Nintendo Cartoons: Super Mario, Zelda, Captain N, and Super Mario World

Hello, and you're going to be listening to the

very first episode of Tooncast, where myself,

MikeTFG1, Kevin, Todd, and Dion talk about uh...

the nintendo cartoons super mario bros 3 super

mario bros super show the legend of zelda uh...

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enjoy tuned cast episode one recorded in june

fifth two thousand nine With the money To episode

one of tune cast this is Mike TFG one blanchard

from the geek cast radio network and the TFG

one podcast I am joined tonight by Kevin Todd

and Dion. We are here to talk about the Nintendo

cartoons. Hello guys. How are you? Good good

Hey rock on rock on And as it was stated in episode

zero tune cast is basically Something that came

up a while ago from a friend of mine out of a

this week in geek podcast episode about the Disney

afternoon and we're going to be covering all

kinds of From 50s to 90s cartoons and today we're

talking about all of the Nintendo cartoons. That's

right Super Mario Brothers Super Show Super Mario

Brothers 3 Zelda Captain and Super Mario World

and whatever else um... so i think we're gonna

start with super mario bros super show uh...

i remember watching this but i don't have the

dvds right now so i'm pretty much going to use

you guys to kind of refresh my memory i did find

a couple episodes about it on youtube but i really

couldn't get past uh... captain lou's voice from

mario because i'm so used to i'm so used to walker

boon doing it And I will probably cut in every

now and then with some information from wiki

that I've collected I really don't remember much

about this other than some of the live -action

stuff Well, I think that was probably the most

memorable part of it at least for me. I don't

remember looking back and actually Remembering

the cartoon parts of the show, but I remember

skit after skit after skit that they did with

that live -action show with you know Captain

Lu Elbano bringing in people like sergeant slaughter

and I mean there was just a whole range of people

and I remember that more than I remember the

cartoon actually Yeah, I I When I was watching

the thing on YouTube last night it was like the

first episode and When it got to the cartoon

it was pretty much all Super Mario Brothers 2

villains It had nothing to do with pretty much

the original game other than The actual characters

because Toad is already in the show The very

first episode so it pretty much took off with

Super Mario Brothers 2 and there is a glitch

in that opening animation When Mario goes to

touch the star he turns into fire Mario. He does

not turn into invincible Mario I Did not catch

that. Yes. He only shows up is as red and white.

He does not show up as multicolor So, let's see,

where are we gonna go from here on this interesting

thing is that when this show actually before

it aired Regis Philbin and a bunch of other people

had actually asked Captain Lou to do this spot

and he did not he at first turned it down he

wanted nothing to do with this show because obviously

Captain Lu Albano was a wrestler and you know

people had told him you know wrestlers can't

act they don't act you know they just you know

I mean they do for wrestling but that's an entirely

different thing right and you know he said in

the in an interview that I saw on the actual

DVD set he said that he'd broken his back twice

and you know he'd had Several, you know surgeries

and he said, you know what? I got to quit. I

got to quit I'm getting old. I can't do this

anymore. So that's actually When the Super Mario

Brothers Super Show came calling for him and

at first, you know, he did not want to do it

He just he wanted nothing to do with it And then

I guess he met Danny Wells who was the voice

of Luigi and they you know, they did 52 Live

-action skits, but on the DVD set you only see

48 of them. There are actually some that you

do not see I don't know if we'll ever see those

but there are some you just don't see and those

there are I believe four of them, but You know

for me I did catch that glitch and I actually

thought it was kind of interesting that they

did not fix that but yeah captain Lu Albano and

Danny Wells, I thought in my personal opinion

were pretty good actors in the live -action scenes

as well as the cartoons They were actually gonna

do Another Another Super show in 1990, but Deke

at the last minute decided to scrap all the plans

for it I'd have to agree that I thought they're

acting in those opening sequences was one of

the highlights of the show I'm surprised at that.

I didn't know that about Captain Lou Albano.

I'm surprised that it took some convincing because

he was only two years removed from another cartoon

series, Hulk Hogan's Rockin' Wrestling, which

he appeared in from 1985 to 1987, so I'm surprised.

It took some convincing for him to get involved

with another one. Well, he didn't want to do

any more voice acting. He just he thought that

was enough. He thought that was plenty. I mean,

he was a wrestler. He wanted to stick with wrestling

stuff, not, you know, Nintendo stuff. But, you

know, look at where it's taken off now. Everybody

recognizes him for it. I'm glad he did. I actually

have a question for you, Dion. You'd mentioned

that there are some live action skits that are

not there. Could that see that? Could that? Right.

Right, but could that be... There's 52 in all

total. Right, but the other ones that aren't

on those sets, could they be the ones that are

on the Legend of Zelda set? Because I'm looking

at the back of the Zelda box and it says, selected

original live -action segments from the Super

Mario Bros. Super Show. So those are the extra,

those are the extra, let's see, 9, 51, 2, 4.

Those are the extra 4 that were cut. Oh, okay.

When it aired originally though. It was Monday

through Thursday was the Mario section and Fridays

are dedicated to the Zelda. Yeah, but they still

did opening Right is elder to right. Yeah Yeah,

like I said, I really don't I'm more known. I

more know about the Mario 3 show than the original

show and Yes, the voice of King Koopa who was

played by Harvey Atkin and He doesn't he doesn't

know he does also some other voices in that show

the voice of Koopa My question is how in the

world did that not hurt his throat? Because that

was always a growling, gravelly, rough voice

for Koopa. That's what that role... Portrayed

and I'm thinking dude. Did you have some lozenges

after? The art of voice acting it it probably

did hurt his his throat because I just watched

and this is totally off -topic I just watched

the 2004 voice panel for what for for Peter Cullen

at BotCon for 2004 and he said when you talk

about when you do voices in that deep gravelly

it does it will put a strain on your vocal cords

yeah there are a few tricks and stuff that you

can do beforehand to kind of help it out but

there's no way around it if you're doing it enough

it's gonna it's gonna hurt you a little bit yeah

um i i just got a question just for um for dianne

or for you i don't you said you didn't really

remember dianne did you remember watching this

when it was originally airing the super mario

super show yeah yeah God yes, okay. I don't know

I used to come home and tape it off of the family

channel for God's sake Well, I don't I'm trying

to figure out if this just happened in my like

the local network that I was watching on if this

happened All over the place. Do you remember

them during those live -action? Sequences having

any type of like call -in contest where you could

call a number and you could win something. I

Remember specifically and oh God Nintendo did

get into a few promotions of that. Yes, and I

actually got it I actually did get into one of

those contests I didn't because I remember I

remember just sitting there one day and just

me and my friend just calling the number over

and over and over again you had to be like the

whatever like that like the 80th call or something

like that it was it was a real trip to get in

because I mean sometimes they wanted the 100th

caller they wanted the 200th call and it was

hard I mean yeah I would I would basically have

my butt on my finger on the readout button I

remember doing that. I remember never winning

anything. I don't even remember what the prizes

were, but I just remember dialing up. Well, some

of them were Nintendo products. You actually

got an actual Nintendo set. I thought so. I thought

so. You got Nintendo sets. You got Nintendo games.

I'm sure they threw in a free subscription to

Nintendo Power. Nintendo Power. Oh, God, yes.

Nintendo Power was given out just about every

other month. Yes. Well, thank you, Deanna, for

making sure that I'm not crazy. I knew I remembered

something like that. Well, you mentioned a local

network now, I'm just gonna throw this in there

but there was a Seg there was a show on a local

network in LA called King Koopa's cool cartoons

And it was basically someone dressed up in a

King Koopa outfit on and They you know, they

had different, you know, they had the different

They had different Nintendo cartoons. I think

Mario was featured. I don't remember now I'd

actually have to go and pull the article again,

but That was you know in the late 90s. Oh, I'd

say about 93 to 94, but it was Fox It was the

Fox Network in LA Does anybody remember Club

Mario cuz I don't But I do remember it. I remember

it and it was just the same as Super Mario All

-Stars would be years later Okay One of the things

that really made me mad. I did actually watch

the show for the cartoon I didn't watch it for

the live -action because I was a kid. I wanted

to watch the cartoons But I love seeing Mario

as a real person. That's the reason I like the

live I thought it was kind of cool. I thought

it was kind of cool when they would break scenes

You'd see this big Mario head on screen Got so

pissed After Friday afternoon Monday Monday afternoon.

