The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is an American television series based upon Nintendo's ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros. Super Mario Bros. ] and Super Mario Bros. 2'' video games. It was originally broadcast via first-run syndication to mostly independent or Fox television stations from September 4, 1989, to December 1, 1989, with reruns continuing until September 6, 1991. The Family Channel picked up the series on September 23, 1991,[1 ] and aired it until August 26, 1994.[2 ] The show was produced by DiC Animation and was distributed by Viacom Enterprises in association with Nintendo. DHX Media, the successor company of Cookie Jar Entertainment and DiC, is the current distributor.

Contents
[hide] *1 Format
 * 1.1 Mario Bros. Plumbing
 * 1.2 Super Mario Bros.
 * 1.3 The Legend of Zelda
 * 2 Club Mario
 * 3 Mario All Stars
 * 4 Songs
 * 4.1 Theme songs
 * 4.2 Featured songs
 * 5 Casts
 * 5.1 Super Mario Bros. cast
 * 5.2 Legend of Zelda cast
 * 5.3 Club Mario cast
 * 6 Broadcast history
 * 6.1 International broadcasts
 * 7 Home video releases
 * 8 References

Mario Bros. Plumbing[edit]
The first and last parts of each episode were live segments which showed Mario (WWE Hall of Famer Captain Lou Albano) and Luigi (Danny Wells) living in Brooklyn, where they would often be visited by celebrity guest stars. These parts were performed and filmed on a closed set with the use of canned laughter to simulate a studio audience.[citation needed]

Some of the celebrity guest stars were popular television stars, such as Nedra Volz, Norman Fell, Donna Douglas, Eve Plumb, Vanna White, Jim Lange, Danica McKellar, Nicole Eggert, Clare Carey and Brian Bonsall or professional athletes such as the Late Lyle Alzado, Magic Johnson, and WWE Hall of Famers Roddy Piper and Sgt. Slaughter. In one episode, Ernie Hudson appeared as a Slimebuster, a parody of his Ghostbusters persona Winston Zeddemore and on another occasion Mario and Luigi receive a visit from Inspector Gadget, performed live by Maurice LaMarche. There was also another episode with Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, but the episode was not included in the DVDs. In an interview for the first DVD release of the show, Lou Albano talked about filming these live action skits, which mainly involved he and Wells getting a central plot and mostly improvising the dialogue as they went along.

In one episode, Lou Albano portrays himself, forcing his regular character to leave the scene in order for himself to appear. In the episode in question, pop star Cyndi Lauper states she's looking for Lou Albano because he's missing, due to the note she got from him (although there is an important part missing from the note). Mario exclaims how much he wants to meet Lou, and later Lou appears as himself supposedly while Mario's out shopping for pizza. As a result, Luigi gets to meet Lou, but Mario does not.

Lou Albano and Danny Wells also once played female versions of themselves, Marianne and Luigeena (their cousins), and also two hillbilly cousins, named Mario Joe and Luigi Bob.

Super Mario Bros.[edit]
Each Super Mario Bros. cartoon served as the second segment of every show, following the introduction and first few minutes of the episode's live-action segment.[3 ] The cartoon featured characters and situations based upon the NES games ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros. Super Mario Bros. ] and Super Mario Bros. 2'', as well as several sound effects and musical cues from the two games. Each episode featured Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool defending the Mushroom Kingdom from the reptilian villain King Koopa, often in a movie or pop-culture parody. Getting into the spirit of these parodies, Koopa often used alter egos fitting the current theme.

The theme song for the cartoon segments revealed that the Super Mario Brothers were accidentally warped into the Mushroom Kingdom while working on a bathtub drain in Brooklyn. After traveling via the warp drain, the Super Mario Brothers defeated King Koopa's Koopa Troopas, saved Princess Toadstool and halted Koopa's plan to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom. At the beginning of every cartoon segment, Mario recites an entry into his "Plumber's Log," a parody of the Captain's Log from Star Trek.

A very loose spin-off of the show was broadcast in the Southern California TV market in late 1989/early 1990 called King Koopa's Kool Kartoons.[citation needed]

The Super Mario Bros. cartoons aired four days a week, from Monday through Thursday.

