controversial opinion of the day about edgy cartoons: i actually think moral orel was one of the better satires both about child abuse, cyclical family abuse and religious abuse that has been made
it's one of the few shows where i've seen it actually make child abuse jokes and be funny because the gag isn't 'haha kid is being abused' it actually makes funny social commentary about the inept social ills that lead to abuse, incompetent parenthood and the story moves towards some sort of forward conclusion with orel's story
i actually think a side by side comparison of butters (south park) and orel (moral orel) is interesting because orel and butters
- are both goody two shoes children who are abused by their religious families as a running gag and their dad is having an affair with another man
- but moral orel is actually a good story whereas south park always comes down to 'haha butters is getting beaten and he doesn't deserve it that's funny' with no social commentary, and to be fair 'haha abuse' is a pretty common gag overall even outside of stories like this
- i think 'anything can be made funny' but a lot of the time it isn't and it's overused, esp re: edgy ''''shocking''' topics