Web Animation / SMG4 Crew

"Prepare to lose IQ when you're with the crew!"

SMG4 Crew, previously known as Mario Does Things, originally Mario Plays, is a Spin-Off of Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers featuring Mario playing games and reacting to videos with the help of the SMG4 cast, parodying Let's Play and reaction channels in the process.

While featuring the same cast and characters, the series isn't canon to the main SMG4 series, allowing things to be kept silly whenever the main series takes a dramatic turn.

After the new castle reveal in 2023, SMG4 also revealed that Mario Does Things has become its own brand and changed the name to SMG4 Crew.

---

Let's-a Go!

• Ass Shove: When Sonic and Lawyer Kong show up to DMCA Mario, Mario grabs Sonic and shoves his head up Lawyer Kong's behind before kicking them both through the roof.
• Audience Participation: While Mario reacting to memes that exist on the Internet take up a good chunk of the subseries, there are times where SMG4 tweets an invitation for his audience to send their own contributions.
  • "Mario Reacts To People Roasting Him" has Mario being roasted by the community.
  • "Mario opens Christmas Presents sent by YOU!" has fans sending images or suggestions for Mario's Christmas presents that would be made physical.
• Bait-and-Switch: Mario reacts in fear to seeing Mimi on the list of Smash or Pass, saying that dating her was the worst mistake of his life. In Super Paper Mario, her true form is a giant robotic spider, making the Mario fans in the audience think it was about that. In reality, it was much worse – She blue-balled him with Garfield lore.
• Berserk Button: Do not show Mario an Among Us meme or attempt to Rick Roll him.
• Bottle Episode: It's an entire series of these. Mario Does Things episodes come out between normal SMG4 episodes and are typically shorter, take place mostly inside a single room, and have almost no characters besides Mario (and the occasional co-host).
• Brain Bleach: Mario often sees things he wishes he didn't and reacts in over the top ways.
  • After being exposed to a Game Boy Advance Micro commercial where a lab rat mates with the console, Mario mashes an unsee button until his head explodes.
  • Upon seeing Glamdozer in the rankings of Smash or Pass, Mario calmly stabs his eyes with kunai.
  • When he sees a video of a woman with a Minion filter, Mario pours some bleach onto a toothbrush and furiously scrubs his eyes until they explode. He regards it as an improvement.
  • Meggy gets in on this with "Mario Downloads Internet Viruses". At one point, Mario sends all of his email contacts the "Love Letter" malware. When she gets it, she pulls out a lighter to burn her eyes and her computer. Some fans interpreted this as lowkey Ship Sinking of the popular but infamous pairing of Meggy with Mario.
    • Averted later in "Mario React To Nintendo Memes 11". While Meggy initially screams, "No! My innocent eyes!" as Mario drags her away, she gets into the meme content pretty quickly and soon convinces Mario to help her pull some of her own prank ideas.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Mario is liable to leap out of the world into the patterned background surrounding the video to interact directly with the video feed or to attack the audience.
  • Averted in Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 6 ft. Tari where they attempt to go into a Duck Hunt Meme, but both just crash into the computer.
  • Mario looks at the video title in "Mario Try Not To Cringe Challenge" to realize that the person dancing on his screen is a dude.
• Breather Episode: These videos often serve as this to the Darker and Edgier story arcs. "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes 4" in particular was aired on the Saturday between the Wham Episode "Absolute Betrayal" and the Big Damn Movie Revelations, while "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes 11 ft. Meggy" came between the penultimate and final episodes of the Lawsuit Arc.
• Call-Back: The spin-off isn't canon to the main series, but will still call back to events from it.
  • Mario is triggered upon seeing the game lined up for him is Five Nights at Freddy's, remembering the events of "Freddy's Spaghetteria".
  • SMG4 himself has a similar reaction to FNaF, remembering his real life counterpart suffering through the game on Hobo Bros.
  • When Mario sees the preview for Murder Drones where Uzi gets a hole melted in her hand, Mario dismisses her reaction saying he got stabbed in the hand two weeks ago and he didn't cry. Cue a clip from said episode where Mario cries out in agony (and Windows Shut-Down noise) when Melony accidentally stabbed his hand with her sword.
