Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 Episodes 7-9 Review

It is a legend no one will forget. Everyone thought

King Koopa had left the Mushroom Kingdom. And

then, his Doomship attacked. King Koopa was back,

with the greatest danger ever known. His Koopa

Kings. Using their new superpowers, the Super

Mario Brothers rescued Princess Toadstool and

beat back the evil Koopa family. Hello and welcome

to the latest episode of Pixels in the Animation.

I am Warios, to you to Mike, and joining me in

this epic journey back to the Mushroom Kingdom

is TV's Mr. Neil. Marty! We've got to do something

about these Koopas! I don't know, that's the

best I could do this week. It's your kids, Koopas!

Something is terribly wrong with your kids! That's

better. Alright, so without any further ado,

we're gonna get right into today's episode. Some

are okay, others are cringe -worthy as usual.

So we're gonna get right into it after this.

I really shouldn't go to the real world, Mario.

I have a kingdom to run! Dr. Zorders, Princess,

you're overworked, over -tired. Yeah, overdue

for a vacation. Right, Luigi and I can run the

kingdom while you're gone. Well, oh... Hey! Let's

go to the islands! Hawaii, here we go! Let's

party! Toad, we're only going for a couple of

days. Maybe we shouldn't go at all. Oh, but Toad...

With us in charge! How hard can it be to run

a kingdom, anyway? Very hard, you little pipe

squeak! With the princess away, the Koopas will

play and destroy and ruin! Hey, Bad King Dad!

My twisted genius brain just had an idea! I trust

it's disgusting and devious! Even worse! What

if I built a robot princess to take over the

kingdom while the real princess is gone? A perfect

idea, Kuki, my boy! I'm so glad I thought of

it! First up today is Rainstorm, and it has nothing

to do with the weather, ladies and gentlemen.

When Princess Toadstool and Toad take a vacation

in Hawaii, Kuki uses a robot princess to try

and take over the Mushroom Kingdom. Featured

song, can you guess? Well, I'm looking right

at it, so it's... cheater sorry girls just want

to have fun I thought that was nice though yeah

because you've got Cindy coming back seeing as

how she was friends with Captain Lou even though

Captain Lou isn't in this series I thought it

was nice to kind of continue on the Cindy Lopper

Mario brother yeah kind of thing the grassland

map was used as a title card this time around

um I like this but Who the hell was doing the

voice for the robot princess? I'm guessing it

was the same person who did the the regular voice

for princess toadstool. Yeah Yeah, I'm not sure

because it It sounded robotic, but it was annoying

as hell Yeah, because back in the late 80s early

90s being a unless you're a transformer being

a robot meant that you You sound you sound like

Vicky from Small Wonder Like I am a robot Oh

my god, you just brought up Vicky from small

wonder holy crap People try not to remember it

The plot in this is It's interesting. It's another

I mean all of these plots are gonna You know

revolve around Koopa trying to figure out a way

to take over the Mushroom Kingdom This one is

I think one of the better planned ones Because

he does it without actually having to do anything

to the actual princess because Mario technically

The unsuper Mario Brothers are the villains of

this episode because they're the ones that you

know basically Oh princess, it'll be fine. Whatever

it is. We can handle it. You deserve it. Go on

man It's kind of like come here kid. You want

to smoke this cigarette? Come on. It's good for

you It's like really seriously, you're gonna

convince her to do something She knows she shouldn't

probably do even though she wants to do it Oh,

God. Thoughts on the plot? Kind of funny, just

because it shows how ineffectual the Mario Brothers

can be. It's like they're left in charge, so

naturally everything goes to hell. Yeah. Like

almost immediately. Yeah. And robot princess,

it's like she hands the kingdom over to Koopa.

And you would think someone would be like, no,

no, no, we're going to step in and stop this.

