Super Mario Bros. Super Show Episodes 13-16 Review

Hey, paisanos! It's the Super Mario Bros. Super

Show! To pixels in the animation. I am one of

your hosts to join Mike and joining me is TVs.

Mr. Nail You know Captain Lou would never sound

that you're flat No flats. No, he can be cheerful.

He just would never sound that flat Yeah, but

it's a me Mario. That's a that's a current generation

thing Was not the original 90s show so this is

a this is episode three As you find listeners

will be able to tell we are slowly Decreasing

the episodes per podcast and we just can't take

it Well, it's like the first two episodes episode

one Total running time was an hour and 32 minutes

and it was six episodes Yeah, we said a lot,

but we didn't you know I mean it's one of those

things where we did talk a lot and there are

you know I try to only get like 30 20 second

clips something like that. You know Something

small. I don't get like the whole show's audio.

There's no People can just buy the DVDs or find

it on Netflix if they actually want to watch

the show And it's one of those things where For

me, it's Technically it'd be including intro

and outro. It's 14 clips Well, probably double

that 24 clips to edit a whole podcast for this

show with six episodes because you got to have

six Increment audios you gotta it. It's a whole

whole rigmarole so From this point on we're gonna

be switching. I think between three and four

episodes per podcast and that'll take us through

episode 15 and then when we hit episode 16 we

head to Hyrule. Oh wow you're actually excited

about that? Well the Zelda cartoon is better

than the Mario cartoon. Yeah that's true. Except

for that frog episode. You know I saw that in

one of the Zelda reviews on one of the episodes

that we watched. for this episode. Oh God. No,

no, I'm a frog. You have to kiss me. I have a

bad sinus infection. Oh crap. All right. Um,

yeah. What I do love and I'll bring this up in

the episode that it happens, but I Love with

the set that we're gonna either talk about this

week or next week that they're finally they finally

started going more towards Mario Brothers Super

Mario Brothers villains. Yes, the Bezos are still

there Yes, the shy guys the albatross the all

that all the stuff from Mario 2 is still there

But in one of the episodes, again, I don't remember

if it's this week's podcast or next week's, they

finally put Goombas in the show. I was like,

hell yeah. Well, there was Goombas in the River

Race episode, but they were barely in it. Yeah,

if I would have... Seen them or if I would have

noticed them or if I would have you know, I would

have said it back then Oh my god, the goombas.

Yeah, you know, I don't even think I did. I don't

remember if I did or not So yeah, let's go ahead

and get to the episodes today Copper fittings.

Unidate. Is that what this is all about? What

a fail. Luxuriant body hair, bulging muscles,

can bench press 500 pounds. R .E .O., what kind

of a woman is this? Those are not her qualities,

those are mine. I copied them from a Rambo bubblegum

cart. Burns are on the bottom. Rambo bubblegum

cart. Out of this world girl with head in the

clouds loves to travel. My old Mario, this girl

sounds like a 747. Oh yeah, go ahead Luigi, make

fun of her. But when you see my date, boy will

you be jealous. Her name is Eatsy. First up today

is Toad Warrior. Oh no. Guess what movie this

is a rip off of. Yeah, oh No, it's not just a

ripoff of one movie. It's a ripoff of multiple

movies. Yeah It just is and it's Why does toad

need his own episode that Doesn't even give him

any character development whatsoever because

we just can't get enough of the squeak toy noise

on effect just that's just oh so so bad it's

just and it's not even a at this point it's more

like a baby rattle than it is to me then it is

an actual doggy squeak toy it just is so bad

so the live -action segment was EC the extra

creepy And it took me a minute, but the guest

who's playing EC is Claire Carey, who is the

daughter on coach. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right.

Other than that, not really noteworthy. Well,

actually, no, no, no. Actually, EC is actually

very noteworthy. Why is that? Because, well,

think about it. This is... September 25th 1989

Way before the internet or computer dating was

ever even thought of Like in in the mainstream

Okay, I would say like the the online dating

scene kind of took off maybe 97 98 Like it first

like bloomed then But no, this is that's You

know Mario had a computer day to you know, my

computer date is an alien Stepmom is nearly Years

before eHarmony. Oh Don't even get me started.

