Mork & Mindy: Clerical Error

Mork & Mindy: Clerical Error
ABC
February 28, 1980
Sitcom
DVD
C-

This is another episode where I don't question the sincerity but I do question the execution.  Mork is unsuccessfully looking for a job.  (Confusingly, his experience at daycare is horrific, but maybe this April Kelly script was written before the previous episode.)  He meets a priest and decides that he wants to be one, so he can help people.  Soon he's dressing like a priest, in a church, and people are coming to him with their problems, including a suicidal man.  Mork suggests "50 Ways to Meet Your Maker."  Luckily, this is just what the man needed to hear, to realize he was being foolish.  The "advice" scene is mostly played for laughs, so we're not supposed to worry about the man until Mindy does.  But not much of the episode is funny, with the low point actually when Mork meets a bride and wonders why she's not invisible.   (As in, you can't see the bride before the wedding.)  I suppose there's a way this episode might've worked a little (like C+ level), but this ain't it.  I might've gone with a D+ but I do like Remo's wedding cake and the naughty line about the pickle.

Paul Willson makes his first of two Mork appearances, as the Suicidal Confessor; later in the decade he'd be Leonard Smith on It's Garry Shandling's Show.