But, you know, like, you know, like like a certain

Zelda episode where it's like, you know, Like

the wedding where where it's like like somebody

should have been able to like step in and say

no No, this is this is not gonna stand but he

Koopa almost succeeds and it's kind of fun. Meanwhile

toad and and princess Popeye arms peach is are

like in the real world and She's hanging out

with some like beach dude who we never see again,

you know, he's I don't know What was up with

him was he like supposed to be like a love interest,

but oh There was like there was like this, uh

this beach bum surfer guy. He was like, oh, yeah

Um, what was his name wart ward whackamole? I

don't know. Yeah, he was supposed to be some

oh it was uh, it was cutter That's that's what

his name was. I was gonna call him cutman for

a minute, but no, that's a completely other game.

Um We got to that in a few episodes. Um and oh

there was a there was a subplot where it was

like It was like, well, if Princess Peach is

back, how come she doesn't have a tan for being

in Hawaii? And as the episode progresses, she's

getting more and more of a tan. Yeah, the color

changes. I don't know what was going on in this.

in this animation studio or in this production

thing, but the color changes are just not natural

at all. Yeah, the color keys, whatever they use

are just bad. It kind of looked like a, like,

Kramer from that one episode of Seinfeld where

he gets sunburned when he's sunbathing on the

roof. yeah yeah well there's two episodes from

on the roof there's the sunbathing one unless

it's the same episode we're talking about you're

talking about when he uses the butter yeah yeah

and he's like all dark he's like Jerry I think

I cooked myself I love that one so funny first

this is also the first of two episodes where

Princess Peach spends the entire episode in a

one -piece bathing suit and I'm like was someone

on the art staff of this show like really into

Princess Peach I know people like this and I'm

like, dude, no It's like she like I said, she's

got Popeye arms Yeah Maybe she eats a lot of

spinach instead of hamburgers. Oh god. Well,

she does save the day here Yeah, she does. Alright,

let's get to these super leaves. face it we're

plumber heroes not princes i'll send her a waffle

gram message to get back your product here i

already wrote it all right so far super leaves

now for a half a second Wrote that I wrote this

then I just kind of I think it was more so the

color change with the tanning that kind of made

me reverse my opinion of this but She did look

pretty good in in the bathing suit there for

a few moments until she got that really really

extra crispy tan For like two seconds two seconds

come on at least give me two seconds I suppose

but you see the deviant art has kind of oh God

is kind of we go it's kind of warped me so like

I've Yeah, I I take the standard princess peach

over the cartoon princess peach any day Yeah,

I'm Horrified to ask you this, but you'll have

to send me links to the deviant art stuff. I'm

scared though and of course mario and luigi are

in over their heads quite literally um i love

kooky he's awesome he kooky von koopa or ludwig

von koopa whatever whatever name you want to

use for him he's an evil version of donatello

and that's awesome um So we finally I haven't

seen one of these things in forever, but we finally

see an entire field of fire flowers. Oh Yeah

Yeah Toad basically I put this under good moments

cuz I was kind of funny, but it's kind of a bad

moment to toad basically says You know, hey,

you know keep all this a secret cutter has no

clue what's going on he's a california surfer

duty isn't what how are you surfer dude he has

no clue whatsoever and the reason why i brought

california is because whoever did the voice for

him s all my god i don't think this is true but

holy crap what if it's captain and his cutter

well all right uh... what he has sort of that

california surfer dude voice to him uh... that's

why i brought it up uh... As far as Okay, what?

What didn't what did you like about this one

anything? Well, obviously I've had a lot more

to say about it than the last three episodes

So I kind of like this episode It was just kind

of this It was stupid but it was stupid in a

funny way just the fact that the that she leaves

and the The Mario Brothers immediately become

incompetent and can't do a damn thing even when

it's clear that that that they're getting that

they're getting the jazz from koopa which is

like what what's wrong with the princess why

are we being kicked out of the mushroom kingdom

like what what's going on here why can't we solve

this really easy obvious plot that's going on

here it's like why why does why why does princess

peach sound like vicki why does she have joints

on her on her elbows yeah you would think that

they would notice that honestly You would think

that they would notice that. She looks like a

robot master for Christ's sake. Like all you

need is like Dr. Wiley there and... Yeah. Oh

God. Robot Princess Marys Gutsman. Wow. Just

imagine the mother brain babies they'd come out

with. Oh no. Alright, let's get to the patoos.