I'm like wait, where's Zelda? Where'd Zelda go?

What the hell? Once a week my ass And I've heard

different different reviews some people a lot

of people are saying that Zelda was the better

part of that tandem But I've had just as many

reviews that I've read that said Zelda was Horrible

compared to the Super Mario Brothers shows, but

I don't know where I sit on that that argument

I just watched all three discs of the series

today Yes, I just finished watching Zelda probably

five hours ago and It's it's better than I thought

it was gonna be I guess that's because I'm a

fan of the Nintendo shows and I usually when

I'm a fan of something i don't look to the negative

i sometimes very rarely end up being subjective

or objective i will say this right now rest in

peace lynn carlson um he was the voice of canon

yep and uh he was the voice of several other

people in zelda as well yeah he was the voice

of a couple of the moblins yeah But he was I

mean the main the main villain was cannon and

he did a very good job with that voice I thought

and He died of a heart attack. That's another

voice that Goes high and low and gravelly because

because I was like I said, I was just watching

it Well true, but I mean the Moblin voice was

pretty much a straight -out gravelly voice It

wasn't really high or low fading in and out.

But Gannon's was Gannon's was pretty high, low,

and every now and then it would kind of start

really low and then raise. Exactly. So Mike,

you mentioned looking forward to the Friday show.

If I remember right, I might be wrong on this

one. But did they have some type of previews,

though, for that Friday show during the week

of the Mario shows? Yes, they did. And that could

have led to some more anticipation build up for

the Zelda portion of the two, rather than the

Super Mario part. Actually, what it was was,

I think if I remember this correctly, it's not

in the information I have. Think it was every

Thursday. They would do a coming up next on the

Super Mario Brothers Super Show and because it

wasn't a Mario cartoon on Fridays It was Zelda

they would show a mini preview on Thursday afternoons

for the Friday show So yeah, it was there I Pretty

much like all the cartoons. I mean, I haven't

watched enough of Super Mario Brothers Super

Show the actual cartoon to make opinion either

way but as far as like Zelda and Mario 3 and

the the three seasons of Captain and and the

Super Mario World I liked them all I actually

have a I have a photo album what like a scrapbook

thing I actually got away back in 89 90 whenever

it was in syndication to get my mom to take a

picture of the TV with the Captain Anne and Super

Mario World logos on them. Nice. That's awesome.

Yep. Yeah, I don't know if we mentioned that,

but because we might have been talking about

it before we started, but we were starting in

1989 here with the Super Mario Brothers Super

Show. Yes, Super Mario Brothers Super Show and

Zelda. Actually, probably most of them. I think

other than Mario 3 Started in 89. I can't be

for sure Mario 3 is in 90 90. Yeah, then obviously

Mario worlds a little bit after that, but all

the other ones are in 1989 So yeah, it's a little

time frame. Yeah, I mean it for his Even though

these shows only like Captain and only lasted,

you know, three years or three seasons, Zelda

only lasted one. All the other ones were about

13 episodes long. Yeah. I mean, they they had

a good longevity. I mean, you think about all

the Nintendo characters that were put into some

of these, especially when we get to Captain and

a little bit later, you think of all the Nintendo

characters and worlds and. All right, so Zelda,

what the hell was I saying? Crap, I don't remember.

The longevity of the cartoon. Oh, yeah, the longevity

of the cartoon. Even though it was only from

pretty much 89 to 91 for most of them, or 92

or 93, it seemed like it was that they were on

for a very long time. Well, and that was definitely

what the, if you being the historian here. Cartoons

at that point did take a major shift in about

1989 1990 this this was the video game Era for

those two three years that hadn't been present

before The last time we had saw video games and

cartoons actually would been back in 1983 with

the Saturday supercade which had you know your

Donkey Kong's and Your Frogger cubert pitfall

stuff like that and after that it had been you

know six years since we'd had a lot of video

game cartoons 8990 we have this slew of five

or six Nintendo shows and then after that it

kind of fades away So this is pretty much your

your two three years of you know, big -time video

games in cartoons. This was their time Yeah,

yeah. Yeah, it was Let's see. Where are we gonna

go from here? Yeah back into 86 real quick because

there was actually a Super Mario Japan cartoon

and I've actually You know seeing it on youtube

with english translations Someone's read me the

english translations, but you know, that's actually

how You know mario was first really animated

before the super mario super show came along

Yeah Um, well if you if you don't count the mario

that was in donkey kong back. No, i'm not counting

him i'm just Counting the one from 86. Yeah Yeah

It is Super Mario Brothers Super Show and Zelda

both are on DVD Zelda is in a three disc complete

series set and Mario Super Mario Super Show is

Two DVD volumes they're available now our best

friends at shout. Yes shout factory Actually

every show that we talk about today is available

through shout, I believe yep, they all are Yes,

every last one. The one thing that really made

me mad was some of the music changes, and we'll

get into that in a few minutes when we start

talking about Super Mario Bros. 3, because I

just finished watching that yesterday. Like I

said before with Zelda or the the common running

joke in the series was links repeated failure

to convince Zelda that he deserved a kiss for

his heroic deeds Whenever it seemed that they

were going to kiss something always would have

Yes, and if you don't believe us just head over

to YouTube and type in Zelda and the words excuse

me princess and you can watch about 10 minutes

of one line being repeated over and over and

over again Well, they said that that was from

a comedic type deal. I don't remember where But

it was supposed to be a running gag on a comedian

Yeah, I read something about that too, but the

YouTube videos it's hilarious until you're ready

to poke your own eyes out and yeah The series

Zelda was actually supposed to be continued What

was canceled along with Super Mario Brothers

Super Show? The series is one of only four productions

in which link talks the others being the CDI

games manga series in the comic series The that's

two main games that it pulled references are

a cd i yes yes yes yes uh... the two main rep

nothing can be worse than paper mario uh... so

anyway uh... the two main games that the series

zelda took from references from was the original

legend of zelda and zelda to the adventure of

link uh... for example ganon is often seen riding

a loader uh... an insect like beetle seen in

zelda to but not the legend of zelda uh... oh

yeah the other thing about similar with the super

show is it it put in uh... Both of the original

games, even though I didn't see that much of

the original Mario bro Super Mario Brothers game

in it I saw more of Super Mario to war to war

to the main antagonist of the Yeah, he wasn't

even there He was never shown and I think the

reason why that was was because they wanted to

stick with one main villain With Koopa and it

was much much Yeah So, yeah That's the whole

point of tune cast is to get people watch old

cartoons Oh The reception for the Zelda DVDs

IGN rated the DVD released legend of Zelda a

3 .0 or bat quote unquote bad except for writing

repeated plots and over -the -top acting. Link's

catchphrase, excuse me, princess, is commonly

used in joke by video game players and is spoken

by Link on 29 occasions throughout the 13 episodes.

Can you be over -the -top on a cartoon based

on a video game? Is that possible? Oh yes, very

much so. I even think Jonathan Potts probably

looked at the scriptwriters and went, all right.

Can we kind of change this? I think this gets

old. You have to say the same line 29 times.

I mean, I'm sure they fought. He's like, I'm

going to have some fun with this. I'm saying

the same line 29 times. Can we do something different

here? Are you looking through it just like, OK,

that's good. That makes sense. What the hell,

a water park? Yeah, the water park had nothing

to do with Zelda. Sure it did. Oh, was there

a building it wait are you talking about in the

actual episode or was there an actual water park

somewhere? Okay, I don't know Well, no it didn't

have anything to do with the actual game, but

it was a it was a story plot I guess they were

trying to go for something a little bit different.

