Awesome / Super Mario World (1991)

• Yoshi has a few:
  • In "Fire Sale", he faces his fear of water to save his friends and Mama Fireplant from Kootie Pie's Ice Palace mere seconds before it collapses.
  • He also overcomes his fear of ghosts in "Ghosts 'R' Us" to save his friends from Wizardheimer's haunted house.
  • His Dino Rider outfit in "Born To Ride" renders him Badass Adorable.
  • Two in "A Little Learning":
    • When Hip and Hop tease Oogtar, Yoshi pulls the stool Hip is standing on, causing him to fall face first into his volcano project.
    • Also when the giant Piranha Plant eats King Koopa, Hip and Hop, Yoshi boldly prevents them from going any further by swallowing the plant (and its "contents") whole.
  • "Mama Luigi" is one entire episode of awesome for Baby Yoshi. Between eating everything in sight (including Mario temporarily), destroying Koopa's Castle, and pretty much saving the Princess without much effort from Mario and Luigi, yeah, Luigi's story about Yoshi is awesome.
    • On that note, it's also an episode of awesome for Luigi. The entire first half of the episode is Luigi protecting Baby Yoshi with his very life until Yoshi's Extreme Omnivore habits start saving the day. The episode isn't kidding when it calls Luigi a mama.
    • Also, with all the goofy dialogue in the episode, the line from King Koopa "I can build another castle, but you can't build another princess" actually sounds pretty cool.
    • After being mocked previously by Mario, who calls him "Mama? Mama Luigi?! Ahahaha!", Luigi later proudly declares "That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario!"
• The fight scene between Mario and King Koopa in "Send in the Clown" where Koopa uses his Koopa Clown Car with the Princess in tow, complete with a remix of the final boss music from the game. For a series which relies heavily on Adaptation Expansion in its writing, to see it pay homage to the game itself in such a faithful fashion is genuinely awesome!
• Koopa even has a moment in "King Scoopa Koopa" when he absconds with the money he scammed from the cave people after his restaurant is shut down.
• After putting up with Kootie Pie's abuse in "Fire Sale", a Koopa Troopa minion refuses to help her when she's stuck in a block of ice.
• In "Party Line", Mario and Luigi are attacked by a swarm of caterpillars. Now throughout the series, Mario's normally the one who gets a power-up, but this time, Luigi manages to get a hold of a Super Star, becoming Invincible Luigi, and flings the caterpillars into orbit.
  • Later in the episode, Mario grabs another Super Star and hurls an evil dinosaur into space with the caterpillars.
• While trying to modernize the cavemen backfires mostly, "The Yoshi Shuffle" give viewers an exception; Mario and Luigi were teaching some cavemen football to help them learn teamwork. At the end of the episode, when Mario and Yoshi are escaping Koopa's Castle, the cavemen show up, having followed their tracks, and save the heroes from some Chargin' Chucks with a synchronized tackle.

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