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Mork & Mindy
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This 1978–82 Fantastic Comedy series on ABC, created by Garry Marshall and spun off from an episode of Happy Days, introduced the world (ar at least America) to the comic genius of Robin Williams.Williams played Mork, a visitor from the planet Ork sent to Earth to study and report on human behavior. After his egg-like space vessel landed near Boulder, Colorado, Mork moved in with the first human he encountered — a pretty young woman named Mindy McConnell (Pam Dawber) — and used her home as a base from which to observe humans and their strange ways.The supporting cast initially consisted of Mindy's straitlaced father Fred (Conrad Janis) and her free-spirited grandmother Cora (Elizabeth Kerr); later seasons added a small circle of friends, along with curmudgeonly downstairs neighbor Mr. Bickley (Tom Poston) and a self-styled prophet named Exidor (Robert Donner). In the show's fourth season, Mork and Mindy became romantically involved and got married, and Mork promptly laid an egg and their their fully grown son Mearth (Jonathan Winters) was born.Each episode concluded with Mork contacting Orson, his unseen Orkan supervisor, to share his most recent observations on Earth culture. | |
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Aliens Speaking English | |
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Aliens Speaking English: Inverted in the episode with Rick 'n' Ruby. When Mork is subbing for Ruby as lead singer of their band, he and the band sing "This Heart is Closed for Alterations." Mork sings the second verse in Orkan. | |
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Can't Believe I Said That | |
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Can't Believe I Said That: in "Mork Runs Down", Mindy's father. Justified in that he's using very goofy alien words. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: The Orkans are chicken-descended bipeds who age backwards, drink through their fingers, and whose males lay eggs; they also possess odd powers, allergies and reactions. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The second season premiere features Bizarro versions of comedians Bob Hope ("Bob Faith"), Danny Thomas ("Danny St. Thomas") and Jerry Lewis ("Jerry Looney"). | |
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Scenery Censor: On one occasion, Mork walked out of the shower naked to talk to a shocked Mindy, who had to explain human customs regarding nudity. The low cabinet that blocked his bathing-suit-area kept the audience from seeing that Robin Williams actually was naked. | |
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Timmy in a Well | |
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Timmy in a Well: Referenced in "Mork Runs Down". Mork, severely ill, has to use non-verbal communication with the McConnalls. | |
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Man Bites Man | |
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Man Bites Man: Played for Laughs in "Mork's Health Tips", when Mork bites a nurse who is trying to recapture Mindy. According to Mork, the nurse returned the favor. | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: Orson is never seen, but he is heard. Sometimes, in scenes that take place on Ork, his shadow can be seen, but he is never personally seen. | |
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Cousin Oliver | |
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Cousin Oliver: The rare middle-aged variation in Jonathan Winters. | |
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Group-Identifying Feature | |
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Group-Identifying Feature: "Putting the 'Ork' Back in Mork" reveals that Orkans who have been stripped of their property as punishment (known as "fallen Orkans") are painted purple to distinguish them from law-abiding Orkans. | |
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Subverted Catch-Phrase | |
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Subverted Catchphrase: In "Putting the Ork Back in Mork", Mork has forgotten what he's meant to say when he gets hurt. It's meant to be "Shazbot!", but he instead says two Non Sequiturs: "I do not know any Libyans and I have not yet cashed the cheques" and "Let's move Laverne & Shirley to Thursday night, okay?". | |
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Drunk on Milk | |
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Drunk on Milk: Mork does not react well with either carbonation or ginger. | |
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Merlin Sickness | |
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Merlin Sickness: Orkans age backwards, starting out at middle-aged or older and ending as infants. The Elder Orkan looks like a ten year old human while Mearth hatches in the form of Jonathan Winters (56 years old at the time). | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: "A Morkville Horror" (Season 2) has Mindy's childhood home getting put up for sale, leading to her and Mork discovering the ghosts of its original occupants residing there and Mork channeling the spirit of Mindy's mother. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Mork has and switches between only two everyday outfits — a rainbow-colored long-sleeved shirt and khakis, and a green-and-orange striped long-sleeve and dark blue pants — along with his iconic rainbow suspenders adorned with assorted space-themed pins, multicolored vest and light gray high-top sneakers in every episode. He also wears the same formal suit and bowtie for the appropriate occasions, and his Orkan uniform for his weekly reports to Orson or his visits with Mindy (and later Mearth) back to his home planet. | |