I I seriously doubt that guy's a doctor. I Really

really do So, uh, for Toad Warrior, or Toad Warriors,

Koopa's road gang has stolen all the spaghetti

sauce in Car Land. So Mario's group must work

to get it back. Episode is based on, obviously,

the road warrior. Featured song is Born to be

Wild by Steppenwolf. Oh, boy. the plot is just

I I will like I like this about the plot and

I'll mention it later, but I Do kind of like

the whole drag racing thing with toad and koopa.

I thought that was kind of cool and funny I like

how toad is always insulting koopa stupa koopa

koopa stupa I really do like that from toad and

and This will happen throughout this episode

today, and it will happen. I guarantee you next

week when we do episode four I'm really getting

sick of the whole food thing. I really am I Really

like food is a plot Biggest plot hole ever I

mean Okay, I get it you know back in the 80s

You know parents, you know told their kids what

you know, even nowadays parents tell their kids

would eat even on halftime They're just taking

the McDonald's but you know Back then obesity

and even now I'm not saying I'm a fat guy. I'm

a fat 30 33 year old man I don't I don't care

but I you know, I can talk about this when I

was a kid You saw ads of obese kids all over

the television everywhere And back then there

were no like nowadays McDonald's, Burger King,

Subway, I don't even know if Subway was, we didn't

have a Subway in Massachusetts, so I'm not sure,

I don't remember one. You know, all these fast

food chains were just fast food, unhealthy, burgers,

fries, shakes, that's what it was back then.

Whereas today, they're like, hey, have a happy

meal with apples and milk, you know? My whole

point here is, is this show, specifically the

Super Mario World Super Show, this cartoon segment,

every episode that we will talk about between

this podcast and next week, it always ends with

Mario wanting to eat. It does. Is this the one,

I hadn't watched this today, I watched this last

week, but is this the one where it ends with

him just taking a big mouthful of sauce? at the

end yes and it doesn't stop it's like flowing

into his mouth and it's not dripping out of the

ground at all i know i know and it's okay i i

get it you know and You can talk about this in

a second as well, but this also ties into the

fact of all these government jerks nowadays saying

video games are violent, video games are causing

children to be violent. This is the same kind

of thing with the whole food thing. Yes, parents

are responsible for their children. They're,

you know, for what their children do, eat, say,

whatever. But, I'm sorry, this show... Might

have contributed to someone become some young

child in 1989 becoming obese later in life because

the whole point of this cartoon specifically

I mean this episode, you know Food is good in

moderation. You know what I mean? It's like You

can never have, and I hate to be cliche here,

but you can never have too much of a good thing

all at once. You can't have two gallons of ice

cream in once, you know what I mean? It's one

of those things where, and I know it's fictional,

I get it, but kids of the 80s, we were impressionable,

damn it. I don't know about kids today, but I

was very impressionable. Granted, I'm not gonna

go out looking for a spaghetti sauce truck and,

you know, just put my mouth under the hose. You

know what I mean? But it's one of those things.

We saw it on television. We would want it right

then and there. We would want as much as Mario

was having. And I don't think that was a good

message at all. I just don't. Any thoughts on

the overall plot? Not really. Like I said, it's

been a week since I've seen it. This is the one

that I'm... fuzziest about on this episode, but

I Just I just remember that last shot of Mario

just sucking up the spaghetti sauce and I think

it's a comedy thing but Unlike unlike other shows

like Garfield. It's just it's just not funny.

It's because they keep going back. It's just

it's the same Joke every single episode and at

least at least with Garfield. They kind of change

up the lasagna thing. It's It's kind of like,

it's kind of like an undercurrent with the rest

of comedy where it's just overt and Mario is

always eating. Well, it's Mario is always eating

and Mario is always eating quote unquote Italian

food. You know what I mean? It's like, is there

Italian plumbers from Brooklyn? We get it. This

cartoon is going to contribute to some kid becoming

a fat plumber. A fat plumber that can't dig his

way out of a hole. That'll come up later. Alright,

let's see if we can find any fire flowers to

be powered up with. Car 54 and a half calling

King Koopa. I've arrested the princess and her

faucet street friends. Lock them up and throw

away the key. And whatever you do, don't let

them get away. The last of the spaghetti sauce

is almost in my hands. I'll make a fortune selling

it back to those miserable mushrooms. And now

I've got that pesky princess too! So, some fire

flowers. Did you find anything you liked about

this episode? I like that it paid homage to The

Road Warrior to a certain extent. I mean, of

course. Koopa was the ayatollah of rock n' roll

and they had the gyrocopter pilot in there of

course. Other than that, not really. It was a

toad -centric episode which meant that it was

going to be annoying. In fact, I should save

that complaint for the next. Yes, you should.

