Super Mario Bros Super Show ( TV Series 1989 - 1991 )
Plot
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is an American television series based upon Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2 video games. It was originally broadcast via first-run syndication to mostly independent or Fox television stations from September 4, 1989, to December 1, 1989, with reruns continuing until September 6, 1991. The Family Channel picked up the series on September 23, 1991, and aired it until August 26, 1994. The show was produced by DiC Animation and was distributed by Viacom Enterprises. Cookie Jar Entertainment, DiC's successor company, is the current distributor.
Mario Bros. Plumbing Sitcom
The first and last parts of each episode were sitcom segments which showed Mario ("Captain" Lou Albano) and Luigi (Danny Wells) living in Brooklyn, where they would often be visited by celebrity guest stars. These parts were performed and filmed before a live studio audience. Some of the celebrity guest stars were popular television stars, such as Nedra Volz, Norman Fell, Donna Douglas, Eve Plumb, Vanna White, Jim Lange, Danica McKellar, Nicole Eggert, Clare Carey and Brian Bonsall or professional athletes such as Lyle Alzado, Magic Johnson, Roddy Piper, Sgt. Slaughter, and even Ernie Hudson appeared as a Slimebuster, a parody of his Ghostbusters persona, using his own name rather than Winston Zeddemore. On one occasion, they even received a visit from Inspector Gadget, performed live by Maurice LaMarche. In an interview for the first DVD release of the show, Lou Albano talked about filming these live action skits, which mainly involved he and Wells getting a central plot and mainly improvising the dialogue as they went along.
Occasionally, Lou Albano and Danny Wells would portray themselves, forcing their regular characters to leave the scene in order for themselves to appear. One notable example is when pop star Cyndi Lauper states she's looking for Lou Albano because he's missing, due to the note she got from him (although there is an important part missing from the note). Mario exclaims how much he wants to meet Lou, and later Lou appears as himself supposedly while Mario's out shopping for pizza. As a result, Luigi gets to meet Lou, but Mario does not.
Lou Albano and Danny Wells also regularly played female versions of themselves, Marianne (mother of Mario and Luigi) and Luigeena (their aunt), and also two hillbilly cousins, named Mario Joe and Luigi Bob.
Super Mario Bros. Cartoon
Each Super Mario Bros. cartoon served as the second segment of every show, following the introduction and first few minutes of the episode's live-action segment[3]. The cartoon featured characters and situations based upon the NES games Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2, as well as several sound effects and musical cues from the two games. Each episode featured Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool defending the Mushroom Kingdom from the reptilian villain King Koopa, often in a movie or pop-culture parody. Getting into the spirit of these parodies, Koopa often used alter egos fitting the current theme. Wart, the main antagonist of the second game, was never in any of the episodes, yet most of his minions appeared in the show, most notably Mouser, Shy Guy, Tryclyde, and Birdo.
The theme song for the cartoon segments revealed that the Mario Brothers were accidentally warped into the Mushroom Kingdom while working on a bathtub drain in Brooklyn. After traveling via the warp drain, the Mario Brothers defeated King Koopa's Koopa Troopas, saved Princess Toadstool and halted Koopa's plan to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom. At the beginning of every cartoon segment Mario recites an entry into his "Plumber's Log," a parody of the Captain's Log from Star Trek.
A very loose spin-off of the show was broadcast in the Southern California TV market in late 1989/early 1990 called King Koopa's Kool Kartoons.
The cartoon marks an early appearance of Birdo as a female, a change made after an odd description of Birdo was given in the manual of Super Mario Bros. 2. Birdo has been female ever since.
Super Mario Bros. cartoons aired four days a week, from Monday through Thursday.
Cast
Captain" Lou Albano as Mario
Danny Wells as Luigi
Jeannie Elias as Princess Peach, Birdo, and Shy Guy
John Stocker as Toad, Mouser, Koopa Troopa and Beezo
Harvey Atkin as King Bowser Koopa, Tryclyde and Snifit
Episode Guide
1.The Bird! The Bird! / Neatness Counts
2.King Mario of Cramalot / Day of the Orphan
3.Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid / All Steamed Up
4.Mario's Magic Carpet / Marianne and Luigeena
5.Rolling Down the River / The Mario Monster Mash
6.The Great Gladiator Gig / Bonkers from Yonkers
7.Mario and the Beanstalk / Bats in the Basement
8.Love 'Em and Leave 'Em / Will the Real Elvis Please Shut Up!
9.The Great BMX Race / Mama Mia Mario
10.Stars in Their Eyes / Alligator Dundee
11.Jungle Fever / Dance
12.Brooklyn Bound / Cher's Poochie
13.Toad Warriors / E.C. The Extra Creepy
14.The Fire of Hercufleas / The Marios Fight Back
15.Count Koopula / Magician
16.Pirates of Koopa / Do You Believe in Magic?
17.Two Plumbers and a Baby / Lost Dog
18.The Adventures of Sherlock Mario / Plumbers of the Year
19.Do You Princess Toadstool Take This Koopa...? / Mario Hillbillies
20.The Pied Koopa / Super Plant
21.Koopenstein / Baby Mario Love
22.On Her Majesty's Sewer Service / 9001: A Mario Odyssey
23.Mario and Joliet / Fake Bro
24.Too Hot to Handle / Time Out Luigi
25.Hooded Robin and His Mario Men / Flower Power
26.20,000 Koopas Under the Sea / Vampire Until Ready
27.Mighty McMario and the Pot of Gold / Heart Throb
28.Mario Meets Koop-zilla / Fortune Teller
29.Koopa Klaus / Little Marios
30.Mario and the Red Baron Koopa / Gorilla My Dreams
31.The Unzappables / George Washington Slept Here
32.Bad Rap / Caught in a Draft
33.The Mark of Zero / Toupee
34.The Ten Koopmandments / The Artist
35.The Koopas Are Coming! The Koopas Are Coming! / Zenned Out Mario
36.The Trojan Koopa / Texas Tea
37.Quest for Pizza / The Painting
38.The Great Gold Coin Rush / Game Show Host
39.Elvin Lives / Home Radio
40.Plumbers Academy / Glasnuts
41.Karate Koopa / Adee Don't
42.Mario of the Apes / Chippie Chipmunks
43.Princess, I Shrunk the Mario Brothers / A Basement Divided
44.Little Red Riding Princess / No Way to Treat a Queenie
45.The Provolone Ranger / Goodbye Mr. Fish
46.Escape from Koopatraz / French
47.Mario of the Deep / Two Bums from Brooklyn
48.Flatbush Koopa / Opera
49.Raiders of the Lost Mushroom / Cyrano de Mario
50.Crocodile Mario / Rowdy Roddy's Rotten Pipes
51.Star Koopa / Santa Claus Is Coming to Flatbush
52.Robo Koopa / Captain Lou Is Missing
