Bob has officially gone too far... Saiko and the SMG4 crew prepare the ultimate diss track to stop him once and for all...
Bob takes his newfound fame too far, releasing a diss track against the main cast and everyone decides to get him back for that with the the ultimate diss track in order to stop him.Serves as the seventh part of the Rapper Bob Arc.
Upload Date: December 15, 2018
Mario and the Diss Track provides examples of:
- Alas, Poor Villain: The episode ends with Bob experiencing the consequences of his own actions at full force: Saiko's career completely eclipses his and he gets to watch people throw away his merchandise, his house is repossessed by the Teletubbies after failing to pay his bills and he's shunned by his friends, complete with Boopkins literally shutting the door on him. While he definitely deserved it, it's clearly done in a way that wants the audience to feel sorry for him on some level.
- Bad Boss: Bob treats his Teletubby workers just as bad as he treated Mario and Luigi on his rap tour. This is highlighted by Saiko and the others using footage of him beating the crap out of Lala in their music video.
- Cassandra Truth: Luigi's attempt to tell everyone the truth about Bob is met with skepticism and accusations of jealousy.
- Call-Back: Bob's diss track at one point shows Luigi in a T-Pose, bringing the T-Pose Zombies to mind.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Saiko has great difficulty in calling Boopkins her friend. She eventually does it though.
- Comically Missing the Point: After seeing Bob's Diss Track Music Video on him and his friends on T.V., Mario celebrates making it on the small screen as opposed to everyone else being appropriately offended.
- Death Is Cheap: At the beginning of the video, Mario floats into the air and is hit by a plane, which explodes on collision. He shows up back to normal a few scenes latter, ironically when Toad was asking if he had died.
- Dragon with an Agenda: Once Bob's diss track takes the airwaves to a resounding success, Saiko starts planning to use him as a springboard for her solo career.
- The Dog Bites Back: After Bob disses his own friends with "Ultimate Diss Track", they get back at him with "Darkest Hour", which was popular enough to completely rob Bob of his wealth. This gets lampshaded in one of the lyrics."I'll diss this time."
- Everyone Has Standards: Meggy is an Action Girl through and through, but she doesn't always resort to violence, and when Mario suggests smashing Bob with a baseball bat to get back at him for his diss trick, she's not impressed.
- Heel Realization: After Bob releases his diss track, Luigi goes to convince Saiko that Bob has to be stopped. She initially brushes off Luigi by saying that he didn't seriously mean all of that, but once Luigi shows her how absolutely traumatized Boopkins is, she has second thoughts and is willing to listen to the truth about what Bob did.
- Hope Spot: In the music video for "Darkest Hour". Bob runs to an exit door with light coming from outside, only to slam into a brick wall and find out that it's just a photo of one.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- Bob's dissing Mario for being fat and finding his obsession with spaghetti disturbing is one that very few would disagree with.
- Bob's diss towards Tari is that "she wouldn't shut up about playing games". When the others discuss how they can get back at Bob, Tari does little to disprove Bob's criticism by suggesting that they challenge him to a video game battle. Toad and Mario are reduced to wheezing laughter and even Meggy is less than impressed.
- While she does give a good counterpoint, Bowser's skepticism of Saiko's loyalty is justified.
Bowser: And how do we know we can trust her? She helped Bob! - Karma Houdini: A common criticism of this episode is that things wrap up a little too neatly for Saiko. Yes, she does realize she was doing wrong by helping Bob and yes, it is a little heartwarming that she helps to take Bob down because Luigi tells her about what he did to Boopkins. But there remains the fact that as Bob's assistant and image consultant, she actively helped Bob in the selfish hopes of getting her own career and she didn't try to stop him from, at the very least, dissing Boopkins in his diss track note and even tried to downplay the awful things Bob says. Throw in the fact that the others give her very little grief for her role in Bob's career (only Bowser is initially distrustful of her) and you can't help but feel that she got handsomely rewarded from screwing over both sides in this affair.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Bob gets his just desserts for dissing his own friends.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Prior to this episode, only Luigi knew that Bob's rap career was built upon engineered heroics starting from pushing Boopkins down the well. Thus when Bob drops his ultimate diss track they are completely blindsided by his jerkassery and are even angrier once Luigi tells them the truth.
- Musical Episode: Of a sort. Rapping and singing are heavily focused on in this episode, and the Arc Villain uses the former to put the heroes down, causing them to counterattack with the latter.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As it usually is whenever he tastes success, Bob's undoing is 100% due to his glory chasing and his inability to be satisfied. Had Bob not released his diss track, he would have been in the clear for a very long time; Boopkins would still probably be too shell-shocked to open up about Bob's betrayal and Luigi would have had to spend a lot more time convincing the others about it because everyone was supportive of his new found fame — even when Luigi tries to warn them, SMG4 flatly states that Luigi doesn't understand what it's like to be famous, Tari outright says that they should be happy for his success and Meggy even accuses Luigi of jealousy. The shock and anger they naturally feel from Bob's diss track allows Luigi to finally get them to listen and motivates them to get back at Bob. Most importantly, this action ultimately leads to Saiko defecting, as she initially brushes off Luigi until she sees the emotional toll that Bob's actions have taken on Boopkins and she ends up being the one to take him down.
- Oh, Crap!: Bob says this verbatim when he sees his live listener count start to decline after the release of "Darkest Hour".
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ultimate Diss Track is naturally this in rap to all of Bob's former friends, as he states in his lyrics why he can't stand them.
- Everyone fires back at Bob with "Darkest Hour", specifically after learning from Luigi that Bob built his career off mistreating and manipulating them. Interestingly enough, it's Saiko who leads despite not being part of the "Ultimate Diss Track" since she was working with Bob at the time.note
- Riches to Rags: Happens to Bob after the success of "Darkest Hour". All of his fans ditch him, he goes bankrupt and loses his house and possessions, and he is confined to sitting on the sidewalk without the comfort of friends.
- Suddenly Voiced: A downplayed example, but this is the first episode in which Saiko speaks fluent English.
- Villain Song: Ultimate Diss Track.
- "The Villain Sucks" Song: Darkest Hour.
- Worth It: Bob considers everything he did as this to get fame and fortune he craves.Bob: Were gonna get so much goddamn cash monies and hoes from this...! And it only cost me all my friends! Totally worth it!