I don't know I Don't know So up next we are going

to talk about the adventures of Super Mario Brothers

3 this It's a good show I Think the first thing

we need to get get out was the fact that they

changed all the Koopa kids names and when I first

saw When I first started playing Super Mario

Brothers 3 it was after I watched the show so

I'm like, okay the game's wrong Actuality, the

show is wrong. You have Cheatsy Koopa who is

supposed to be Larry, Big Mouth Koopa who is

supposed to be Morton, Cootie Pie who is supposed

to be Wendy, Hop who is supposed to be Iggy,

Bully who is supposed to be Roy, Hip who is supposed

to be Lemmy. and then kooky von koopa who was

supposed to be lug ludwig von koopa interesting

know if any of you guys have watched transformers

animated uh... tera strong who does the voice

of sorry she was actually the voice of hip and

hop i didn't know that i did not know that yeah

another thing about that i didn't realize that

the japanese version of super mario brothers

3 that the kooka kids didn't have names No, I

didn't know that either I didn't know that either

and that's I guess why we had this mix up with

the with the names on the show What they could

have done was pulled the names out of the Nintendo

manual They could have but that's Nintendo for

permission. I mean they were already doing the

video game series. Yeah, that's true Let's see,

where are we gonna start with Mario it was actually

kind of cool to see the this The new superpowers

animated like look the the raccoon leaf and all

that stuff. I mean I don't think we ever saw

hammer Mario though. No, no, no, we didn't I

don't think we ever We did not see hammer and

we did not see tanuki. Well tanuki I Tanuki is

just a raccoon suit. But yeah. Yeah, we didn't

see that either Yeah, but I liked it when you

could turn into a statue in the People would

walk by you and they're like, okay, la dee da.

I just liked it because you could say the word

tanooki a lot. Tanooki, tanooki. Tanooki. Most

cartoons you kind of root for the hero, but most

cartoons, the villains are more fun, and voice

actors even say, and even actors themselves,

it's more fun to play the villain. I actually

like seeing a lot of the villains in this, like

the thwomp. and uh... the petui's and and and

stuff like that uh... because it was just funny

the way that stuff happened to them i remember

one episode princess told stool uh... head each

yet or daisy whichever you want uh... no daisy

was somebody completely different yeah anyway

uh... the uh... there was an episode where she

got all like boomerang brothers and fire brothers

and hammer brothers to all go against each other

so they could escape and i thought that was pretty

cool seeing all of them fight each other with

boomerangs and fireballs and hammers and stuff

so that's not something that you saw Yes, I could

probably look I think the other thing too besides

seeing all those guys all those different bad

guys I think it was just naturally better For

me as a show because of the number of Koopas

that were involved I like that part both in the

game and the show that it wasn't just one bad

guy that you had all these different people with

different personalities and stuff like that I

think that kind of led for a lot more plot opportunities

in this show than we had in the previous Mario

versions Yeah One thing I didn't like is that

they kind of sort of screwed up the music soundtrack

and I'm not talking about where they you know

the copyright stuff I'm talking about some of

the music from the game. Oh, really? Yes, if

you listen to like some of the music in Super

Mario Brothers 3 and Then play the exact same

track from the games. They'll play it backwards

and I don't mean like reverse it I mean, they

actually get a lot of it wrong As well we're

on the music of the show. I did yesterday just

watch the Milly Vanilla episode and holy crap

Yeah, they replaced the Milly Vanilla songs with

mega move. So it actually I know it's copyright

issues. I understand that but it gives It gives

more more impact and probably at the time it

did when the show was airing actually the fact

because when they originally aired it, they actually

had the Milli Vanilli stuff there. I know, but

you didn't know what I was going to say. What

I was going to say was, well, the show was aired,

like, OK, when the DVDs came out, now that we

all know that Milli Vanilli lip -synced half

their stuff with the mega move, when they...

when shout factory released the the dvd no one

from deke or shout factory went back in and cut

the animation of their voices moving so it gives

more impact to the fact that they lip synced

half you know half if not all of their songs

because i was actually going because i did talk

to brian ward himself from shout yes they were

actually trying before these dvd sets were released

To get the the cartoon the the base did the episode

itself? Mm -hmm that the original, you know music

and everything was in yeah Cudi Pyrox, I believe

is the name of that episode they tried to actually

get that You know that that original episode

and unfortunately, you know since you know, one

of the members of Millie Vanille is no longer

with us Know and that's pretty pretty sad when

you've you know got to do that, but you know,

hey I think they were actually trying to do that

and then at the last minute They said no, yeah

Yeah, that's nice. I like how they showed all

the worlds from the game though for the most

part, like Dark Land and Desert Land and Water

Land and Giant Land and Ice Land and I don't

think Skyland was ever seen Skyland was not included

I don't think it was I know what was mentioned

in the special features on the DVD but I don't

actually remember it Skyland was never mentioned

Grassland I've seen a few times Yeah I think

Grassland ended up just being called the Mushroom

Kingdom And I liked also in the title sequences

after After the title itself when you go into

the episode cards how they would show each Each

map from the game. Yeah, I like that part, too

Yeah, I remember that I don't remember a lot

about Mario 3 But I do remember seeing a bunch

of stuff right out of the game that kind of caught

my eye. Yes I don't know about you guys but for

me the one thing that i remember most of all

mario three for me was the voice acting for told

which was uh... john stocker i'm sorry i just

love what he did with all of us by far it just

stole the show for me and like i could just listen

to the stuff he was doing with told uh... you

know for all day i love what he did with them

or else he was also you know in the original

super mario brothers super shows yeah he was

in the original cartoon That was that was i'm

glad they actually kept him, but I really wish

they had actually tried to worry about the street

voice cast I really wish they had gotten um captain

lu albano and danny wells to reprise the roles

at least for this series Um because there I noticed

that there were at least You know the those voices

changed they were no longer there to reply to

play mario and luigi and then of course Tracy

Moore took over the role of Princess Toadstool.

And I do not know who the original voice actress

was, but there were actually two actresses that

played Princess Toadstool in the original Super

Mario Brothers Super Show, if you listen very

carefully. And just like I think Mike had mentioned

that he had had a little bit of difficulty adjusting

to Captain Lou Albano because he had been used

to Walker Boone. And it was just the vice versa

for me. I was... I for some reason was used to

Lou Albano. I was used to Lou. That was Mario

in my head. So I had the same problem that you're

saying that you had adjusting to Walker Boone

actually. Well actually after I heard Walker

Boone for quite a while and Tony Rosado, who

was the voice of Luigi for Mario 3, I was OK

with it. I wasn't mad about it. I mean, I didn't

understand why the voice has changed. You know,

I also I was a kid too. So I obviously didn't

have the internet to look up this information

So yeah, and uh, jeania, uh, I don't know if

i'm saying this right alias alias was the original

Okay, I did not know well there was also well

it says it says most other voice actress that

was unnamed Yeah, because it's not listed anywhere

else. Yeah, it's not listed on on the wiki stuff

Um, yeah as far as the voices The only I really

didn't realize a change at first until I even

going back and watching them I didn't realize

a change until I actually looked up this information

and then of course Dion had to send me the link

to see a Tony Rosado going insane story Which

will not be bringing up in this podcast to speak

in a voice actors it can get back that is a uh...

what is why don't go ahead but i don't think

is that i mean no the only reason why okay the

only reason why i wanted you to honestly see

that link is because after super mario world

we heard nothing out of him you know uh... uh...

