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"Mork vs. The Necrotons (Part 2)"
Season 2, Episode #12
(#37) in series (95 episodes)
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Captain Nirvana kidnaps Mindy in order to coax Mork out of hiding in Part 2 of "Mork vs. the Necrotons" in Season 2 (ep.#12).
"Mork & Mindy" episode
Guest Star(s): Raquel Welch
Vicki Frederick
Debra Jo Fondren
Network: ABC-TV
Production code:
Writer(s) David Misch
Director Howard Storm
Original airdate November 18, 1979
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Mork vs. The Necrotons (Part 2) was the 12th episode from season 2. Mork and Mindy, also the 37th overall episode in the series. Written by David Misch, the episode, which was the conclusion of a two-episode story arc, and which was directed by Howard Storm, premiered on ABC-TV on November 18, 1979.

Synopsis[]

After both failing to get the information she desired out of Mork, and letting him escape. Captain Nirvana takes "his pet" Mindy hostage to use as bait to lure him back, and ultimately suck his brain out through his ears.

Plot[]

Part 2 of Mork vs. the Necrotons opens with Kama & Sutra carrying a struggling and leashed Mindy before Captain Nirvana in the Necroton spaceship. Bringing her back took longer than expected, they report, as 'the pet' fought all the way and bites. Nirvana warns Mindy if she bites her she'll cut off her cheeks. A furious Mindy warns her in turn that she is pushing her too far. Nirvana retorts that she's being pushed to the edge herself about to lose her job if she doesn't carry this off. She tries to get Mindy in the large cage she has had installed in place of the hot tub, but Mindy uses Nirvana's confession to try and suggest they could be friends . Nirvana thinks it's a cute idea but doubts it'll catch on.

When Mindy asks what she plans to do to her, Nirvana admits she hasn't decided, but her prime purpose is as bait for 'her master'. Mindy bridles and reiterates that Mork is not her master, and wants to know why she's so sure he'll come for her. Nirvana, replies she's pretty sure Mork has a yen for Mindy. Mindy tries to say its just friendship, Nirvana isn't convinced but wants to know what friendship exactly is, and Mindy asks her if she never had a friend. Nirvana recounts having felt something for a man named Torga from the planet Lepto, she describes his attractive hair, beard and warmth fondly, and Mindy thinks she's making a connection until Nirvana informs her she had him made into jacket. Mindy is further alarmed when Nirvana says there's something similar about Mork too, even though he wouldn't make a good jacket she likes him anyway. Mindy presses her to let him go if she likes him so much. Nirvana thinks maybe she'll just donate him to the Zoo on Necroton, Mindy tells her she may as well kill him as do that, then regrets her statement instantly, as Nirvana agrees to do that instead. Mindy resists her trying to get her into the cage again, until Nirvana threatens her with thumbscrews.

Back at the apartment the newly escaped Mork is searching for Mindy and discovers a 'While You Were Out' note pinned to the pole on the Kitchen Counter, telling him they've taken Mindy and what they intend to do to her. As Mork is trying to remain calm, Nelson returns and Mork flies into a panic latching on to him, blaming himself for Mindy's abduction. Nelson doesn't' take any of that in, laughing instead about what Mindy had said about his being captured by gorgeous aliens. When Mork confirms that, Nelson just laughs all the harder and harder still when Mork tells him that's what has happened to Mindy too. Nelson thinks the two of them are playing an elaborate joke on him, and that in fact he may be on Candid Camera, and tries to suavely exit the apartment, leaving Mork on his own to figure out what to do.

In the Necroton spaceship, Mindy is pacing in her cage, when Mork steals in. Mindy is aghast at seeing him, as she is only one person, and he is the one who holds the fate of the Earth in his hands. But he is adamant he couldn't leave her there, he is going to get her out, and if not he has a back up plan. He reminds her of the 24 hour limit the Necrtons have on Earth, and by his calculations the Necrotons only have a few minutes left. Nirvana enters, pleased that her plan worked, and Mork tries to trade his surrender for Mindy's freedom When she refuses Mork tries to feign choking to waste time, but Nirvana decides she only needs his head so threatens to cut his head off, and he 'recovers' rapidly. Mork challenges her to a Holitacker, but Nirvana laughs in his face, calling that kind of duel 'sissy stuff' and issues her own challenge 'The Battle of The Rose'. Mork tells Mindy the Battle of the Rose is the greatest mental duel in the Universe, whoever has the strongest will gets to keep the Rose and wins.

