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Nintendo's Cash-Cow Franchise Super Mario Bros. is one of the most prolific and well-known video game series of all time, so it's no surprise that it has been the target of countless allusions and parodies in pop culture.

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    Advertising 
  • A commercial for Energizer batteries features a Fictional Video Game called Beauty and the Beast: The Ultimate Adventure, where a dragon chases a princess through Super Mario World-esque environments. Midway through the commercial, the Bunny interrupts by appearing from one of the doors and shrinks the dragon with one of his drumsticks. The "pipe" sound effect from Super Mario Bros. is also used when the Bunny shrinks the dragon.
  • In one Got Milk? commercial, two kids are playing Super Mario 64 and trying unsuccessfully to get Mario up a steep wall. After they give up and leave, Mario leaps out of the television, goes to their refrigerator, and drinks a carton of milk, growing to giant size. Then he returns to the game and scales the wall with ease.
  • A commercial for Sonic the Hedgehog features the president of H.A.G. (Humans Against Genesis) complaining about the titular character, asking, "Why can't he be more like that nice boy, Mario?". Another commercial for the same game features a salesman trying to sell the then-newly released Super Nintendo Entertainment System with the Super Mario World game to a customer for $199.95. The game is shown alongside a Sega Genesis playing Sonic, and the game's fast action, as well as the Genesis' price of $149.99, manage to convince the customer to buy Sonic.

    Anime & Manga 
  • In Anohana The Flower We Saw That Day, Menma thinks aloud that, if she had a double, then this would make her Menmario and the double Menluigi. She then wonders if Menluigi would 'have player 2 colours.
  • In Death Note, Ryuk once asked Light if he wants to play Mario Golf.
  • Dr. STONE: Senku and Tsukasa jokingly discuss about Mario eating a mushroom making him bigger on the basis that he's actually hallucinating rather than growing.
  • Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation: In the OVA "Neptune's Summer Vacation", Vert mentions a crown that turns anything it touches into a princess, a reference to the Super Crown and Bowsette.
  • Aside from the references found in the main Neptunia games mentioned below, one chapter of the manga adaptation references Mario Kart: after the baby carriage Neptune was keeping a babyfied Nepgear, Rom, Ram and Uni ends up rolling down the road, the girls pass by a bunch of floating question mark blocks, out of one of which pops a Koopa shell.
  • One scene in Nichijou has the Robot Girl Nano make increasingly absurd reactions to her creator's antics. One of which involves bouncing up and hitting ? blocks, complete with coins popping out of them.
  • Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire: In "Lights, Camerupt, Action!", a movie features a Plusle and Minun going on a quest to rescue Princess Kirlia who has been kidnapped by an Exploud and imprisoned in his castle. Plusle and Minun represent Mario and Luigi, Kirlia represents Princess Peach, and Exploud represents Bowser.
  • Time Stop Hero: When Kuzuno Sekai is transported to a dangerous, video game-like world, he complains that unlike Mario, he only has one life. Later, when he encounters a maze of platforms and bridges over lava, he compares it to Lethal Lava Land from Super Mario 64. He says if he fell into the lava, if he's lucky, he'll just hop around clutching his butt like an Italian in overalls.

    Asian Animation 
  • Happy Heroes:
    • Miss Peach is a dead ringer for Princess Peach. She wears a pink dress, has blonde hair with a heart-shaped bang, is the love interest of one of the main characters (Doctor H.), and the princess and news reporter have the same name.
    • In episode 40, Happy S. and Careless S. play a video game that greatly resembles the original Super Mario Bros., complete with ? blocks and pipes. On top of that, the game outright uses the signature Super Mario Bros. music.
  • The Super Mario Bros. coin sound appears in episode 5 of Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Sports are Fun.
  • In the Simple Samosa episode "Khelo Samosa", Samosa and his gang play an arcade game and rescue citizens of their hometown Chatpata Nagar who are stuck there acting as enemies and damsels in distress. The final level is meant to be one of the castle levels from the original Super Mario Bros. game for the NES, complete with the bridge above lava and Cham Cham (a male) playing the part of Princess Peach.

