The third and final cartoon based on the Super Mario Bros. franchise, and the game Super Mario World in particular. It relocates the action to Dinosaur World, removed the Real World, dropped Toad (since he wasn't in the game), and expanded the cast to include Yoshi and various cave people, most prominently Oogtar.This show has achieved high levels of Memetic Mutation from the final episode, "Mama Luigi", in which Luigi tells of how he found Yoshi.Not to be confused with The Super Mario Bros. Super Show or The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.
Animation Bump: The animation for the Theme Tune (see below) was done by a different studio then the episodes proper, and it uses a clear, smooth, professional style. The animation for the rest of the show was anything but clear, smooth and professional, with errors that don't even need frame-by-frame analysis to spot.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: At the end of "Gopher Bash", Luigi punishes Yoshi for eating the crops, telling him, "Since you ate the whole thing, now you can do the hoe thing!" Although he obviously means "hoe" as in the gardening utensil, it's pretty easy for one to joke about what it sounds like.
Mario: What're they gonna do, banish us to the lava pits? [Cut to Mario and Luigi being thrown down a pipe to a cavern] Mario: Okay, so they banished us!
Grand Finale: "Mama Luigi" serves as a fitting finale for the cartoons as a whole.
Hand Wave: One episode provides an explanation for why Yoshi doesn't eat certain enemies in the game, like Chargin' Chuck: They taste nasty to him.
Large Ham: Luigi. "A MAAAGIC BALLOON!" "I came face to face with a FIIIYA SUMO!"
Leitmotif: Since the show re-arranges most of the music from the first two Mario games, the tunes are indicative of the character or type of environment that is currently on-screen. Examples: The Valley of Bowser theme playing when Koopa's castle is shown.
Limited Animation: Sometimes it gets to the point where you can't tell if what's happening is intentional or not.
Among the various name screwups: Wizenheimer, Wizardwhatever, Wiseacre, Wisecracker, Wizenwhatchamacallit, and Wisenwhatever.
Off Model: The animation quality of the show was rock bottom to begin with, but was brought down ever further by outrageous animation errors that frequently pop up in the shorts, some of which are so blatant that you don't even need to freeze frame the cartoon to notice them.
Happens in "Send In the Clowns", where Mario and the cavemen don't realize the clowns in King Koopa's circus are actually Rexes until one of their noses falls off.
Also happens in "Rock TV" when Koopa is in a paper thin disguise promoting the titular product. No one can tell it's him even though several of the shows he mentions even have the name Koopa in the title.
Pragmatic Adaptation: While not for the whole series, the episode "Send In the Clowns" explains why someone as mean and nasty as King Koopa would have a helicopter with a clown.
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