The Episode That Got Moral Orel CANCELLED
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- As great as this show was, it got too dark for Adult Swim, with one episode in particular being cited as the final nail in the coffin. This is the one.
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Watching Nurse Bendy’s mental break was the most uncomfortably realistic and raw scene I’ve seen in animated media. The voice acting was impeccable. The way she desperately whimpers “Not you! You’re special! Not at home!” Just grabbed me by the throat.
I legitimately felt sick to my stomach there. It's gut wrenching.
As someone who suffers from PTSD from CSA, Its also incredibly relatable. You think you find something safe, and then one bump in the road leads you into a severe breakdown similar to this.
@@phi1105 I’m so sorry you had to go through that,I hope that your doing better now and that you are safe and have a good day
@@phi1105 I personally know a CSA surviver, and their reactions to PTSD are very similar. I wish the best for you and hope you only continue to heal
Never seen the show, but that was the only clip I’ve seen and I cried. Amazing story telling, but really dark
Such a shame that adult swim has no problem with making jokes about sa towards women yet once a show features a woman experiencing the long term effects of that stuff it becomes too dark...
Pretty much it’s a fucked up double standard that were supposed to laugh when we see a woman getting sa’d but once a show explores the aftermath it’s suddenly too much
To be fair it's not just women, think of all the prison jokes you've heard over the years, don't drop the soap and stuff like that.
But yeah though, I guess they care more about making jokes and laughing at serious subject matter at the expense of those who have to go through it than they do about making a serious, nuanced attempt at making a point about it.
@@MegaQuahog You do have a point, male r*pe is something that should be taken far more seriously compared to how its treatednow. Laughing at the situation where a person faces intense trauma just isnt ok, male or female
Its not about it being too dark, they just stoped making jokes, which as didnt want, moral orel season 3 had dark without the humor.
@@MegaQuahog
both women and men survivors are not taken seriously, both are constantly mocked and made fun of, both told they asked for it, that they were lucky/it was their fault. both belittled for it.
It always disappoints me when art becomes cancelled for being "too dark". These things happen in real life, but people have a problem with showing it on a tv screen. I guess we are not supposed to learn / reflect on real things.
Yeah tv is usually an escape from real world problems tho
Well no sane person just pulls up a chair, to watch folks get worked over like it's entertainment. This isn't the Roman times in a coliseum.
@@Xannyphantom905 WWE, South Park and every war movie ever:....
@@felixsfreckles6822 I was talking about real, actual, suffering. On a side note, idk why you even mentioned WWE. A wrestling match ain't comparable to watching a lion rip someone open.
the thing is, moral orel didn't hold back when showing how fucked up it is. for a messed up show, it has good representation and the way it's put is very well done.
the way nurse bendy age regresses is massive coping mechanism for sexual abuse victims. they go back to a time they felt safe when they feel safe to do so, but they are otherwise functioning adults.
It was comforting to see that depicted in a show; too bad it got canceled bc of it, but moral orel was great at tackling uncomfortable topics, and showing how disturbing things can really be.
I don’t think it’s just a child sexual abuse thing but a child abuse response in general. At least, I experience the same coping mechanism when I feel threatened in a similar way to when I was a helpless child and I was never *sexually* abused-“just” physically.
@WarlordofBritannia oh yeah, I agree with you, of course it can be a response to all kinds of child abuse! But its more common to see in victims of CSA, but youre right, it can be seen in survivors of all kinds of child abuse.
I sadly don't have a time that's too good; its started at six...
They went more into it when she met her son Joe...the reason for the teddy bear family is to replace him and his dad.
@vanapirarayne738 that episode was honestly the most heartbreaking but sweetest and most wholesome
It’s so disheartening that the episode that got the show nixed was about three women in different stages of their life dealing with sexual traumas. As if it doesn’t happen in real life.
This was well before the MeToo movement I believe.
People were less likely to believe that such a thing could happen.
@@newbienoah9461 I agree. Sexual assault and abuse weren’t talked about. The exact thing that the episode was trying to start a discussion over was what got it cancelled.
@@isaflores6041 if i remember what i read in some old interview correctly, matt maiellaro said moral orel was the best thing he'd ever put on tv, but adult swim is a comedy network and moral orel wasn't being very funny anymore
@@newbienoah9461: That abominable "movement" did more harm than good, Hollywood starlets used it as a means to ruin the lives of innocence people for monetary gain and clout, making it even harder to believe anyone who has actually experienced sexual assault.
@@jfaust1374 it was never funny tho, it always had a disturbing vibe, like you could tell there was something wrong with the whole town
4:00 She isn't 'mentally a child', she just has a coping mechanism where she regresses in age and _pretends_ to be a child. Its very common with people who have experienced sexual abuse in their childhoods. People who have bouts of age regression aren't 'mentally children' as in moderate cases its temporary and the person is still able to take care of themselves outside of those moments. Its why Bendy only does it when she's alone in her own home.
Yup, and also these age regressive moments aren’t always so elaborate like it was shown in this episode. Sometimes the age regression can be subtle, like a person indulging on their favorite cartoons, or preparing themselves treats and foods they enjoyed as children or keeping a childhood hobby like coloring books. It can manifest as an elaborate fantasy like it was shown in the episode, but not always. And like you say, the people who have these episodes are very much aware of their surroundings and reality, they’re just choosing to cope with a fantasy.
Came here to say his, thank you
Beat me to it.
This is essentially a regressive defense system, adaptation of juvenile or infantile behavior due to trauma. That jus makes it even darker.
So she's not mentally a child, she makes herself mentally a child. Got it. So glad you clarified it's clear as mud now thanks
Exactly. If anything it implies she was abused shortly after childhood which is why she finds safety in it
Moral Orel: *Is a satire showing all sorts of horrific things in the name of religious hypocrisy*
TV execs: *crickets*
Moral Orel: *Does the same thing, but to highlight the importance of women's rights*
TV execs: "UNACCEPTABLE!"
This is more than I know. Cheers!
More for victimes rights ! I know it's a lot more womens and girls than mens and boys . but i felt like this episode was for SA survivors and not only for womens
It's not even just women, it happens to men more than you might think.
I saw the episode when it aired, and I didn't recognize at the time how significant it was. I'm a Childhood Sexual Assault survivor, an incest survivor, and a survivor of multiple other rapes; I'm also a mental health professional. This episode showed parts of rape psychology that most folks don't want to acknowledge exists. Nurse Bendy was using age regression as a coping mechanism, and it's extremely common amongst those of us who were assaulted as children. It's even recommended by some clinicians as a way to self-soothe. I've used it to get through a lot of hard times.
