Super Mario Bros. 3 Episodes 16–18 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

Kids. Using their new superpowers, the Super

Mario Brothers rescued Princess Toadstool and

beat back the evil Koopa Family. Welcome to the

latest episode of pixels in the animation. I'm

one of your host here to remind your name is

TV's mr. Neal girl. You know, it's true If you

get a blame it on something you might as well

blame it on the rain Today we are returning to

the Mushroom Kingdom as we talk about the next

three episodes in the mention of Super Mario

Brothers 3 Ladies and gentlemen I have made an

executive decision for this episode only we are

just gonna have Three different discussion clips.

I'm not breaking them up I'm not doing so we'll

do super leave moments and and between moments,

but it's gonna be all one discussion piece It's

not gonna be you're not gonna hear. I'm not gonna

say okay Well, let's go get you know the super

leaves, and then you'll hear a clip I'm not doing

these three episodes might be the worst episodes

This entire series. Yeah, and they only get bad.

They only get more They only get worse as they

go along like I'll say it right now cootie pie

rocks is not the worst episode out of the three

today It's just not It's not the best out of

the entire series, but it's not the worst are

the ones we'll talk about today. So Let's get

right to it and get this pain over with. Oh my

god Alright, first up is Kootie Pie Rocks. Koopa

kidnaps Milli Vanilli and forces them to perform

exclusively for Kootie Pie. Ha, joke's on him.

This episode originally featured songs by Milli

Vanilli, but later it releases Replace It with

the Mega Move. Featured songs, Blame It on the

Rain, and girl you know it's true. And I'm pretty

sure that the scandal broke like... within a

very, very close proximity with the original

airing of this episode. The original airing of

this episode was October 27th, 1990. So what

do you think of the overall plot here, if you

can say that there is a plot? There's a plot?

That's a running gag. I don't know. See, there's

two different versions of this episode, and I

was thinking, Well, you know, the edit version

like renders this entire episode nonsensical

and I'm like, wait a minute, slap my face again.

The original version made no sense. So it's basically

Peach goes to a Milli Vanilli concert in the

quote unquote real world. Koopa comes along and

kidnaps them because Cootie Pie wants them to

do a private concert. And it's and then and then

the Mario Brothers show up. To save them and

bring them back for some reason. I don't know

why you would just leave them there Yeah Okay,

so I'm trying to see here about the About this.

Yeah, it was let's see March 1990 issue of Time

magazine place call clearing yourself to be the

new Elvis no Let's see Yeah, it was somewhere

What did I when did I say this aired November?

When the hell is this episode October 27th 90

this says that it really kind of About the lawsuits

and everything else was around November of 90

so it happened throughout that whole year because

it really started it started You know Yeah, it

really really did so But yeah, I couldn't buy

rocks so you mentioned the the regular the original

version and the edited version I Watched the

original version the actual original version.

I'm going to embed in the post because you sent

it to me I don't know how long that video will

stay up, but at least it'll be there for the

first couple of weeks so people can see it. But

the original version makes the plot of this episode...

The original version makes the plot make actual

sense. The edited version makes it make absolutely

no sense whatsoever. I have no super leaves for

this at all. Like I remember in 1990 as a 10

year old getting caught up in the song of these

guys, you know, for the two songs that are popular

from them. But honestly, I didn't, I was more

of a new kid's guy than Millie Vanillie. And

at least the new kids, at least the new kids

sung their songs. you know so for petui moments

for me how are they in the front row there's

like a million people around the princess like

it's like they're in a friggin circle and and

at the end of the episode either rob or fab or

one of them says this is for the girl that was

in the front row at our concert or something

or other and it's like how the hell are they

in the front row this is This is what I was talking

about earlier. The original version is so much

better as far as follow along. Mario and company

playing the instruments badly shows how they

get away. Replacing it with Mega Move kinda ruins

whatever even plot that there is in this episode.

No, but I'm serious. You saw the original version.

You saw them play it badly. You saw Mario, Toad,

Luigi, and the Princess play the instruments

badly. And then you watch the... the the version

that's on the dvd with megamove and it's like

hey we're dancing we're dancing we're dancing

and we're we're we're mega moving along and you

know it we're we're having a mega good time and

you know just waiting for mega man from captain

to show up um it's got a mega boom you know uh...

it's just one of those things where Even though

this is a bad episode the original version is

the better of the two as far as to being able

to follow along with What little story there

is? So yeah, let's um, let's go crush those mushrooms

or did you have anything that you wanted to say?

