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New Articles: Super Mario’s Halloween & Dunkin Donuts’ Spooky Pails.

A reader (if you're that reader, please e-mail me!) sent in a video with old episodes of "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show," and lo and behold, a few of 'em were worthy of a Halloween feature. Picture quality was shitty as Hell, but I couldn't resist the material. Included at the bottom is a bonus feature, with five short reviews of the commercials that were airing way back then. Mario and Luigi's guests on these two reviewed episodes? Dracula and Ernie Hudson. Oh yes -- those two. Also, the Countdown's been updated (on time, nyah), with a review of Dunkin Donuts' new Munchkin-filled glow in the dark "Halloween Pail." Good times all around. Temporary layoffs, Good Times.

Posted by Matt on 10/10/2003. E-mail me!

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fIrSt PoSt!!!!!!111 mArIO!!!1111

Chestnuts roasted by God Animagnus @ 10/10/2003 9:53 PM

Maybe I’m the only one, but I’d buy a Bob action figure in a heartbeat.

Chestnuts roasted by BaronKrusha @ 10/10/2003 10:05 PM

At last I realize that I’m not the only one suffering from Ernie Hudsonphobia. That librarian ghost at the beginning of the movie that used to freak my friends out didn’t phase me. But Ernie Hudson always sent me in to vicious fits of terrified pants-wetting. Now, I feel I have a kindred spirit in Captain Lou Albano. Thank you, Captain Lou. Now I know what it feels like when doves cry.

Chestnuts roasted by YetiMcSasquatch @ 10/10/2003 10:18 PM

Love it when I come here and there’s a bunch of new stuff to read. =)

Chestnuts roasted by Stroco @ 10/10/2003 10:19 PM

I don’t know if I’m right but i remember a vaguley hallowen themed episode of the SMBSS that had Grandpa Munster guest staring.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 10/10/2003 10:59 PM

So, You guys call them "Munchkins?"

Up here, In Canada, we call them "Timbits" (based on the Coffee Monopoly up here, Tim Hortons). You can buy 20 of them for $2. THATS JUST 10 CENTS A TIMBIT!

Im Spent.

Chestnuts roasted by AL @ 10/10/2003 11:08 PM

Dunkin Donuts rocks but beware of the coffee, or at least where you get it. Some places use that new "Splenda" which is awsome stuff and leaves no sugar sludge. Maybe that’s what Mario and Winston were fighting in that episode, some DD sugar sludge that was left to mutate.

Yes there will be more sugar sludge monsters, enough for an entire an entire army that is bad for your teeth! MWAHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Otay, I’ve gone too far.

Chestnuts roasted by Lumberjack Matt @ 10/10/2003 11:33 PM

I watched this show religiously. I mean religiously in the secular sense. …..???? I wish I’d paid more attention to the live-action bits, but I was always hankerin’ for Mario or Zelda cartoon action. I learned my lesson the hard way. Good night.

Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 10/10/2003 11:36 PM

I was never a fan of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. It was too cheesey for me. Where I lived they showed it like at 6:30 AM. I think they brought it back in like 1997 and showed it in the afternoon. I guess it didn’t get a lot of love in the LA area.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/11/2003 12:19 PM

What, no Count Koopula or Dr. Koopenstein?

.. I think there was a Dr. Koopenstein, anyway. I distinctly remember Count Koopula though, because they kept mistaking marinara sauce for blood or something like that.

Chestnuts roasted by Marc @ 10/11/2003 12:28 PM

holy crap Piscez, you’re way off. Congo was out in ’95 (see imdb). You can also find that SMB Super Show started in ’89.

Obviously Matt researched this fact extensively, just like he does for all his articles

Chestnuts roasted by rizz @ 10/11/2003 1:05 AM

Was this the only show that showed SMB3 and/or zelda type cartoons? I kind of remember them separate, but I was a little young at the time. What I remember most was watching a zelda cartoon and the spiders wrapped luke and zelda up w/webbing and being disappointed that the video game spiders didn’t do that.

Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/11/2003 1:21 AM

They’re Timbits, you American assholes!

Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 10/11/2003 1:26 AM

Hey Matt, the "Handheld Device" is called a P.K.E. Meter. Sorry, but I’m a major Ghostbusters fan, I can’t help it.

Chestnuts roasted by gbguy13 @ 10/11/2003 1:48 AM

If I recall, the Super Mario Bros. Super Show took place before SMB3. However, NBC aired cartoons based on SMB3 and Super Mario World. They even added Yoshi to the gang for "World", who I liked in the games, but he annoyed me so much in the show.

I also remember Link and Zelda appearing once on Captain N, looking and sounding nothing like their SMBSS incarnations. I do remember that Zelda had THREE Tri-Forces (red, green, and blue), instead of Zelda having the green, and Gannon (sp?) having the red. I know nothing about the Zelda games though, so I don’t know what that was all about.