    Comic Books 

    Comic Strips 

    Fan Works 

    Film - Animated 
  • Wreck-It Ralph has a few references to the series. The Fix-It Felix game itself is largely an Expy of Mario's earliest games like Donkey Kong and Wrecking Crew; and Sugar Rush is based on Mario Kart. Meanwhile, Bowser is part of Ralph's Bad-Anon group, and Ralph finds a Super Mushroom in Tapper's lost and found. Mario himself didn't appear because the writers couldn't figure out how to use him well, but he is mentioned as being "fashionably late" to Felix's party.

    Film - Live-Action 

    Gamebooks 

    Literature 
  • Alex Rider: In the graphic novel of Storm Breaker, one of the items Alex is given for his trip is Mario Kart DS.
  • In Harry Turtledove's Crosstime Traffic series, a character who had been temporarily in a different timeline had a cover story implanted in his mind to explain how he got from San Marino to Milan. He supposedly hitchhiked and got a lift by a pair of truckers named Mario and Luigi, who were hauling mushrooms.
  • Oreimo has a game labeled "Super Mario Sisters".

    Live-Action TV 
  • Full House: In "Aftershocks", Danny takes Stephanie to Dr. Marian Steiner, a child psychiatrist, to help her overcome her fear of earthquakes. Steiner tells Stephanie that she has plenty of toys to play with, to which Stephanie asks her if she has the new Game Boy with Super Mario Bros.. Steiner tells her "No, but I'll put it on my shopping list."
  • The George Lopez Show: In "George's Relatively Bad Idea", Vic tries to impress George's sister by presenting himself with his hair dyed black and wearing a red shirt. When Vic asks if she likes his hair, George replies, "Yeah, that's smooth. Put her on the spot there, Super Mario."
  • The Thick of It has Nicola Murray compare Steve Fleming to Super Mario at one point.
  • In Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Ex-Aid and Genm have powers based on a platformer video game like Mario's, titled Mighty Action X. By the end of the season, there are more Mighty games resembling Mario's including Mighty Brothers and Doctor Mighty. Late in the series, Genm manages to give himself extra lives, and whenever he respawns he jumps out of a purple Warp Pipe.

    Music 
  • "Rocketeer" by Far East Movement has the lines:
    Where we at?
    Only few would know
    Go on the next level, Super Mario
    I hope this works out, cardio
    'Til then let's fly, geronimo

    Roleplay 
  • Dino Attack RPG: Doctor Marco Martinet started a reference to the Dr. Mario games before expanding to being inspired by the Super Mario Bros. series as a whole. His brother, Louie Martinet, is based upon Luigi, his cousins Warner and Wallace are inspired by Wario and Waluigi, and his former love interests Pearl and Primrose are inspired by Princess Peach and Pauline, respectively. Additionally, the sports Martinet participated in his youth (including going to the Olympics) are references to various Mario spin-off games.
    • Dr. Alvin Gadd, a XERRD scientist, is named after Professor Elvin Gadd from Luigi's Mansion. One of Alvin Gadd's inventions, the Flight and Laser Ultra Destruction Device, is based upon one of Elvin Gadd's inventions, the Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device.
    • Rosalie Mercedes is based upon Princess Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy. Her first appearance flying into the final battle with a fleet of T-1 Typhoons following her and destroying Fright Knight windships was inspired by the cutscene in Super Mario Galaxy featuring Rosalina flying into Bowser's Galaxy Reactor and destroying the airships that guarded it.
    • One comment on the comm chatter showed someone finding a technicolor butterfly and declaring it "hi-technical."
    • One comment thought the Maelstrom had been created by a chaos heart and needed pure hearts to defeat it, referencing the Void created by Count Bleck in Super Paper Mario.