The episode also talks about something called the repetition compulsion that is an urge in our brains to seek out the event again to try and come out of it in a position of power instead of suffering, and it really doesn't work. It also talked about how many rape survivors, like myself, have enjoyed some of what we went through. It's basically your brain being unable to process a horrible situation, so it tries to make you like it and feel good to help keep you alive. It doesn't understand the psychological complications that come from it. It just thinks that you'll be less likely to die if you didn't hate it.
All in all, these are parts of rape psychology that we don't talk about and that victims are shamed for. This episode needed to happen, and we desperately need more shows like this to show people the truth of rape. Our culture glorifies it and defends rapists where as shows like this one reveal the real damage it does and the way lives and minds are shattered by it.
I'm glad this episode aired, and I'm proud of the creators for talking about this despite the fact it got their show cancelled. We need more of that in our culture.
Great comment!
Thank you for explaining!!
I was sexually touched as a child and raped as a teen I then found out I was pregnant and decided to abort the baby ( I was 17 then) Im now 23 and I do what nurse bendy does on a regular basis after work. My room looks like a 10 year olds bedroom and I have a princess 13in crt tv in my room with game consoles of the early 2000s, toys, old recorded vhs tapes of nicktoon shows with commercials, and a toybox with a playmat in the center of the room. I act like I'm young again playing with toys and watching old baby cartoons or just anything nostalgic really. Am I ashamed that I do this? Yes and no. I generally don't speak about it with my co workers and only my very close friend knows about it. She actually thinks it's pretty cool in a weird way. This type of thing helps me get by day to day. And I'm a normal functioning female adult. When I have someone I'm not close with over at my place I redecorate my entire room and hide the toys, bedding,crt tv, ECT. And just turn it into a regular room.
Not to disrespect you, your situation is very tragic, but does our culture glorify an defend rapists? Isn’t rape generally considered one of the most horrific and immoral crimes you can commit? Don’t rapists get beaten in jail by murderers and drug dealers because everyone even the most evil among can agree that rape is horrible?
@@praisethesunstudios7931 How does our culture glorify it? Well, that would take a long time to explain. And there are tons of resources on the internet that YOU can spend YOUR time researching. But let’s start with alllll the rich powerful men, including maybe some of your favorite politicians, who get away with r*pe and SA.
Nurse Bendy’s scene made me feel things for a fictional animated character that I didn’t think was humanly possible. The pain. The horror of what she must have been feeling. Jesus it really stayed with me.
So….they were cool with a kid getting shot…but not discussing trauma and how it affects people….
Figures. Miss this show, brought up alot of things I need to evaluate about my life.
People were kinda closed minded back then
@@newbienoah9461 yeah back then majority of these topics were still stigmatized and taboo
@@newbienoah9461 Are you twelve? Because it's clear you were not an adult during that period.
I think part of the problem is that less people can relate with being shot as a child, during a hunting trip if you want to get down to specifics.
Meanwhile, unfortunately, Child molestation and rape is extremely common. More so that alot of us would like to admit. There is a much higher chance that anybody watching this show could have been abused as a child or raped in adulthood, than it would be that they had been shot, so there is a disconnect, where it can be laughed at or at least shrugged off because they can't relate, whereas seeing another survivor, while fictional, having a severe and fairly realistic PTSD episode might elicit much worse reactions. It makes them have to face their own trauma when maybe they aren't ready to, or are just trying to relax and enjoy some mindless TV to escape the stresses of the day
it probably has more to do with keeping that r word and rape themes off the public screens
its not that nurse bendy has the mentality of a child, its that shes age regressing. shes specifically regressing i think when she was about 12, before she got molested. her kid is 12 and bendy is only 24. i wish moral orel didnt get cancelled so we got to see more of her, i love how she was able to reconnect with her kid
It says here that the creator made two other shows after Orel. Mary Shelley's Frankenhole and High School USA!
He also was the producer of Anomalisa, which is stop motion.
Nurse Bendy’s story is the one that affected me the most. I think the very obvious arrested development in conjunction with her self created haven falling apart because of her own fears was fucking harrowing. Teachers story was hard to watch but it didn’t wreck me like bendy’s did.
Honestly, same. I haven't been able to get that scene out of my head since I saw it a few days ago.
Moral Orel kinda reveals the issue with western adult animation. The moment it discusses real world topics in a serious tone, it gets nixed.
It almost even happened to Bojack a couple times.
Not every adult cartoon has to be a raunchy comedy or ultra violent. Let there be variety of telling a story.
This right here. 👆 Pay attention, folks
Fax.
Yeah isn't it kind of weird how family guy will show people getting raped and killed yet that hasn't get canned yet....eventhough it should because that show is just "shock humor" with no shock 🤣🤣
I have an idea, guys ask and sign Twitter to tell the creator of Moral Orel, Dino Stamatopoulos, and Chris Mckay that it needs to make a movie that is a prequel to Season 1, 2, 3, and Before Orel. This is gonna a great redemption of Orel's father and the residents of Moralton, and Christina's father will become a villain in the movie. And also, this movie is gonna be about the father-and-son relationship. But it needs music will be "Mirrors" by Justin Timberlake from the stop motion music soundtrack. It will be released in 2022, along with the Adult Swim movie trio and Tomorrow War.
@@THahhhh actually family guy been canceled but they brought it back because of the reruns airing on adult swim making it popular
Knowing that there was gonna be 5 seasons makes me so sad
EXACTLY it was a real good show- And i wish there was more- I felt like the ending could’ve waited a bit longer but then they just gotta cancel it 😭
I KNOW RIGHT!? This show was AMAZING! So ahead of its time! They can make 10+ seasons of utter garbage and completely forgettable television and they go an do Moral Orel dirty like this! Moral Orel actually had things to say that should have been heard.
This makes me sad as well. I absolutely LOVE this show.
i'm happy with the amount that we got. but this show deserves way more praise than it got. it's a shame that barely anyone's heard of it and all the adult swim shows are trash nowadays
It's always better to wish there was more content rather than what happens to the most popular shows.. look at spongebob, or always sunny, or family guy. They all suck horribly and it's so played out and out of ideas.
