Favorite Episode(s)?


So if you had to choose your favorite episodes of Moral Orel, what would they be? I'd pick:

Satan - The first episode I saw.
Nature Pts 1 and 2 - When everything changed.
Help
Passing
Honor - In which Orel finally earns his happy ending.

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Alone
Sacrifice
Grounded
Nature pt 1 2
Passing
turn the other cheek

Stupid Adult swim cancels the series just when it started to get really good

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If I had to pick one, it would have to be sacrifice. Dat monologue. Dear god. The comparisons to Death of a Salesman are very fair, as the writing was such that Miller woulda been proud. I mean dear lord. For a frigging animated show, POWERFUL gut-wrenching stuff. They shoulda won an emmy.

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Just re-watched them all. I think Sacrifice is my favourite too.

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Yay! According to Dino's Facebook page, Moral Orel may return: http://boards.adultswim.com/t5/Moral-Orel/Dino-quot-There-may-be-hope- for-a-special-or-two-quot/m-p/61790516/message-uid/61790516#U61790516
Please watch the reruns you guys! It's a great show and apparently if the rerun ratings are good, there may be more.

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My favorites:

Season 1:
Waste
Charity
God's Chef

(Season 2 has many classic episodes!)
Season 2:
God's Image
Love
God's Blunders
The Lord's Prayer
Turn The Other Cheek
Orel's Movie Premiere
Nature Part One (Part two is not as good)

Season 3:
Grounded
Alone
Trigger
Passing
Sacrifice
Honor

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Nature Parts 1 and 2 - The turning point of the series, great stuff. My jaw was dropped for the entire 2nd part.

Numb - Just a fantastic episode, everybody's already given their take on it, and I agree with most of them. The POV shot was absolutely amazing, The Mountain Goats is in my top 3 bands.

Alone - Probably the darkest episode of the series next to Nature part 2. I think it's underrated, I understand some people aren't interested in the townspeople. But damn, this episode left me feeling sick in my stomach.

Trigger - This without a doubt to me is the most depressing episode of the series. Seriously, Alone may have been really dark, but this episode was almost torture. Of course I still like it, and it being *beep* up doesn't detract from it at all (I mean, that was the point). But man this episode left a pit in my stomach after watching it.

Dumb - My favorite segment from Alone has to be Nurse Bendy's, and through the course of this episode. I came to care about all of these characters. The bond between Joe and Bendy is really touching to me and a great way to take a break from all the depressing *beep* that happened in the past 3-5 episodes.

Passing - And we're back to the depressing stuff. This is a great episode on Clay's backstory and gives us a good and very realistic reason for his horrible behavior as an adult. Just a great episode, I liked it more than Help although that episode was also pretty good.

Closeface - Like dumb, this episode let's us take a break from the heavy stuff and focuses on the relationship between Orel and Christina and Putty and Stephanie. Also like Dumb, this episode was really touching, except it focused on bigger characters this time. I like it.

Sacrifice - It's funny how much this episode makes me hate and sympathize with Clay. The speech is just great and is definitely the defining part of the episode. Something I also like is how almost the entire thing takes place in the bar and his interactions with everyone else are really entertaining to watch.

Honor - Just a great way to end the series. Orel gets a happy ending and it's really satisfying when he does. Although I still think some episodes are better, I felt I had to put this somewhere on the list this it did serve as a great finale.

I know I don't really have any episode from seasons 1-2 (except for the Nature 2-parter but even that feels like a season 3 episode). But I only really thought the show was great when it went in a darker direction and was much more about the characters. Fantastic show and I really wish they could've done the 17 episodes they planned for season 3.

My favorite part of Breaking Bad is the way Jesse says, "Bitch!"

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I love "The Lord's Prayer" where the neighbors say "Debts", rather than "Trespasses". First, it's so obscene to get into a fight where they cannot tolerate one word. Mostly, because Shapey goes with them and stays with them and they have Block as their replacement for the rest of the season, acting like nothing happened.

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