I love this show. There's just something so great about Clay and Bloberta's marriage. The fact theyre both so terrible and are completly tired of eachother. It's great.
Ah, season 3, the Evangelion of claymation
In March 2022 i discovered Moral Orel for the first time. Later that year from mid 2022-2023 I was in a very dark time in my teen life. And ‘No Children’ was the most played song during my mental health crisis.
sounds like weird al but feels like Edgar Allan Poe.
DG Studios Like a modern version.
not even a little bit?
Edgar AL Poe
If there is a Hell, I don't think it will be as exciting as fire and brimstones. It's probably an eternity of living like Clay and Bloberta.
I hope this video stays up for a century.
Moral Orel is the only show that made laugh and cry.
I'm so in love with this show.
Dino needs to finish his work.
Great show sad not many people know if it. this song is so deep.
BEST FUCKING SHOW EVER SO AMAZING SO MANY FEELS
season 1: Snarky take down of religion
season 2: Expansion of characters
season 3: Pitch black human darkness
season 3 was the best for sure
No Children bt The Mountain Goats is now me and my bf's official wedding song because "I hope you die, I hope we both die"
+Chronä BlackBlood
"People ask me to play this song at their weddings. I'm flattered and honored, and I decline to play this song at anybody's wedding. I keep waiting for somebody to say, 'Well, we're having the final hearing. You remember I asked you to play this at our wedding? I was wondering if you'd come to this little office, it's off of Frontage Road, it's very nondescript-they share a space with a massage therapist and an insurance guy, and you could come and play this song at the hearing, and sing it like you mean it.' I keep waiting for that 'cause I think, don't tell anybody, but I think if somebody said 'John, come play No Children at my divorce hearing', how could I say no?" -John Darnielle
lmao
+John G I was thinking along the same lines... you truly capture the melancholy; that empty pit we oft fall into. Thank you for sharing your genius with us, John.
Was soooo happy to hear Mountain Goats do this as their encore several years ago.
Don’t ever quit working on me