The Legend of Zelda[edit]
Main article: The Legend of Zelda (TV series)On every Friday episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, a cartoon based on The Legend of Zelda video game series was featured instead of the Super Mario Bros. cartoons. The elf-like hero Link and Princess Zelda battled against the forces of the evil wizard Ganon. Scenes from each episode of the show were shown during the sitcom segments on the preceding Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episodes during the week, and then broadcast as sneak peeks. The Zelda cartoons consisted of thirteen episodes, which ended when the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ended its initial broadcast run. The characters of Link, Zelda and Ganon, along with their respective voice actors (Jonathan Potts, Cynthia Preston and Len Carlson), were later featured in an episode of Captain N: The Game Master, based on the Zelda II: The Adventure of Link NES game, another animated series based on NES video games, and also produced by DiC Animation around the same period, airing on NBC as part of its Saturday morning cartoon schedule.

Club Mario[edit]
In the 1990-91 season after the original animated series had ended, the Albano/Wells live-action sequences were replaced on September 3, 1990 with new continuity under the title Club Mario. This format featured "extreme" Mario-obsessed teenagers Tommy and Tammy Treehugger, along with Cool MC 'commandeering' the 'satellite signal' of the Super Show using a satellite dish atop their apartment building (despite the reality of the show going out on tapes to stations well in advance), goofing around, and in at least one episode, running around the DiC studios and harassing Andy Heyward, who is also the show's executive producer. Cool MC also had to deal with his evil twin brother Eric, who attempted fruitlessly to take over the show. An additional added segment was a one-to-two-minute viewing of Space Scout Theater/Spaced Out Theater, hosted by Princess Centauri, a green alien woman, which was sourced and edited from the science fiction children television series, Photon. The segments had an unpopular reception and further distribution of the series after the 1990-91 season solely featured the original cut of the show with the Albano/Wells live-action sequences.

Mario All Stars[edit]
In 1994, The Family Channel aired the show in a package named Mario All Stars, consisting of time compressed versions of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! cartoon segments and the Super Mario World cartoons. It ran for 39 episodes in double episode format, and was promoted as "the Super Mario Bros. in 40 brand new adventures". Strangely enough, although clips from the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoons were used in promos for the show, none of the show's episodes were featured. All Stars was later seen on the USA Network from January 6–June 6, 1997, when it was replaced by Sonic the Hedgehog reruns. Before being re-edited for All Stars in 1994, Family Channel played the episodes slower than their normal speed and included the live action segments. The package's title is most likely inspired by the title of the video game compilation Super Mario All-Stars that was released the previous year.

Theme songs[edit]

 * "Plumber Rap" (Lou Albano and Danny Wells): The main theme, which is divided into two parts. The first part opens the show while the second part opens the Super Mario Bros. animated segments.
 * "Do the Mario" (Lou Albano): The ending theme to the show performed in front of a greenscreen of the animated show's backgrounds, which featured an accompanying dance performed by Albano described within the lyrics.

Featured songs[edit]
At some point in the cartoon segments, a song would be played to go along with the scene. These were usually notable singles from famous singers, songwriters, and musical artists of the era. When the program was either re-broadcast or re-released on a home medium such as videotape or DVD, the songs were replaced by instrumentals of songs from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and  Super Mario World . Episode/song combinations are shown on the list of Mario television episodes.

Super Mario Bros. cast[edit]

 * "Captain" Lou Albano as Mario (live-action and animated)
 * Danny Wells as Luigi (live-action and animated)
 * Jeannie Elias as Princess Toadstool
 * John Stocker as Toad
 * Harvey Atkin as King Koopa
 * Additional voices by Robert Bockstael, Dorian Joe Clark, Rob Cowan, Denise Pidgeon, Tabitha St. Germain (as "Paulina Gillis"), Greg Morton, Joyce Gordon, Greg Swanson, Diane Fabian, Marilyn Lightstone, Steve Schirripa, and Marla Lukofsky

Legend of Zelda cast[edit]
Preston, Potts, and Carlson all reprised their roles in Captain N: The Game Master.
 * Cyndy Preston as Princess Zelda
 * Jonathan Potts as Link
 * Len Carlson as Ganon
 * Colin Fox as King Harkinian
 * Allen Stewart-Coates as The Triforce of Power
 * Elizabeth Hanna as The Triforce of Wisdom
 * Tabitha St. Germain (as "Paulina Gillis"[4 ] ) as Spryte
 * Additional voices by Don Francks, Marvin Goldhar and Christopher Ward

Club Mario cast[edit]

 * Chris Coombs as Tommy Treehugger
 * Michael Anthony Rawlins as Co-MC/Evil Eric
 * Kurt Weldon as Dr. Know-It-All
 * Victoria Delaney as Tammy Treehugger
 * Jeff Rose as The Big Kid
 * James Abbott as The Band
 * Shanti Kahn as Princess Centauri
 * Andy Heyward as himself

Broadcast history[edit]

 * USA
 * Syndication (1989–2005)
 * Family Channel (1991–1996)
 * USA Network (Jan–June 1997)
 * 1994-1999 as Super Mario All-Stars

Home video releases[edit]
From 1989 to 1990, Kids Klassics released episodes of the series on VHS. Starting in 1991, Kids Klassics' parent company GoodTimes Entertainment continued releasing episodes on VHS up through 1993.

