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BONUS! The Korean Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Aug 09, 2019

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Oh shit a BONUS EPISODE?! That's right folks, we took a look at a rare 1989 live action segment from the Korean version of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! In order to air the show in Korea with the dubbed animated segments, Mario and his brother... Marigi... were recasted by Korean actors doing whole new storylines. The boys get into some trouble when Mario literally stops time in order to steal a little girl's ice cream and also they make a terrible belabored noodles pun because Pasta Power is a religion that crosses all borders and cultures. Is there a word for Paisano in Korean or is it universal to all tongues?

On Her Majesty's Sewer Service Aug 05, 2019

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"Names Mario. Mario Mario." That's right, we got a JAMES BOND parody on our hands! Secret agents Mario and Luigi battle against the evil Koopfinger in Spy Land after James BLOND (why?) is turned to stone. The brothers are armed with nothing but their wits, fancy suits, and holy shit is that a GUN?! Meanwhile, in perhaps the show's best live action segment ever, '9001: A Mario Odyssey,' Mario and Luigi get a visit from a programmer named Albert Einstein (why?) who installs a computer named HAL 9001 that exclusively makes pizzas... until it turns on them... and makes those pizzas.... a little bit wrong.

Legend of Zelda: Sing for the Unicorn Jul 29, 2019

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It’s time for another animated Zelda episode! You know what that means, right? Yes, that’s right, Link is super horny! Like, hornier than we’ve ever seen him. In between the bits where he’s trying to kiss Zelda there’s some story about Gannon kidnapping the king using a unicorn he stole from a girl named Sing. That’s right, they named the character Sing in order to suit this episode title, which still doesn’t make any sense. She’s not out here campaigning for the unicorn or anything. In the live action Mario, sitcom veteran Norman Fell plays Fred Van Winkle (Rip’s brother, DUH) who awakens from an 80 year slumber to discover that nothing in this world makes sense and decides to go back to sleep until it does. We have bad news for you, Fred.

The Pied Koopa Jul 22, 2019

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Mario and the gang are in PASTA LAND!!!! They've finally reached the Mecca of pasta-based religion and get to hang out in a place where the trees are forks and the leaves are spaghetti. It's truly a paradise for our linguine-loving lads, until, of course, the big bad King Koopa steals all the children! In the live action, Mario and Luigi's plant turn into an evil plant man and—wait holy shit, is that Patrick Dempsey?! Oh my god I think that's Patrick Dempsey. No, no... it can't be him. Oh my god I think it's him and maybe he was a production manager for every single episode?? Is that even possible?! WE INVESTIGATE!

Do You Princess Toadstool Take This Koopa…? Jul 15, 2019

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Today’s episode makes a whole bunch of no sense. Mario and Luigi go fishing, even though they have plans to go to the big plumber’s hoedown later that night. All the prettiest girls in Brooklyn will be there, you see. As soon as they leave, their apartment is invaded by their southern cousins, Mario Joe and Luigi Bob. You’re probably not going to believe this, but in the four minutes that they’re house sitting for the boys, Donna Douglas from The Beverly Hillbillies shows up. What are the odds?! In the animated segment, Princess Toadstool agrees to marry Koopa in the hopes that he will turn a bunch of toad people back from the rocks he turned them into earlier. This being Koop’s big day, we also get to meet his mother! In addition to trying to make sense of all this, Mark and Jeremy also learn about something called Rock Lords and realize that deep down we all just want to fuck Toad.

The Adventures of Sherlock Mario w/ Ashley Oh Jul 08, 2019

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The great Ashley Oh from The Polygon Show joins the pasta paisanos to discuss this intricately plotted homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s masterpiece Herlock Solmes. Professor Kooparity has enslaved Princess Toadstool’s people (?) so they need the help of the world’s greatest detective (??) to free them by insulting Koopa for holding the world record for failing kindergarten the most times (???). In the live action, Mario and Luigi win the award for Plumber of the Year, which is most certainly a result of them being the only plumbers left in a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn. I know we say this a lot, but this episode of the Super Show is so fucking weird and funny.

Two Plumbers and a Baby Jul 01, 2019

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After a freak accident in the Kingdom of Youth turns Princess Toadstool into an infant, Mario, Luigi, and Toad all learn the very obvious lesson that they are in no way equipped to care for a child. Yep, this one's a parody of hit 1987 film Three Men and a Baby! The episode’s setting inspires Mark and Jeremy to ponder life, death, and whether or not they’d be able to convince people they were from 2019 if they ever traveled through time. They also agree that this episode is an important piece of Mario history, as they're pretty sure this is the first time we see one of the main Mario cast members hanging out in baby form. Oh, and in the live action, some girl’s dog is missing.

Legend of Zelda: Kiss’n Tell w/ The Completionist Jun 24, 2019

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YouTube all-star Jirard Khalil (The Completionist) joins us to discuss another legendary Legend of Zelda episode! Ganon sets off an evil plan to trick Link into turning into a frog by rescuing a woman and kissing her, even though she’s actually a mummy. That’s the actual premise of this episode and it’s not even the silliest part! Plus, in the live action, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark shows up to mostly insult Luigi after Mario turns HIM into a mummy. Lots of mummy-related hijinks in this absolutely out of control episode!

Pirates of Koopa Jun 17, 2019

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“Hey, did we do pirates yet?” he asked the room full of Mario writers, to no response. “Fuck it." And with that, today’s episode of The Super Mario Bros Super Show was born. On today’s program, Magic Johnson returns for the first ever repeat celebrity cameo and it’s exactly as awkward as his first appearance, most likely due to both of these segments clearly being filmed in the same hurried afternoon. This one has something to do with a trophy. It’s honestly hard to tell. And then on the animated high seas of Pirate World, we are treated to a buckswashlin’ adventure that introduces fun characters like Captain Clump, Patches the Parrot, Blackbeard Koopa, and two very familiar looking pirates named Captain Kidder and Long John Spaghetti, who this insentient paragraph of text suspects is actually the Mario Brothers in disguise. What is it like to love?

Count Koopula w/ Woolie Madden Jun 10, 2019

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Woolie Madden (Castle Super Beast, Woolie Versus) joins us to discuss Mario and the gang's descent into the dark and spooky TURTLEVANIA! King Koopula and his tomato sauce-sucking vampires chase after Mario and Luigi set to an inexplicable cover of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Did they even get the rights to that or did they just shrug and say "fuck it"? In the live action, Luigi learns how to make objects disappear from the help of famous(?) magician Harry Blackstone Jr, but accidentally uses his mastery of the dark arts to make his own brother Mario leave this plane of existence. When Mario's soul left his body, was he in Hell? Oh also we fan-cast a reboot of the Mario Show and wonder what it would be like if Dave Bautista and Daniel Day-Lewis played Mario and Luigi in 2019! Cool!

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