The show used music and sound effects right from the games, which is fun, and animation wise, I think it holds up pretty well. Toad’s voice, provided by John Stocker, is the same crazy rough voice that he has to this day and Luigi’s cowardice is also on display here as well. Although Nintendo has really tried to back away from both the Italian and plumber aspects of Mario and Luigi, some characteristics on the Super Show seem to have definitely carried over into the present day. They are constantly referencing pasta or pizza and obviously, the entire show starts with Mario calling every “paisano”. Captain Lou and Danny Wells voice Mario and Luigi in the animated segments as well and the show really leans into the idea that they are Italian and plumbers. 3 took its place along-side Captain N and then Super Mario World took over as the final Mario animated series. 3 was released, the Super Show ended and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. Super Show, the show mashed up Super Mario and Super Mario 2, taking characters, locations, and power-ups from both games. Birdo happily agrees to help them fight off bowsers goons and she flies Toad and Mario overhead and they use radishes to drive away Bowser and his forces.įor the first season of The Super Mario Bros. Toad manages to escape Birdo by using his head to parachute to safety(?) and the quartet find baby Cheep-Cheep frozen and Mario uses the fire flower to unthaw him. Luckily, they end up in a cave with a fire flower in it and Mario blasts their way out. Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach have to trek through some frozen mountains to reach the nest where Toad was taken but they are attacked by Bowser’s forces and caught in an avalanche. One truly bizarre aspect of Birdo is that she seems to have milk constantly coming out of her mouth and she slops it all over Toad and, for whatever reason, it’s way more disgusting to me then if she was just drooling. The cartoon story for this episode concerns Toad being kidnapped by Birdo, although Birdo here is not an egg spewing villain but a nearsighted, loony mother who is looking for her baby and thinks Toad is him. Luckily, she’s going to a “sloppy party”(?) where the messiest person in attendance wins a prize and so Mario and Luigi, probably way too enthusiastically, start rubbing more cake, dirt, and pie onto Nicole to help her out. The live action story also just devolves into Nicole Eggert getting into a series of sloppy accidents as Luigi leaves cake and pies just lying around everywhere and the Brothers’ old furnace blasts her with soot. The really strange part of this live-action segment (well, one of the most strange parts) is that Mario and Luigi seem to be setting up some sort of lesson about neatness and cleanliness for the cartoon story of the day, in the vein of say, a Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos where Chuck gives the life lesson we are supposed to learn during the episode, but the cartoon story has literally nothing to do with neatness or cleanliness. This first episode features Nicole Eggert, who was currently starring on Charles in Charge at the time and would co-star on Baywatch a few years later. Hosted by Captain Lou Albano and Danny Wells as Mario and Luigi respectively, every episode would open in the Brothers’ Brooklyn plumbing shop and usually, some sort of celebrity guest would drop by to hang out. Super Show is a strange beast all around but in a charming, fun way. Super Show for the latest Auto Pilot.ĭid I Know Anything Going In?: I’ve seen a bunch of clips over the years, like montages of Link’s “Excuse Me Princess” catchphrase and knew about Captain Lou’s involvement but never saw a full episode from start to finish. With us heading to AVGC this weekend, it seems like the perfect time to dive into the first episode of The Super Mario Bros.
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