Nurse Bendy is the only tv show character ive ever seen portray age regression, and it did so very accurately. Not enough people understand that's a thing.
I always loved Moral Orel's writing. This episode subverted the trope of "the very special episode" perfectly. At the end, nothing is resolved and there are no happy endings, just like reality where the world can be a bleak awful place.
I feel like this TV show was ahead of its time, and it's a shame it had to get cancelled. Seeing them tackle issues like these with such intent and respect made me wonder how they would've talked about Miss Goltham's mental state afterwards. Even so, I think it ended on a bittersweet note, even if it was bleak for most of the season.
Yeah seeing Orel ultimately grow up to be a better man than Clay ever was was satisfying, especially after all the crap Orel had to go through
agreed! it would’ve been so nice to see a montage of sorts of all the characters in the town and their (hopefully) happy endings. it’s sad that we only got closure for oral (and even then, a little too abrupt for my liking)
It's Miss Sculptham.
If you need a reminder of what their names are, just remember that everyone's last name is a reference to the process of Stop Motion
@@MilleniumKage I honestly just work we got to see more of that process.
Idk if I would necessarily say "ahead of its time". But it was so unique. And it had so much heart put into it. It was so distinctly its own thing. I think it's wonderful. Definitely a personal favorite of mine. There's not many shows that make you feel something as deeply as this one managed to. And that's what makes it so special, to me at least.
i dont know if youve noticed, but in the episode “dumb,” nurse bendy’s apartment is revisited, and you can see hubby is chained up in his chair
I never noticed that actually. That’s both funny and sad.
After finding out joe is her son she slowly became better mentally
5:30 I had to turn off the show when it aired. The scene with the lock reminded me of the day after my own trauma. I sat by my door, just staring at the lock. I was just staring. I couldn't leave.
5 years in therapy coming up next month. Im 18 now.
It hurts to wake up in the morning every day. But it gets a little less terrible every day. A little easier. It never goes away, but the pain starts to recede.
Congrats on staying consistent with therapy! I hope you have a good life 💕
It was a great show. It showed how a pure good kid slowly gets ground down by a town full of "good Christians" but every adult is a damaged deprived adult full of secrets.
I bet the show is based on the creators upbringing.
This show was ahead of its time, if it aired today it would be a hit just like Bojack Horseman
Bojack horseman was great but is incomparable to moral orel. Morel orel, if not animated, would likely be known as an american classic
Bojack Horseman sucked ass though. It was literally just a pity party for wealthy people that don't, or shouldn't have real problems.
@@nobodycares4321 Nothing wrong with having problems. Free Churro I actually found relatable. Butterscotch's rant in the beginning actually reminded me of my mother. All I've wanted to do was just sit down and talk with her. Because of things I'll never get the chance to.
It was also nice to talk to others who tried or thought about suicide. Me myself I'm not rich. Never had been. Heck if I was rich I'd be able to go to the doctor instead of dealing with pain, thinking about the end. I'd also be living someplace away from the abuse.
@@rabbit0664 That's kind of my point though, he's rich. He has no real problems except for the bullshit he makes in his own mind. We're all broken in some way. The difference is most regular folks don't have literally all the resources in the world to take your mind off things, make you feel better, or seek help. The show would have been good if it wasn't about a rich, unlikeable, self entitled piece of shit that has every advantage above mere mortals. It disgusted me to be honest. Made me hate rich people even more too.
Naw man show sucked
Nurse Bendy would reconnect with her long lost son (the school bully), they'd start a loving relationship. It was a good end to both their character arcs.
In the final episode we see her and Joe skating together!
The show was "too dark" for comedy, but the show wouldn't have worked without it having a comedic undertone. All the little details, the names and homophones and playing with the booze-milk bubbles was amazing and wouldn't have happened if they were a strictly drama show. It had to be a comedy to make it work. And for me, there was NOTHING that turned me away from this show.
Ms Sculpthams story validated me so much....I was in a very abusive relationship back in '10, ive known him for a while but only got cose right after my dad suddenly died. It still haunts me, and I still mourn the person I was before I was r*ped. I will never be that person again. And yet..I still think about him, no often, but I do. I've wondered what my life, our lives would have been like if he was different. I was ashamed that I've fantasized a life where he was kind instead of cruel, where his touch was a gentle caress instead of a fist....what our children would have been like if he loved me instead of sniffing me out because I was weak and vulnerable and needed someone. She imagined that, too. What if things had been different? What if this man gave me joy instead of trauma?
I never even told my therapist that, but this one scene in a claymation show from all the way back then made me feel heard, feel seen. That not only I wast alone, but that I was never alone. I wish I saw this whe it came out, but at the time it might have sent me on a spiral...
I'm glad you talked about this. It's always nice seeing Moral Orel getting more attention. It deserves it. If you like Adult Swim doing something different, I recommend Venture Bros. While that never got nearly as dark as Moral Orel, it definitely became somewhat of a tragi-comedy after a while. There was also great worldbuilding, with numerous episodes analyzing characters, even characters that usually aren't the main focus. And Venture Bros was a show that wasn't afraid to mix up the status quo and have its characters change over time. And sadly, much like Moral Orel, Venture Bros got cancelled before it got a chance to finish properly.
Venture Bros is getting a Finale movie for HBO Max though
@@hipsterelephant2660 …eventually. I’ll probably be in my 90s when it comes out. I’m 29
@@alize0623 I just turned 40 and started watching VB at the premier episode, I think it's one of the best animated shows, along with moral oral, of all time.
@@scthomas1982 Ah so you won’t be alive long enough to see the movie.
All jokes aside it’s the greatest animated series of all time. Almost a perfect 10/10 on rotten tomatoes.
@@hipsterelephant2660 really? Fuck, pirate bay it is
Nurse Bendy's story is without a doubt the most heartbreaking piece of animation ever.
Yes I've seen that episode of Full Metal Alchemist. This still hits harder.
What episode 😳
what about that episode of Futurama with Fry's dog?