Chestnuts roasted by Aberration @ 10/11/2003 2:28 AM

Scroll down for Legend of Zelda and Super Mario intros:
http://www.dicentertainment.com/dic_shows.html

Chestnuts roasted by Richard @ 10/11/2003 3:30 AM

People in the East have Dunkin Donuts…Canadians have Tim Horton’s…what do those of us in the West have? In the immortal words of Kuni from UHF:

Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Stupid! You’re so stupid!!!

Dunkin Donuts really needs to build a franchise in Reno.

Chestnuts roasted by El Zorro Loco @ 10/11/2003 3:31 AM

All you Canadian blokes, here in America we call minnie doughnuts "doughnut holes" you know like the dough that was carved out to make the hole in the usual doughnut. I believe it’s only Dunkin’ Donuts who calls them Munchkins.

What do I have to say about the articles? I don’t know, I always like the idea of having Bob the Goon, you know, because Batman has to fight a bunch of henchmen before he gets to fight the Joker. Henchmen were always necessary in my toy-playing days. I was always frustrated that I only had one Foot Soldier for my Ninja Turtles to ‘splode. I always wanted the Batman line to come out with more goons than just Bob, you know like that token tough black guy who almost does Batman in right before the Joker. And the Batman Returns line, how come they never came out with a whole bunch of different types of clowns for Batman to fight. I mean, he can’t just kill Penguin over and over again. Am I right?

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/11/2003 4:33 AM

(Yeah, yeah… so this was posted yesterday. So I’m slow, so sue!

Oh my. You’ve made me an insanely happy geek by posting these reviews. You see, as a tot, I had a huge crush on Mario. Why, of all the available ‘animated hotties’ on cartoons in those days I chose a portly Italian plumber is beyond me. Ah well, it could’ve been worse– I could have sweated Captain Planet.

Anyway, I watched this show like it was a religion. ThaNks– or should I say ‘fangs?–for the memories.

Chestnuts roasted by snowcalico @ 10/11/2003 9:39 AM

Ostrich!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Pumpkin Spice @ 10/11/2003 10:32 AM

Actually, Batman can’t kill the Penguin or any goons. Batman doesn’t kill. Makes him who he is. That, and the loads of money and obsessiveness and pointy ears.

On the doughnut hole issue, I’m with the US on this one. "Timbits" is just way too scary a name for something small, round, and meant to be popped in a mouth.

Chestnuts roasted by fangirlx @ 10/11/2003 10:48 AM

It’s a shame that instead of Ghostbusters II (aka the Most Disappointing Sequel Ever) Ernie Hudson wasn’t hyping his role as warden Leo Glynn on OZ. Then we could have been blessed with a scene of Lou Albano being sodomized and shanked by the sludge monster.

Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 10/11/2003 12:12 PM

Some note from a fan/addict:

There are indeed episodes where Koopa goes vampire (using pasta sauce for blood, I believe) and created a mechanical monster as "Koopenstein", which gets out of his control, but I don’t remember how. Also, Danny Wells makes a better Luigi than John Legizwhoits from the movie.

Link and Zelda actually guest star in two season two episodes of Captain N, plus cameo in a third. The first one is actually reviewed at X-E, where Kevin and Link first team up to stop the Zelda two ending I always seem to get when I play, where Gannon wants the potion of power to regain his age. Sort of like the Fountain of Youth in reverse. The other has our heroes trying to protect the three Triforces (power, wisdom, and courage, all acting as knicknacks on Zelda’s throne) from Mother Brain.

The cameo is where they need dragonwood tree bark to cover a mechanical dragon to help other dragons in the Final Fantasy gameworld. Yes I am sad for knowing all that, but no, I don’t care.

"Timbits?" Sounds like they blew up some guy named Tim. I have a friend named Tim. You want me to be a cannabal? No chance! Hand me them doughnut holes! mmmmm Glazed!

Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 10/11/2003 1:14 PM

Luke? Was that a typo or did you get deprived of him being called Link whever you’re from, TOP? Makes potential for some weird jokes, though–"Use the Triforce, Luke!" Or Tri-force. Whatever. To hyphenate, or not to hyphenate, that is the question…

Hey, Matt, didja know you can actually buy select episodes of the SMBSS and the Zelda cartoon on DVD? Digitally remastered! XP Same thing goes for the old Sonic one, though Captain N I’m not sure about. I own the Zelda one, and lemmie tell ya, it’s still as utterly insane as ever–slightly stupid but still fun. Oranges and ostriches, hooray!

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 10/11/2003 1:18 PM

So how about those commercials from the Super Mario post–any chance of posting those? Toy Commercials = RAWK!

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/11/2003 1:57 PM

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