| "Morkel and Hyde" | |
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| Season 1, Episode #9 (#9) in series (95 episodes) | |
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| "Mork & Mindy" episode | |
| Guest Star(s): | Ralph James Mark L. Taylor Frank Welker |
| Network: | ABC-TV |
| Production code: | 1x9 |
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| Original airdate | October 23, 1982 |
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Morkel and Hyde was the ninth Mork and Mindy themed episode from the ABC-TV The Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour animated series, also ninth in the series.
Synopsis[]
When Hamilton invites Mindy to a party at the marina, she asks Mork to go as her date, to avoid Hamilton's interminable attentions. As he's already promised her father to clean the music store. Mork decides to split himself in two so he can be both places simultaneously. But his other half is wicked, intent on setting the world on fire, and immediately makes a play for Mindy. His overt actions providing Hamilton with actual proof that Mork is an alien, if he can capture it on camera.
Full Plot[]
In the McConnell's Music Store Mork is using a strange contraption to clean the instruments. Mindy arriving to wonder what it is. He informs her that the many armed and tasked machine is used on Ork to clean things. Mindy asks him to stop as she has more urgent need of his help then cleaning her Dad's store. Hamilton has invited her to his party at Boulder Lake Marina and she wants Mork to be her date.
He tells her he can't because he promised her dad that he would clean up. But, anxious, she tells him he has to be her date or else 'fish face' Hamilton will try and get romantic with her. Shuddering she tells Mork she'd rather kiss a squid. Accepting that is a bigger problem, he thinks on it a second and lights on a solution, Pushing Mindy and Doing outside towards his car, he tells her that he will be there in a moment. Alone he comments to himself at how he had to leave her outside as the ability to split oneself in two is the greatest secret Orkans possess. Before he begins chanting 'Xeno, Xeno, Xeno' duplicating himself.
Happy with the results he tells his copy to clean up the store while he's off to party with Mindy. But his other half sniggers malevolently, "Ix nae" grabs hold of Mork's suspenders and throws Mork into the cleaning machine, telling him that he can clean while he goes to party with Mindy. Running out of the store, the clearly dark duplicate of Mork launches himself into the Egg car with Mindy and Doing suggesting to Mindy "Let's go mess up the world, babe!" before laughing manically and driving off at top speed as she yells out in alarm.
Stuck in the store in its grasp, the cleaning machine uses Mork to mop the floor, ceilings and windows, and as Mork calls to Orson for help, Orson points out telepathically that it's no way to mop a floor. While the cleaning machine continues to use him to clean things, Mork explains that he split himself in two. Shocked and annoyed, Orson reminds him that when an Orkan splits in two, the replica is a bad person. Something Mork blanked on, he admits. His bad half, Orson further reminds him, is now free to do all the rotten things his better nature won't allow. At that Mork is seriously alarmed that his fiendish half is with Mindy. As the cleaning machine uses Mork to clean the ceiling, Orson tells him that his only hope to help her is to get rid of the bad copy, by having the copy say, "Xeno, xeno, xeno" in unison with him and reunite them. Mork begs Orson to get him loose so he can go save Mindy from a fate worse than death. Orson, obliging, zaps the machine, and tells Mork to go save his Mindy, Mork dashing off.
At the marina, onboard Hamilton's family's vast yacht the S.S. DuPont, Hamilton greets Mindy but isn't happy she brought Mork. Dark Mork insults Hamilton right back, shocking Mindy who reminds him they are his guests. Pleased, Hamilton encourages her to let 'the buffoon' speak as it reminds them of his lack of breeding. At which Bad Mork makes Hamilton's glass disappear so that the contents spills on his white suit jacket. Horrified Hamilton runs off to clean it. Alone with him, Mindy tells off Bad Mork noting that he's not acting like himself. At which point he tells her she's dead right, admitting that he's split in two and ditched his good self so he can have her all to himself.
When he grabs hold of her, Mindy runs for it, and trying to see if she's gotten away, slams blind into the real Mork as he comes on board, falling on top of him. Checking that it's really him, he confirms he's the good half of himself, and admits too that he split himself in half. Saying she knows, she tells him about the incident with Hamilton's suit and mortified, Mork runs off to apologize.