Mork Vs the Necrotons 02 Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch as the lovely, but murderous "Captain Nirvana" of the Necrotons

Mork accepts and Nirvana agrees to flip him to see who goes first, actually flipping him head over heels. Mindy starts out watching anxiously as the two square off, but then becomes utterly bemused as they start to Tango, swapping the rose back and forth, as they go through a series of dance routines, though she becomes appreciative of Mork's athletic prowess which puts him it would seem on the front foot, but Nirvana ends up with the Rose. She claims victory, but Mork claims it in return her last few seconds running out of the 24 hour time limit. Mork is mystified however when she doesn't disintegrate, and she tells them that those were Necroton hours, which roughly equates as 900 years on Earth. Mork is promptly placed in the cage with Mindy.

Alone in the cage, Mork tries to cheer Mindy up, but they have to come to terms with the fact that they are likely both going to have their brains sucked out and die, and holding hands make some embarrassing confessions to one another. Nirvana, Kama & Sutra arrive and Mork & Mindy say their goodbyes before Mork is dragged off to have his brains sucked out, yelling defiantly to Mindy. Hooked up to the machine, the process having begun, Nirvana orders Kama & Sutra to prepare the ship for take off. When they're gone she stops the process and confesses she only started it for the benefit of Kama & Sutra, and that ever since she danced the Tango with him she felt something she never felt before, lack of hate. Nirvana wants to take him back to Necroton with her to be her slave, promising they'll have a lot of fun. But he tells her he can't, and when asks why, he tells her his relationship with Mindy. Indignant that he would pass her over for 'that thing scratching around in the cage', she says maybe he'll feel differently when she puts 'his pet' to sleep.

Mindy, sitting dejectedly in the cage, is delighted when Nirvana is followed in by a Mork very much still with his brain, trying to calm Nirvana down. Not telling Mindy what she has in mind for her, he tries to talk Nirvana around, though Mindy gets a fair enough idea what's in store for her when Nirvana pulls a sword off the wall and comes after her with it. Mork jumps between them, warning Nirvana if she hurts Mindy, she'll never ever be his friend. When she says he'll forget about Mindy and he tells her he won't, Nirvana's frustrations tells Mindy she wants to be a little more than just friends with him. Nirvana decides if she can't have Mork no one can and turns her sword on him, forcing Mork to grab another to defend himself. Showing off his prowess, he expertly slices through a cape and creates an M in a picture of a galaxy, but is immediately disarmed by Nirvana as he's never actually faced a person.

With her sword at his throat, and with her lieutenants watching, Nirvana throws the sword away unable to finish him off, and wanting to make a deal with him. Despite Mindy warning him she can't trust her, Nirvana tells him she will set Mindy free and tell her superiors the Earth is uninhabitable if he will come back with her and be her Mate. When he asks if he can sleep on it, she goes further and offers to be his slave, going down on one knee. At that her lieutenants have had enough and draw a weapon her, deposing her for treason. They tell her they are going to vaporize her and take the two specimens home with them. Mindy causes a distraction and Nirvana manages to kick the weapon into her cage, grabbing it, Mindy holds them all at gunpoint, but because she doesn't know the firing sequence she can't shoot.

As Mindy tries to figure it out, Mork tries to help Nirvana from being subjected to the Necroton Death Hug. Managing to fire off a shot, Mindy gets them all to raise their hands after a confusing few moments about who she means, Mork steps back to her and brings Nirvana with him. Getting Nirvana to let her out, and putting Kama & Sutra into the cage, Mork & Mindy hug in relief, while Nirvana expresses confusion over why they helped her, after she tortured Mork and put Mindy in a cage. Mork tells her that's what friends do. When Mindy asks if she'll let them go, Nirvana says sure, she has the gun, but Mork unnerves Mindy by taking the gun off her and giving it back to Nirvana. As Mindy watches anxiously Mork tells her Nirvana that he and Mindy have more with their friendship then can ever be destroyed by a gun, and asks her 'now' will she let them go. She asks does she have to, and Mork tells her a friend would. Mindy asks her what she's going to do with Kama & Sutra and she tells them she'll try and teach them what they've taught her, but if they don't learn she thinks she'll have them stuffed. She asks them does it hurt when friends leave, and Mork says yes, so she surmises she has made some real friends. Mindy takes Mork arm and leads him out.

The episode ends with Mork's report to Orson who wants to know if he has any special observations to report in the wake of the Necroton attack. Mork tells him that on Earth friendship is as contagious as the Flu, Orson asks if he's sure and he says it must be, he caught it from Mindy and he gave it to Nirvana Orson is shocked he gave it away, and Mork explains he got it right back, like a boomerang. But Orson tells him he wasted it on a Necroton, their arch enemies. Mork replies now they have one less enemy, but Orson points out there are plenty more where she came from. Mork outlays the idea that if everyone makes two firends and each of them make two friends and on and on, pretty soon everyone will be flying friendly skies and united.