    Video Games 
  • ANNO: Mutationem: A viewable cartridge is titled "Super Hacker Bros." on a console resembling the Atari 2600.
  • Asterix and Obelix XXL2 have several references to the series:
    • Even before entering Las Vegum proper, you'll face the first special Roman soldier. He has a big moustache, a helmet with a red Roman Eagle shaped like a M, and turtle shells as shoulder pads. He's equipped with a FLUDD device (Super Mario Sunshine was the most recent entry of the main series at the time of XXL 2's development). When defeated, these Mario Soldiers emit a muffled "Mamma mia!" They get some statues on the Arc de Triomphe, and small flags near the Eiffel Tower.
    • In one of the employee back rooms, a menhir colored like a Yoshi egg◊ is clearly visible.
    • A giant Super Mario World-like wall is visible from some spots in Lutetia. If you look around from the top of the Eiffel Tower, you'll also notice a few of the characteristic striped hills.
    • There are several small portraits of Toad◊ on the walls in Venetia.
    • Also in Venetia, you can see rows of small flags with red Yoshi eggs and mushrooms.
    • A transition room in Venetia has the faces of Mario and Luigi◊ near the two big buttons. The buttons themselves are of the same red and green as the Mario brothers.
    • Later in Venetia, in the square inside the giant dark hall, you can see several statues, among them Princess Peach and a Shine Sprite (you can find two more a little later).
    • In the large courtyard at the beginning of WCW, there's a big green pipe◊. You can enter it and find an entire Mario-themed area. There are floor mosaics of carnivorous plants, tiles of mushrooms, flowers, banana peels and Shyguys, unstable platforms shaped like Shine Sprites and POW blocks, and Thwomp-like devices◊ (although they are designed to make you fall rather than crush you).
    • Also in the exterior areas of WCW, there are two◊ small◊ Mario-esque artificial hills that stand out evidently.
    • At the end of WCW, before entering Pirate Island, you can notice wall tiles reproducing Super Mario blocks.
    • On the beach of Pirate Island, you can find towels with the crab enemy from the original Mario Bros.. A few Starmen can also be seen on the sand (although they may be just cartoony starfishes).
    • Near the end, after the section with the Zelda and Link statues, you enter a waterway whose walls are decorated with Bloopers and Cheep Cheeps◊.
  • Banjo-Kazooie:
  • A unit in The Battle Cats, Green Shell Cat◊, has, as its name suggests, quite the resemblance to a Koopa Shell/Green Shell.
  • Death Stranding: At one point, Sam compares his relationship with Amelie to be like Mario and Princess Peach... in a game not released for any Nintendo platforms.
  • The description for the Spiny Shell item in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: "Jumping on this one is a bad idea."
  • Duke Nukem 3D has Mario playing Mario Kart.
  • One of the many firearms that can be obtained in Enter the Gungeon is the Brick Breaker, a gun composed of two stone blocks similar to those found throughout the Mario franchise. When fired, it launches green Koopa-like shells that pass through targets and ricochet off walls. It can also synergise with certain items, such as the Mustache (referencing the eponymous Bros.' own staches) and the Stuffed Star (which, much like a Starman, makes the player temporarily impervious to damage, all in a glow of rainbow light).
  • Fate/Grand Order:
    • The map layout of Stage 3 of "Death Jail Summer Escape" is based on both 1985 Bomberman and the underground levels of Super Mario Bros..
    • In "Chaldea Summer Adventure", the party finds floating blocks that release items and monsters when jumped into. Vritra, the one who made them, says she got the idea from Ganesha's video games.
  • Grow: In Grow Comeback, if you place objects in a specific order, you can give Mario's cap and mustache to the retired hero.
  • In Infinite Craft, possible recipes to craft include Mario, Luigi, Super Mario, Princess Peach, Bowser, and Yoshi, among others.
  • An area in Kingdom of Loathing has you fighting Goombas, Koopas, Buzzy Beetles, Bullet Bills, and Bloopers. The Buzzy Beetles only appear after you ascend once, a reference to their appearances in the New Game Plus of Super Mario Bros..
    • Also, one part of the fight against a Goomba has this message:
