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"The Lord's Greatest Gift" is the first episode of Moral Orel and its first season. In this episode, Orel and Doughy raise the dead, as they believe those corpses are wasting God's gift of life.
Plot[]
The episode opens with the Puppington family heading to church, listening to a religious radio station. Orel is excited, but Shapey is causing trouble in the car.
At the church, Reverend Putty delivers a sermon about the preciousness of life, referencing the story of Lazarus. Meanwhile, Clay is bored and distracted, tuning out the sermon.
After church, Doughy invites Orel to his house to play, and Orel eagerly accepts. However, they end up at the cemetery discussing the sermon and the concept of sin.
Feeling inspired to do good, Orel suggests they visit the library for guidance. They encounter Ms. Censordoll, who is burning books she deems inappropriate.
Orel sneaks away with the Necronomicon, believing it holds the power to bring back the dead. Ignoring Doughy's concerns, Orel attempts to resurrect Doughy's dead grandpa.
Unexpectedly, the ritual works, but Doughy's grandpa becomes a brain-eating zombie, causing chaos in Moralton.
Orel feels guilty for his actions, but Clay reminds him that there are better ways to preserve life. They set out to correct their mistake by clothing the zombies, restoring their decency.
As they work to clothe the zombies, Clay teaches Orel about the importance of modesty and respecting the dead.
Ultimately, they manage to dress the zombies, restoring order to Moralton. Clay reassures Orel of his love, despite his mistakes, and they share a heartfelt moment.
The episode ends with Clay humorously dealing with a zombie whose pants fall down, emphasizing the importance of modesty even in unusual circumstances.
Characters[]
First Appearances[]
- Orel Puppington (debut)
- Clay Puppington (debut)
- Bloberta Puppington (debut)
- Shapey Puppington (debut)
- Reverend Putty (debut)
- Doughy Latchkey (debut)
- Ms. Censordoll (debut)
- Doughy's grandfather (mentioned)
- Officer O'Chunky (debut) (minor)
- Coach Stopframe (debut)
- Florence Papermouth (cameo)
- Anne Papermouth (cameo)
- Mrs. Noheart (debut)
- Tina Noheart (debut)
- Mrs. Gray (cameo)
- Dr. Potterswheel (cameo)
- Mr. Cartsen (cameo)
- Ms. Blankface (only appearance)
Notes[]
Release[]
- This episode was intended to air first instead of "The Best Christmas Ever." The staff went with the decision because that episode would be the most shocking to the network's Standards and Practices division, believing that they could air anything after that. It also coincided with the Christmas season approaching at the time.
Running gags[]
- Intro type: Standard
- Church sign: "This week's sermon: Heaven or Hell...which would Jesus choose?"
- Lost commandment: #11 ("Thou shalt be ashamed of thy natural anatomy.")
- Belt: Clay whacks a zombie with it, which drops his pants.
- Ending movie: Jesus revives other figures and they exit the frame.
Episode tie-ins[]
Orel's Movie Premiere - First part of Orel's movie. The dialogue goes as planned.
Transcript[]
(The episode starts with the Puppington family all along in their car listening to the Think With Your Heart song)
The Crucifolks (in the radio): ♪ The Reason is the enemy of faith, my friend. A head that's filled with knowledge soon is to bloated in with its own weight-♪
(Shapey jumping around in the car)
Orel Puppington: Behave, Shapey! We're going to church!
Shapey Puppington: SHUT UP!
Bloberta Puppngton: Orel, leave your little brother alone.
Orel Puppington: Sorry, Mom.
(Cuts to Protesters Holding some signs contains on yellow brick in the Moralton cinema)
Protesters: Follow the yellow brick road means follow the devil in hope! Boo! Get out of her! Evil! Go into hell!
The Crucifolks (in the radio): ♪-Think with your heart 'cause you know that the Almighty sees us. (Clay opens the car window to let his pipe's smoke out) Think only with your heart, whoever heard of the bleeding brain of Jesus. ♪
Radio Announcer: Okay, that was the Crucifolks with Think With Your Heart. And back at number one, the newest from Multiple Godgasm.
