Why did Mario decide to adopt Jeffy in "Jeffy's Parents?" Jeffy always tortured and annoyed him to no end, caused lots of controversy in the channel, and Mario even stated to Brooklyn Guy that he's had 'no good times with Jeffy'.
Keep in mind, this was in early 2017. The controversy hadn't really kicked off yet. But as for an in-universe explanation, Mario did it out of the goodness of his heart. He'd seen how abusive Nancy was to Jeffy, and he knew foster care wouldn't be much better. Besides, even if someone is annoying, there's something about living with someone for an extended amount of time that makes you feel some kind of bond between them. I mean, how many of us have spent most of our childhoods complaining about how much we hate our brothers/sisters, only to realize we love them when we're all older and are living in separate houses? Perhaps Mario realized he'd developed a kind of "fatherly" bond with Jeffy.
Logan simply wanted Jeffy to stay in the channel so the millions of Jeffy fans won't leave.
Plus, Brooklyn T. Guy (To whom was later revealed in "The Secret Door" to be Does Bad Things Guy filling in for his vacationing brother) tells him that Jeffy may give him some of his money that he'll inherit from his "deceased" father when he turns 18, and in "Jeffy's 18th Birthday!" Mario throws him a birthday party and acts nice to him the whole way through until he learns that Jeffy's Father faked his death, and Jeffy won't inherit the money after all. An event that makes Mario rage, and try to kick Jeffy out, because of all the torment he received those past 5 years. Showing that he never truly loved Jeffy but was only willing to tolerate him until he can get some of that inheritance money. However, he decides to keep Jeffy around at the end of the video after showing sorrow over his supposed death.
He prolly does care about him to a point but Jeffy's antics can bring the worse out saints.
Where did this realization come from?
How in the world could Junior believe the Earth was round by the time he started his theory about the Sun being a planet, when in "Cody's Sister!", he believed the Earth was flat?
Why doesn't Mario just send Jeffy to live with Rosalina?
Perhaps it's because Rosalina is implied to live in space, and Jeffy can't breathe in space.
Then again, Mario does hate Jeffy, so it's unsurprising that he would want Jeffy to die from suffocation in space.
It's briefly lampshaded in "The New House!". Mario asks Rosalina why they don't all just move in with her after being ejected from their apartment, but she just laughs it off as if the question was a joke while the other characters look on in puzzlement.
Wrong item to burn?
While Brooklyn T. Guy was torturing Junior at military school, he was handed Junior's Thomas toy by Chef Pee Pee, and burnt it in a fireplace for Junior to be forced to watch, shocking and terrifying him. But why couldn't Chef Pee Pee give Brooklyn the Golden Thomas toy instead of the ordinary one? Because if he did, having the Golden Thomas burn to ashes would traumatize Junior more, to the point of getting broken mentally way before he actually did.
Probably because the golden Thomas is very rare, and Logan didn't want to burn something valuable.
Maybe Chef Pee Pee forgot about Golden Thomas but remembered Junior plays with a regular Thomas.
Birthday Party at Chuck E's
In "Bowser Junior's 8th Birthday!", Bowser is asked by Junior to book his birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's, but thanks to a short attention span, he forgets. Why couldn't he book Junior's 8th birthday party at Disney World or McDonald's instead after he realized his mistake?
Probably because Bowser is too stupid to think of anywhere else he could book a birthday party on short notice. Not to mention that, as shown in the "Bowser Junior Goes to Disney World!" two-parter, Junior and the others could only get there by plane so that would've made last-minute plans for a party even more impractical.
Why not just have Black Yoshi "take care of" Jeffy?
Why doesn't Mario just order Black Yoshi to kill Jeffy rather than calling the Loan Dolphin? Black Yoshi was implied to be a hitman in "Black Yoshi's Koolaid" so Mario should've just sent him instead.
Most likely because A: He hates him and B: Black Yoshi constantly forces Mario to loan him money or buy things, so he probably doesn’t want to pay him even more than he already does.
That and, as a few episodes would show, it's huge hassle to pull Black Yoshi from his Call of Duty games.
In "Black Yoshi's Koolaid", Black Yoshi would only be a hitman if Chef Pee Pee made him a Kool-Aid/energy drink concoction. He would no doubt make similar demands from an already frustrated Mario.
