Moral Orel/Characters

Orel Puppington

 * Break the Cutie: Quite possibly his father's goal towards Orel.
 * Bi the Way: During his BDSM addiction, he imagined himself being spanked by God.
 * Corrupt the Cutie: See above.
 * Calling the Old Man Out: to Clay in "Nature". "You become a bad person when you drink!", and after he applies no medical treatment on him for several days says "I hate you dad." and he replies "Hate away, sister, hate away."
 * Cheerful Child: Until Clay shot him.
 * Children Are Innocent: Played straight until the third season.
 * Earn Your Happy Ending
 * Friend to All Living Things: In "Nature", until the second part.
 * A God Am I: Briefly.
 * Ignored Epiphany: He's spanked into forgetting his Gnostic Epiphany in "Grounded", when he rejects the church doctrine of a Fluffy Cloud Heaven, and the idea that you have to be in a church to worship the lord. It's also ironic since they are Protestants, and Martin Luther started protestantism with the idea that one doesn't have to be in a church to worship the lord.
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Practically the Trope Namer.
 * In Harmony With Nature: In the episode "Nature" at least until the second part...
 * Intergenerational Friendship: With Stephanie.
 * Jade Colored Glasses: He dons a pair in the final season.
 * Like Father Like Son: to Clay until he got shot by him.
 * Naked On Arrival: "Oh... I guess your clothes don't die with you!"
 * Only Sane Man
 * Parental Substitute: Reverend Putty, and Stephanie, at the very end.

Clay Puppington
"Clay: (drunkenly) Hunting dogs are nature's...rabbits."
 * Abusive Parents
 * The Alcoholic
 * Alcoholic Parent
 * All Take and No Give
 * Attention Whore
 * Backstory: "Passing" and "Help" do a great deal in showing how Clay turned into the Complete Monster that he is.
 * Dead End Job: Clay constantly complains about his dead end job, which we are led to believe is some droning office monkey type job.  Even Orel is surprised at the discovery.
 * Depraved Bisexual: Clay appears to only love attention, loving anyone who will show him any amount of it, regardless of who he will hurt in the process. It's this, combined with his abusive nature towards Orel that causes Daniel Stopframe to ultimately reject him.
 * Drowning My Sorrows
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: In the case of Clay, a little too much
 * Freudian Excuse: Clay's dad was a total Jerkass to him.
 * Its All About Me
 * Jerkass
 * Like Father Like Son: to Orel until he shot him.
 * Lack of Empathy: To everyone except himself.
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Shoot the Dog: Quite Literally in "Nature".


 * Standard Fifties Father: Deconstructed to a horrifying degree.
 * Took a Level In Jerkass: He was a considerably worse father after Nature, nearly disowning Orel. Or to look at it another way, Nature caused the audience (and Orel) to see just how terrible of a person he'd been throughout the whole series, sending his parenting into a retroactive Dude Not Funny.
 * Ungrateful Bastard: How Clay sees Orel, Bloberta... pretty much his entire family.
 * Unwanted Spouse: With Bloberta.
 * What Exactly Is His Job: To the point where his kids don't even know.
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different: Clay wishes that his son wasn't so... innocent and sensitive.

Bloberta Puppington

 * Abusive Parents
 * Always Someone Better: Bloberta's siblings, according to her mother, and all her friends who were getting married, which prompted her to trap Clay into a relationship.
 * Backstory: Explained in the episode "Help" how Clay and Bloberta ended up in such a loveless hate-filled marriage.
 * Freudian Excuse: Bloberta's mother was a total Jerkass to her.
 * Horrible Judge of Character: She still married Clay out of desperation even after he proved himself a horrible drunk and a terrible womanizer.
 * Neat Freak: She would even freak out when her cleaning supplies got dirty.
 * Stepford Smiler
 * The Unfavorite
 * Understanding Boyfriend: Bloberta always wanted one, tried to get one through multiple affairs, all of whom used her for an ulterior motive and had the series continued, she would have finally gotten one, when she began her affair with Officer Papermouth. Unfortunately the show as cut before this could happen.
 * Unwanted Spouse: With Clay.

Shapey Puppington

 * The Voiceless - Shapey's "dialogue" is virtually incomprehensible screaming.
 * Older Than They Look
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Put On a Bus or a moving van, really.

Arthur Puppington

 * Abusive Parents: Not as if he didn't have an excuse. Clay was a spoiled brat who was responsible for his wife's death, and even then Clay's birth resulted in Angela becoming religiously fanatic about him, her "miracle baby". Following Angela's death, he immediately started then stopped hitting Clay because he felt Clay wasn't worth the effort.
 * Hollywood Atheist
 * Like Grandfather Like Grandson: If the show continued, he would have had a good relationship with Orel.
 * Only Sane Man
 * Parental Substitute: To Orel

Ms. Censordoll

 * Big Bad
 * Freudian Excuse
 * Holier Than Thou
 * Karma Houdini
 * Knight Templar
 * Straw Hypocrite
 * Younger Than They Look

Coach Stopframe

 * Depraved Bisexual
 * Gender Blender Name - His name is Daniel. But it's pronounced like the feminine Danielle.
 * Karma Houdini
 * Parental Substitute - In the series finale, he spends time with Orel as a father figure, and they genuinely have fun. Clay instantly misconstrues this as him and Orel having an affair.

Reverend Putty

 * A Date With Rosie Palms
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Defeat Equals Friendship - At the start of the series, Putty clearly barely tolerates Orel's devotion toward him, occasionally graduating to outright hatred but interspersed with attempts at genuine advice. At his Despair Event Horizon, Putty finally gets a date with a woman,, and genuinely tries to help Orel thereafter.
 * - The only adult in the entire series to unambiguously do this.
 * Only Sane Man
 * Pet the Dog - Upon realizing that his entire congregation is miserable, including Orel, takes it upon himself to cheer them all. He also
 * Snark Knight - Amongst his fellow Fundamentalist. He knows full and well all f'd up the town is.
 * Straw Hypocrite - Like most adults, and
 * Snark Knight - Amongst his fellow Fundamentalist. He knows full and well all f'd up the town is.
 * Straw Hypocrite - Like most adults, and

Stephanie

 * Depraved Homosexual - Utterly subverted. While she has all the surface traits (she gets Orel his first job at her porn store, and has several fetishes heavily implied), she deeply cares for everyone in her life, even people she knows are just using her.
 * Only Sane Man - Stephanie's the only recurring adult character who takes her relationship with Orel seriously and responsibly.
 * Parental Substitute - Stephanie's so maternal to Orel, in fact, she gives herself another piercing to tamp down her rising parental instincts for him, as she knows he's got a crush on her.