Super Mario Bros. Super Show Cartoon Episode 22 – On Her Majesty's Sewer Service
One night in the streets of Spy Land, James Blond is searching for Koopfinger, as he had just uncovered Koopfinger's latest plot. However, when James Blond runs into Koopfinger, Koopfinger points a magic ring at the secret agent, turning him to stone.
The next day, Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool are sitting down to lunch at an Italian restaurant. Before Mario can thank Princess Toadstool for taking them out to eat, she pulls a hidden lever, sending their entire table down a shaft. As they descend, Princess Toadstool explains that they are going to Super Spy Headquarters because James Blond has been turned to stone, and the brothers are needed to save him.
At the bottom of the shaft, the trio ends up in an underground complex, where they are greeted by Secret Agent N. Agent N shows Mario and Luigi to their new Spymobile, which Luigi comments looks like an old plumber's truck, though Agent N tells him that it packs more firepower than a battleship. Agent N then shows Mario and Luigi their new equipment, including a wrench phone, an explosive drain cleaner, an atomic screwdriver, and, as Mario finds out, a laser drill.
At that moment an alarm goes off, prompting Agent N to bring up a monitor. Upon doing so, Fort Hard Knox is shown, which Agent N comments is where all of Spy Land's Gold Coins are kept. The monitor then shows Koopfinger driving towards the treasury in a limo along with his goons Mouser, Tryclyde and a Koopa Troopa (who are all buff). Despite Luigi's cowardice, he and Mario head out to stop Koopfinger.
Meanwhile, Koopfinger's group arrives at the entrance to Fort Hard Knox, which Koopfinger blasts open with a Bob-Omb. With no one around to stop them, the gang proceeds with stealing all the Gold Coins.
Mario and Luigi reach Fort Hard Knox just as Koopfinger drives off, and they head after him in their Spymobile. Upon activating the plumber pulsion, they are able to speed up towards Koopfinger. The Koopa Troopa spots the Spymobile gaining on them, and Koopfinger remarks that it has to be the Mario Bros. Koopfinger pushes a button that opens a compartment in the back of the truck with a Snifit in it that shoots away at the Spymobile. It does not work, as Luigi points that the glass is Snifit-proof.
Trivia & Bloopers
- In the original version: When Koopa Troopa says that all of the gold coins have been counted, he has Tryclyde's voice. This error is corrected in the Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish dubs. When Secret Agent N says, "Look out!", he speaks through James Blond's mouth. This error is corrected in the Latin American Spanish dub.
- When Princess Toadstool explains the secret entrance to Mario and Luigi, the hidden candle lever she rotated disappears.
- Initially, Secret Agent N has five fingers on each hand, but after introducing himself, he has four. It reverts back to five at the end of the episode.
- After Secret Agent N warns Mario to watch out when the latter uses the laser drill, his skin becomes tanner.
- Wheel of Misfortune is a parody of the game show Wheel of Fortune, with Vampa White parodying its hostess Vanna White.
- When Mario and Luigi are congratulated for defeating Koopfinger, Luigi says "danger is our business," which is a play off the catchphrase of the spy parody character Cool McCool from the eponymous television series.
- With the Plumber's Log being removed in the French dub, and Spy Land not mentioned anywhere else in the episode, this leaves the location the episode takes place ambiguous in the French dub. This also true for the following two episodes.
Cast
- Captain Lou AlbanoMario
- Danny WellsLuigi, Agent N
- Jeannie EliasPrincess Toadstool, Vampa White
- John StockerMouser, Koopa Troopa
- Harvey AtkinKoopfinger, Tryclyde
- Robert BockstaelJames Blond
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On Her Majesty's Sewer Service
A Mario Odyssey (Live Action Sketch)
A programmer named Albert Einstein is at Mario Brothers Plumbing, typing away into a special computer/pizza machine labeled HAL 9001. Luigi asks if Einstein is ever going to be finished, just as Einstein announces that the computer is ready. The computer starts to talk, introducing itself as the HAL 9001 computer and pizza machine.
Einstein asks how HAL is doing, and the computer assures him that nothing is wrong with its programming. Einstein then introduces HAL to Mario and Luigi, but Luigi does not like the idea of talking to a machine. HAL tells Luigi that he does not need to worry.
When Mario asks Einstein about the pizzas, Einstein gives his order to HAL: A pepperoni pizza with no anchovies or fried eggs. Einstein tells Mario that he needs to specify for no anchovies or fried eggs or HAL will put them on the pizza. Almost instantly, HAL prepares a pepperoni pizza for Mario. Einstein explains that HAL never makes mistakes, leaving Mario and Luigi alone with the computer, and tells them to call if they have any questions.
Luigi then places an order for a sausage pizza with no anchovies or fried eggs. Later on, Mario and Luigi order unconventional pizzas like a hamburger pizza (with actual hamburgers), and a baloney pizza. However, instead of a baloney pizza, HAL prepares a golf pencil pizza, which confuses the brothers. HAL then follows up with a nurse shoe pizza, even though an order was not even placed, and assures Mario and Luigi that nothing is wrong with it. Luigi asks HAL to just make a baloney pizza, and is given a dog biscuit pizza instead.
After a popcorn pizza is made, Luigi opts to simply pull HAL's plug, but HAL says that it will not allow that. Retaliating, HAL tells Mario and Luigi to gaze into its eye, and succeeds in putting them in a trance. While they are under its spell, HAL, feeling that it had worked to make the pizzas, orders Mario and Luigi to eat all of the pizzas it made. At that point, Einstein returns, as he forgot to give Mario and Luigi his bill.