Moral Orel/Characters

Break the Cutie: Quite possibly his father's goal towards Orel.
Bi the Way: During his BDSM addiction, he imagined himself being spanked by God.
Corrupt the Cutie: See above.
Calling the Old Man Out: to Clay in "Nature". "You become a bad person when you drink!", and after he applies no medical treatment on him for several days says "I hate you dad." and he replies "Hate away, sister, hate away."
Cheerful Child: Until Clay shot him.
Children Are Innocent: Played straight until the third season.
Earn Your Happy Ending
Friend to All Living Things: In "Nature", until the second part.
A God Am I: Briefly.
Ignored Epiphany: He's spanked into forgetting his Gnostic Epiphany in "Grounded", when he rejects the church doctrine of a Fluffy Cloud Heaven, and the idea that you have to be in a church to worship the lord. It's also ironic since they are Protestants, and Martin Luther started protestantism with the idea that one doesn't have to be in a church to worship the lord.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Practically the Trope Namer.
In Harmony with Nature: In the episode "Nature" at least until the second part...
Intergenerational Friendship: With Stephanie.
Jade-Colored Glasses: He dons a pair in the final season.
Like Father, Like Son: to Clay until he got shot by him.
Naked on Arrival: "Oh... I guess your clothes don't die with you!"
Only Sane Man
Parental Substitute: Reverend Putty, and Stephanie, at the very end.

Abusive Parents
The Alcoholic
Alcoholic Parent
All Take and No Give
Attention Whore
Backstory: "Passing" and "Help" do a great deal in showing how Clay turned into the monster that he is.
Dead End Job: Clay constantly complains about his dead end job, which we are led to believe is some droning office monkey type job. We find out in the second to last episode that Clay is actually the mayor of Moralton. Even Orel is surprised at the discovery.
Depraved Bisexual: Clay appears to only love attention, loving anyone who will show him any amount of it, regardless of who he will hurt in the process. It's this, combined with his abusive nature towards Orel that causes Daniel Stopframe to ultimately reject him.
Drowning My Sorrows
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: In the case of Clay, a little too much
Freudian Excuse: Clay's dad was a total Jerkass to him.
It's All About Me
Jerkass
Like Father, Like Son: to Orel until he shot him.
Lack of Empathy: To everyone except himself.
Spoiled Brat
Shoot the Dog: Quite Literally in "Nature".

Clay: (drunkenly) Hunting dogs are nature's...rabbits.

Standard Fifties Father: Deconstructed to a horrifying degree.
Took a Level in Jerkass: He was a considerably worse father after Nature, nearly disowning Orel. Or to look at it another way, Nature caused the audience (and Orel) to see just how terrible of a person he'd been throughout the whole series, sending his parenting into a retroactive Dude, Not Funny.
Ungrateful Bastard: How Clay sees Orel, Bloberta... pretty much his entire family.
Unwanted Spouse: With Bloberta.
What Exactly Is His Job?: To the point where his kids don't even know. He's the Mayor.
Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Clay wishes that his son wasn't so... innocent and sensitive.

Abusive Parents
Always Someone Better: Bloberta's siblings, according to her mother, and all her friends who were getting married, which prompted her to trap Clay into a relationship.
Backstory: Explained in the episode "Help" how Clay and Bloberta ended up in such a loveless hate-filled marriage.
Freudian Excuse: Bloberta's mother was a total Jerkass to her.
Horrible Judge of Character: She still married Clay out of desperation even after he proved himself a horrible drunk and a terrible womanizer.
Neat Freak: She would even freak out when her cleaning supplies got dirty.
Stepford Smiler
The Unfavorite
Understanding Boyfriend: Bloberta always wanted one, tried to get one through multiple affairs, all of whom used her for an ulterior motive and had the series continued, she would have finally gotten one, when she began her affair with Officer Papermouth. Unfortunately the show as cut before this could happen.
Unwanted Spouse: With Clay.

The Voiceless - Shapey's "dialogue" is virtually incomprehensible screaming. Subverted in the third to last episode, where Shapey quietly tells his mother that when he's hungry, he feels like when he's alone.
Older Than They Look
Spoiled Brat
Put on a Bus or a moving van, really.

Abusive Parents: Not as if he didn't have an excuse. Clay was a spoiled brat who was responsible for his wife's death, and even then Clay's birth resulted in Angela becoming religiously fanatic about him, her "miracle baby". Following Angela's death, he immediately started then stopped hitting Clay because he felt Clay wasn't worth the effort.
Hollywood Atheist
Like Grandfather Like Grandson: If the show continued, he would have had a good relationship with Orel.
Only Sane Man
Parental Substitute: To Orel

Depraved Bisexual
Gender Blender Name - His name is Daniel. But it's pronounced like the feminine Danielle.
Karma Houdini
Parental Substitute - In the series finale, he spends time with Orel as a father figure, and they genuinely have fun. Clay instantly misconstrues this as him and Orel having an affair.

A Date with Rosie Palms
Deadpan Snarker
Defeat Equals Friendship - At the start of the series, Putty clearly barely tolerates Orel's devotion toward him, occasionally graduating to outright hatred but interspersed with attempts at genuine advice. At his Despair Event Horizon, Putty finally gets a date with a woman, only for the woman to reveal she's actually his daughter. Putty is convinced that everything in his life is a sham, even mockingly letting Orel stand at the pulpit to talk about God's love. Orel then discusses that God's love comes in faith, friendship, and family, but not often in all three. Putty's moved into his Heel Face Turn, and genuinely tries to help Orel thereafter.
Heel Face Turn - The only adult in the entire series to unambiguously do this.
- Heel Faith Turn - As Putty mellows out, he also develops a renewed faith as well.
Luke, You Are My Father - He is Stephanie's father.
Only Sane Man
Pet the Dog - Upon realizing that his entire congregation is miserable, including Orel, takes it upon himself to cheer them all. He also tells his daughter that he disapproves of her crush on another girl, solely because the other girl was using her.
Snark Knight - Amongst his fellow Fundamentalist. He knows full and well all f'd up the town is.
Straw Hypocrite - Like most adults, and one of the few to grow out of it.
Took a Level In Kindness

Depraved Homosexual - Utterly subverted. While she has all the surface traits (she gets Orel his first job at her porn store, and has several fetishes heavily implied), she deeply cares for everyone in her life, even people she knows are just using her.
Only Sane Man - Stephanie's the only recurring adult character who takes her relationship with Orel seriously and responsibly.
Parental Substitute - Stephanie's so maternal to Orel, in fact, she gives herself another piercing to tamp down her rising parental instincts for him, as she knows he's got a crush on her.

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