Talk:The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

I think all of the Mario cartoons and shows need to merged into one really well-written article.

Coffee4binky (talk) 17:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

In regards to Club Mario and VHS/DVD

Cartoon segments of Super Mario Bros. Super Show was released in from 1999 to 2001 on cereal packages from General Mills I think. A few episodes of Super Mario Bros. 3 also was released like this.

As for Club Mario, I "own", so to speak, twelve episodes on VHS tapes that're falling apart. Still watachable. I could enlighten this article if I felt like it. I do have the episodes of the crew running around the DiC set.

I am currently posting YouTubes of the Club Mario segments. Will do one a week, since I am digitally mastering my entire VHS library pre-1998. One a week is all the time I have.

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Check it out. I mastered the video file in low-res one purpose, as if you want DiC to get the episodes from the Library of Congress copies (the masters have been wiped/erased, including the raw footage), support DiC by buying their Shout! Factory/Sony releases of the the shows.

Coffee4binky (talk) 02:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Yo.

(Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place) I think that the last link (to wow-tv.co.uk) on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show article should be removed. I went to the website to try to watch the episodes and it worked fine, but I got random pop-ups (including pornography) from going to that website. Elmarcodepico (talk) 06:39, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, the show’s theme song was the “Mario Rap”, performed by the two main stars. That probably bears mentioning. 99.249.40.227 (talk) 19:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Featured songs

The article says:

These songs were edited out due to royalty issues a year after the first broadcasts, and were replaced by instrumental versions of songs from the later two series. As such, the instrumental songs are what appear on the DVD releases.

However, I have The Super Mario Bros. Super Show Special Edition DVD and it still has the original cover-songs. Is the article in error. The only thing that seems to have been removed are the preview clips from The Legend of Zelda. -TheHande (talk) 06:50, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Going along with this, on the versions of the Mario Show that was packaged with General Mills cereal as the "toy" (it was a DVD with 1 hour worth of shows), the songs were replaced by a "cover", but just replaced with normal Mario cartoon music. Same for the version of volume one I have from Shout! Factory. I don't ever recall a cover version on Mario Show. Now, on the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 on Captain N, those had cover versions. Coffee5binky (talk) 05:14, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Undid

I undid the section needing citation for being filmed in front of a studio audience. Until a source comes out and states for a recorded fact somewhere that the show was filmed before or not a studio audience, the citation needed and possibility stays. Coffee4binky (talk) 04:02, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

No, it was never on ABC.

Whoever's the user who keeps changing the show to ABC is dead wrong, as this show aired as barter-syndication. I have original recordings of the episodes as it broadcasted to prove it. In fact, see the YouTube links and watch the Stinger episodes. Does that episodes have ABC anywhere? NO! So stop it! Coffee5binky (talk) 19:04, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Semi-Protected Lock Requested

Can somebody help me get a semi-protected lock to keep a vandal from IP 68.223.42.17, who keeps adding info about "air times" and being on "ABC" which neither can be applied at all, since this show was syndicated to random TV stations for airing at times they deemed appropriate for childrens' programming during this time era. Coffee5binky (talk) 04:14, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Ban user 68.223.42.17

68.223.42.17 keeps vandalizing this article. Since I can't understand how to get a semi-protected lock on the article or how to ban a user, I'm hoping somebody out there in Wikipedia can help. Coffee5binky (talk) 15:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Verbatim Copyright Info from Apple's iTunes Store

Here is the verbatim copyright info from iTunes:

(C) 1989 DIC Entertainment, L.P. & Nintendo of America, Inc. Based on the Nintendo video game. Trademark and all rights therein property of Nintendo. All rights reserved.

Pretty cut and dry about the iTunes downloads of the shows. Seems like DiC and Nintendo bypassed Sony's Shout Factory to retain all the money with Apple in cahoots. Though, what I just claimed is citation needed to prove it, so it's just speculation right now.

In fact, just now, I went to iTunes Store's Choose Network > See All > Shout Factory and here are the shows that came up:

• Transformers
• Pablo Fransciso - Bits and Pieces
• Mike Birbiglia - What I Should Have Said was Nothing
• Dinosaur King
• Jeffrey Ross - No Offense
• Punky Brewster
• Comic Relief - The Greatest and the Latest
• Dana Gould - Let Me Put My Thoughts in You
• Zach Galifianakis
• Jane and the Dragon
• Paul Mooney
• Upright Citizen's Brigade
• The Weird Al Show
• It's Garry Shandling's Show
• Sam & Max: Freelance Police
• Viva Pinata
• The Secret Policeman's Ball
• Swamp Thing

Coffee5binky (talk) 22:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Yahooligans!