here nothing we heard nothing from him and we

heard uh... Nothing from Walker Boone either,

you know after the Mario stuff that was a yeah

I mean I do agree with you, but I just I Understand

looking at things that happen to actors that

did in series and stuff like that But I really

don't want to see negative stuff half the time

because I remember the first comment I made you

the first comment I made you before I even went

to the link I'm like, oh great doing Super Mario

Brothers Nintendo drove him nuts Yeah Yeah, oh,

yeah Speaking of voice actors in Mario 3 we also

had some Small roles for some pretty famous people

we are talking about a little bit before but

a Frank Welker was doing some Goomba and some

other creature Work we had Ed Gilbert and Charlie

Adler some we had some pretty famous people doing

some of the minor roles in Super Mario 3 2 yeah

Plus the narrator and right now his name escapes

me um Ernie Anderson. Yeah, that's it passed

away in 1997 did you know that the petui was

done by a female? No, Louise valance. I don't

know who she is. I don't know who she is, but

me neither I've never heard of her Yeah, well

yeah, but Ernie Anderson. I thought was very

good of course. He you know he was very famous

for ABC Right, you know ABC and America's funniest

home videos. Oh, that's okay. Okay, that's okay

That's who he is. Well, he actually also did

a little parody of the You know for something

in Animaniacs Do not remember the episode but

it had to do a slappy squirrel, of course But

you know at the end of it he says so stay tuned

for America's funniest home videos. It's just

funny It's just something they had him say but

it was it was funny to hear him do that So his

son is a movie director now, so that's cool Yeah,

overall, I think the Mario 3 series uh... it

my actual only complaint between zelda and mario

three was that there was no real ending like

the last uh... and i know i'm going backwards

in our episode here but the last ending uh...

for zelda was the mom blends are revolting and

there was almost an end where again and could

have almost been defeated except links bumbling

stupid ass you know decided it's showboat And

they could have had the Triforce of Power, but

didn't. And then that was it. There was no more,

yeah, I know it was supposed to be continued,

but the same thing with Mario 3. I mean, there

is no real, you know, finite ending to the series,

even though... I think that should have made

Sing for the Unicorn the last episode. God. No,

I'll tell you why, okay? Because in the game,

The Legend of Zelda, it takes three hits for

Ganon to be destroyed. Oh, okay. When they destroyed

Ganon, you see him disappear. And then at the

end of the, near the end of the cartoon, you

see Ganon in his lair. And I'm like thinking,

what the hell? He's supposed to be dead. They

got it backwards. So that's why I said, I think

they should have made Sing for the Unicorn in

the, in the series, that last episode. Yes. I

thought oh, yeah on the adventures of Super Mario

Brothers 3 the complete series was released June

26 of 2007 And yes, there are many many many

of glitches But as far as the broadcast history

according to wiki, I don't know if this is true

or not Other than like the obvious NBC Family

Channel USA Network and PAX Network Which were

all in the early run? and then in syndication

Yes, and then there's the UK stuff and it lists

Japan TV Tokyo it says 2009 Dash, so I'm wondering

if Mario 3 is running in japan right now it makes

you wonder yeah makes you wonder do we have anything

else to say about the adventures of super mario

brothers 3 yes we said that already no i'm not

talking about game now yeah i know they put in

mega move for every other song that was supposed

to be in there Yes, yes, they they really really

screwed it up I think there have been more bonus

features on this set though. We only have Exactly

Way more way more bonus features at least a voice

actor thing, you know having the voice director

person or whoever I don't even know who the voice

director is on this but You know, the only thing

we have is the interactive series writers Bible

featuring the backstories characters concept

art and the quote -unquote original music That's

what it says in here, but I think it's mostly

original music from the series like mega move

and stuff like that Well, it is mega move. There

is mega move there because I remember hearing

that but there's also some other uh... songs

that were used in the in the cartoon you know

that the cupid kids would sing but there are

a lot of songs that the cupid kids saying for

the series that aren't there voice actors and

actresses they left out no you know idiots So

now we are moving on to captain and the game

master first thing I have to say about this that

I did Stop stop editing down princess Lana to

make her look like a porn star Yeah, I don't

know it's just I guess I guess possibly just

not to screw with the candy because then you're

like wait a minute Isn't this video games for

characters supposed to be with this character

and not Captain N? When I saw Lana, I'm like

who? I went through every freaking game to look

for a Princess Lana and could not find one I'm

like, uh, no Okay, the first thing that I want

to bring up I'm sorry, that upsets me to no end

The first thing I want to bring up about this

actually goes to voice acting and before you

guys answer this I just want to say the narrator

which I did not know is none other than Gary

Chalk who played Optimus Primal in Beast Wars.

I did not know that until I looked at this information.

He also did King Hippo, Donkey Kong, Count Dracula,

Bayou Billy, Malekil, Mayor Squaresley and additional

voices is what this Yep, and I was even trying

to King hippo today and trying to pick out optimist

primal. I'm like I can't Know I mean I kind of

figured it was him when I was when I was when

I was listening to it But I wasn't really sure

and I am James Corlett who did the voice of cheetor

was dr. Wiley Cheetor is in Beast Wars and Beast

machines. Okay That's him. We had all kinds of

how Sightings here cuz obviously Frank Welker

with Gameboy. Yeah, the voice of game voice a

Gameboy also Venus tears Oh who did black arachnia

in Beast Wars and Beast machines played Lana

Medusa and she also did Kevin's mom's voiceover,

too That's what it says I thought this series

was really cool because it wasn't See, I always

thought Nintendo did this stuff even though it

was deep that put it out I thought Nintendo had

I had a huge huge impact on this And they put

all of these games together into one cartoon.

I thought that was really cool Oh, yes I would

have to say my two favorites are the Tetris episode

and the Zell in the Zelda episode Well, I'm talking

about the first one and like the first or second

season when link is Yeah And also they In that

episode all of the original Legend of Zelda cartoon

voice actors reprise their roles Which is very

that was very very nice. Yes. There's a lot of

things about this show that were either really

really good There was no in between in this one

Wasn't too thrilled with Game Boy at first, but

I kind of got I kind of warmed up to him after

a while Was it just, I don't know, when I watched

Game Boy, all I could think of was the Kool -Aid

guy. Busting through walls. I'm like, who drew

the face on Game Boy? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Fire,

who drew the face on Game Boy? Frankly, I don't

know a kiss. Yeah, that ended up pissing me off

after a while. I was like, that was cool the

first time. The other two episodes, like, first

I was like, oh, that's kind of cool, you know.

Okay, you really got to shut up now you've used

it like three times in the same sentence, yeah,

well he would say who he would say who cares

the kiss Megaman actually had a little bit of

restraint like I didn't hear him use a mega like

as an adjective that much but I think the combination,

if you take Gameboy and Mega Man and Kid Icarus,

those three have to be about the worst looking

heroes and everything about them was bad in my

book. I mean, I just could not stand them. They

drew Gameboy to a T. Yeah, I guess the thing,

the only thing you're not used to seeing is a

Gameboy with a face on it. Horrible face. Yes,

but Mega Man there was no there was not one single

part of Mega Man that resembled anything about

Made me mad about Captain and and this is where

they should have continued when Mega Man became

human and He was no longer a robot. They should

have at least They should have at least kept

him that way instead of OK, one episode, he's

a human. Now we're going to go back to a robot

role. Yeah. I don't know. They kind of messed

that up, I think. I mean, that's just sort of

the thing, though, with non -secular shows. You'll

have some sort of transformation, but then you

have to transform it back to the status quo or

else someone watches the next episode and it's

like, wait, when the hell was Mega Man a real

person, not a robot? Hello, it's animation. You

can do anything you want. I thought the whole

point of these shows was to be somewhat game

accurate. Well, OK, I'll give you that. But then

maybe, here's the thought then. Maybe that episode

should not have been animated. Because, like

you said, if you do something where a robot turns

into a human, and then you have the rest of the

32 episodes, I think it is, that He's a robot

in the first place. Why break the concept? Yeah,

that's true. I mean. And I think they were going

back and forth a lot. I mean, we're talking about

being accurate to the video games. And some of

the stuff, I mean, that you have making up characters

that aren't in video games, which is completely

not trying to represent any video game. But then

you have some stuff that was just so spot on.

