I swear it is (or was) one of the best shows on television. Don't judge it by it's appearing on [adultswim], Moral Orel was arguably the classiest show to appear on there. Perhaps that was the reason it was sadly canceled.  Breaking it down, Moral Orel started off as a comedy about the hipocrisy of the authority figures in a very religious small town. However, as the series progressed it delved into the not so moral subplots and backstories of the figures, showing us the darker aspects of human nature. I'm disappointed with many of these low starred reviews, as they all seem to say the show is unfunny or offensive to Christianity. The show was never quite a rolling-on-the-floor riot of laughs, but that could be because of some more subtle puns and background objects being some of the funniest jokes (ex. the coffee mug on the Reverend's desk says "I hate my boss" ) and the fabled third season being much more serious than a comedy generally is. Nor is it bashing Christianity, rather it's bashing the sad people who use Christianity as a crutch for themselves. Without his religion, our naive main character Orel may have never gotten through his childhood. I'm sure you've heard the legends of the third season. They are true. The third season did something not many shows dare to do: portray harsh reality as it is. The third season felt somewhat crushing to be honest. I was 13 when I watched this show, and while I had understood the various problems the characters had and watched many movies and series with similar characters never had I had all of them collected into one monumental show, one monumental season. If you know your teen is a mature one, don't let them miss this show. The alcholism is definately not celebrated (rather, alchol is attatched to some of the worst characteristics of the townspeople), and the sexuality is moderate at most, it's role only to illustrate some of the practices Orel is banned from as a good Christian and to be used in occasional, silly crude humor.