# Mork and Mindy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763 "2005-04-05T01:56:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/1 "2005-04-05T01:56:26Z")
Anyone else watching this movie? The actor playing Robin Williams is great. He has the voice and mannerisms down pat. I wonder what the real Robin williams thinks. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/2 "2005-04-05T02:03:02Z")
This isn’t one of those “Pretend it’s 1979 and the show just came out” threads, is it? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/3 "2005-04-05T02:04:57Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > This isn’t one of those “Pretend it’s 1979 and the show just came out” threads, is it? No, it’s a TV-movie on NBC about Robin Williams’ breakout role as Mork, also dealing with Williams’s cocaine problems. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/4 "2005-04-05T02:18:44Z")
Doesn’t this sort of thing usually come on E!? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/5 "2005-04-05T02:24:08Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > This isn’t one of those “Pretend it’s 1979 and the show just came out” threads, is it? If so, then why would the OP refer to “the actor playing Robin Williams”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/6 "2005-04-05T02:38:05Z")
Wow does this suck. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/7 "2005-04-05T04:12:59Z")
I watched a few seconds of it, and the actor playing Robin Williams irritated the crap out of me, just like the real Robin Williams, so I guess that’s a vote of confidence, right? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/8 "2005-04-05T07:24:52Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > No, it’s a TV-movie on NBC about Robin Williams’ breakout role as Mork, also dealing with Williams’s cocaine problems. Wait a minute. You’re tellin me Robin Williams did _cocaine_ ??? I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you. (Any chance we could get him hooked on qualudes…or anything else that might get him to sit down and shut up?) ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/9 "2005-04-05T14:07:53Z")
Bubbadog wanders in and says," I thought that the guy nailed the Robin Williams persona perfectly, found the Movie to be interesting even though the scriptwriting was dull and unlike some of the opinions posted here I like Robin Williams. My favorite part was when the actor playing Robin Williams got out of a limo and heavy tipped a street performer who was playing Robin Williams. I wonder if Robin was watching and got a little of that infinite mirror effect?" ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/10 "2005-04-05T14:21:59Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > My favorite part was when the actor playing Robin Williams got out of a limo and heavy tipped a street performer who was playing Robin Williams. > > I wonder if Robin was watching and got a little of that infinite mirror effect?" Or a Malkovich effect. Williams Williams Williams, Williams Williams Williams Williams. Williams! Williams Williams Williams Williams Williams. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/11 "2005-04-05T14:23:01Z")
Wow those ABC execs were dick heads…at least according to the NBC movie Drippy glurgy movie with sappy strings it was like watching one of the bad Robin Williams movies. (Patch Adams comes to mind) ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/12 "2005-04-05T15:37:42Z")
So when do John and Jim Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne and Billy Crystal get their made for TV biopics? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/13 "2005-04-05T16:10:42Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > So when do John and Jim Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne and Billy Crystal get their made for TV biopics? Are you trying to say that all these peoples did coke or that they were all on Mork and Mindy? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/14 "2005-04-05T20:08:00Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > So when do John and Jim Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne and Billy Crystal get their made for TV biopics? Roseanne has had a [made for TV biopic](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0111018/). John Belushi’s had a [big screen biopic](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0098660/) and been portrayed in a [TV biopic of Gilda Radner](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0309723/). I can’t fathom anybody wanting to see Crystal or Jim Belushi’s life on film anymore than wanting to see them on screen. Whoopi Goldberg will probably have a made for TV biopic on a “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories” episode of _Chapelle’s Show_. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/15 "2005-04-05T20:28:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Whoopi Goldberg will probably have a made for TV biopic on a “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories” episode of _Chapelle’s Show_. ::smacks Charlie Murphy in forehead with Celie ring:: “Ceeeeeeeliiieeeeeeee!!!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/16 "2005-04-05T20:35:55Z")
I didn’t watch it; but does anyone else, when they think of Pam Dawber, think _Porkin’ Mindy?_😃 ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/17 "2005-04-05T20:46:27Z")
There’s been a bunch of those TV show mini-pics lately: [Surviving Gilligan’s Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286181/) [Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Charlie’s Angels’](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383915/) [Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Three’s Company’](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332436/) I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve seen _all_ of them. :o Oooh, look! Also coming out this year is [Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Diff’rent Strokes’](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450358/)… ---
**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/18 "2005-04-05T21:06:31Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > I wonder what the real Robin williams thinks. The real Robin Williams wasn’t able to stop talking long enough to figure out whether the guy portraying him was any good. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/297763/19 "2005-04-06T01:37:36Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > There’s been a bunch of those TV show mini-pics lately: > > [Surviving Gilligan’s Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286181/) I thought that one was particularly good (and I walked away loving Natalie “Mrs. Howell” Schafer).