Super Mario Bros. Super Show Episodes 20-22 Review

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Show! Welcome to the latest episode of Pixels

in the Animation. I am one of your hosts, TFJ

and Mike, and joining me as always is TV's Mr.

Dale. Mamma Mia, that's one of spicy meatball.

You know the bad thing is when I watched these

episodes, I was actually eating a pizza. Oh.

I didn't realize it until I was, like, in the

middle of eating. I'm like, oh god. Yes, we are

back for the fifth episode of Pixels in the Animation

and, um, wow. Just wow. Oh boy. We've got...

I honestly thought that... that these cartoons

got better. I don't know what I was thinking

as a kid. Like, I loved these cartoons as a kid

and now, as a 33 -year -old adult, I was like...

Oh my god. This is most of what it would have

been like for kids in the 70s watching crappy

filmation stuff. Oh yeah. Oh my god. I just,

I don't know. No idea. Yeah, I do want to point

out that, let's see. coupons dying which is one

of those will talk about today on her majesty's

sure service uh... are two episodes that did

not have uh... the live action segment on the

shower factory dvds i have because of legal issues

due to music copyrights so when we get to those

episodes today uh... i did not see the live action

segments and i think Well, you can talk about

them then, but I was going to say, thankfully,

Neil so graciously provided me with a link to

them and I was like, oh my god. You evil bastard!

So, we're going to get to a food fight after

this. Oh wait, that's the wrong Pied Koopa. Doesn't

look good, Luigi. All we can do now is hope and

pray. It makes me sick with grief. Who's gonna

call mama and tell her that her basil bush is

dying? What we need now is a miracle. Mm -hmm.

Come in. Who are you and how can we help you?

No, it is I who can help you. When a plant is

in distress, the great Dr. Toby knows about it.

You could call it a gift. You could call it a

power. I wish my microphone could detach itself

from its mic stand because wait no pie drop the

mic walk away So as we said, this is the Pied

Koopa, which is a takeoff of the Pied Piper Good

lord The live -action segment is super plant

This can't end well Mario and Luigi use a plant

growing antidote presented by a salesman to use

on Mario's mother's plant but grows into a giant

plant monster Boy That's a couple interesting

episode said Patrick Dempsey as the plant monster.

I'm like, wait, wait, wait a minute Maybe dreamy.

Yeah, I mean the cat from Grey's man anatomy.

Yes Wow, and dr. Toby is totally doing the voice

of Edwin. Hey fellas Yeah Yeah yeah no I saw

that and I was like what the hell what is what

is he doing man I guess you know people get their

starts somewhere but a plant monster wow wow

of course then he would you know go on to do

you know the red herring idiot car salesman in

Transformers Dark of the Moon but oh boy I take

it you haven't seen Dark of the Moon. I have

avoided that one. I'll say this, it's better

than Revenge of the Fallen. Well, I think it's

better than Revenge of the Fallen. That's true.

I mean, the Care Bears are better than Revenge

of the Fallen. Ow. Alright, so for the animated...

short we have uh... could we use a food to lure

all the children of pasta land into his castle

of course it features the song that there are

jack the ray charles version uh... and of course

the dvds don't have that because soon legal issue

i i don't understand it i i get a show factory

is a very large company but they're also you

know they're not you know via com or paramount

you know that the they're not billionaire companies

you know they're not like an apple or but seriously

you couldn't get rights to do that that's one

of the things that really bugs me about most

of the cartoons that we're going to talk about

specifically to the Nintendo cartoons that they

if they're going to have something say specifically

to Mario 3 when we get to it if they're going

to have something say the complete series I expect

everything that happened to be there not just

you know i don't know and i'm not saying that

shout factory is that that they're far from being

a bad dvd company at all but it's just like it's

just kind of you know when you see the information

that it was this and you remember oh yeah that's

right but wait no we didn't see that now i don't

know um so basically the pied piper with mario

brothers i don't know do you have any thoughts

on the plot Not really this is a pretty cookie

-cutter episode as far as even even for this

show. It's just kind of yeah Yeah, so we're skipping

fire flowers And we're just gonna move straight

into goombas after this cuz I didn't write anything

good down about this episode whatsoever I'm sorry.