We get to the goombas. Ah, a mushroom rebel chopper.

Is it just me or is this episode supposed to

be like Empire? This is Star Wars meets Road

Warrior, honestly. The whole point was Rebel

base, Rebel this, Rebel that, and I'm thinking,

yeah, hello Empire Strikes Back. To a certain

extent. To a certain extent. I didn't enjoy the

Koopa Trooper diving under his car. That was

funny. I did enjoy that. I thought that was cool.

Want to drag King of the Road Koopa? Like I said

before, I did enjoy that. I thought that was

pretty cool. However, when we get to the Goomba

stomping, I will have a huge problem with how

Toad got his motorcycle powers. God. Oh yeah,

this is... Oh yeah. I'll save my complaint here.

Yeah, alright, let's get to the Goomba Stomping.

Yay! A Mushroom Rubble Chopper! So let's stomp

on some Goombas. The Toad Warrior is created

from the Star Man. Yeah, this is the beginning

of the thousand and one ways that the Mario and

company get power ups and it always results in

the same basic thing. Oh, except... Not in this

episode, because they take a star man and he

becomes the road warrior, basically. Right, but

like... Okay, the fire flower is the same as

in the game. Obviously, we don't have mushrooms

because, you know, drug resistance, education,

all that stuff in the 80s, drug abuse resistance.

Yeah, I dare. There you go. I dare to be stupid.

But it's one of those things where, how can they

not find a way to properly animate, colorize,

and show what the Starman is supposed to do,

specifically with Mario, not necessarily with

the Toad Warrior, but with Mario. Every time

he gets a Starman to this point in the series,

and it happens after this, When he touches it,

they show him multicolored for a half a second.

And then he just turns into, he just stays like,

he still has the star power, that's the thing.

He still has the star power and he says, oh,

I'm Super Mario. And it makes no sense. Believe

it or not, I can kind of understand why they

wouldn't do that in this cartoon just because

they're still using cell animation. And that

would be a tough thing to coordinate. getting

him to move and swapping the colors back and

forth like he does in the game. So I think that's

the reason why they kind of made it so that the

star man and the fire flower do the same thing

in the show. Plus it would be silly if he had

a power up where he just walked around and touched

people and made them die. That would be hard

to work into the stories. Unless you gave him

a black hood and a meat cleaver. Although I do

I do like what happens when toad D powers in

this episode The power wears off and he's on

a tricycle Yeah, that's toad on a trike oh god

The only other thing I had is as all this battling

and road warrioring is going on Why does Luigi

have X'd out Koopa Troopa stickers to put on

his plane every time he takes one out? Like,

do they have time? Hey, before this battle, let's

make stickers for the plane! I know it's a nitpick

on my part, but that was just like... It's a

reference to something. I don't exactly remember

what, but it might even be the roadmap. Yeah,

it might be road warrior, but it also like to

me It's more so referencing like the Looney Tunes

stuff like it like the episodes were Tweety's

like I lose more Sylvester's that way Yeah, I

lose more buddy that's that way I don't know

Overall I I did enjoy but at the same time. I

didn't enjoy this episode um it was okay i'll

say that it was middle of the road for me at

least any other thoughts i don't think so all

right we're gonna move on to the next episode

plumber's log number 295 the ancient city of

mythos we were looking for an old paisano of

toads whose name was they even built a statue

to him with one hand tied behind his back he

can beat king koopa and all of his bad guys look

behind us up next is the fire of hercu fleas

okay all right so this one was Mario and Luigi

retain an out -of -shape here reach retrain an

out -of -shape hero so that he can reclaim the

stone great balls of fire I so have to put that

song in this episode now from KUVA featured song

obviously Jerry Lee Lewis great balls of fire

which is not on the DVD obviously Sucks. And

then the live -action segment was the Mario's

Fight Back. David Horowitz interviews the Mario

Brothers on worldwide television after they claim

their Mario Brothers clog cleaner can dissolve

any clog in three minutes or less, but the result

is a disaster. Oh man, the live -action segment.

