The only thing I hated was when they replaced the live action sequences featuring Mario and Luigi to that Club Mario sequence with those teenagers! When I got the two volume DVD box set I was glad that they had the Mario and Luigi live action sequences!
I also watched every episode right before the Mario Movie came out in 2023, I’ve watched so much of it that I started to master the Mario Bros and Toad voices.
In the writer's notes, Toad is described as 'streetwise.' They used that character type for the guards of Princess Toadstool...oops, Peach's castle in the Mario movie. "Our princess is in another castle maybe."
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show lasted one season. To be replaced by “Super Mario Bros. 3” (the cartoon, which continued the story) & Captain N, the Game Master. Super Mario Bros. 3 also lasted a single season, to be replaced by “Super Mario World,” the cartoon.
My guess as to why Luigi is a bit of a prick in the live action segments and a coward in the cartoon, is cause I guess cause in the real world, Luigi is trying to act as the one keeping the business alive while Mario bumbles around cause I guess he feels life is a bit dull. Whereas in the cartoon, Mario feels alive in the Mushroom Kingdom, whereas Luigi...........doesn't.
God I remember when I was a kid this was on every morning either right before or right after Captain N The Game Master (thats another if youve never seen it you really should)
The mario bros movie came out earlier this year dude. Also Bowser is king of the koopas hence King Koopa & there was both a Super Mario Bros 3 cartoon as well as Super Mario World.
I loved the episode where Cindi Lauper neede the Mario Bros help to find her friend Lou Albano. It was so meta. In real life Cindi Lauper, the singer who brought us such hits as "Girls just wanna have fun", also managed WWF wrestler Lou Albano. But Lou Albano was the actor who played Mario in that show. So of course when Lou showed up at the end Mario had to be conveniently absent. It was so weird. And this was on a show that was already so weird. Also, the last episode really turned up the Italian stereotypes with the Mario Bros traveling to Italy and any native italian they met spoke in nothing but a string of vaguely Italian celebrity names with the occasional Italian dish thrown inbetween them.
That's not an amalgamation of Bowser and Wart.... That's simply how Bowser, or King Koopa as he as was known as in the U.S., and would continue to be for a number of years, was depicted back then. So while the show juxtaposed a number of features from SMB 1 and the U.S. version of SMB 2 (hence, Mouser working as Bowser's henchman,) Wart simply wasn't featured, likely because Nintendo informed Dic that, despite the Doki Doki Panic version of SMB 2, Bowser, or again, as he was known in North America up until around Super Mario World, King Koopa was the intended primary protagonist. So yeah... That's just how he was depicted in the U.S., as again, as you so astutely pointed out, there were very limited resources the show had to draw from as to how ANYTHING was supposed to be (I mean, even look at the theme song! What does Mario do? Well, he swings his arms from side to side when he walks! Bingo! THat's the theme song!) The only basis they had for how Bowser looked at that point was the original Super Mario Bros. game, and while depictions of bowser did exist in Japan that were arguably slightly closer to his modern incarnation, here in the U.S. Nintendo tried to stray away from anything that remotely resembled Japanese Animation (anime, or as it was primarily known back then, Japanimation) in their designs... SO, based solely on SMB 1, that's how they decided Bowser/King Koopa would look. I can assure you though, he was in no way intended to be partially derived from Wart. Wart was another character altogether that Nintendo simply didn't really want to incorporate into the Mario series moving forward. The modern incarnation of Bowser didn't really come to into fruition until SMW, as 16 bit graphics allowed for him to be depicted with more detail. As I previously alluded to, Bowser would not be referred to as such until around the time of SMW, but he would continue to be simultaneously referred to as King Koopa in a lot of media up until around 1996, with the advent of Mario 64 (which, incidentally, is when Princess Toadstool became Peach, and had her modern design finalized, even though, like Koopa/Bowser, it had been evolving closer as early as SMW.) So yeah... the character depicted in the Super Mario Super Show is 100% Bowser. He just looks different and goes by a different name. If you want further evidence of this, simply watch the subsequent Series, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, and you'll see he's depicted very similarly to this Bowser, and is continued to be called King Koopa. Also, all the Koopalings, or Koopa Kids as they were known back then have alternate names, as the their names hadn't been finalized yet at the time of the production, as that show was being produced prior to SMB 3's American release. Well, I hope that clears things up.
The Mario movie that came out a couple of years ago? It came out the same year you uploaded this video. Lou Albano will forever be the "true" Mario voice to me. Same with Danny Wells as Luigi. They just fit those characters so well.
I own all the episodes, I could only make it thru a handful til I tapped out. I love Captain Lou and Danny Wells but...its highly recommended to maybe watch episodes sparsely.
Nice video. One thing though? If you go back, Mario had the red overalls in Donkey Kong and SMB1. SMB2 is where they became blue. I don't think Luigi ever had this exact color scheme in a game. In SMB and his first appearance, regular Mario Bros (no "Super"), Luigi tended to have white overalls and a green shirt, which made Fire Mario and Luigi easily confused. (Fire Luigi was actually identical to Fire Mario and regular Luigi looked like Fire Mario with green instead of red.)
It was based on Mario 1 and 2. There were some legend of zelda episodes as well. With mario 3 and supermario world had different cartoons without live action. As a kids show, the ridiculous stories were ok. Retro pepa pig of sorts
Oh, and I absolutely love this iteration of Toad as well. He's voiced by veteran Canadian voice actor John Stocker, whose resume is about as long as anyone else in the cartoon voiceover industry. Anyway, he's not really going for an Italian thing, as much as he's going for an American Bronx/Brooklyn accent. That notwithstanding though, I totally agree... his attitude and character are FAR superior to wimpy modern Toad(s.) He literally makes the show... but "who were you expecting, Pee Wee Herman?"
As someone who likes how much of a wimp Toad is, this version of Toad might be my least favorite lol. I think I like Yoshi in the cartoons better, didn’t really mind him replacing Toad at all.
Winnie Cooper. And that's just the character she played on The Wonder Years. The actress is Danica McKellar. (Incidentally, the similar-sounding Wendy Koopa is a SMB character.)