All right, we're gonna go crush the mushrooms

Who's coming? Aliens! Aliens! There were dozens

of them, Cookie! A lot of aliens! Millions of

them, Big Mouth! is Mushroomers. This one. Let's

see here. Mushroomers. It aired on November 3rd,

1990. When a real world family drives into the

Mushroom Kingdom, the Mushroom people and the

Koopas mistake them for aliens. So yeah, the

Griswolds show up in the Mushroom Kingdom. Oh.

that's an insult to jimmy chastity but i would

love to look at the look of what the station

where it's got wood paneling it's the critical

mobile all it needs is like a dog collar hanging

off the bumper i know and i know that you know

it's it's a husband wife and a son of a daughter

so technically yeah you're right it could be

the griswolds but i mean i i'm sorry that the

voices for the mother and father are It would

have been better if they had actually paid Chevy

Chase and Beverly D 'Angelo to come in and do

the voices. That would have been awesome. They

were even on their way to an amusement park called

the Wild Waldo's One of a Kind Amusement Park,

which I'm sure is a tongue -in -cheek reference

to Wally World. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, no, I'm

not saying it's not a Christmas or not a National

Lampoon's vacation ripoff it is yeah, but I just

Saying just even saying that they are that that

family is the Griswolds is the is an insult I

know But I couldn't help but make that reference

yeah this episode uh... you know my first i have

all the two moments here i really do folks like

there's nothing good about this one i mean other

than the fact now that you know you point out

that hey it's it's the griswolds in the mushroom

kingdom all or a rumors episode and seriously

the coupe a kid you know in the intro to every

single episode of this show the narrator says

the most vile things that the mushroom kingdom

has ever known is koopa kids and yet in this

episode they freak out about aliens kooky is

ready and then the characterization for the kids

especially kooky kooky as i've said several times

in the last few weeks here in pixels the animation

kooky is essentially the evil donatello of the

mario universe he is a koopa of science He shouldn't

be believing Okay, I'm sure there's science science

of aliens and I'm actually gonna point this at

this podcast episode onto Mike dot because I

know he's gonna go off once he hears me talk

about how aliens are not scientific but that

they're just you know make believe in in suits

and everything else, but It's just the characterization.

It is so horrible and then the one thing the

most stupid like Not even Martin not even Captain

Lou and Danny Wells in drag It gets a zero more

than this episode gets a zero because there's

no way in fucking hell That Mario and Luigi can

lift a damn station wagon into the water They

put the first of all how the hell did they get

the raft under the damn station wagon? Seriously

when it was on they they lift the raft and all

of the station wagon, the two brothers, into

the water. That's just completely unbelievable.

Oh my god. And then Koopa, his lack of intelligent

logic is baffling. There's one thing here I put

in Patooie's I probably should have put in Super

Leafs, but I put it in Patooie's because I wasn't

sure, but then I actually, I actually stopped

watching this cartoon, and I went over to my

All Stars. Game to actually play to see if this

would work. I wasn't sure if this was game accurate

an invincible frog Mario Yeah, yeah, it is it

is very accurate You could have the frog suit

inside the inside the boot with the super star

Wow, yeah And then another thing I'm sorry Raccoon

tails are powerful, but they're not powerful

enough to go through cinder blocks No way in

hell just no way. What do you have for for either?

You know good bad or whatever well, I have to

I have to knock this episode for inaccurate game

mechanics because at one point Mario destroys

a A note block and if you play the game of course

the note blocks are invincible. You can't destroy

them Right, I was like I was like goddamn it

and then and then oh my god the goddamn fucking

frog suit again It's your favorite thing in the

world like this cartoon is ridiculous enough

What can we do more that makes it even stupider?