    At least he doesn't look like a guy with a tiny head. That movie sucked.
    • Also, the fumble message for one monster has it eat several mushrooms, only for it to grow and hit its head on the ceiling.
    • Another adventure quotes the "Your Princess Is in Another Castle!" spiel.
    • The description for the penguin shorts state that it allows you to slide around on your ass, which is pretty much what you must do to beat the penguin in a race in Super Mario 64.
    • The cyborg stompin' boot has a couple qualities that imply it's a homage to the Kuribo's Shoe.
    • Rescuing the King leads him to say "I'm sorry, adventurer, but the king is in another castle."
  • An Idle Animation in Epic Battle Fantasy 3 has Natz playing Mario on a Nintendo DS.
  • Enough Plumbers is very inspired by the series.
  • As was Super Giana Sisters, which declared "The brothers are history!" Nintendo responded with a lawsuit.
  • Fire Emblem Fates: Saizo and Kaze. While they're a take on the series' reoccurring red and green knights (only as ninja), Saizo is the older twin and is associated with red, while Kaze is the younger twin and associated with green. For bonus points, Saizo also has a slight fire motif.
  • Forum Fantasy has Bowser as a boss.
  • Hitman: Two of the NPCs in Sapienza, the Italian mission map, are a pair of plumbers named Mario and Luigi, dressed in the iconic colors.
  • I Wanna Be the Guy has several references to the series, least among them being a recreation of the Final Boss of Super Mario World... with Wart and Dr. Wily.
  • In Lollipop Chainsaw, Juliet's super-mode has her change a variety of different colors, and a special music plays ala Mario once he gets a star.
    • During the Fulci Fun Center stage:
    Nick: Alright, this is all too surreal. If a little dude in a red cap and blue overalls pops out at me I am seriously gonna vomit all over myself.
  • Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest Gift has a mushroom-themed quiz with this question:
    Nintendo's Mario comes to mind as a hero of mushrooms, but what was his debut game?
    A1. Mario Brothers
    A2. Wrecking Crew
    A3. Donkey Kong
  • The emblem reward for getting ten kills in a row while having no killstreaks equipped in Modern Warfare (hence worth trying only for this) is an 8-bit image of Capt. Price that looks exactly like Mario's Super Mario Bros. sprite.
  • Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan: The plumbers in "Bambina" are obvious expies of Mario and Luigi.
  • Mutant Night has an enemy whose design is clearly lifted from Chain-chomps, being spherical dog-like creatures with teeth (although they're grey instead of black) with a chain for it's tail who tries repeatedly to maul your character.
  • Punch-Out!!: Mario makes an appearance as the referee.
  • Vector Thrust: Several of the campaigns are set against the backdrop of the Mushroom Kingdom. In a rather dark twist the "Mushroom" in the name stems from the massive nuclear war that took place there.
  • Everybody Edits Flash:
    • The Pipes package had a description that read, "Factory outlet or Italian plumbings?" referencing Mario's usual characterization as an Italian plumber, as well as the large Warp Pipes used for travel in the series.
    • An official Christmas level shows off music blocks containing the first few notes of the Super Mario Bros. theme, along with text that says "It's-a-me, Mario!"
    • The coin sound was once taken directly from Super Mario World.
  • The Legend of Zelda often has references to its sister series:
    • The majority of them appear in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Tarin is a Mario Expy who goes out mushroom-hunting and gets turned into a tanuki at one point. A Yoshi doll is part of a Chain of Deals. Several Mario enemies show up like Goombas, Piranha Plants, Thwomps, Pokeys, and Shy Guys; and one character keeps a Chain Chomp as a pet. Wart from Mario 2 is an NPC, and another NPC (a goat-woman) sends a picture of Peach to her pen-pal claiming it's her own photo.
      • The Chain Chomp returns in Hyrule Warriors as the most powerful version of Link's ball-and-chain weapon.
    • Tarin becomes "Talon" in later games, but continues being a Mario equivalent: In many games he's given a red shirt and blue overalls like Mario's, and he and his daughter Malon often also wear Bowser brooches. These games also often include an additional character, Ingo, who is similarly based on Luigi.