Why didn't he go to Rosalina's house?
In "Locked Out", why didn't Mario just go to Rosalina's house and tell her that Jeffy locked him out?
We haven't even heard of Rosalina's house yet, so that might be the reason.
Mario did ask Rosalina if he and Bowser could stay at her house for a few days in "The New House!", but Rosalina merely laughed it off.
Banning turkeys? That don't make sense
In "Turkey Tyranny!", President Obama banned turkeys on Thanksgiving just because a live turkey attacked him. But now if he hates turkeys so much, shouldn't he be encouraging people to kill and eat them?
Why wouldn't Mario go after his hat right after it flew off his head when he hit Jeffy with his flute?
He was probably too frustrated and focused on Jeffy by the time he lost his hat, and as a result forgot to get it back.
There's a loophole in which Goodman, as the head of Nintendo, calls Mario to take a photo for a new game releasing with the Nintendo Switch, and they were inspired after Jeffy called in with a thousand dollars to pitch in the new game. Keep in mind, Mario only gave Jeffy a thousand dollars after Goodman called him. How did this even work in the first place? Is Jeffy secretly a Reality Warper and the reason why this loophole exists?
Maybe Jeffy called and paid them offscreen or Goodman had some part in orchestrating it, as, from what's implied, Mario borrowed that money from him.
Eating the corndogs?
Why didn't Junior eat any of the corn dogs that he created with the Corn Dog Curse in "Bowser Junior's Curse!"?
Because the corn dog god said that he had to eat the corn dogs he threw away, not the ones he created.
Well, he didn't specify how he killed her so he probably did something that reduced her to bones.
The killing never happened in the first place.
Another sudden realization?
How did Junior stop believing that the Sun is a planet in recent videos?
He learned his lesson when he went to the Sun.
Oh, really? He died going there!
Yep. It was a hard lesson.
He has actually not stopped believing it. The Test and Cody's Report Card both had Junior thinking the sun is a planet.
The Evil Twin
Alright, so as we learned in "The Secret Door!", Brooklyn T. Guy has a twin brother named Does Bad Things Guy, a serial killer who has been impersonating Brooklyn while he was on break. Alright...but since he clearly has been pulling, well, bad shit for a while, why wasn't he in jail, and why doesn't his family, who presumably knows about what he does, have him on a short leash or whatever?
In "Jeffy's Tantrum!", we learn that in order to replace the couch Jeffy threw down the balcony, Mario sold Jeffy's iPad. But all that happened to the couch was it fell and the pillows were knocked around, yet the TV he threw was broken. So shouldn't Mario have used the money to replace the TV, and hired someone to bring the couch up?
Also, in the Chilly vlog where they filmed the scene in question, you can see that the side of the couch wasn't in good shape after it got thrown off the balcony so chances are that's what happened to the couch in the video too. Also, it's possible that the TV was replaced offscreen during the weeks following the tantrum.
Death by Tomatoes?
In "Jeffy Breaks His Helmet!", Mario says that Mr. Pig is dead after getting a tomato from an angry fan. No surprise there, except that there's only one big question to ask. How?
Heart attack brought on by shock or someone was throwing thing that weren't tomatoes.
But why couldn't Junior and Joseph figure it out and try to call 911?
"The Remote" 2
Another question regarding "The Remote!". Specifically regarding the scene where (if slowed down) Cody admits he had used the remote to commit his five-year-long serial rape. Why would he tell someone that, considering he wasn't aware Junior was fast-forwarding him? If he had no qualms about lying through his teeth that Junior and Joseph's hurt rears were from sitting on the couch so long, shouldn't he try to keep a low profile?
Since time was stopped in that episode, it's possible that they wouldn't believe him because they didn't remember, let alone, know it was him. This might also explain how and why he got away with it. Alternatively, they might have thought he was lying, too, about him going around violating people.
But then why would he tell them anyway?
Why not scam the money back?
In "Finders Keepers!", Junior feels horrible about the money he and his friends found and spentupon finding out it was to help a kid get a heart transplant. So why didn't Junior try to scam the homeless guy he bought the "star" from out of the $20,000 he paid and try to do the same for anyone else to make up the remaining $10,000 (since he clearly would have no problem doing such a thing) or set up a GoFundMe page himself to make up for it? "Black Yoshi's Scam!" has proven that even a fake GoFundMe page requesting medical aid can be funded within a short period of time in this universe.