1989 Releases (Each volume begins and ends with a complete live-action segment, with the featured complete animated segment in the middle) There were also 3 VHS tapes only available through a mail-in offer with Nestle Kwik. They follow the same format as the volumes listed above. 1990 Releases (Each volume has 1 complete live action segment and 3 complete animated segments) 1991 Releases (The Kids Klassics logo is retained although these volumes were released by GoodTimes) (Each volume has 4 complete animated segments and no live-action segments) 1993 Release (Released in a clamshell packaging, contains 6 complete animated sgements and no live-action segments) In 2006, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shout!_Factory Shout! Factory ] and Sony BMG Music Entertainment released the series on two 4-disc DVD sets. These two sets were discontinued in 2012 after Shout!'s deal with Cookie Jar Entertainment expired.
 * Mario's Magic Carpet
 * Mario Meets Koop-zilla
 * King Mario of Cramalot
 * The Great Gladiator Gig
 * Butch Mario and the Luigi Kid
 * The Great BMX Race
 * The Ringer (The Legend of Zelda)
 * Sing for the Unicorn (The Legend of Zelda)
 * The Bird! The Bird!
 * Pirates of the Koopa
 * Kiss and Tell (The Legend of Zelda)
 * Koopa Claus (Plus "Santa Claus Is Coming To Flatbush", "Stars In Their Eyes" and "Too Hot To Handle")
 * Count Koopula (Plus "Vampire Until Ready", "Koopenstein" and "Robo Koopa")
 * The Missing Link (The Legend of Zelda) (Plus "Captain Lou is Missing", "Cold Spells" and "The Moblins Are Revolting")
 * Princess, I Shrunk The Mario Brothers (Plus "Rowdy Roddy's Rotten Pipes With Rowdy Roddy Piper", "Rollin' Down The River" and "Brooklyn Bound")
 * Two Plumbers And A Baby (Plus "On Her Majesty's Sewer Service", "The Great Gold Coin Rush" and "Flatbush Koopa")
 * Robo Koopa (Plus "Bad Rap", "Karate Koopa" and "The Koopas Are Coming!")
 * Hooded Robin And His Mario Men (Plus "Plumbers Academy", "Quest For Pizza" and "Escape From Koopatraz")
 * Super Mario Bros. Super Show ("Jungle Fever", "Mario and the Beanstalk", "20,000 Koopas Under the Sea", "Mario of the Apes", "Mario of the Deep" and "King Mario of Cramalot")

Notably, a bare bones "Best of" DVD was released by DiC and Lions Gate Entertainment. In 2012 NCircle Entertainment released the complete series to DVD across two sets with the same extras as the Shout! Factory sets, but with the live-action segments omitted.[5 ] [6 ]

References[edit]

 * 1) Jump up ^ The Intelligencer - September 23, 1991
 * 2) Jump up ^ The Intelligencer - August 26, 1994
 * 3) Jump up ^ Super Mario Bros. - Cartoon Resource Website entry #76
 * 4) Jump up ^ Damian Inwood. "Pi Theatre, Independent Vancouver Theatre >> The Baroness and the Pig". Retrieved October 30, 2011. "That’s what Vancouver actresses Diane Brown and Tabitha St. Germain do with the delightful black comedy, The Baroness and the Pig. (...) St. Germain – better known to Vancouver audiences as Paulina Gillis – plays the Baroness as a naïve gentlewoman, full of prissy mannerisms and twittering, bird-like movements."
 * 5) Jump up ^  Super Mario Bros Super Show!  (2 DVDs). Vol. 1 (Collectors' ed.). Los Angeles, CA: NCircle Entertainment. 2006. OCLC 795409356. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
 * 6) Jump up ^ NCircle Entertainment.; Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc.; Nintendo of America Inc. (2012).  Super Mario Bros Super Show!  (2 DVDs). Vol. 2 (Collectors' ed.). DIC Entertainment. OCLC 812542271. Retrieved June 14, 2014.

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