(Clay Puppington enjoys some Christian-approved metal music from the Multiple Godgasm plays, it was named Burn in heaven)
Multiple Godgasm: ♪ Bow Bow! Bow Bow!- ♪
Clay Puppington: Those darn teenagers and their devil rock.
(Clay turns off the radio)
Bloberta Puppington: Oh, Clay.
(Bloberta turns on the radio)
Multiple Godgasm: ♪ -Down to Jesus' bidding! ♪
Clay Puppington: Ah, nice.
Multiple Godgasm: ♪ Burn in heaven. Burn in heaven. Burn in heaven Bur- ♪
(Clay turns off the radio again before they leave the car)
(Shapey is thrown out of the car window)
(Cuts to Orel excitedly heading towards the Church)
Orel Puppington: Yay! Church!
Bloberta Puppington: Slow down, Orel.
Clay Puppington: Plenty of God for everyone, son.
(Inside the church)
(Putty doing his sermon)
Reverend Putty: Dear friends, I look around at the congregation today, and my heart is filled with joy. Why? Because I see everyone here using the Lord's greatest gift, life. You know? The biggest sin is to throw the gift of life back into God's stupid face. For remember that spooky story of Lazarus. He did not reject Jesus' gift of life back from the dead and say, Oh Lord, you are a weirdo, your gift is boring. Why don't you just take a hike, you big, dumb, holy messiah-
(Clay and Bloberta start talking while Putty continues his sermon)
Bloberta Puppington: Didn't he just do this sermon eight years ago?
Clay Puppington: Tell me about it. I can do this one in my sleep.
Reverend Putty: -No, my friends, Lazarus believed that life is precious. As precious as money! Or those little kissing zebra knickknacks that we love to display on top of our cabinets. We must do everything in our power to preserve the gift of life, to show God that we appreciate it, and not to hawk it in his stunned face like a flemmy gob of spit and laugh at his magnificent big dumb expression, Amen!
(A tear falls from Orel's eye)
Congergation: Amen!
(Cuts to the outside of the church)
Reverend Putty: I saw you talking during the sermon, Clay. Bored?
Clay Puppington: Oh, just practicing my lip-syncing, Reverend. Love those greatest hits.
Orel Puppington: Reverend Putty?
Reverend Putty: Yes, Orel
Orel Puppington: I think you're right about people not spitting into God's face.
(He caresses Orel and leaves)
Reverend Putty: That's why I get paid, son.
Doughy Latchkey: Hey, Orel, want to come over to my house and play?
Orel Puppington: Gee, can I, Mom?
Bloberta Puppington: All right, but don't take any rides from strangers, son.
Orel Puppington: Why?
Bloberta Puppington and Clay Puppington: Because you're in your Good Sunday suit.
(Orel Waves to his parents)
Orel Puppington: Oh, right. Bye-bye.
(Cuts to Orel and Doughy outside the cemetery)
Orel Puppignton: Boy, Doughy, Reverend Putty's sermon today sure made me think.
Doughy Latchkey: Orel? You know you're not supposed to think when it comes to God and faith.
Orel Puppington: I know, but I...
Doughy Latckey: Hey, let's cut through the cemetery.
Orel Puppington: Okay.
(Inside the cemetery)
Doughy Latchkey: It's always so pretty. You think it's because dead people make good fertilizer?
Orel Puppington: Umm, Maybe, but they sure make bad Christians.
Doughy Latchkey: What do you mean?
Orel Puppington: Everyone buried in the cemetery is sinning, Doughy, like the good reverend said. Lazarus did not reject Jesus' greatest gift of life. But all these people did! They're spitting in God's face!
(Rest in Peace, Doughy's Dead Grandpa)
Doughy Latchkey: My grandpa wouldn't spit in God's face.
Orel Puppington: I don't see your grandpa using life too much either.
Doughy Latchkey (shocked): Oh no! Grandpa! What are we going to do, Orel?
Orel Puppington: Let's go to the library. Ms. Censordoll should be able to help us.
Doughy Latchkey: Uh, O-Okay!
Orel Puppington: Oh, don't look so worried, Doughy. I only want to do good.
Doughy Latchkey: That's true.