Joseph's Mom
How come in "Joseph's Mom", Brooklyn T. Guy doesn't think to put Joseph in foster care after going to Joseph's house and he tracks down his mom like when he gave Mario the option to adopt Jeffy or send him to foster care after arresting Nancy in "Jeffy's Parents"?
Another question about “Joseph’s Mom”, how come Joseph’s mom gets absolutely zero consequences for abandoning her son? Junior and Cody aren’t willing to do anything about it. Hell, Brooklyn Guy tracks down Mrs. Hisfriendfromschool as a cop, and even then, he just kind of acts sad about to whole thing, and still does absolutely nothing about it.
Keep in mind that even with all the jobs Brooklyn Guy has, he’s still pretty greedy. In “The Diamond!” and “Gold Jeffy!”, he’s willing to break into Mario’s house and steal his belongings to get rich. In “Jeffy’s Driving License!”, Brooklyn Guy easily takes bribes from Goodman to destroy Mario’s driving license. Hell, in “Jeffy’s Paper Shredder!”, Mario is careful to disguise the shredded lottery ticket as a coupon knowing Brooklyn would try to steal it if he knew it was a lottery ticket. It’s possibly that Mrs. Hisfriendfromschool bribed Brooklyn to let her leave her son.
Likely because Mrs. Hisfriendfromschool is rich, which would make it harder for her to punish in a court of law. Alternately, given she had an abusive husband and disobedient son who wouldn't do his chores, she could easily make a case that both were too difficult for her to deal with, easily milking it for sympathy and getting pardoned as a result.
Maybe he wasn't paying attention or he probably didn't really care about the bird in that instance.
Yet, Mario's in the wrong?
Slightly meta, but how come in videos where Mario does little to nothing wrong or not without good reason (e.g. withholding Jeffy's chocolate cake as punishment for not eating his peas in "Locked Out!", accidentally watching "Ass Pounders 2" in "Jeffy's New Toy!" and getting falsely accused of phoning the prostitute in "Jeffy's Cellphone!" etc.), he faces punishment but never faces consequences for (in some cases, at least attempting) genuinely wrong things (e.g. trying to hire the Loan Dolphinto kill Jeffy in "The Hitman!", killing Rosalina's pet turtle in "Mario's Turtle Problem!"and hiring Mr. Whiskers to kill an endangered bird and its hatchlings in "Jeffy's Haircut!" etc.)? Does Logan genuinely think that Mario deserves it when he doesn't and he didn't do wrong when he should've been punished? After all, he thought Mario deserved to be publicly humiliated and registered as a sex offender for spanking Jeffy who wouldn't stop saying the swear-word, so why doesn't he bother with punishing Mario in those cases?
There is a reason as to why the Designated Villain, Strawman Has a Point, and Jerkass Has a Point (or anything to do with those) tropes exist but they might be somewhat more played with in Mario's case, as its no so much that he's wrong, it's probably his execution in dealing with those matters that's wrong (in the cases where he's slightly justified), however, in the latter cases, he might have instigated something to do with those events off-screen. Either that or it could be karma coming back to get him after those episodes.
Why didn't they take the meds?
In "Bowser Junior Gets Rabies!", Chef Pee Pee gets rabies from Junior shoving the pill Brooklyn T. Guy gave him down Junior's throat. He's a doctor and he clearly had pills with him, so why didn't he just give Chef Pee Pee another pill for his bite immediately afterward?
Maybe Jeffy did something earlier that she couldn't bring herself to protect him over or, rather, she did what did after she had reached her limits with his antics (think Francine and Roger from American Dad!). People can and do have breaking points.
Why the heck is Joseph killing a cow and making burgers out of it viewed as a Moral Event Horizon when people kill cows for the exact reasons that Joseph did on a regular basis?
Probably more so one would find it shocking that a kid, let alone a sympathetic homeless one like Joseph, would have no qualms about slaughtering an animal.
Uneven number of players
In Cody Plays Tennis, why didn't Cody just for Mario or Bowser over when he needs another player to match against Jr. and Joseph?
