Super Mario Bros. Super Show Cartoon Episode 43 – Princess, I shrunk the Mario Brothers
Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad have found King Koopa's secret summer castle, where they have been captured in the courtyard, each with a ball and chain shackled to their ankle. Walking out of the castle's greenhouse, King Koopa announces that he is going to lock up his prisoners for 200 years, and orders Mouser to throw them in the dungeon. Luigi is worried about what will happen to them at this point, and Mario tells him not to worry, since he doubts that they will live for 200 years.
Mouser leads the prisoners over to the stairs leading down to the basement and tells them to proceed. Mario complains that his ball is too heavy, and while carrying it, drops it on Mouser's foot. After briefly hopping on his other foot in pain, Mouser declares that Mario's sentence has been increased by another 200 years. Mouser then orders two Koopa Troopas to push Mario and Luigi down the stairs, allowing their balls to drag them down to the dungeon at the bottom. Princess Toadstool and Toad then meet up with them, and the Princess asks if they are alright, to which Mario answers that he has been better.
Mouser and the two Koopa Troopas enter the dungeon, and while Mouser tells the prisoners to remain there, several strange droplets fall on his and the Koopa Troopas' heads. Looking up, everyone sees a floating flask, as a wizard suddenly makes himself visible, revealing that he had been holding the flask in his hand. The wizard pours some more potion onto Mouser and the Koopa Troopas, shrinking them down to the size of mice. As Toad exclaims that they have shrunk, the wizard assures him that they did due to his Magic Shrink Potion. When Princess Toadstool questions the wizard's identity, he responds by introducing himself as Waldo the Wizard, and claims that the castle used to be his until King Koopa stole it from him.
After picking up Mouser and the Koopa Troopas, then dropping them into a fishbowl, Waldo announces that he is going to vanquish King Koopa and reclaim his castle using his Magic Shrink Potion. Toad excitedly grabs the potion out of Waldo's hands, and exclaims that they now have something that will cut King Koopa down to size. Mario has second thoughts about Toad's plan, but Waldo assures them that they can succeed using the Magic Shrink Potion in conjunction with his magic, as he wiggles his fingers to cast a spell which unlocks everyone's shackles. After a little celebration, the heroes walk up the stairs from the dungeon. While walking upstairs, the group detects an odor, and Luigi wonders what it could be. Princess Toadstool figures that if they follow it, they will be led to King Koopa.
Outside, in the courtyard, various Koopa Troopas are either playing croquet, drinking juice, or resting on lounge chairs. Meanwhile, King Koopa is at the grill cooking some burgers, when he tells the Koopa Troopas to come and get them, and they all line up. Flipping a flaming burger off the grill, he tosses it onto the first Koopa Troopa's paper plate, and it falls right through it. King Koopa tells the Koopa Troopas to eat fast, as they are to celebrate the capture of Mario's group by letting him win a baseball game. Toad interferes and agrees with King Koopa's statement, telling him that he will be playing shortstop. Right as Toad gets ready to splash King Koopa with the Magic Shrink Potion, he accidentally hits Mario and Luigi with it instead.
Trivia & Bloopers
- In the title card, J. Larry Carroll's surname is misspelled as "Carrol."
- When King Koopa says he will lock Mario and his friends for two hundred years, the petals fly off the flower he is holding, but in the next shot, they are back on. A similar error occurs after King Koopa shatters the flower with pesticide, where it is intact in the next shot.
- Waldo the Wizard dumps all of his Magic Shrink Potion on Mouser, and his minions, but when he talks to Mario and his friends, it is full.
- When Princess Toadstool asks for Waldo's name, the latter's nose is the same color as his beard.
- The Plumber's Log number is the same number as the year The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids were produced.
- In the original version, the reward for capturing Mario and his friends is his Koopa Troopas letting him win a baseball game. In the Italian dub, it is him cooking with his own hands without a recipe.
Cast
- Captain Lou AlbanoMario
- Danny WellsLuigi, Waldo the Wizard
- Jeannie EliasPrincess Toadstool
- John StockerToad, Mouser, Koopa Troopa #1
- Harvey AtkinKing Koopa, Koopa Troopa #2
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A Basement Divided (Live Action Sketch)
At home in Mario Brothers Plumbing, Mario is sitting on the couch, holding a slice of pizza in one hand, as he tosses the box behind him with the other. Displeased with Mario's behavior, Luigi sternly asks him to explain what the pizza box was for. Mario, as a joke, explains that the pizza box was discovered by the ancient Romans to keep pizza warm and to keep their chariots from getting funky. Overlooking Mario's answer, Luigi asks him why the pizza box was not placed in the trash, and Mario claims that he meant to get it. Luigi then asks Mario if he was going to get the rest of the trash he left around the basement as well.
Mario questions why Luigi is acting grouchy, and Luigi comes clean by telling him that he is fed up by having to live with a slob. Luigi then announces that he is going to do something about the situation, and proceeds to take some duct tape, which he runs along the center of the floor, creating an imaginary line down the center of the basement. Mario asks what is going on, and Luigi explains that everything to the left of the black line is for human beings who clean up after themselves (namely, Luigi), while the right side is for uncivilized slobs who live in a dumpster with furniture (namely, Mario), and assigns him to live there, just before the furnace sneezes in Mario's face.
Some time later, the doorbell rings, and Luigi tells the visitor to enter. As the man on the other side enters the basement, he introduces himself as Doc Freud, the very famous, yet very affordable family psychotherapist. Luigi questions Mario as to why Doc Freud came, and Mario confesses that he is sick and tired of not being able to use half the room, saying that they need family therapy. Doc Freud walks over to Mario and Luigi, telling them that he charges his clients by the household, not by individual patients, and that they will have to pay a family rate for his services.
After Luigi pulls up a chair, Doc Freud takes a seat, pulls out a pad of paper and a pen, then asks him and Mario how long the two of them have been harboring their feelings of resentment and sibling rivalry. Mario does not understand what Doc Freud is talking about, so Doc Freud simply asks them as to how long they have hated each other's guts. Luigi answers that it has been since his birth. Doc Freud then asks if they have had any traumatic experiences as children, and suddenly freaks out upon seeing the line of black tape on the floor. Mario answers "no" to Doc Freud's question, and after taking the facts into consideration, concludes that the root of the problem is simply that Mario is a big slob.
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