Mork & Mindy: Mork Gets Mindy-itis

Mork & Mindy: Mork Gets Mindy-itis
ABC
October 21, 1979
Sitcom
DVD
B-

This Tom Tenowich story is about Mork seeming to have developed an allergy to Mindy, but this is different than, say, everyone on the island allergic to Gilligan or Jan allergic to Mike or Tiger.  As Mork reminds us we learned on the season-opener, when Orkans sneeze, it sounds like laughter, which is a problem when Mindy is going to be hosting a political affair for Nelson.  At Exidor's suggestion, Mork tries injecting some of Mindy's hairs into his arm, but the result is pre-Doubtfire cross-dressing, although he seems to be as much Margo Channing as Mindy McConnell.  The episode has more suggestiveness and innuendo than past episodes, but this was the season when ABC wanted the series "sexed up," as we'll see more of as we go on.

Lloyd Kino, who was a Houseboy on That Girl, the Japanese Delegate in Gidget Grows Up, and a Soldier on M*A*S*H, is Mr. Wang here.  (Mork offers, "Another wang, Mr. Eggroll?"  See what I mean?)  Bill Morey, who's Mr. Prendergast, would return as Mr. Simpson.