Come one come all, to Mr. Puzzles Incredible Game Show Spectacular!! ✨ Tune in to watch numerous contestants compete for the grand prize 🌟
Three down, two to go! As teased in the last episode, Mr. Puzzles is hosting a game show for this Puzzlevision Original, and Mario and his friends are naturally the competitors. But their antics- and especially Mario's- begin getting on his nerves, turning the game show into a total mess, and Mr. Puzzles' wrath soon rears its ugly head...
- Achievements in Ignorance: After Mr. Puzzles has previously used his abilities to undo every time someone learned more than they should or did something that they shouldn't have, when Mario proves to be too frustrating for him to handle, he imprisons him in a cage out of bounds of the screen. As Mr. Puzzles resorts to violence in a desperate attempt to raise his ratings, the ruckus allows Mario to break free of his prison and he ends up walking off to somewhere unknown with Mr. Puzzles too distracted to realize that he was gone, all while he and everyone else was completely unaware that they were trapped in Mr. Puzzles' shows.
- Animation Bump: The very end of the episode with only Mario wandering through the void has noticeably smoother animation and better lighting more in-line with the series' big trailers.
- Aspect Ratio Switch: Being a parody of classic American game shows, most of the episode is in 4:3 and pillar-boxed. Played with as Mr. Puzzles eventually cages Mario within the stage-right pillar to keep him out of the show. Once Mario breaks the third wall and wanders into the static void, the episode is back to its usual 16:9 ratio.
- Bilingual Bonus: The Chinese subtitles coming from Bob during Wheel Of Fortune (which don't match what he actually says) translate to…"Haha, look at you translating this. I bet you feel like a fool now."
- Born Unlucky: Meggy seems to be this at first in Wheel of Fortune, landing on 'lose a turn' multiple times in a row, though it's subverted upon the reveal that Mario was inside the wheel and messing with it the whole time.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: On two separate occasions, Mr. Puzzles speaks directly to the audience.
- At the start, he tells people to rate his show 5-stars (there was a website linked in the video's description where you could literally do just that… most viewers didn't)
- Later, after getting sick of Mario's antics, Mr. Puzzles puts him in a cage, which he then shoves into the black bars at the side of the screen. He then directly turns to the viewer and asks if they mind him leaving the cage there.
- During Family Feud he notes Mario's pseudo-Italian gibberish and asks where Mario's subtitles are, implying he can see and read them. There aren't any because the gibberish IS Mario's answer.
- Meggy also gets a moment during Wheel of Fortune. Bob is still speaking Chinese when he claps back at Meggy after she made fun of him for using the wrong alphabet, only this time the subtitles are English. Meggy looks down to read them and sees he said, "At least I get to play the game."
- Breaking Old Trends: This is the first Puzzlevision Original where Mario is not cast as an animal. This backfires for Mr. Puzzles hard as Mario proves impossible to control.
- Cliffhanger: Mario discovers a world full of static near Mr. Puzzles' game show, which engulfs him to take him God-knows-where next. His friends don't fare better, bearing the full brunt of Mr. Puzzles' Villainous Breakdown after his game show goes south thanks to Mario's screw-ups.
- Cool Car: A Ferrari F8 is the prize Boopkins plays for on The Price Is Right.note
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Even after Mr. Puzzles' nightmarish breakdown, Mario still thinks he's due for a reward from the game show, and believes the static TV in front of him to be nothing too worrying. It isn't until Mr. Puzzles, the whole show, and then him are covered in static and taken to their next destination does he finally realize that something's up.
- Laughing Mad: Mr. Puzzles lets out an insanely creepy laugh when things go south. This extends to the filename of his render, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.png, on the Puzzlevision website, which shows his manic face.
- Metafictional Device: Being a parody of classic game shows, the episode is in 4:3 ratio with black sidebars. Upon getting sick of Mario's antics, Mr. Puzzles cages Mario and puts him in said sidebars to keep him off the show.
- Nightmare Face: Mr. Puzzles develops a disturbingly realistic one with mismatched eyes when Mario begins pushing his buttons, and it shines in full force once he's pushed over the edge.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After Bob laughs at Meggy when she Loses A Turn twice in a row, she snaps and smashes his face multiple times against the outer casing of the Wheel.
- Sanity Slippage: Even before his big Villainous Breakdown at the end, Mr. Puzzles is clearly more on edge and quick to anger than usual throughout the episode, showing that his repeated failures to get a 5-star rating for his shows is really starting to get to him.
- Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: Mr. Puzzles hits his breaking point (thanks to Mario's mischief disrupting his games), and he resorts to rig the puzzlevision.tv site, ensuring that all user ratings are fixed at five stars, regardless of their actual scores, with anything lower labeled as "horrible".
- Villainous Breakdown: Mr. Puzzles tries his best to keep calm whenever Mario goofs up a game show event, but after the ditzy plumber accidentally screws him over one time too many, he snaps hard and, with his face locked on nightmare mode for most of his breakdown, imprisons Mario in a cage that he stuffs to the side of the screen, and resorts to trying to kill everyone in sight just get his coveted 5 stars.