I'm sorry folks. I know I've said in the last

four episodes of this podcast that We do try

to be positive, but the intellect I didn't find

one single thing I watched this episode twice

and didn't find Didn't find one single thing

good to write down about this episode. You are

a survivor Yeah, so let's get to stopping on

some goombas Your plan had a few leaks in it

Mario Alright, just horrible things about the

Pied Koopa. First of all, I'm gonna ask this

question later, but I'm gonna ask it here first.

How many kingdoms make up the Mushroom Kingdom?

Seriously, Pasta Land Kingdom? Are you fucking

kidding me? I'm going to guess, so... 52. That's

not new at all. but it's like the whole point

of this cartoon in my mind is that these two

plumbers from brooklyn get sucked into this magical

world this magical world and the real world have

nothing to do with each other and i get it they're

they're trying to make the cartoon relatable

to to children of this time 1989 1990 and you

know everybody loves pasta everybody loves pizza

everybody wants to eat you know everybody wants

to become obese children we get it already We

fucking get it already and it's like but seriously

pasta land kingdom That's really a name of one

of these worlds like I just I just don't know

this must have been like the last couple days

of them sitting around the writers table Have

they been to a pasta land yet, no, okay, they're

going to a pasta land, you know Mario frustrates

me to no end in this episode They land in the

moat Overalls washed for free really seriously

You're going to basically say oh, hey, we're

going swimming and we're gonna get a fresh wash

for our clothes and The piranha trons or piranha

plants or whatever the hell they're called The

fish are Yeah the Trouters Try at Trouters. Um,

are you fucking kidding me the music in the background?

Okay Yeah, when they go to build the quote -unquote

musical instruments You can clearly tell it's

background music and there's no noise coming

out of those fucking instruments as they fucking

play them Oh, yeah, that's right. That was like

the animation does not match the background music

whatsoever. That's like the worst Replacement

music I've ever heard it so far this in this

series Cuz that's obviously where hit the road

Jack was supposed to be and it just Yeah, they

pick something that just doesn't match at all.

It's where it's worse than that that Hercules

episode. Oh, yeah. Yeah, what didn't you like

about this one? basically what you just said

it's the replacement music was horrible and It's

just such a it's this like I said this was been

like the last couple days of them trying to come

up with plots and this was just like them slapping

something together super quick there's there's

no plot it's like Koopa has a magic flute and

he guides a bunch of mushroom people away and

then Mario and company go rescue them and and

then they guide the guards away by the same damn

thing yeah and then Of course, we have another

episode that ends with Mario eating. My arteries

just hurt from watching this cartoon. Alright,

let's head on over to the next episode where

we find a whole lot of monsters. Don't you ever

think about anything but food? What else is there

brain surgery? And you are about to learn about

it the hard way Up next is Kupenstein This was

one of the episodes that as I mentioned before

on the DVD set did not have the live -action

segment because of legal issues Koopa tries to

terrorize a mountain town with a robot monster,

but winds up turning into a monster himself.

Of course, the episode is based on Frankenstein.

Featured song was Weird Science by Oingo Boingo.

Oh, yeah. Oh, that explains why that episode

had the song in it, because I actually heard

that song when I watched this today. Oh, did

you? Yeah. Because clearly I was not watching

something that was off the DVD. And speaking

of which, the live action segment was Baby Mario

Love, which they got a visit from Susanna Ross,

obviously a parody of Diana Ross. And she was

looking for replacement singers to be in her

band. And she picks the Mario Brothers for some

reason that cannot be explained. She decides

to have the lip sync. All they have to do is

dress up as the other three sisters. And it's

another episode where Mario and Luigi are in

drag. What is it with Deke and putting these

two old men in drag? Why do you keep doing this?