@@groovyborrealus you know the episode 😥
@@groovyborrealus ed..wardo…? 🐕
I think anyway
What episode I've not seen full metal in over a decade and don't remember
I relate to Ms. Scalptham and Nurse Bendy the most in this episode and it's a shame the show was cancelled due to these very serious and touchy topics that actually really need attention. Like Bendy, I age regress to escape the stresses of the trauma I endured and having that safe space being violated makes it all so much worse as you no longer even have a safe place of *mind* to help you cope. Watching her break down like that really made me feel for her. Ms. Scalptham I relate to as far as her guilt and paranoia goes after what has happened. It's actually quite common for someone to get aroused by sexual trauma they endured. As horrible as it sounds, those are the very real affects sexual assault can have on a person and people don't seem to realize the way these two characters cope are actually very real and very serious topics that we as a community tend to ignore and avoid talking about because not a lot of people are willing to truly understand it besides the ones who can relate and see themselves in the characters. This show was really good and it's a shame we couldn't see more of these characters grow.
i've never heard of this show until today, but it's absolutely ridiculous that an episode that raises sexual abuse awareness is what got this cancelled :/
i feel so bad for the teacher and ms bendy. It’s so sickening. They deserve so much better. I just want to hug them and tell them it’s okay.🙁
To be fair Nurse Bendy at least had her arc concluded since the bully kid ended up being her child and they end up happy in spite of not falling into the nuclear family archetype, which actually served as a way which the characters and world comments on the problematic nature of the nuclear family structure of the 50s.
I agree.
That and find them a good therapist.
@@cassiopeiathew7406 the nuclear family isn't problematic. In fact its beautiful and amazing, its the expectation that every family has to be the nuclear family where the problem arises. This is a problem as old as humanity, the idea that you must reach for something outside of your means or capability rather than striving for what's within reach. Don't listen to liberals that try to tell you that being happy is wrong.
@@GummyKermit I’m acutely aware that a family on its own is not capable of being problematic, it’s the structure of it in itself and what it represents. When the nuclear family is held as a cultural ideal and integral aspect of the American dream, it becomes social status for people to achieve it. However it isn’t an innately bad thing on it’s own, that’s why I referred to it with the words archetype and structure following it. Orel finds happiness within the same nuclear family he grew up in primarily because he learned from the mistakes of his parents and the people he grew up around, it’s possible to achieve happiness within a nuclear family it’s just that the social pressure and dogma to have a nuclear family is bad.
I watched a few episodes when I was younger and watched the full thing as an adult and the thing about the episode alone is.... It made me realize and think about things I never considered about being a woman. Things I thought were normal until they were put into perspective and then I realized how fucked up they were. And this episode went to dark places that never get talked about especially from female perspectives. Being taught you have to be the most pure and the epitome of innocence and naivety and virginity then growing up thinking you can trust people because you were taught to be sweet helpful and naive, only to feel the crushng weight that the people that reached out to try to know you only wanted you for your body. Guilt over having sexual desires. Guilt over not having them. Fear of having no way to fight someone off if they really wanted to do something to you. Fear of the consequences. Fear of how to take care of the consequences by yourself and you can't let anyone find out and you have to do it all alone. Feelings of, if you can't have babies, or get married you aren't worth anything in society. Or that if don't want to get married you have to play the strong independent woman, even if you don't feel like you are. Society pulling you in all different directions telling you what you're supposed to want, who youres supposed to be, and trying to convince you your only worth is what you can be to other people, but it's all said in a very subtle but expecting way. WHEN are you going to get married. Not IF you are. and no matter what you do you disappoint someone, and very very few shows tell that story ever. And even fewer show you how to deal with those things. the effects. I work as a security guard and I'm also a woman. I have to put on a tough confident face all day, but when I get home I just want to draw, paint, play videogames and be silly and have fun. It was a weird moment the first time I ever went to a club, got gussied up all nice to have fun and dance and enjoy music with friends and then some 40 year old man tries to solicit me for sex and it made me feel so gross... I'm disappointed that this show got canceled before it got done telling it's story. Because it's one I would have very much liked to hear. It's braver and more powerful than a lot of the schlock they have aired on adult swim back then as well as today.
sending love.i think a lot about how the majority of our grandmothers went through this, and the effects this still has. things are getting better, but our society is set up in a way that makes it soo hard to disrupt the cycle. i hope you find peace.
@@yes-ei2yoThank you for the kind words. And oh I totally agree. And how they responded to cope with social pressures impacts our parents, and then how our parents raised us. My nana got married at 19 because she felt like if she didn't tie down my grandpa, he'd leave. They ended up divorcing anyway, and on top of it, they both neglected my mom, who then didn't know how to parent me or my siblings. My other grandma eventually divorced my other grandpa once my dad was already an adult, but then she doubled down and became a more bright loving person. It's fascinating how generational trauma from societal expectations of previous generations cause a ripple effect all the way to us today. I wanna learn more about it honestly, really interesting topic!
Ok but you didn't even need to spit facts like that. Damn.
Nail on the head. All the fear and guilt and just weird things you have to put down when you get home. Cause you still have to make dinner afterwards right?
>I have to put on a tough confident face all day
are you the annoying type of person that tries to act all tough even though it literally just makes people act more aggressively towards you?
Something that I'm really impressed with is how they managed to not only cover a broad spectrum of SA responses/coping strategies, but the different kinds of SA too. Nurse Bendy was a victim of childhood SA, Ms. Sculptham is a victim of r*pe as an adult, and Ms. Censordoll was a victim of sexual mutilation (which she couldn't possibly remember but will be affected by until the day she dies). I think it's really important that people realize that SA doesn't just take a single form, just as not everyone has the same reaction to being SA'd.
Personally, I found Ms. Sculptham's trauma response/coping the most important. A lot of people don't realize that people who've been the victim of SA sometimes romanticize or even fantasize about their abuse/abuser. This doesn't mean they wanted it (no one ever wants to be SA'd), but it's a way to take back power/control over what happened to you. Clearly, a lot of thought was put into this episode, but, sadly, people have a very difficult time having conversations around this topic. I completely sympathize with why this makes people uncomfortable but, the thing is, we're not doing anyone any favors by refusing to discuss it.
This is my favorite episode BECAUSE it's so disturbing. And yeah, staring out a window for a few minutes is probably a healthy response. I had never seen anything that made me feel so ... hollow ... inside. These people are not real, they aren't even portrayed by real people! The world they live in is a tongue and cheek reflection of my own. Yet somehow this episode makes everything feel very, very real. You really feel Nurse Bendy's despair and fragility, you feel Miss Censordoll's anger and shame.
