Sunday, June 28, 2026

Flopcast 738: Happy Days Spinoffs Part 1 - Mork and Pepsi

As promised/threatened, we're looking at all the TV series that can be considered spinoffs of Happy Days. And yikes, there are so many that we're splitting them into two episodes. So this week, we're covering: Laverne and Shirley! (Remember when Laverne, Shirley, and everyone they knew all moved from Milwaukee to Los Angeles together?) Mork and Mindy! (Remember when Mork gave birth to a weird old man?) And Blansky's Beauties/Who's Watching the Kids! (What?) And yeah, we're just getting started. If you can't stand the excitement, just have Fonzie whack your phone and stop the podcast.

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Show Notes

Laverne and Shirley on the bottling line, from the classic show intro:

For some reason, Felicity vivdly remembers Laverne and Lenny singing together.

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They made Blansky's Beauties so complicated, they might as well have set it in the same universe as Nancy Wallker's Bounty commercials.

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Mork was bizarre, Exidor even more so, but nothing prepared us for Mearth! (And apparently, everyone on Mork and Mindy only wore nightgowns.)