  • When Francis appears in Smash or Pass, Mario blasts his image with a shotgun and hi-fives Meggy. After all, Francis was the villain of the Anime arc and the one who hurt Meggy the most.
  • Waluigi takes on his Power of Rejection form from the Waluigi Arc when he's sufficiently pissed off.
  • Luigi is seen practicing Meditation after he picked up the interest in the Revelations Arc.
  • "Mario Joins Discord" features a bit where the characters order food. Just like in "Mario Waits For Pizza", SMG4 orders pineapple pizza, sending everyone else into a frenzy.
  • "Mario does Pranks" has Mario's attempt to hide in a potted plant to prank Luigi fail, as Luigi's newfound interest in gardening from The Lawsuit Arc leads to Luigi replanting him right next to a Piranha Plant unawares.
  • In "Mario Plays Cat Mario But Every Time He Dies The Walls Close In", during the scene where Mario curses so loudly the entire Mushroom Kingdom hears it, we get a brief shot of Meggy in her room with her cat Loaf. Next to her bed is a shot of herself and Mario, Splattershots drawn, from "Mario React to Nintendo Memes 11".
  • In "Mario Delves Into Nintendo Anti-Piracy Screens", none of the jump-scares faze Mario at all. He even reacts to a Mario Zalgo Face by countering with a scarier meme. Zalgo-Mario then becomes a head of broccoli, causing Mario to freak out like he did a few weeks earlier in "Mario Goes On A Diet".
  • When Mario exerts his laughter in "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes But If He Laughs He Dies" by saying LMAO, which the bomb strapped to his chest is unable to make a verdict on, the video pauses as the Discord Moderator shows up to explain that LMAO does count as a laugh as Bob was previously eliminated from a "No laughing contest" in "Mario Does Japanese Gameshows" for saying LMAO.
• Catapult Nightmare: "Mario Googles Himself" has Mario wake up in a panic after he dreamt the whole episode, waking up next to Wario in bed. Which then turns out to be Wario's nightmare as he wakes up next to Wahllace.
• Christmas Episode:
  • "Mario Plays Cursed Mario Games", "Mario Plays Roblox DOORS", and "Mario Reacts To Cursed Mobile Game Ads" were all released during Christmas 2022.
  • "Mario opens Christmas Presents sent by YOU!" is the one for Christmas 2023.
• Continuity Nod: Despite being a spinoff, elements from the main series are referenced in this series, from arc events to Mario's experience with Five Nights at Freddy's.
• Continuity Snarl: During his play session on Roblox, he plays a graffiti game where he draws an orange, and a painting of an imposter killing a crewmate, i.e. a game he abhors memes of.
• Crippling Overspecialisation: Mario speedruns Super Mario 64 reveals that Mario's skill with the memetic Backwards Long Jump glitch is unparalleled, at the cost of him being useless at even the most basic of the rest of the game's speedrun strats.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 6 ft. Tari" naturally features Tari as co-host with Mario and acting as a comedic foil. Later episodes have characters such as Luigi and Bob co-host.
• Denser and Wackier: Even more so than regular SMG4 episodes, if you can believe it. There's no connecting story between the gags outside of the Let's Player premise and Mario is even more of a deranged maniac than usual, liable to kill Luigi after mistakenly believing he's a Pokémon in one skit, then dying of cringe over an Among Us reference in the next before getting right back to it.
• Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Bob Bobowski managed to seduce a Cursed Peach image that Mario ran away from in "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes 9 Ft. Bob".
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Mario's response to Among Us jokes is to physically attack the person making them.
  • SMG3 response to Mario's ifone prank is by shooting him down using rocket launchers.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Chris Pratt (and Chris Pratt portraying him) did not appear to be a Berserk Button for Mario in early videos (in fact, the first instance of him appearing as Mario in a Nintendo Memes video had Mario simply ask where they got footage of him in a chiding tone). It wouldn't be until later that Mario would be driven into an Unstoppable Rage at the mere sight or mention of Pratt (particularly after the release of the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, when the general public began to more sincerely question Pratt being cast as Mario).
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After constantly losing in "Mario Plays Baldi's Basics", Mario finally beats the game and ascends to Heaven, having fulfilled his duty.
• Everyone Has Standards: Turns out, even SMG4 Mario has limits.
