Super Mario Bros. Super Show Episodes 37-40 Review

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

Show! Pixels in the animation. I am one of your

Steve Joe Mike and joining me as always is tier

is mr. Neil pasta power All right, so this week

we have Some episodes that we're gonna be talking

about some are bad some are okay and I just don't

know I Don't know if it was the fact that by

the time I watched all these episodes in one

sitting over the last three weeks of podcasts

That I was just too damn tired, but I'm looking

through my notes and stuff for the The episodes

today ladies and gentlemen They're not as bad

as bad. They're not like the worst as in bad

rap, but they're not good either. I don't know.

So let's jump right into it as we head on a quest

for pizza. Obese kids everywhere rejoice. It's

food. Yes, I can say that and get away with it.

I'm six one and over four hundred pounds So it's

not like I'm you know five nine and one fifty

We had arrived in caveman land searching for

mugger the medicine woman who we hoped could

help us set the mushroom Kingdom free But King

Koopa showed up first and was causing dinosaur

sized trouble As I said before, first up is the

quest for pizza. The live -action segment was

the painting. Morgan and Luigi find a lost painting.

What a dumb episode. Yeah, they find a lost painting,

they decide to have it appraised, and then Mario

says, we should find out how much it's worth,

too. But um, shh. And at first, what was it?

They thought it was the painting of Leonardo

da Vinci's teacher or something. And then it

turned out to be something else. And I don't

know. It was kind of a dumb episode. Basically,

at the end of the episode, they established that

the painting is worth nothing. It's worth even

less than the Super Mario Duck Hunt art. Wow.

See, that's the thing. one of these days you're

going to have to explain your hatred for Duck

Hunt because I love Duck Hunt. No, this is not

a hatred for Duck Hunt. This is because there

are so many physical cartridges of that particular

combo pack that they're virtually worth nothing.

I know people who just buy them up and make furniture

out of them because we're never going to run

out. It'll eternally be worth five cents. Alright,

so when Mario gets bitten by a venomous snake

in caveman land, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and

Toad learn that the only way to save him is to

feed him a pizza. This is an homage to a movie

called Quest for Fire. Yeah. Which, they must

make the pizza from scratch, and the featured

song is Alley Oop, the Hollywood Argyles. I Will

say that I do like that Luigi goes through all

these foods that Mario likes he's like pizza

I didn't bring any pizza like Seriously, you

brought everything under the Sun that you know

your brother likes But you didn't bring it I

get it's a plot point cuz they have to make it

from scratch and all that but it's like really

I like how he had all this all this food in his

backpack And it was all like already served on

a plate. I'm like what yeah yeah that was kind

of funny overall the plots are right I think

it's kind of stupid and lame that and how are

these ancient tribes going to know this guy is

in green and blue overalls and this guy is passed

out on the floor and red and blue over seriously

like I get plot. They have to have it to further

along the eek ock oook woman that can't speak

a fucking is. It's like going down the street

and hearing people speak in Spanish, Russian,

Swahili, whatever the hell. It was like, I'm

sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, but it was

kind of like the The Witch Doctor song from Alvin

and the Chipmunks, the way everyone talks in

this episode. And there was a running gag where

Peach would be like, what did he say about waffles

and syrup? I know, yeah. It's like through some

weird pareidolia, she kept hearing alternate

words. I don't know. And again, I'm sorry, ladies

and gentlemen. We're 10 episodes into this podcast.

We're almost. We have five episodes left of Super

Mario Bros. Super Show. Thank. God. The end is

in sight. Yes, the end is in sight, but over

the past ten episodes, I want some, I want, if

we have any listeners at all, I want somebody

to go back and I want you all to pick out every

single time I've mentioned the fact that I hate

that they consistently mention food is the, is

the cure for everything that ails you. Did you

notice at the end of the episode that After they

cure Mario, he just takes the entire pizza and

shoves it in his mouth. In one gulp. Yeah, even

I can't do that. I was like, damn. It's hilarious,

though. It was funny, but it's like, really?

