I just saw a commercial for “Planet 51”, an animated movie scheduled for release later this month. One of the scenes showed a mother-creature trying to give a spoonful of medicine to a baby-creature. The mother-creature says “Swallow your medicine or an alien will come and take you away!” Suddenly, a human astronaut (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) crashes through the wall. The mother-creature screams and the baby-creature is downing the bottle of medicine.I don’t know why, but it brought back a memory of an episode of “Mork & Mindy”, from the 1970s. Mork (played by Robin Williams) was an Orkan sent to Earth to observe humanity. At the end of each episode, he reported in what he learned.
The Orkans were very peaceful and non-fighters. Whenever someone from another planet landed, they hid. They developed a reputation as the best hiders in the universe. They were also unconquered. Whenever someone tried to conquer them, they hid. The invaders would find cities but no people. Frustrated because they didn’t have anyone to subjugate, the invaders left.
Anyways, in one episode, Raquel Welch guest starred as Captain Nirvana, a Necroton who was given the assignment of finding the Orkan on Earth and capturing him. The Orkans and the Necrotons were enemies. The voice that gave Captain Nirvana her orders also said, “Capture him before he hides. Because once he hides, you’ll never find him!”
Near the end of the episode, Mork confronts Captain Nirvana. Hiding behind Mindy (played by Pam Dawber) but looking over her shoulder, he said “There she is. Look at her. Have you ever seen anything more hideous?”
For some reason, I thought of this. I wonder why?
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