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Vocal Evolution | |
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Vocal Evolution: Mork's fast, nasal "spaceman" voice gradually disappeared as the show progressed, as he grew more accustomed to Planet Earth. The nasal voice makes a reappearance in season four when Orson wipes Mork's memories of his time on Earth. | |
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Color Me Black | |
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Color Me Black: Mork uses his Orkan powers to turn a bunch of racists into Latino, Black and Asian, among more exotic changes. They were expies of the KKK, so they didn't know it until they took their white hoods off. | |
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Split Personality | |
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Split Personality / Starfish Character: In an early episode, Mork attempts to turn himself into The Spock but it backfires, releasing all his emotions as separate personalities instead. | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs: Mork once explains that carbonated drinks make him "Ork Shit-faced". Mork claims, "I wouldn't harm a harf hair on your cholly-cho-cho chinny-chin-chin." "How do you like them iggles apples?" | |
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OnceAnEpisode | |
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Once an Episode: Every episode ended with Mork broadcasting his experiences to Orson, saying, "Mork calling Orson; come in, Orson. Mork calling Orson...come in, Orson..." | |
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Instrumental Theme Tune | |
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Instrumental Theme Tune: Which got a reworked arrangement in each of the show's seasons. | |
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Foreign Cuss Word: Shazbot! | |
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Mister Seahorse | |
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Mister Seahorse: Orkan males lay eggs.note Or at least Mork does. It was previously mentioned that Orkans are artificially created in test tubes. | |
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New Baby Episode | |
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New Baby Episode: In an episode, Mork lays an egg, which hatches into a baby that looks like an old man. They name him Mearth, based on their own first initial and "Earth", and Mindy has trouble getting used to him, especially when he learns to talk and calls her "Shoe" or "Daddy" instead of "Mommy". | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: People who see Mork's original appearance on Happy Days after watching this series are likely to be shocked at what a Jerkass he originally was. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: Well, maybe not broken. Dinged a little. In an episode about how racism is bad, they really should have resisted the urge to use the stereotypical "Asian music" sting when one of the women takes off her hood and is revealed as Chinese. | |
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"Pan from the Sky" Beginning | |
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"Pan from the Sky" Beginning: Every episode begins with a shot of outer space with Mork's egg-shaped spaceship zooming through the sky, then it pans down to Earth. | |
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Standardized Sitcom Housing: Mostly averted: Mindy's upper-floor apartment in an old Victorian house had few of the usual features of a typical sitcom home. | |
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File Mixup | |
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File Mixup: In "Mork's Health Tips", Mork rescues Mindy when a hospital mistakenly schedules her for brain surgery after confusing her with a Mavis McDonald. | |
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I Want My Mommy! | |
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I Want My Mommy!: Mindy's mother died of cancer when she was 7 years old. Years later, her father, Fred, re-enters the dating scene, setting up the events of the episode "A Mommy For Mindy," where he announces his engagement to a much younger woman. This brings back Mindy's deep-seated grief and one night triggers a nightmare, back to the day where she was told her mother "had gone to heaven." A shocked Mindy cries out "I want my Mommy!" before the adult Mindy wakes up crying, realizes Mork had overheard her screaming out for her mother, and breaks down in deep sobs. | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: The trope namer. As Robin Williams himself says in the documentary Pioneers of Television: Robin Williams Remembered, he would try to sneak all manner of things past the censors, frequently hiding dirty foreign jokes within Mork's gibberish alien languagenote To his disappointment, ABC eventually put a stop to this by specifically hiring censors fluent in the languages they knew he used. | |
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Trash the Set | |
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Trash the Set: "Gotta Run: Part 1" ends with the living room of the apartment getting blown up. | |
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No Navel, Novel Birth | |