Let's get the frog suit. Oh, oh it gets worse

the final episode of the day If you didn't like

it here, you're definitely not gonna like the

next episode at all because Alright anything

else on much rumors no Alright Don't believe

rumors folks, you know, if you get caught every

once in a while believing a story from the onion

Yeah, food, you know fool on you, but you know

don't believe the room don't believe everything

you read or hear so we'll be back with the final

episode the ugly mermaid after this you do that

and your every fish wish is my command so finally

up today we have the ugly mermaid while wearing

a frog suit mario almost drowns but he is saved

by holy mackerel that's that's holly mackerel

A mermaid princess, Holly, falls in love with

Mario and tries to marry him. This episode also

aired because that was the coolest thing about

these episodes or this show is they had episode

number 109A and B. It was a double shot of the

show, kind of like what we'll have. Back when

we did Captain, we did Season 3 separate from

what it originally was packaged as, because it

was packaged as Captain and Season 3 in the New

Super Mario World to have two cartoons to make

an actual, an overall 30 minute episode or whatever

else, so yeah. So The Ugly Mermaid, this episode,

I like that we finally see the Waterland map

used as the title card. Mario is a plumber, he

is used to dealing with water, he's been in a

frog suit twice in the last two episodes, this

episode and the episode we just talked about.

He drowns in the ocean and then all of a sudden

he's afraid of water. Yeah. There are entire

episodes of the Super Show where he's underwater

the entire episode. So it's like, okay, Deke,

not that there's any consistency in this cartoon

anyway, but still. Um, the good thing is I can't

blame Doug Booth for this because he did not

write this. Some of the other staff writers for

Deke wrote this. And this might be worse than

anything Doug Booth has ever written. It really,

really will. And then of course, you have to

have the cliche of the mermaid falling in love

with him. Oh god. Trying to marry him. Hollywood

if she could. And then because they have this

whole thing of They have to wear fish bowls on

their heads while they're in this makes absolutely

no sense to me If you think if you think about

this, okay, they should have to wear the fish

bowls outside of I'm just gonna call the damn

thing Atlantis. They call it metropolis or something

or other. It's like hey, where's Merman when

you really need him? At least Merman's more intelligent

than half of these fucking people. Yeah, this

makes no sense. They're fish people and they

live under a giant bubble filled with air. It's

like, why do you live here? You're fish! And

then Koopa attacks... Attacks the the city later

and water starts rushing in and they're like,

oh my god, we're fish people run from the water

Yeah, it's it's bad it's really really bad And

then Such a double standard The this episode

is built on double standard alone. It really

is because you know She finds him super attractive

as the frog and yet when she puts the fishbowl

on him, he's ugly as sin Because it's a frog.

So they that's one thing like I wish they would

have actually taken him out of the frog suit.

I Really wish they would have done funnier. He

gets out of the frog suit and then she finds

him ugly Yeah, probably. What is the deal with

these merpeople though? They're half fish, half

human? Because if you look at their legs, their

legs look like 80 year old grandma legs. Like

the merking, his legs look... Oh god, this episode.

You got anything? I'm at a loss. I think I just

zipped through all my hate on this episode in

one fell swoop. I mean, if you didn't like the

frog suit before this, you're not going to like

it now, because all of them, all four of them,

Princess Toad, Luigi, and Mario, they're in the

frog suits the entire episode. And they look

so stupid. Oh, I didn't even get to print. Yeah,

Toad, this is exactly why. exactly why they should

have killed toad in super show and not had him

come over to mario 3 because his him in a frog

suit underwater it looks like i don't even know

what it looks like it the super mario brothers

3 power set is not made for toad at all so Alright,

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rate the episodes uh... one for pretty pyrox

and gets one point because okay well i'll give

it all great both of them the the the original

episode gets a one because the only thing i like

was seeing more of her temper tantrums because

she's hilarious when she does her temper tantrums

In the fact that it actually, you know follows

along with the story and the other one the the

The mega move episode gets a zero. There's there's

nothing good about that. Just What about you

for how to give both versions of zero zero? Mushroomers

I'll give it a one Mushroomers is the episode

of this series that really like I was actually

physically shaking when I saw the Mario Brothers

throw that car into the river. It gets a zero.

Nothing about it. I mean that's like with wiki

type strength there. Are we talking G1 or are

we talking a bitch? G1. Okay. Anyone with the

last name with wiki has like superhuman strength

in that show. Just watch it and you'll see. No,

I know, I know. I just wanted to make sure you

weren't talking about the the lay bitch um the

ugly mermaid what are you gonna give it i gotta

give it a zero this is a fucking frog suit episode

and it's got i give it a zero for the the lack

of good writing and the the completely unbelievableness

of these underwater people so why do you live

here yeah oh lord uh... you got anything else

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