It must have been one of those mini pizzas, even

though it doesn't look like it, but it really

must have been. Well, those Totino's little pizzas.

Yeah, one of those pizza rolls or something.

Well, maybe because... It did look like it got

a little wet from the water after it was semi

-cooked. Maybe it shrank. Maybe. Maybe there

was shrinkage. There was no shrinkage. She didn't

see anything. It's cold in the pool. Thank you.

I wasn't sure if you were going to get it. I

got it. I know Seinfeld. I love that show. Anyways,

let's head to the Fire Flowers if there are any.

Third door on your left. The baby's room. I'm

really sorry. I was in the pool! I was in the

pool! Did she do it on purpose? It was my fault.

I told her the wrong door. I was supposed to

see her. She wasn't supposed to see me. So what?

Well, ordinarily, I wouldn't mind. But... But

what? Well, I just got back from swimming in

the pool. And the water was cold. You mean shrinkage?

Yes! Significant shrinkage. Look! It's Mario!

He doesn't look any better in the picture either.

Forget the stupid pictures. What about the real

Mario? Pepperoni Cheesecake. Meatball sandwiches,

garlic ravioli and prosciutto spaghetti. Wake

up, Mario! Please wake up! Mario's worse off

than I thought. Agama, agama, agama, abapita.

Did she say pizza? Agamamima. Well, there were

a couple running gags in the cartoon. Aside from

the one I mentioned earlier with Peach, there

was also one where Mouser's sores kept hurting

his foot. Yeah. Yeah, that was kind of funny.

And there was one other thing I'll just count

as a glitch. In fact, I'll just call this glitches

in the animation from now on. It's the... The

fire flower design, the little caveman character

draws a fire flower on the wall, but it's not

the fire flower from Super Mario 1 or 3, it's

the one from Super Mario World. I'm like, huh,

that's kind of funny. It's like, how did that

even happen? But it's there. And then you even

see it in a later establishing shot. It's the

wrong design for the fire flower. Which, I'm

putting this in the good category, but I'm counting

it as good just because it's kind of a weird

continuity with the games. Yeah. For me, I didn't

write anything down. I don't know if it was this

episode or last week's episode when I smacked

my... Hand to my head really I'm basically a

facepalm because I kept facepalming this entire

episode like between Between them the horrible

language barrier between the lame -ass plot of

of Mario and Luigi being painted on a wall that

was supposedly from long Let's just get straight

to goombas because holy crap this episode stopping

on some goombas Why the hell did the princess's

voice come out of Luigi? I yeah, that's my that's

my biggest note here is that? Wrong voice out

of the wrong character's mouth, and it happened

more than once Not with a pH, but what a fat

cow oh crap mousersaurus rex is one of the worst

ideas they've ever had yeah that was just kind

of random it's like okay we don't have to hear

mouser talk but what why we hear him talk at

the end he tries to yeah it was definitely the

same actor oh it was but it's like not like the

last time like when he's at his last draw for

people stopping or having shit land on his foot,

he does try to talk and see German accent. Just

generally overall, just a boring episode for

me. You know, again, like you're saying, you

know, if you're watching the DVDs, this is one

skip pretty much like I thought this was going

to be something a little cooler than Mario's

been bitten by a poisonous something or other

we need pizza to save him Yeah, just for the

record he was bitten by a Cobra oh Yeah What

level is that from that's from I believe level

2 and level 6 of Super Mario 2? Oh, yeah, the

ones that pop out of the yeah, yeah All right,

we are going to move on Up next is the great

gold coin rush Well for the live -action segment

I thought that was funny that Luigi's a TV game

show host yes Jim Lang Game show's Jim Lang stops

by for the live action. I thought that was kind

of cool for the great gold coin rush. When Mario's

group accidentally discovers a cave full of gold

coins, Koopa finds out and forces the local villagers

and Toad to mine them all for himself. The featured

song? Oh my god. Money. That's what I want. I

notice these songs are becoming just a little

more random as the show goes on. Oh, just you.

