"It's always her apartment. I live here too. I only regret I don't have her clout." - Mork
Mindy's Apartment is the primary dwelling place of Mindy McConnell and, after she invites him to stay with her, following his arrival to Earth, Mork, in Boulder, Colorado, and the main location for the couple's interactions and 'adventures'.
Location[]
Mindy's Apartment is one of two located in the Victorian age house at 1619 Pine Street, Boulder. Her apartment is on the first floor, with the ground floor apartment subsequently leased by Franklin Bickley. A prime location, her apartment is just one street over from Pearl Street and the Pearl Street Mall where her family's Music Store, the NY Deli and other establishments are located.
Owned/Leased By[]
The property at 1619 Pine Street is one of several owned by Landlord Al Klevins (Mindy, Mindy, Mindy). Mindy is the lease holder and sole named tenant of her upstairs apartment.
About[]
Mindy Moving In[]
After 20 years living at the McConnell House, where she was born and raised, Mindy moved out to live on her home around about her 21st Birthday, taking up the tenancy on the apartment on Pine Street. This appears to have occurred sometime after she initially dropped out of college, and, after her fiancé, Dan Phillips broke their engagement, as it's clear from his comments about it on his return that he has never been there before (A Mommy for Morky). She indicates to Mork that she was only just getting used to living alone when he arrived, so she's only likely to be 6 months or so in situ.
Mindy decorates the place herself and gets many compliments about the decor (and the occasionally snarky remark from Susan Taylor, and Mork's 'Disgust'), with Glenda asking Mindy to help decorate her new apartment. She remains the sole named tenant, and apart from that period where Mork holds down a reasonably steady position as a class leader at the Pine Tree Day Care Center, Mindy is likely to have paid the rent pretty much alone.
The Apartment[]
is a hard wood floor, one bedroom apartment with an en-suite bathroom, which serves as Mindy's Bedroom, and after they're married, Mork & Mindy's bedroom. The main room is an open plan combined living room / dining area / and kitchenette with a kitchen bar/counter with a carved wooden post nearest the door. The windows are typical of Victorian era, sash in style with stained glass decoration. It also has a pull down step up attic space, which becomes Mork's bedroom when he first moves in, and later Mearth's.
The Kitchenette[]
is set to the left of the front door (viewer wise) and is a step-up. It contains an old style heavy duty brown refrigerator, with the oven built into the brickwork wall, the electric hob being located on the counter top, as is the sink. A toaster oven, glasses, crockery, cutlery are stored around the kitchen counter area and foodstuffs in the cupboards at the back.
Over the first two years, the Kitchenette only had one entrance and exit (from the front door side) with the counter affixed to the brick wall at the far side. However at the start of year 3 it appears Mindy has had some slight remodeling work done, with the hob being moved more centrally along the counter and the end section of the counter removed and a hinged gate affixed to give easier access from the kitchen to the dining area.
The Dining Area[]
Is on the left hand side (viewer wise) of the kitchen counter, contains a Dark wood table and 6 matching Bentwood Bistro style chairs, and is flanked on the left by brick wall and bookshelves containing (mostly) Mindy's books, vinyl album collection and stereo system.
The Living Room Area[]
is dominated by Mindy's large Red Couch* with it's Paisley style protector on it's back. It is flanked on either side by different style lamps on small lockers throughout. In front of it is Mindy's wicker chest which serves as storage and a coffee table, A striped swivel/rocker arm chair sits on one side of the chest and a beige suede bucket chair sit on either side (often switching positions), and beyond the chest is her tube TV which can be wheeled around.
To the right (viewer wise) of the seated living room area is Mindy's Armoire, wooden wall clock and oversized cushions, her skis, and a chest of drawers..
*Mindy's Red Couch - The couch 'changes' in Season 2 following the episode Mork vs the Necrotons. It remains the same color and has the same backing protector, but prior to this, her couch had curved arms and the cushions were integral to the frame of the couch. Now the arms are straight and there are removable cushions. This is done exclusively to facilitate Mork hiding from the Necrotons *inside* the couch (and scaring Mindy when she sits on the couch), which wasn't feasible with the previous integrated type of couch.
