Episode
Mork & Mindy: Mama Mork, Papa Mindy
Overview
Mearth learns to walk and talk, but calls Mindy 'shoe'. Mindy starts avoiding Mearth until Mork gives her an opportunity to bond with her son.
Details
- Series
- Mork & Mindy
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1981-11-05
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Mama Mork, Papa Mindy is Episode 5 in Season 4 of Mork & Mindy. It aired on 1981-11-05. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 4: Three the Hard Way
Dr. Exidor determines that Mork is pregnant. Mork gives birth to an egg via his navel. Mindy has trouble accepting that in the egg is their child. The egg grows and hatches a full grown, elderly man as Mork and Mindy's baby.
Episode 6: My Dad Can't Beat Up Anybody
Mork becomes insecure when he thinks he doesn't have Mearth's respect. Mearth finds Mork's spacesuit and Mork wears it as a superhero costume. Mork and Mearth go to a bar, looking for some bad guys and they find more than they bargained for.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: The Honeymoon (3)
Mork and Mindy take their honeymoon on Ork, but Mindy becomes a tourist attraction. Things keep going wrong and Mork doesn't understand Earth honeymoon customs. He confesses to Mindy that he's scared of being married.
Episode 7: Long Before We Met...
Mork accompanies Mindy to her high school reunion and gets upset when Mindy associates with an old boyfirend. Mork then attempts to go back in time to the prom and do away with the boyfriend and he succeeds. When Mork comes back to reality Mindy then assures him that he is the only one she loves.
Episode 2: The Wedding (2)
Orson forbids Mork to marry Mindy because marriage is outlawed on Ork. Because Mork goes ahead with the wedding anyway, Orson turns him into a dog. After a chat with Orson, Mork and Mindy finally get married.
Episode 8: Rich Mork, Poor Mork
Mork turns to Exidor for money advice, and invests all the family's money in Exidor's boutique.
Episode 1: Limited Engagement (1)
After decorating the apartment with flowers, Mork gets down on his knee and proposes to Mindy. Choosing between logic and her emotions, Mindy tells him that she cannot marry him. Mork asks for 24 hours to get her to change her mind.
Episode 9: Alienation
Mork and Mindy tell Mearth he's an alien. Mearth gets upset and runs away. He's captured by a cult of Utopians and Mork and Mindy pretend to be part of the cult to rescue him.
Episode 10: P.S. 2001
Mearth wants to go to school and gets sent to school on Ork. Mearth comes home crying because the other kids made fun of him and he hates the teacher. Mork and Mindy take Mearth back to class and Mearth uses his parents as a show-and-tell item which gains the respect of his classmates.
Episode 11: Pajama Game II
Mearth is allowed to have some of his Orkan friends over and Zelka ends up spending the night. Mork and Mindy explain the facts of life to Mearth when they assume something happened between him and Zelka.
Episode 12: Present Tense
Mearth goes on a trip with Fred so Mork and Mindy have a week to spend alone together. They find that without Mearth at home, they have nothing to talk about. They have a fight. So, to make up, Mork takes Mindy to the place they first met.
Episode 13: Metamorphosis- the TV Show
Mr. Sternhagen, the station manager where Mindy works, gets fired. KTNS's new boss is very young and ready to fire people. He holds a party to meet all the employees' families. A short circuit switches Mork's mind with Mearth's.