  • "Mario tries Life Hacks" has Mario dumbfounded by how idiotic some of the life hacks presented are, like using tomato ketchup as a bookmark.
    Mario: WTF IS THIS
  • "Mario Plays: Smash or Pass" shows Mario to have strange tastes in sexual partners, including himself, but he passes with prejudice on both Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings and he is straight-up horrified to find Baby Mario in the rankings.
  • And in the same video, he blasts Francis's image with a shotgun when he shows up due to what happened in the Anime Arc.
  • "Mario Googles Himself" shows Mario being absolutely revolted by art shipping him with his brother.
  • Innocent and pacifistic Tari straight up slaps Mario and tells him to cool it when he gets horny over a Kirby meme.
  • Not just Mario, but many other cast members of note including Jerkasses like Bob and Swag, show nothing less than total horror and disgust at the final mobile game in Mario Reacts To Cursed Mobile Game Ads ending with a rape as its game over.
• Exact Words: In "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes But If He Laughs He Dies", when Mario stifles his laughter upon seeing a video of a shiny Lycanroc from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet spinning in place to Super Sonic Racing, the bomb floats up to his ear and tells him to "Do it!". Mario gives an "Okey-Dokey!" before T-Pose flying out of the castle's roof like a helicopter and the bomb protests "That's not what I meant!"
• Filler: "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes 4" and "Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 11" were released on the Saturday before the Revelations movie and War of the Fat Italians 2022, as opposed to their usual Wednesday upload, to appease fans while buying time to work on these projects.
• Flat Scare: Mario, after attempting to hype himself up to play Five Nights at Freddy's, is scared out of his skin by a still, non-jumpscare image of Freddy.
  • A goomba "jumpscare" sends Mario flying across the room in "Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 1". In fact it's the very first meme he reacts to in that whole miniseries.
  • One meme in "Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 8" has Mario scared at a Kirby "jumpscare".
• Formula-Breaking Episode:
  • "Mario Reacts to Anime Memes" has Mario react to memes in an Egyptian tomb, instead of Peach's castle like normal.
  • "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes 11" takes place at Inkopolis. Justified, as it features Meggy.
  • "Mario Delves into Anti-Piracy Screens" appears to actually be canon to the main SMG4 series, as it ends on a Cliffhanger wherein SMG4, having driven himself crazy trying to create the best video ever (a plot that started with main series episode "SMG4...Are You Okay?"), interrupts the video and throws Mario aside to continue editing his video on Mario's computer, with the usual end credits music being replaced with audio of SMG4 frantically typing away.
  • Not only does "Mario Reacts to Lethal Nintendo Memes" once again take place in a new location for reacting to memes—this time a Meme Facility—but Mario has a mission to find enough good memes to reach SMG4's Meme Quota.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You:
  • In-universe, occasionally (usually during his meme reactions) Mario gets harmed by what he views, such as getting shot on two different occasions or getting blown up.
  • Mario does a variation of this himself to Frankie, who's watching the episode on his computer.
  • Played straight in the Gainax Ending of "Mario Reacts to Bootleg Mario Toys ft. Luigi", which ends with the striped shirt bootleg Mario Bros toys reaching out for the viewer after assimilating everyone in SMG4's castle, with Heavy announcing that you are now dead (not big surprise).
• Gainax Ending: "Mario Reacts to Bootleg Mario Toys ft. Luigi" ends in a way that's flat-out insane even by the series' standards: The striped shirt bootleg Mario and Luigi plushes in the last image Mario and Luigi look at inexplicably start to multiply and then suddenly invade SMG4's castle, assimilating Mario and Luigi into more of them, and then going on to assimilate everyone else in the castle (and the viewer) with the implication that they will go on to assimilate the entire world...which then results in Bootleg Luigi being unlocked as a playable character.
• Gone Horribly Right: In "Mario Does Pranks 2", Mario tricks Luigi into believing that he's in a coma and that everything around him is part of his dream. Luigi decides that this means that he can do whatever he wants and starts singing about how sexy he is while flying through the air shirtless.
• Halfway Plot Switch: "Mario Reacts to Spooky Memes but Dies halfway through" has Mario reacting to spooky memes until N from Murder Drones appears to attempt to murder him halfway through, and from there on out the rest of the episode is basically promoting Murder Drones.