I swear that sink was gonna explode. Like but

before they know before they knocked him out.

I swear that sink was gonna explode And then

at the end of plant monster comes out of it Is

they use plant food? Well, I think it was like

a hairball or something. It was in the drain

and it made the air ball grow. Oh Yeah, okay.

I see I see but they did use plant food. Yeah.

Yeah Cartoon logic. Yeah Miracle grow. Yeah exactly

cartoon launching a monster grow I love I love

that the live -action segments have a running

gag or whenever something goes wrong The Mario

brothers just look at each other go. Oh, oh Yeah

It's um It's you know what the two of them. I

hate to say this and it's so far before this

happens, but When they did the uh -oh in this

scene it was so reminded me of Well, we've already

had one Power Rangers reference in this episode

reminds me of the ooze men in the Mighty Morphin

Power Rangers the movie the full -on film in

1995 because in the beginning scene of that film

That the Rangers are fighting the ooze men from

Ivan Ooze, and there's one where Adam and Rocky,

two of the characters, two of the Rangers, are

like, double whammy? Double whammy! And you see

the Ooze man just look at the camera and go,

uh -oh! They kick him in both sides of his head

and his eyes pop out of his head. Oh, jeez. Go

ahead. Whenever Mari and Luigi do that uh -oh

thing, the next thing that comes out of my mouth

is SpaghettiOs. Again, it's the food thing. Oh,

it's the food. Too much food. Oh yeah, canned

pasta. Yeah. Alright, so the uh... The animated

one hmm I Probably wrong with this, but I swear

I heard the rocky theme It was sort of the rocky

theme because they were they were totally homaging

the movie where he's running up the stairs Yeah,

and they it starts with the rocky theme and then

it kind of goes off in a different direction

because I think There's a licensing problem with

that Yeah, so It's it's it's a sound alike and

I love that throughout the entire training homage

It basically takes place in like the span of

an afternoon Yeah Because what what else could

Koopa be doing if it took if they did that in

real time It's like he could have taken over

the Mushroom Kingdom by now. So it clearly is

only this was like 40 minutes of time. It took

him to go from fab flab to fab Yeah Yeah, I don't

know who the voice actor was for her gif leaves

I Think it was the same guy who does the voice

of Cooper. It sounds it sounds like very very

He sounds much more toned down it's like hey

guys, you know, he sounds very Yeah. Lethargic.

I love how the Bezos just show up and take the

great balls of fire. He's like, hey, stop. He's

totally ineffective. They can't really stop anyone

from taking them. It's a wonder that he managed

to protect them for that long. Yeah. I know.

And it's one of those things, though, where...

What I don't like about it is you have that really

tame voice of all guys I can't do it. I am no

hero I'm too fat and when he gets buffed up and

back in shape, it's it's deeper It's not the

Koopa voice, but it's a it's a deeper version

of that tone down voice and I just don't like

the voice change I just didn't care for it at

all. So let's go ahead and get to the fire flowers

after this. Alright, we are up to the fire flowers

here for the herculean episode Trash -talking

Bezos the only time I've enjoyed the Bezos to

this point when they're trash -talking I thought

that was funny as hell And as I already mentioned

the altered rocky theme when they're getting

the hero back in shape what What other things

did you like about this one? And you can't say

that it ended, because you've said that every

single... Yeah, I've said that joke already this

episode. Let's see... I don't know if this really

counts as a like, but it's just... It's another

episode where they take... They take a myth or

a pre -existing story and adapt it into a Mario

cartoon. It's not terrible. It's one of the better

ones. It's at least funny in spots. It's not

like the magic carpet one or the love potion

one. It's actually sort of good. What I really

enjoyed was, hey, let's be statues, and Mouse

are not noticing. Like, how can you not notice

that? Especially once the stink hit Luigi's nose.

Like, was Mouse so far away by that point that

he didn't even turn around to see them? That's

silly. Alright, let's go stomp on some Goombas.

King Koopa was right. You're not a hero. You're

a zero! All right, it's Goomba Stomping time.

