Richard Michael Alvarez, creator of the series, on his opinion of the creation of the series
Stupid Mario Brothers is a relatively popular YouTube show hosted on Richalvarez's channel. It is independently made by a group of friends who also made Youtube News which guest starred in Act I of the Movie and hosted the Mushroom Kingdom Election between Mario and Wario. Ash wins unexpectedly.The show features a Massive Multiplayer Crossover of many Nintendo characters, as well as a few from from other franchises. It places them in the real world, where they can do anything from playing their own game to saving the entire world.Now has a recap page in construction which Needs More Love.
Along with Wario's short lived band Tommy Fungus and the Dungeons.
April Fools' Day: Episode 55 was delayed for two weeks, replaced with a video PSA about smoking by Snake.
The same thing was repeated with Episode 68 only with a skit featuring Julian (Snake) and Austin (Brock) where Julian plays Resident Evil 4. Richard hilarious lampshaded the fact people fell for it the second time around.
Altum Videtur: Used lightly since Nox Decious was introduced.
Aside Glance: After Link drank bad milk and the others said he won't be in Season Three, Ash says their fans will be pissed, but Mario says they'll get over it. Cue this trope.
Back for the Finale: Everyone except Ash, Daisy, Peach, Otacon and a handful of other characters returns for Season 5.
Back from the Dead: Almost every villain. And it's lampshaded every time. The most notable example so far is a comment made by Snake to Blaire Vherestorm in Season 5:
Snake: You were dead, you came back. Vercetti was dead, he came back. What's the point of killing you if you're just gonna come back?
Season Four: The Trifecta (a.k.a. Blaire, Ken and Liquid)
Season Five: Ganondorf's Army AND The Darkness's Army
Big Bad Duumvirate: Season 5 although The Darkness and Decious are against each other with other villains.
Big Bad Ensemble: Season 5's two main enemies, Ganondorf's Army and The Darkness's Army
Big Damn Heroes: Peach saves Mario from Wario at the end of Season One
DK saves Mona from Pauline in Episode 67
Boom, Headshot: How Snake kills Liquid the second time around.
Repeated in Episode 61 with Tommy Vercetti. Seriously.
Boy Band: Johnny Mushroom and the Kingdoms - they even do music videos time to time, and are often said to be better than the Jonas Brothers.
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Blaire's offer for Ken to join the Trifecta was a promise of $10,000 and Chun-Li's head on a stick.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Happens quite often, the best known example being when Snake, Otacon, and Ash visited Richard to make him edit their entire trip to Merlin's Table. Later, when the Darkness approaches Luigi and Wario in an attempt to start an alliance, they say he will have to wait a week (the episodes are released once a week), after which the Darkness objects and says he is sick of breaking the fourth wall.
Most episodes of any season before the season's respective Big Bad shows up about halfway or three fourths of the way through.
All but the final episode of Season 1.
Episode 71.
Brick Joke: In "The Interactive Adventure," Luigi ended up inheriting amansion. In the first episode of Season 4 he sold it for a life supply of USB flash drives so he could never run out of memory. In Episode 53, Mario returns after he gains his memory back prompting Luigi to suggest a flash drive.
Cerebus Syndrome: The very first season largely centered on the Mario Bros. goofing off until Episode 15, after which they became much more serious while alternating between their serious and goofy selves: in Season Four, every character is a clever mix of both their serious and goofy selves, or as Mario puts it in Episode 57, "seriously funny."
Chekhov's Skill: UPS's first and later appearances show him singing I Saw the Sign. Luigi eventually hires him to replace Mario as lead singer for JMK in Season 2
The Chosen One: or perhaps The Chosen Two: Mario and Wario
Christmas Special: In which UPS intern Francis makes a mistake, resulting in the Mario Brothers believing that the other brother did not get them a Christmas present.
The Comically Serious: Snake. Subverted in The Interactive Adventure when he tries to be funny but fails and is beaten by Wario. But, by the end, he gets the Super Mario Bros. laughing with a banana joke—that is, until Wario beats it with Two Bananas
Cross Over / Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Nox Decious is actually a character from RMA Studios' King Arthur series. Although, none of the films featuring him have been released. In season 3 we see Merlin, who was also in their King Arthur series; then in Act One of the Movie we see their other works, plus one video from a companion channel.
Did You Actually Believe?: While speaking with the Wario Bros. and their attempt to join him in Episode 26, Nox Decious calls out this trope by name.
The Narrator addressing the viewers about the fake ending of Season One: "Did you think that was the real ending? You're stupid, you must be one of those stupid people!".
Disproportionate Retribution: Scott Masterson's motivation for joining Ganondorf's army was to get revenge on Donkey Kong for stealing the rights to Johnny Mushroom and the Kingdoms from him:
Masterson: Donkey Kong! You stole my band. (laughs) Now you're gonna learn what it's like to lose something you love: your life!