However due to differences in the shooting of the show and the running order in which it was aired, for the rest of Season 2 post The Necroton episode the style of couch switches back and forth near constantly.
Mindy's Couch Post Necrotons - Rest of Season 2
| Old | New |
|---|---|
| The Exidor Affair | Mork vs the Necrotons |
| The Mork Syndrome | Hold that Mork |
| Exidor’s Wedding | A Mommy for Mindy |
| The Night they raided Mindskis | Mork’s Vacation |
| Mork Learns to see | Jeanie Loves Mork |
| Clerical Error | Little Orphan Morkie |
| Invasion of the Mork Snatchers | Looney Tunes and Morkey Melodies |
| The Way Mork Were |
From the start of Season 3 on it remains in the newly cushioned format for all other episodes 'except' There's a New Mork in Town when half way through the episode, a third variation couch is introduced as a 'Stunt' Couch, that will be the one that gets cut in half during Mork & Xerko's Holitacker Duel. This one is a lot lower in height, the arms of the only come half way up and there is a slightly different protector on the back.
Decorations[]
The room is decorated throughout with a variety of Persian style throw rugs on the hardwood floors. There are posters from Taos, Ski Resort in New Mexico, personal photos, plants, wall hangings, paintings and skiing posters, which obviously change slightly through the years as most people's would. Some things remain however, including Mindy's pretty iconic, framed album covers which include:
- Running on Empty - Jackson Browne (1978)
- Snail - Snail (1978)
- Togetherness - L.T.D (Love Togetherness Devotion) (1977)
Mindy's Bedroom[]
Despite being a major part of the apartment, the interior of Mindy's Bedroom is not actually seen until the Season 2 episode A Mommy for Mindy.
Due to the somewhat 'unique' set up of elements (the reappearing/disappearing hallway) of Mindy's Bedroom it has it's own page.
Attic/Mork's/Mearth's Bedroom[]
To the right (viewer wise) of the front door between the window and glass fronted cabinets (holding bottles and glassware that act like a jardinière with most of Mindy's plants, including her Fern and Philodendron on top) are the pull down stairs to the Attic of Mindy's apartment.
Mork makes the attic his own
The attic is a typical musty storage space full of old chests, and items that clearly have accumulated over the years from the people and families that have lived in the house/apartment before Mindy moved in, with the elks head (Moo Moo), old prams, children's bikes, carts and toys, old radios, and vintage and old clothes.
Mork spends his first couple of nights in the Apartment, in the Armoire before going apartment hunting with Mindy,. When that fails and Mork shows an affinity for the dark musty attic. Mindy suggests the Attic could be a perfect place for Mork to live in (Mork Moves In). When she decides to stand up to her father and lets Mork move in with her, Mork takes up residence in the attic. The interior of it however is not seen until A Mommy for Mork, when Mork announces to Mindy that he has 'remodeled' it slightly and takes her up for a tour, where he has put up grass in spots as a form of wallpaper, stuck up some movie posters (Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) upside down, and affixing a lamp stand to the wall so it sticks out parallel to his trapeze swing on which he sleeps.
The Attic is used as the location for Mork's attempt to marry Eugene and Holly (Young Love) and later for Exidor and Ambrosia's wedding (Exidor's Wedding) due to Exidor's delusion of it being a lakeside wood.
Mork shows Mindy around the new Orkan Attic
Later, when Mork suffers from Observer Syndrome (Putting the Ork Back in Mork, Part 2) as part of his attempts to restore Mork's Orkan-ness, the Elder converts the attic into a Earth free, fully Orkan environment, with a digital screen that plays Orkan mottos, Orkan furnishings (some dangerous to humans), and decorations including a landscape by Orkan artist Van Yuck.
Mearth welcomes his Mom to his Mess
Once Mork and Mindy marry, Mork naturally moves into Mindy's room with her on their return from their honeymoon. But the attic room is not left idle for long after the unexpected birth, and incredibly rapid development of Mearth. With his ability to walk and talk after just a few hours, and given his size, the attic space is swiftly repurposed as his bedroom.
