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The episode Alone is a series of vignettes that focuses on Nurse Bendy, Ms. Sculptham, and Ms. Censordoll. We get to see their internal lives. The facts of themselves they only reveal when no one is around. Out of all of these story lines the one I found the most tragic was Nurse Bendy's. In Moralton she is treated as a sex object. This is mostly impart to Principle Fakey who cheats on his wife with her. His guilt over this affair is the main result of their relationship and we rarely get to veiw Bendy's feelings on this. We assume from her apethetic demeanor that she enjoys their relationship for the sex but doesn't care for the emotional aspect. We assume her to be a well functioning, yet sexuality permissive person. Yet once we step into her room we immediately see that somethings wrong. The life she lives on her own is a poor imitation of what she desires. She just wants to be treated as a person with feelings and emotions but doesn't belive a human man has the capacity to see her as anything but a sexual object. So, she creates this fantasy world for her self where she can be happy. She can live out the life she wants but doesn't think she can attain. Until the scene where she is cleaning the carpet. This, to me, is the most heartbreaking scene in the show. Her artificial world crumbles before her as her teddy bear stand in for a husband falls on her. The one thing she could count on to not desire her for sex. Her perfect slice of paradise is ruined and she breaks down crying.

The third season of Moral Orel was quite excellent, in my opinion.

The slow transition from a wacky black comedy similar to South Park into a psychological drama eventually lead to some of the most memorable episodes of the series, such as this one.

"Alone" was pretty dark, but also very interesting to watch from beginning to end, being easily one of the most impressive moments of Adult Swin history.

Very few adult animated comedies would dare to take a similar approach, relying instead in status quo formulas and shock humor.

Too bad the series was cancelled before its time, apparently due the impression of this particular episode being "too bleak", leaving a couple of loose ends unsolved, but at least the series had a satisfying closure moment on its very last scene.