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Moral Orel Season 3 Episode 1

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AIRED: 4/1/08

During events that take place two weeks before Orel's hunting trip with his father, Clay bans him from Church because he let his friends cut him when in the bath. After a near death experience, Orel appears to be in hell before being saved, and then becomes obsessed with dying in order to get closer to God.moreless

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Someone please edit the summary. Orel is NOT in hell during his death -- he is simply nowhere!

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By xieniii, May 20, 2009

In my view this is the finest episode in the entire series.

I think this episode represents the philosophical/spiritual view of the creators of Moral Orel: that one's own intelligence -- not organized religion -- is all that is needed to attain spiritual enlightenment. In "Grounded", Orel finally comes to a very important spiritual realization that one doesn't necessarily need "Church" in order to understand God. This, however, is sadly beaten out of his memory because it does not conform to the religious views of Moralton.

Excellent episode. Excellent (unfairly canceled) series.

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More background on the previous season's finale, leaving me wondering where this is all going.

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By kreniigh, Oct 22, 2008

The second episode of the final season continues to fill in the back story of the total break from reality shown in the last episodes of the second season. Orel's role as unwitting subject of his parents' -- and in a way his world's -- religious delusions is brilliantly and heart-breakingly illustrated.

In any sort of realistic world, Orel would be spared the craziness of his parent figures' delusions... But instead, we see those delusions laid out in horrific detail. Orel is a victim of religious fundamentalism, and we root for him to overcome his bonds and join the rational world at the same time we fear that he never will.

With 11 episodes left, I wonder where the creators will take this show.moreless
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- (Orel comes back from the dead in the hospital)
  Dr. Potterswheel: It's a miracle!
  Clay: Miracle? So it's free?
  Dr. Potterswheel: Well, gauze is expensive.
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- Clay: Nighty-night Orel. All us well behaved little boys like me and Shapey and your mom have to get up early for church tomorrow.
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- Originally, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters was in the timeslot of this episode, however the [adult swim] April Fool's Stunt switched it to air this episode.
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