Finding Hamilton he grovelingly apologizes, who tells him to get some water. He goes off to get it through one of the serving doors into the Galley, only for Bad Mork to enter via the other and spill milkshake on Hamilton. Angry, Hamilton asks for a paper towel and Bad Mork leaves. Mork comes with the water. Hamilton demands the paper towels and the good Mork leaves, telling Hamilton to make up his mind. Bad Mork enters says he couldn't find any paper 'towels' and tears up Hamilton's suit with sandpaper instead. His suit in tatters a furious Hamilton demands a needle and thread. Bad Mork exits and Mork enters with the paper towels, shocked at Hamilton's suit being torn up. Hamilton calls Mork a "maniac" and demands the needle and thread. Mork leaves and Bad Mork enters promptly stapling Hamilton to the ground. Then, Mork enters with the needle and thread and Hamilton is shocked to find out that there's two Morks. Bad Mork confirms they've split and then splits. Good Mork, saying he has to catch him before he attacks "My Mind", gives chase. Alone, Hamilton is shocked but then elated as it confirms that Mork is not a human, and now he has the chance to prove it to everyone. Getting up he leaves with a camera, determined to get a photo and expose him.
As Mindy and Mork search the ship for his other half, Bad Mork is hidden, watching them, but is sniffed out by Doing who is so surprised to see two Morks he splits into three. Mindy hurrying him to get Doing back together, Mork manages to grab two parts of Doing and in front of a couple of cheerleaders and pretends they're pompoms doing a little cheer. After putting Doing together, he says that he has to find his bad duplicate before the bad duplicate does something rotten. In a motorboat, Bad Mork calls up to them, telling Mork he's too late, that he is already doing something rotten and drives off, dragging some water skiers along with him.
Mork finding a jet ski, jumps on and gives chase to stop himself, while Bad Mork leaves the water skiers behind crashing them into some sailboats. Hamilton sees the Morks chasing each other on the water and tries to photograph them but fails repeatedly, getting doused each time. The Morks chase each other up a ramp, landing on the yacht on the buffet table, food flying through the air and landing on Hamilton, thwarting his latest chance to take a photo.
Bad Mork makes a run for it, while Mork is checked on by a worried Mindy. Telling her that it takes more than that to flatten an Orkan, he advises her not to worry about Bad Mork having gotten away. He has a plan to make him say 'Xeno, Xeno, Xeno'.
A short while later he checks that Mindy is good to go, and she confirms it, eager to carry through the plan he's come up with as as he and Doing hide under a serving trolley. Under the cloth covered trolley he and Doing track Bad Mork who, suspicious of it, is just about to look under the cloth when he's distracted by the sound of a flirtatious Mindy calling "Morky'". Looking around he spots her eyeing him enticingly, beckoning 'Tall, dark and rotten' to her, telling him she's ditched Good Mork as he was boring. Bad Mork praising her choice, tells her to stick with him and they'll go far. She agrees, saying that's why she wrote him a love poem to tell him how she feels, which she blushingly gives him, growling, "Read it, honey."
Absorbed in the poem, Bad Mork doesn't see Mork sneak up behind him as he reads the love poem aloud. "Roses are red, Violets are blue, I've got a big surprise for you, signed "Xeno, xeno, xeno", Good Mork joining in on the sign off as he reads it out. Bad Mork curses, realizing immediately he's been tricked. As he confronts his good self, Hamilton takes his chance to snap the two of them together, but as Hamilton tries to convince everybody else that there are two Morks, the two of them are re-absorbed into one another and are reunified by the time others come.
Mindy points out that Hamilton still has it all on film, but Mork is unperturbed, using his finger to afflict Hamilton with some temporary double vision, which makes him see duplicates of everyone. Thinking he's just been seeing things, Hamilton drops the camera into the water. Mindy admonishes Mork for pulling a 'dirty, low down, good for nothing, conniving trick' on Hamilton...and she loves him for it, kissing him. Bashful, Mork admits that sometimes the best of him, requires the worst of him.
Trivia[]
General[]
- The title and plot obviously pays homage to Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
- Xeno is Greek for Alien, so Mork is essentially chanting 'Alien, Alien, Alien'.
- Bad Mork's voice is a reprisal by Robin Williams of 'Twelve' the hedonistic alien who inhabited Mork's body, lusting after Mindy in Season 2's Mork's Vacation
- Mork using the parts of Doing as Pom Poms is a callback to the scene in Hold that Mork, when Mork grabs the two cheerleader's pom poms mistaking them for an 'Exploding Hibijonee', the breed that Doing is.
Pop Culture[]
- Mork refers to the need to save Mindy from his other half and 'a fate worse than death' an antiquated term meaning the loss of her virtue, this time at the hands of his other self.
Gallery[]
Cast/Characters[]
- Robin Williams as Mork and Evil Mork.
- Pam Dawber as Mindy McConnell
- Ralph James as Orson
- Mark L. Taylor as Hamilton J. DuPont XXV
- Frank Welker as Doing