Super Mario Bros. Super Show Series Finale Review

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reviews of Super Mario Brothers Super Show today.

Okay Kermit, what is your favorite saying when

you're happy? When Kermit's happy? Oh man, you

know ladies and gentlemen I've said this and

I'll say this next week when we do episode 15.

It's been pain. It's been a lot more painful

than I thought it was gonna be you know how when

you go back and you look at something from your

child and you're like Oh, this isn't you know

this kind of tastes okay, and you take another

sip you're like ow ow ow ow ow You know like

you know eating ice cream brain freeze oh God

I I'm I know you're happy that we're done with

the show. I am so right there with you I just

can't believe like how bad it is. I don't, I

don't see how people can. I was going to be one

of the people that defended this show. I don't

see how anybody can defend the show. I don't

know. My worst nightmare is like, like if Deke

had made like 39 more episodes of Mario cartoons,

put them on Saturday morning. Thank God they

didn't do that. Oh wait. Yeah. Ah, funny. Funny,

funny, funny guy. Alright, so we're gonna get

into today's episodes after this. Oh no, what

am I gonna do? Rowdy Roddy Piper, that mean and

huge wrestler, is gonna be here any minute. Could

you give me a little hand here, Mario? Yeah,

yeah, yeah, what's the matter, Luigi? I mean,

what's the matter? Look, the Rowdy Roddy Piper,

that mean wrestler, he left his bagpipes here

for me to fix them, and I can't find them anywhere.

Yeah, you meatball whip plumbers, we don't fix

bagpipes. Yeah, I know that, and you know that,

but I wasn't going to tell Rowdy Roddy Piper

that. What am I going to do? Yeah, if that's

him, we'll rock him a little bit, and relax,

you know, while I get the door. All right. Yo,

Mario, where do we get this vacuum cleaner? It

sure looks familiar. Fixed it with some old junk

I had laying around the house. Luigi, it's not

Rowdy Roddy Piper. It's some hairy lady with

a plant dress. Now that's a mistake most people

make just once. My name is Rowdy Roddy Piper

and I want my bagpipes. Hey, I was only kidding,

Roddy. I mean, uh, but I'll tell you the truth,

I wouldn't wear a skirt, especially in the streets

of Brooklyn. I want my antique family heirloom

bagpipes. Well... Uh -oh. Aren't those my bagpipes?

No shirt, big angry person. These, this is an

imported Scottish vacuum that comes directly

from the McBrunks vacuum company, one of a kind

and original. The Bronx? Yes, sir. The Bronx.

Then turn it off! Yes, sir. First up today is

crocodile Mario This is gonna be interesting

the Live -action segment is the best part about

this episode because it's rowdy Roddy's rotten

pipes They converted rowdy Roddy Piper's bagpipes

into a vacuum cleaner And the best part is it's

just it for the whole five minutes of it is just

Roddy Piper doing his best freakouts. I know

the best part is at one point he's he's washing

his face in the sink and he's using like a dirty

rag to dry off and when he turns around he turns

around his face is all dirty for a split second

I thought he was going to do the half black face

from WrestleMania 6. I'm like no no oh shoot.

