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This [[Fantastic Comedy]] series on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], spun off from an episode of ''[[Happy Days]]'', introduced the world to the comic genius of [[Robin Williams]].
Williams played Mork, a visitor from the planet Ork. After his egg-like space vessel landed near Boulder, Colorado, Mork bonded with a pretty Earth woman named Mindy McConnell (Pam Dawber). After they became romatically involved late in the series, Mork and Mindy married, and Mork promptly laid an egg out of which was born their son Mearth (Jonathan Winters).
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Every episode ended with Mork's report to Orson, the being who sent him to Earth, on Mork's latest lesson in Earth culture.
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* [[An Aesop]]: Although it's typically more for Mork than for the viewer, but it has known to be for the viewer sometimes.▼
* [[Alien Among Us]]: Since it is a spin-off, aliens are also presumably canon in ''Happy Days'', they just do not make an appearance. Which is just strange.
* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: Well, in Boulder. But that still isn't New York or Los Angeles.
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]
* [[All Just a Dream]]
* [[Amusing Alien]]: Mork, natch.
▲* [[An Aesop]]: Although it's typically more for Mork than for the viewer, but it has known to be for the viewer sometimes.
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary|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.
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: In which they gain a six-legged pink dog. [[The Eighties]] were a... special time
* [[Badass Cape]]: In the episode 'Watcher of Earth,' an alien named Xerko came to Earth and challenged Mork to a battle. Before the battle, he put on a Badass Cape... only to tear it off in an exaggerated twirl.
* [[Belly Buttonless]]: 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. [[Retcon|Other than all the times he'd shown his belly before that episode and we'd seen it.
* [[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.
* [[Blowing a Raspberry]]: This show had recurring a elder character from Mork's planet who's 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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'''Orson''': Mork! This is not your regular night to report back.
'''Mork''': Quite true, your Immenseness! However I had to do a Spin On to pay back for my [[Spin-Off]]. }}
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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 sit com home.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: [[Robin Williams]] launched into the stratosphere from here.
* [[Straight Man]]: Anyone not named Robin Williams. Or Robert Donner (Exidor).
* [[Talkative Loon
* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]
* [[The Voice]]: Orson
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: [[Robin Williams]] was only in his late-
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