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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!



Discussion Thread: 151 comments

Sorry Freezair, don’t know what I was thinking. Yes I do, I knew the name started w/an L and had a K in there somewhere.

Anyway out here in Ohio where i go to school (in Delaware), we also have Tim Horton’s. How I long for the DD of CT. Tim Horton’s has no breakfast sandwhich. Timbits are OK, though I can’t think of them that way, and there is something odd about eating the frosted ones that just doesn’t feel right.

Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/11/2003 2:27 PM

Man oh man how I did love the Super Mario Bros Super Show. Much to to my disappointment though, and frustration, in a brilliant marketting move on behalf of the local affiliate airing the show here, it ran at 2:30pm. Excellenbt, let’s run it half an hour before its intended audiences is out of school. I dunno, does that seem crazy go nuts to anyone else? On wednesdays we gout out early, at 2, so I only ever got to watch on Wednesdays. I of coursed taped the episodes, but still, I had plenty of freinds who weren’t fortunate or clever enough to do such a thing (programing a vcr in those days was rather a lot like hacking into the pentagon). Anyway, I gotta go do the Mario. Luigi sucks.

Chestnuts roasted by Pagz @ 10/11/2003 2:41 PM

I watched that show so much…I think i saw every episode at every possible time it was on…all the reruns. that show will live with me forever. best of the best.

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 10/11/2003 2:55 PM

Why doesnt Luigi just take care of the ghost? He does in that one game that came out a few years ago.

I know what you mean about DD TOP. Im from Marion and our DD has been closed for years. Stupid Tim Hortons!

Chestnuts roasted by Primus5 @ 10/11/2003 3:21 PM

What fucking idiot decided they needed to be called munchkins? That makes no sense.

Timbits? There’s another fucking idiot for the list.

Chestnuts roasted by fyukruk @ 10/11/2003 4:09 PM

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.

I love you.

Concerning Captain Lou’s primal fear for Ernie Hudson, can you fault the man? We’re talking about the mashed-potato-fetish rapist psycho genocidal maniac from http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/469.html">Penitentiary II here!

Chestnuts roasted by JC @ 10/11/2003 5:19 PM

*Few* I was wondering when that tape would get to you. It seems evertime is send something to NY or NJ it takes a extra month. Sorry about the quality and I hope you can track it enough to record the comercials. I counted over 57 unique comericals(a shivit load ot toy comercials, a few NES game comercials and even the Corn pops comerical with the bogglin stamper giveaway) on there and two christmas comericials that SCREAM for a full review.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr Mango @ 10/11/2003 5:38 PM

total off topic but I just saw a comercial for Picture Pages by Bill Cosby. Holy crap they’re bringing that back? Did any of yall have that special named pen you could send away for?

Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 10/11/2003 6:03 PM

They call ‘em munchkins because of the tiny little bakers (munchkins) who supposidly make them; although not in a hollowed out tree–different little people. Haven’t bought any in forever, so I don’t know if they’re still using the munchkin bakers for mascots, buy anyhow, that’s how they got the name.

Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 10/11/2003 7:30 PM

Really Primus, ur DD closed? I’ve had friends tell me about their mythical small towns where DD and Tim Horton’s both survive.

Soulless Canadian corporation! This is why we should bomb Canada!

(PS I know why Tim Horton’s was founded, and its a very noble reason.)

Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/11/2003 7:42 PM

Great tape, Matt. And Mr. Mango, I think IO speak for Matt as well as us all when I say that it was wise and extremeley kind of you to give him the tape.

This was one of my favorite cartoons when I was 7 or 8. It doesn’t get any better than Mario and Luigi doing a shitty rap song (Well, except for maybe the Ninja Turtles fighting and dancing to Vanilla Ice’s "Ninja Wrap"). I remember having friends over just to watch it with me. And we all especially loved the Zelda cartoons.

Damn I wish I could have such a tape.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/11/2003 8:42 PM

Wait a minute. I have a hilarious anecdote.

There was a time in the 2nd grade when everyone was coming up with their own little rap songs and performing them for the class along with shitty dancing and the most retarded beboping ever. Well, my friend and I decided to do our own little performance of the opening theme song. He did all the rapping, and I did all the dancing and beboping. Considering that most of of the males in our class Nintendo-starved 8-year-olds, it is understandable as to why the the performance was well-received. Hell, even our teacher called us "talented." My mom even saw it once and feigned an impressed state of emotions.

Yep. Here’s to you Dewayne Debbs (my friend whom I did this with), wherever you are.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/11/2003 8:50 PM

Didn’t they change the show to "Club Mario" around when Super Mario Bros. 3 was made? And no Lou.