Could be a selective or trimmed-down cast on the video's part.
But he doesn't like Bowser either, especially for all the abuse he gets put through. Plus, taking out Bowser first would mean no one can give him a beatdown afterwards (and isn't above punishing him for anything) if he successfully kills Junior note granted, Bowser thinks Junior tied up and about to get shot is a "fetish" and wasn't too steamed at Chef Pee Pee for it, but still.
I like to think that he would've gone for Bowser if he had the time. The reason Chef Pee Pee was fixated on Junior was probably because BTG was gunning specifically for Junior, getting Chef Pee Pee to just concentrate on him.
Jr's Bad Birthday
It just bugs me that in Junior's 10th Birthday, they totally gave the finger to Joseph. The way they had Cody yell at him about how he wasn't important and that this is "the Cody show," it just felt like they really didn't like Joseph. Over the past year, it seems as if Joseph has been fading out of videos in favor of Junior and Cody. This troper (along with some other SML fans) have been voicing our opinions on this via social media. So when Cody yelled at us about how this is his show, it felt like Logan slapping us in the face while saying, "Joseph's not important, you idiots! So stop asking about him!"
And don't give me any "Lovell couldn't voice Joseph." Bowser and Tyrone Calvin were in the video, and Lovell could voice them okay.
It's possible that Logan felt like they're either using Joseph too much, they don't have enough jokes about him, or that Joseph's voice actor might be busy with other stuff during those times.
In regards to Principal Steinbeck, Logan probably forgot he exists.
Some possible explanations:
Legally, in order to claim "discrimination", Junior, Joseph, and Cody would have to prove they're a part of a "protected class" and, unless "koopa" is a protected class in the SML-verse, they wouldn't have a case, also that would take a while. Furthermore, considering some of their track records, the schoolboard (if there is one) could argue that the expulsions were justified.
While the trio are friendly with Jeffy, Toad, and Patrick, they aren't the closest of friends, also, Jeffy, as we all know, to put it eloquently, is dumber than dirt, so, with that and besides numbers, organizing a protest with those three wouldn't work anyway.
If Principal Steinbeck doesn't seem to care about what species attends his school, he probably wouldn't care about which ones get the boot in the behind, either. Another explanation is Jackie Chu is the vice/assistant principal, as he did suspend Jeffy in the bully episode.
About the second bullet point above, it was later revealed in "No Invite!" that Cody actually does communicate regularly with Patrick, just that neither Junior nor Joseph seeing them with each other doesn't mean it doesn't happen (also lampshaded by Junior bringing up the three don't really hang out with Patrick).
Yoshi's promise
In the latest Modern Warfare video, shouldn’t Mario have brought up last year he made Black Yoshi swear he would never ask for the new Call of Duty again?
Maybe Mario knows it would be utterly futile to remind Black Yoshi of anything he said/did in the past since the latter will try to duck out of any promises he made.
Shouldn't Jr have called police?
In "Sicken", why didn't Junior call the police when Cody attempted murder? After all, Junior knows the number and has called them before not to mention that Brooklyn T. Guy doesn't show a whole lot of restraint around kids.
1) Junior has a history of prank calls and 2) BTG doesn't hold restraint when it comes to kids, so that could go sideways.
$1, 000 an hour birthday party cost?
In "Scooter's Birthday!", Junior and Scooter resort to attempting to sneak into Goodman E. Cheese's because they cannot pay $1000 an hour for a birthday party. But how come Junior didn't ask Jeffy to borrow at least $1000 since they're friends with each other and the latter is known to have a lot of money on hand?
Stealing the $500
In "Joseph The Hero!", Richard steals his dad's 5000 dollars from his safe so he can give it to Joseph. But why didn't Richard just brought from the cash machine?
But since Richard is Benjamin's brother and he know to poop money, couldn't Richard just ask Benjamin for 5000 dollars?
Rosalina's a bit more doting, isn't she?
Why has Rosalina always taken Jeffy’s side? Seriously it doesn’t really make sense for a girl to just enjoy a kid who causes their boyfriend nothing but misery. How in the hell does she even tolerate him?