Warp a grand message to Princess Toadstool intercepting

his orders, you royal rotteness! My plan is working

like a charm! When is the robot princess gonna

be ready? Hold your goombas, Bad King Dad! You

can't rush genius! I need the robot princess

now, Cookie! Or I'm sending you to your dungeon

and cutting your allowance! The robot's ready

for evil, King Dad! No one in the Mushroom Kingdom

will even - For the petuis I actually only have

one thing cuz I really dug this episode I wouldn't

necessarily say this episode is the middle of

the road But for me, that's kind of where I ranked

it cuz it didn't have any like, oh my god jaw

-dropping awesomeness to it But it's not a bad

episode at all. There's just one thing that freaked

me the hell out at the end Why does the princess

have sideburns? There is an image at the end

I think it's when she's riding the wave into

the castle or when there's one of the images

one of the scenes close to the end of the episode

where her hair the way it is it makes it look

like she has two Mario like sideburns even though

it's her own hair that's the cut that that's

the shape and the color but it just Overseas

animation misinterpreting because she does have

kind of like the Lock of hair that overhangs

your ear like that. But yeah, that was not in

the front It doesn't well sometimes sometimes

it does depending on which character model you're

using but yeah It did kind of look like sideburns

What didn't you like about this one anything

I'm just gonna say the tan job. Toward the end,

it really looks weird and unnatural. It was like...

It looks like... What was that movie? I know

it wasn't Pump Up the Volume, but what was that

movie with that kid that couldn't... That marked

kid that couldn't get into college because he

was a white guy or he didn't have... And he basically

face paints himself to be an African -American?

Oh my god. I don't... I... What the hell was

the name of that movie? I can only swear I've

seen this. I'm not I'm not making this up. I'm

honestly not Oh my god, what was that anyway?

Yeah I guess I guess the only other thing would

be cutter himself He didn't really have anything

to do with the plot except to be the weird awkward

Love interest that shouldn't be because you think

Mario be the love interest and at the end he's

just like He's like, oh, you're a princess from

a video game land. I guess he had the master

system. I don't know. So then if Alex Kidd shows

up, he's not going to be too surprised then,

right? Yeah, he'd be like, oh, Alex, my buddy.

Yeah. Oh god, now I have to put a my buddy ad

in this episode of the podcast. Okay, up next,

Tyler, terrors of time travel dun dun. We can

go back and change history, King Dad! All we

need is a little time travel! Alright, next up!

Toddler terrors of time travel, dun dun dun!

So we have Kookie and Bowser who try to go back

in time to stop the Super Mario Brothers from

ever going down the drain in Brooklyn. but their

plan backfires turning them all into babies the

featured song is baby chase a slightly altered

version of baby face by jan garber uh and the

grassland map is used again um i like this a

little bit it's not the best episode but it's

i'd say it's halfway on the edge of being halfway

decent and almost bad so it's not like beauty

of cootie oh my god god awful but it was better

than most i i guess i don't know um the plot

koopa wanted to do this actually actually for

him it's probably the most um intellectual plot

he's ever done Execution of it fails on so many

levels, but and there are certain moments in

the episode itself that do fail, especially when

a box squeaks. Yeah, talk about that a little

bit later. But I mean, overall, this was fairly

enjoyable to watch for the most part. I don't

know. What about you? I'm sure you have a list

mile long. OK, first of all, time travel plots

are always problematic at this episode. It's

like they just didn't care. They seemed to forget

that there was a time travel episode halfway

through. I was like, okay, they're going to go

back in time and they're going to run into the

Mario Brothers before they left Brooklyn, except

that never happened. It was like suddenly the

original Mario Brothers didn't exist and we also

forgot that we were back in time because as the

episode ends... King Koopa and Kooky leave. And

presumably they go into the future, but then

Mario and Luigi simply go through a warp zone

and arrive back in the present. It's like, wait,

what? It's like, did you forget that you were

in the past? And then it's like, I think that...

