Super Mario Bros. Super Show Cartoon Episode 13 – Toad Warriors
In the badlands of Car Land, Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad are riding in a brown convertible car, planning on rendezvousing with several Mushroom rebels; it seems the evil King-of-the-Road Koopa had stolen all the spaghetti sauce in Car Land and the rebels Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool were planning on meeting had been making more of it. Unfortunately, as Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool drive onward, they notice they are being followed by one of King Koopa's State Troopa minions. As Mario begins trying to convince Toad, the car's driver, to pull over, the State Troopa begins to try and blast Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool with explosive projectiles fired from a Cobrat; after narrowly avoiding a projectile shot by the State Troopa and its Cobrat, Toad, Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool decide to stop their car on the side of the road. Stopping alongside the parked Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool, the State Troopa grabs his car radio and radios to King Koopa that he is about to arrest Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool. Getting the State Troopa's communication, King Koopa, who is on a nearby cliff with Mouser, radios back that the State Troopa should capture Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool and be sure to not let them escape; after communicating this to the State Troopa, King Koopa tells Mouser that soon he will have the rebels' spaghetti sauce and once he does get it, he will sell it to the inhabitants of Car Land for an extremely large amount of money.
Down below, the State Troopa, brandishing his Cobrat, has made Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool stand up against their convertible and is refusing to acknowledge their rights. After the State Troopa says that Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool will not be able to call their lawyers or their mothers, he is suddenly dive-bombed by a helicopter seemingly created from a trash can.
Seeing that the helicopter, which is being piloted by a Mushroom rebel, is turning around, the State Troopa frantically hides underneath his car. With the State Troopa hiding, the helicopter drops down a rope ladder and tells Princess Toadstool to grab hold of it; Princess Toadstool does grab this rope ladder, though only after being convinced by Mario, Luigi and Toad to, who say they will be alright and will meet her at the rebels' desert base. As Princess Toadstool rides the helicopter off into the distance, Toad informs Mario and Luigi that now is their chance to escape from the State Troopa; unfortunately, the State Troopa, appearing behind Mario, Luigi and Toad and wielding a Bob-Omb, says that Mario, Luigi and Toad will not be going anywhere. After the State Troopa says this though, the radio in his car begins to emit King Koopa's voice, who is demanding the State Troopa report to him. The State Troopa, not wanting to anger King Koopa, goes to answer his radio, leaving the Bob-Omb to watch Mario, Luigi and Toad.
Looking at the Bob-Omb, Toad gets an idea and begins to taunt the Bob-Omb, causing it to become so angry that it lights its own fuse. Noticing the Bob-Omb's lit fuse, Toad yells for Mario and Luigi to begin to run and hide, which Mario and Luigi do. After talking to King Koopa on his radio, the State Troopa, seeing that Mario, Luigi and Toad are gone, begins to berate the Bob-Omb, only to notice its fuse is lit; panicking, the State Troopa lunges at the Bob-Omb and manages to put out its fuse with his fingers, just before the Bob-Omb explodes.
Trivia & Bloopers
- In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Mario's Greatest Movie Moments DVD release of this episode, the word loser is misspelled as "looser" in the DVD's captions.
- The Cobrat the State Troopa is holding has white eyes instead its usual yellow ones.
- In the Thunderbirdo's first appearance, its legs are green instead of purple. In its final shot, the tail is green.
- When King-of-the-Road Koopa laughs after the Thunderbirdo attacks the Rebel Fort, part of his shirt collar turns the same color as his skin.
- This is one of the two episodes to not appear in "The Worlds of Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Concept Art Gallery" on the Shout! Factory DVD set The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Volume 1, the other being "Butch Mario & The Luigi Kid".
- The State Troopa that arrests Mario and his friends at the beginning of the episode uses a car designated Car 54½, a reference to the American sitcom Car 54, Where Are You?
- With the Plumber's Log being removed from the French dub, and Car Land not mentioned anywhere else in the episode, this makes the location the episode takes place ambiguous in the French dub.
Cast
- Captain Lou AlbanoMario, Mushroom #5
- Danny WellsLuigi, Mushroom #2
- Jeannie EliasPrincess Toadstool
- John StockerToad, Mouser, Koopa Troopa, Koopa state Troopa, Mushroom #1
- Harvey AtkinKing Bowser Koopa, Mushroom #3, Mushroom #4
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E.C. The Extra Creepy (Live Action Sketch)
In Mario Brothers Plumbing, Mario, who is wearing a tie, is in the midst of looking in a mirror, checking his appearance. As Mario continues to look at himself in the mirror, Luigi, seeing Mario wearing his fancy tie, asks if they are going somewhere today. Answering Luigi's question, Mario says that no, they are not, he is, with his date, whom he met on a computer.
Hearing Mario say this, Luigi proceeds to grab a nearby stack of paper on a table and read from it; after some reading, Luigi asks what kind of woman Mario is dating, after reading from "luxurious body hair, bulging muscles, can bench-press five-hundred pounds…" off the paper. Mario tells Luigi that those are not his date's qualities, they are his, which he copied from a card depicting Rambo, which he got from a bubblegum package.
After Mario explains this to him, Luigi reads that Mario's date is an "out of this world girl, with head in the clouds, loves to travel…" After reading this description, Luigi says that Mario's date sounds somewhat odd and strange. Ignoring Luigi's comments, Mario says that his date is named E.C. and that Luigi will not think she is strange once he sees her. As soon as Mario says this though, the lights of Mario Brothers Plumbing begin to flicker on and off and the entire apartment begins to rumble.
Eventually, the apartment stops rumbling, and a bizarre noise is heard, which Mario says must be being caused by E.C. After saying this, Mario rushes up the stairs of the apartment and, after spraying some breath freshener into his mouth, opens the apartment door and sees E.C. there, with smoke billowing all around her.
Introducing himself to E.C., Mario asks for her hand which E.C., after speaking in an extremely mechanical sounding voice, gives to Mario, after, literally, taking her own hand off and giving it to him. As Mario stares in horror and shock at E.C.'s removed hand, which he is holding, an equally surprised Luigi grabs E.C.'s nearby quality papers and begins to frantically look through them.
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