Like you're talking about the drawing of Game

Boy. The sound effects in this show were. That

was awesome. We're so I mean even when you had

the gun being pulled and nothing happening It

actually sounded like the trigger on the actual

whatever you want to call the gun for the NES

system I'm just saying they did they went to

that extent to make it that accurate, but then

they're gonna invent some character. That's not

in anything You know I for years I never figured

out until I got NSF files how to get a lot of

the sound effects because Here's Simon swinging

a whip from Castlevania and you know, you have

all these other different sounds from Castlevania

and I'm thinking to myself Alright, how do you

get these sounds and then you have to you you

have to substitute sound effects from Bayou Billy

You know you have to substitute what what I don't

understand And I guess you know, I know that

there was a comic book done, you know for this

for Captain in as well They actually for the

comic book. They had trouble trying to get the

third -party licensing for Mega Man and Simon

so they used Samus in the comic Why didn't they

do that with the actual animated series because

It actually I don't know if I haven't watched

it in a while, but it on on the season or the

complete series set It's it has the Nintendo

powers Captain Nintendo the six -page story that

started at all the reason why that i could think

of is because you have cat you have captain and

lana and the in team to fight mother brandon

metroid that's probably why they probably didn't

want to other than the fact they couldn't get

the rights to samus for the for the cartoon that's

maybe what very possible which is also maybe

why that they put in lana instead of having samus

there because They couldn't get the rights and

just have them fight Metroid But I mean, you're

right. I mean it it could possibly I thought

Eggplant Wizard and Simon Belmont were the best

comic relief comic relief. Yes. What was the

first one you said? Eggplant Wizard. Oh, okay.

I still loved and we haven't talked about it

yet We talked about a lot of voice actors, but

we haven't talked about mother brain to me. That

was just that was comic relief right there that

was one of my favorite characters in the whole

show yes but everyone i don't know if most of

you know this but it was not a female who did

that oh no oh no that's very famous male it was

a guy Levi Stubbs very famous male from the four

tops yep right and he you know he little shop

of horrors right yeah and when i found that out

i'm like that is not true although as a kid i

didn't know that and as a kid i was a scary sounding

woman i thought it was Yeah, I thought it was

a very scary female He has that range because

he's a tenor I mean, you know, yeah, I mean he's

you know, God help him. He now has you know cancer,

but Yeah, he has cancer now, but When I when

I heard mother brains was so much that's a really

good sounding female and then I look it up on

Wikipedia and it's Levi Stubbs jr He was just

absolutely hilarious. I thought he was great

as the voice of Mother Brain. I like how, as

a video game show, that the brain is the evil

one. Ironic? Yes. Going back to the sound effects,

they were accurate in every episode as far as

the games. That was probably in the episode.

Like the zapper and like with Zelda the sword

and stuff like that and with Mario the raccoon

with Mario 3 the raccoon thing stuff like that.

I mean it was pretty much Well, I mean the zapper

and the power pad effects were Kind of kind of

can I mention though that there's one area where

they should have diverted from the actual names

They shouldn't have called that dang thing the

zapper There's an episode where he hands the

gun to Princess Lana. He's like, here, take my

zapper. We can't call it, well, you couldn't

say, here, take my light gun. No, but I just

come up with something better than zapper. In

that situation, I don't think you really can.

No. You know what would have been funny is if

they featured Rob the Robot. Rob yeah, the other

thing about this that they changed was they did

not use dr. Light Well, they used him, but they

did not use the name dr. Light They called him

dr. Right, which I actually had to do a manual.

Oh, was it really? Yeah, there's an actual error.

There's an actual typo in a game Oh in the game

the Mega Man games, I believe if I remember correctly

That from the Japanese translation for Mega Man.

So they kind of screwed up on the name, so they

called him Dr. Light. And then in Captain N,

they just said, we'll just call you Dr. Right.

So that's what they called him. They couldn't

really figure out what the correct translation

was. So they just changed it to Dr. Right. Is

it mostly understood that Dr. Light is obviously

American and Dr. Right is Spanish? I'm not sure

is what he said is he was dr. Thomas light So

I mean he was named after Thomas Edison. Oh as

far as that okay, so So that was definitely the

American part. I don't know about the right part

being Japanese. I think right. It's just something

they decided to come up with yeah on their own

In the book was it was it spelled? Wright the

one that you're talking about no I don't know,

because I can't reprint, but I've never had someone

actually tell me, but I do know that it was Dr.

Wright. I think it might mention it on Wikipedia.