I think Yahooligans! is an on-line only "TV" network, while YTV is the Canadian channel. Will research and edit if I'm incorrect. Coffee5binky (talk) 06:41, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism

While vandal user StevenMario can still edit without logging in, ergo engage in sockpuppetry, it seems he's intent on wrecking the article. Since he admits to being 14, and was born, ergo, in 1995, long after the show was off the air, how can any of his information trump my actual Beta and VHS tapes, and other sources cited ran by people my age or so? I suggest that somebody go ahead and bans the user and all of his IPs. Coffee5binky (talk) 01:53, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Tomorrow

Assuming somebody doesn't wreck this article beyond easy repair, I'm going to comb through it slowly tomorrow and fix any spelling or grammar or information mistakes. Also, it there anyway we can get a Club Mario title card up and running on this article? Coffee5binky (talk) 01:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism

User: StevenMario has vandalized this article again. Coffee5binky (talk) 02:13, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Some points

I found and bought a used LaserDisc of the Magic Carpet Mario cartoon. Now I know that the show was released on LaserDisc.

DiC Entertainment didn't exist in the 1980s. The company was called DiC Animation until Disney bought them in the mid 1990s.

I am posting, right here, the entire article, to preserve it for restoration in case User:StevenMario decided to vandalize this article again. I also have article on my home computer. If anybody vandalizes this article, i simply cut 'n' paste the correct article back in.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Genre	Animated series, Adventure, Comedy
Starring	Lou Albano Danny Wells
Voices of	Lou Albano Danny Wells Jeannie Elias John Stocker Harvey Atkin Cyndy Preston Jonathan Potts Len Carlson Colin Fox Allen Stewart-Coates Elizabeth Hanna Paulina Gillis
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	65 (52 Mario, 13 Zelda) (list of episodes)
Original release
Network	first-run syndication
Release	September 4 – December 4, 1989

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! was the first American television series based upon Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. series of video games. It was originally broadcast via first-run syndication to mostly independent or FOX television stations from September 4, 1989 to December 4, 1989, whereupon repeating episodes and Club Mario re-edited episodes were broadcast until September 6, 1991. The Family Channel commenced broadcast of the series in the United States from September 23, 1991 to August 26, 1994 as reruns. The show was produced by DiC Animation and was distributed by Viacom Enterprises.

Format

Mario Bros. Plumbing Sitcom

The first and last parts of each episode were sitcom segments which showed Mario ("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 before a live studio audience. 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 Lyle Alzado, Magic Johnson, Roddy Piper, Sgt. Slaughter, and even Ernie Hudson appeared as a Slimebuster, a parody of his Ghostbusters persona, using his own name rather than Winston Zeddemore.

Occasionally, Lou Albano and Danny Wells would be portray the guest stars themselves, forcing their regular characters to leave the scene when their other characters to show up. Lou Albano and Danny Wells also regularly played female versions of themselves, Marianne and Luigeena (the Mario Brothers' cousins), and also two hillbilly cousins, named Mario Joe and Luigi Bob.

Super Mario Bros. Cartoon

After a brief introduction of the sitcom segment of the show, a commercial would broadcast and a cartoon of about ten minutes would be broadcast next, featuring characters and situations based upon the NES games Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2, as well as several sound effects and musical ques from the two games. The characters featured therein would be 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, Bowser Koopa often used alter egos fitting the current theme. Wart, the main antagonist of the second game, was never in any of the episodes, yet most of his minions appeared in the show.

The cartoon series occurs after the events and situations of the Super Mario Bros. game when Princess Toadstool was rescued, with borrowed elements, situations, concepts, and characters from Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2 video games. The theme song for the cartoon segments revealed that the Mario Brothers were accidentally warped into the Mushroom Kingdom while working on a bathtub drain in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. After traveling via the warp drain, the Mario Brothers coincidentally defeated Bowser Koopa's Koopa Troopas, save Princess Toadstool and stopped Bowser 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.

The Legend of Zelda animated series

Main article: The Legend of Zelda (TV series)

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! cartoon segment broadcast from Mondays through Thursdays, while The Legend of Zelda animated series would broadcast on Fridays as a instead. The series was based on The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link video games, in which 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 were broadcast for thirteen episodes, which ended when the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ended its initial broadcast run, though the characters of Link and Zelda, along with their respective voice actors (Jonathan Potts and Cynthia Preston), were later featured as crossovers within episodes of Captain N: The Game Master, another animated series based on NES video games, also produced by DiC Animation around the same period, airing on NBC as part of its Saturday morning cartoon schedule.