  • In the Kirby series, Kirby can use the Stone ability to turn into a random statue. Depending on the game, the statue may be a Mario Brick Block, or it could even be a statue of Mario himself.
  • Pikmin:
    • Olimar is loosely named after Mario by reversing the syllables (Ma-Ri-O became O-Ri-Ma). Pikmin 2 adds a second character, Louie, whose name is derived from Luigi's.
    • Several treasures in Pikmin 2 include the Decorative Goo (a tube of Mario Paint brand blue paint), The Key (a key which resembles that from Super Mario World), the Flame of Tomorrow (a matchbox with Bowser's image on it), and the Unspeakable Wonder (Princess Peach's crown).
  • In Assassin's Creed II, Ezio has an uncle named Mario. That in itself wouldn't be enough to count as a reference, but he introduces himself with "It's-a me, Mario!"
  • In the Tamagotchi Licensed Game 64 de Hakken! Tamagotchi Minna de Tamagotchi World, two of the obtainable "Special Adult" Tamagotchis are Waddling Head versions of Mario and Wario named Mariotchi and Waruotokotchi respectively.
  • Stardew Valley has a twofer, both referencing how Luigi is oftentimes seen as stuck in his brother's shadow.
    • When clothes tailoring was added, the Green Overalls get described as "a slightly less popular farming classic". The Red Overalls, meanwhile, are described as simply "a farming classic".
    • Upon the addition of Ginger Island, there is also a pirate hangout in the cove. There, a red pirate is trying to calm down his brother, dressed in green, who is picking a fight due to being seen as The Unfavorite. The phrase "Mamma mia" is even spoken by the red pirate.
  • Gabby from Yo Kai Watch 3's Japanese name is "Princess Speech" (Supichi-hime), after Princess Peach.
  • In Splatoon 3, Big Man's boss battle is deliberately similar to that of the Phantamanta.
  • Undertale:
    • Multiple songs and sound effects, most prominently "Dogsong" and its variants, reuse the Dog, Cat, and Mario instruments from Mario Paint's music composer.
    • "Absolutely Overfamiliar Shrine", a song exclusive to the PlayStation 4 and Play Station Vita ports, reuses soundfonts from Super Mario World.
    • In the Nintendo Switch port, defeating Mad Mew Mew via pacifism results in her gleefully shouting "That was Gnarly! Tubular! Way Cool! Awesome! Groovy! Mondo! Outrageous! Funky!", namedropping each of the Special World stages in the English release of Super Mario World.
  • Deltarune:
    • In Chapter 1, Toriel asks Kris about the game they and Asriel used to play, asking if it was called Super Smashing Fighters, and mentions how Asriel liked "the green lizard," referencing Yoshi. And for a triple whammy of references, she then talks about how Asriel hated "that book about eating green eggs" after his father cooked some eggs that were decorated to look like Yoshi's eggs. Chapter 2 would continue references to Asriel's love of Yoshi, as Alvin remarks that when Asriel was younger, he would tearfully confess both his sin of "dropping the lizard in the pit to jump high" in a video game and Kris' sin of dropping "the lizard" on purpose. This is a reference to how you can dismount Yoshi mid-air (at worst, into a Bottomless Pit) in order to gain extra height, which is even required in order to access a hidden exit in Super Mario World.
    • The Forest Maze section in Chapter 1 (named as such if you save the game there) is a Super Mario RPG reference, complete with following the other characters to find your way through — or, in this case, to find the wrong way through.
    • The sounds that play when C. Round becomes K. Round (and vice-versa) are based on the ones used by Mario upon using and losing a power-up.
    • "WELCOME TO THE CITY", the background music for Cyber City in Chapter 2, uses the Cat instrument from Mario Paint's music composer.
    • After Queen forgets to capture Ralsei due to lacking enough cages in Chapter 2, the scene cuts away with an Iris Out on her face, complete with almost the same sound effect as when you complete a level in Super Mario World.
  • Shameless Clone: In the first game, the third world, based on retro video games, is called "Italian Plumber World". It's renamed "8-Bit World" in the second game.
  • Papa Louie Arcade: Tohru's Halloween costume is similar to Waluigi's outfit, featuring a dark-colored overall skirt, a pink shirt and cap (similar to Waluigi's purple shade) and an upside-down "T" logo on the cap and gloves.

