Episode 37 – Nanoo.
I was watching Mork and Mindy last night…
On TV?
Yes, some channel had it on, I was flipping, marathon.
Oh, all right, for a second I was worried you had bought it on DVD.
And what if I had?
I don’t know, it’s just one of those shows that doesn’t quite live up to what we remember it as. And they sell us these box sets and we watch them and they suck. some worse than others, like who really wants to watch every episode of the Jeffersons, in order?
Someone must.
Someone must, but I have never met them. Or Leave It To Beaver.
On DVD?
On DVD. You can buy it and watch it all in order, so the continuity of when Whitey does crack is preserved.
Well yes, that is all fairly odd. But no this was simply on TV.
Right. So you were watching Mork and Mindy.
And Mindy, I feel that this whole idea was supposed to be something else.
What do you mean?
Of course it works perfectly well as a sitcom, but take the premise by itself. Alien that looks like us lands on Earth and lives with beautiful woman to learn our ways.
So you’re trying to say that Mork and Mindy was a failed porn pitch?
Perhaps. Perhaps it was for a movie.
Wasn’t it a movie? David Bowie? The Man Who Fell To Earth?
Oh, yes, that is Morkish. But I think that the Bowie film came first.
So perhaps Mork was a take off of that, except funny?
Yes. What if we do the David Bowie film with a hairy funny man instead.
A good idea. It caught on.
It truly did. That was a very popular show.
Popular enough for people to think that, though Mork came to Earth with only his jumpsuit, his ugly clothing was somehow alien. Even though he had to go to Goodwill to buy it.
Which speaks of other aliens on Earth!
Fashion designer aliens!
Designing Women?
They were Southern, not alien.
Close to the same.
Fair.
elfro
June 16, 2009
1:54 am
When you consider the fact that Mork was the one that got pregnant and had a ‘baby’, it makes the idea of ‘Mork and Mindy: THE PORN!’ even funnier!
-elf-
Mindy
June 16, 2009
9:10 am
First thing before I have my coffee and I’m reading about Mork and Mindy: The Porn … tis going to be a good day :D
APK
June 16, 2009
9:32 am
HAhahaha!
Rhiannon
June 16, 2009
2:50 pm
As a Southern woman, I started to say “Hey!” And then I realized that that was pretty much truth :D
APK
June 16, 2009
2:52 pm
HAhaha yeah sorry about that.
Devilflamejr
June 17, 2009
10:11 am
I actually don’t think I’ve managed to watch any sitcom in order. Ever. Not even the ones I DO have on DVD xD
APK
June 17, 2009
10:21 am
Really? You just watch random episodes all over the place?
Laszlo Xalieri
June 17, 2009
11:30 am
I’d complain about the Southern bit too, except I thought about it, and I got nothin’.
APK
June 17, 2009
11:32 am
Really it was a Delta Burke joke more than a general southern one. Though now I think I should write “Southern Fried Aliens” …
Devilflamejr
June 17, 2009
1:08 pm
yup! of course sometimes it get’s very messed up as in one episode a couple have a baby, in the other they’ve just met and in a third they get divorced, but usually I have a pretty good idea of where we are in time after the first five minutes or so:P
Devilflamejr
June 17, 2009
1:10 pm
no wait, scratch that, spin city I’ve seen in order, but that’s because I was watching it with a couple of friends:)
Backfirejr
June 17, 2009
2:38 pm
being one part of said couple of friends, I can testify that we actually watched them in order. However, that is the only time I’ve ever watched a sitcom in order. Hell, I’ve even watched quite a few series of movies completely out of order; I think the first ALIEN movie I watched was the fourth movie and then I’ve watched the other movies in a random order :P
Though, odly enough, I tend to always watch other kinds of tv-series in order, but just not the sitcoms… dunno why.. maybe it’s a disease? :O
APK
June 17, 2009
2:40 pm
Huh, so odd. And wait a second. DevilFlameJr and BackFireJr? I sense a THEME.
Backfirejr
June 17, 2009
2:41 pm
Nooooo… I would never! 8D
Devilflamejr
June 17, 2009
2:42 pm
Yes! we are the Devious Danes!
APK
June 17, 2009
2:47 pm
THE DEVIOUS DANES! I love it!
Backfirejr
June 17, 2009
2:49 pm
Armed only with their wits and various calligraphy equipment, they lay waste to the blurry handwritings of the alien invaders. Never before has mankind been in such peril, never before have we depended on such odd persons, but mankind WILL prevail and the alien invaders be purged!
APK
June 17, 2009
2:56 pm
You show those blurry aliens!
Devilflamejr
June 17, 2009
2:57 pm
It’s a bird! it’s a plane! It’s- oh it’s just those guys…
Backfirejr
June 17, 2009
3:00 pm
I like the lettering on that sign..
Devilflamejr
June 17, 2009
3:04 pm
and WOOSH! the comment section took a spin off to outer space:P But hey, it’s a new record in comments for a single strip:D
Backfirejr
June 17, 2009
3:19 pm
We’re making history fellas, savour this moment. – Ahhhh…..
spider monkey
June 25, 2009
5:44 pm
I can’t stop laughing!!!!!
Jonathan
October 15, 2009
3:42 pm
Fact: I live in India.
Second Fact: Mork and Mindy used to appear until recently as a regular afternoon sitcom. I din`t watch it,i checked the listings.
Wolfsblood99
November 24, 2009
11:32 am
I love this strip even though all you see is there faces there messages get across loud and clear.