(Cuts to the Thomas Bowdler library)
(Ms. Censordoll is spreading kerosene on a stack of books)
(Orel and Doughy arrive at the library)
Orel Puppington: What are you doing, Ms. Censordoll?
Ms. Censordoll: Oh, hello boys. I'm just making a list of books.
(The camera cuts to show the books labeled as "to burn")
Ms. Censordoll: Special books.
Doughy Latchkey: Are they special because they teach us the most?
Ms. Censordoll: Mmm, yes. In fact, they teach us too much.
Orel Puppington: Too much?
(Tina Noheart Appears in the Libary)
Tina Noheart: Ms. Censordoll, Jimmy's looking through the Renaissance art books again.
Ms. Cesnordoll: Filthy 15th century.
(Ms. Censordoll cracks her knuckles)
(Ms. Censordoll gets out the libary)
(Tina Noheart is evily smiling and also cracks her knuckles)
(Orel Puppington see a book with a cloth reading "Necronomicon and the Book of the Dead")
Orel Puppington: Come on Doughy, We got some reading to do.
(He picks up the book)
(Doughy is terrified)
Orel Puppington: For God.
(Orel steals the book)
Doughy Latchkey: But Orel...
(Orel and Doughy leaves the library all except for Tina. She looks at the two boys angrily and the books fall on her)
(Cuts to Orel and Doughy back to the cemetery but Orel reading the Necronomicon book and Doughy pacing around)
Doughy Latchkey: I can't believe you broke the 8th Commandment!
Orel Puppington: Well, sometimes you've got to break one commandment to keep another. Now look, the first thing we've got to do is dig up some dead people.
Doughy Latchkey: Oh, I think I'd rather play baseball.
Orel Puppington: But Doughy, don't you want to make your grandpa alive again?
Doughy Latchkey: Umm, Well, he did use to buy me ice cream all the time.
Orel Puppington: Sounds yummy. Come on, Let's do it!
(Cuts to Orel and Doughy opening the coffin)
Doughy Latchkey: Boy, Orel, he smells worse than when he was alive.
Orel Puppington: Well, he has been wearing the same underwear for some time now.
Doughy Latchkey: That's another sin. Mom says cleanliness is next to godliness.
Orel Puppington: It sure is. Let's take his clothes off. Then after he's alive, he can go put on some fresh things.
Doughy Latchkey: Good idea, but you do it. I don't think I should see Grampy's doodly-doo.
Orel Puppington: Okey-dokey. Doop-doo-doo-doo. Don't peek.
Doughy Latchkey: (Abruptly stops peeking) Yikes.
Orel Pudington: Phew. He ought to air out in a bit. Okay, here goes nothing.
(Orel holds the book)
Orel Puppington: I conjure thee by the fire of Gira and by the lights of Shamash in the name of the covenant. Come and rise up before me. Ia Ma Sara Tu, Bagaloma Kia!
(Doughy cringely hides his eyes)
Doughy Latchkey: That doesn't sound very Protestant, Orel.
Orel Puppington: Well, at least it's not Catholic.
Doughy Latchkey: C-C-C-Catholic?
Doughy Latchkey: Orel?
(Doughy's Grandpa rises up)
Orel Puppington: Hot Dog!
(Officer O'Chunky comes to see what happend)
Officer O'Chunky: Hey You kids, what are you doing here after hours?
Doughy's Grandpa: (scary sounds)
Officer O'Chunky: ... What the–?
Doughy's Grandpa: Thank you, Oh Lord, for this bounty.
Officer O'Chuncky: You can't be running around like that!
(Doughy's Grandpa eats Officer O'Chunky's brain)
Doughy Latchkey: Grandpa, no!
(Doughy's Grandpa goes away to kill everyone in Moralton)
Doughy Latchkey: My Grampy just ate his brain.
Orel Puppington: It worked! He's alive again! God be praised!
(Cuts to Officer O'Chunky corpse)
Doughy Latchkey: Yeah, but now Officer O'Chunky's dead.
Orel Puppington: Not for long!
Doughy Latchkey: His uniform's all bloody.
Orel Puppington: Strip him.
