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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

Pagz said above that "programming a VCR in those days was like trying to hack into the Pentagon." May I note that it still is. My VCR is barely a year old, and I STILL haven’t the faintest how to work it. I tried to record a Cirque du Soleil performance on Bravo once and ended up getting about 2 hours of the TV Guide channel…

And, Inorganic Animated Sludge Babies of Norway(May I call you IASBON?), yes, you can get Zelda and Mario eps on DVD. I purchesed mine at a store called Software Etc., but they’re just a local jobbie. I can scan up the cover, though, to prove it DOES exist. Unfortunately, DiC’s site doesn’t seem to show them, but it DOES show the Super Show stuff. Maybe take a more in-depth look at that since Zelda way a part of it–I really only skimmed. But my disc is offically entitled "Ganon’s Evil Tower," and the contained epsidoes are "The Ringer"(Ganon screws with an amatuer magician’s contest), "Cold Spells"(Link pretends to be sick to get out of spring cleaning while Ganon starts making the buckets and rags attack everyone, hilarity and oranges ensue), and "The White Knight"(Zelda falls for an impressive-looking prince who turns out to be something of a fastideous prat). Sorry I can’t be more helpful.

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 10/12/2003 1:20 PM

Yeah I got that DVD too it’s cool. Yeah I have the VHS for the slime that raps Luigi and that is off The Ringer episode tape for Zelda. I also have Mario’s Flying Carpet, The Great Gladiatorial Gig, Koopa Clause (its awesome), Mario’s Flying Carpet, The Great BMX Race, and several others. This tapes are classic pieces of shit and are craptacular.

Chestnuts roasted by BillyBadAss @ 10/12/2003 1:29 PM

Not a big fan of the Krispy Kremes…waaaay to muhc frosting for me.

Do you really work at acme starwrenn? Can you hook me up with some rocket powered skates?

Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/12/2003 1:38 PM

In reply to Inorganic Animated Sludge Babies of Norway’s question about the SMB and Legend of Zelda DVD’s, they do exist, but I’ve no idea where you’d find them. I found one Legend of Zelda DVD’s in a GameStop in South Jersey, so I’m sure there around somewhere.

Chestnuts roasted by Third Rate Ninja @ 10/12/2003 4:19 PM

Say, Matt, have you seen the Brain Gremlin action figure?

Chestnuts roasted by BigBadLemurTamer @ 10/12/2003 5:06 PM

I remember vividly that exact episode, as I presented it for Show-and-Tell in elementry school. I was always a Luigi fan but, in all honesty, the live-action stuff just fueled all the Mario fans to brag about how much better Mario was than Luigi. And to this day the poor sap hasn’t had a decent game.

Hudson….man that guy r0x0rz.

Its a sad day in history when you ask how many people remember the animated Zelda and you get blank stares from people 1 YEAR YOUNGER! Even when you spout the cheesy catch phrase "Well, excuuuuse, Princess!!" T_T I’m not old, you people remember! Anyone wanna send me the movies to download so I can prove to them that’s I’m not making this all up like that "Today’s Special" show?

Chestnuts roasted by CardCaptor Loki @ 10/12/2003 5:12 PM

Where’s the potpurri guide, dammit?

Chestnuts roasted by Electric Penguin @ 10/12/2003 5:49 PM

For those who want most Zelda eps, I got EVERY SINGLE BLOODY BLOODY episode on mah computer. You just gotta look hard on the net, and you’ll find ‘em. Many fansites n’ stuff will give ya some. I can’t remember any of the sites, as I forgot them once I got what I came for. As for the catch phrase, it is "Well, excuuuuuuse ME, Princess!" Yepp.

Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 10/12/2003 6:47 PM

They played SMBSS at 2:30 when I was little. How I lamented being in accursed elementary school, and thus my parents disallowing me to be home alone after school.

Loki, I thought I was the only one who remembered Today’s Special. I wish I knew more about it, but then, I’ve been too lazy to look it up anyway. I have vague memories of an episode having to do with snow, and one with gluing something together to make the tallest tower of.. Cookies, or something.

Chestnuts roasted by Lys @ 10/12/2003 7:14 PM

Loved that mannequin. The only episode I remember (cuz we have part of it on tape) is the one where one of the rats is running behind the walls cuz she is always late, and one of the steam pipes falls on her, trapping and almost killing her.

Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/12/2003 7:54 PM

Acme in this neck of the woods (or shore, as the case may be) is a grocery store chain, not a way for Wile E. Coyote to try to catch Road Runner. : 0 )

No, neither "Mario" nor "Today’s Special" are fictional. I have fond memories of "Special" on Nickelodeon. It was one of my favorite shows. And, yes, my sisters (one of whom is barely a year younger than I am) also think I’m crazy when I mention this stuff to them.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/12/2003 8:43 PM

The only thing weirder than seeing SMB is to see the show in Spanish. I remember for a while it seemed like everytime I changed the channel past TeleMundo there was Capt Lou, dubbed into a high pitched Spanish voice, with commercials for weird energy pills, that Saturday Night Variety/Game Show, and bizzare looking sitcoms that I’m sure was the insperation for "The Simpsons" Bumblebeeman.

Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 10/12/2003 8:47 PM

Today’s Special! I thought no one else cared! On TVO(Television Ontario), they played that after Polka Dot Door. Oh man, another religious watching experience. The ep I remember most is the mannequin and some magician trapped in a hat singing about and eating giant marshmallows. Hocus Pocus Alamagokus!

Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 10/13/2003 12:28 PM

Matt, of course you’re not human. WHo else would update the countdown, but not the pic of the countdown on the home page?

Skinnamirinkydinkydink skinamirinkydoo

Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/13/2003 1:18 AM

BTW, anyone else remember the D&D cartoon? Now i was never into D&D myself, but the cartoon i liked.

Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/13/2003 1:21 AM

D’oh! I don’t know why I didn’t just go look for them before, but you can click on my name to find the Super Mario Brothers Show DVDs on Amazon.com. And you can find the Zelda DVD http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AZT6I/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-4105120-1583017?v=glance&s=dvd&st=*">here

Chestnuts roasted by Inorganic Animated Sludge Babies of Norway @ 10/13/2003 1:31 AM

Oh….god….i so miss the 80′s and 90′s. i only wish that i could have taped every episode of my favorite shows. Dangit, only place i can find shows is on kazaa. Anybody got a collection of Super Mario Bros Super Show on the computer?

Chestnuts roasted by Adam @ 10/13/2003 2:55 AM

Hmm… another Canadian/American debate here. Well, all I can say is that while we have Tim Horton’s all over the place in Quebec *now*, even here in boring Pincourt, Tim Horton’s didn’t really expand all that much in this province until the late 90s, so I, for one, am a Canadian whom grew up thinking of "doughnut hole treats" as being called "Munchkins", not "Timbits". Dunkin Donuts’ franchises have been on the wane as of late in this province, but recently they signed a deal with Couche-Tard convenience stores (which just bought the Circle K chain in the United States) so they’re expanding once again. And the first Krispy Kreme just opened in Quebec last year, which was a huge event on a slow news day in Montreal.

Also, I watched the Super Mario Brothers Super Show far more often than I should have, considering I was already 15 years old at the time, and a Sega fan.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 10/13/2003 3:51 AM

I…they’re called doughnut holes. They’re just doughnut holes. Really.

We have no Dunkin Donuts out here. It makes me sad. All we have are Krispy Kremes, which are really good if I want to bounce off the ceiling for an hour or two from the sugar high, but lousy otherwise. But I suppose if I wanted to pretend, I could take a glazed Krispy Kreme and squish it into a ball and call it a Munchkin (or a Timbit if I wanted to pretend I was Canadian) – they’re *ideal* for squishing when they’re still warm.

I have no idea where else I was going with this. Oh, also I remember Today’s Special. They replaced it with The Lil Bits somewhere along the line. Does anyone remember Bananaman? It was a short that used to run occasionally after Dangermouse and before You Can’t Do That On Television…

Chestnuts roasted by Aeire @ 10/13/2003 4:02 AM

I always liked Luigi better than Mario: he had more cachet.

I always liked date squares at a coffee house more than Timbits™ at Tim Horton’s™: they had more cachet.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/13/2003 9:55 AM

I went to Cracker Barrel over the weekend and they had sour candy corn. They were pretty good actually, but the manufacturers did not care enough to make the candies striped, as per the original. Instead, each one was a different solid color: orange, white, and yellow. So now we have original, gummy, *and* sour. When will the craziness end??!

Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 10/13/2003 10:54 AM

Wow I remember when Lou was in the ring instead of a manager. How old am I?

Chestnuts roasted by spazzamatic @ 10/13/2003 12:30 PM

So the promised potpurri guide made out of shrunken head apple peals was a joke!? Curse you Matt!

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Nevermind. Damn, I need that halloween Party Pack for my room, all I have for decorations is a couple of glow in the dark ghosts and plastic spiders.

Chestnuts roasted by Electric Penguin @ 10/13/2003 1:00 PM

actually they arent donut holes…….normally id go with logic and say they are but they actually make them with the same doh at the same time as the donuts ……just the same as they start making donuts at tim hortons at whatever time they also put on some timbits so the are just doh balls and not actually what they do with the holes they punch in donuts…sorry to burst your bubble

Chestnuts roasted by scourge @ 10/13/2003 1:25 PM

they’re CALLED donut holes, cuz it’s cute, but of course they aren’t actual bits of dough cut from the middle. that’s in the same vein as Timbits not being actual BITS of TIM. sorry, i’m just getting irritated because i can’t wait to go buy one of those glowing buckets of Munchkins for my Halloween party.

i think someone briefly addressed this, but Luigi’s Mansion does make slightly more sense now. Luigi was upset (cuz he sucks) after being utterly useless in combating the ghost in this SMBSS episode.

thanks again Matt, for feeding our Mario Bros. obsessions :)

Chestnuts roasted by zann @ 10/13/2003 1:42 PM

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