# It was all a dream (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-all-a-dream-spoilers/244044 "2004-05-07T17:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-all-a-dream-spoilers/244044/41 "2004-05-13T15:02:58Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s a sad state of affairs when someone sees “Spielberg” and “shark” and this is the only connection they can make… I’m well aware Spielberg made **Jaws** that didn’t seem to be what your sentance was about. Or are you actually saying he plans to remake it and CGI the shark into something else? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-all-a-dream-spoilers/244044/42 "2004-05-13T15:34:43Z")
> [@SilentButDeftly](#): > > Most of **Devil’s Advocate** is a [day]dream… Uhhh…no it isn’t. When Keanu’s character kills himself, the Devil makes it so that everything after Keanu’s 5-minute recess didn’t happen. It was a Reset Button, not a dream. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-all-a-dream-spoilers/244044/43 "2004-05-13T16:00:57Z")
the 1970s Rapture movie A THIEF IN THE NIGHT- Patty awakens to find her hubby’s electric razor whirring away in the sink, he’s vanished, Radio reports millions disappear worldwide, she remembers how they met & he accepted Christ & she rejected it & now she’s living under the newly empowered UN’s world tyrrany which is marking all citizens & she is to meet friend who will help her escape at the dam & she finds they are also marked & the UN choppers are coming for her & the only means of escape is to jump off the dam & she wakes up, hears her hubby’s razor whirring in the bathroom. goes in to find it laying in the sink, he’s vanished & the radio announces millions have likewise disappeared & she screams & screams & screams. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-all-a-dream-spoilers/244044/44 "2004-05-13T16:37:59Z")
> [@El Elvis Rojo](#): > > It was all Charles’s dream. It’s been an insanely long time since I saw it, but the last episode kinda went along the lines that he passed out on the couch one day, and the entire bit about the second family was all just a fanciful dream he had. Oh, right. I remember that. I’'m glad to see I’m not the only one who admits to watching Charles in Charge, lol. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-all-a-dream-spoilers/244044/45 "2004-05-14T14:24:49Z")
Mork & Mindy - the whole four year run was dreamed by Ritchie Cunnigham. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-all-a-dream-spoilers/244044/46 "2004-05-14T15:53:21Z")
I thought that the “dream” about Mork was in an episode of Happy Days. Mork uses his alien powers to battle Fonzie’s cool and Fonzie loses. Then Richie wakes up and realises it was a dream. Then the doorbell rings, he answers it, and it is Robin Williams playing a stranded motorist who needs to use the phone. Ritchie freaks out… The End. Then, they added a scene for re-airings after they gave Williams his own show. > [@](#): > > Okay, not the end. Mork was such a great character they decided to spin him off into his own show. Only they needed to ditch that whole “it was just a dream” thing and that “he took Fonzie off” idea. He was now less of a threat. In point of fact I’ve just discovered that the episode of Happy Days featuring Mork’s first appearance had a scene added after its first airing to try to account for the whole “it was just a dream” thing and to lead into Mork And Mindy. The scene had Robin Williams outside the Cunnigham house dressed as the guy who asked Ritchie to use the phone. Only it turns out that guy actually was Mork! Now alone, we see Mork report back to Orson, his superior on Ork. He says he convinced Ritchie everything that had happened was a dream and that he was leaving both Ritchie and Fonzie alone. We never hear Orson but Mork repeats what Orson is telling him, that he has a new mission in Earth’s future he was being assigned to. Thus a cleaner slide into the spin off Mork And Mindy… kind of. I don’t think the full run was supposed to be a dream, and when they decided to make a spin-off, they changed the original episode so that even that wasn’t a dream . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-all-a-dream-spoilers/244044.md?page=2)