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No Navel, Novel Birth: After Mork and Mindy get married and have sex for the first time, Mork proves he had laid an egg by showing his navel — since he's an Orkan he doesn't have one from the natural gestation process. Other than all the times he'd shown his belly before that episode and we'd seen it. | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: Mork and Mindy for the first couple of years. | |
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Wearing It All Wrong | |
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Wearing It All Wrong: Amusing Alien Mork wears his watch on his ankle, and thinks it's weird that earthlings wear watches on their wrists. It may have something to do with the fact that Orkans evolved from birds, who'd want their arms free to fly with. | |
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Karmic Transformation | |
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Mork gave a Karmic Transformation to a group of racists who were terrorizing Mindy because she had some Polish heritage. | |
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It's a Wonderful Plot | |
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It's a Wonderful Plot: "It's a Wonderful Mork" | |
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Blowing a Raspberry | |
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Blowing a Raspberry: This show had recurring a elder character from Mork's planet whose name was pronounced by blowing a raspberry. This leads to the wonderful parting line from Mork and Mindy at the end of his first appearance as he turns to leave: | |
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Citizenship Marriage | |
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Citizenship Marriage: Due to a series of misunderstandings Mork is believed to be an immigrant to the United States and is told that unless he produces a passport or birth certificate he'll be deported. Mindy offers to marry him so he can stay but Mork refuses to let her "waste" the experience of getting married. In the end they decide to have Exidor adopt Mork which also gives him citizenship. | |
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Humorless Aliens | |
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Humorless Aliens: Mork has a hard time with the concept of humor. | |
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Fantastic Anthropologist | |
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Fantastic Anthropologist: Mork's job is essentially to observe humans in their natural habitat. | |
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Human Outside, Alien Inside | |
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Human Outside, Alien Inside: Orkans can drink with their finger (and use various Psychic Powers focused through their index fingers), have three hearts, physically age backwards, and are hatched from eggs which come from the male's bellybuttonnote Prior to that, they were artificially grown in laboratories using test tubes. | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
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Knight of Cerebus: Kalniknote played by a pre-Murphy Brown Joe Regalbuto from the three-part "Gotta Run" finale. While some of his dialogue is Played for Laughs, he's still an evil Venusian who seeks to Take Over the World, blows up Mork and Mindy's apartment, and tries to kill them, even having a group of men with guns to help in that respect. | |
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Mistaken for Insane | |
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Mistaken for Insane: In the pilot, Mork, an Amusing Alien, is mistaken for a deranged human and has to take tests to prove he isn't insane. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: "Mork's First Christmas" (Season 1). Mindy has to explain to Mork the meaning of the holiday. | |
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String-on-Finger Reminder | |
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String-on-Finger Reminder: In the episode "Mork Runs Down", Mork ties a string around his neck and says that it's his species' way of remembering things. Mindy says that humans tie it around their fingers. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Mindy's Dad and Grandma in the second season, in favor of a bunch of new characters who later got written out at the end of season 3. | |
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Redemption Demotion | |
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Redemption Demotion: When he was a villainous character on Happy Days, Mork was so powerful that only the equally god-like powers of the Fonz could even fight him to a draw. On his own show, as a hero, he's much less powerful, or at least more hesitant to use his powers. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Averted thoroughly when Mork meets Robin Williams. Played straight in other ways, however — the show takes place in the same universe as Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley (albeit 20 years later from the events of those shows); however, in one episode Mork mentions Laverne & Shirley as a TV show, and in another episode, Mindy is singing the Laverne & Shirley theme. One episode sees Mork wishing he could meet Anson Williams. Y'know, the guy who played Potsie on that show Happy Days? | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: Mr. Bickley is a rare male example. He acts harsh, but every time someone shows him kindness, he becomes adorable. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: How Williams got this character back on Happy Days. He went to the audition for a "alien character". When he was called to the auditioning, they found him sitting upside-down (like Mork in the show) and that was pretty much enough to give him the role. | |
