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I found it! for those who don't know, Mork and Mindy was a TV
show. Mork (played by Robin Williams) was an alien who had been sent to
Earth to observe human culture. At the end of each show he reported his
observations to Orson, his supervisor. What follows are Mork's
observations on his first Christmas:
"Mork calling Orson. Mork calling Orson...Hello, Orson?
Orson, they have this amazing festival down here, that everybody gets
into, but especially the stores and shopping malls...What's that?...Oh
well, it's sort of an enclosed walkway where you can go and meet your
friends, and smell cookies
baking and buy ice cream cones to spill on the clothes in the stores,
and they're all the same in every city...I think there's an enormous
computer somewhere that spits them out and drops them in the suburbs
right in the middle of a sea of automobiles that can't move, but they
got in there somehow, but there's no way to get anymore in and...Oh,
yes, the festival...Well, it's all about a little boy, with a drum, and
he's born in a sleigh, in some straw, right next to some chestnuts
roasting on an open fire...Yes, it's all very dangerous, but it's okay
because he is guarded by this enormous fat man in a red suit, named
Round John Virgin and he's standing by a tree with a partridge in it,
drinking something called Wassail...No, I'm not exactly sure what that
is, and nobody here can tell me.
"But there's a lady kneeling nearby with a light over her head, and
a couple of sheep and a donkey and a camel and this really strange deer
with a red electric nose. And a dog sleeping on top of his house
while a crotchety old man is hoisting this crippled boy on his shoulder
who is holding a turkey by the neck saying, "God bless us
everyone!" Yeah, the little boy says that, not the turkey...Well,
anyway, after they sing awhile, they take all these packages and wrap
them up in paper, which they then take right off again and the little
kids play with the paper and the older kids say "Is this all there
is?" And the fathers sit in front of the picture-box and the
mothers collapse on a chair. The whole festival concludes 60 days
later with an observance called Visa Card Day, when everybody becomes
really serious, religious, and worshipful. Millions of people
open envelopes and say, "My God!" Yeah, its really a lot of
fun. We ought to introduce it up there on Ork...Well, that's all
for now. Nanu, nanu!"
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