Moral Orel is fucking dark.

ANybody who's watched this show knows how dark it is. But it's dark enough to even have a Complete Monster.

Don't know what that is?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompleteMonster

Orel's Father is the example in this.

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Clay Puppington, the father of series protagonist Orel Puppington from Moral Orel arguably ascends to this position in the third season, with his Jerkassery being heightened beyond regular standards. Although Clay has very sympathetic reasons for why he ended up the way he did... having been psychologically abused by his father, who blamed him for the death of his wife (and Clay's mother), and essentially having been forced into a married life he despises by a desperate Bloberta Clay's actions go well beyond the realm of the sympathetic and can only be described as pure evil. In the season 2 finale "Nature", Clay takes Orel on a hunting trip. When kind-hearted Orel doesn't want to kill any animals, an increasingly intoxicated Clay takes this as a sign of weakness and berates Orel with increasingly frequency. The terrible but fateful night culminates in an argument which ends with Clay accidentally shooting Orel, his own son, in the leg. Instead of getting help, or even asking if he's alright, Clay actually mocks his son while he's in agonizing pain, before passing out. It doesn't end there either, Orel is forced that night to protect his passed out father from a bear (still not having had his leg checked out.) whom Orel is forced to shoot, despite not wanting to. Clay eventually wakes up...with no memory of the night before. The incident results in Orel being given a limp for the rest of his life. What really puts the cherry on the cake however, is that it's subtly implied that Clay does remember what he did but not only refuses to take responsibility for it...but seems to not hold any regret over it whatsoever. The event is so traumatic that it changes the very tone of the entire series for the remainder of its run to a much more straightforwardly dark one.

* As if that wasn't bad enough, Clay pretty much has no love in his heart for anyone. He openly despises everyone in town, never even tries to make up with his son, and even his homosexual affair with Coach. Stopframe is really nothing more than an attempt for him to find happiness for himself. Although Stopframe is far from a saint himself, after befriending Orel and becoming perhaps Orel's first genuine father figure, he realizes the emptiness of Clay's affection and turns him down...despite the fact he originally tried to get close to Clay himself to begin with. Perhaps the true tragedy of the whole thing is that Clay is fully aware of how much of a monster he is...but he doesn't care. He's that unhappy with his life. However in an ironic sense, Clay is really the source of so much of his own misery. He's alone because he makes it that way, and it's a miserable fate Orel thankfully, manages to dodge in his own adult hood.
* If Clay is mentioned, than one must mention Bloberta Puppington herself as well. It was Bloberta after all whom started Clay's alchoholism and eventually became the source of so much of both his and her own misery. A tragic trait the two share is that while they're both the sources of their own unhappiness, they could probably change things if they chose to. Instead, they retreat into a life of constant denial...using the Christian religion and conservative pre-tenses as a mere cover-up for their own misery. The complete selfish disregard of their childrens' own happiness, or well-being by indulging in this behavior is really what makes both Clay and Bloberta complete monsters in their own right.
* Had the series not been cancelled, the unmade episodes would have Clay and Bloberta going through Character Development and making their own redemption in some way, or at least not be doomed to complete misery.

Ok.