I forget how it ends, but it was just such a

cop -out at the end. It was so weird. And the

ending was was them coming into the drainpipe

thing Pulling all the crap out and going down

the drain Yes, I is that that that that that

that that that was the point of Koopa's whole

thing He was gonna stop them originally from

going down there And basically clog up the drain

so they couldn't go down there and at the end

of it it was After the real Mario Brothers pulled

all this stuff up. He's like, you know She asked

him. So would you Mario brothers like to stay

for my party? No, sorry. We got a Princess to

protect and down the drain they went Yeah, which

at that point since they're still in the past

that should have been like the the opening of

the of the Super Show version of the cartoon

but instead they arrive in the Mario 3 timeline

and and I'm just like baseball yeah it was a

little bit of a facepalm moment but it was still

funny for the most part it was it was funny all

right we are going to get to the super leaves

after this we can't all fit in there sure we

can Alright, grabbing the super leaves. Too far

back in time, everyone is babyfied. Then again,

Koopa was a cute baby until he grew up to be

looking like ugly as all hell. Oh my god. I like

the animation, I think it's interesting. I love

all the crap that Kuki and Koopa get to plug

up this drain. Like, I mean, they throw everything

and the kitchen sink in this drain. The pipes

should have burst and the tub should have exploded

with all the crap that, I mean, it's funny, I

like it, but oh my God. I mean, they're just

pulling stuff out of their ass to put down this

drain to make sure that the Mario's never get

there. It's crazy. What about you? It was a funny

episode overall. It was just kind of weird. But

I did kind of like the moments where the piping

is so screwed up that the woman picks up the

phone and she gets splashed in the face over

the phone. That's a joke that I've seen in so

many shows. It's always good for a laugh though.

but Yeah, just I'm afraid that the negative is

going to outweigh the positive here for this

one. Oh So I don't write I guess I guess King

Koopa and Kuki dressed as Wario Yeah, that was

kind of funny it was like that again was war

you even help by them Oh, no, there was no Wario

at this point, but okay but it's just kind of

weird it's kind of like it's kind of like there

was a cameo in the super show that was kind of

like that where it's like i sometimes i wonder

if like uh miyamoto and uh and the other i forget

what the other guy's name is but i kind of wonder

if uh those guys are watching this and they were

like hey we should you know i almost did them

as like a as like a brooklyn accent like oh no

that's not right they're from japan but they

would have looked at it and like hey let's make

another evil plumber character that's kind of

like that Which wait it's funny didn't they didn't

I already point out a wario reference at some

point Yeah, it was in the super show it was like

way back then it was like there was clearly a

character with the mark with the wario colors

colors and the hat and Yeah, yeah, sometimes.

I wonder if like the game creators were actually

watching this show It's kind of like in the Zelda

cartoon there were there were like there was

stuff going on that wouldn't appear in the games

for like five more years. All right we're gonna

get to the patoos after this. I'll take us back

to that Brooklyn Drain, just deep all noon, when

the Mario Brothers walked into the Mushroom Kingdom.

