Moral Orel (2005)

Dino Stamatopoulos's stop-motion sitcom about Orel, a devout boy in the town of Moralton whose literal readings of every sermon go terribly wrong. It starts as a sharp satire of wholesome religious kids' TV. Then it changes. By the third season it has turned into a bleak psychological drama about the adults around him, so go in knowing the laughs thin out on purpose. It ran from 2005 to 2008 for 43 episodes of 11 to 12 minutes, plus a 2012 special. Baffling level: low at first, emotionally disorienting by the end.