When you have a... Is it this one? Yeah. During

the Super Toad sequence, when you have music

during a fight sequence, it should not be ballroom

dancing music. That's the replacement for the

Great Falls of Fire song that was originally...

I know, but they could have gotten non -contractual,

you know what I mean? They could have gotten

a non -licensed fast -paced song instead of,

hey, let's go dancing. Yeah, that was totally

weird. I remember thinking that this is totally

out of place. And I read that the replacement

music was taken from the... mario 3 and mario

world cartoon so i'll have to remember that when

we get to those yeah i mean at least with mega

move at least with that replacing most of the

stuff in mario 3 for the dvds and and and the

media stuff since it's not since you can't they

couldn't use it at least they used mega move

every time and at least mega move has it's upbeat

it's not this slow drowned out dance music um

the other one was um as i said before and then

it happens here does mario really have to reference

food all the time in the ending of every episode

yes there's some of your uh dislikes for this

one oh let's see um the the jar of fireballs

i mean it It was like the big, big guffin of

the episode and what ends up happening is Koopa

drains the jar and it's like, oh no, the fireballs

are gone forever. And Toad, who got firepower

in this episode, shoots a fireball into the jar

and it reignites it. I'm like, well, if that's

how it took, then what was so special about the

jar of fireballs in the first place? Yeah, that

was a little strange. Hmm the fact that it was

another toad sort of toad centric episode because

he ends up being the hero at the end and Let's

see the just you wait next week just you wait

Oh God See I'm trying to think if there was something

else about this episode that I didn't like You

know, I can't think of anything but like I said

the the Fat the hat the fat Herc you please and

how he's like a total fat so loser at the beginning

of the story like hey guys I'm protecting the

great balls of fire Come on Be serious. All right,

we are gonna move on to the next episode Go ahead.

Let me see you do it You asked for it, Mr. Tough

Guy. You sure? Yeah. You in what army? Go ahead.

You in what army? I shall show you what army.

Be scared. You ready? Mushy, wooshy. Moose, moose,

moose. Mario will now love us. Okay, good for

you, Luigi. You ready to sprint? Now make the

reinvent. Uh -oh. What do you mean, uh -oh? oh

i tell the truth mario i never bothered to learn

how to make things uh come back up next and yeah

up next is uh count cupula oh boy uh mario's

group enters a castle in avania we will get to

that what actualvania it is later uh... where

kupa and his minions are all monsters obviously

the episode is based on count dracula featured

song i wish shot factory was the richest dvd

-producing company in the friggin world so they

could have bought the rights to this music featured

song with mike and i guess is it is it monster

mash no no Featured song was Michael Jackson's

thriller. Oh my god In the live -action segment

Magician Harry Blackstone jr. Visits Luigi Magical

Luigi, how does he make things reappear? I love

the canned the canned applause when Harry Blackstone

jr. Shows up. Yeah There's a very bad edit to

get him to appear in the episode. Oh Yeah, that's

yeah, that's right. That's oh man. Oh This episode

oh boy So yeah Spaghetti drinking vampires Neil.

Yeah, basically Mario and company are Going through

the Transylvania esque countryside looking for

a place to stay and they stumble upon a Vampires

castle, you know, I think I've seen this episode

of Bugs Bunny before Transylvania six five thousand.

Yes Or sixty five hundred or whatever. I I think

it is six dash five thousand. So yeah The only

thing missing from this episode was the bird

with two heads Oh, um... Agatha? Is he from around

here? Abraca Pocas! Newport News. I can do better

than that. Walla Walla Washington. Oh, girls!

Uh, if only we were watching those cartoons.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, the plot here is kind of we've

seen it before in every other incarnation It's

you know, like you said before in the in the

podcast They just find stories to throw Mario's

characters into it It was all right was I don't

know let's go ahead and see if we can find some

fire flowers We were traveling through a strange

land called Turtlevanie. Somebody had pulled

a plug on that big bathtub in the sky. And we

were soaked! Oh, I'm freezing. When are we gonna

find a place to sleep? Never fear, Princess.

There's bound to be a motel around here somewhere.

Those pesky plumbers are playing right into my

bangs. Yes, Count Kupula. Prepare rooms for Princess

Toadstool and her foolish friends. Same old problem.

