WE'RE NOT LIKE THE OTHERS WHO GET ALL THE FAME (seriously, what other plumbers get any fame?)
Raise your hand if you watched the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Captain N: The Game Master, or The Legend of Zelda as a kid!
Yeah, so a lot of us had really bad taste as children. Now, now — no getting upset. I had fond memories of all three of the above, particularly the Super Show. In particular, I fondly recalled an episode about a fountain of youth that turned Princess Peach into a baby so that Toad, Mario, and Luigi had to take care of her while inevitibly ruining all of King Koopa’s plans. Sometimes when I had little else to do (read: all the time) I would sit and day dream about some day rewatching that particular episode and enjoying it even more as an adult.
Oh, those daydreams, always getting my hopes up!
So this past Christmas when I received a DVD collection of all the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, I was ecstatic. I got to college and some friends and I sprawled out around my living room and watched every single episode from beginning to end. And it was a great time, certainly, but not because the cartoon was the best show ever (nor was it even as good as I fondly recall), but because it brought all of us together in recalling our memories.
The animation wasn’t up to par to even the animation at the time, but damn, we laughed at all the lame pasta jokes, the poor repetitive plot, all the way from the first episode — when Toad gets kidnapped and nigh-molested by a near-sighted Birdo — to Toad Warrior — where Koopa steals all the spaghetti sauce in Car Land — and it was a grand time.
So if a friend asks if you want to come over and watch one of these series — be it “MEGA COOL” Captain N or “EXCUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUse ME Princess” Legend of Zelda — realize that it’s going to be lame, but…hey, have fun with it. Sure we’re all grown up now, but we can still enjoy our nostalgic, crappily made video game shows.
And remember kids: swing your arms from side to side, come on it’s time to go do the Mario!
-maq
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