Club Mario

During the summer of 1990, Club Mario replaced the Mario Brothers' sitcom segments. This format featured "extreme" Mario-obsessed teenagers (Chris Coombs, Michael Rawlins, and Victoria Delany) goofing around, and in at least one episode, running around the DiC studios and harassing Andy Heyward. Mr. Coombs and Miss Delany played siblings Tommy and Tammy Treehugger, respectively. 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.

Cast of Club Mario;

• Chris Coombs as Tommy Treehugger
• Michael Anthony Rawlins as Co-MC
• Michael Anthony Rawlins as 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

Featured Songs

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 weren't usually included, without rare exceptions or mistakes of the version as it was authored from the source material.

Super Mario Bros. cast

• "Captain" Lou Albano as Mario
• Danny Wells as Luigi
• Jeannie Elias as Princess Toadstool (most episodes), Birdo, and Shy Guy
• John Stocker as Toad, Koopa Troopa, Mouser, Beezo, and Flurry
• Harvey Atkin as Bowser Koopa, Tryclyde and Snifit

Legend of Zelda cast

• Cyndy Preston as Princess Zelda
• Jonathan Potts as Link
• Len Carlson as Ganon, Goriya, Gleeok, Moblin, Stalfos
• Colin Fox as King Harkinian
• Allen Stewart-Coates as The Triforce of Power
• Elizabeth Hanna as The Triforce of Wisdom
• Paulina Gillis as Spryte, Sing

Home Video Releases

• From 1989 to 1991, Kids Klassics released VHS and LaserDisc videos of the show. These versions of the episodes may or may not have contained the sitcom segments, and are the only commercially available versions of the episodes to feature the cartoon segments as were originally produced and aired, complete with the original hit songs of the day intact. Of these videos, the "Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" theme song was not included before the cartoon segment.

• The animated episode "Koopa Klaus" and the sitcom segment "Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush" were featured, along with Super Mario World's "The Night Before Cave Christmas" on the 1996 VHS release of Super Mario Bros. Super Christmas Adventures!

• A DVD collection was released in February, 2002, with the release of Mario's Greatest Movie Moments, which combined the adjacent new VHS releases Mario's Action Adventures and Mario's Monster Madness. This DVD features a bonus episode only viewable after correctly answering questions via interactive quiz. The episode, "The Adventures of Sherlock Mario", also features the final segment of the accompanying sitcom segment, "Plumbers of the Year", complete with a preview for the next episode of "The Legend of Zelda" and the ending credits.

• When broadcast airings of reruns began on Internet television network Yahooligans!, Mario Mania! was released and featured the same episodes that aired within the first week, without Zelda previews.

• Shout! Factory released two four-disc volumes of the show in 2006 which featured the episodes with the Zelda previews, sans the exception of King Mario of Cramalot, with and commercial indents reinstated, and the featured songs still replaced. For the second volume, four of the animated episodes are presented as "bonus episodes" without any of the sitcom segments. With the exception of the four "bonus" episodes, the other episodes were arranged in production, not broadcast, order.

• Since 2008, DIC Entertainment, Inc. and Nintendo of America, Inc. have allowed distribution and sale of the episodes via the Apple iTunes Store of both the Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, and selected episodes of The Legend of Zelda cartoons.

DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date	Additional Information
Volume 1	24	March 28, 2006	New interviews with Captain Lou Albano (Mario) Original art gallery Storyboard-to-Screen: The Super Mario Bros. Super Show Opening Title Sequence
Volume 2	24	October 31, 2006	4 Bonus Animated Episodes "Meeting Mario: A Fan's Tale" Featurette Super Mario Bros. Fan Costume Gallery The Worlds of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Concept Art Galleries Interactive Tour Of The Mario Bros. Plumbing

External links

• NCircle Entertainment: Buy Super Mario Bros. Super Show on DVD
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! in Jump The Shark
• Do The Mario!
• A Look at Several Episodes
• Retrojunk Entry
• Club Mario Segments for "The Ten Koopmandments"
• Club Mario Segments for "Koopas are Coming! Koopas are Coming!"
• Club Mario Segments for "The Trojan Koopa"
• Club Mario Segments for "Sting a Stinger"
• YouTube user with many Nintendo-related videos, including Super Mario Bros. Super Show and Club Mario segments.
• iMDB entry.]
• TV.com entry]
• Brief description of the Club Mario segments.

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Coffee5binky (talk) 02:30, 6 January 2010 (UTC)