So, Crocodile Mario is basically a cross between

Crocodile Dundee and Captain Hook of Peter Pan

fame because when Koopa steals a town's magical

statue that repels crocodiles, Mario and Luigi

must retrieve it. And it's a statue of Paul Hogan,

obviously. Yeah. This episode plot would have

been so much better. If Paul Hogan had actually

come to... There's a point in the animation where

she kisses the statu... Princess kisses the goddamn

statue and it glows and it nearly does come to

life. I thought it would have been so much better

for the episode if the damn thing did come to

life and it was Paul Hogan voicing himself. I

thought that would have been cool. That's not

a mushroom. This is a mushroom. I'll show her

his mushroom. Wow, oh my god any other thoughts

on the plot for this one They were in down underworld

so everything was upside down and there were

kangaroo birdos Yes there were I was just rubbing

my head the whole time That's uh, yeah The plot

of this one really isn't that deep. It's pretty

much whoever has the statue doesn't get eaten

by crocodiles. Yeah, the statue repels crocodiles

and Koopa steals it for some reason. That is

never made clear. Yeah, no, not at all. This

episode, now that I think about it again, is

kind of almost like three crossovers between

Crocodile Dundee What else did I mention? Damn

it, I already forgot. Go! Crocodile Dundee, Captain

Hook, and also Live and Let Die, one of the Roger

Moore James Bond movies because there was a scene

where he was trapped in an alligator pit, but

whatever. The only difference between the two

are that their snouts are different from each

other. Either way. You know what, the crocodiles

actually look a little bit like Koopa. In fact,

I had looked away and then looked back at one

point. It looks very much like, yeah. Yeah, I

looked back and I thought maybe Koopa had turned

into one of the crocodiles. I'm like, oh no,

he's become Koopa Rule. Oh wow. All right, let's

see if we can find some fire flowers. Now they'll

eat everyone in time. I was hoping we'd have

lunch, not be lunch. Don't! look out oh dear

i think he wants toad for an appetizer if i don't

get to eat neva does that crocodile Fire flowers

now that plunge your pogo stick is something

I definitely want in the games If you said that

though if you said that to Miyamoto, I'm pretty

sure he'd shoot you Well, although maybe he's

getting he's getting kind of weird in his old

age, I mean cat Mario Maybe he'd go for it Well,

I just thought it was something cool. It was

something I hadn't seen them do before with the

plumbing They've done everything else with a

friggin plunger. Why not make it a pogo stick

and have Luigi piggyback on Mario's back? Thank

God it was Luigi piggybacking on Mario and not

the other way around because Luigi'd be dead

I really like the running and tossing animation.

I mean, it's fairly simple. Yeah, but I thought

it was well done and it wasn't like I'm just

really glad that they never had any of the animation

where it's like Mario tosses it to Luigi and

Luigi nearly fumbles the statue at the goal line.

Anything? Did you like anything about this one?

Well I haven't done this joke in a while. It

ended! That's what I liked about it. Alrighty

then. Let's get to the goombas. It's those rabbits

we have to worry about For the Goombas, I have

no idea why I wrote down this wowser really and

I spelled it W -O -W -Z -E -R as in like Bowser,

but I have no idea why I wrote that note. No

clue. I don't know Where did they get a second

plunger to sail down the river? I was so exasperated

by that point. I didn't notice any continuity

problem What don't you like about this one then?

Everything? Let's see. Just the whole thing where

the world was flipped upside down, it looked

like half... I know that they were technically

walking on the sky and everything above them

was ground, but there were times I swear it looked

like they were walking on unfinished paintings.

It just kept... Bugging me because of that. So

I didn't like that. Um Again, we have another

episode that ends with Mario chowing down this

time. He uses the No, wait, no, I think I'm getting

episodes confused now. I'm thinking of the lost

mushroom Yeah, the lot yeah he uses a lot yeah

that was last week yeah, we never mentioned The

end of the lost mushroom, he uses the lost mushroom

to wish for a tomb full of spaghetti. Yeah. No.

Just the crocodiles were used as like a clock,

basically. You know, it's like, I hope Mario

comes back before these crocodiles chew down

this building that we're all standing on Davo.

And going with my going with my Captain Hook

reference, I wish there actually was a ticking

clock somewhere. Yeah. You don't have to see

what time the clock has left just to know that

it's tick -tock tick -tock tick -tock tick -tock

Oh No, oh no hooks afraid of the old dead croc

See that was amusing just because every time

that crocodile would show up You know his his

ear would start throbbing because you hear the

tick thing. Yeah, it's gonna get to me I know,

right? Oh, man. Um... God. It just... The plot

in general, I mean, I didn't understand why Koopa

stole the statue in the first place. It's like,

I'm a bad guy, so I have to steal things. Yoink.

Yeah, it's never explained. Which is kind of

sad. Yeah, so... Ugh, that's all I have to say

about this. Yeah... Okay there, Forrest Neal.

Um... Let's move on to the next episode which

is infringing on several different LucasArts.

All right up next is Star koopa, but the live

-action segment is Santa Claus is coming to flat

push You know, you know what's weird about this

is that there are a lot of live -action Episodes

that would have hook up very nicely with with

certain cartoon episodes and I can kind of understand

why they didn't like really do that Because yeah

by by mixing them all up it it kind of gave a

variety to the show But this is one case where

there was a Christmas episode of the cartoon

and a Christmas episode of the of the live -action

And it's just weird that they didn't put them

together Yeah Yeah, very very weird So with So

with the star Kuba Mario's group has to stop

Kuba before he destroys the planet of mushroom

of a mushroom space colony episode obviously

is based on star wars episode four i knew hope

um the only thing good about this is when the

damn koopa star or the koopa shroom or whatever

the hell they called it i thought it was a good

explosion effect i thought that animation effect

on the explosion at the end was really good other

than that i i can't believe george lucas didn't

go after the deke because this is just really

even Masters of the universe even he made in

the Masters of the universe pulled off better

looking lightsaber cutoff Knockoffs than this

show did oh my god. Yeah, these those are terrible

God just everything about this episode was just

a complete I Know they're trying to parody it

and all that stuff, but it's just a complete

insult to Star Wars It was I mean may the pasta

be with you God don't even get me started and

and Koopa's Darth Vader get up He looked like

he looked like he was in bondage. Basically.