Wow, they actually. I'm looking at the character

listing on the wiki information I have. Wombatman

and the most dangerous game master is inspired

by the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film. We were talking

about sound effects I think the other good thing

that I Kind of went along with the sound effects

was when they shot someone the pixelation that

kind of made it look like a old -school video

game Let's see what else what else about captain

in We haven't we haven't mentioned it yet, but

I gotta I gotta put a Shout out to the the reference

that they made to one of my favorite in television

games ever Burger time. Yep Even though they

mentioned it after they were all in their costumes

it stopped being cool because nothing else looked

anything like the burger time game but at least

them being in those pickle and you know costumes

I was like yes I remember that yeah I'm gonna

run down the list really quick of what all games

were featured in the show the adventures of Bayou

Billy Bo Jackson baseball burger time California

games castlevania one two and three donkey kong

donkey kong junior for xanadu uh... final fantasy

which i don't remember that episode whatever

uh... don't remember a final fantasy episode

i don't know i'd have to go back and watch it

uh... kid at kid echerus marble madness which

is a side note in the episode i wish i was a

warm that man the studio world of Marbleopolis

is structurally inspired by Marble Madness right

down to a giant black marble weapon with which

Mother Brain attacks the end team also in earlier

episode the Trojan Trojan Dragon the theme from

the first level of Marble Madness can be heard

several times yes it can Mega Man 1 2 & 3 Metroid

Paperboy Puss in Boots which was a very very

obscure I hated that game. I didn't even know

it was a game. I didn't either. Oh my god. Robin

Hood Prince of Thieves, Super Mario Brothers,

but there's a side note to this. In the first

episode, Kevin briefly compares the ultimate

warp zone to this game. Many of the sound effects

came from this game, such as jumping, the music

for both underground and fortress stages also

is featured. Tetris, Wizards and Warriors, and

then Zelda and Zelda 2. Yeah I Really do not

honestly remember wait a minute. Yes, I do. I've

got the sets right here. So do I it's The fractured

fantasy of Captain N. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah the

fractured fantasy of Captain N is when they go

into Final Fantasies. Okay, I think I skipped

that episode when I was watching it or I fell

asleep. It goes on with a couple other references

because it wasn't just a video game references

they had a lot of references to other Lewis Carroll's

media, Alice in Wonderland, Indiana Jones, General

Hospital, Chronicles of Narnia, etc. Well you

also know that they actually did not use Bo Jackson's

voice they used his likeness yes but Bo Jackson

did not want to be voiced as a character I do

believe Larry Berg was the same way no that was

Larry I think I'm pretty sure it was Larry I

don't know because Wikipedia doesn't mention

it Yeah, it's not in the cast listing but I mean

the the main cast listing that we have is basically

the primary characters Right, but it does not

list whether or not it could have been Gary Chuck

I mean, I'd have to go back and look and listen

to it, but I'm not really sure they did use his

likeness though As far as the syndication and

changes go oh my god Captain Anne was syndicated

on the Family Channel in 1992, on the U .S. Antwerp

at some point, and on local affiliates such as

WLVI in Boston at 4 .30 p .m. weekdays in the

fall of 1992 as Captain Anne and the Video Game

Masters, a package which included Captain Anne,

The Legend of Zelda, The Adventures of Super

Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World. Because

they had lyrics that repeated themselves, the

world of Captain Anne is here four times. to

the actual theme of the second season of Captain

and the Game Masters? VGM had its, Captain and

the Video Game Masters, VGM had its own theme

song, followed by a commercial break, followed

by the theme song of whichever series was being

shown on that day. The first season's episodes

typically featured current popular music of the

day such as Bob Seeger's shakedown in Kevin and

video land and danger zone by Kenny Loggins in

mega trouble for mega land But when captain and

episodes were aired in the VGM package these

songs were removed and replaced by instrumental

version of the mega move bastards See they were

actually talking about trying to get the instrumental

tracks for like shakedown and Thriller and other

stuff like that now Thriller was in there. I

thought let's see It was when they originally

aired them on TV. It's not in there on the DVD

Let's see what else I had read something about

uh, this might be going off topic, but uh Did

any of you guys read anything about Mother Brain

and where they came up with that name? Well,

she is a character in Metroid, isn't she? Yeah,

she is. She's the last boss you fight. Right,

but... Even from there, though, I thought I'd

read something about that being a code name that

Nintendo used for one of their Japan branches

that came up with a lot of the... You know kind

of the think tank of Nintendo is that I've read

Nintendo's article on wiki and I've never seen

anything like that Okay, I thought I'd read something

about mother brain being what they referred to

as their jet Japanese offices. I can look on

the internet Yeah, I don't know We should also

bring up with this with the captain in series

at least with the first two seasons and probably

the third season as well I don't know The tapes

that Deke lent Shout Factory to make the DVD

set are clones of NBC broadcast masters, which

apparently do not lose quality from copy to copy.

It is unknown why Deke did not provide its own

master tapes. The opening teasers are not included

in the DVD set, which sucks. Which I thought

they should have been. Yes, they should have

been. They are not a part of shot factories deal

with deek The only teaser on the disk is the

one for Kevin and video land featured as a bonus

feature on disk one Let's see what else I don't

know I I understand the whole thing about acquiring

rights like music rights and stuff like that,

but if you're not gonna be able to release a

show as It was originally intended Then why put

it on a DVD exactly why because all you're doing

is like putting basically the second airing of

You're almost putting a rerun on a DVD if you

want my honest Oh, yeah, the second the second

airing would be a rerun. Yep. Just the music

has been changed Yeah, that's the only difference

pretty much. That's that's true So I think I'm

trying to think here is you know, put the captain

in set aside I don't understand why they - Speaking

of Captain N, I'm looking at a picture of Kid

Icarus on my desktop. Oh god. That's awesome,

Icarus. Shut the hell up, Icarus. That's cool,

Icarus. Whoa, whoa, Icarus. Yeah, really. Calm

down, Icarus. I have to say, outside of that,

the most annoying thing for me in Captain N was

Simon. I hated Simon. No, I know right no, I

know that but I'm saying the character, oh yeah,

he was yeah Yeah, pretty much A lot of characters

of course they were inaccurate and they sort

of fit like certain like cartoon tropes you saw

like Yo, Simon was sort of like the arrogance

hero or whatever. There was just like, uh Yeah

I thought having both Mega Man and Kid Icarus

as kind of these little Sidekicks was somewhat

of an overkill at some points. Yeah. Well, yeah

They both have their catchphrase Okay, it kiss

yes that does get annoying but I will say they

at least gave Mega Man a break on the mega His

wasn't that bad. Mega Man was actually pretty

decent. Although I would have loved to actually

sit and listen to Captain In in different languages.

Just to see what they would do. To hear what

they'd sound like in different languages. I think

Dion was alluding it to it earlier though. I

think the villains in this show were definitely

what got you watching. I think the villains kind

of stole the show almost every time. Some of

the villains had comic relief. Oh, yeah. But

I remember a scene between Mother Brain and Eggplant

Wizards. I remember a scene between those two,

and I love the quote, Mother Brain. It's so simple.

He's just looking at Eggplant, you incompetent

vegetable. It's just like, that's an awesome

line. What I actually thought was kind of funny

was, you know, Eggplant calling Mother Brain

your wrinkledness. You see her tentacles shoot

out, give him a shock, and she's like, don't

ever say the word wrinkles around me. These are

beauty lines. They really played up eggplant

wizard to the point where he was just of course

He is a giant vegetable, but you know every time

that he would get Well what I'm talking about

is his visual appearance as far as every time

that King hippo would land on him or a giant

rock would land on him all these other vegetables

would pop out of his The only thing that really

makes me mad about the DVD sets is and I understand

that that Captain in Super Mario World was part

of that block But why didn't they just put season

3 in with the complete series? I don't understand

how you can I don't understand how you can release

a set that says captain in the game master the

complete series and then have Super Mario World

on like a three disc set like they did Zelda

exactly I mean, I don't understand why it says

captain in the game master the complete series

and then Like three months down the line. It's

Captain in the new Super Mario world with the

captain in season 3 on it Thanks, but remember

in season 3. I mean they had some horrible dry

They had horrible animation. Yes season 3 was

horrible. I Season 3 Kevin did not look I Know

it's 2d animation I'm talking about the zapper

and the power pad Yeah, well the zapper actually

was a Nintendo Re -release I believe when Nintendo

started getting into all the different colors.

Yeah It was a different color zapper Well, there

were three different colors. There was the original

where it was all gray. Yeah, right And then they

did the red, you know red and gray and the reason

that they did that was because They didn't want

it looking like a real gun, you know parents

would actually Where I'm actually freaked out

back when parents cared And then they did like

an orange and gray. Yeah Zapper so surprised

they didn't put an orange cap on it You reminded

me of the power pad or the control pad that was

on his belt, I don't know This bugged any of

you guys, but it bugged me to all ends that whenever

he said that he was going to hit pause, he always

hit select. Because some games back then did

use the select as the pause key. It just seems

like it was backwards, though, when you're making

the show. I mean, yeah, there were some games

that did that. But the majority of games I don't

think are to pause. Well, here's the thing. I

don't think a lot of the animators played Nintendo,

to be very honest. Yeah, because every time they

probably like you're not pausing it. They probably

didn't know that the start that in a lot of games

start is pause. Yeah I have a question. I just

thought of them. I'm sorry Todd, but I'm thinking

this I get it out Where the hell did he get power

for his power pad every time the thing would

get wet or whatever? It would drain the power

where the hell did he get the recharge for it?

Gameboy probably Well, even before Game Boy came

in, the same thing. There is that. Yeah, I've

wondered that question myself, because in episode

13, Happy Birthday, Mega Man, when they were

in that whirlpool, and Lana says, Kevin, try

your pause button, and he tries it, it doesn't

respond. And he says that the power pad is shorted

out. And wasn't there an episode where the zapper

was also without power? Yes. Right in the beginning,

because he clicks it, and it's just a trigger.

Oh, what is it? Well, let's see, I forget what

his reasoning was the first one where they actually

get to mother brain Yeah, you know he tries to

zap mother brain and it doesn't work and then

in the second Episode house by you when I know

which one I was thinking of the first one with

Gameboy in it Oh, yeah, that's right. The first

one with Game Boy in it He goes to hit his Zapper

and it's just a trigger sound with nothing But

I thought he had mentioned something about power

in that one, too Well, the other thing is it

had a power charge from Game Boy in the You know

when in the paperboy episode Yeah, I mean I can

see Game Boy being able to charge him up and

that's fine But what about before Game Boy was

even there? I mean it does make you wonder plus

the fact that it actually showed he even said

this pause isn't going to last very long and

it even shows at the top of the power pad thing

it shows a power countdown meter like from green

to red yeah when they are actually thrown into

the warp zone of forgetfulness yes Because if

he doesn't hit the pause button at the exact

second, they would have landed in the canyon.