Well, it's not getting, um... It won't be getting

too random next episode that we have, but yeah,

a little bit. For me in this one, I felt like

I was playing Oregon Trail in 1991 again. The

first half like the first half of the episode

the first I don't know three or four not even

five minutes the episode when they're Walking

down the wagon trail. It's like really it's like

Hmm Mario, do you want to use this to cross the

river now? I swear I felt like I was playing

Oregon trail watching this episode Mario has

dysentery You have seven additional weeks of

winter The river is too frozen over you will

fall in the ice if you don't use a bullet whatever

the hell I don't know Your entire party has dysentery

Toad is really a fungus that killed everybody

What did you think of the plot of this one Oh,

you know what? I just watched this today, and

I still had to go back to finding the synopsis,

because isn't this like the third or fourth Cowboy

episode that they've had thus far? Oh, I'm sure.

I mean, even counting the Mark of Zero slash

El Mariachi episode that was from two podcasts

ago, I'm sensing that someone on the staff had

a real thing for the Old West. Yeah, probably.

Doesn't surprise me at all. Yeah, this one I

just kind of I just kind of forgot about it.

I'm like, oh, yeah, there was that episode See

for me watching these I've learned to Because

the the order on the DVD sets is completely different

than what the air date order is Which we in the

show are going by the air date order. So like

Like The Koopas are like from from last week

the Koopas are coming the Koopas are coming coming

and You know quest basically what I had to do

was I would open up three different scripts for

three different podcast episodes And I would

watch each episode that was on that disk that

corresponded to that said episode I didn't exactly

watch them one two three in the order that we

review them in Because I'm like I'm not consistently

switching back and forth DVDs if my computer

had a six disc changer I wouldn't have a problem

with it, but it's like wow it just Strange See

and that's the great gold coin rush. I guess

we'll jump into fire flowers after this So finding

some fire flowers for the great gold coin rush

I already mentioned the Oregon Trail thing. I

found that there was a lot of high -octane adventure

and action in this. It was non -stop. It's kind

of like you mentioned, I think it was last week,

with the story of Trojan Koopa. Point A, point

B, point C, and start to finish. This here has

action from beginning to end. I liked it. I thought

it was cool. Yeah, it was one of the better episodes.

Even though I made a joke about how I was getting

it confused with other episodes, even after having

watched it like literally an hour ago. But it

had a lot of good action. It wasn't a very memorable

episode, I'm sorry to say. So I don't have a

lot to say on it. But yeah, it was one of the

better ones. Yeah, and I really don't have anything,

like, too negative to say about that, like, that

there isn't anything here that, oh my god, all

the Oregon Trail members that died of dysentery

are rolling over in their graves because they're,

you know, there's nothing like that here for

me at all. And the same thing for the Goombas,

which we'll probably skip this time, is... All

I wrote down was, they're really pulling out

the stops for everything in the series at this

point. I mean, they've covered, you know, magic.

They've covered every... every trope you can

think of, everything that's already been done

before. They've already done it here, and this

is kind of like, hey, let's try to do this now,

since it hasn't been something we've ripped off

yet. So we are going to move into the next episode.

Plumbers log, number 1950. We've walked into

sock hop land in search of the music king himself,

Elvin Parsley. And I'm sure that they'll have

all the money they need while Sandra goes to

law school. Honey, this is gonna work out. Mom?

Yes? I'm not going to law school. What? I decided

not to go to law school. What do you mean you

decided not to go to law school? Well, this is

our dream. And so I'm going to get a temporary

job until the wilderness store opens and then

I'll be working side by side with my husband.