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Left Hanging | |
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Left Hanging: The final episode of the series has the titular duo lost in time and space being chased by a vengeance-crazed Venusian with no resolution in sight. | |
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Straight Man | |
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Straight Man: Anyone not named Robin Williams. Or Robert Donner (Exidor). Or Jonathan Winters. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: Between the title characters. | |
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An Alien Named "Bob" | |
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An Alien Named "Bob": While most Orkans have unusual names, one of them is named Orson. | |
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Creepy Crossdresser | |
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Creepy Crossdresser: Mork's appearance as an NFL cheerleader, baring his midriff. Well, unless you like that sort of thing. | |
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World of Snark | |
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World of Snark: Robin Williams was NOT the only person who could give a good one-liner. | |
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Badass Cape | |
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Badass Cape: In the episode "Watcher of Earth", an alien named Xerko comes to Earth and challenges Mork to a battle. Before the battle, he puts on a Badass Cape... only to tear it off in an exaggerated twirl. | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Depending on how you look at it, some of the reports to Orson can be seen as this, although it's a subversion in that it's not addressed to the viewer directly. | |
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Profound by Pop Song | |
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Profound by Pop Song: While impersonating a priest, Mork gives advice to a congregant. | |
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The Killjoy | |
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The Killjoy: Mr. Berkley takes every opportunity he can to spoil the titular duo's time, although this stems from feeling left out rather than general dickishness (bit of a chicken-vs-egg situation. Does he have a prickly personality from being excluded or is he excluded because of his poor attitude?). | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
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The Bus Came Back: Conrad Janis as Mindy's Dad, Fred returned in Season 3. | |
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Idiosyncratic Cultural Gesture | |
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Idiosyncratic Cultural Gesture: Mork is from the planet Ork. He and his fellow Orkans shake hands by extending their hands with their pointer and middle fingers together and their ring and pinky fingers together with a space between the two sets for interlocking (so to speak) with the other person's hand. They also "sit" by bending over and putting their heads upside down on seats. | |
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Pardon My Klingon | |
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Pardon My Klingon: Slightly lampshaded when Mork is thinking of revealing himself as an alien in season 1: Mindy once mentioned Robin Williams was in town for a show (!). Mork cracks up at the name, and whispers to Mindy what "robin" means on his world. Apparently it's disgusting. In the episode with Rick and Ruby, Mork sang an entire verse of "This Heart Is Closed for Alterations" in Orkan. | |
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Sleep Cute | |
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Sleep Cute: In the episode "Sky Flakes Keep Falling On My Head", Mork and Mindy fall asleep huddled together in Exidor's literally falling-apart summer home to keep warm from the snow. Unfortunately, because they fell asleep, their fire went out... | |
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Drop-In Landlord | |
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Drop-In Landlord: Mindy's landlord, Mr Wanker, who tends to be present when Mork is doing something stranger than usual. | |
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Alien Catnip | |
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Mork once explains that carbonated drinks make him "Ork Shit-faced". | |
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"We're Live" Realization | |
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"We're Live" Realization: Mindy, who's having a quarrel with Mork, talks with the relationship guru at the TV station where she works during a commercial. The two talk it out. Then the woman quietly realizes that they went live some time ago. The alarm buzzes, and Mindy resignedly tells her boss that she'll be there in a minute. | |
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Studio Audience | |