• Halloween Episode: "Mario Reacts to Spooky Memes but Dies half way through", which is pretty self-explanatory.
• Happy Ending: The previously mentioned Mario Plays Baldi's Basics, where Mario beats the game without needing to go into an Unstoppable Rage and ascends to heaven, no catch involved.
• Has a Type: Mario Plays: Smash or Pass reveals Mario has a thing for being crushed by large women.
  (Mario imagines Queen Bean slowly lowering on to him)
  Mario: Now if there was a way I could choose to die, this would be it.
  (Mario is crushed)
• Lethal Chef: Just in case you needed any proof Mario is a horrible cook, "Mario Bakes a """Cake"""" has him whip up a culinary abomination of a cake — due to a combination of questionable substitutions of ingredients, poor use of cooking tools and lack of safety — that straight-up kills Tari. To drive the point home, his failed frosting attempt has him craft "Meggy's Cooking".
• Loophole Abuse: Mario gets away with laughing in Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes But If He Laughs He Dies by heavily lowering the resolution, making the bomb unable to tell if it's a real laugh or not. He later says LMAO to much the same effect, which ends up being turned on him as a Discord Mod claims it does count as a laugh (though he does luckily counter-attack the Mod and send him flying before the bomb explodes).
• Major Injury Underreaction: Mario's response to getting squashed by a whiteboard announcing "The Meme Games" is to yell "Oh, my ass!"
• Medium Awareness: In Mario Try Not To Cringe Challenge, Mario thinks a video of someone dancing is hot, but then remembers what video he's in (specifically, he looks at the video title).
  Mario: That's a dude, isn't it?
• Missing Episode: Deliberately invoked with "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes But If He Laughs He Dies", the first MDS episode to air after IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT. The frame story has Mario in the RV from "Breaking Luigi" and "My Roommate Mario" rifling through SMG4's Box-O-Memes and finding the episode on a videotape. This is why the episode proper shows Mario still in the castle. Luke himself clarified it in the comments just to stop any confusion.
  SMG4: "The castle isn't magically back, this was an unreleased episode we didn't get to upload until now. Hope you guys liked it"
• Mood Whiplash:
  • Provides a meta example where "Mario Plays Five Nights at Freddy's" came out right after an intense episode of the main series where Mario and SMG4 had been captured by the Zero-possessed Axol. The opening acknowledges this.
  Caption: Note: This video is not canon to the smg4 lore.
  Mario spinning in a black void: Weeeeee!
  • The ending of "Mario Delves into Anti-Piracy Screens" ends on a Twist Ending wherein the video is (or could be) actually canon to the main series, in a change from the norm, as it reveals that SMG4 is still running himself ragged trying to create the best video ever after the events of "SMG4...Are You Okay?" and he interrupts Mario's usual antics to use Mario's computer after he loses his internet on his own.
• Musical Assassin: Parodied in the opening advert of "Mario Plays Roblox". Saiko stands in for a character with music based attacks, but upon taking out her guitar as if to play it, she instead uses it as a melee weapon and bludgeons Waluigi's groin with it.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Played for Laughs in "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes 8" when Mario decides to chase after a pig Pokémon but accidentally chases it off a cliff, leading Mario to have this moment.
• No Inner Fourth Wall: The videos and games Mario react to frequently cross over the blue background to kick his ass, and Mario in turn can leap back and toss away the video feed.
• Pineapple Ruins Pizza: "Mario Joins Discord" has the entire cast up in arms when SMG4 orders pineapple pizza (again).
• Rage Breaking Point: Expect sparks to fly when Mario gets stuck in games.
  • "Mario plays Unfair Mario" is forced to cut away when Luigi interrupts, assuring the audience that no Luigis were harmed in the making of the video.
  • Later in the same video, when he was playing Cat Mario and hit the info box (which at the time of release crashed the game) after suffering during the first level, he's completely frozen until Luigi shows up, which leads to him quite literally exploding with rage.
  • After Mario falls for a brutal Kaizo Trap in Five Nights at Freddy's, he uses Tari's powers to enter the game and tear the animatronics apart in cold-blooded fury.
  • Mario gets so furious after a series of cheap deaths in a Roblox Crash Bandicoot fangame, he reaches into the game and smacks Crash around.