I just can't sleep in a strange bed no matter

how nice the place is. Hey, that's what I need.

Something to read. Magic wands and phrases. Sounds

interesting. Yeah. Magic can be performed either

by potions or by the use of magic words and phrases.

Among the most powerful of these is the word

ab -abacadabra. Oh, sure it is. Sick humor. It

is to laugh. Magic words, cully. What big mosquitoes

they do have around here. Hold still, you little

devil. There! Another highly useful magic white

is Hocus Pocus. Anyone we know, Agatha? No. Splendid

looking specimen, though. Boy, I hope the restaurant's

still open. I haven't eaten since I left Coot

Kamunga. Another one? They ought to screen this

place. And I'm higher. Hocus -Cadabra. Newport

News. Wow, I can do better than that. Walla Walla

Washington. Alright, so let's find some fire

flowers here in the good segment. Turtlevania?

Are there any Teenage Mutant Ninjas there? Oh

boy. Yeah, I... That's all I have for fire flowers

I'll say that the episode was animated actually

well I was a little surprised Especially in regard

to the shading. I mean there was actual shading

effects going on which added to the atmosphere

of the episode So that was good. Yeah Yeah, the

cast was animated a little better this time Unfortunately,

this is a rarity for this show so The very next

episode that's out the window. Wow, I can't really

think of much else. There was a really bad joke.

It was like, oh yeah, they were torturing Mario

and they were doing like the water torture on

him. He's like, oh, I hate leaking pipes. Call

me a plumber. And Mouser walks in. He's like,

you're a plumber. And insert, insert. rimshot

here yeah that wasn't very good wasn't very good

what I do like I will say now that I'm thinking

about the episode again what I do like about

it is that Luigi is a believer in Mario is not

oh I believe you do let's go oh wait no sequel

damn But yeah, no I do like that That Mario does

eventually come around and Luigi's like I told

you so Mario All right, let's go ahead and get

to the Goombas So stomping on some Goombas what's

a goon pie i have no idea holy crap oh god why

is it every time i hear luigi say leap in lasagna

first thing that i think of is leak in lubricants

well he usually says uh holy ravioli i should

have had a counter at the very beginning of this

you know to see how many times we said that but

yeah okay so vampires and werewolves team koopa

team mario zombies too this is just one big episode

of everything i don't care for now in the old

days when i first saw this i love this episode

when i was a kid nowadays after the i get after

that stupid team film series of ooh this team

or oh that team or this guy's hotter than that

vampires sparkle yay no after that and then they

incorporated werewolves and all this whole fucking

zombie movement of everybody loving I don't care

for the walking dead I don't care for zombies

I'm not a horror guy at all I'm just not whatsoever

but I'm so sick of it basically being everywhere

I go in pop culture everybody's talking about

the walking dead or everybody's talking about

the next zombie movie everybody's pretending

that they're getting ready for a fucking zombie

apocalypse. The only thing that's going to destroy

this world besides us and our polluting the environment

is if another fucking asteroid or meteor hits

this planet and, you know, basically we go boom

like the dinosaurs did. There's not going to

be any fucking zombie apocalypse. Holy fucking

crap. Yeah, but at least that was feasible, you

know Versus hey, it's a zombie apocalypse. Anyway,

what didn't you like about Count Koopla? Let's

see these snippet spiders throw on That was just

a big WTF. I was like snippet spiders Yeah Were

they in the game? No. Yeah, but For some reason

they had giant spiders with sniffit masks on,

and I'm like, what the? What? You know, just

total aside, you mentioned Goompa earlier. Another

case where I have to put my nerd cap on, there

was a character named Goompa in Paper Mario.