Oh, God. I'm so glad I did not see that. You

really lucked out because this might be the worst

of the three. Alright, let's get to the fire

flowers The live -action segment was so bad ladies

and gentlemen we forgot to talk about the cartoon

in the plot portion And as I did say, it's basically,

they're inserting these characters into classic

tales. That's all this show is so far. We've

covered nearly 26 episodes in four podcasts or

five, almost five podcasts. And it just, I don't

know. Will say that it's very interesting on

the vocal effects of Kupenstein. Yeah And I do

like the models on his I like the models on the

different design and how you know, obviously

the I Don't think it's not a bone. It's a The

screws in his head. Yeah, screw the bolts. Yeah,

I like that But I wonder who is doing the monster

sounds for Koopa. Honestly, it didn't sound like

the regular guy No, it didn't sound like um,

I think it's Harvey Atkin Yeah, I could be wrong

It didn't sound like him and I thought for a

moment that it might have been Welker Frank Welker

I don't think it's Frank Welker because I don't

think he was ever Associated with this show Which

is a rarity Yeah Very rare because I actually

looked on the Wikipedia article the main Wikipedia

article for the show And it says additional voice

cast and his name is not there at all You know

I might have to look at like IMDB or something

to see if he did any additional voices But I

honestly don't remember him ever Being having

credits for this show Totoronimo oh my god What

did you like about this one, anything? Well,

like I said in an earlier episode, I was kind

of looking for weird characters that show up

and the fire piranha plant from Super Mario 3

shows up again. Again, yeah. And let's see, you

know what, I thought it was funny that Koopa

as Dr. Frankenstein was wearing glasses for at

least part of the episode. He just looked kind

of silly. hmm let's see not a whole lot I mean

it was kind of a wonky episode I'll get to what

I I have some I have some comments about for

for my dislikes I will say okay all right let's

go ahead Take that you disgusting goomba. All

right, what didn't you like about this one? The

animation this was a particularly bad It was

oh Boy, where do you even start? I mean there

were there were scale issues all over the place

there was this clock tower in the middle of the

town and it seemed to be different sizes at different

times and you know that happens a lot in cartoons

anyway, but this was really bad and what was

with the mayor's voice it was really echoey yeah

it was echoey and it was like it was like it

was like the entire town was a 700 square foot

living like live like if you go into a mansion

and the living room is set just the living room

alone is 700 square feet you know the size of

a one -bedroom apartment like it was like you

just go in and there's no furniture no nothing

and your voice echoes off though it was hard

The voice acting was just hard in this episode.

Um, the, uh... The monster. Koopa's robot monster.

Yeah, why was that even there? Well, not even,

why was it even there? If you recolor him brown

and give him a brown smock, it's Teddy fucking

Ruxpin. Oh my god. Look at that it look at the

monster again it like the side angle. I swear.

It's it's a robot version of Teddy Ruxpin Obviously,

it's not the same colors as Teddy, but I swear

the whole time. I was thinking why is Teddy Ruxpin

here? This in my mouse or don't eat There are

good people that have done Igor, or Igor, or

whatever the hell is stupid name. There are good

impressions of that character, and obviously

the original person that originally did it in

the movies is great. But I'm sorry, a German

Igor? No, that just, no. Not at all, I don't

need a Nazi Igor, thank you very much. It just

didn't work at all. It works more than he doesn't

in every other episode because in every other

episode he has a German accent and he's like

nowhere near Europe at all. It's like why does

this mouse have this accent? I mean it's sort

of in the right region. Well it is and it isn't

but it's one of those things where you know you

expect oh yes master you know you expect that.

Yeah, you expect that kind of tone from that

character or a variation on that character or

at least Marty Feldman Yeah, at least at least.

