Funny / Mario Tennis

"Sorry, bro."

• Any time the Welcome Workout is mentioned in Power Tour. The player fainted during it and made quite a scene.
• Starting up the N64 game without a controller plugged in leads to an image of Waluigi flying through the air holding the console while Luigi chases after him with a controller◊... all the while the overly epic "Set Point / Match Point" plays.
• Power Tour also has Harry being too chicken to get on one of the Super Training machines, and then Kate hitting him with her butt, knocking over everyone in the line. Later, you can talk to Harry, who says that he finally got on.
  Harry: Thanks to the power of Kate's rear-end, I'm not afraid of spinning things anymore.
• Mario has text dialogue in Power Tour... which is limited to his Voice Grunting lines heard in other games.
• The GC game has Hilarious Outtakes of the intro cartoon after winning a tournament, playing out almost like the outtakes for three of Pixar's films. Examples include:
  • Mario accidentally beaning Luigi in the face with the tennis ball.
    Luigi: OW! My nose...
    Mario: Sorry, bro!
  • Waluigi getting his leg stuck in a door. During that scene, one of the policemen points at Waluigi's leg.
    Wario: Stupid...
  • Bowser preparing to practice using a ball-serving machine, which malfunctions and starts shooting balls willy-nilly. The Koopa King runs away in terror while Wario and Waluigi laugh.
  • Bowser pulling a lever, only to break it off and crack up laughing.
    • Bowser pulling the same lever, only to get shocked and faint.
      Waluigi: [running up to aid Bowser] Don't expect mouth-to-mouth!
  • Wario lifting a barbell that seems heavier than he is, only to get a call on his cell phone. He continues to hold the barbell with one hand, while casually reminding his mother over the phone that he told her not to call him in the middle of the movie.
    • Waluigi shows up in front of the camera with an unamused look on his face; he says, "Cut!" in a deadpan tone as he places his hand on the camera lens.
  • Bowser trying to fire a Bullet Bill out of the cannon, only for the cannon to blow up in his face.
    • When he manages to fire a Bullet Bill, it misses Mario and clatters on the ground without going off, much to the plumber's amusement.
  • In the final shot, the bad guys are charred up on the jumbotron with the Mario Bros. standing triumphantly in front, but suddenly a Paratroopa flies into the frame, ruining the shot. Cue "Everybody Laughs" Ending.
• In the intro to Power Tennis, the Mario Bros. watch Bowser's Bob-Omb-packed vehicle descend towards the ground.
  Luigi: "Oh, this looks bad..."
• Some of the trophy celebrations in 64 and Power Tennis are amazingly hilarious:
  • Mario congratulates Luigi's success, accidentally stomping on his foot and laughing about it as Luigi looks in confusion.
  • Wario parades his trophy around and accidentally squashes it flat.
  • Bowser gets tricked by Peach into almost kissing a Birdo.
  • Yoshi mistakes his trophy for a fruit and accidentally swallows Luigi.
  • Shy Guy walks on stage to receive his trophy but trips and his mask falls off. Shy Guy gets up and puts his mask back on while Luigi sees Shy Guy's true face and is mildly freaked out, but at the same time, astonished.
  • In the 64 version, Yoshi eats his trophy and lays a golden egg.
  • Waluigi winning the tournament in the 64 version has him bragging and gloating his victory and basically rubbing it into Luigi. Luigi, who doesn't look amused in the slightest, dismissively brushes off Waluigi's gloating and leaves. Waluigi doesn't take this very well.
• A good number of characters don't take their losses very well in Power Tennis and Open.
  • Mario shakes his head in disbelief and then looks at the screen with great disappointment.
  • Luigi moans about his loss with a long "No!" while falling to his knees and punching the ground with the racket in his hand while sobbing hysterically.
  • Wario looks around and assumes his opponent cheated before throwing a small hissy fit about how he can't lose.
    Wario: Oh no! Somebody cheated! I CAN'T lose!
  • Waluigi jumps up and down in frustration, groans, and then gnashes his teeth at his own racket.
  • Yoshi bonks his head in frustration until accidentally smacking himself in the back of the head with his racket, the poor dinosaur ends up collapsing on his side with a goofy look on his face and a twitchy leg.
  • Donkey Kong is shocked at his loss, sitting down in total disbelief with a sad look on his face.
  • Diddy Kong throws himself on the floor, whining uncontrollably as he slams his fists on the ground, gets back up grunting out of frustration, and falls backwards in defeat.
  • Bowser simply falls to the ground, growling sadly at his loss.
  • Bowser Jr. throws an angry fit, constantly smacking his racket to the ground while shouting that the game stinks.
    Bowser Jr: This game stinks! It stinks! It stinks! It stinks! IT! STINKS!
  • Fly Guy spins around to the point of getting dizzy and then falls onto the ground.
  • Boo sadly floats up into the air and then lands on the ground facefirst.
  • Wiggler sighs sadly before turning red and suddenly flying into an epic furious rage, screaming angrily and flailing his arms about.
  • Baby Mario straight-up throws a kicking and screaming temper tantrum.
  • Baby Peach looks around in disbelief before sobbing quietly and adorably.
  • Dry Bowser collapses into a pile of bones, roaring in anger.
• There is a rare chance of one of the players hitting their Doubles partner while serving, resulting in a Fault and a re-serve. Even rarer is a Double Fault in the same manner, giving the receiving team the point.
• Wario and Waluigi's antics in the intro to Power Tennis, which involve them... defacing Mario and Luigi's portraits on the tournament board with a marker. Even better, this gets the cops called on them immediately.
  Waluigi: Take this, Mister Eyeballs!
  Wario: Yeah, gimme that! Crazy Eyeball Man!
• The communication error screen from Power Tour for the GBA. Yoshi in the background looking annoyed while Mario rides on Luigi's back (and this is his only appearance in that game, since he's not even playable here, like Wario) is rather hilarious. Also doubles as a heartwarming moment due to Mario waving at the player while his brother gives him a piggyback ride.
• The mere fact that a Chain Chomp is a playable character in Aces.
• The minute the Adventure mode trailer for Aces appeared, the fans immediately called Luigi's racket "Infinity Racket" and began quoting lines from Avengers: Infinity War.
• The commercial for Aces has Mario playing a match against real life tennis player Rafael Nadal. Mario unleashes a special shot that flies past Nadal, but the judge rules that the ball went out. Mario challenges the decision, but the replay shows that the ball did land out of bounds.
  • Later on, all the tennis staff are playing the game on the Switch while Mario sits in the locker room moping over his loss.^note Yes, Mario actually loses a game for once!Taking things even further is Nadal, who's clearly having the time of his life rubbing his victory in Mario's face.
• In the GBC game, just like in the N64 version of Mario Golf, you have to UNLOCK Mario! Here, you can't play as him until you beat the game!
• Aces allows you to alternatively win a match by simply breaking all of your opponent's rackets with Zone Shots and Special Shots. Meaning your opponent could be on match point having cleaned you out in score in two sets out of three, but if you cannonball all of their rackets, that gets you the win. Alternatively, if you want to be really cruel to a losing opponent, you can KO them when it's you on match point.

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