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Studio Audience: Williams caused a joyous cacophony from the audience whenever he first appeared in an episode and left them rolling in the aisles with his comedic talent. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Quite a bit; one minute, you'll have Robin Williams doing funny shtick, the next, there's some big emotional moment. The end of "Mork Meets Robin Williams" is one example, as Mork talks about famous people who died as a consequence of their fame. | |
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Physical God | |
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Physical God: Mork possesses super strength and telekinesis as well as mind-control powers, can freeze time, can control earthly elements (like wind) to some extent, and is capable of raising people from the dead (but he can only do that once). | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
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Animated Adaptation: In which they gain a six-legged pink dog. The '80s were a special time... | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
| Mork & Mindy / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Mork gave a Karmic Transformation to a group of racists who were terrorizing Mindy because she had some Polish heritage. Some jerks make fun of Mork's son Mearth, and suddenly the joking, light-hearted alien is scary serious. A sobering reminder that Mork is indeed not from around here. | |
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Funny Schizophrenia | |
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Funny Schizophrenia: Exidor had a habit of talking to imaginary cult members, seeing closets as oceans and other bizarre behavior. All Played for Laughs. | |
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The Dinnermobile | |
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The Dinnermobile: The Orkans travel the galaxy in spaceships resembling eggs. Justified in-universe as the Orkans worship eggs as part of their religion, because they are descended from birds. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "Nanu nanu", "shazbot" and other "alien" words used by Mork. Exidor would usually say "Mork, is that you?" before meeting with him. | |
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Alien Among Us | |
| Mork & Mindy / int_b13bb418 | comment |
Alien Among Us: And since it's a spinoff of Happy Days, aliens are also presumably canon in that show's universe but just never make an appearance outside the one time. Which is just strange. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: Mork's appearance in Happy Days was said to have been All Just a Dream in that episode. But as Mork explains to the Fonz... Oddly enough All Just a Dream was a hurdle that another Happy Days spinoff (the long-forgotten Out of the Blue, which featured an angel as its protagonist) had to overcome as well. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Spoof Aesop: In "Mork and the Bum Rap," Mindy asks the bum, Godfried, why he doesn't take on responsibility. Godfried reminisces about getting married, raising a couple of kids and then sending them through college. He said he did that, that's why he's a bum! | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: Mork, Mindy, and later on, Mearth. | |
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Baffled by Own Biology | |
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Baffled by Own Biology: In "Mork Gets Mindy-itis", Mork thinks he's allergic to Mindy due to sneezing when she gets near, but it turns out that the sneezing was a weird nervous tic due to his One-Episode Fear of people getting too near him. | |
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Incredible Shrinking Man | |
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Incredible Shrinking Man: The second-season premiere, "Mork in Wonderland", has Mork shrinking into a micro universe after he takes a cold pill. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Not much really makes Mork angry, but hurting Mindy in front of him is a good way to do it. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The episode where Mork meets Robin Williams. Really. | |
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Crazy Homeless People | |
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Crazy Homeless People: Exidor does not seem to have any grip on reality, but lives in his own flexible reality. | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands: Mork's powers and their limits are never really defined, so he can do anything the plot requires: in one episode, he explains that he has the power to bring a person back from the dead, but he can only do it for one person (unfortunately, he wasted it on an old man everyone hated). | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: During a conversation with Mr. Bickley about his marital status. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Susan Taylor from season 1. Remo, Jeannie and Nelson disappear after the third season finale and are never mentioned again. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: Conrad Janis (season one) Tom Poston as Mr. Bickley (seasons two & three, even after Janus returned in the latter) | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Orson is a pretty clear reference to Orson Welles. When Mindy's Dad finally gives his blessing for Mork to get married to Mindy, he says, "I'll be your Son in Law and you can call me 'Meathead'". One of the presents that Mork gets for his first Christmas is the (then brand-new) remote controlled R2D2. | |
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Innocence Lost | |