Double Vision: used often due to the limited number of actors. The most notable example is probably any scene with Mario and Merlin, which requires a split screen.
Fireballs: This is a Mario parody so it was pretty obvious.
Finger Poke of Doom: Played with in Episode 67; when Waluigi wakes up from his coma claiming he is still in perfect shape, Wario proves otherwise by simply poking him in the forehead.
All letters from Bowser or any other character come with subtitles, regardless of whether you understand them or not.
Michael Myers and Jason speak with subtitles in The Interactive Halloween.
Genre Savvy: Snake realizes his mistakes in his first fight with Liquid and makes sure to completely kill him the second time around.
Gotta Catch 'Em All: Ash and Brock's main intention with Pokémon. They're based more on their original characterization in the early episodes of the anime than anything else.
Grand Finale: Episode 75 (or it's title The Super Mario Brothers) which will be the longest episode of the whole show.
Halloween Special: Two in fact, one was a short spin off that didn't present much besides Halloween stories and only had Mario, Ash and Brock in it and the other was The Interactive Halloween (in which Freddy and Ghostface try to kill the Mario Brothers.)
If You Won't, I Will: Subverted when Wario attempts to say this to Mario about fighting Luigi, but Mario interrupts, saying, "It has to be me."
I Know Mortal Kombat: In Act 1, Ash got the Mario Bros. and Peach out of prison by playing Ace Attorney for over 100 hours (as he finished playing Pokemon Platinum early).
It's All My Fault: Mario says this during the season 2 premiere. Because the warp pipes are not working, Mario says it's his fault that there are no heroes in their world.
Luigi says this to Mario in episode 43, when Mario and Luigi discover that they are the only two people that can go up against the Big Bad Wario, as they might not survive.
Also happens in Act II Part 4 with Solid Snake to Mario
It's Personal: Wario wanting to destroy Mario in Season 3
Wario: So why do we fight with Li.... uhh I mean Beam Swords?
Mario: I don't know. They use them in Super Smash Brothers.
Lighter and Softer: Season 4 until The Darkness and Decious return. Previously we've dealt with evil copies of Mario and Luigi, Bowser, and a temporarily evil Wario. Now we have comic relief ninjas.
Line-of-Sight Name: Snake gets one in The Interactive Adventure. "My name is um... Stapler...Cheeto!"
Loony Fan: More like a Crazy-obsessed-stalker-who-makes-you-unable-to-sleep-at-night Fan, as evidenced by her "Let's Get Hammered" Mario T-Shirt.
And then the Master Sword in Season 5. Since it's the only thing that can defeat Ganon.
Man Behind the Man: Ganondorf is effectively behind most of the major conflict in the series; he was involved in the first revival of Nox Decious, who in turn created the Darkness, who in turn created the Trifecta, who paved the way for Ganondorf and his army.
Manipulative Bastard: In Season Four, Professor Oak willingly tricks Gary and Brock into doing several mundane tasks for him just so they could find out from him which one of them sucks more. Oak eventually claims they equally suck for not turning down the tasks. As a result the two fight over which one of them hates each other the most which Oak uses to his advantage once more.
Medium Awareness: Plenty. For example, Wario complains about being unable to get a flashback.
Merged Reality: Ganondorf's real plan is to combine the Real World and the Dark Realm.
Mario: OF COURSE NOT! Did you think I would just forget about this, Pauline, and the toilet seat!
Mythology Gag: In Season Four, Wario and Mona end up in a relationship. In the WarioWare games, Mona actually has something for Wario. (It should also be noted Wario's actor Matt and Mona's actor Erin are boyfriend and girlfriend).
New Years Episode: In which Mario and Luigi celebrate the New Year and Wario is desperate to join them (noting the episode is non canon as a reason to join them) but is left with a hobo.
No Name Given: The "Package Delivery Men" are only known by the company the represent.
No Pronunciation Guide: Ryu's name because of how Richard always pronounced it Rai-Yu instead of Rie-Yu when he was younger.
Justified as a lot of people unfamiliar with Japanese names probably did the same as him, too. Whatever the case, though, it's still interesting to note that he chose to mispronounce it due to thinking the actual pronunciation sounded too lame, according to a forum post he made.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Played with. In season three, after Mario's accent vanishes, Luigi notices it and says they're beginning to sound more Irish. Cue Mario denying it... in an Irish Accent.
Pirates: In The Interactive Adventure and are part of The Darkness's Army in Season Five.
Please Subscribe to Our Channel: A pretty unique one too as Richard performs a funny voice at the end of every episode (and video for that matter) that goes like this:
-> "Please Subscribe, it's free and easy. Just click the Yellow Button and for every time you subscribe to Richalvarez *followed by a witty line or joke*"
Private Eye Monologue: Max Payne says his out loud, parodied in that Max has one in the games.
