The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is an American television series based upon Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2. It is the first of three TV shows based on the video game series, with the other being The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World. It was originally broadcast via first-run syndication from September 4, 1989 to December 1, 1989, with reruns continuing until September 6, 1991. The Family Channel picked up the series on September 23, 1991, and aired it until August 26, 1994. The show was produced by DiC Animation and was distributed by Viacom Enterprises in association with Nintendo of America, Inc., DHX Media, the successor company of Cookie Jar Entertainment and DiC, is the current distributor.

The first and last parts of each episode were live segments which showed Mario (professional wrestler and manager Captain Lou Albano) and Luigi (Danny Wells), two Italian-American plumbers living in Brooklyn, where they would often be visited by celebrity guest stars. It appears that the live segments take place before Mario and Luigi went to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Some of the celebrity guest stars were popular television stars, such as Nedra Volz, Norman Fell, Donna Douglas, Eve Plumb, Vanna White, Jim Lange, Danica McKellar, Nicole Eggert, Clare Carey and Brian Bonsall or professional athletes such as Lyle Alzado and Magic Johnson and WWE (then WWF) stars like Roddy Piper and Sgt. Slaughter. In one episode, Ernie Hudson appeared as a Slimebuster, a parody of his Ghostbusters persona Winston Zeddemore and on another occasion Mario and Luigi receive a visit from Inspector Gadget, performed live by Maurice LaMarche who voiced Chief Quimby in the second season of the show and later went on to voice Gadget himself in Inspector Gadget's Last Case and Gadget & the Gadgetinis. There was also another episode with Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, but the episode was not included in the DVDs. In an interview for the first DVD release of the show, Lou Albano talked about filming these live action skits, which mainly involved he and Wells getting a central plot and mostly improvising the dialogue as they went along.

In one episode, Lou Albano portrays himself, forcing his regular character to leave the scene in order for himself to appear. In the episode in question, pop star Cyndi Lauper states she's looking for Lou Albano because he's missing, due to the note she got from him (although there is an important part missing from the note). Mario exclaims how much he wants to meet Lou, and later Lou appears as himself supposedly while Mario's out shopping for pizza. As a result, Luigi gets to meet Lou, but Mario does not.

Lou Albano and Danny Wells also once played female versions of themselves, Marianne and Luigeena (their cousins), and also two hillbilly cousins, named Mario Joe and Luigi Bob.

Each Super Mario Bros. cartoon served as the second segment of every show, following the introduction and first few minutes of the episode's live-action segment. The cartoon featured characters and situations based upon the NES games Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2, as well as several sound effects and musical cues from the two games. Each episode featured Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool defending the Mushroom Kingdom from the reptilian villain King Koopa, often in a movie or pop-culture parody. Getting into the spirit of these parodies, Koopa often used alter egos fitting the current theme.

The theme song for the cartoon segments revealed that the Super Mario Brothers were accidentally warped into the Mushroom Kingdom while working on a bathtub drain in Brooklyn. After traveling via the warp drain, the Super Mario Brothers defeated King Koopa's Koopa Troopas, saved Princess Toadstool and halted Koopa's plan to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom. At the beginning of every cartoon segment, Mario recites an entry into his "Plumber's Log", a parody of the Captain's Log from Star Trek.

When Mario and Luigi are in danger, they often do their Patty-Cake routine: "Patty-cake, Patty-cake, Pasta-Man! Gimme Pasta power as quick as you can!" then everything becomes possible.

The Super Mario Bros. cartoons aired four days a week, from Monday through Thursday.

Cast

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Bra	Ger	Fra	Ita	Swe	Fin	Nor	Den	Russ	Spa	Swe(VHS)	Nor(VHS)	Isr
	Mario	Lou Albano	Bernardo Ezeta	Antônio Patiño	Reinhard Brock	Jacques Dynam	Tony Fuochi	Steve Kratz	Pertti Nieminen	Rune Alstedt	Kjeld Nørgaard	Alexander Novikov	José Padilla	HansHasse Jonsson	Hasse Thorbjørnsen	Yoav Tzafir
	Luigi	Danny Wells	RicardoHill	Jomeri Pozzoli	Gudo Hoegel	Jacques Ferrière	Enrico Carabelli	Johan Hedenberg	Erkki Murto	Helge WintherLarsen	Lars Thiesgaard	Alexander Komlev	Javier Franquelo	StaffanHallerstam		Ran Guetta
			MartínSoto											Gunnar Ernblad
	Princess Toadstool	Jeannie Elias	MaríaFernanda Morales	Guilene Conte	Sabine Bohlmann	StéphanieMurat	Alessandra Karpoff	Louise Raeder	Ulla Ollikainen	Sigrid Huun		Olga Zvereva	Pilar Santigosa	Louise Raeder		Naama Shapiro
						Virginie Ledieu								Jane Björck
	Toad	John Stocker	Carlos Íñigo	OberdanJúnior	HansRainer Müller	Luq Hamet	Veronica Pivetti	HansHasse Jonsson	Ulla Ollikainen	Mari Maurstad		Vladimir Gerasimov		JohanHedenberg	Hasse Thorbjørnsen	Shay Zornitzer
	King Koopa	Harvey Atkin	Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza	NewtonMartins	Willi Röbke	Raoul Delfosse	Antonio Paiola	Gunnar Ernblad	Erkki Murto	Hallvard Lydvo		Alexander Novikov	Julio Sanchidrián	JohanHedenberg		Ido Mosseri
				Paulo Flores		Michel Barbey								Sture Ström
	Mouser	John Stocker	Jorge Ornelas	Mário Jorge de Andrade	Leon Rainer	Maurice Sarfati				Hallvard Lydvo			JuanAntonio Arroyo
	Tryclyde 1	Harvey Atkin		Ayrton Cardoso	Hendrik Wiethase
	Tryclyde 2	Harvey Atkin		Márcio Simões	Hendrik Wiethase
	Tryclyde 3	Harvey Atkin		Pedro Eugênio	Hendrik Wiethase
	Merlin	Robert Bockstael	Alejandro Villeli			Gérard Hernandez
	Title	N/A	Roberto Molina