Trivia[]

General[]

  • As he had in Mork's Greatest Hit Mork speaks again about a "Holitacker," which mean "duel." During his first appearance on Happy Days, he challenged Fonzie to a holitacker. And we will see one in Season 3s There's a New Mork in Town
  • Robin Williams gets to display some of his athletic ability from his street performing days during his Battle of the Rose duel with Nirvana, allowing himself to be flipped, and doing hand springs and high leaps during a routine.
  • Necroton and Orkan races both possess three hearts.
  • A clip is featured in the best-of episode The Way Mork Were.

Pop Culture[]

  • Mindy dryly answers 'The bass player from Kiss?' when Nirvana wonders who could look good in her uniform. Kiss being the classic Glam Metal '70s band.
  • Nelson says that he heard Candid Camera was coming back. Candid Camera was a long-running hidden-camera show hosted by Allen Funt in which they played practical jokes on unsuspecting people to gauge their reaction (the same concept was later taken to greater extremes on Jackass and countless You Tube videos). The show was canceled in 1978 and didn't return until 1989.
  • Included among the songs in the Belittle Of the Rose dance-off are:
  • While caged with Mindy, Mork mock plays "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" on an imaginary harmonica
  • To try and cheer Mindy up as she's on the swing in the golden cage he sings a line of the chorus of A Bird in a Gilded Cage a popular ballad in 1900 by Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer.
  • Mork says, "I've had a full life I only wish I'd gotten to meet Anson Williams." Anson Williams played 'Potsie' on Happy Days and appeared in several scenes with Mork.
  • Mork says, "Goodbye brains; Hello, Larry." Hello, Larry was a sitcom on rival NBC which had gained a reputation for being bland and unfunny.
  • Mork yells 'Yadda Yadda, Warden!" as he's being led away to have his brains sucked out, which is a line taken from the 1973 comedy album Richard Nixon: A Fantasy by David Frye where Nixon has been imprisoned and is being led away to the gas chamber.
  • He also yells 'Top of the World, Mind! Top of the World, Mindy!' which is a comic derivation of James Cagney's famous 'Top of the World, Ma!' final line from 1949's classic White Heat, when the character knows he's going to die.
  • As the brain sucking process begins Mork does impression of a punch drunk boxer saying, 'Boxing has been good to me, Howard' referring to the famous and unorthodox sportscaster Howard Cosell. This impression occurs again several times through the show (e.g. I Don't Remember Mama; Gotta Run, Part 2) whenever Mork's brain has been messed with or he's punchy.
  • Mork calls Nirvana, 'Captain Fiorucci,' referring to the super trendy and popular at the time designer Elio Fiorucci , whose advertising often featured a woman's buttocks in skin tight trousers.
  • Mork's display of swordsmanship with objects is an homage to a similar scene in Danny Kaye's classic 1955 comedy 'The Court Jester'
  • Mork refers to Orson as your 'Harper's Bazaarness' when talking about swimsuits. Harpers Bazaar fashion magazine, having a long history of detailing trends around swimwear.
  • In his report to Orson Mork quotes lines from 'As Time Goes By' (You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh...) the 1931 song by Herman Hupfeld, most famously featured in 1944s Casablanca

Quotes/Excerpts[]

  • Nirvana: I never wanted to be in the military in the first place! For one thing you have to wear these drab uniforms. Oh I dunno, I mean who could look good in this?
  • Mindy: The bass player from Kiss?

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  • Mindy: Yeah! Like if we were friends we could do nice things for each other. Like I might lend you my best purse? And you might not kill me.

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  • Mork: *takes note from pole* While you were out. How nice.*reads* Dear Orkan Swine, We have captured your pet. if you value her life give yourself up. Otherwise we'll realign her head, steam clean her thighs, and rotate her limbs. Yours truly, Nirvana.

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  • Nirvana: Well I see my plan worked! I am executive timbre!
  • Mork: I hope you get executive termites.

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  • Mindy: Mork there's something I've been wanting to tell you for a long time but I just couldn't.
  • Mork: *takes her hands* Oh...what is it, Mind?
  • Mindy: Well, one time when you weren't' home...I...I put on your spacesuit. *looks embarrassed*
  • Mork: *shocked* The helmet too?!
  • Mindy: Boots and all! Are you mad?
  • Mork: *smiles* No...I've a confession to make to you too. *Mindy looks at him warily* Well one time when you weren't home, I held your blow dryer and jumped up and down on your bed. Are you mad?
  • Mindy: *smiles* No
  • Mork: I guess we've done it all!


Promo[]

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ABC Mork & Mindy promo November 1979

Ernie Anderson narrates the ABC network promo for the 1 hour Special Mork vs. The Necrotons the November 18, 1979 episode of "Mork & Mindy" guest starring Raquel Welch.

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