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Season 1: 2005–2006

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Production # Title Airdate
1
110 "The Best Christmas Ever" December 13, 2005

Orel learns from the reverend that some day Jesus Christ will return to Earth. In fact, there may be a little child out there right now who's the second coming and that Jesus won't be as nice this time around.
After overhearing a conversation between his parents about Shapey's unplanned birth, Orel believes him to be second coming, and does everything in his power to make him happy. Meanwhile, his parents plan to get divorced. Orel's mother eventually sets Orel straight when Shapey begins destroying a manger at the church.
Orel finds his dad drowning his sorrows at the local pub, Forghetty's, and remarks that this didn't turn out to be so great. There's still two minutes, though, and Orel has faith that God will fix it; the episode ends with Orel staring piously up at the Heavens in a long, tracking shot, waiting for an intervention from God which, we are led to believe, never comes. 

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101 "The Lord's Greatest Gift" 01/03/06

Orel reanimates the town's dead relatives to make them enjoy "God's gift of life." Orel and his friend, Doughy, naïvely believing that the dead corpses smelled because of their clothing, ended up undressing them before reciting a chant from the Necronomicon to bring them back to life.

The zombies terrorized the town, yet the lesson revealed to Orel by his father was not that brain-eating zombies were bad, but in fact that being was is prohibited by the "lost" 11th Commandment. 

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104 "Waste" 1/30/06

Orel begins drinking his own urine so he wouldn't waste it, which is prohibited by the "lost" 14th Commandment "Thou shalt always clean thy plate and not waste anything, whether thy stomach is full or not.". He eventually ended up selling it as a new energy drink which propelled his school to a state championship.
The outrage was not that he allowed people to drink his urine, but that he charged them for it when it didn't cost him anything to make. 

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103 "Charity"  

Orel was taught that good Christians should help the poor, so he gave a homeless man the money he made working at the drug store. The homeless man happened to be a drug dealer who gave Orel crack in exchange for the cash. Knowing that good Christians never waste anything, Orel was obliged to smoke the Crack.
He developed a habit, and became a regular user; first smoking it, then injecting it. Eventually, the dealer is arrested, and Orel has yet another meeting in his father's study.

First, Orel's father lets him know that he wasn't helping a poor man; being a drug dealer, the man was actually rich and "lucky." Orel was then chastized, not for smoking and shooting up crack, but for using slang. "Crack is a gateway to slang " like "jonesing" and "jive," according to Orel's father. The episode closed with the 13th Commandment, "Thou shalt not bastardize the American language" and with Clay pocketing Orel's remaining stash (after being told that he could get double the money for it). 

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106 "Omnipresence"  

Orel learns that God is in everything and everyone. The next day, at school, he disputes the teacher's lessons when she tells him he's wrong. He believes that he can't be wrong since he has God in him. She then sends him to the principal's office. Thinking that everything, including himself, should be treated divinely, he excuses himself from school and goes on a trip across town. He eventually winds up at a lake, where he attempts to walk on water.

Before he can, he sees a man try to kill himself. Orel calls 911 and the police arrive to arrest the man. Having saved someone, he decides to repeat his actions at the hospital. The nurse there humors him and lets him visit sick people. He first finds a man in a wheelchair. It's actually a doctor, so he gets right up. Thinking that he healed the man, he moves on to an old lady who asks Orel to take away her pain by pulling the plug. Orel does so. When the nurse finds out, she calls Orel's father, Clay. In his study, Clay explains that God's in everything, but there's not enough of him in those things to make a difference. Clay explains that Orel can't act as judge and jury, but just judge. 

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105 "The Blessed Union"  

Orel learns that people should do everything they can to keep their wives happy. That way, God has an easier time listening to their prayers. To that end, he goes around town asking about how to do that. He first asks his teacher, who is unwilling to answer any questions after class.
The next is the librarian, who decides to protest outside Reverend Putty's church because he's putting these ideas into children's heads. Orel asks his mother next, but she is too busy cleaning. Finally, he goes to his father, who tells Orel to read magazines written by men who think they know what women want. Orel goes to the drug store and reads the magazines there. When the owner sees him reading, he recommends an adult magazine. It leads to Orel to a sex shop. There, he asks the owner Stephanie, a woman wearing all black who has many piercings, for a piercing that will increase the pleasure of intercourse.
After the procedure, Orel develops a crush on her, since she's nicer than everyone else in town. At the school gym, Coach Stopframe notices Orel's piercing. Back at the sex shop, Orel tries to find ways to spend time with Stephanie. She lets him down softly, telling him to go outside or he'll never grow. Clay shows up as Orel leaves, taking him to his study. There, he explains that Stephanie was nice because she's different. When you're not different, you're allowed to be mean some of the time. As for his piercing, Clay explains that women don't need that because they're too smart. They've learned that cooking, cleaning, and bearing children will keep them happy.