Public Domain Soundtrack: Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Ballet is used as Nox Decious' theme.
Waluigi has this happen when Waluigi gives the others his powers and falls into a coma, thanks to the actor living quite far away. He then returns in Season 5 only for him to overstrain himself and become stuck in and out of consciousness.
Brock, played by Austin, has the same problem but managed to come back for Season 4 and 5.
Peach and Walgina had this happen for a different reason—they've since broken up with the main actors.
Link as claimed by Ganon in Season 5 got trapped in the dark realm by him.
Donkey Kong wails every time someone mentions Pauline's death
In the bloopers:
the "20 Dollars" joke
Matt shouting out random things that appear on the camera. (For example, "BEN & JERRY'S!" and "LUMBERRRRRRRR!")
"I roll with gangs", a joke originally made in Episode 1's bloopers.
There's also "From Mona?", which started from a joke in Episode 51's bloopers. It later appears in the bloopers for Episode 53, and seems to be on it's way to becoming a Running Gag.
Super Smash Bros. in several instances like mention of Roy getting replaced by Ike.
Luigi's entire story in "The Interactive Adventure" is a Shout Out to Luigis Mansion.
In Season Three, Master Miller's appearance and Snake, Otacon and Ash's journey to destroy the Nether Saber is one to Metal Gear Solid. As Wario like Liquid was actually Master Miller and him tricking Snake into activating the Nether Saber is like Liquid tricking Snake into activating Metal Gear Rex.
Wario's new costume is his biker outfit from WarioWare.
It's been lampshaded plenty of times and in episode 57, Mario claims that due to being serious when funny and funny when serious that he should be seriously funny.
The actors actually make occasional videos for Machinima, like the "Super Mario Drive Thru" series, "Dr. Mario Begins", "Super Mario Chat Roulette 1 & 2" and the "Snez Pez" series.
Spoiler Opening: The opening sequences for Seasons 2 and 3. Which is why there's no opening for Season 4 or 5.
Super Mode: Like in the games, Mario + Fire Flower = Fire Mario
Taking You with Me: In their second fight, Liquid shoots Snake after being shot himself while calling out this trope by name, but fails as Snake was wearing a bulletproof vest.
Talking To Themself: The actors are all the main actors' friends. This leaves them with a lot of doubling up.
The Other Darrin: DK has been played by many actors within the suit and is made more hilarious when they changed the suit (as the original wasn't owned by the filmmakers).
Bowser is replaced for Season 5 by Austin (Brock).
Throwing Your Sword Always Works: during Wario's battle with the Darkness in The Movie, Wario pretends to be dead and hurls his Beam Saber through the Darkness' gut, which seemingly kills him. However, as Waluigi failed to bestow a counter-curse upon Wario before his prolonged absence, the Darknessis still immortal and gets back up later on.
Darkness: Gee, that stung!
Toilet Humour: Quite a bit. While justified by the source material (as Wario has a fart attack), it is disliked by several fans. This caused a funny Take That by Julian (Snake) over the forums:
If you guys hate toilet humor, then you're going to hate the next episode when I eat poop and smear it on my face while throwing it at Mario's face and then swimming in a diarrhea fountain.
Link was originally played by someone else (the voice at the end of Season 1) but he was unavailable for Season 2.
Christian (Ryu) could've played Kid Icarus in Season 2
Julian (Snake) was a big fan of Resident Evil 4 and wanted to be Leon in the show.
Dane was given the option of playing Ness or Ash. He chose Ash cause he loved Pokémon. Too bad it didn't last.
Richard (Mario and co-creator) during Season 1 almost wrote several episodes that took place before Mario's very first trip to the Mushroom Kingdom, where he was a normal teenager working part time at a plumbing company, and where Merlin opens the portal to the Mushroom Kingdom and gives him his hat. However he and Chris (Luigi and co-creator) decided that is was too much backstory for a comedy show.
Wimp Fight: Appears a lot in a form called "Slap Combat"
Word of Saint Paul: Kevin Chamberlain (Yoshi) owns a youtube account here where he often does a series called History of Stupid Mario Brothers (inspired by Linkara'sHistory of Power Rangers) which shows his own opinion on the show and confirms several things in real life that Richie hasn't.
The creators and actors tend to go on the Fan Forums to answer fan's questions. A fan should be warned they don't go on as much as they used to, although Season 4 has already contained characters suggested by fans and now fans are bombarding them with villains for Season 5.
's channel. It is independently made by a group of friends who also made Youtube News which guest starred in Act I of the Movie and hosted the Mushroom Kingdom Election between Mario and Wario. Ash wins unexpectedly.The show features a Massive Multiplayer Crossover of many Nintendo characters, as well as a few from from other franchises. It places them in the real world, where they can do anything from playing their own game to saving the entire world.Now has a recap page in construction which Needs More Love.
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