Mork & Mindy 1980s (as opposed to the "Happy Days" setting of Milwaukee in the late-1950s). Mork explains to Richie that he is from the "future": the 1970s. Mork arrives on Earth in an egg-shaped spacecraft. He has been assigned to observe human behavior by Orson, his mostly unseen and long-suffering superior (voiced by Ralph James). Orson has sent Mork to get him off Ork, where humor is not permitted. Attempting to fit in, Mork dresses in an Earth suit, but wears it backward. Landing in Boulder, Colorado, he encounters 21-year-old Mindy (Pam Dawber), who is upset after an argument with her boyfriend,
EST and The Forum in popular culture also drawn parallels to "est" and Werner Erhard, in reviews of the films "Fight Club" and "Magnolia". Concepts from the Landmark Forum were utilized by The Wachowskis in their film "The Matrix Revolutions". Werner Erhard's training programs have been parodied in television. The 1979 episode of "Mork & Mindy", "Mork Goes Erk", and the 2002 episode of "Six Feet Under", "The Plan", are the most notable. In the "Mork & Mindy" episode, the Erhard parody character was played by David Letterman. Madison, Wisconsin's Broom Street Theater produced a play about Werner Erhard and "The Forum" in 1995, called "Devil In