Magic Fingers

OK, so at some point I have to pull myself away from writing about Mork & Mindy. I have unloved early 80s radio sitcoms to discuss, after all. But I thought you might all enjoy one final deleted dirty joke from “Mork vs the Necrotons”. Take a look at this clip, where Mork is thrown onto a torture device which features disembodied hands massaging him: Well, that’s a suspiciously large audience laugh for the innocuous line “Magic fingers”, isn’t it? And even more suspicious is the hand that appears next to Mork’s crotch between shots, between him and Sutra: The answer, as ever, is in the shooting script. In an episode which is all about Captain Nirvana torturing Mork using pleasure: MORK: (INDICATING THIRD HAND) What does that hand do? CAPTAIN NIRVANA: You can’t afford it. The third hand was literally designed to wank Mork off. Enjoy your family sitcom.