He looked like a cheap knockoff of dark helmet

Dark helmet is so much greater than this. Oh,

I know I'm saying he looks Koopa looks like a

cheap knockoff of that versus the actual Darth

Vader Like I said, the only thing for good notes

that I had written down was about the animation

on the explosion. Did you have anything? Because

we just gotta jump right into Goombas. No, I

don't really have anything. This just irritated

me beyond belief. Yeah, so insulting. Let's stomp

on some Goombas. Oh great, Koopa Vader. May the

pasta be with you. Really? Really? Come on. Why

does everyone have plastic lightsabers? They

are only Jedi weapons. The Koopa Stormtroopers

shouldn't have them. They aren't fucking Jedi.

I know. Worst x -wing ripoffs ever those plumber

pipe looking x -wing. Oh my god. Those are so

fucking bad You know it they reminded me more

of the the pigs in space That it did the x -wing

And you know the I think the only thing that

would have been worse than this episode is if

they did a prequel and Koopa would have been

like I will even learn to stop Goombas from dying.

Yeah, but the prequels weren't out in 1989. I'm

making a joke here. I know you're making a joke

there. I'm just saying. Anything else you don't

like about this one besides everything? It's

just too numerous. It defies me to even begin

to explain what's wrong with this episode. It's

the worst kind of homage basically it's yeah

It's like they want to be close to the material,

but they don't want to get too close Everything's

kind of a vaguish reference to Star Wars but

they kind of combine the the the trench run with

the with going inside the Death Star and in Return

of the Jedi Mm -hmm, which You know, I spotted

the reference. There was nothing entertaining

about it, though. It was just, you know, kind

of a bland reference. You know, it reminded me

of the Family Guy Star Wars episodes, which were

also bad. Which also had their... In which also

the premise of the joke was, look, we're making

references to Star Wars. Ha ha ha. And that's

not funny. Yeah, I forget is it the family guy

and one of the robot chicken? I don't think it's

the robots I think it's one of the family guy

ones where r2 goes all ghetto He goes all ghetto

and starts blasting people outside of one of

I don't know it was weird I I'm not a fan of

Family Guy. I never will be a fan of Family Guy

I think it's one of the worst cartoons we've

ever had I would rather and I know you've heard

me say this before and I know you probably don't

agree But I would rather watch filmation Tom

and Jerry than watch Family Guy Know I know but

I just I don't like the humor in it and but I

do agree Family Guy Star Wars ripoffs are so

much better than this And I think probably the

reason why is because Quite frankly not necessarily

trying to compare animation styles between back

then and now but the animation style on Family

Guy is Almost better than Super Show. Oh, yeah

So yeah, we are going to move on to the final

episode of the series So you mentioned the light

at the end of the tunnel and apparently that

has nothing to do with Sonic Robo Koopa is the

final episode of Super Mario Brothers Super Show

that we'll be covering And the live -action segment

is Captain Lou is Missing Yeah, it's starring

Cindy Laufer and this is actually a very special

episode because Cindy Laufer and Captain Lou

Captain Lou Albano were actually really good

friends in real life. They were good friends

up until the day he died. So yeah, they met,

I guess they met like really early in the eighties

and he had done, he had done the video of girls

just want to have fun with her. And that was

pretty, that was pretty nice that they had become

such good friends. And later after that, Cindy

actually showed up on WWF television. She was,

she was part of the rock and wrestling connection

and she was in the She was in the corner of Wendy

Richter during that time back when she won the

women's title from Fabulous Mula who with some

dubious Rewriting of history supposedly held

the woman's title for like 30 years or something

like that But you know, I'm getting off getting

off track here. I just basically wanted to cover

the connection between Cindy Lauper and Captain

Luke is they really were good the best of friends

Oh, yeah, they were. And the only thing that

kind of... The only thing that kind of made me

not enjoy the live -action segment is that you

didn't have Captain Lou go off -screen, change

clothes and come back in non -Mario attire and

actually, like, have Mario leave and take the

rubber bands. I think the rubber bands, right?

Yeah. Moustache. Like, if Mario took the rubber

bands and said, hey Luigi, I'm gonna go see if

I can find him. And then he comes back in just

regular, like, non -Mario attire. Like, I thought

that would have been better at the end, but I

don't know. In the animated segment, Robo Koopa.

Koopa uses a robo suit to kidnap Princess Toadstool

and Toad. The suit's inventor then builds Mario

and Luigi a suit of their own so they can fight

Koopa. Obviously, the episode is based on the

ED -209. Yeah. RoboCop. Sort of. I mean... Well,

it's based on Robo. It's loosely based on RoboCop.

Very loosely. I mean, if you watched RoboCop

and then watched this, you'd be like, okay? Where

are the similarities, other than the fact that

there was a robot Koopa? Yeah. It was a little

Transformers ish sort of but not really Yeah

I would say people are going to be like, okay

Teef, we get it, you don't like the go -bots.