And he was the father of a younger Goomba. But

anyway, back to - Oh my god. Yes. But anyway

back to back to the episode Let's see Yeah, the

the where Koopa's that was kind of silly it was

Some of this was like a real stretch like they

had zombie goombas But you know that you're you

really can't have zombies as they're presented

the movies So they were just like, oh no zombie

goombas and they didn't look like zombies at

all. They just kind of look like dumb goombas

Yeah, they didn't look like zombies and because

it is a kid's cartoon. Yeah, you can't have any

sort of Eating blood or drinking blood or anything

so they were so it's you know drinking spaghetti

sauce Yeah, and princess totes toadstool is like

I hate spaghetti sauce, and I'm like oh well

Not gonna get along with Mario after all are

you? Was this the episode where? Cupula said

oh, we're gonna make you join our Lovely club

of gentlemen or what and I didn't say gentlemen,

but like I think it was and she's like, but I'm

a girl I'm a girl. Oh God I Know a lot of the

listeners are gonna be saying you guys are reading

too much into it. It's just a cartoon. Have fun

with it We're here to analyze both the good and

the bad. I want to remind everybody about that

Oh another analytical note. This is another episode

where the the fire piranha plant from Super Mario

3 shows up for some reason. Yeah, that was a

little strange as well. Another thing, again,

I don't know if it's this week. I think it's,

yeah, it'll be next week's episode, episode four,

where another thing from Mario 3 shows up. The

Wand of Wakung. Oh, that's right. Yeah, we'll

get to that next week. But, you know, I'm I don't

know if like if I wasn't like if I wasn't doing

this for I guess quote -unquote work Like if

I wasn't sitting here grabbing audio files writing

down notes. I honestly don't know if I could

watch this the show like from episode to episode

and Enjoy it nowadays as a kid. I loved it. I

thought it was great because as I said before

It was the video game come to life, for the most

part. Yes, not everything is correct, not everything,

you know, as we've already stated in the past

two, you know, two or three episodes, you know,

you can't get an exact interpretation in animation,

but I don't know. It just... it's some of the

situation some of these plots some of the and

they're so cliche nowadays it's like as soon

as you see this is your as sometimes there's

moments look like i said with uh... with the

last of the so we talked about where i recognized

they kept mentioning rebels rebels this rebel

this rebel alliance like most hours and i kinda

get a chuckle of that and then there's stuff

like toad warrior turns into A tri - You know

what would've been cooler instead of a tricycle?

What would've made that moment cool was if...

If it turned into a big wheel. I was just thinking

that. Anyways, alright, I think we're gonna move

on to the next episode where we hit the high

seas. Yar! And lastly up today we have Pirates

of the Koopa and In the live -action segment,

it's do you believe in magic? wait two magical

episodes in But it's not really magical. Yeah,

I know in the live -action segment Lo and behold

one of the greatest basketball players of all

time shows up magic Johnson Asks Luigi to repair

one of his trophies and Magic Johnson is almost

literally phoning this one in Because he's not

on the set for this he's he's uh Composited into

into the mirror. Yeah Yeah, yeah, I thought it

was cool to kind of see him there. I thought

it was interesting It would have been cool if

he was actually on set with them but You know

Back then, the dude was busy. Yes. No. You know,

1989, the Lakers and magic and all that. Yeah,

no, that wouldn't work. In the animation, Koopa

kidnaps the princess on the high seas so that

he can auction her off. Mario, Luigi, and Toad

must pose as pirates to rescue her. Episode is

based on the Pirates of Penzance. Featured song

is limbo rock by chubby checker. Oh boy. Yeah,

I'm glad that got cut Yeah, Koopa captures the

princess and tries to sell her off as the pirates

booty but um Oh I will say I much prefer a pirate's

episode than I do a vampire werewolf zombie episode.

It was fun, it was interesting. And even though

we're only three episodes into this podcast,

we can already tell you folks, and Neil, you've

said this before, these episodes were just like

basically write it. Stamp of approval done rinse

repeat, you know You know and and these cartoons

specifically the cartoon segments. They're only

11 minutes maybe maybe less than that, you know,

so it's not like It's not like where you have

something like g1 or g1 was 22 minutes Without

commercials 30 minutes with commercials and it's

not like you could tell a whole story with that

and they do their best I don't know, I like this

one. What did you think of the overall plot for

Pirates of the Koopa? It wasn't bad. It was...

I got to say that it's kind of weird how every

single episode seems to stand on its own because

no matter where they go, Koopa has an alter ego

and it seems like he's always been there. They

show up in this Pirates world and there's already

a legend of Blackbeard Koopa and how he's like...

the most feared scourge of the 70s. And it's

like, well, if they've been following Koopa around

the world, then he hasn't been here all that

long. So I always find that amusing how Koopa

is established no matter where they go. And for

some reason, he's always established by his alter

ego. Like on the last episode, he was a vampire

for some reason. This was a very... not a strange

episode, but it had its moments. When we get

to the good stuff, I'll recite one of the jokes

that I thought was funny in this episode. Alright,

well let's get there now. What kind of fire flowers

have you found for Pirates of the Koopa, Neil?