    Web Animation 
  • AstroLOLogy: In "Valiant Scorpio", the virtual reality game Scorpio plays has a green pipe he goes into, followed by a floating block that contains a spear of broccoli that makes him larger.
  • How It Should Have Ended provides an alternate ending to The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). In the prologue, the Penguin King reveals that he and his army are armed with Ice Flowers, which they use to freeze Bowser and his army. Later, negotiations between the Mushroom and Jungle kingdoms fall flat when Cranky points out how weak Peach's army of Toads are, leaving his own army of kongs to do the work instead. When Mario tries to convince Cranky to reconsider, Cranky kicks him, Peach, and Toad out. Later still, Koopa General's Blue Shell attack backfires, as instead of taking out Mario and Donkey Kong, he accidentally takes out Peach and Toad since they're further ahead. Finally, before Mario can take the Super Star and use it to defeat Bowser, Bowser gets in his way and uses it himself, allowing him to easily take out both Mario and Luigi.
  • Inanimate Insanity: In Let Er' R.I.P., Soap hoovers up Bow's ghost using a back-mounted vacuum cleaner that resembles the Poltergust 3000.
  • Minilife TV: The episode "Super Mini-Bros." is one big homage to the games.
  • Stupid Kids: Boti watches a show called "Yoshi barát" ("Yoshi friend") in Hős Lovag Boti (Sir Boti Knight).
  • Sunstriker Animated Universe: Bowser, Bowser Jr., and the Koopalings appear as characters in the universe.
  • Trouble Busters: One episode has plumbers who heavily resemble the Mario brothers.

