Saturday, July 9, 2022

Celebrity Toons: Extraterrestrial Toddler (Mork & Mindy, 1982)

 From the ill-advised Mork & Mindy animated prequel:

Mork (Robin Williams) learns of a movie being shot in Boulder, so he wants in. However, he & Mindy (Pam Dawber) get roped into a mystery when a robot being designed for the movie is stolen by two rogue Orkans, which means, of course, in this series, Mindy gets to go to Ork way sooner than in the live-action series. Mork conjures an Orkan uni for her, and the animators gave her a too familiar sexy pose that was used for other female characters of the period.

The implausibility of Mork's egg-shaped spaceship, already rebooted as an eggmobile for Earth travel, remaining in said form for a round trip to Ork & back. As a certain Exorian doll might put it, real spacey.

Here's "Extraterrestrial Toddler":


If the programmers at ABC had any sense, they would've done this sooner, and done this prequel first, before green-lighting Laverne & Shirley in The Army.

Rating: C.

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