I would've loved to get a season 5 with a heavy focus on Ms Censordoll. she's such an interesting character to me. at first, she comes off as your stereotypical "religious karen" who wants to put an end to everything offensive, but as the show goes on you realize why she does it. she wants to be a maternal figure to the town because she's unable to have children. her own mother removed her eggs, and in turn she parents the town by removing things she deems offensive. in terms of parenting, that's all she really knows.
also, she specifically wants to be a matriarch as opposed to simply considering herself mayor. matriarch, being the opposite of patriarch, is a female-specific term. she doesn't want to just be in charge, she wants to be a woman in charge. she wants to serve as a mother to the town.
she even has a fascination with eating eggs because it's the only way for her to "put eggs back into her body." she feels like she's replenishing what was taken away from her.
Mind. blown.
I had a vague idea about that, and you summed it up perfectly.
Alright
Damn I actually feel bad for her now..
Fascinating character!
The reason bendy is so dull is she had to drop out of school after giving birth to Joe at the age of 12. Joe's senile, old, decrepit father was kinda terrible o-o
yeah and it honestly explains her behaviour in this ep, a lot of survivors of child sexual abuse regress back into a childlike state in adulthood in order to feel safer. it's sad how realistic it is
Is this a fan theory? It sounds plausible. But I always imagined that she was just a one night stand and he wanted to raise the kid because she was dumb and he was ashamed.
@@jonathanwilkinson4299 It's heavily implied that Joe's dad groomed her, especially with her dialogue with the bear, and it's further explored in Joe's episode when he finally finds out who his mom is.
@@MrCnovalink God that episode’s dark too, when he beats up his dad who doesn’t even remember abusing her anyone due to Alzheimer’s
According to one website she was 14 at the time. Still not any better. I thought that she would have been a collage student when it happened and she was in her 30s. Geez how could anyone think a pedo would make a good parent
I think this episode shows such a great contrast of coping mechanisms when someone has been taken advantage and was left feeling powerless. nurse bendy feels this is her role now to be a basically open pair of legs but resents it greatly. I think she's leaned into the role because it's the only way she's ever learned to interact with other people, especially men, and dumbs herself down and sexualizes herself because it more completes the role she feels is expected of her. and even if she hates it, she still wants to feel the only external validation she's ever gotten in her life. But this isnt who she is or what she wants so she dissociated into another world where that isn't her role and no one expects that of her. The teacher, however, becomes fascinated by her assault and infatuated with assailant. This is a really under discussed coping mechanism of finding some level of enjoyment from the trauma you experienced. Sex can be enjoyable and it can definitely send mixed signals to the brain when feeling pleasure while being taken advantage of. If it's like her chsracter and it was the first time she ever felt that, it makes her associate the pleasure with the event. the only person to ever make her feel that good was her assailant and she's gonna have mixed desires as her brain tries to cope with what happened. In a way she also feels that being taken advantage of like that is what makes her desirable and therefore is desirable to her. And the crazy egg lady... I mean she was powerless so she must obtain power to be in complete control so she never feels out of control again. Her fascination with eggs is something to focus on other than her own lack of fertility that was stolen from her. no one can steal her eggs now. no one.
I really wish they were able to conclude the series how it was originally intended. It was such a great series that I’ve watched a few times and season three is by far my favourite. The darker themes were done well, and for the sake of character and story. It’s a shame that such a great show was cancelled :(
According to Dino Stamatopoulos had the series continued Ms. Sculptham's arc would have been this. It would have been revealed that she was actually having twins so when she performed that self-abortion she only aborted one of the twins. She was also set to fall in love with one of the prison guards that worked at the prison that her rapist was being held at. Later it would be revealed that the prison guard is a transgender lesbian named Mary. In the end, Ms. Sculptham and her lover would raise the child by themselves.
I never heard him talk about the last part, the transgender Mary thing. Where did he mention that?
He posted the script to Raped online a while back.
Idk why but when ever I heard about abortions my body just goes numb and lose and I don’t like it
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A trans Character of any kind would have been interesting in a show like this.
It's funny to me that Adult Swim not only gave life to Morel Orel, but also wound up cutting it short.
A show like Moral Orel wouldn't have been acceptable on any other network at the time, and content streaming wasn't really a thing back then. So Adult Swim, who always took chances with experimental television, gave this show a chance. Only to cancel it prematurely because they took a mile when given an inch and made something too dark even for them.
Moral Orel was really ahead of its time. To me it feels like a precursor to shows like Bojack Horseman, providing a satirical look at society while also indulging in some heavy drama. It's a shame it wasn't given the chance to truly flourish, but what we have now holds up so well even to this day.
And now they get to keep the rights to the show preventing us from ever getting a resolution
I liked when the show got dark, and I hated everyone being so happy and forgetful of their own problems.
I wanted Oral to realize everyone was a sh*t person and not who they portrayed themselves as, and that he also carried out the sins of everyone else.
I wanted him to come to realization that the entire town was going to hell as they have sinned so many times.
It’s sad because this is in my top 5 episodes of Morel Orel. I like that they didn’t hold back from the trauma and PTSD Bendy, Censordoll and Sculptum went through. They told it how is it. From Bendy having an episode from an accidental touch, Scupltum wanting her abuser to rape her, but this time having it be consensual so she can have power over her sexual assault. And Censordoll arguing with her mother about something she had no part in.
I feel like we need more shows lik moral orel nowadays. All too often many adult shows are dumbed down humor and “everyone’s an asshole”, but there’s never a risk to actually target an ADULT topic.
Thanks for sticking to the subject. Too many click baits saying “Why this show was really cancelled” and they tell absolutely nothing.
This show was a defining moment in my teen years..I was kind of thrown into church and didn’t get it. This show gave me a little look into what some people of faith are like, every character (especially here) had their own motivations and story that we don’t know from outside that built them. And it speaks about abuse that these and a staggering amount of women and men suffer behind closed doors, looking back it would have saved me hours of sobbing if I had seen this episode then.
Moral Orel really paved the way for future adult animation. For Fox adult shows like The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Family Guy, they played it safe with only a few dirty jokes. For adult swim, it was just dark humor and gruesome violence. However, Moral Orel paved the way for adult animation to have thought provoking stories and interesting characters and character growth. Now we have shows like Rick and Morty, Bojack Horseman, Hazbin Hotel, and Helluva Boss. Adult animation, keep it up.