    Web Comics 
  • Square Root of Minus Garfield:
    • Rice has the titular rice being sucked through a Warp Pipe.
    • The Bonus Chance from Super Mario Bros. 2 is among a long list of things that sound like "minus" in They Just Won't Stop!
    • Mariofield edits a Christmas-themed strip. In the original, Garfield gives Jon the "Box O' Mystery", which turns out to be empty. In this version, the box is a Question Box and it contains a Poison Mushroom.
  • xkcd:
    • The strip actually called "Mario", which coins the phrase "They should call you Mario, 'cause you just got <<1-up'd>>", and then asks people not to use it.
    • "Fucking Blue Shells" is a piechart of swearing which shows it's mostly at Mario Kart.
    • "Finish Line is also about Mario Kart, in which Megan suckers Cueball into letting her win.
    • If you scroll far enough to the left in "Click and Drag" there's a re-creation of Super Mario Bros. Level 1-1. If you scroll down on the pits, you find a spelunker explaining that the walls have been "worn smooth by billions of tumbling Mario corpses".

    Web Video 

    Western Animation 
  • Amphibia: In "Spider-Sprig", a pizzeria owner who admires Sprig is dressed as Luigi in green overalls with a mustache.
  • There are a number of references to the series in Chowder, such as Expies of Mario and Luigi showing up in one episode, and an Expy of Bowser in another.
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot: In "Sibling Tsunami", The villains of the week, the Mad Hammer Bros. are a parody of the Mario Bros.. However, in appearance and demeanor, they more closely parody Wario and Waluigi, Mario and Luigi's evil counterparts, in terms of their gruff and villainous personalities, ragged mustaches, and the Red Brother being stout and fat (like Wario), and the Green Brother being lanky and thin (like Waluigi). The jump sound effect from Super Mario World is also heard when the Mad Hammer Bros. jump.
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
  • The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Uncle" centers around Gumball mistakenly thinking that Ocho knows Mario. It turns he does know Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • The Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "K-ACME TV" has a commercial for the "Super Plucky-O Bros." video game for the Numbmindo System. In addition to parodying the game itself, actual sound effects from the Super Mario Bros. video game are used.
  • Robot Chicken:
    • In the sketch, "Grand Theft Mario" from the episode, "Lust for Puppets", Mario and Luigi take a wrong turn and stumble into the violent world of Vice City. At the end of the sketch, Yoshi drives into Raccoon City.
    • In the sketch, "Ballad of Gay Tony" from the episode, "Fool's Goldfinger", Princess Peach makes a cameo appearance when Tony sings about how heroes are always trying to save the Damsel in Distress.
    • In the sketch, "Mario Meets Parents" from the episode, "The Departy Monster", Mario pays a visit to Princess Peach's castle, where he makes a bad first impression on Princess Peach's parents, leading to him accidentally destroying the castle.
    • In the sketch, "Mario Party" from the episode, "Eviscerated Post-Coital by a Six Foot Mantis", Mario and Luigi find a block filled with gold coins and begin spending their newfound wealth however they like, including buying a mansion. When it comes time to pay the bills, the block is out of coins, and the mansion is demolished.
    • In the sketch, "The Fattest Fat Loser" from the episode, "Poisoned by Relatives", Mario competes in the titular Show Within a Show, alongside Garfield, Winnie the Pooh, and Miss Piggy.
    • In the sketch, "Thank You Mario!" from the episode, "Collateral Damage in Gang Turf War", After Mario defeats Bowser, Toad informs him that Princess Peach is in another castle. After Mario leaves, Peach asks Toad if he's gone, and calls him a stalker.
    • The sketch, "Mario Golf" from "Max Caenen in: Why Would He Know If His Mother's a Size Queen" features Mario and Bowser playing a game of golf together. As they play, Bowser asks Mario if he found it weird how he used to kidnap his girlfriend, and Mario says, "Eh." as Bowser hits his golf ball.
    • A sketch from "May Cause Bubbles Where You Don't Want 'Em" has Peach break up with Mario in favor of Timothee Chalamet.
    • A sketch from "May Cause Involuntary Political Discharge" has Yoshi killing Mario and Luigi as retribution for abandoning him.
  • The title card for The Loud House episode, "Game Boys" resembles a level from the original Super Mario Bros. video game, with Lincoln and Clyde dressed as the Mario Brothers.
  • Mickey Mouse (2013): In "Tokyo Go", the "power-up" and "coin" sound effects from Super Mario Bros. can be heard during the 8-bit section in the train tunnel.
  • In the Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island episode "Sir Nut-a-Lot", Slip and Slide wear clothes resembling the outfits of Mario and Luigi when the Island is turned into a video game.
  • Episodes 99 and 100 of Kaeloo (both parts of a Multi-Part Episode) have Kaeloo and her friends wearing costumes of well-known video game characters, with Quack Quack wearing a costume of Mario.
  • The Patrick Star Show: In "Dad's Stache Stash", one of the mustaches on display is Luigi's, with a signboard labeling it "Plumber".

    Other 
  • One of the 33 miners trapped in the Chilean mine collapse in 2010, Mario Sepúlveda, was nicknamed "Super Mario" by the local media for his energy, wit, and humor. He served as host of the miners' video journals during the time between their discovery and rescue.

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