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	Season 3, Episode 1
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Air date	October 9, 2008
Written by	Dino Stamatopoulos;
Directed by	Chris McKay;
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This episode shows what happens with Bloberta during Orel and Clay's hunting trip. She tries to find love or at least compassion, and also reunites with Shapey.

Plot[]

This episode starts with Clay waking up to take Orel to the hunting trip, with Bloberta enthusiastically watching from the window. She later masturbates with a small power drill in bed before returning it to her collection of hardware tools, which are implied to all be used as sex toys by her. She then pulls out a photo album, filled with pictures of her and Danielle Stopframe playing tennis together. They’re followed by an image of her pregnant with Shapey, then a photo of him at his current age. After comparing it to Block, she notices she has the Posabule child, She then takes a cab to their residence in order to get Shapey back "for sentimental reasons." After ending up with both clung to her as she returns home, she drops then in Shapey’s bedroom. Shapey and Block begin showing affection towards and playing with each other, and Bloberta slams the door.

Bloberta heads to Forghetty’s to meet up with Danielle. After trying to start another relationship with him, Stopframe completely shuts her down, admitting that he only built a relationship with her to get close to Clay. After his refusal, Bloberta continues seeking love, or at least an affair from Reverend Putty, who has a sexual climax from her pleas, then tells her to leave. Distraught, and desperate to feel something, Bloberta then goes to Nohammer's Hardware, where she buys a large jackhammer (The Hand-Jack) with the intention of using it as a vibrator. After taking it home, she mutilates her vagina, prompting her to go Dr. Potterswheel. After examining her, he prescribes powerful painkillers. After using them, she proceeds to use the power tool again, further injuring herself, yet numbing the pain to a pleasurable experience, and sending her back once again to Potterswheel.

While examining Bloberta's more severe injuries, it is shown that Dr. Potterswheel has a sexual fascination with his patients' physical pain. Potterswheel sends her home again with an even stronger dosage of painkillers. Bloberta also ends up taking Dr. Potterswheel's handkerchief home with her. When Bloberta arrives home to her bed, the combination of desperation and physical sensitivity gives Bloberta an orgasm simply at the thought of Dr. Potterswheel. Excited by her discovery and new feelings of completeness, Bloberta returns to the clinic later that day, only to be rejected by Potterswheel when he sees she isn't injured any differently, or much at all. After refusing to so much as look at Bloberta, he receives a call from Clay, who tells him that he shot Orel in the leg, while Bloberta, only slightly affected when Orel's name pops up, gazes distantly at the wall. She focuses on a poster promoting fatty foods for apparent health reasons.

The episode ends from Clay's point-of-view, stumbling drunk through the house, carelessly walking pass Shapey, who plays with dynamite, and Block, who is playing with the jackhammer. He walks up the stairs, and stops outside of Orel's room, where he overhears Bloberta and Orel's conversation from the end of Nature Part 2 about why Bloberta married Clay. Bloberta momentarily breaks down to tears after she leaves his room, only to become cold and stiff upon seeing Clay. The two climb into their separate beds (with a literal wall dividing the two of them) as the credits roll, both looking completely cold, almost as if lying in their graves.

Characters[]

Minor Appearances[]

First Appearances[]

Mr. Nohammers

Notes[]

The theme song of this episode is "No Children" by The Mountain Goats. The first half of the song plays in the beginning, and the second half up until the end.

The "toys" that are shown in the drawer at the beginning of the end are:
- Tiny Johnston's Toothpick Sander
- The Casnova Battery-Powered Q-Tip
- Dr. Inventor's Lower-back Dc-powered Okey-dokey-izer
- Hole-In-One Motorized Golfball Digger
- Miss Esctasy Electric Rolling Pin
- Mr. Wonderful
Block gets “adopted” by the Puppingtons and it remains like this for the rest of the series

This is the first of 3 episodes on the Moral Orel Vol. 3 DVD that has a video commentary, which can be viewed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o1jk5zLVazfYe3U6rbqUHSBaVIGCXibs/view?usp=drivesdk
This is the first of 7 season 3 episodes to have their end animation scrapped.

Episode Tie-Ins[]

Nature Part 1 and Nature Part 2: This episode covers what Bloberta was doing throughout the exact time of the two previous ones.