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When I was stuck on the couch last Friday with a stomach virus that sucked all the energy out of me, I was a captive audience for two hours during Sci-Fi's Mork and Mindy marathon.
I used to watch it when I was a kid and the show was new. I remember it was a hit craze and everyone loved it. But I do remember the latter episodes getting, at times: sentimental, preachy, or just plain weird.
Watching as an adult I realized just how overall weird this show really was. Mork was supposed to be an alien, sure, but to me he just came across as a very strange and eccentric adult man. There didn't seem to be anything outwardly alien about him. But in its time audiences loved it. And the show launched Robin Williams acting career.
More telling is knowing now that Robin Williams was coked up for most of the episodes of the show's run. Watching the show you can kind of see it in his face and body movements. Williams has openly discussed his coke habit for many years, and it was also shown in the made-for-tv-movie about Mork and Mindy a few years ago. Williams apparently became friends with John Belushi who introduced him to coke.
Not that Williams needed coke. According to that show, he was a standup comic in the LA area and the producers noticed him for his manic stage persona and hired him to appear as an alien named Mork in Happy Days. The show got spun off into a series and the rest is history.
Anyway, what is everyone else's impressions of Mork and Mindy?
I used to watch it when I was a kid and the show was new. I remember it was a hit craze and everyone loved it. But I do remember the latter episodes getting, at times: sentimental, preachy, or just plain weird.
Watching as an adult I realized just how overall weird this show really was. Mork was supposed to be an alien, sure, but to me he just came across as a very strange and eccentric adult man. There didn't seem to be anything outwardly alien about him. But in its time audiences loved it. And the show launched Robin Williams acting career.
More telling is knowing now that Robin Williams was coked up for most of the episodes of the show's run. Watching the show you can kind of see it in his face and body movements. Williams has openly discussed his coke habit for many years, and it was also shown in the made-for-tv-movie about Mork and Mindy a few years ago. Williams apparently became friends with John Belushi who introduced him to coke.
Not that Williams needed coke. According to that show, he was a standup comic in the LA area and the producers noticed him for his manic stage persona and hired him to appear as an alien named Mork in Happy Days. The show got spun off into a series and the rest is history.
Anyway, what is everyone else's impressions of Mork and Mindy?
I have everything he's done. I'm with Wendy - I remember I liked it but really can't recall too much...