It was more go -bots. Yeah, I'll amend what I

said. It was way more go -bot style. I mean,

if you look at Koopa's suit, that does not look

like an Optimus Prime or a Megatron suit at all.

It looks like a really, really bad go -bot suit.

I mean, the only thing that would have sealed

the deal and made it... Confirmed to go about

it if you put up like a force field and hit under

it Yeah, it was so true. It's so true. All right

I Don't have I have three good things, but it's

not enough for me to actually do work and segment

the clips with Let's robocopilize them I thought

that was kind of a funny made -up word by the

trooper. And then the plumberinator, really.

You'll be back. Oh, boy. Why is it Luigi always

has to be the balls of the joke? Yeah, I noticed

that. That was freaky as all hell. Strange do

you like anything about this one? No, let's see.

Well, it's the last episode. Haha. No, it's We're

bullet I noticed the bullet bills are in this

episode were they in any other episode I Don't

think so. They might be the rarest enemy in the

entire cartoon Yeah, I think they are actually

so hey cool bullet bills. Um, other than that,

um, there were Robo Koopa Troopas and that's

sort of but not entirely like the Mecha Koopas

that show up in the Mario World cartoon. Oh Yeah,

yeah, that's right, that's right, huh Interesting.

Yeah. All right really a whole lot Let's go stop

on some goombas Can we stop Robocoopa? He says

you can't! Stomping on the Goombas here. Dr.

Nerdnik? Wow, I didn't know Dr. Robotnik had

any relatives. Error, error, error! Animation

error! The Princess and Toad were trapped! But

after Mario and Luigi fell back into the pipe,

they aren't trapped anymore. Yeah. The force

field bubble thing. Yeah. I feel like I'm watching

a Sonic cartoon, but with Mario's. Yeah, I think

that's what it is. It felt like a Sonic episode.

Yeah. This is the final episode of the series?

Really? This is it? Like I said before, this

week and... was it this week or last? Yeah, it

was either this week or last week. Flatbush Koopa

or... No, it was last week, I said it. Flatbush

Koopa or Brooklyn Bound would have... Either

of those two episodes would have been a better

final episode than Robo Koopa to end this series.

And what this means is that this is the plot

that Koopa decided to ditch Mauser and Tri -Kai

and go for his Koopa kids. This is? Sort of making

a joke. I'm saying if this is chronologically

the final episode and this is where he decides

to switch his followers Continuity in Mario cartoons

don't actually miss mix not really know What

about you for things you didn't like about Robocopa?

Oh boy It's I Don't even know where to begin.

It's another one of these Weird episodes where

it's like why why was this even made? They're

they're in like a you're in a high -tech world

it You got it, right? It's like it was like a

sonic episode, but the whole time I was kind

of thinking like what is this Mega Man? Like

you're in the wrong game It would it it seemed

to be referencing a movie but also not referencing

it at the same time I mean, yeah, I saw no parallels

to Robocop at all Well, I'm I'm saying that that's

what it said When I read that that's what's in

the that's what's in the Wikipedia article saying

that it's a that it's a it's You know based off.

I know what I'm saying is that I'm pretty sure

that that yeah They intended to be an homage

to RoboCop But they took it in such a weird direction

that it if there's no resemblance to the source

material at all Yeah, no not at all Yeah, it

just wasn't it just wasn't a fun episode to watch

it was totally strange as far as a Mario cartoon

goes and you know criticism that I keep trying

I keep meaning to make but I keep forgetting

is that you know a lot of these thoughts if you

just take if you just Think of them as story

outlines and just take the Mario characters out

and put in any generic character They're really

not very interesting stories that you would You

would describe these stories to someone and they'd

be like, who would watch this show? And then

you tell them, oh, I just described the Mario

cartoon. And then they'd go, oh. Yeah. Yeah,

and that's what this is like. Yeah. Yeah, it's.

Yeah, I don't know. So we're going to take a

quick break. You're going to hear some audio

and some other stuff, and we'll come back with

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Let the power protect you. Alright, before we

do our closing out of the show and all that good

stuff, we have to rage the final three episodes

of Super Show Crocodile Mario, what do you give

it? I'll give it a 1. Really it What too high

I Give this one overall the entire episode from

beginning to end I gotta give it a three simply

for Rowdy Roddy Well, yeah, I wasn't thinking

a rowdy rowdy Piper. So yeah Yeah, yeah If we're

counting the live acts, I mean, yeah. Oh, yes.

Yeah. Yeah, cuz Piper makes everything good Yes,

that's right. Um star koopa oh zero yeah pretty

much robo koopa one same here it barely resembled

what it was trying to parody yeah just just so

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