After Reverend Putty teaches Orel that Jesus will one day return to the earth, he believes that his younger brother, Shapey, is the second coming of Christ. Orel's parents plan for their divorce, and Christmas looks set to be an unhappy one.

After learning that God's greatest gift is life, Orel recruits his friend Doughy to help protect that gift. A library book, a graveyard full of dead townsfolk, and Orel's convictions spell trouble for the population of Moralton.

Orel Puppington learns that God doesn't look kindly on the wasteful. After lessons from Coach Stopframe and his father, he sets out with two goals in mind. Orel must stop his own wastefulness, and ensure he doesn't end up the failure his father predicts of him. Will he succeed, or will he upset the townsfolk once again?

After Orel is taught that the Christian way is to help the poor, he befriends a homeless crack dealer. The homeless man offers a gift in return, and well - it just wouldn't be polite to refuse. Good Christians aren't wasteful either, and Orel does his fair share to ensure the town's crack supply doesn't go to waste.

Orel learns that God is present in everyone and everything. He ends up excusing himself from school, and going on a trip across town believing that he is able to stop people from sinning and heal them.

Orel learns that people should do everything they can to keep their wives happy. He goes around town and asks women including his mother, what they want.

Halloween is boring for Orel when he believes that he doesn't have anything to fear since God is with him at all times. Hoping to get scared, Orel decides to make God angry with him by breaking all 10 Commandments.

After getting shot in the eye with Shapey's BB gun, Orel's father tells him to be more repsonsible and mature. In order to learn more about maturity, Orel goes to the local pub and drinks alcohol which is known to him as "Maturity Juice".

After running into Orel at church, Coach Stopframe asks if Orel would become Bible Buddies with his nephew Joe, who isn't settled into christianity yet. Despite Joe doing bad things for fun, Orel believes that it he should be a loyal friend and go along with it.

In order to masturbate and still go to heaven, Orel has a scheme that turns Moralton topsy-turvy

When the young Italian Figurelli boy, Billy, gets hurt, Orel tries to put a band-aid on him with the same color as God's skin but the band-aid doesn't blend in with Billy's skin color. However, the band-aid's blend in with other kid's skins just fine. This leads Orel to prompt the city of Moralton to segregate God's people from the Figurelli's, the only Italian-American family in the town. But this, however leads to a form of reverse racism. Soon the Figurelli's special treatment gets too out of hand for the other citizens of Moralton & they begin to go on a rampage! Now it's up to Orel's Father to set things right.

Orel befriends a stray dog and Bloberta allows Orel to keep it. After a while, the two grow very attached and Orel becomes worried that he's loving his dog Bartholomew more than Jesus. Bartholomew quickly spreads enough love around Moralton that convinces the adults that he is a danger.

Coach Stopframe goes to a meeting of a Satanic cult, taking Orel with him. However, Coach Stopframe is turned off from the cult when he sees that everyone in the meeting is overweight, wandering around in the nude, and devouring junk food refreshments.

Orel solves problems using logic. After the money from collection at church is stolen, he sets out to find out who took the money, only to discover a bigger mystery involving his mother.

Miss Censordoll takes Orel under her wing.

Orel's friend, Tommy, is placed in the 'Special Retarded Education' program.

After listening to Reverand Putty's sermon, Orel realises that pleasure is not righteous and starts to avoid it. Soon after, he then finds pain to be an alternative.

A new family, the Posabule's, move in next door to the Puppingtons, and Orel becomes infactuated with their daughter, Christina. However, after a little altercation between the families, he is banned from seeing her.

Orel learns about the significance of religious symbolism. In an accident, Dr. Chosenberg gets an image of Jesus in a wound. Nobody from the town wants to treat it because they see it as a sign from Heaven.

After spending many nights alone, Reverend Putty sets his sights on Stephanie, but how will things work out between them?

Orel is chosen by Principal Fakey to represent Diorama Elementary in the Praying Bee competition. Stressing out and unable to pray, Orel finds himself turning to the Buddhist method of meditation.

After learning that Principal Fakey is doing something wrong, Orel goes to his father to find out about wrong-doing authority figures. There, he learns that repression is the antidote to everything.

After listening to a record by Presbo the Clown about turning the other cheek, Orel continually allows himself to be beaten up by Walt, the school bully.

During a Pious Scouts camping trip, Orel discovers man's missing link and then learns the meaning of Geniusis; the worded combination about the genius of the Bible's Genesis story.

Doughy becomes infatuated with Miss Sculptham when she is only using him to gain gifts. Meanwhile, Orel learns a valuable lesson about man and woman relationships.

Orel tries out for the lead role in the School Pageant, however he has some stiff competition.

Reverend Putty realises that there are no sinners left in Moralton, and begins to feel lost. Orel, wanting to help, imports a number of new lost souls from the neighbouring town for Reverend Putty to save.

Orel holds a premiere of his new stop-motion animated film in his back yard for a number of the leading authority figures of Moralton.

Clay takes his son, Orel, on a camping trip.

Clay and Orel continue their father and son hunting trip.

Bloberta searches for a solution to her humdrum life.

It's finally the last straw when Clay grounds Orel from church.

The town gets together and agrees not to give Orel any more advice.

While Orel is on the hunting trip, the lives of Ms. Sculptham, Ms. Censordoll and Nurse Bendy are shown in disturbing detail.

When Doughy becomes Orel's shooting coach, he discovers that his student has quite the "itchy trigger finger."

Discontent with being raised by his octogenarian Father and depressed, middle-aged half sister, Joe searches for a more vibrant guardian.

Bloberta ponders Orel's question: "Why did you marry Dad?"

Clay considers the tradition of passing Ol' Gunny down from generation to generation.

Stephanie is hell-bent on Orel having a better experience than her own at the school's annual "Arms Length Dance."

A year's worth of the most important weekday in Moralton is explored through the eyes of some very very minor characters.

It's Easter and the lack of happiness in Moralton leads several troubled souls to Forghetty's Pub for some unavailable solace.

Miss Censordoll slowly hatches a plan to make eggs legal again.

Orel needs to discover something to honor his father about and finds it in Coach Stopframe.