Misadventures in Babysitting Episode Guide

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 Episode 14 – Misadventures in Babysitting

The episode begins in the living room of a Brooklyn home, where the mom and dad, who are getting ready to go out for the night, are waiting for a babysitter to arrive to look after their son, Junior, who breaks two vases and lets the family cat take the blame.

At that moment, Mario and Luigi come out of a Warp Pipe underneath the kitchen sink and realize that they must have taken the wrong pipe. When Mario looks out the window, he sees the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, and realizes where they now are.

Mario and Luigi are then spotted by the mom, who assumes that they are Junior's babysitters. Mario and Luigi are unable to talk their way out of babysitting Junior and the parents, who are desperate to get going, hire the pair on the spot. They ask that Junior take a bath before they return. As soon as the parents leave, Junior asks if they can play hide and seek. The Mario brothers barely agree when Junior says they are "it."

Junior goes to hide under the sink and crawls into the Warp Pipe, which warps him to the Mushroom Kingdom, where he takes an instant liking to the bizarre atmosphere of the place. Several Boomerang Brothers attack Junior with a boomerang, but Junior manages to catch it, throw it, and slice a tree in half with it, which crushes the attackers. Junior is then spotted by Kooky von Koopa, Bully Koopa, and Cheatsy Koopa. When they learn Junior was hiding from the Mario Bros., they convince him that they are his friends, since they are all enemies of the Mario Bros.

Mario and Luigi arrive in the Mushroom Kingdom to look for Junior and hear him calling for help. They see Junior riding piggyback on Bully's back and assume the Koopas have abducted him, although it was just a ploy to lead them to some attacking Ptooies, which they have to fight off.

The Koopalings use Junior to lure Mario and Luigi inside a volcano, where they trap them behind rocks and boulders in a cave. However, Junior starts to worry when Kooky prepares to flood the cave with lava using a special pump, as he just wanted to play around with the Mario Bros., not to actually harm them. Annoyed with Junior's complaining, the Koopalings toss him down a pipe, warping him to the Pipe Maze.

Trivia & Bloopers

In the original NBC airing, this episode lacks scene transitions.[2]
In the original version, when Bully says that the lava will finish the Mario Bros. and Junior, his voice is deeper than normal.
At the beginning of the episode, the lenses in the glasses on Junior's father briefly disappear.
When Junior balances the vases on his head, the vases flash.
In the original NBC airings, Mario narrates the preview for the episode by saying, "I always thought babysitting was easy until the Brooklyn kid we're taking care of falls into the Mushroom Kingdom and gets captured by the Koopas!"[27]