Well, I'm just going to point out this one joke

that I thought was great. Mario and Luigi are

disguised as pirates to get into Koopa's auction

and they walk in and Mario says to Luigi, now

Luigi. act tough and they go sit at the bar and

Luigi goes, I'll have a glass of milk, please.

It's an old joke, but it never it never fails

to make me laugh. Yeah. Why am I envisioning

Luigi in a 80s vest and a multicolored hat driving

a DeLorean? Milk, son. Is there no milk around

here? You want milk? Go get a cow. Also, kind

of like that, in spite of the fact that he was

called Blackbeard Koopa. Koopa does not have

a beard. Yeah. It was just like, they called

him that because it was the theme of the episode,

not because he had that characteristic. Yeah,

yeah not at all Actually the princess cliche,

but I thought it was fun. I did I really did

like this episode I thought it was a fun episode

to watch And of course as soon as you know we

tried look we looked it up this episode aired

a week too late for Our national pirate talk

like but don't talk like a pirate day. Yeah That's

too bad. That was a golden opportunity missed.

Although I don't think that actually existed

at the time. No, that was an invention of the

internet. Yes. So let's get to stomping some

goombas. Getting into what's sucked about this

episode. Honestly, I only have one thing That

was the lamest Super Mario speech ever and why

isn't Mario? I mentioned this before why isn't

Mario? multicolored like the games depict and

obviously the animation back then wouldn't allow

it but But seriously that was the worst you're

referring to star band star bright Yeah, yeah,

unfortunately you'll be hearing that again. Oh

I know it The only thing I got is there were

some animation mistakes regarding Super Mario

It's like they they came back from a cutaway

and it was back to being regular Mario But then

another cut and he was Super Mario again And

then the power wore off like immediately after

that so it was like It was a mistake compounded

by the fact that they took the power away immediately

after it The power -ups are so better. They're

much better done in Mario 3. Yeah, well there

was more of them No, but I mean like like if

like if If a petui either spits at Mario or if

one of the plants grabs his tail Yes, his tail

disappears, but he'll fall to the ground whereas

here Whether it's white and red overalls or or

a red shirt and white overalls or a red shirt

and blue overalls It's like hey doesn't matter.

It's all interchangeable colors It's kind of

like in this scene Optimus Prime will be all

blue and then in the next scene you won't see

his trailer poof gone It's one of those classic

80s animation errors Alright, we're going to

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Super Show. So we are back and Toad Warriors.

One to four zero to five star man. What do you

give that one Neil? I give it a one Yeah, I'm

gonna give it a two. I liked it a little bit

There's a few jumps in logic that you'd have

to make and a few like suspension of disbelief

moments, but it's not It's not it's not any worse

than what we've already covered to this point

the fire of Hercules I'll give it a two, I suppose.

Yeah, I'm right there with you. I think for me,

what makes it not get a three or more is the

constant food referencing. It's just, no. Count

Cupula. I'll give it a three. I think the animation

deserves a little credit. Yeah, the animation

was spot -on and I'm also gonna give it a three

I Like I said, I only had one complaint about

it and that's pretty much it, you know, it's

it's my whole anti werewolf zombie vampire thing

of today more than back then and Yeah, I can

agree with a three out of five stars for that

one Pirates of Koopa I'll probably give this

one a three as well. It was one of the better

episodes for sure I'm gonna give it a four. I

really enjoyed it overall. I thought it was great

It's not like a perfect episode, but at the same

time it's it's almost there. So Alright, what

do you guys get going on over at the aficionados?

Uh, well we Depending on when this airs we have

a Sailor Moon episode that will probably be up

as you're listening to this right now. Um we

have Tentatively we have a interview lined up

with Someone from a very popular and 90s cartoon

series. I'm not gonna say who it wasn't though

I'm not gonna say who it is until I'm sure that

we have them I know that we have an interview

lined up with a a certain web Animator don't

remember his name at the moment, but I'll probably

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