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107 "God-Fearing"  

The children at school are learning how to be safe on Halloween. A police officer tells them that the only "safe" costumes are those that promote God. The children decide to go to a church-hosted haunted house that night. When they get there and go through it, Orel fails to be scared even once. He tells his friends it's because he has God and Jesus on his side, and there's no reason to fear anyone or anything. In church the next day, he learns that if you sin, all you need to do is repent and God will forgive you. Orel decides he can make God angry with him (and be able to get scared) if he breaks all the 10 Commandemnts, and then simply repents the next day. He breaks every commandment in order (his order, not the actual order), except for the third commandment, "Thou shalt not kill", which he has trouble with. He inadvertently breaks this commandment when he tries to help and old man across the street, and the manis hit by a car and dies. Orel's dad sets up a meeting with the church pastor and Orel. The Pastor tells Orel that no matter what day of the year it is, God is the only thing you should ever fear because he creates hurricanes, diseases, and foreign cultures

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109 "Maturity"  

Orel and his little brother Shapey are outside, and Shapey is aiming around haphazardly with his BB gun. Orel scolds his brother for being so careless, and Shapey begins a tantrum. Their mother, busy in the kitchen, tells Orel to play nicely with his brother, otherwise the neighbors will think her a bad parent. While Orel is preoccupied with explaining to his parents about the situation, Shapey gets the barrel of his gun under the boy's eye and shoots. Orel is then admonished by his father because of the accident, and told that he will have to be more responsible and mature. In order to learn more about adults, Orel decides to visit the local pub, where the adults of Moralton go to drown their sorrows. Orel absorbs from his experience that the key to being an adult is to drink the special "maturity juice". Returning home, he goes into his father's study and helps himself to the liquor supply. Orel is later given a talking to by his father. This time, he is told that one cannot simply drink alcohol to be more mature. You must experience stress over things you cannot control, as well as an unfulfilling job, among other things. This was the first of the three episodes awaiting approval from Standards & Practices due to its depiction of a child drinking alcohol. 

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108 "Loyalty"  

When arriving at church one morning with his family, Orel runs into Coach Stopframe, who introduces the boy to his nephew, Joe. Stopframe tells Orel that Joe isn't quite settled into the Christianity scene yet, and so asks him if he wouldn't mind being the boy's "Bible buddy". Orel accepts. The two sit together during the sermon, and Orel learns that an important aspect of friendship is undying loyalty. Unfortunately for Orel, his new friend is a violent sociopath. Although Orel is skeptical about this sort of behavior, he remembers what he learned about friendship and loyalty, and so reluctantly joins in on Joe's "fun" at the sake of spending time with his own friends. Orel's real friends become concerned about his dangerous interest in Joe, so they go off to find Clay and tell him about the situation. While Clay indulges them (over a few glasses of liquor), Joe leads Orel into the woods to beat up some "homosexuals," which is this case is two small boys taking turns kissing each other on the cheek with innocent glee. Clay comes driving up in his car, knocking down trees along the way. He orders Orel into the car and they have a talk in Clay's study. Orel is scolded not for having gone and done something he knew was wrong, like bashing two innocents with a baseball bat, but for neglecting all his other friends in favor of one single friend. Clay tells Orel that rather than ditch them, he should have invited all his friends along so they could all take part in whatever was going on. Thus does the Lost Commandment 18, come into play: "Thou shalt be loyal to all thy friends at the same time." This is the second of the three episodes to get cleared by Standards & Practices due to its depiction of homosexuality and the plot centering on Orel and his new best friend beating up the boys said to be gay. 

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102 "God's Chef"  

In an unseen event, Orel discovered masturbation a week ago and enjoys it to the point that he sneaks off to the bathroom at school where he is caught by Clicky, the janitor. He is then told, first by Principal Fakey, and later, Reverend Putty that masturbation, among other things, is worse than murder and that he'll go to hell for it. Putty explains that every sperm must be used to make babies. Seeking to continue masturbating without going to hell, Orel consults Clay on where babies come from. Using a book specializing in age-appropriate conception tales, Orel is told that "God's chef" comes down to sleeping women each night fills them with his 'delicious glaze from his holy pastry bag'. Taking this to heart, Orel borrows his mother's pastry bag and proceeds with breaking into houses each night, filling the bag with his sperm, and impregnating the sleeping women, hereby taking on the role as "God's chef". After a month, an entire block experiences a wave of pregnancies, raising alarm in the community as some couples hadn't consummated yet. However, Orel is caught in the act that night is about to be taken away by police when his father arrives to take him to the study. There, he first scolds Orel for being out past curfew. After Orel admits that he did it because he wanted to spread his seed, Clay first explains that "God's Chef" is more of mythical figure like Santa Claus and Charles Darwin, and in an odd turn of events, admits that keeping Orel ignorant about sex was wrong and incorrect behavior. Then proceeds to explain to Orel that there can only be one way to make babies the missionary position, citing the lost 12th Commandment and admonishes Orel for using the pastry bag as a fun and unusual implement. When Orel asks if he should spank Clay after he admitted that he was wrong, they share a laugh but Clay quickly refuses. This is the final episode that was held back due to Standards and Practices for its strong sexual themes. 

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