You're a swamp out, Koki! But King Dad, it'll

blow if you give us more juice! We're going out

of control! Tui moments for terrors of time travel

toddlers Honestly, I didn't write anything down

Well, just the fact that this entire episode

has amnesia it's like Like I said, it forgot

that it was a time travel episode like halfway

through. And then like I had to watch this again

to make sure that this that this happened. But

at some point, Baby Toad becomes Adult Toad and

there's no explanation why. Yeah, yeah. And and

I'm just going to knock this episode on one more

thing. It started the whole baby Mario or baby

everything sort of phenomenon. It's like, we

can't have a Mario Kart game anymore unless we

have the baby versions of each character. It's

like, god damn it. It feels like this is where

that got started. Probably. Alright, we're gonna

go to the last episode of the day after this.

Goodie pie! If that pigsty you call a room isn't

clean yet, you're grounded! Hello, King Dad!

I cleaned my room! No chocolate -covered cockroach

snacks? No tripping old ladies? Uh -uh! No fun

of any sort for a whole month! Did I end up with

such a mean, old, ugly - Finally up today is

Dadzilla. Fed up with Bowser's ways, Wendy and

Morten bring a Hollywood movie monster to life

and convince him he's their real dad. I have

no idea why the desert land map was used, but

it was used as a title card. I don't think they

have... No, they never went to desert land in

this episode, but... What to say about this one?

Worst episode of the day? I would say so. They

really wrote these kids to be really stupid in

this episode. The Koopa kids are very gullible.

They're still learning, but they're not as dumb

as rocks. That's the way they were written. That's

the way Cootie Pie and and Big Mouth were written

in this because The fact that they think the

Koopa is not their father and They just they

jump to this conclusion very very quickly for

no reason whatsoever. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm You know,

and that's the other thing I've been meaning

to bring this up since we started this series

about the timeline and about the actual birth

of I mean I get it you know marketing wise it

you know game wise oh Koopa's back and with his

seven kids because it gives you seven worlds

plus him to have bosses to fight and everything

else like that but it's like in the context of

the cartoon what Female version of Koopa would

ever have kids with him let alone one let alone

seven But this one it's I Think there's one funny

moment the entire thing. I think the only super

leaf I have for this is I did enjoy The crazy

kind of animation that was done with the dadzilla

character I thought that was kind of cool for

a little while the only funny moment I had for

this one was when momzilla shows up You know

it reminds me it's like you know Mario wanted

you know Mario is race dance and Hey, let's use

her. Yeah. Oh, that's a positive Huh, I could

just see it now Mario and Luigi and Princess

and Toad in the top of Lady Liberty You know

strutting down the streets of New York City going

with higher love higher and higher Your love

keeps lit. Oh god. I can so see that now Yeah,

do you have any good things about this one? Nope

Nope Alright, I'm scared to ask, but let's hit

the patooies! for the shrimp at the bottom of

the ocean. Junior, this is your mother. Stop

that. You're my mommy? Of course I'm your mommy,

you naughty boy. Now put those people down. Yes,

mommy. Right away, mommy. Children, it's time

for your nap! We hate naps! In our family, you

must take naps every afternoon so you'll be rested

for your chores! We hate chores! And I hate ugly

rats who talk back! Junior, if you don't make

your children behave, I will! Oh, come on, kids!

Do what your granny says! Four fatui's all right

the physics of stretching the car should have

never worked Yeah, but it's also a cartoon world.

So actually no it is the real world. So yeah,

that shouldn't have happened Yeah, it is the

real world. It's not the Mushroom Kingdom. It's

the real world That should have never had should

have never worked that car should you know? It's

kind of like Lex Luthor punching a phone in Superman

the Animated Series and the phone explodes. It

should never. As soon as you punch a phone, it

explodes. This plot is just plain weird. Deadzilla

is tired. This is a fake prop robot thing come

to life. Of course he would be tired. The Koopa

Kids are... Running a million miles of men and

rounded Now normally you're the one to say this

but the best thing about this episode was that

it ended and the ending itself honestly but I

think this episode actually broke me because

I seem to have blacked out on the ending. I know

I watched it. But first of all, there's been

a bit of a lag between actually watching these

and recording this episode. So it's been like

over a week. But still, it's like I can't believe

I don't remember the ending at all. But what

I do remember is just how utterly stupid this

plot was. I mean, it's not even like funny, stupid.