  • After seeing one too many Among Us memes, Mario proceeds to charge towards the screen and attack Frankie while ranting that those memes are used so much that they're no longer funny. Frankie only makes it worse when he proceeds to reference those same memes despite Mario's threats, causing the plumber to once again explode with rage.
  • After a whole episode of getting himself hurt by Tiktok challanges, Mario finally hits his limits when the next challenge is the "cut off your Pingas" challenge, smashing his PC to the floor and crashing the stream.
• Reaction Video: Half of the series is about Mario reacting to weird stuff online, whether that be spooky memes, TikTok videos, or strange Nintendo commercials.
• Retool: Once the gang aquired a new castle, SMG4 celebrates it by giving the spin off a new brand into "SMG4 crew" which heavily implies the gang will partake in comedic acts similar to how Mario does it!
• Running Gag: Mostly in Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes.
  • Mario dying in reaction to what he's seen.
  • Mario's intense hatred of Among Us references.
  • Mario mangling Pokémon in front of Tari and Tari making puppy dog eyes in response.
  • Mario introducing his Nintendo meme reaction videos by holding on the "Nin" for a really long time.
    • This got a reference in "If Mario Was In… Splatoon 3" where, having been reverted to his canon personality by Lawyer Kong's firewall, SMG4 manages to break Mario's brain by showing him memes. Mario says this in response, proving He's Back!.
  • Mario steals your Liver memes.
  • Mario getting Meggy hurt, directly and indirectly, whenever he reacts to a meme involving Splatoon.
  • At the end of "Mario Reacts To People Roasting Him", Mario finally gets fed up of all the people insulting him and starts roasting all his friends before driving into a lake.
  • Mario's complete inability to get some bitches, to the point that Bob of all people has better luck than him.
  • In Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 14 ft. SMG4, Mario acting out Elephant Mario memes and SMG4's horrified reaction.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Karen teleports away upon realising that Mario intends to lick her.
• Self-Deprecation: In "Mario Plays Roblox", Mario plays "Zero" (WOTFI 2021's rap battle) in a DJ game, only to see that the other players left the room as soon as he started playing an SMG4 song.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: Played for laughs at the end of "Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 10", where Peach drags him away to the castle to flatten his pingas as he screams... only to find out he likes it.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: "Mario Does Pranks" has Mario try to prank Boopkins, Meggy, and SMG4 with over-salted spaghetti. Boopkins is the first to try it… and completely No-Sell it. Turns out living in saltwater all your life gives you quite the resistance to the stuff.
  Boopkins: Guys, I live in seawater, that was nothing.
• Take That!:
  • "Mario Reacts to Spooky Memes but Dies half way through" has Mario complain about the memes not being scary enough. Cut to "Mario will be played by Chris Pratt". In general, Mario really, really does not like Pratt, never missing an opportunity to dunk on him.
  • In "Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes 5", one meme has Mario's nose get more erect seeing Sonic and Megaman (representing Sega and Capcom)... and flatten at the sight of EA.
• Thanksgiving Episode: "Mario Cooks a Thanksgiving """Turkey"""" for Thanksgiving 2023... which is odd, since SMG4 lives in Australia, which typically doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving.
• That Came Out Wrong: “Mario Plays Roblox” has Mario encounter an SMG4 roleplay game. He expresses joy at this and prepares to “play with himself”. It takes him a few seconds to notice the inherent Double Entendre.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Mario will get killed off by memes leaping out of the screen at him, from the consequences of his own stupid stunts, or from cringing to death, but be right back at it with no ill effects.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • Pikachu is usually the butt of deadly jokes, but manages to catch a break in Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 7 ft. Luigi when Mario inadvertently saves him from Joker, getting revenge on Luigi's behalf.
  • In Mario does Pranks, the ones he tries to pull off on the usual Butt Monkies, Luigi and Fishy Boopkins fall flat on their faces.
• We Are Not Going Through That Again: Mario tells the audience this after he kicked Sonic and Lawyer Kong into the sky to avoid a repeat of The Lawsuit Arc.
• Worth It: In "Mario Reacts to Nintendo Memes 12", SMG4, Luigi, and Meggy join in on Mario beating the crap out of Peach in a Joker-style Combination Attack. All three are then shown in jail during the victory screen, and while SMG4 and Luigi look none too happy, Meggy smugly holds up a sign that reads this.

---