Mary Mack fans have long suspected that she hails from another planet. Her latest project will only bolster their theory.
In the animated series "Solar Opposites," which drops Friday on Hulu, the Minneapolis-based comic plays Jesse, the daughter in an alien family whose spaceship crash-lands in middle America.
They spend their days bingeing on junk food, building evil robots and shrinking antagonists, collecting them like fireflies.
"It's crazy," Mack said of the show last week, a few days after she and her husband, fellow stand-up Tim Harmston, drove around dropping off pumpkin pies to friends. "It's grounded in family relationships and old-school sitcoms, but it's ridiculous."
The visitors have little in common with Mork from Ork — patriarch Korvo (co-creator Justin Roiland) dreams of digging up corpses to have sex with them — but Jesse is their one ray of sunshine.
She's desperate to be adored by her fellow students at James Earl Jones High School and looks for the good in Earthlings, even as she helps raise an infant blob destined to take over the world.
"She's very much the heart of the series," said co-creator Mike McMahan, who, like Roiland, is a veteran of the Adult Swim cult hit "Rick and Morty." "But as Mary helped us flesh out the character and the writing progressed, Jesse became more mischievous and even a little bit malicious."
A few times during the eight-part series, Jesse uses expletives, something you rarely hear Mack do on stage. When "Solar" moved from Fox to Hulu, the writers went to town, adding more than a dozen swear words to every episode.