It's just kind of stupid, stupid. Yeah, it's

just like. the ending because you don't remember

was mario and luigi built mama zilla yeah i'm

looking at the picture of that i'm like wow yeah

she came to life somehow i don't know how she

came i don't remember them having a wandering

i don't know Oh, no, she didn't come to life.

It was it was it was Walker Boone using his female

Mario voice That's what it was So she comes to

life or they bring her to life she goes and talks

to Junior and Has the kids go back? The ending

the That was the funny part about the ending

was Koopa, you know going after the kids, but

the strange part about the ending was The fact

that now Dadzilla, or whatever his real name,

I honestly don't, it's a version of Godzilla,

honestly. He's gonna go out and live happily

in giant land. Okay. I don't know. I just don't

know. One thing I do remember about this episode

was that there was a fire flower in it and it

was kind of weird because Mario grabs it he tucks

it into his into his costume and I'm like No,

I'm like, oh wait, that's right. There was an

inventory system in this game So I guess that's

how they account for that. I was like, okay That

and when he uses the fire flower, he doesn't

turn into Regular old like because I don't use

I don't remember the color scheme in the game

because I never really use the fire flowers in

the game. Actually they got it right except that

there were some color glitches I noticed. Well

see I thought they got it wrong because it was

full on red and white which I know that's the

full on red and white is what they use in Mario

World. Well yeah and in Super Mario 1 but in

Super Mario 3 it's like orange and red plus in

that in Super Mario 3 and on is his overalls

and his shirt are like reversed so it's like

he should have blue overalls and a red shirt

and uh and when he turns into fire mario his

overalls turn red so it's like it so in this

cartoon when they try to do that it kind of looks

it doesn't it doesn't quite work the same way

it does in the other mario cartoon it's like

it barely changes them yeah well no in the in

the game his it turns red and white doesn't it

red over red shirt and white overalls. Not in

Mario 3. I don't use a lot of fire flowers in

Mario 3. I usually just fly through everything

and use hammer suits and all that other good

stuff. Frog suit when I have to, but we all know

how useless those are. Oh, I hate the frog suit.

And we'll get to that in a future episode. Oh

yeah, oh brother will we ever. Alright, so I

think that's gonna do it for this episode. We're

gonna take a quick break, come back with final

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don't see uh... rainstorm i'm going to give a

three out of five uh... hammers i i did really

enjoy it i have to take two points off for the

sideburns one point each i think i'll just give

it a three just because yeah it was kind of funny

but also uh... oh yeah no that's the same thing

i mean i'm giving it three out of five and i

don't do that point five crap that's ridiculous

but uh... for Toddler terrors of time travel

I guarantee you we're gonna have completely different

scores for this but go ahead I'm gonna give it

a one I'm gonna give it a four It's a dumb episode

but it's like almost funny just because it seems

to forget what the plot is I'm gonna give it

a four because I think it's absolutely hilarious

a lot of the lines that Mario says like when

he's talking about the lady and then seeing how

she actually is and how gullible she actually

is um and i i i just love when i think out of

all the out of all the koopa kids kooky is my

favorite because as i said i think it was either

this week or or last time he is essentially an

evil version of donatello from teenager ninja

turtles and it's just absolutely refreshing kooky

does machines Oh my god, yes. Are you reading

that comic? Uh, no. Oh, okay. For Deadzilla,

what do we think of Deadzilla? I guess I give

it a 2. Oh god. I mean, it was okay. Zero. No

handers. It's horrible. It's the execution of

it and how things... went so weird it's not like

when I gave Beauty of Kootie a zero it's because

of Kootie Pie and because of the entire plot

of that episode and her story but this it's just

too weird and I just it was annoying the crap

out of me so yeah zero for Deadzilla I think

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