Mork & Mindy: Mork's Health Hints

Mork & Mindy: Mork's Health Hints
ABC
November 4, 1979
Sitcom
DVD
C-

This David Misch episode feels muddled.  Mindy checks into an incompetent hospital where, instead of having a tonsillectomy, she almost has brain surgery!  And yet both med student Jean and Mork, in his message to Orson, insist that most doctors and hospitals are good.  Furthermore, the episode just isn't that funny.  No one remembers episodes like this from the second season, but I'd argue that they are more shark-bait than the outrageous episodes, which sometimes at least have a curiosity value.

Barbara Cason may not be a household name but it was nagging at me why Nurse #2 seemed so familiar; it turns out she not only would be the neighbor Miss Fritzsinger on The Brady Girls Get Married, but she'd be Garry's mom on It's Garry Shandling's Show.  Anita Dangler has her first to two Mork roles, here as Virginia.  Wayne Morton, who plays the Doctor, would be an Enlisted Man on M*A*S*H.  And, yes, that's Kim Fields as Pattie, a few months into the run of Facts of Life.