Sandra, what are you saying? You have always

wanted to go to law school. You've never talked

about anything else. I changed my mind. Change

it back! After all the money we spent sending

you to Princeton? Sandra, you owe us $79 ,648

.22 and I want my money now. I'm not going anywhere

until I get my money. I'll take whatever she's

got. Empty her pocket. Up next, apparently Elvin

lives. Well, of course Elvin lives. He's married

to Sandra. Oh, come on. Elvin's a little geeky,

but aren't we all? All right, so for the live

-action segment home radio Basically Mario and

Luigi win a radio contest and they're going to

have the radio station at the apartment. I Think

that's damn cool I thought that was great to

have a radio remote type of thing because I've

always been one of those people that any city

I've lived in, whether it's growing up in Massachusetts

or living here in Kentucky or even when I was

living in Mississippi for a couple of years or

about six months or so, I've always gotten in

good with every radio station that I like with

their morning show DJs. This is one of the reasons

why I became a podcaster is I always wanted to

be on radio. Yeah, I get it radio doesn't pay

for shit, but I didn't care I wanted to be that

guy in the booth talking to people having an

audience and of course nowadays with podcasting

anybody can do Yes, technically kind of what

I was thinking about I'm like, you know if this

was like modern Mario and Luigi would be like

thinking about starting a podcast. Yeah, exactly

The question is which one would Ben be and did

we did we mention who the guest was yet? It was

Gary Owens. Gary Owens, that's right. I like

the sound of my voice. I know. Oh man. Good ol'

the original voice of Inspector Gadget before

Don Adams took over. But he was also Blue Falcon

and Birdman and Outer Toast Man. Harvey Birdman!

Now, there was, and I know I'm going off on a

tangent, ladies and gentlemen, but you're just

going to have to deal with it. There was a Birdman

series before Harvey Birdman, attorney at law,

correct? Yeah. And that's the one with Gary Owens.

Yeah. I don't like the attorney at law one. Yeah,

that's not him. Yeah, no. But no, Gary Owens,

he has... You can so tell that guy is from radio.

He has that... that big booming radio voice.

Yeah, he's really the last guy of like the old

school of voiceover artists that really came

from radio. So he's got kind of the Jack Benny

style to him. He had what Mel Blank had and all

those other guys. So he's really been around.

He's been in like all mediums and he's been in

radio. He's been on TV. He's been like an announcer.

He's the voice you hear at the beginning of Garfield

and Friends. yes oh that just gave me another

idea for them yeah um yes but Gary Owens very

very awesome and where the cartoon Elvin lives

can anybody really guess what this is really

come on so easy well I can tell you you're so

excited Neil while trying to find the missing

Elvin parsley Seriously people, Koopa kidnaps

Princess Toadstool and forces her to be his girlfriend.

The featured song, this is not at all unpredictable

for this show, rock around the clock. Elvin lives...

I would rather have watched Fletch Lives. Yeah,

I like Fletch Lives. Yeah, the only thing for

Fire Flowers that I have down is I thought the

animation was good, but other than that, it's

all bad. So let's go ahead and stomp on some

Goombas. So stomping on some goombas, the king

is rolling over in his grave, over and over and

over. Elvin Parsley, really? They couldn't have

come up with something more clever. Hell, a pup

named Scooby -Doo had a better Elvis name than

this. I don't remember what that was off the

top of my head, but Talking blue suede shoes

really? talking Shoes Neil talking shoes. I I

don't know. I that's totally through me I And

they finished each other's sentences like like

the Cobra twins. Yeah I just don't know. This

episode isn't as bad as the worst episode of

the series, but again it comes down to there

are just no words. There really aren't. So we

are going to move on to the final episode of

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of that... Wait up! Thumbers long, number 218.

We were up to our mustaches in Pickle Soup. And

now, for something we forgot in the Elvin Lives

episode review, why did Elvin Parsley sound like

James Brown? What? Brown? What the hell is a

Brown? Why did he sound like James Brown? That

was a little strange. I don't know. And, you

know, another thing I forgot to bring up is this

really weird glitch in the cartoon where They

see him they see him in the room where he's being

kept and they're like, oh my god Elvin has been

turned to stone and you look at him and he's

clearly frozen Yeah, I'm like, oh somebody did

a script change at some point Never bother to

fix it Yep, that's a little ridiculous. All right,

so let's go back and rate these Episodes for

this week. We've got quest for pizza. What do

you give that one? Um Give it a two I suppose

It was it was okay, I Give it a one the bad animation

lines several times Mouseasaurus Rex that was

like it would have been fine if they just had

mouser's face and had someone like bring Frank

Walgren to do a Tyrannosaurus Rex sound but having

him trying to talk as as mouser at the end that

was just so i'll give it a one great cold great

cold wow great gold coin rush what do you give

that i'll give that a two as well it didn't really

do anything for me it i think i think i'm just

burned out on mario in the old west yeah i'm

right there with you it's like wow enough with

this already Elvin lives? What do we give that?

