#4 Mork
There are two possible scenarios that explain why Mork is a creepy roommate. Under the first, he's an alien from outer space and the authorities should be contacted immediately. Or, alternatively, he is a middle-aged record store employee who believes that he's an alien from outer space and the authorities should be contacted immediately.
But other than the alien thing, and if you can ignore the fact that he dresses like a gay circus clown, and behaves like a less funny version of the guy who does voices from Police Academy if that guy were white, hairy and on fistfuls of cocaine, Mork's really a chill guy.
If You Moved In
“Where'd you say you were from again, Mork?”
“Why, the planet Ork, of course! Mork from Ork!”
“Well, that's funny, because I just went onto Classmates.com, and it says here that your name is Steve and you're from Missouri.”
“Mork from Ork! Mork from Ork! Who on Ork are all these men in white jackets? Are they friends of yours? Let go of me, Earthlings!”
See the other creeps here, http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2278
7 comments:
He looks like a total psychopath in that picture!
Mork is another example of humor that doesn't stand the test of time (see Saturday Night Live from the 70's).
See also Wayne's World, Austin Powers, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Meatballs...
Caddyshack, Blues Brothers (were those ever funny?), the Jerk, early Woody Allen.
I was going to say Caddyshack, but I was afraid of the backlash.
...Stripes...
We didn't watch Mork and Mindy when it first aired, and I suffered socially as a result. My classmates would discuss it constantly. This makes me think of two random things.
1) Mork and Mindy is the show I always think of regarding the following phenomenon: I hadn't seen the show at all, I tuned in for one episode. Much later I decided to tune in again and it was the same episode. (It was the one in which Mork falls in love with a mannequin, which even the fans at school said was a lame one.)
2) In fifth grade I missed the premiere of That's Incredible because I was watching a Nova special called The Invisible World or The Hidden World or something, about the cool stuff you can see with microscopes or high-speed cameras or time-lapse photography. There was a whole creepy section about dust mites and bacteria and those things that live in your eyelashes. I thought this stuff was so cool but nobody at school was interested. Then a few months later the same photographs showed up on That's Incredible and everybody was talking about it. Burn!
I've had the television phenomenon occur as well (where you only watch a show twice and it's the same episode). The most recent example of that with me is Everyone Hates Chris.
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