Yes, they would have. So do we have anything

else to say about Captain N? I just have one

little question. Was Captain N in -house or was

that outsourced? What do you mean? Because you

were asking about the quality drop in season

three. Was that done here in America or was that

outsourced to Korea or any place? I think it

was done here in the U .S. Let me look. You guys

talk amongst yourselves about it. Let me look

it up. I think it was done here in the U .S.

because I've never heard of any other animation

studio taking... I think though, I think early

on there was some interaction between America

and Japan on some of the stuff, but I could be

wrong. Well here's the thing. Since we're talking

about all these Nintendo series... The people

in Japan do not recognize, they will not recognize

that these were made into cartoons. They will

not. I don't know why. It's apparently the game

creators. Well, the game creators, you know,

they're apparently appalled that these were even

turned into cartoons. So I don't see why they're

probably getting a cut of the damn profits you

bastards I'm sure they are but they were not

thrilled when these were turned into animated

series I was surprised to see that a couple of

these like you had mentioned like the one that's

shown in Tokyo in 2009 there was another one

of these series that's listed as playing in Mexico

in 2009 to 2010 too, so I'm surprised that some

of these are still being you know ran all the

way up in 2009 still I Heard years I heard years

ago boomerang the cartoon network sister station

boomerang was actually going to air a lot of

the Nintendo cartoons they were boomerang was

actually going to air a lot of stuff And I know

last year they were in boomerangs Boomerang in

Australia, whatever it is called the boomerang

type channel over there. They were running last

year He -Man and She -Ra in Australia that granted

that's not here in the US but I'm sure Cartoon

Network was also going to air and I found this

really dumb but they have a show called Adult

Slim They were actually going to air a lot of

these cartoons at night Which I don't see why

because they're not violent Yeah, I don't know

I'm not true, but they would they would hit the

the age range That's gonna be up at that time

that would remember the shows. Yeah I'm not too

but I agree with you. It's not violent at all.

Yeah, no, it's video game violence. I mean hell

they You even said, Kevin, that they pixelated

the kills. It's not like Mother Brain has blood

coming out of her little jar there. But right

now, just me going off on a little tangent, I'm

not fucking happy with Cartoon Network right

now. I have never been happy with Cartoon Network.

Cartoon Network has changed in at least the last

five or six or seven years. Well, yeah get ready

for this they are starting Cartoon Network real

they are putting real shows like I don't like

You know Clarissa explains it all type or you

know, are you? Yeah or disney yeah yeah but it's

called cartoon network i know how the hell can

you have cartoon net how the hell can you have

a name called cartoon network with live action

shows on it with not yeah i don't know yeah cartoon

network without cartoons um so i think we're

done with captain an unless you guys have anything

else to add and the only other thing the only

other thing that i wish had gotten better Was

season 3 with the animation. I think they could

have done a Season 4 I think there could have

been more video games explored than what we're

done in that series Except that they were never

gonna given that they were never gonna be given

the chance to do a season 4 by the networks No,

but I've even even still if even if it were just

a separate DVD release like a bonus deal You

know, that's fine. I think that they I think

that that should have been I don't know how many

times Maybe interacting with samus a couple of

times what they could have done was with 1992

and the release of the super nintendo They could

have had the super n team and just had them go

into all the super nintendo worlds Going, you

know become 16 -bit instead of 8 -bit Yeah Yep,

that would have been interesting to see very

interesting Actually, they actually they kind

of did but they didn't with super mario world

Which is the last show that we're going to talk

about tonight today tonight smooth transition

shut the hell up I thought I was going to get

a sound effect on that one so uh... so mario

world it has the uh... the series centered around

mario luigi princess told still now living in

dinosaur island sometimes called dinosaur world

with yoshi so toad is nowhere to be seen in the

series uh... actually guitar replaced toad Although

Yoshi, I gotta give credit to Yoshi since obviously

that's again gonna be Frank Welker doing some

of the spots for that. I believe it doesn't know

He did Yoshi something. He did you it's Andrew

Andy Sebastian that does Yoshi Got to figure

out where he did Yoshi then because he's listed

under his credits on IMDB as doing Yoshi somewhere

And I figured it probably in one of the it's

probably in the game It could be in a game. I'm

not sure But Walker Boone Tony Rosado reprise

their roles as Mario and Luigi Tracy Moore reprises

her role as told stole John Stalker plays uktar

mad die Cooper Monty mole and the charging Chuck

Don't even remember seeing the charging chuck

I do. Oh, okay Okay, yeah, I remember that now

Wow, I didn't I don't even Man, I guess I didn't

watch enough of Super Mario World before we recorded

this cuz I don't remember the Koopa kids even

being in here cuz I'm No, I know they are because

I'm looking at the at the voice list with it

listing all the all the Koopa kids and stuff

I got to say with this with this I guess you

could call it an upgrade from Mario 3 because

obviously it is The feather the cape looked awesome

They animated that very very well that transitioned

very well from the game to the animation They

got all the sound effects. Yes, they did very

much so And a lot of the game yeah, I just liked

all as accurate as it was to the game especially

with Yoshi I thought there was a lot of stuff

they did with Yoshi that was spot -on and they

actually have to Just like the game pretty much

I Like the one part where he eats like whatever

they are. I forget the little ones that have

the red kind of Barry's body segments The one's

the little like crawling caterpillars. Oh Yeah,

it's like six of them in a row and he's like

laying on the ground with his stomach Yeah And

as far as I know we're kind of skipping around

on this but I'm kind of like skipping around

the notes since this is the last show time i

think it was you that mentioned uh... or might

have been usually i don't remember her beyond

sorry sorry shit shut up uh... it's yeah whatever

uh... it is running uh... super mario world according

to uh... uh... wiki is running in mexico on on

mexico onto disney that says two thousand nine

to present uh... Yeah, I don't know whatever

how does Disney get ahold of a Nintendo cartoon

and Yeah, I don't know I'm gonna kind of go over

the differences between the series in the game

this The show takes place in Dinosaur World where

Yoshi lives with a pre -adolescent caveman named

Uktar. In addition, Yoshi's Island is the populated

with cavemen instead of Yoshis. Several names

were changed from the game as well. Forest of

Illusion was called Enchanted Forest. The Vanilla

Dome was referred to as the Lava Pit. Furthermore,

enemies featured in the game were rarely called

by their in -game names on the show, and Bowser

was called King Koopa. He also had his all -green

appearance from the first cartoon. Mario, Luigi,

and the Princess all retained their original

NES designs as well. Red and green overalls for

Mario and Luigi, and red hair for the Princess.

I was actually going back and playing Super Mario

World on my Super Nintendo because I refuse to

support Nintendo past the Super Nintendo generation.

Nintendo sucks nowadays. Anyway, I was actually

going back and playing the game and watching

the show and it's amazing. I will just say this

right now since you will stop supporting Nintendo

if your Super Nintendo breaks your SLL. I have

Nintendo Wii and I can download it. It's actually

very Very surprising how how game accurate the

show is I? Mean Super Mario World has to be the

most game accurate of the entire Nintendo cartoons

Okay, well since you seem to know more than I

do about the screw -ups go ahead No, I'm okay

Super Mario World. Yes, they were accurate about

the game and they were accurate about a lot of

what you saw what they're not accurate about

What they should what they actually should have

done is kept the Yoshi's true Instead of instead

of cavemen, yes, I understand it's supposed to

be a cave, you know, you know back in the caveman

days hell do you see the thing is no they couldn't

have That doesn't exist in the game I Understand

this is supposed to be a kid's cartoon But then

when they go and play the game and they look

for oogtar they're gonna be sadly disappointed

Oh, yeah Well the the only reason why I can think

of see the thing the reason why the cavemen are

there is if they weren't You wouldn't have an

episode like the wheel thing Will say I think

that they got the clown and send in the clown

very accurate. That was kind of cool, but they

actually screwed up when You know Mario picks

up the first mecha Koopa to throw it at Bowser's

head it's supposed to It actually is supposed

to hit him in the head But they got it half and

half. They got it half hitting his head and half

missing Yeah, so it's If they're actually you

know, they kind of miss that part. Yeah. Yeah,

and You're only supposed to be able to stun the

mecha Koopas for five seconds Sorry, but ten

seconds doesn't count Yeah Yes, thank you Deke

for screwing up my classic gaming you shall now

die Yeah This show is so short. I really don't

have a lot of a lot a lot of things else to say

about it Thank God they kept the original music.

