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Post by wendylady on Mar 28, 2006 19:07:21 GMT -5
I thought I was the only one who remembers or misses the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, but there are clearly some more fans out there because now it's ON DVD!!! I seriously, can't believe it, but I'm definitely getting a copy. Does anyone here know what I'm talking about? This show had Captain Lou Albano as Mario and it would go from live people to cartoon.
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Post by Nester the Lark on Mar 28, 2006 21:47:57 GMT -5
Ah, yes. I was a devoted viewer of the ol' Super Mario Super Show. Who can forget the Mario rap? The Zelda cartoons every Friday? The cheesy music montages? The (usually fake) celebrity guests? And, of course, do the Mario!
It's also probably one of the most cheaply and shoddily produced cartoons I can ever remember watching. There were animation glitches all over the place! The voice acting was also pretty awful.
I also remember when the live action segments with Mario (Albano) and Luigi (Danny Wells) were replaced by a couple of "dudes." Those weren't as good, and the cartoons were reruns.
It may sound like I'm bashing the show a little, and maybe it deserves it, but I have a lot of fond memories.
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Post by mariomaniac02 on Mar 28, 2006 23:13:38 GMT -5
It's not the full series though. The DVD has only 24 of the Super Show episodes, so we'll have to wait for another DVD release for the rest.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 29, 2006 3:36:05 GMT -5
The original episodes were a bit shoddy, and very 1980s in how they were written (but most 80's cartoons were considerably shoddy at the time). The SMB3 episodes had worse animation, but, in my eyes, significantly better writing. Then the SMW episodes were just awful. Poor writing, dismal animation, and Oogtar. The skits between Lou Albano and Danny Wells were exceptionally camp. The Captain N cartoons weren't that great, and while the Zelda cartoons are also quite bad, I did like how they imagined the Zelda world. Despite all this and more, the cartoons are a highlight of my childhood. During one summer, a TV show exclusively showed the Zelda cartoons. Nowadays, the original SMB Super Show and SMB3/SMW shows are still shown on a cable channel here in the UK with Captain N and Zelda still intact. I've watched some, but I don't think I'll ever love them as much as I did when I was younger. What we need are some classy, Japanese animated shows. Maybe not as formulaic as Sonic X, or Mega Man Battle Network... but I think it's time for a new Mario series. Maybe the new Nintendo animation studio can work on it  |
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Post by kirbychu on Mar 29, 2006 15:35:45 GMT -5
What we need, in my opinion, is full 30-minute shows in the vein of the Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Mario Power Tennis intro movies. Generally I'm much more into 2D animation than 3D, but those movies... I love those movies. Hell, it's the main reason I got Mario Golf. ;D
However, the early cartoons are a part of my childhood and despite the fact that i find them fairly awful to look at now, I won't hear a bad word said about them.
Fry, was it GM:TV showing the Zelda cartoons? If so, then I remember that. Though I'd never heard of the games at that time. *shame*
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Post by nas on Mar 29, 2006 16:37:50 GMT -5
I remember the Mario Supershow, but I dont remember it being on GM:TV, but i dont know... I think I remember several series of Mario cartoons such as 'The adventures of Super Mario Bros 3' and 'Super Mario World' cartoons. Admittedly not the best animation ever, but I still love those cartoons to this day! Iv still got a video of some of the episodes somewhere in the attic. I still laugh whenever I see them. I also remember the Zelda cartoons, and being an avid Zelda fan, I thought these were great but were only commissioned for a short while (sadly). Just reminiscing on the old times....  |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 29, 2006 17:03:03 GMT -5
I think it was GM:TV (or the kids show that immediately followed GM:TV) that showed the Zeldas... which was odd, I thought, because all the Mario shows were on Channel 4.
I have memories of staying over at a friend's house and watching them in the morning... with a tinned spaghetti breville for breakfast! Yum!!
Simpler times... *sigh*
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Mar 30, 2006 0:42:29 GMT -5
A month or so ago SMB3 and SMW cartoons popped up at a few stores here for $10 a DVD. Last week I saw them for $15 for the box set (3 DVDs, I think). So I'm gonna wait some more, and hopefully pick them up from a bargain bin soon enough.
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Post by wanderingshadow on Apr 1, 2006 22:02:07 GMT -5
I'm lame and am not really looking forward to the DVD set.
I was a fan of the show back in the day, but my nostalgia isn't strong enough to by the box set of the show. I'd rather spend my money rounding out my game collection.
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Post by Saim on Apr 12, 2006 2:41:30 GMT -5
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 sucked. IT SUCKED SO MUCH!
The voice acting was by the stereotypical mafiosa accents, ya know, Italian-American. Not the fake Italian accent, which Mario and Luigi have in the games. Also, I found it weird how the Mario bros. had to save the president and it was either the princess, or the king to be elected. HOW THE HELL CAN YOU VOTE FOR A PRINCESS OR A KING?!?!?!? If it's a democracy, they're not an actaul princess and king! And who the hell is Prince Hugo? They just made up a character out of no-where. This is made for 5-year old kids who like Mario. I watched the first DVD, and decided to not watch the rest of the series. I might anyway, because I am such a fan, though.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Apr 12, 2006 3:38:46 GMT -5
Heh heh... dude... you really had to be there. Back in the 80's it was the best cartoon on TV for a Nintendo fan...
But yes... if you have any appreciation for animation, it does suck.
I actually think the SMB3 shows were better (or at least better written) than all of the SMB and SMW shows. Although there was a little too much "travelling back to the Real World".
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Post by Saim on Apr 12, 2006 19:43:09 GMT -5
Heh heh... dude... you really had to be there. Back in the 80's it was the best cartoon on TV for a Nintendo fan... But yes... if you have any appreciation for animation, it does suck. I actually think the SMB3 shows were better (or at least better written) than all of the SMB and SMW shows. Although there was a little too much "travelling back to the Real World". Yeah travelling back to the "real" world was stupid. That world was as real as the Mushroom Kingdom though. |
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Post by Dasher Misire on May 6, 2006 11:44:55 GMT -5
I have so much respect for the SMW and SMB3 cartoons it's crazy. I knew it would be low-budget, so I didn't hope for any outstanding animation with two mistakes in a season or the whole series. SMBSS failed to keep my attention. The live-action skits were terrible, and the spoofs weren't done good at all. I stopped trying to watch it after the Star Wars spoof episode. I'm a huge SW fan and I think my stomach knotted after that one.
SMB3 was much better, King Koopa wasn't dressing up in tacky clothing for every other episode, and it was very true the the games. The Real World leaping was a bit strange at first, but it was a nice way to make the episodes slightly more interesting. You also have the Koopa Kids, who had great personalities and voices, as this was started before SMB3 came out in America I believe. No names for them yet and no personality. DiC did rather well there.
SMW was very short, and I don't think Nintendo would want to let DiC make a new show when they began making Sonic cartoons. But I loved the SMW show because in my opinion, King Koopa was more comical and not outstaged by his kids as much as the last show. I liked the music more than the last one as well, good for DiC standards. I really don't care about the cavepeople, they're annoying but not enough to ruin the show altogether. There was no backstory to Yoshi being older than Mario and Luigi, so they made their own up, him being a baby and still not knowing how to speak well. The cavepeople...well...this was assumed to be a prehistoric place, I bet. Looking at newer games, it looks much more civilized, but this was 1990 or 1991 when they started.
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