The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Note that in this list, the titles of the animated segments are listed first, and the live-action segments' titles are listed second.
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| 1 | "The Bird! The Bird!" "Neatness Counts" |
Monday September 4, 1989 | 101 |
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Mario and Luigi get an obsession with neatness and demonstrate to Nicole Eggert how to unclog a sink. A Birdo mistakes Toad for her missing baby and kidnaps him, thus Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool must rescue him, while avoiding Koopa's attacks. Featured song: Surfin' Bird (The Trashmen) Mario and Luigi have a bit of trouble trying to keep Nicole dry, neat and clean. |
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| 2 | "King Mario of Cramalot" "Day of the Orphan" |
Tuesday September 5, 1989 | 103 |
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A girl called Patty (Danica McKellar) arrives at Mario and Luigi's claiming to be an orphan without a family or a place to go, so the plumbers invite her in for a stay. Mario becomes the King of Cramalot in order to drive out Koopa's forces. Episode is based on The Sword in the Stone. Featured song: Bad (Michael Jackson) The Super Mario brothers are spoiling Patty, when her parents show up, ashamed that she's been taking the plumbers for granted, but they enjoy a family reunion. |
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| 3 | "Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid" "All Steamed Up" |
Wednesday September 6, 1989 | 102 |
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In the Wild West, Koopa has kidnapped Princess Toadstool, so Mario, Luigi and Toad try to rescue her. Episode is based on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Featured song: Rawhide (Frankie Laine) Sgt. Slaughter unleashes his wrath on Luigi when Luigi appears to be stalling taking his Steam-O-Matic back to his tank, unaware Mario's inside. The result of the machine shrinks Mario. |
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| 4 | "Mario's Magic Carpet" "Marianne and Luigeena" |
Thursday September 7, 1989 | 104 |
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When Princess Toadstool winds up as the wench of an evil sultan, the Super Mario Bros. and Toad try to rescue her with the help of a bitter genie. Episode is based on Aladdin. Featured song: Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf) Marianne and Luigeena come to visit after Mario accidentally blurts out Lyle Alzado is eating lunch with them. |
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| 5 | "The Ringer" "Slime Busters" |
Friday September 8, 1989 | LOZ1 |
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A "slime ghost" is in Mario Bros Plumbing, so Mario contacts Ernie from Ghostbusters. Episode based on Ghostbusters. Ganon tries to steal the Triforce of Wisdom from Zelda. The ghost takes control of Luigi's body, forcing Ernie to battle him. |
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| 6 | "Rolling Down the River" "The Mario Monster Mash" |
Monday September 11, 1989 | 105 |
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Mario and Luigi help a certain Mark Twang win a riverboat race against Koopa. Featured Song: Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival) Dr. Frankenstein asks Mario and Luigi to help him with his experiment in promising his monster a normal brain. While laying down to take a nap, Mario gets caught up in the experiment and his brain gets switched with the monster's. |
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| 7 | "The Great Gladiator Gig" "Bonkers from Yonkers" |
Tuesday September 12, 1989 | 106 |
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Koopa hosts a fake spaghetti dinner to trap Princess Toadstool and Toad, then forces the Super Mario Bros. to fight back Tryclyde. Featured song: Shaddap You Face (Joe Dolce) A bop on Mario's head giving him amnesia forces Luigi to call in Dr. Sigmund Fruitcake (Larry Gelman) for help. |
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| 8 | "Mario and the Beanstalk" "Bats in the Basement" |
Wednesday September 13, 1989 | 107 |
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Mario and Luigi trade Princess Toadstool's cow for garbanzo beans. The beans grow into a beanstalk, leading the group to a castle in the sky owned by a giant Koopa. Episode is based on Jack and the Beanstalk. Featured song: I Heard it Through the Beanvine (a slightly altered version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine) (Marvin Gaye) A vampire (Jim Ward) arrives from Transylvania as a foreign exchange student. |
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| 9 | "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em" "Will the Real Elvis Please Shut Up!" |
Thursday September 14, 1989 | 108 |
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When Mario and Co are imprisoned by the obnoxious Queen Rotunda, and after eating Mario's spicy ice cream, the queen accidentally drinks a love potion that makes her fall in love with Mario. Featured song: The Power of Love (Huey Lewis & the News) While preparing for an Elvis look-alike contest, Mario and Luigi get a visit from the real Elvis (Fred Travalena). |
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| 10 | "Cold Spells" "Magic's Magic" |
Friday September 15, 1989 | LOZ10 |
| Basketball star Magic Johnson guest stars and shows Mario and Luigi some magic tricks. | |||
| 11 | "The Great BMX Race" "Mama Mia Mario" |
Monday September 18, 1989 | 109 |
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Mario and Luigi enter a BMX race against Mouser, Tryclyde and a Koopa Troopa so that they can win the prize money. Featured song: Shut Down (The Beach Boys) Mario and Luigi's mother comes to visit and proves to be a bossy annoyance from start to finish, giving them chore after chore and calling them lazy before they even do some chores. Eventually she leaves after getting a phone call (which in reality was Luigi tricking her) that she won the lottery, but the next visitor proves to be just as bad: Mario and Luigi's Aunt Lugina. |
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| 12 | "Stars in Their Eyes" "Alligator Dundee" |
Tuesday September 19, 1989 | 111 |
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Mario's group must free the natives of the planet Quirk from being Koopa's slaves. Featured song: Chains (The Beatles) Alligator Dundee hunts for an alligator that's stuck in Mario's basement, to the gator's dismay. |