Yes. Yes, that's true. Oh, I Would have been

very video madness if I'd heard mega moving But

just to beat a dead horse here, I mean this the

show was short short because of the bastards

at NBC and their anti -cartoon crap that they

brought on to it. No, it wasn't really, you know

what? It really wasn't NBC, it was parents writing

in. Well, but NBC caved into them and screw you,

NBC. Yeah, NBC caved into them and I didn't think

it was fair. Saturday, how do you end Saturday

morning cartoons, you bastards? Yeah, I mean,

okay, I was like... 14 or 15, but I didn't care.

I loved cartoons to this day. And this show,

unfortunately, came out right when that axe came

down. I know, and I don't think it was right.

I think they could have at least told them, look,

if you don't want to watch it, that's fine, but

we're doing this for the kids. The whole timeline

here we've gone from 1989 where the video games

just really started to take off and then the

axe comes down by NBC and that's basically what

ends it all for them. Well, I think what really

I mean, I'll just go ahead and say no NBC still

sucks So but no seriously, I mean here you've

got Kids, you know flipping on the TV and they

see news and they're like Where's the cartoons?

Yes And even if it was kids programming, it shifted

to live action kids programming. And then the

parents have to sit there and go, well, we wrote

a letter to the lovely TV station because we

think you're sitting in front of the TV watching

too much of it. All right. Thank you for taking

cartoons and giving us California dreams, you

bastard. I think what they, Mike, I'm going to

go backwards just a bit. I think what they should

have done with captain in the game master is

shown some of the Japan cart not the cartoons

Japan games Yeah, the Japan games and giving

them a bit of a you know some US exposure But

the other thing the problem with that would be

a lot some Japan games don't translate Well,

just like some here does not translate well into

in other foreign languages So that that That

could have been the issue there. On a whole,

just kind of like going overall, and why is my

screen moving? Because it likes you. Oh. Oh,

I think car is infecting it. Anyway, that's a

Knight Rider reference. Oh, that's the only one.

Just overall, kind of recapping what we've discussed

today. I do love these shows. I think it's great.

Think they're great. I'm you know, I'm glad that

they're out on yeah, I do too. I Wish I do wish

that they had you know fixed a lot of the screw

-ups But hey, what are you gonna do when it you

know when they are not and I will say they are

not the original master No, they're not their

clones, but see then again you have Over 15 to

20 years of masters sitting on a shelf. Yeah

You know and over time. Yeah, I think over time

they do lose quality. Oh Probably so unless you

go into remaster them, but I seriously doubt

anybody was I actually asked Brian I said Why

can't they get the why can't somebody find the

original masters of these shows? Somebody's got

them somewhere NBC Even if NBC still had them

they'll never share them with no shout no no

shout will come to the rescue at some point shout

will do it oh that'd be funny if they released

them you know we released them within you know

maybe a year or two's time yeah well like well

i get them probably just to say i have them um

you know and again going with shout and this

is totally off the topic of the episode today

but i mean look what shout just acquired from

hasbro the transformers rights i mean they're

putting out a complete series of g1 that's i'm

getting the complete series just to have it yeah

i spent god knows how much money on ebay for

the rhino sets but i'm still going to get the

pre -release i think they well they got the they

finally got the rights to inspector yeah they

got rights to hasbro Hasbro, last year, reacquired,

I think, a good 45 % to 50 % of their library

from some company in Australia. They spent like

$7 .5 billion or so to acquire the rights to

their stuff. So since we're kind of going into

a giant rat hole. I think we're gonna I think

we're gonna end this I'm gonna go through and

just Pretty much tell everybody what's coming

up on tooncast the next episode will air not

be recorded air Friday July 13th, no Saturday.

Oh hell. I don't know. It's July 3rd June 13th.

Not July. This isn't July shit anyway We're losing

control. OK. Episode 2 will be Animaniacs. It

will air June 13, 2009. Todd, if you are on vacation,

then we will figure out a way before you leave

to get it recorded. I love Animaniacs. If not,

go ahead, Todd. It shouldn't be too bad, because

it's airing on June 13th. We leave June 8th,

so at the same time before that, like a week

before, that should be fine. We can record whenever.

Or I can. A lot of people didn't understand it.

Yeah, a lot of people didn't. So all right, well,

let's see, going into a closing. This has been

the first episode of Tooncast where we discuss

the Nintendo cartoons. You can eventually download

this through iTunes or you can get it from www

.geekcastradio .com, which unfortunately is not

a visually impaired helpful site, unfortunately.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I will give you the

link Yeah, I Was sorry just before we close just

cuz I found this bit of sort of news and it really

at any other time It probably wouldn't be proper.

So I just want to say this right now Dom de Luis

recently died on May 4 2009. He did If you guys

are familiar with him, he's basically like the

voice child for Don Bluth in all his animations.

He did stuff like The Secret of Nim, American

Tale, Oliver and Company, and a bunch of other

movies. All Dogs Go to Heaven. And also he did

some films too with Burt Reynolds, like Run Cannonball

Run and A Little Whorehouse in Texas. Just because

he died recently and I want just to get out as

early as possible. Yeah, Dom DeLuise was an awesome

comedian. He was an awesome actor. Actually,

his son Michael DeLuise had a starring role in

Sequest DSV Season 2 and Dom actually appears

in an episode of that show as a guest star. to

uh... portray uh... michaels characters uh...

father so yeah rest in peace tom there's a lot

actors dying actors actresses famous people dying

recently art there be from the gold girl she

you mean the arthur there's a there's a big difference

well whatever i don't look at the names i don't

know i just know the name it's one of those names

get it right and she she passed away you know

um she passed away this year you know and um

i mean there there you don't really a lot of

the shows that you know i mean this is a completely

different topic from what we've discussed tonight

but there's just a lot like you said mike there's

a lot of you know actors or there have been a

lot of actresses or actors that have passed on

that you know and and that's part of what you

know to cast is kind of all about is going back

and looking I'm surprised Peter Cullen is still

living. Oh, don't even go there. Just don't even

go there, because this is going to end. Cut his

mic. Cut his mic, boy. No. No. I mean. I'm just

saying. Yeah. OK. So anyway, this has been Tooncast

episode one. I have Mike FG1 Podcast with. Kevin

Thompson. Todd? Yes, and on that note with Deon's

closing I am going to Know that's totally off

-topic, but anyway, I just had to discuss later

yeah we've already discussed it at length yeah

well so you still need a submission into your

head yeah yeah yeah yeah this is gonna close

out this very much rat -hole episode of tune

cast episode one You can find us, pretty much

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G -E -E -K -O -F -T -O -D -D. Yeah. We know how

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I'm just very cautious about that because I don't

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I unless I know who you are and how you got the

info so it's You know, but Mike thanks for having

me on first of all, it's been a blast no problem

And I think we're gonna close this out unfortunately,

I don't have any other sound effects added I

think we're gonna close this out with And this

has been tune cast episode one good night folks

You have just listened to tune cast episode 1

and in it we discussed the Nintendo cartoons

Of course by this time you already know that

this is the closing We didn't exactly do a correct

closing when we recorded the episode So I'm gonna

do it here. My name is Michael Blanchard Mike

TFG1 Blanchard with Geekcast Radio The website

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It's 2Ds on the Todd. So yeah, that was episode

one with a special guest, Dion Walker. do the

mario swing your arms from side to side come

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and then again let's do the mario altogether

now You got it! It's the Mario! Do the Mario!

Swing your arms from side to side Come on, it's

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then again Let's do the Mario! All together now!

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