I wish dark stuff like this were made more often
There's tons of edgy teens who would eat this up
And for adults, this kind of stuff is 10 times more horrifying than any horror film
Yeah man I rediscovered this show when I was a teen and I ate it up lol
probably edgy teen here bro this show is funny and accurately portrays mental abuse very epic and good alao claymation is awesome
@@nitropicxd I can't even tell if your being sarcastic
@@thedudecalledalan9095 im not i love this hsow so much
What does edgy even mean?
one thing that was kinda left out in your overview is that the teacher was also dealing with the after effects of an at-home abortion, and ocd that may have been triggered by her rake i feel like the abortion aspect was a huge part of why the show got cancelled
Can someone develop ocd through trauma? Im pretty sure it's usually organic. It can start at an older age, but it usually appears before 25. I got mine at 3, lol
@@moralkombat66 Yes, yes it can. Say someone forced themselves on someone. That person might ocd about getting clean.
@@moralkombat66 absolutely. we need to stop looking at mental illness as purely natural. it is often a result of our traumatic society
@@moralkombat66 Absolutely.
OCD, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders are all pretty common responses to trauma.
For OCD specifically it can often manifest in constant checking and re- checking of locks and windows, which you see in the episode where she keeps playing with the lock on her door. It's often about reducing perceived risk in really overboard ways.
Nurse Bendy's scene in Alone was super relatable. I'm a SA survivor and age regressor/Little, and have blamed myself for what was done to me. I regress because I don't want to remember what happened, and just seeing her break down like that made me want to cry
This show gave credit to its viewers… having brain and empathy on board! MM I’m so sorry you were traumatized by this you should’ve been warned. I think you took it in and came out better off for having viewed “the Episode that got moral Orel canceled”
And I appreciate the kind way you warned everyone!
Why does this have to be shocking? This stuff happens all the time and society and the cancellers of the show force us to choke down the happy, forgetful and repression pill. This show should have been allowed to continue. Showing us all the darkness of humanity shouldn’t be a thing we so eagerly stuff down our throats for it to disappear. Living in truth actually HELPS society with EVERY injustice and the abolishment of them.
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The execs at AS force me to do precisely nothing. Cheers!
It's kind of ironic that "Alone" was the show that got Moral Orel cancelled because... that was, by far, my favorite episode of the whole series. But apparently the story behind everything was Adult Swim told Dino and company that they wanted more episodes like the Nature 2-Parter and with Season 3... Dino and company gave them EXACTLY what they wanted.
I was just out of high school when this aired, and I was like....." well that just happened. This Focus on the Family town's fricked up."
The reason it got canceled is, you can't have people encouraged through media to think too much on this, or be thrown into a deep depression, or really reflect on how the world is. Also, these very same people making the world a bad place are in the ranks somewhere in media and can't have people naysaying and casting light on the cause and effects of their nature.
This show's creator, Dino just needs to make these episodes independently with a new crew and studio. He doesn't need Adult Swim.
I loved how dark this show was sad the network couldn't handle it wonder if we could get the last 2 seasons on Netflix or something someone start a petition lol
i feel like they could bring moral orel back in today's age. the themes and issues it tackles, especially in this episode, are difficult and uncomfortable but they're also things that get brought up in modern adult animation more often these days. just look at shows like tuca and bertie and bojack horseman who have entire arcs and callback episodes dedicated almost solely to sa and trauma and the ways it affects people. this episode is one of the many episodes in the series that was waaaay ahead of its time and i feel like it would have gotten all five seasons with little to no cutting if it had come out now on a streaming service rather than adult swim in the 2000s. with all thes old adult swim shows getting reboots and stuff, the way orel became considered a cult classic over the past few years, and the fact that we only got a small fraction of the story with little closure in the end, you'd think they'd have it at the top of their list of shows to expand on.
Absolutely. Out of all of the reboots that happen, it's funny that the ones that people would actually want are the ones that don't get made.
Not with the alphabet people out there
@@baddonkey75 if you're referring to lgbt people i'm trans and bi and still love the show to this day so idk what you're talking about
@@mxmarymax so you speak for all trans and bi people? Just because you fit into a group and approve of something doesn't mean the whole group does
@@baddonkey75 dude why are you going out of your way to imagine fake scenarios over a cartoon reboot that probably isnt gonna happen while speaking for a community i doubt you're even a part of so you can what? be homophobic for no reason and start internet fights over a twenty year old cartoon? seems dumb but go off i guess 😂😂
The darkness of this episode comes from the premise. It doesn't come out of nowhere.
Most of the horror in these woman's lives come from the tennents and hypocrisy of this Christian fundamentalist town.
Yeah, like the one I unfortunately reside in.
This show was so gawdsamn good, loved it
Thats a bullshit cop out!! Christian fundamentalists don't condone rape or sexual assault or everyone sleeping with the nurse of the town or drugs. Its actually the far left and their atheist do whatever feels good to you communist agenda that allows things like this to persist!
@@brandonpage7087 Bro do we live in the same town? Cause God damn same.
No, I pretty much know everybody who lives here, the town is so very tiny.
Moral Orel was one of the few series I thoroughly enjoyed BECAUSE of the deep and dark themes it threw out there a decade ago.
Back in late 2000s and early 2010, I saw the emerging trend of shows like Tim and Eric being more popular. Wasn't really a fan back then but all my stoner friends thought it was a masterpiece 🫤
I enjoyed shows like moral Orel, venture bros, adventure time, etc because they were parodies that evolved and shown deeper darker aspects of life and perspectives.
It is quite ironic that moral Orel was cancelled but Rick and Morty also present dark themes as well, maybe the absurdity of the whole multi universe and sci Fi elements made it more palatable to ppl instead of a quiet "normal" town that moral Orel is placed in
It’s interesting how far adult swim has progressed. I remember watching the very first episodes of space ghost coast to coast when I was in 4th grade, when it was just a 15 minute slot late at night. It was totally PG but some people thought it was too adult for Cartoon Network. They had no idea what was comin
Alone can also be seen as each of them having a fixation/obsession due to their environment, but in the worse ways possible.
Censordol with chicken eggs to represent the human ones she didn’t get a say about getting removed (though it seems to more that she’s upset about that rather than anything happen to do with being unable to bear children due to it), bendy with her idealized happy nuclear family home due to basically being the town bicycle in a heavily religious town that makes the family unit to be true happiness along with being mentally stunted (though from what I know, it’s theorized it was due to her already being mentally inclined to mental illness but also being taken advantage of sexually when she was a child that caused the mental stagnation; and considering the title of nurse she’s clearly intelligent enough to having gotten the nursing degree at the very least, even if she’s never given the opportunity), and the teacher with some sort of OCD fixating on a man who gave her some sort of attention no one else did and took aware that control for a short time, in the form of r*pe (which, trauma can cause the perception of one’s self and another in a severely skewed light.)
