Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 [repeated line]
Mork: Nanu-Nanu! [repeated line]
Mork: Shazbut
Mork: K.O.
Mork: [Mork`s emotions are out of control. His solution is to introduce them to Mindy`s emotions] OK guys, come on over here
[mimes football huddle]
Mork: Right!
[leaps back over to Mindy]
Mindy McConnell: Well?
Mork: I`ve got mixed emotions.
[alarm for Mork`s wristwatch which he wears round his ankle goes off]
Mindy McConnell: Ah, your foot`s ringing. I`ll get it.
[bends down and pushes button on watch, pulls out small piece of paper under watch strap]
Mindy McConnell: What`s this piece of paper?
Mork: Must be a footnote.
Customer: [Mork has taken a job working in a health food shop] My doctor says I need to get more iron in my diet, now what do you suggest?
Mork: Eat your car keys.
Eugene: [Seeing Holly for the first time] She sure is a doll.
Mork: An android maybe, but not a doll.
Eugene: No, that`s not what I meant. A cute chick, a fox. Real hot stuff.
Mork: Ohh, a fox.
[makes noise like barking hound]
Holly: [Mork places his hand on Holly`s forehead] Why are you doing that?
Mork: Well, Eugene said you were hot stuff, you`re actually only 98.4.
Mork: If Holly liked him so much, how come she punched him and told him he was weird.
Mindy McConnell: Boys and girls often punch or push or hit each other as a sign of affection.
Mork: Punching and pushing and calling someone names means you like them?
Mindy McConnell: Yeah, it can.
Mork: Then the cowboys and Indians are lovers?
Mork: [Eugene has just said that he needs to tell him something important] Well, come on, I`m waiting here with a worm on my tongue.
Eugene: Huh?
Mork: Baited breath.
Politician: You know I`d like to thank you for the time and trouble in bringing this to my attention. Before you go, I would like to present you with one of my souvenir pens.
Mork: Look, if I wanted a pen and coffee I`d have mugged a waitress. You know what, I don`t need any more pens. Look at this.
[Mork pulls a handful of pens out of his jacket pocket]
Mork: And look at that, it`s a Ronald Reagan pen, it`s got no point
Mindy McConnell: Mork, why are you building a tower of Cheerios?
Mork: Because it`s hard to stack oatmeal.
Mindy McConnell: [Mork and Mindy are trapped in a giant birdcage facing certain death] Mork, I have something to confess to you. When you were out one day, I...I...I put on your spacesuit.
Mork: [shocked] The helmet, too?
Mindy McConnell: Boots and all!
Mork: [after Mork has had a chance to absorb this revelation] Well, Mindy, I have something to confess to you.
[Mindy grows more and more shocked as she connects the dots]
Mindy McConnell: [Mork has proposed, and after chatting with Fred and Cora, she decides to not marry Mork] I guess what I`m really trying to say is... I can`t marry you
Mork: Mind`, That`s a joke right, like the volunteer army? Ha ha ha… R R R!... R R Rrrr.
Miss Geezba: Stand up straight, Mork.
Mork: Ma`am.
Miss Geezba: And don`t forget that book report.
Mork: Yeah.. yes, ma`am. I`m doing it on the wit and wisdom of Richard Nixon. It`ll be a one-page essay.
Exidor: [Exidor is trying to get Mork`s memory back] All right, Mork, put your hands in front of your face, and repeat after me. "Oh, no, please don`t."
Mork: Oh, no, please don`t... oh...
Exidor: [Exidor takes a poster off Mindy`s wall and smashes it over Mork`s head] Too late.
Cora Hudson: That man is an absolute raving lunatic.
Exidor: Madam, you flatter me.
Mork: [excited] Wait a minute, I`ve got to show you something. I`ve already picked out my bumper sticker.
[runs into bedroom and returns with a whole car bumper]
Todd Norman Taylor aka TNT: [reading the sticker] "Aliens make better lovers".
Mork: And look at this one here. "Horn if you`re a honky".
Mearth: [seeing that the apartment has been filled with expensive toys] Mammy, the tooth fairy *has* been keeping up with inflation.
Mindy McConnell: [sarcastic] Gee, I wonder who could be behind all this.
Mork: [Mork jumps out of a huge box in the middle of the room] Surprise!
Mindy McConnell: No, not really.
Mork: [referring to the Exidor Boutique, in which Mork invested all of their savings] Come on, Mind, Exidor *knows* what he`s doing.
Exidor: [storming out of the dressing room, talking to his imaginary friend] What do you mean the mannequins want a coffee break? They just had one ten minutes ago and all they did was dribble.
Exidor: [to Mork] Partner. Glad to see you brought the little woman.