Yeah, and it's like There wasn't that there at

all You know, it just wasn't as just episodes

just bad. It's bad I think with the next one,

I might break Neil's brain. So let's see if I

can do this Number 007, we've arrived in Spyland.

So up next is On Her Majesty's Sewer Service.

Okay, first of all, anyone who's anyone in the

mainstream should be able to tell what this is

going to spoof just by that title. Your favorite

Bond film. Fuck you. Okay. On Her Majesty's Secret

Service was the one film, the only film that

stood in my way. It's with George Lazenby. It

was right after Sean Connery said, nope, I'm

not doing Bond anymore. And I hate the film.

I absolutely hate that film. for what it is,

because Lazenby was an Australian model. He wasn't

even an actor. God, now I'm flashing to Space

Jam Bugs Bunny, and I am a Shakespearean actor.

And I understand he kind of BS 'ed his way into

being Bond. Well, the thing was, like, they made

him Bond, and he had... at the time a seven he

he was signed on for seven picture deal and something

about i i i don't remember off on my head people

listen to this podcast i i know the information

is over on the m y are shaking on stirred series

so i'm sorry i'm not looking up but it was some

of the effect of he wanted more money or he wanted

something and they were like uh... no you're

done you know it's one of those things if if

an actor will you know asks for something in

the studios like and now we'll just find somebody

else to cheaper you know kind of marvel does

now with avengers on sir uh... it uh... is it

but with this one honestly where i'm probably

going to break neil's brain is that i a freak

in the love of this cartoon episode it's so much

better than what is actually is the spoof is

uh... is so much better than the actual original

source material Well, I don't think it even touched

that movie. It's just like they they borrowed

the Yeah, they borrowed the name. Yeah, and they

borrowed the cuz the Mario thing plumbers log

double -oh -seven. Yeah Oh, so, you know, they

borrowed that and then they borrow, you know,

James blonde. Come on. Oh God now I'm flashing

to the the porno. Oh god It's all Michael Dodds

fault I swear to God. Anyway, um, so with the

on her majesty's service service Mario and Luigi

become spies to save secret agent James blonde

from coop finger So they took the name they took

the number and they took the plot from Goldfinger

And I uh... episode obviously is this a message

your service the featured song was secret agent

man of course it was it's a rivers uh... notes

toad does not show up in this episode yeah thank

god for that uh... boy uh... i really enjoyed

this honestly seriously i i thought it was really

cool i thought it was an interesting way to have

them do a parody of this and What I liked about

it is they basically put the actual secret agent

in danger and then the Mario Brothers had to

become junior secret agents or you know, whatever

so You know, it's not like other spoofs of spy

of James Bond films specifically where it's like

hey James Bond is going to team up with Perry

the platypus or you know, I don't I don't know,

you know, yes. Yes. Oh boy. Here we go The new

Scooby movies And then my note for the plot was

this is so much better than the actual lazy B

movie cuz that's also that's what I call him

that's what I call George lazy B lazy B cuz He

can't act for shit in that movie. But anyway,

what did you think of the overall plot? It was

pretty good. It was I could tell that there were

some There were some people on the writing staff

that really liked the Bond movies and put a lot

of in jokes in there My favorite is a mouser

as odd job He does throw the hat It makes it

so much it's makes it so cool Oh and well I'll

save I had a comment but I'll save it. Should

we talk about the live action segment really

quick? Yeah nine thousand one. Yeah basically

Mario and Luigi have a computer that can make

pizzas for them so they're ordering all these

ridiculous pizzas and sure enough the computer

goes haywire and the Forgettable guest of the

week shows up and fixes it. It does the the daisy

daisy thing. Oh And by the way, it's called Hal

nine thousand and one so so the computer is over

nine thousand So that's basically it Yeah, you

said it makes all kinds of crazy pizzas. The

only thing I think of is that very first episode

of Ninja Turtles it was like an episode three

sashi me pizzas and one whipped cream pizza eating

good health he's a big dog biscuit pizza okay

on that note we're gonna go find some fire flowers

Okay, dog biscuit pizza is notwithstanding. I

did find a couple of things I liked about this.