(Minutes later, after Orel and Doughy stripped Officer O'chunky)
(The street is full with cars burning, people screaming, chaos and panic)
(People running from the other zombies, while some get eaten.)
Zombie 1: Thank God it's good, let me think I'm from a food!
Zombie 2: Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub.
(Mrs. Noheart's daughter, Tina Noheart getting eaten)
Tina Noheart: Help, Mommy-
(Mrs. Noheart slaps the zombie)
Mrs. Noheart: Pervert!
(The camera zooms out to a bunch of people burning books)
Woman: Are you going to burn the Bible?
Mrs. Censordoll: Only the Jewish parts.
(Censordoll Rips the Bible while People are Running)
Mrs. Censordoll: HEATHEN!
(People run away in terror)
(Cuts to clay peeing in an alleyway with Danielle Stopframe standing behind him to him)
Danielle Stopframe: Almost done there?
Clay Puppington: Yep, just wrapping it up.
Danielle Stopframe: Hmm, I'd give it one more shake.
Clay Puppington: Oh, alright. Thanks, buddy.
Clay Puppington: (Turns around to shake the stranger's hand) By the way, my name's-
Danielle Stopframe: Later, paly.
(Clay overhears Orel and Doughy stripping Ms. Blankface)
Orel Puppington: You get her skirt, Doughy. I'll get her top.
Doughy Latchkey: Wait a minute, Miss Blankface didn't get bloody at all.
Orel Puppington: Yeah, but these clothes are too revealing. She looks like a tramp.
(Clay Clears throat)
Orel Puppington: Hi, Dad. Pretty great, huh?
Clay Puppington: No. And wash that smile off your face, young man. You're in trouble. I think you should meet me in my study.
(Cuts to Orel and Clay in the study)
Orel Puppington: Gee, Dad, I was just trying to stop those dead people from spitting phlegm into God's face.
Clay Puppington: That much I understand, Orel. But there are other ways of preserving God's gift of life.
Orel Puppington: How?
Clay Puppington: Well, for one... (Clay takes the Necrominocon book from his shelf) Where in this book does it say the dead have to be naked?
Orel Puppington: Well, it doesn't really.
Orel Puppington: But some of their clothes were stinky and messy with blood.
Clay Puppington: Their clothes didn't smell, Orel. Their bodies smelled. Their disgusting, exposed bodies.
Orel Puppington: Oh. I guess I was too caught up in bringing them back to life to notice.
Clay Puppington: That's no excuse. Nudity is a horrible thing and should only be committed as a last resort. You know the 11th commandment: Thou shalt be ashamed of thy natural anatomy.
Orel Puppington: Oh yeah, those lost commandments always throw me off.
Clay Puppington: Didn't you notice all the people running away in terror?
Orel Puppington: Yeah, but I thought they were just scared of their brain getting eaten.
Clay Puppington: Life isn't that simple. I'll show you.
(Cuts to Florence walking in the street)
Florence Papermouth: Help! My Uncle Dad It's streaking! God rest his soul!
(Man with his son are surrounded by other zombies)
Man: Don't look, son! They're not decent!
Ms. Censordoll: Burn their privates off!
Orel: Gosh, you sure are right, Dad.
Clay: Well, I suppose that's why they call me Dad. And not Mom.
(Orel and Clay laughing)
Clay Puppington: Okay, fun's over.
Clay Puppington: You know what you have to do.
Orel Puppington: Kill the zombies?
Clay Puppington: Haven't you learned anything?
(Cuts to Orel, Doughy and Bloberta giving clothes to the zombies. The zombies keep attacking and eating people, but the citizens no longer look frightened)
Orel Puppington: Gee, Dad, I'm sorry I goofed up. I was just trying to be good, so you could love me more than you do now.
Clay Puppington: Oh, Orel, I could never love you more. People only have a certain amount of love in them, and I'm afraid I have to divide mine up between at least a dozen people.
Orel Puppington: Oh.
Clay Puppington: But remember, son, I love you enough.
(Orel hugs Clay)
Orel Puppington: I love you enough too, Dad!
(The episode ends with Clay whacking a zombie with his belt, which causes his pants to drop.)
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