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Little Red Riding Princess Mar 02, 2020

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In perhaps the show's first ever effort to ACTUALLY parody the thing the episode is titled after, Mario and Luigi head to the Mushroom Woods to visit Princess Toadstool's sick grandmother. King Koopa quickly gets rid of Gramma so he can wear her clothes and get into her bed, we meet a talking Big Bad Wolf who wears a cape, and Toad wields a fucking axe. Meanwhile in the live action, Luigi practices his British accent in case he ever gets to meet the Queen of England (rude?) and why don't you take a wild guess who shows up to the apartment.

Princess, I Shrunk the Mario Brothers Feb 24, 2020

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In this weirdly topical episode, Mario and the gang find themselves captured in King Koopa’s summer home and get thrown in a dungeon so Koop can barbecue for his koopalings. There, they meet Waldo the Wizard and are given a shrinking potion, which Toad promptly drops on the brothers by accident. Meanwhile, in the live action, Mario and Luigi meet, I dunno, the sixth version of Doc Freud to grace this show? To the surprise of absolutely no one, Mark and Jeremy decide that this episode of the Mario show is actually quite similar to hit HBO series The Sopranos.

Mario Ice Capades Feb 17, 2020

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Because they are so, so tired, Mark and Jeremy substitute a 1989 6-minute Super Mario Bros Ice Capades segment for an episode of the Show Show this week. It features an all star cast of Jason Bateman, Alyssa Milano, and Honorary Paisano Christopher Howell, a.k.a. Mister Belvedere himself, as Bowser. Or Koopa. Or both? No one is really sure. It’s positively wild, and with their leftover time, Mark and Jeremy have their long awaited discussion about how many jobs they’ve held.

Mario of the Apes w/ Heather Anne Campbell Feb 10, 2020

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Heather Anne Campbell (How Did This Get Played?, The Twilight Zone) joins Mark and Jeremy in finding out that this episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is not at all a parody of Planet of the Apes, but is, in fact, a Tarzan thing. It’s weird and dumb and Mario is way too hairy for anyone’s comfort. In the live-action segment, uh, some guy tells Mario that if he is super nice to Luigi for a day he will give him a ring with a chipmunk on it because they’re all in a chipmunk group. Like the Boy Scouts, but with Chipmunks, and possibly sex.

The Provolone Ranger w/ Bob Mackey & Henry Gilbert Feb 03, 2020

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Hi Ho Paisanos! Mark and Jeremy are joined by What A Cartoon! and Talking Simpsons cohosts Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert to discuss this week’s episode, which finds Mario becoming The Lone Ranger for no discernible reason before rescuing his friends from Billy the Koopa. In the live-action, the boys are tasked with babysitting Mrs. Periwinkle’s pet fish and if you think they don’t murder it and then lie their way into being paid for the job still, we hope you enjoy your first episode of this show!

Legend of Zelda: Hitch in the Works Jan 27, 2020

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Soooooo the only way you can find this week’s live action episode is either in extremely poor quality, or in German. So Mark and Jeremy are stuck between a rock and a schwer place (that’s German for “hard,” I googled it). As best as they can tell, Mario and Luigi find a treasure map in their apartment, and invite Inspector Gadget to come over and help them figure it out. Yeah, that sounds about right. In the animated Zelda episode, Ganon realizes about halfway through that nothing particularly exciting is going on and decides to try to marry Princess Zelda. In addition to breaking this all down, the boys participate in their usual conversations about robes, The Sopranos, and cockroaches, and they even find time to debut some new characters!

Plummers Academy Jan 20, 2020

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An episode so good, they made a typo in the title! In today’s very ambitious episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Mark and Jeremy get an origin story about Mario and Luigi’s formative years in Basic Draining under the tutelage of Drain Sergeant Kooperman. It’s just like the army. No really, Luigi kills a guy with a bayonet and starts freaking out. I’m just kidding, what actually happens is they save the president using plumbing and he gives them a golden plunger that gets stuck on Koopa’s face real bad later on. Also, in the live action segment, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev comes over to Brooklyn to make a pizza with the boys and make everyone generally uncomfortable.

Elvin Lives w/ Kevin Flynn Jan 13, 2020

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Hard Drive editor Kevin Flynn joins Mark and Jeremy to talk about today’s adventure to Sockhop Land, where Koopa the Kool kidnaps Princess Toadstool in an attempt to get her to go steady with him. This, of course, means that Mario and Luigi have to put Elvis’ living, talking shoes onto his feet so that he may become unfrozen. Then everyone has a big nice car race. In the live action segment, Mario and Luigi get out of the plumbing game and relaunch their careers as radio DJs known as The Whispering Plumbers.

Listener Questions! Jan 06, 2020

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We took a break from watching The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! to answer your questions about all sorts of shit! We cover many, many questions about which Mario characters we would like to fuck the most, who we would cast as who, how our lives are going, and more. Plus, we play the legendary clip where Captain Lou Albano says that if you do drugs you will "go to Hell before you die." Happy new year, paisanos!

The Great Gold Coin Rush Dec 30, 2019

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Today’s animated segment takes place in the Wild Wild West (neither the show nor the movie) and Mark and Jeremy agree that it is an episode of television in which things happen. In the live action segment, Luigi gets zonked on the fuckin’ head and wakes up thinking he’s a game show host. It’s horrifying. Luckily, Mario has legendary game show host Jim Lange’s phone number and he gets him to come do some kind of exorcism. Come for the Mario breakdown, stay for the discussions of soup, Judaism, and the unveiling of Jeremy’s impression that has to be heard to be believed!

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