Break Ins/Destruction/Mishaps[]
Mindy's Apartment has been the target of a number of break ins, attacks, raids and mishaps over the years, almost (but not quite) all involving Mork to some degree, either as a direct or indirect cause, these include:
Mork Goes Public - Though there's no damage, wannabe Journalist Clint Mullet breaks into Mindy's apartment to try and discover what he thinks she's hiding about aliens.
Mork's Night Out - An aggravated facially tattooed trucker fires a stone through the front window, when a terminally bored Mork tries to reach out to befriend him from upstairs in the apartment.
Dial 'N' for Nelson - Mindy's apartment is attacked by a flash (and stink) bomb thrown through her window in an attempt to frighten Nelson who has taken shelter there after receiving death threats for his stance on pornography and strip clubs in Boulder.
Mork vs. The Necrotons, Part 1 - The door to Mindy's apartment is blasted off its hinges when Nirvana and her Necroton Black Army Lieutenants invade in search of Mork.
Pure Power pays a visit
The Night They Raided Mind-ski's - After Mork befriends a racist group and they discover Mindy has Polish blood, they break into her apartment and wreak widespread destruction, breaking her crockery, the lamps her father gave her as a house warming present, knocking decorations off the wall and upending her bedroom furniture (unseen), as well as hanging an effigy of her in one of her dresses from a noose around its neck that becomes apparent when Mork pulls down the attic stairs.
Mork the Prankster - After being pranked by Mindy and trying to prank her back in an epic style to make her laugh, Mork tries to recreate a prank done by Mr. Bickley in his college years by reconstructing a car inside an apartment, and takes Mindy's Jeep apart to re-assemble it in the apartment, failing to take into account that the apartment is not on the ground floor. The apartment floor giving way and the Jeep falling through to Mr. Bickley's apartment below. The damage done is massively extensive, and the reckless action almost threatens Mork & Mindy's ongoing relationship. Given the damage is fairly rapidly fixed however, it must be assumed that Mork utilized his powers to help fix things, (e.g. Cheerleaders in Chains)
There's a New Mork in Town - The arrival of Xerko the Magnificent who is intent on taking over Mork's job and Mindy, results in a Holitacker between the two Orkans that see's Mindy's couch, wicker chest, lamp, phone and a portion of her wall sliced apart. Again much of this is restored almost immediately, looking like Mork may have taken a hand...or finger.
Limited Engagement - Exidor drives a golf ball right through the apartment's main window, treating the apartment like one of the holes in his new game of Street Golf. .
Mama Mork, Papa Mindy - The newly walking Mearth knocks Mork and Mindy's bedroom door off it's hinges.
Post the Tracy Bomb
Gotta Run, Part 1 - Tracy Andrews, is revealed to be an android and a bomb after an altercation with a furious Mindy who finds the android trying to seduce Mork. In Mindy's literally pulling her hand off the droid in an effort to get it off Mork, the android's self destruct mechanism is activated as per it's programming to assassinate Mork. The explosion that occurs wrecks the main room of the apartment, blowing apart much of the furniture, including the chairs, much of the couch, the Armoire, and blasting out the windows.
Episodes Appeared[]
Mindy's Apartment appears in a scene in every episode of the show, bar Gotta Run, Part 2, though it only appears briefly as part of Mork's sign-in to Orson in Mork's Health Hints as Mindy spends most of her time in the hospital, bar opening and closing scenes with Jeanie & Remo in the Deli.
Solely in Mindy's Apartment[]
Some 10 episodes take place solely in Mindy's Apartment. These include:
- Mork in Wonderland, Part 1
- Exidor's Wedding
- Putting the Ork Back in Mork, Part 2
- There's a New Mork in Town
- Mindy, Mindy, Mindy
- Reflections and Regrets
- Three the Hard Way **
- Pajama Game II
- Mork, Mindy, and Mearth Meet M.I.L.T.
- The Mork Report
** There is a cut scene filmed with the Hammond family for Three the Hard Way set outside the apartment, but as it did not make it into the episode, so it remains a self contained episode within the Apartment.