Can You Guess This TV Theme? #27 - Answer

After the actor playing Mork gets frustrated and quits during a rehearsal during 'Happy Days', Garry Marshall allegedly sent his casting director to the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles to see a small comic named Jay Leno for the open role. The casting director saw Robin Williams perform and knew he was the person to introduce to Garry Marshall for the role of Mork the alien from Ork.....

Between the ad-libbing and his ability to make everybody laugh during his appearance on 'Happy Days' (I'm surprised 'Happy Days' didn't jump the Ork'), Garry Marshall pitches a Mork spinoff to ABC. ABC gave Marshall a shot, and cast Pam Dawber as Mindy, after seeing her in a shampoo commercial....

Alas, 'Mork and Mindy' was born.... Over four seasons, Mork absorbed Earth's cultures as his partner Mindy stumbled along for the ride....

Did you know that Robin Williams won a "Best TV Actor" Golden Globe for his role a Mork? Or that the house used in the show (still one of the most popular landmarks in Boulder, Colorado), was later used as the house where Larry and Balki settle down with their wives in the show 'Perfect Strangers', and was shown as the house that Myra (Steve Urkel's girlfriend) lived in on the show 'Family Matters'?

I would go into the whole Robin Williams having a cocaine habit, and his friend Jon Belushi's overdose and death cited as the reason Robin Williams quit using drugs (all of which happened during the Mork and Mindy's television run).... But that stuff is just too depressing.... Enjoy today's theme!

Citizen Of The Day #2

Nate Hill, a performance artist from Brooklyn, New York, has garnered quite a bit of attention for his actions.

Dressed in a white tuxedo and a dolphin headpiece, he transforms into he becomes his "Crackie". And every other Saturday night, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., he delivers $1 bags of "crack" - really crystallized sugar - to anyone who calls in an order in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, New York.

Just what we need, another large man dressed as a large dolphin in a tuxedo, selling fake crack to anyone who orders. This is becoming an epidemic!

Amnesty Cans

The Indio Police Department set up an amnesty program at the Three Day Coachella Music Festival concert last weekend.

Police set up large trash cans, and signs telling the concert goers that they can dispose of the drugs and weapons they have in the cans without any risk of arrest before they proceed through the security line.

In the "Amnesty Cans", police retrieved:

- 400 Cigarettes Tainted with PCP
- 457 Marijuana Cigarettes
- 51 Grams of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
- 46 Grams of Cocaine
- 7 Grams of Meth
- 300 Paper Tabs of LSD
- 1,013 Tablets of Prescription and Over-The-Counter Drugs
- 97 Tablets of Ecstasy, and
- 1 Milliliter of Morphine.

Boy George

You guys all know the story about Boy George getting arrested for cocaine possession after he called the police to his house to report a robbery at his house, and when the cops were searching his house they found a big pile of cocaine.


Well, he got community service. He has to clean up the mean streets of New York City in a bright orange vest. His lawyer allegedly gave a few other community service options to the judge. The other community service options included Boy being a DJ at an HIV AIDS benefit, do some telephone outreach - calling houses to tell people to stay away from drugs, or he could put together a fashion/makeup seminar. Um.....Yeah....Not so much.....