I can't really single out one specific thing.

This is one of my first notes. I love everything

about this episode. It's just... The cartoon

specifically is just so great. I couldn't...

I thought it was funny when they did the Wheel

of Fortune thing. Yes. But I couldn't tell if

she said her name was actually Vanna or Vappa.

I listened to... I rewound it like three times.

Just that one scene trying to figure out what...

Obviously, it's an homage to Vanna White. I got

that. I just didn't catch the name. But no, I

love this episode. It's just so good. The only

thing that was missing was the laser. It was

there, but they never... Coopfinger didn't use

it while they were tied up, did he? No. I think

maybe the sensors probably said no. You can't

strap Mario to the table and have the laser coming

up to his crotch. So what did you like about

this one well three specific things two things

we already mentioned no toad Mouser as odd job.

Yeah, and the other thing that I that I had written

down here was rare characters show up spark and

porcupine from Super Mario 2. Oh Cool. Yeah Well,

you know, it just everything about this one was

damn damn good I only have one thing when we

get to goombas that one thing that kinda really

teed me off but it's not enough for me to like

lower the score that I'm going to give this so

let's go ahead and get to the goombas For the

Goombas, I only wrote down one thing, because,

like I said, I pretty much love everything about

this episode. What I really hated about this

is that the fact the end, they break character

and call him Koopa, not Koopfinger. And they

don't do this just in this episode. There are

episodes that we'll get to in this podcast and

next week and the week after, where... They have

them set up as these, you know, like Koopzilla

or Koopfinger or, you know, Koopa Claus. And

sometimes the heroes will break the character

and just call him Koopa in general. Like he's

not even, like he wasn't even that character.

I don't, I don't really like that. Yeah, that's

kind of weird, but it didn't really bother me.

What, anything else you didn't like about this

one? Um, yeah, I can't really think of. much

of anything no not really all right we uh wow

that's pretty much it for wow did we go through

three episodes already holy crap i didn't even

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Show! And we are back. And of course, our scale

is 0 to 5, Starman. 4. The Biden Koopa. Zero.

I gotta agree. I was just... There's no plot.

Neither one of us had anything good written down

about it. Yeah, it gets a zero. It really does.

Kupenstein? I'll give it a three. I will, too.

I enjoyed it for the most part, even though I,

you know... I mean, it wasn't like... When I

watch these episodes and I take notes, ladies

and gentlemen... If I start watching an episode

and something either, obviously at the very beginning,

just makes me go straight to the Goombas section

and write something bad just down that I downright

hate, then you know there's going to be a bad

episode for me. But honestly, all in all, no.

Kupenstein was damn good, so I'll give it a 3

out of 5, Starman as well. What about On Her

Majesty's Sewer Service? Oh, I'll give it a 4.

Pretty solid. Yeah. Yeah, it's it is very solid.

I really do love it. I am gonna take one point

off simply for The break in character. It just

it just kind of took me out of it at the end.

So I'm gonna give it a four as well What do you

guys got coming up over at AA? Well, let's see

Well this this episode is gonna be like a month

or two ahead of what we have So, at the time

of this recording, we just did an episode about

lost cartoons. These are cartoons that have either

been destroyed over time or they're sitting rusting

in a vault somewhere in a rusty tin can where

no one can see them. It's sort of like the Donner

Cut of Superman 2. Yeah, it's sort of like the

Donner Cut where it sat around for like 20, 30

years. No one was allowed to see it until recently.

Yeah, so basically that and we we recorded a

Sailor Moon episode and it keeps getting pushed

back just because it's kind of a Kind of a bear

to edit but that should be out by the time you're

listening to this too Awesome Anything else you're

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