She probably just thinks Jeffy is a mentally handicapped kid and is either oblivious to, or willing to use that as an excuse for, his unruly and obnoxious behaviour. It could also be that she mistakes Mario's attempts at discipline for abusing a disabled person which prompts her to stick up for Jeffy instead.
When Jeffy's at his worse, half of the time, Rosalina's not there, so she's missing context, seeing only Mario's reaction but not Jeffy's misbehavior.
Jeffy shouldn't drive
Mario knows that he can't even trust Jeffy to do the dishes without destroying the entire kitchen in the process. So why would he think it would be a good idea for Jeffy to have a job at a sandwich shop or drive a car to school?
Actually, a lot of what Jeffy does is on purpose. Sure, he's dumber than a lot of the other chars but not by much.
The green bean obsession
If Mario is so obsessed with green beans, considering he always forces Jeffy to eat them (usually nothing but), why doesn't he eat them himself?
I think it's more that he wants Jeffy to eat "healthier" and, so far, green beans look the most palatable.
Dead Dog at the Dog Show
In "The Dog Show", even though both Joseph and Jackie Chu brought a dead dog to the contest, why did Brooklyn Guy only disqualify Jackie Chu? Joseph also should have gotten disqualified.
Prolly because Joseph's a kid and so BTG figured it was mostly Jackie's idea.
Who's kitchen is it?
In "Jeffy's Nanny!", Chef Pee Pee orders Mario to leave "his" kitchen... but doesn't Mario technically own the house and should thus outrank him?
Kind of "yes" and "no". IIRC, Goodman owns the house, while Mario just lives there. Pee Pee works there and has more dominion over the kitchen, so, technically, it's his, in the sense that a teacher's classroom belongs to them.
"Too yummy"?
In “Jeffy’s Green Bean Allergy!”, what the hell does Marvin mean by saying fruit is “too yummy”?
Marvin probably believes that "yummy" food isn't nutritious to the same degree as vegetables.
It is because Marvin is a sociopath who wants Jeffy to suffer.
In general, people treat fruits as being more like desserts.
We could have avoided all of this Mario?
When Mario confiscated Jeffy's mask and (broken) lightsaber at the beginning of "Jeffy's Foster Home!", why didn't he throw them in the trash or simply put it in a place Jeffy can't get at instead of just keeping them on the couch with him? Frustration doesn't really explain it, given he threw Jeffy's cat piano out the window and also hid it in the pantry on earlier occasions with a similar motivation.
Wait, doesn't he insult his own mother?
Why does Brooklyn T. Guy get upset when someone makes a your mom joke to him, when he and his own mother hate each other, and his mother being a really despicable woman, you would think he would enjoy someone making fun out of his mom, especially since he enjoys it when someone makes fun out of his ex wife.
It's either one of those "Only I can make fun of them" thing or, underneath their mutual animosity towards each other, Brooklyn and his Mom do care about each other, just not enough to, you know, not be mean to each other.
Brooklyn's mom wasn't an established character yet in the episodes where that joke offends him. Plus, the Puppets-only version of the show where she was eventually introduced is pretty much a different canon.
About the human puppet videos being in a different canon...Jeffy Plays GTA6 implies that that isn't the case.
If Brooklyn T. Guy donated one of his kidneys to his mom, wouldn't she just drink twice as hard to kill the kidney to spite him like she actually did with Mr. Guy's kidney? And if so, doesn't that justify Brooklyn Guy not wanting to give one of his kidneys away?
Isn't PP's food worse?
In "Chef Pee Pee Quits Part 2", Bowser and Bowser Jr. fire Craig from being their chef because of his bad cooking. The problem is that, despite seeing that Chef Pee Pee often cooks even worse than Craig, why don't they ever fire him?
PP's food might be bad but it's not indedible, so he's a supreme chef in comp to Craig.
Cappy and Jeffy
In "Mario's New Hat", Mario is given a new hat based on Cappy from Super Mario Odyssey, except that the hat was drawn by Jeffy. Since Jeffy isn't a Nintendo character, and thus was not in Odyssey, how would he know about Cappy?
In this universe, Jeffy designed Cappy
The faked death
The reveal of Jacques-Pierre Francois not actually dying makes no sense whatsoever.
It's said that there were witnesses to his "suicide," so how could they possibly miss him dropping a pig off a bridge instead of him doing it himself?
