Mork & Mindy Quotes
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Source: Mork & Mindy
Speaker: Mork
Nanu nanu.
Context
This line is spoken by Mork, played by Robin Williams, in the TV show Mork & Mindy (1978-82).
In the 70s, Sunday and Monday were happy days. Tuesday and Wednesday were happy days. Thursday and Friday were happy days. And Happy Days, the hit Ron Howard sitcom, spun off a ton of shows to fill almost every day of week. Among these spin-offs were Joanie Loves Chachi, Laverne & Shirley, and the weirdest of the bunch, Mork & Mindy.
Mindy is a normal girl, but she is visited by Mork from the planet Ork, who arrives on Earth in a giant egg-shaped spacecraft in order to study human behavior. Mork's alien ways provide comic relief, and his alien language gave the world a brand new catchphrase, his alien greeting "Nanu nanu," accompanied by a Spock-like hand gesture.
Where you've heard it
You've heard this if someone is trying to communicate with an alien or paying paying tribute to Robin Williams.
Additional Notable References
- An Irish pop duo calls themselves Nanu Nanu.
- There was a pizza place in Franklin, NH called Nannou Nannou Pizza, but it is now closed.
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
This quote is the less pretentious cousin of "live long and prosper."