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Mork in Love: Directed by Harvey Medlinsky. With Robin Williams, Pam Dawber, Elizabeth Kerr, Conrad Janis. Mork falls in love with a music store mannequin; Fred plans to buy a luxury car to take to his class reunion.
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- Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
- Harvey Medlinsky
- 1978-10-05
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Mork in Love is the fifth episode of Season 1 of Mork and Mindy, also the fifth overall series episode. Co-written by Lloyd Turner and Gordon Mitchell, the episode, which was directed by Harvey Medlinsky, first aired on ABC-TV on October 5, 1978.
Answering Mork's curiosity about love, Mindy tells him he won't ever really know what it is to be human unless he experiences it for himself. With typical haste Mork goes straight out and does just that, his choice of lady love weird even by his standards. Meanwhile as Mindy struggles with her return to college plans, Fred intends to arrive at his ...
In Mindy's apartment, with Mork out, heading out of her bedroom Mindy finds his spacesuit hanging from one of her plants. Trying to put it away however, proves somewhat problematic, as, rather disconcertingly it keeps making noises and quivering whenever she approaches it. When Mork returns she watches in wonder as he and the suit appear to have a conversation. He explains that the suit is actually a living organism made up of billions of tiny cells. After he tells her his observation of rush hour traffic didn't go so well, and that he went to a movie called 'Here Comes The Fleet' instead. When she proclaims she's both seen and loves that movie, he has a few questions for her. Then queries her about the motivations' of characters 'Biff & Margie' who had a huge fight when they first met and yet ended up going on a date in the next scene. That, she says, is because they were falling in love. Which leads to Mork's next casual line of enquiry. What is love? Having heard of it as an emotion but that is all. Mindy informs him that if he wants to be an Earthling he will just have to experience love. As he considers this, he makes a connection and following her asks her if love leaves to mating? Knowing she is on dangerous ground, she replies honestly that it does, then finds the ground pulled right from under her when he announces he's been wanting to try that and when can they start? She is further flustered when Mork tells her he wants to send a report on the mating back to Orson, complete with slides and video, but is rescued from the situation when Mork's suit starts kvetching in the Armoire.
Outside the Music Store, Fred is trying to make his way past a group of Hare Krishna dancing and chanting outside, while inside Cora is dusting down the new window display, a female mannequin with a harp. Cora is not particularly impressed at the display which is attracting nothing but dust and flies as far as she is concerned. But Fred is in too good a mood to be brought down. After years of scrimping and saving he has managed to get 2,300 dollars enough to be able to buy his dream car, a brand new Cadillac, and just in time to take it to his High School Reunion. Cora is perplexed he's even going, as she thought he hated high school, but Fred corrects her, saying it wasn't high school he hated, but Forest Collins, a big bully who made his life a misery in High School, and told him he wouldn't amount to anything, something her daughter, Elizabeth, Fred's late wife and Mindy's mother, had never told Cora. That, Fred says, was because he never told Elizabeth, but that's all behind him because he's going to that reunion in his new car, and his mood cannot be spoiled. That is until Mork arrives looking for Mindy. Cora tells him she's out on an errand but should be back soon. So he takes the opportunity to ask Cora about Love, and how you know you've met the person you will fall in love with. Cora promises him that he'll know when he's met the right one, though she confuses matters somewhat for him, when he asks her did she know the moment she met Mr Hudson her late husband, telling him yes, it took fifteen years for them to know it was love at first sight.
Back at the apartment Mindy is anxiously going through her mail, looking for, finding and being disappointed by a response she's received. Her downbeat mood is immediately apparent to Mork, who, when she says she's disappointed in the mail, misunderstands and riffs on how females are universally disappointed by males. After explaining it's the other 'mail' she tells him that she never finished college because she didn't know what she wanted to do, but now she knows that she wants to go back and get her degree in journalism and she'd applied for a scholarship....as she's telling him this though, Mork has started to flutter back and forth excitedly between the couch and the door till she gives up and asks him what he's doing. To which he tells her, making a fool out of himself, which he says he understands is common given the circumstances. When she asks him what he means he tells her that he took her advice and went out and 'fell in love.
Mindy is understandably exceptionally dubious, despite Mork's hyper reaction, telling him he can't be madly in love with someone he's just met, that love takes time! But Mork says she wont' say that once she's met Dolly and tells her she's out in the hallway. Mindy tells him to bring her in, that he shouldn't have left her out there alone, but understands immediately why Dolly's not upset when he opens the door to Fred's shop window mannequin.
A little later Mindy watches in mild exasperation as Mork tangos with Dolly in front of her, before she turns off the music and approaches him, saying she needs to have a talk with him. She tells him straight out he can't have a meaningful relationship with a mannequin, but he doesn't understand why. She answers that you can't love an inanimate object, but he argues that she says loves books and movies, which she says is different. When he asks isn't his love for Dolly different too, she points out it's way too different. With it not really impacting on him, and her day kind of sucking, Mindy decides to head out leaving Mork to sweettalk Dolly.
Back at the music store Fred is mystified why anyone would steal his mannequin, but is picking up his Cadillac later and isn't going to let it upset him. A downbeat Mindy enters, both Fred and Cora noticing immediately and asking her what's wrong. Mindy tells him she'd be hoping to surprise him, by going back to college, which he reacts to with delight, but she tells him her plans have collapsed because the scholarship she was trying for didn't come through and she can't afford the tuition. When Fred asks her if it had been a dream of hers, Mindy smiles ruefully and says it was. He asks her how much she needs, and she tells him the scholarship was for around 2000 dollars. Fred waits a moment and then tells her it's her lucky day, that he's been putting aside money for her since she was a little girl, and he presents her with his bank book with his 2,300 for his car in it. Mindy is overjoyed, hugging her father, telling him it's incredible, which an onlooking Cora seconds. Floating on air, Mindy rushes out to head to the campus to sign up, leaving a hacked off Cora to approach Fred, miffed that he's ruined her perspective of him as an absolute wiener by doing something so nice.
Orkan 'Facts'•Mork reveals that his spacesuit is a living organism. •Orkans abolished emotions a billion bleams ago after a vote.
•The first mention of the Orkan 'Hibijonee' species, which like Earth dogs, appear to have different breeds. In this case the extinct 'Wingless Hibijonee'.
General•Mork and Mindy kiss for the First time
•Fred's middle initial is C. Frederick C. McConnell
•This is the first time Mindy's mother is mentioned, her name revealed by Cora to have been Elizabeth. Fred & Elizabeth evidently having been high school sweethearts, as Fred never told her he was being bullied by Forest while it was happening.
•When Mork breaks into a cheerleading routine, he says "F" followed by "U." This was one of their ways of sneaking risqué material past the network censors.
•Mindy: Mork, you talk to your spacesuit?
Mork: Of course. It spoke first, I'd be rude not to reply.
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•Mindy: How'd your observation of traffic go today?
Mork: Oh, not very well. Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?
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ABC Promo for Mork In Love (Followed by promos for What's Happening!!, Barney Miller, and Soap)
Starring:•Robin Williams as Mork
•Pam Dawber as Mindy
•Conrad Janis as Fred McConnell
•Elizabeth Kerr as Cora Hudson
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A spin-off after a highly successful episode of Happy Days, "My Favorite Orkan", it starred Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork, and Pam Dawber as Mindy McConnell, his human friend, roommate, and eventual love interest.
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