# Mork And Mindy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283 "2015-10-20T22:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283/41 "2015-10-21T19:26:55Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Haven’t watched it in years. If I were to watch now with honest criticism, I might have to admit that the later years with Jonathan Winters weren’t very good but… I always had a _warm_ fondness for the Jonathan Winters episodes. He cracked me up, especially the interplay between Winters and Williams. > ETA: I haven’t seen Pam Dawber in years (looking at her credits her most recent is one guest spot on Williams’ “The Crazy Ones”), but the photo on [on her Wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Dawber) is noted as being from 2012. That would make her 61 in that photo and she looks _great_! I had a huge crush on Pam Dawber, this was the photo of her I lusted on. > **[pam dawber - Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pam%2Bdawber&view=detailv2&&id=942D7E4EF200ECFC17EFECDE532CD65BC594FE24&selectedIndex=138&ccid=SMGzSNHN&simid=608044971901848783&thid=OIP.M48c1b348d1cd746b943bea2ed8444cd5o2&ajaxhist=0)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283/42 "2015-10-21T21:44:10Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Yes, but it’s not always the case that The Star totally dominates the sitcom that was made for him (e.g. _Seinfeld_, _Newhart_, _Parks and Recreation_). The only reason the crazy characters on Newhart worked was because they had straight man Dick there to get exasperated at them. So yeah, take out Bob Newhart and Newhart wouldn’t have been shit. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283/43 "2015-10-22T20:30:17Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > That was a recycled Beverly Hillbillies joke To be fair, The Beverly Hillbillies were pretty good, too. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283/44 "2015-10-22T20:47:39Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > I had a huge crush on Pam Dawber, this was the photo of her I lusted on. > > [pam dawber - Search](https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pam+dawber&view=detailv2&&id=942D7E4EF200ECFC17EFECDE532CD65BC594FE24&selectedIndex=138&ccid=SMGzSNHN&simid=608044971901848783&thid=OIP.M48c1b348d1cd746b943bea2ed8444cd5o2&ajaxhist=0) Getting a serious Zooey Deschanel vibe form that photo. Also, I should mention that I had no idea she was married to Mark Harmon until about 30 seconds ago. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283/45 "2015-10-22T21:02:53Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > and > "How can I help you if you won’t help yourselves?? ☹ " > > :: wipes smashed eggs into the garbage disposal :: > > “Burial at sea” > > :: salutes :: :shouts into the sink: “I’ll inform your next of kin!” picks up another egg out of the carton: “Your brother bit the Big One!” > [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Another good one had him deciding to reveal himself as an alien to a reporter. Mindy dressed up in a costume and called herself Catwoman from Mars. Fred, Mindy’s dad, got into the act, wearing what looked like an Enterprise space-suit from Trek TOS (“The Tholian Web”). “I’ve come to your planet to demonstrate my amazing powers…here, pick a card, any card.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283/46 "2015-10-22T21:51:25Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Mindy dressed up in a costume and called herself Catwoman from Mars. You mean like [this](http://img004.lazygirls.info/people/pam_dawber/pam_dawber_2_Nf0GMu6.sized.jpg)? This thread has officially turned into the Pam Dawber Appreciation forum. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283/47 "2015-10-22T21:58:44Z")
There were people who thought the show went downhill the second season when they decided to go younger and get rid of Mindy’s parents. There was a two part episode “Mork vs the Necrotons” that many thought was absolutely horrible with Raquel Welch and two other women with big breasts and small talent. Williams’s improv was great but there is such a thing as too hot for a cool medium. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-and-mindy/735283.md?page=2)