Did it ever occur to you whilst re-watching all the Mork and Mindy episodes on YouTube or on DVD that some of the story lines and ideas bared an uncanny resemblance to, as well as correlation to some of Robin Williams subsequent feature movies?
I did, and some of the story lines and ideas I have discovered make for interesting reading.
I have listed the episodes with the synopsis below, along with an example of a scene and role he played from a movie, which best illustrates how similar each of them are.
**last updated 19th December 2016**
- Mork and the Bum Rap
Although Mork doesn't understand the concept of charity, he is determined to help Mindy raise money for the children's hospital. he tries his morkathon performance to no avail and ends up dressing as a bum to collect money.
>> The Fisher King - Robin Williams plays a homeless bum named Perry
*photo credit: ABC Photo Archives
- Mork in Never Never Land
Mork discovers that his pen-pal is living in an asylum and believes he is Peter Pan
>> Hook - Robin Williams plays Peter Banning/Peter Pan in Hook in 1991, 11 years later
- Mork and the Immigrant
Mork thinks Russian immigrant Sergei is an alien like him and tries to help welcome him
>> Robin plays a Russian musician who emigrates to the US in the movie, Moscow on the Hudson
- Clerical Error
>> Robin plays a priest in Licence to Wed
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
>> Death to Smoochy - Robin plays a foul- mouthed children's variety show TV presenter, Randolph Smiley
- The Mork syndrome
>> Robin plays radio disc jockey Adrian Cronauer in war dramedy Good Morning Vietnam
- Three The Hard Way
Mork gives birth to an egg via his navel. Mindy has trouble accepting that in the egg is their child.
>> Robin plays depressed goofball, Dale in 'Father's Day' who is on a mission to find out if he fathered a son named Scott, after being involved in a relationship with a woman, 17 years ago.
Egg grows and hatches into a full grown, elderly man who acts like a child
>> Jack - Robin plays Jack, a boy who ages 4 X the rate of a normal child
- A Mommy For Morky
Mork wonders what it will be like to have had a mother. Uses his orkan age machine to regress himself to 3 years of age.
>> Jack - see above
- Dr Morkenstein
Working as a security guard in a science museum, Mork befriends a robot named Chuck, who later dies
>> Bicentennial Man - Robin plays a robot
>> Flubber - in Flubber, there is a robot named Weebo who befriends Professor Phillip Brainard and assists him. Weebo later on dies
- Hold that Mork
Mork becomes a cheerleader for the Denver Broncos football side
>> Robin Williams plays football player, Jack in The Best of Times
- Mork's Health Hints
Mindy goes to the hospital for a Tonsillectomy. But due to a typographical error, she is mistaken for another patient. Fortunately, Mork is up to the job & disguises himself as a surgeon
>> Robin Williams plays surgeon Dr Kosevich in Nine Months (1995)
- Old Fears
Mork ages himself up to cheer up Cora
>> Mrs Doubtfire - Daniel disguises himself as an elderly Scottish housekeeper
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