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 10/11/2003 10:25 PM

I remember that rap song well; "Hooked on the brothers".

Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 10/11/2003 11:14 PM

ok they are timbits and that is all…..i read the article and thats what immediately comes to mind……disagree and die

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 10/12/2003 12:08 PM

You are correct JG! When it became "Club Mario" the Bros. disappeared and some surfers dudes showed up along with the new "California Dreams"-like set. DIC used "Club Mario" to break down episodes of "Photon" into a short weekly serial segment under a different name.

Chestnuts roasted by Michael @ 10/12/2003 1:38 AM

About Batman killing . . . now that’s a whole debatable thing. See, as a fan of the comics, I realize that Batman swore an oath never to let anyone die, that’s why he’s always sending Joker to Arkham (though Joker has "died" many many times in the comics). However–as a kid I did not know about this factoid and merely accepted what the movies portrayed, showing Batman using high-caliber machine guns no less. He does, in fact, in two Burton films, kill a number of people quite intentionally. Though a fan of Burton’s Batmans, I still think the idea of Batman killing to be repulsive.

Man, why is it that when I start talking about something I totally stop dead any level of light spirits? Fine, I’ll try to lighten things up with this question: other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/12/2003 2:36 AM

Somebody up above said you can get selected episodes of the Super Mario Brothers Show and Zelda on DVD. Where can you get them? Does such a thing exist? If so, where did you find them?

Chestnuts roasted by Inorganic Animated Sludge Babies of Norway @ 10/12/2003 3:56 AM

geez… he left out the smbss episodes with Elvira, and the one with Dr. Frankenstien.

"Are you the same Dr. Frankenstien that make that ugly, horrible monster?"

"Yes, but I wouldn’t call him that… he’s very sensitive."

Chestnuts roasted by third_of_trees @ 10/12/2003 6:46 AM

I think there was another ep of the SMBSS with Dracula as well… as for Count Koopula, I think there was a video tape dedicated to that particular ep on the cover. And you can see a snippet of it at http://www.dicentertainment.com/dic_shows.html by scrolling down to the Mario icon and clicking(gotta have Real Player, though). Also has the intro on the front end of it.

Link was also in ANOTHER ep of Captain N: one based on Puss N’ Boots, where the character from said game is hopping through all these Warp Zones after one of his adversaries steals Captain N’s belt and zapper(he took them off to provide a "fair" challenge to Link in some kind of competition, IIRC). Anyway, Kevin gives chase, and Link and Duke follow. Wasn’t the greatest ep, but hey, it had Link, which brought it up a few marks.

Anyone else ever notice that the voices for Mario, Luigi, and the Princess changed from SMBSS to SMB3? What gives?

And everyone knows Krispy Kremes are the best doughnuts. :D

Chestnuts roasted by LBD "Nytetrayn" @ 10/12/2003 7:28 AM

First of all, LBD, I totally agree about Krispy Kremes being the best donuts. The only place you can get them in Southern New Jersey is at Acme…and I happen to work in one. You don’t know what pure torture it is to not break down and buy at least one a day.

I vaguely remember "The Super Mario Super Show," although I unfortuantly recall the cartoons better than the live-action segments. I can sort-of relate to the Mario Bros in the first episode. When my sisters and I were younger, we used to make our own make-shift "proton packs" and go ghostbusting in our house on dark, spooky nights. Aiding us in our endevor was Cape May being one of the oldest communities in America; every other old buidling in town seems to have a ghost. We never did find any, but that sure the heck didn’t stop us from trying hard.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/12/2003 8:25 AM

Me & my brother did the same thing, starwenn, only we found ghosts. Armed with a shoe box on a string (our ‘ghost trap’), our captured ghosts were usually stuffed animals, or the cat if we could catch him. All captured ghosts were promptly put in the containment unit (our mom’s dryer).

Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 10/12/2003 10:37 AM

ok its aobut 10:41 am, on oct 12th here and matt hasnt updated, lets go gut him. ON the count of 3 we form a lynch mob, 1…2…

Chestnuts roasted by the corinthian @ 10/12/2003 10:45 AM

you know matt, you’re lucky. My watch died the 10th, so I even though nights have passed, sleepless nights while I wait for your updates, I have no idea how long it has been, or what day it is. perhaps I could be halucinating and it’s still the 10th. you have until I get a new battery for my watch.

Chestnuts roasted by random bob @ 10/12/2003 12:50 PM

why is it I can never remember to put everything in one post? anywho, just thought I’d add to the munchkin/timtam or whatever debate. munchkin’s are from wizard of oz. tim tam’s are cookies from australia. those little donut things are useless. so there.

Chestnuts roasted by random bob @ 10/12/2003 12:58 PM

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