Mork & Mindy: Difference between revisions

* [[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:

'''Mindy''': As soon as we figure out how to spell [blown raspberry] }}

* [[Boxing Lesson]]

* [[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 hatch from eggs which come from the male's bellybutton<ref>Prior to that, they were artifically grown in laboratories using test tubes</ref>.

* [[Humorless Aliens]]: Mork has a hard time with the concept of humor.

* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Williams has joked that after he won the Oscar for ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'', it only took a few weeks for people on the street to begin calling him "Mork" again.

* [[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.

* [[Jeopardy Thinking Music]]

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:

* [[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.

* [[Merlin Sickness]]

* [[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..."

* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Slightly lampshaded when Mork is thinking of revealing himself as an alien in season 1:

'''Mork''': If only they knew what that meant... }}

** 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.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Orson is a pretty clear reference to [[Orson Welles]].

* [[Spin-Off]]: Of ''[[Happy Days]]''. Mork lampshades this on a later ''Days'' [[Clip Show]] in which he teaches Orson about Human relations.

'''Mork''': Quite true, your Immenseness! However I had to do a Spin On to pay back for my [[Spin-Off]]. }}

* [[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.