I'll give that a Y. I don't understand why this

exists. Yeah, I'm right there with you. And I

just realized, we screwed up. I was gonna ask,

are we gonna do Plumbers Academy? Son of a bitch!

Let's just do it now I completely forgot ladies

and gentlemen it is about almost 1 a .m. Eastern

Standard Time when we're recording this episode,

so I Completely forgot about plumbers Academy,

so this is all my fault so glass nuts live -action

segment A police officer tells Mario and Luigi

that the president of the U .S. is meeting with

the head of Russia. Ironically, the day the episode

aired was also the day the Berlin Wall fell.

The featured song is Workin' for a Livin' by

Huey Lewis and the News. I think I have the Huey

Lewis Garth Brooks cover of that somewhere. I

might have to put that in the episode. Mario

retells the story of how he and Luigi became

plumbers back in Brooklyn. Um, I know they don't

do this and they haven't done this but I would

have almost wanted the episode to go back to

live -action to tell the story I know that I

know it would have been weird and I know it would

have cost a hell of a lot more money, but Yeah,

this is a flashback episode I don't really have

anything negative to say about it. The only thing

that I thought was really interesting and positive

is Even before Super Mario Land was ever out,

Wario appears in this episode. Oh yeah. The picture

will be in the post. What did you like about

Plumbers Academy? Anything? What was kind of

funny that they basically did an episode that

wasn't Super Mario Brothers, it was just Mario

Brothers. This is them in a drain pipe, you know,

unclogging clogs. They could have, just for fun

sake, thrown in some of the enemies from the

Mario arcade, Mario Brothers arcade game. Oh

yeah. And there was a piece of continuity in

here that I was like, I was surprised that they

did. They see the statue of Salvador Dronado,

who is the same character from Brooklyn Bound.

Remember the character that was trapped in the

Mushroom Kingdom and he found the way back to

Brooklyn? Oh, yeah, yeah, and I had to make sure

I'm like, oh, I bet that's not the same character

it is That's awesome. That's very cool. Yeah

Um plumbers Academy. I liked it. I enjoyed it.

I thought it was good I thought like I actually

had to do a double take on the on the list of

plumbers and as soon as I saw purple and yellow

I'm like Wario really Although he doesn't he

doesn't look demented like Wario, but it's definitely

no, but it's a fat plumber mart like father than

mario tight that has yellow and and purple over

all that we them the wario color scheme yes uh...

no he doesn't look at all the like now i'm thinking

wario is senestro he was good that he turned

evil uh... uh... will be used that but he does

kind of look like senestro the face anyway you

know all right plumbers academy when you get

it I'll give it a four just because it was a

better episode. It was a break from the norm.

It wasn't just Mario in a fairy tale or whatever

else they could pull. It was an actual story.

And the connection was that, oh, you know, we

left out the whole beginning part is where Koopa

gets Mario's plumber's helper stuck on his nose

and which results in the funniest line I think

in the entire run he goes when you've heard Koopa's

nose you've really blown it like oh god but yeah

it's a flashback and the the driving force here

is that this this plunger was something that

he had gotten from the president and I noticed

that they were trying to be vague about who the

president was because I think this was animated

during the election at the time So it could have

been got ignoring even remember who bush was

running against anymore Was it Clinton no, it

wasn't Clinton it was it was um, it was Bush

Perot and Dukakis Oh, yeah, it could have it

was kind of like half Dukakis half bush, but

you really didn't get a good look at him. So

Yeah, yeah But yeah, no Again, sorry for screwing

everything up in this episode, but uh, but uh,

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