They all have unhealthy fixations due to traumas of different varieties.
I binged the entire series today. I only saw a couple of episodes years ago, so I have now watched it all, then came back to see this video. What a weird, funny, painful, shocking, sad and touching trip it's all been.
I'll never not cry when watching this episode. Not just because I'd argue it's the best one, but because while getting through PTSD after an abusive relationship, I had a stuffed snow leopard that I took around my apartment everywhere. It was company during a very isolated time, and seeing Nurse Bendy going through similar things meant a lot, and it's hard to see (even a fictional person) lose that coping mechanism when it's marred by past trauma.
I remember when I first watched this episode and it filled me with a twisted hope, I did not have a good childhood and it left me defiled and broken, and this episode gave me the hope that no matter how jagged and painful it can be I can at least be around other people without hurting them.
Actually, Mike Lazzo did ask Dino if they could go back to making lighter episodes and he was totally willing to start production on it. Dino didn't want to because he was more interested in exploring the characters mindsets, hence why we didn't get more Moral Orel
I actually heard the opposite. Dino had this idea where older Orel has a limp and younger orel does not (because he got shut by Clay) Anyways. The episodes with the limping orel would be serious and the ones with the younger normally walking orel would be lighter.
Any proof to either of these statements?
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First statement was in an interview at Vice.
@@hipsterelephant2660 actual link to this proof?
@@GradualHigh As opposed to 'a link to the proof'?
The second episode literally had Orel impregnate like every woman in town 💀 talk about double standards, jeez.
The difference between that and this is the early episodes played everything for laughs. The way the episode was set up, the audience is pretty clearly intended to laugh at the absurdity of the situation and not to consider the "reality" on screen. If the second episode had taken itself seriously, even slightly, it would've been canceled right away.
You ain't wrong. There's also the one where Orel starts a prostitution ring, gets hooked on literal crack, ends the episode bathing in a bathtub of blood collected by his friends... Huh. 😬
It was played for laughs, but I think the intention behind it was to show that Moralton was always a fucked up place. So that by the time season 3 happened, the audience isn't at all surprised by the subject matter being addressed. The only thing that changes is that it's not played for laughs.
That was a funny fucking episode
Heh!
sadly i did not get to experience this. i honestly might try looking for it after this video.
noticed the teacher showing ocd symptoms after the trauma. i have ocd possibly triggered into fruition from trauma, and these rituals come on so fast when it picks up. her staring at the lock biting her lip hit hard for me, it reminded me of when it started. looking at my closed blinds and imagining an asteroid coming towards earth, so i needed to look out the window. then a few minutes later, do it again. then it repeats, and repeats, and repeats.
I vaguely remember this episode and had no idea that's what caused it to be yanked off the air. I blocked it out because I felt so bad for Nurse Bendy. I couldn't help but imagine that there might be people out there who actually live like that, and it broke my heart. Even now, I just want to hug her and tell her it's OK.
Moral Orel was truly ahead of its time and set the precedent for many of the adult animated series that handled the same subject matter as Moral Orel
I feel like if this show was made now it probably would’ve been more successful and ran its planned five seasons. But as it stands it seems like the show was just way too ahead of its time, but now we have shows like Bojack Horseman that almost follow the same footsteps of a adult animated show that goes from being more comedic to dark and serious, touching on uncomfortable subject matter on top of it.
That episode may be the most important thing I've ever watched. It was perfect. As someone who went through what Nurse Bendy went through as a child, I related to her age regression so much. This is why I get so mad when I see people making fun of age regressors on the internet. They turn it into something sexual which its horrible because it comes from someone wanting to feel safe and 'innocent' again. Then with Ms Scalptham, I got raped again when I was a teenager. I was dating the person who did it for a year and dated for 2 more after it happened. I didn't realize it was rape until a recently. I was in a lot of denial and would even try to romanticize it. After it happened, I told my friends and they all congratulated me for losing my verginity. I thought it was cool and didn't realize that it wasn't good that I couldn't remember most of it, or that I was drugged without my consent. I thought it was romantic because that's what I was told.
This show really opened my eyes to animation being able to convey really mature and dark themes. I feel like it definitely opened some doors for early R&M or Bojack to do something other that goofy comedy all the time.
To think that this is the same show with the “God’s Chef” episode. It’s like night and day.
Makes the first two seasons feel so irrelevant. Up until the hunting episode the show took a total 180. The first two seasons were more dark teenage humor, then it’s like your watching a whole different show. It took risks many shows will never take and is why we will never get a show like this ever again.
I love Moral Orel when I was a kid and now I wish they never cancelled it tbh I know the show is dark and all but honestly it's just really show how life really is and how hard some takes it and can't help it at that moment I don't think the show was really bad at all
And honestly there is nothing wrong about showing the reality at times not all show haves to be comedy all the time there's times u just gotta explain how life is in a truthful way u can't color coat everything
I honestly wish a few more shows were like this since I was raised off the TV and the internet due to horrible parenting. So I grew up thinking life was rainbows and butterflies and would eventually get better but nope it's not as idealistic and some people just get lucky and sometimes things happen to you for no reason--it's just unfair and random. Would have saved me from learning a loooot of things the hard way
Jesus, you just opened up a memory. I remember being a kid and staying up to sneak in some adult swim. I accidentally caught this episode one night. Legit scared me away from the show for a while just from shock and confusion.
Might actually revisit this show now that I'm older. Anyway, awesome vid!!
I watched the entirety of season 3 yesterday after getting through seasons 1 and 2 gradually. I was waiting for the serious themes to start and the moment they did, I honestly wished that I could go back to the other stuff. Alone is genuinely one of the hardest to watch episodes of tv I’ve ever engaged with, I found it fascinating that they would depict sexual trauma is such a variety of different ways. It adds so much nuance to each character.
I am so happy when people get to see this show. Its amazing. Its so sad and the nature episodes that ends with No Children still haunts me. Its so freaking amazing.
