Mork & Mindy 2: The Incredible Shrinking Mork is a novelization of the two part episode Mork in Wonderland.
Unlike the first book, this edition features 36 black-and-white photos from the episode interspersed with text, each picture covering roughly a third of the page. The writing is also at a slightly more advanced level.
Jacket Description[]
MORK GROWS DOWN!
When Mork got a head cold, he couldn't stop laughing - the Orkan way of sneezing. But when Mindy McConnell gave him a cold capsule, she didn't laugh - because Mork was having a peculiar Orkan reaction: he was shrinking.
Either that or the whole world's suffering from inflation.
No time for small talk, Mork's in big trouble. Will he gorgle? Can a shrink help?
Not even Exidor - who's a little short from the neck up - or Mindy - who's got the biggest heart in the galaxy - can stop Mork from shorting out of the big time and into a joke-and-dagger universe - where there's a shortage of everything but laughs!
WHAT A DOWNFALL!
WHAT AN UPROAR!
WHAT A COMEDOWN!
WHAT AN UPSET!
Plot Expansion / Differences[]
As with most novelizations there are expansions in regards to the plot, often because the novelization is based on an original screenplay that is ultimately altered and edited down for filming/airing
More time is given over to Mindy back in the real world, who in the wake of Mork shrinking away and without anyone to talk to with Fred & Cora gone, goes into a form of denial after Mork shrinks away. Having to deal with Exidor's return to the apartment. She tries to convince herself that this is some kind of gag on Mork's part, before deciding that he may pop up somewhere else and end up lost and goes to put in a missing persons report with the Sheriffs office (where Deputy Tilwick is now Sherriff) dealing with a High School Friend Jackie McKay, and quickly regretting it.
Mork doesn't go straight to Mirth, but finds himself, briefly, like Gulliver in Lilliput like alternate Pluto, where he towers over everyone, and where Ork is known but considered a mythological place. They help him by sending him to an ancient cave where a huge (for them) space ship has long been held, one which transpires to be in the shape of an Egg, but when Mork tries top operate it to get him back to Boulder, the ship goes the opposite direction and plunges him further into the molecular universe, with things breaking down and resolving around him until finally he plunges into Mirth.
Jerry Looney, Bob Faith and Danny St. Tommy, are replaced by 3 out of work superheroes, who though they still wear tuxedos (to fit in with the comedian vibe of the revolution) wear T shirts underneath them marking them as Fatman, Stupidman and Caterpillarman, parodies of Batman, Superman and Spiderman. They spend a great deal of their time bickering with one another about who is the best, and Mandy is pretty unequivocal, both vocally and in thought, in how useless she thinks they are.
Mandy is treated with even more reverence by her troops, with titles like 'Your Joyship' and has servants/a handmaiden. Her pragmatism is even more clear, willing to risk her own life and anyone else's to end Exidon's tyranny and free her people. Her reaction to Mork is discussed amongst the other characters, and between this and Mork's inner thoughts, it's made clear that she and Mork have quickly fallen in love with each other.
A lot more time is given over to Mork's interactions with Exidon, particularly in regards to how Mork gets his hands on the tape after telling Mandy about it in the castle. And the escape from the dungeon with Mandy is a lot more elaborate.