gerrad: sheldon, played so wonderfully by jim parsons, injected this humanity into him. andy greene: you care a lot more about sheldon. he s - he s not comic relief. he s sort of the hero in a weird way. howard: sheldon, what the hell are you doing? sheldon: same thing i ve been doing for 3 days! trying to figure out why electrons behave as if they have no mass when traveling through a graphene sheet. bernadette: with marbles? sheldon: i needed something bigger than peas, now didn t i? chuck: what makes these characters wonderful is they want to be included. gerrad: and then there s the very beautiful penny who lives across the hall from sheldon and leonard. leonard: oh, welcome to the building. penny: oh, thank you! maybe we can have coffee sometime. leonard: oh great! penny: great. sheldon: great. leonard: great. andy greene: she s funny, but they show her as having a fraction of their iq. howard: howard walowitz, caltech department of applied physics. you may be familiar with some o
white supremacist: are you sure you re in the right place? gerrad: the night they raided minsky s is a fascinating episode because mork, unbeknownst to him, is supporting this politician who happens to be part of a white supremacist group. white supremacist: try this on for size. mork: oh, dress up, do you have a frankenstein mask? white supremacist: there are no steins allowed in here. gerrard: and mork doesn t really realize what this, this fascist group stands for. mindy: mork do you know what bigotry is? mork: sure, bigotry, that s why they have in italian forests, big-a-tree! pam: i think what made the alien character work so beautifully is his observations were pure. racist: i feel strange. racist 2: me too. racist 3: look, blake is black. mindy: mork, what happened? mork: i m just going to reprogram their genes.
gerrad: the night they raided minsky s is a fascinating episode because mork, unbeknownst to him, is supporting this politician who happens to be part of a white supremacist group. white supremacist: try this on for size. mork: oh, dress up, do you have a frankenstein mask? white supremacist: there are no steins allowed in here. gerrard: and mork doesn t really realize what this, this fascist group stands for. mindy: mork do you know what bigotry is? mork: sure, bigotry, that s why they have in italian forests, big-a-tree! pam: i think what made the alien character work so beautifully is his observations were pure. racist: i feel strange. racist 2: me too. racist 3: look, blake is black. mindy: mork, what happened? mork: i m just going to reprogram their genes.
you also see the advent of the nerd. screech: hey lisa, my horoscope says that we re destined to dance together. lisa: my horoscope says, beware of dorks. alice leppert: but there s sort of this lost puppy aspect to screech that takes him from a caricature of you know, just the nerd, to someone that the viewer actually roots for. jacqueline coley: then with fresh prince, carlton was the first one of the first black nerds on screen. carlton: wait till we come downstairs in those tuxes. people may not think we re twins but i ll bet they think we re brothers. will: you know, i don t think you have to worry about anybody mistaking you for a brother. danny: i always loved carlton, just the way he was true to himself. group: go carlton! go carlton! gerrad hall: a lot of these outsider characters, they were just a sidekick of sorts, but once you start to get into the 90s, geeks are becoming more and more part of the national conversation.
rattled like a baby rattle and thrown back down and i realized that my job was, get out of this man s way. robin williams: because it was so free-form, at that time, it was different than all the other situation comedies. larry king: you adlibbed a lot of that? robin williams: oh yeah, huge. you would go off, and you had people who would you know, go with it, three cameras. good luck. fonzie: must be a pretty tough bugger. mork: no, not a question of toughness i am protected by a stellar force field, watch! [makes noises] see? tina fey: mork on happy days. that is a star driven performance. you know, he was a force of nature. cedric: robin williams was just a unique comic at the time, when he came on, just had so much energy and so magnetic. gerrad: people loved the character and thus mork was mindy born. mindy: how do you say thank you in your language? mork: we spit.