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Innocence Lost: Subverted. Mork is talked into freeing an escaped criminal who claims that he just needs to visit his sick mother and will return to turn himself back in afterward. Sure enough, Mork is arrested for freeing him and Mindy tells him that it is obvious that the crook took advantage of him and won't be back. In a genuinely moving moment, Mork tearfully agrees that he can't trust anyone again, until the crook suddenly returns as promised to turn himself in and get Mork released. With that, Mork's innocence is restored with his naive belief in the goodness of humanity vindicated. | |
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Informed Ability | |
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Informed Ability : Mindy teaches music lessons, but is never shown playing any instruments. | |
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Every Episode Ending | |
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Every Episode Ending: "Mork calling Orson. Come in, Orson..." "Come in, laser breath!": Although not in the earlier episodes, and even then, it was initially only done on occasion. | |
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum | |
| Mork & Mindy / int_d45ad2f5 | comment |
Imported Alien Phlebotinum: The occasional piece of Orkan technology, such as the hand-held device that temporarily aged Mork so that he could provide Mindy's grandmother with a date. | |
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Lightbulb Joke | |
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Lightbulb Joke: How many Martians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 8.7 Arh! Arh! | |
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Amusing Alien | |
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Amusing Alien: Mork, natch. Would you expect an alien played by Robin Williams to be anything but funny? | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spin-Off: Of Happy Days. Mork lampshades this during an appearance in a later Happy Days Clip Show, in which he tells Orson about the insights into human relations he's gained from Richie and Fonzie. | |
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Blind Shoulder Toss | |
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Blind Shoulder Toss: In "Mork's First Christmas," when Eugene brings a rope-wrapped tree over, Mork comments, "A tree in bondage? Eugene, you are weird!" Eugene, exasperated, tosses his gloves behind him as he goes for a cookie. | |
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Functional Magic | |
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Functional Magic: Much of what Mork could do. | |
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Plot Allergy | |
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Plot Allergy: Subverted. In "Mork Gets Mindy-itis", Mork thinks he's become allergic to Mindy since he starts sneezing when she's nearby, but it turns out that he's just afraid of being near people in general (since he's an alien and his species apparently sneezes when they're afraid). | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: Robin Williams was only in his late 20s when the show was being made. He looked more like he was in his mid-40s, at least. (He had a well-publicized addiction to cocaine at the time, which may have contributed to his prematurely aged look.) Pam Dawber, who was also in her 20s, looked a little more age appropriate but definitely sounded older than she really was. Although it's also a weird case of Dawson Casting, as in the second episode of Season 1, Mindy states that she is 21 years old. Dawber was 27 when the series started. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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Oddly enough All Just a Dream was a hurdle that another Happy Days spinoff (the long-forgotten Out of the Blue, which featured an angel as its protagonist) had to overcome as well. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: The first episode featured a flashback to Mork getting dating help from Fonzie. Said date turns out to be Laverne. Mork appeared in an episode of another Happy Days spinoff, Out of the Blue. | |
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Human Aliens | |
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Human Aliens: The Orkans. | |
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No Sense of Humor | |
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No Sense of Humor: In early episodes, Mork identifies people making In-Universe jokes by saying "Oh, humor - Ar-Ar!" And almost as often he does that when people aren't joking. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Mork teasing Orson about his girth in his debriefings. | |
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Code Emergency | |
| Mork & Mindy / int_fb25bc5f | comment |
Code Emergency: In "Mork's Health Tips", Mork goes to a hospital administrator when Mindy goes missing. The man picks up the phone and tells the lady on the other end, "the eagle has landed", which, given the context, clearly stands for some kind of situation. She groans, "Again?" | |
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Name and Name | |
| Mork & Mindy / int_fba75cf2 | comment |
Name and Name: Mork and Mindy | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Mork may be a childlike jokester, but he is still an alien with limited telekinetic abilities, and can be a dangerous opponent when angered, as seen in "The Night They Raided Mind-ski's". | |
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