A painter's paintings have more value if the painter is dead? Okay, that's cool. But if that's the case, then why would Jacques-Pierre even bother revealing that he's actually still alive? Wouldn't that make your works' value go back down? And, more importantly, get you in legal trouble for committing fraud?
Lastly, the inheritance left to Jeffy. Sure, he could've put his funds in a trust to make sure nobody else took them, but why would you wait until Jeffy turns 18 to reclaim your money? Once Jeffy turns 18, he gets the money that's left to him, right? So if you wait until then to come out and try to get your money back, then that would create a lot of legal complications, wouldn't it?
To answer all three of those:
In our universe, yes, faking your death would create legal issues, as one dude from Ohio learned the hard way (granted, he ran off and got declared legally dead), so, no, he likely wouldn't get the money back from Jeffy, though he could try suing (which he'd lose), however, unless his will was set up in a way that allows for this (farfetched as it might be). On another note, he could argue that Jeffy isn't his son
As to how no one noticed it was a pig being dropped off a bridge, well, Francois is gonky looking and they saw the pig drop but not who dropped it. Dude could have been wearing a disguise for all we know.
Yes, the value of the paintings might go down but not by much.
Jeffy's Only Video
At the time of Jeffy's debut, "Mario the Babysitter!", it was mentioned that Jeffy was supposed to be a one-time character. How differently would the channel turn out if that were the case? And, if Jeffy was viewed as a very unlikable, controversial, and annoying character, why was he brought back later after the video?
If Jeffy wasn't brought back as a recurring/main character, the channel likely wouldn't have gotten as big as it did. Remember, the majority of new fans that got sucked in from 2016 onward were little kids who found Jeffy funny. Without Jeffy, this likely would not have happened. As to why Logan brought back a character that the majority of SML fans at the time hated, he probably saw a lot of comments from kids who liked Jeffy and realized maybe he could do more with this character.
The Pushover Who Forgot How to Be an Enabler
In "Pregnant Jeffy!", why did Rosalina just sit there and neither chide nor hit Mario for striking Jeffy (because of him wiping his boogers on the couch) when she normally attacks Mario for even attempting to punish their adoptive son? Rosalicia was still shown willing to assault Mario in "Mr. Goodman's Revenge!" just a short while after this episode, so it's not like she changed or Logan complied with viewers demanding she be less unlikable. Same question also applies to the Puppet episodes where Rose sits there and doesn't react at all to witnessing Marvin hit Jeffy (e.g. "The Dance Marathon!").
He does not want his brother to get a chance of being with Karen, which would definitely happen if he were to divorce her, just simply the idea of Johnathan getting laid would make Brooklyn's life worse for him in his eyes.
There's also the subject of alimony, which he might find to be a pain in the ass to give to his wife.
Possibly a reach,note Or not, given his accent but his name is Brooklyn T. Guy. Brooklyn is a city in New York, and New York is one of the most notoriously expensive places to live in the United States. The cost of living probably drains most of his finances.
Religious Hypocrite
Does it infuriate anyone else that Hank Huckerdoo constantly brings up Leviticus 18.22 and how homosexuality is considered to be a sin, yet he himself is stated to commit adultery and uses God's name in vain in cuss words, both of which are specifically outright stated to be sinful acts that God despises?
Changing Mario's name to Marvin...what? I know the C&D prevented Logan from using the Nintendo brand in his videos, but since when did Nintendo own a monopoly on the NAME Mario?
Two things:
If I remember right, he had to change the name because new puppets looked enough like canon Mario and Rosalina to be mistaken for them (especially in the thumbnails), so better safe than sorry.
Another reason why they changed the name is prolly because of association. I mean, they don't own the name "Yoshi" either but, if you searched the name up, the first things that's gonna pop up are Nitendo's properties (if you're usin' Bing, anyways), so, that'd mean Black Yoshi would have to get name changed, even though his puppet incarnation doesn't look anything like the plushy.
learned the hard way (granted, he ran off and got declared legally dead), so, no, he likely wouldn't get the money back from Jeffy, though he could try suing (which he'd lose), however, unless his will was set up in a way that allows for this (farfetched as it might be). On another note, he could argue that Jeffy isn't his son