I also want to note that Closeface is the most wholesome scene in the whole show, and the fact that it ends with the pastor bonding with Steffanie
Edit: I never saw the third part of this episode. The second story really messed my brain up so I stopped. I need to rewatch everything and finally give it a try
Dino, the man behind this amazing show, also wrote a deep Christmas episode for "Community" in same stop motion style 👍😎
Never felt this was a disturbing episode. I've seen more disturbing in Superjail. To me this was a backstory ep for these characters which gave much clarity about who they are and why. It was kind of humanistic because though this is fiction, these can and unfortunately are someone's actual story
I think the disturbing aspect comes from the realism. Often times, we want our tv screens to just be means of escapism -- this is especially true for dark comedy imo.
When you watch an episode that discusses traumatic topics with nuance and frankly not much humor at all, you feel uncomfortable and you actually need to sit down and process what you saw, think about it in terms of characters and themes, sure, but you also have to come to terms with the fact that this is someone else’s reality (if not even your own), instead of just going “hohohehe funny dark show”.
That's why I think some people describe the episode as disturbing.
Agreed.
This is how I like to see this episode.
Dude thanks for doing this - keep it up, love all the retrospectives on these old videos
Man, adult swim has a hard time keeping their more popular, more serious cartoons around despite those cartoons deserving to be continued and have the rest of their stories told. First Moral Orel and now Final Space (one that I'm personally fond of), maybe we should start some sort of movement to let these hidden gems get the spotlight they deserve.
Orel at least had a happyish ending. Final Space however lost the gamble with their cliffhanger resulting in the bad guy winning.
The problem is they're not more popular. They're less popular.
@@NeilPro42 just put tim & Eric on the job
That episode is definitely one of the saddest and most disturbing ones because it’s too real
I was a spoiled Rotten kid in the 90s/00s, I had a tv in my room. I would stay up till 3/4am at night watching Adult swim and then fake being sick the next morning to miss school lmao. Bless my parents, they had no idea the stuff I was watching. This is crazy nostalgic!
Moral Orel, was one of my favorite animated shows on, Adult Swim! Orel had to be the most naïve, religious kid ever, yet his understanding of the Bible was so twisted, his understanding of everything was twisted lol. His dad was some piece of work himself. I never missed an episode.
Moral orel: "I'm gonna have 5 seasons!"
Alone: "I'm about to end our whole career."
This show made me cry for days..
I cried myself to sleep after the gods chef episode 😭/j
Are you a female because woman are very emotional 🤣
I loved how raw and Dark this series got. It was very impactful and novel. Such an underrated show.
I started watching this when I was 12….Jesus. This show was amazing and I learned so much from it. I didn’t even know it has a decent fan base. This was sad but it made my day better knowing this show is appreciated by the folks other than myself
It was more Nurse Bendy Regresses when she's alone as a kind of trauma response
“The show is too dark” says Adult swim, creators of the show Mr Pickles.
I absolutely love Moral Orel, it's one of my top Adult Swim shows.
It's kinda weird that this episode was the line, like it is dark but there's literally an episode about Orel impregnating half the town which is a much more "WTF!?" episode to me. As someone watching as the show aired, I had adjusted to the tone the show was taking, it had stopped being about Orel misunderstanding life lessons and became about him learning about the seedy underbelly of Moralton. Like everyone has trauma, everyone has a tragic backstory in this show, but everyone pretends like everything's fine. "Alone" is a prime example of this, it took three background characters who have been there from the beginning yet we've learned nothing about personally and showed us what they struggle with, yeah it's dark, yeah the tone and visuals are really unique within the show, but I don't think that's a bad thing and I certainly don't think it should have gotten the show canceled.
It’s hard to imagine moral orel getting any darker than it did.
It’s the perfect personification of the darkness that lives in us all and how it grows
moral orel is a show that definitely needs more attention. everything about it, the storytelling, the plot, the artistry even down to the consistent details of each season, it truly was phenomenal. no show has ever quite made me laugh while viewing one episode, noticing fine details in another, and violently sobbing to episode. a part of me hopes that someday it may be popular enough for a revival or even releasing the cut 7 episodes. moral orel was truly incredible, I don’t think any show has made me feel like this or had an impact on me to this extreme. it isn’t only that I appreciate this show for the artistry but because I found myself relating to a lot of the themes, and I didn’t and still don’t know how to feel about that. bottom line, I hope moral orel gets more attention and maybe even gets at least the cancelled 7 episodes produced.
The attention to detail was stunning, and the characters never said anything that didn't further the plot or build the setting .And for what was an episodic show for most of its run, it had better had continuity than most shows.
I remember seeing this on TV back in the day. It was so disturbing that I didn't believe I actually watched it. I'm surprised Adult Swim canned Moral Orel over this; yet, anime they showed like Paranoia Agent had even more thematically brutal episodes.
It makes me so happy people are discovering this gem all these years later! Also interesting how there's a major argument believing that if this show came out today it would've lasted longer
Bro I’m so happy I stumbled on this channel . I saw that Mission Hill poster and got flash backs . Thanks for the nostalgia
Coincidentally, I just finished binge-watching this show on HBO Max.
Same here
This is not what I expected, but a welcome surprise
You mention Superjail. There was an episode I remember that always kicked me in the feels. It was the Mr grumpy pants episode. A little girl with cancer winds up in the superjail. Showed an interesting side to the inmates. Always liked that episode.
I remember that episode . It was nice.
Thanks for making more Orel content, hope you enjoyed the show, I just found out about the abstinence episode yesterday
I'm glad I gave this a chance when I got HBO Max, I never realized how great and twisted it was. I'm also glad this episode wasn't banned, cause an episode of ATHF was banned but luckily I have it on DVD. The episode was Shake Like Me
It's interesting how standards evolves with media. There was a time Moral Orel could've been at home on RUclips of all places, which seems foreign by today's standards. Artists that want to talk about dark themes have it rough. One sanctuary can be a ticking time bomb before you have time to react. It's especially tough for a show since you'll be 9 months, a year, or even longer until you hear of the negative backlash of that one episode. To think this happened to a show that aired on a channel labeled as the Adult network. If Adult Swim wasn't the place for the story to be told, then where is it? The options are unfortunately decreasing over time.
One thing which I have no idea how to interpret is that Ms Sculptham may have dyed her hair because of Mr Creepler.
In the newspapers they mention how all the victims shared characteristics, one said "he doesn't like blondes!" and Ms Sculptham's family tree shows her with blond hair.
What does it mean?
I think the implication is that she dyed her hair darker to try and get his attention.
“Alone” is such a gut wrenching episode, I am still amazed that it got to air on television.
ALSO, Mission Hill my beloved