Godfrey is a charming, urbane and utterly proud drop out and vagrant. A professional bum, he catches sight of Mork trying to raise money, and offers to mentor him for a fee. Appearing in Season 3's Mork and the Bum Rap he is played by Ross Martin.
About Godfrey[]
Godfrey is dining in Da Vinci's restaurant when he catches Mork's one man 'telethon' for 'Mindy's kids'. Mork trying to raise money to help Mindy reach her promised fund raising total for the new children's hospital. Liking Mork's energy, he offers to teach him the tricks of the trade for money raising, for a cut.
Taking him down to prime territory they hit the Boulder, Bus Station, where they run through various styles for Mork to try out, including miserable, charming, Mime, until they hit on one that will work for him. And it does.
Returning home outfitted out in best bum clothes, Mork presents Mindy with quite a haul, including money he bummed off several of her friends. Mortified, Mindy tells him that his mentor Godfrey is a bum, and no matter what Godfrey has told him begging for money is a humbling and embarrassing practice. Confused, as he is not gathering money for himself, but for her hospital contribution, Mork finds it hard to see the distinction with what she's doing with her letter writing campaign. The difference, she says is that the people she's writing too know it's not for her, but the hospital, but the people giving him money don't, they think they're just giving money to a vagrant.
Going back to the bus station, Mork does what he thinks is right and gives the money back, or tries to. Just as he starts to succeed, throwing the money out there for people in the station, like crumbs to pigeons, Godfrey returns and watches on in horror. Feeling like Mork has betrayed everything he believes in, and everything he's taught him, he storms off. Returning home, Mork is equally bemused to find Mindy isn't overly happy that he's given the money back, but accepts that the whole concept is confusing and there's a thin line between fund raising and begging.
As they talk they get an unexpected visitor, Godfrey, who has come to speak to them both. While at the bus station he found a little girl who was lost, and though it went against everything he believed in, he gave her some money so she could call home for them to come get her. The feeling he got from doing that, he said, gave him pause about what Mork did, and what Mindy was doing, and he hands over (with some difficulty) a contribution to her collection, and...though it pains him...when he hears she's just a little shy of the total still, he digs in again to get her over the line.
Thanking him for his generosity, Mindy asks him before he goes, whether he's ever given some consideration to settling down and getting a job. Taking on responsibility, he nods, getting married, having kids, putting them through the college. That's how he got to be a bum in the first place he tells them.