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You're Right!
The fall of 1981 brought the most surprising developments of all. Mork and Mindy were married, and honeymooned on Ork--which proved to be full of bizarre creatures. Shortly thereafter Mork gave birth, by ejecting a small egg from his navel. The egg grew and grew and finally cracked open to reveal a full-grown Jonathan Winters! Mearth, as they named their first child, weighted 225 pounds and looked middle-aged, but babbled like a baby, calling Mork "Mommy" and Mindy "Shoe." Since things were backwards on Ork, he would gradually grow younger (instead of older) and never want for affection in his waning years.
Despite some hilarious scenes between Robin Williams and his idol Jonathan Winters, the series was by this time losing audience rapidly and left the air at the end of the season. It had succeeded primarily because of the versatile talents of Williams, who mugged, mimicked, and delivered torrents of one-liners and Orkan gibberish. At the end of each episode he repored back to his leader Orson, on Ork, twisting his ears and signing off, "Na nu, na nu"--good-bye in Orkan.
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