Mindy McConnell: We want our money back now, and don`t call me the little woman.
Mork: What she`s trying to say is, Exidor, we`ve had a change of heart, you know like when Annie Richards wanted to change dressing rooms.
Exidor: I`ve only been open two hours. Even Evita didn`t pay off its backers that fast.
Mindy McConnell: We want our money back.
Exidor: Look, business is a little slow but we`re gonna have our two-for-one sale. Buy two, get one. Who could resist that?
Mindy McConnell: That is the most ridiculous thing I`ve ever heard.
Exidor: Listen, Perky, are you insinuating I`m some kind of crack-pot? Well, that`s what they said about David Rockefeller.
Mindy McConnell: Nobody ever said that about David Rockefeller.
Exidor: *I* did...
[suddenly looks the other way]
Exidor: Pepe, pepe. You call yourself a tailor? Just lengthen the sleeve don`t clip his nails
[Exidor storms off with "Pepe"]
Louise Bailey: [in a jail cell with Mindy] Funny the way things happen. I`m in here because of a silly old parking meter.
Mindy McConnell: You`re kidding!
Louise Bailey: No, I went into a hardware store and when I came out, *there* was a policeman writing me a ticket.
Mindy McConnell: I don`t believe it, they threw you in jail for a parking ticket.
Louise Bailey: Well, in a roundabout way. You see when I put the shovel in the trunk, Walter`s arm fell out.
Mindy McConnell: Who`s Walter?
Louise Bailey: My husband.
Mindy McConnell: What was he doing in the trunk?
Louise Bailey: Not much... he was dead. I warned him about his snoring for years but he just wouldn`t believe me. So last night I took a pair of my very best pantyhose, and I wrapped them around his neck... real tight. You know it was the first good night`s sleep I`ve had in 31 years.
Mindy McConnell: [Mindy gets up and walks across to the other side of the cell] Well, you look well rested.
Louise Bailey: You don`t snore, do you, dear?
Franklin Delano Bickley: That`s diddly, he`s just going out of town, I`m going out of business. I used to be the best greeting card writer around. I can`t work any more.
Mindy McConnell: Oh, come on, we don`t make that much noise.
Franklin Delano Bickley: I know, I was blaming it on you but it`s time i faced it. I`ve lost it.
Mork: We could form a posse and find it if you want.
Franklin Delano Bickley: No, it`s no use. They say your sympathy is the first thing to go. I used to be able to get tears out of a coat rack. Not any more.
[pulls a card from his pocket]
Franklin Delano Bickley: Listen to this. "Your pet rabbit died. Poor little muffet. Your two choices are, eat it or stuff it".
Mork: Aww, that`s sad.
Mork: Exidor!
Exidor: [looks away from Mork] Mork! Is that you?
Trivia
Mindy`s middle name is Beth.
Many of the gags seen on the show were on-the-spot improvisations by Robin Williams, and later by Williams and Jonathan Winters. If you pay attention to Pam Dawber, you can often see her having difficulty not laughing at the ad libs.
When Conrad Janis and Elizabeth Kerr temporarily left the show, their absences were explained by having Fred fulfilling his dream of becoming a conductor and going on the road and Cora joining him there.
Orkans evolved from chickens.
Mork and Mindy`s downstairs neighbor, Mr. Bickley, wrote greeting cards for a living.
As of 2004 Mork and Mindy`s house is the most popular landmark in Boulder, Colorado.
The house used for the exterior shots of Mindy`s home is at 1619 Pine St near downtown Boulder. Mindy`s father`s music store was actually a bookstore on Boulder`s Pearl Street Mall.
Producer Garry Marshall said he came up with the basic concept of the show during a phone call with an ABC executive. He said he set the show in the college town of Boulder because he had a friend with a child attending Colorado University.
Jonathan Winters` first appearance on the show was as Dave McConnell (one of Mindy`s relatives) in "Mork and the Family Reunion". Winters went on to join the cast full-time as Mearth in the following season.
Mork`s furry alien pet, Bebo, was credited as himself.
During casting, when asked to take a seat, Robin Willams sat in the chair upside down. Producer Gary Marshal selected him because "He was the only alien to audition."
Pam Dawber did not attend her audition for the part of Mindy McConnell in person. She made an audition videotape of her performance as Mindy, spliced together with scenes from `Robin Williams`` earlier appearance as Mork on "Happy Days" (1974). In the audition tape, Dawber simply reacted to everything that Williams said in his "Happy Days" appearance. She got the part because the producers felt she was the perfect "straight-person" for Williams` wacky alien.
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Robin Williams
(as Mork)
with Pam Dawber
(as Mindy McConnell)
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