The Episode That Got Moral Orel CANCELLED 

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!"

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Knowing that there was gonna be 5 seasons makes me so sad

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.

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.

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.

This show was ahead of its time, if it aired today it would be a hit just like Bojack Horseman

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.

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...

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

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'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 :/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.🙁

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.

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 :(

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Dude thanks for doing this - keep it up, love all the retrospectives on these old videos

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.

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

Bro I’m so happy I stumbled on this channel . I saw that Mission Hill poster and got flash backs . Thanks for the nostalgia

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!

The second episode literally had Orel impregnate like every woman in town 💀 talk about double standards, jeez.

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've seen a few episodes of this show and this was the last episode I seen. I didn't understand as a youth but the seen with the teacher stuck with me because it was wild to see from the show. Thanks for highlighting this show and especially this episode.

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.

Thanks for sticking to the subject. Too many click baits saying “Why this show was really cancelled” and they tell absolutely nothing.

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.

Hot damn. You talked me into watching and im glad I missed this episode when I was younger

Thanks for making more Orel content, hope you enjoyed the show, I just found out about the abstinence episode yesterday

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.

To think that this is the same show with the “God’s Chef” episode. It’s like night and day.

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

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 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.

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

Hey RU-vid recommended your video and I can't believe I somehow forgot this show but I remember the episode you're talking about

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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

This show made me cry for days..

I always loved Moral Oral while growing up. I actually never really knew anyone who watched it as well, but I 100% remember watching this episode on TV. You’ve unlocked a memory of mine that i almost forgot about. Thanks for making this video man.

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.

It was more Nurse Bendy Regresses when she's alone as a kind of trauma response

Moral orel: "I'm gonna have 5 seasons!" Alone: "I'm about to end our whole career."

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 watching this for the first time when I was a teenager and it blew me away, I thought about this episode for a long time and I still do. It really made me feel something I have never felt watching a show before.

That episode is definitely one of the saddest and most disturbing ones because it’s too real

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

I'm really happy that you did this video. I really liked this show when it was on.❤

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

“The show is too dark” says Adult swim, creators of the show Mr Pickles.

Dino, the man behind this amazing show, also wrote a deep Christmas episode for "Community" in same stop motion style 👍😎

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.

Crazy. Always wondered what happened to moral oral. Thanks for the answer

This is not what I expected, but a welcome surprise

Coincidentally, I just finished binge-watching this show on HBO Max.

welp this made me subscribe. Never watched this show but just this breakdown had my jaw dropping. A shame it got cancelled - the clips alone shocked me but it seemed honestly interesting and a worthwhile story.

This is a memory unlocked. I use to watch this late night at my grandparents.

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.

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.

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.

I remember seeing this premiere when I was like 15 and being scared when it was over. I don’t think I really understood what all the context of the stories were but now that you explained that it was all extreme traumas

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

This episode sat with me as the darkest and richest moment that I'd ever seen and it sat with me well after the first time I watched it while it was first airing on tv all those years ago. It was such a stark and real way to depict a serious topic where all three characters shared vastly different views on the same shared key points.

I didn’t expect to cry. Here I am on a beautiful Saturday morning and I’m pouring from my eyes.

This is one of those adult swim shows I was too young to grasp the brilliance on when it first aired. Looking back on it, especially with the hindsight of 'Alone', it really is one of a kind.