History WesternAnimation / SuperMarioBros

* MemeticMutation: The entirety of the "Mama Luigi" episode, particularly "That's ''Mama'' Luigi to you, Mario!", "Early to bed, early to catch the worm. Or is it the bagel?" and "Mario, wherever you are, '''[[LargeHam HHEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPP]]'''!!!"
** Also from other episodes: "It's a ''stone'', Luigi; you didn't make it!" and "This is a '''vol-cay-no!'''"
** "Luigi, King Koopa has the princess locked up in his Coney Island Disco Palace!"

** According to TheNostalgiaCritic, this is never mentioned by anyone else, leading him to suggest that it was an honest mistake and that by the time it was caught, [[ExecutiveMeddling nobody wanted to delay the episode]] [[TheyJustDidntCare long enough to fix it]]. But of course that's just speculation.

* OffModel: Every. Freaking. Thing. There are countless animation errors, all around sloppy animation quality, and some blatant inconsistencies between drawings! (note, for example that in the "Night Before Cave Christmas" episode, [[YourSizeMayVary that Mario inexplicably grows large between cuts when he's talking to Oogtar about being "good".]]

* WallBanger: "Do You Princess Toadstool Take This Koopa...?" has Bowser agree to change the Mushroom people back from identical green stones if the Princess agrees to marry him (hence the title). Behind her back, he breaks his promise and changes the Mushroom folks to stones again. Somehow, Mario and Luigi are able to figure out just which of those stones is Toad, despite the stones all looking alike. Then they use Bowser's magic wand to restore Toad and transform into their Super forms, after which the wand overheats and disintegrates. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse It's never shown if the other Mushroom people got changed back to normal]], and for some reason, the Mario Bros. and Toad don't mention them again afterward.

* WhatTheHellHero: In the episode "7 Continents for 7 Koopas," [[strike:Roy]] Bully Koopa grafittis the Great Wall of China. How does Mario solve this? [[ScaledUp He turns the wall into a dragon.]] This is a WTHH moment because that's more of a problem than what Bully originally did to it.

** Capt. Lou Albano also managed to get a couple WWE wrestlers on the show. Off the top of his head, this troper remembers Sgt. Slaughter and Rowdy Roddy Piper.

* {{Anvilicious}}: "King Scoopa Koopa"

* WierdTradeUnion: Mario and Luigi had a flashback where they were part of a plumbers' union. The weird part is that it had stringent physical fitness requirments.

The show ran four days a week in syndication, with Fridays reserved for a cartoon based on ''TheLegendOfZelda''.

* musicalepisode: One episode is performed entirely in (awful)rap.

** Parodied in a YouTubePoop where the same scene plays out, but Mario, Toad, and the Princess get killed mid-sentence by Bullet Bills as soon as they see the Doomship. [[DeusAngstMachina Luigi then kills himself.]]

-->'''Mario''': Mama? ''Mama'' Luigi? [laughs]

* PlanetOfHats: Most episodes took place in a world built around a particular theme (Pirates, Wild West, outer space, etc.)

* RecycledInSPACE: This show '''IS''' this trope. No exaggeration. Literally '''EVERY SINGLE EPISODE''' had the gang starring in either some all new world or scenario, be it [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels them becoming desert bikers]] [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs while trying to protect the areas last supply of spaghetti sauce,]] duking it out in a typical StarWars parody, or better yet winding up in some random place like Spy Land and Car Land. And that's almost a decade before ''MarioParty 2'' offered a similar premise with themed boards.

* RecycledInSPACE: This show '''IS''' this trope. No exaggeration. Literally '''EVERY SINGLE EPISODE''' had the gang starring in either some all new world or scenario, be it [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels them becoming desert bikers]] [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs while trying to protect the areas last supply of spaghetti sauce,]] duking it out in a typical StarWars parody, or better yet winding up in some random place like Spy Land and Car Land.

* YouNoTakeCandle: The cave people.

*IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Played with. When Mario was brainwashed as mentioned above, Luigi tries to remind him of the good times they shared in order to snap him out of it, but this doesn't work. However, when Luigi then plays a prank on him [[ChekovsGun as he had done earlier in the show while they were arguing]], he snaps out of it.

The show ran four days a week in syndication, with Fridays reserved for a cartoon based on ''TheLegendOfZelda''. Both series are now out on DVD.

Saturday morning cartoons based on ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' and ''Super Mario World'' were later made (without live-action segments) and would air alongside ''CaptainNTheGameMaster'' on {{NBC}}. The former is about the Marios' adventures in the game's worlds, with the "Real World" getting involved frequently. It also featured the debut of King Koopa's Koopa Kids (who have completely different names from their video game counterparts). The latter relocates the action to Dinosaur [[strike:Land]] [[strike:Island]] World, removed the Real World, [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome dropped Toad]] (understandably, since he wasn't in the game), and expanded the cast to include Yoshi and various cave people, most prominently [[TheScrappy Oogtar]].

**ThisTroper always assumed that the "Real World" was where Mario and Luigi were from.
***But that doesn't explain why Bowser, Peach, and Toad call it the real world, since technically, the Mushroom World is as real to them.

*VillainExitStageLeft: King Koopa frequently pulls this off in the ''Super Show'', usually by way of a warp-generating potion (based on the doors to Sub-Con in SMB2US), and a few times on the later two as well.

->''"Mama? Mama Luigi?!"''
-->--Mario on Luigi being a woman.

->''"That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario!"''
-->--Luigi on Mario getting it totally right.