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1* ActingForTwo: During one episode, Mork and Mindy interview Robin Williams.
2* {{Corpsing}}: Often. It's really hard to keep a straight face when Creator/RobinWilliams is around. One especially noticeable example is in "It's a Wonderful Mork": Mork is supposed to be invisible and inaudible as he observes Mindy's life without him, so Pam Dawber makes a valiant but ultimately futile effort to keep a straight face to Robin's antics. Apparently, Robin liked to do this deliberately. In an interview, Pam mentioned one time where he stood offstage completely naked just to mess with her.
3* DirectedByCastMember: The SeriesFinale, "The Mork Report," marks the only time Robin Williams went behind the camera (if you don't count the first HBO ''Comic Relief'' concert).
4* ExecutiveMeddling: The new time slot, plus the second season onward featured major changes to try and appeal to a younger crowd. Not to mention trying to make Creator/PamDawber add more jiggle to the show, which she fortunately refused to do, with Williams' support. Ratings plummeted, and suits were sent scrambling to fix things.
5** Show retoolings included "resetting" Mork so that he forgot ''everything'' he forgot about humanity and Earth, and later had the most ''bizarre'' CousinOliver ever with a middle-aged Jonathan Winters.
6** The addition of Winters to the cast was an attempt to placate Robin Williams, who was becoming increasingly unhappy with said meddling. It was well known that Williams idolized Winters and it was thought that getting to work with him would improve his morale.
7* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Creator/RobinWilliams' improvisation proved to be so persistent and good, it was actually better than what the writers could do, so they budgeted minutes in the script with "Robin goes off here."
8** Dave Itzkoff's biography ''Robin'', published after Williams's death, tells of one particular aversion; Robin tried one improvised joke that fell flat with the audience, and requested another take. When that attempt also didn't go over, Robin requested a third take, and this time stuck to the script. This joke got the big laugh from the audience, and the take was used in the finished episode.
9* IAmNotSpock: Creator/RobinWilliams joked that after he won the Oscar for ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', it only took a few weeks for people on the street to begin calling him "Mork" again.
10* LateExportForYou: The first (and only) time the show aired in France? ''2008''.
11* PropRecycling: Mork's red spacesuit is the same jumpsuit worn by Col. Green in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain}} The Savage Curtain]]", and in an episode in which Mindy and Fred pretend to be aliens to throw off a nosy reporter, Fred wears a spacesuit helmet seen in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E9TheTholianWeb The Tholian Web]]".
12** Appropriate, given that they were both Paramount shows.
13* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Mork visited ''Happy Days'' because Garry Marshall's 5-year-old daughter only watched shows about outer space.
14* StarMakingRole: Creator/RobinWilliams launched into the stratosphere from here.
15* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
16** Continuing with the {{Cliffhanger}} ending from "Gotta Run", Season 5 would have featured Mork and Mindy traveling through time, escaping from Kalnick the Neptunian, while meeting historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin.
17** Creator/JayLeno auditioned for the role of Remo [=DaVinci=]. According to Leno, he was told by an Creator/{{ABC}} executive that his face would "frighten little children".
18* WorkingTitle: Creator/GarryMarshall originally suggested ''Mork from Ork'' as the title, but Creator/{{ABC}} didn't like that. He then suggested ''The Mork Chronicles'', the network didn't think that [[ViewersAreMorons most viewers would know what a chronicle was]]. Finally, he suggested ''Mork and Mindy'' and they went for it.
19* WrittenByCastMember: Jim Staahl, who played Nelson Flavor in seasons 2 &3, co-wrote the episode "I Heard it Through the Morkvine."
20* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/JonathanWinters appeared in season 3's "Mork and the Family Reunion" as Mindy's miserly uncle, before becoming Mearth in the final season. At one point during the episode [[CallForward he actually talks in the voice he uses for Mearth.]]

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