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| 13 | "Jungle Fever" "Dance" |
Wednesday September 20, 1989 | 115 |
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While venturing through the Amazon Jungle to find a witch doctor, Mario, Luigi and Toad are hit with itching powder. Featured song: Jungle Love (The Time) As a birthday present from Mario, Luigi gets a free dance lesson from Shaba-Doo. |
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| 14 | "Brooklyn Bound" "Cher's Poochie" |
Thursday September 21, 1989 | 121 |
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Mario and Luigi meet up with another lost plumber from Brooklyn, who offers them the chance to return home. Featured song: Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins) Cher (Pam Matteson) asks Mario and Luigi to baby-sit her pooch. |
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| 15 | "The White Knight" "Wild Thing" |
Friday September 22, 1989 | LOZ9 |
| A loud, wild, and uninvited party ensues in the Mario Bros. Plumbing building. | |||
| 16 | "Toad Warriors" "E.C. The Extra Creepy" |
Monday September 25, 1989 | 124 |
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Koopa's road gang has stolen all the spaghetti sauce in Car Land, so Mario's group must work to get it back. Episode is based on The Road Warrior. Featured song: Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf) Mario's dreamdate from a computer system turns out to be an alien (Claire Carey). |
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| 17 | "The Fire of Hercufleas" "The Marios Fight Back" |
Tuesday September 26, 1989 | 117 |
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Mario and Luigi retrain an out-of-shape hero so that he can reclaim the stolen Great Balls of Fire from Koopa. Featured song: Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis) David Horowitz interviews the Mario Bros. on worldwide television after they claim their Mario Bros. Clog Cleaner can dissolve any clog in three minutes or less, but the result is a disaster. |
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| 18 | "Count Koopula" "Magician" |
Wednesday September 27, 1989 | 114 |
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Mario's group enter a castle in Turtlevania, where Koopa and his minions are all monsters. Episode is based on Count Dracula. Featured song: Thriller (Michael Jackson) Magician Harry Blackstone Jr. visits Luigi. |
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| 19 | "Pirates of Koopa" "Do You Believe in Magic?" |
Thursday September 28, 1989 | 112 |
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Koopa kidnaps Princess on the high seas so that he can auction her off. Mario, Luigi and Toad must pose as pirates to rescue her. Episode is based on The Pirates of Penzance. Featured song: Limbo Rock (Chubby Checker) Magic Johnson asks Luigi to repair one of his trophies. |
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| 20 | "Kiss 'N Tell" "Mommies Curse" |
Friday September 29, 1989 | LOZ3 |
| 21 | "Two Plumbers and a Baby" "Lost Dog" |
Monday October 2, 1989 | 110 |
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Princess Toadstool falls into Koopa's Fountain of Youth and turns into a baby. Mario, Luigi and Toad must babysit her until they can get her back to normal. Episode is based on Three Men and a Baby. Featured song: Baby Sittin' Boogie (Buzz Clifford) Pam Matteson arrives in tears after losing her dog and asks Mario and Luigi to help get it back. |
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| 22 | "The Adventures of Sherlock Mario" "Plumbers of the Year" |
Tuesday October 3, 1989 | 122 |
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Mario becomes a detective to find the missing Herlock Solmes, and to stop Koopa from flooding the city of Victoria. Featured song: I Spy Theme (Earle Hagen) The Grand Pooba of Plumbing (Marty Allen) arrives to announce Mario and Luigi have been elected Plumbers of the Year, but leaks in the plumbing cause him to want to change his mind. |
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| 23 | "Do You, Princess Toadstool, Take This Koopa...?" "Mario Hillbillies" |
Wednesday October 4, 1989 | 130 |
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In order to free the Super Mario Bros. and the Mushroom People, Princess Toadstool agrees to marry Koopa, which would make him the legal ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom. Featured song: White Wedding (Billy Idol) Mario and Luigi's hillbilly cousins make themselves too much at home. |
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| 24 | "The Pied Koopa" "Super Plant" |
Thursday October 5, 1989 | 125 |
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Koopa uses a flute to lure all the children of Pastaland into his castle. Featured song: Hit the Road Jack (Ray Charles) Mario and Luigi use a plant growing antidote presented by a salesman to use on Mario's mother's plant, but grows into a giant plant monster. |
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| 25 | "Sing for the Unicorn" "Fred Van Winkle" |
Friday October 6, 1989 | LOZ2 |
| Mario and Luigi teach Fred Van Winkle, who was sleeping for over a century. | |||
| 26 | "Koopenstein" "Baby Mario Love" |
Monday October 9, 1989 | 134 |
| Koopa tries to terrorize a mountain town with a robot monster, but winds up turning into a monster himself. Episode is based on Frankenstein. Featured song: Weird Science (Oingo Boingo) | |||
| 27 | "On Her Majesty's Sewer Service" "9001: A Mario Odyssey" |
Tuesday October 10, 1989 | 127 |
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Mario and Luigi become spies to save Secret Agent James Blonde from Koopfinger. Episode is based on On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Featured song: Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers) Note: Toad does not show up in this episode. |
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| 28 | "Mario and Joliet" "Fake Bro" |
Wednesday October 11, 1989 | 119 |
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Romano and Joliet are unable to get married due to the feud going on between their fathers, which Koopa secretly started. Episode is based on Romeo and Juliet. Featured song: That's Amore (Dean Martin) A schemer (Vic Dunlop) in order to get rich quick pretends to be Mario and Luigi's missing brother. |
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| 29 | "Too Hot to Handle" "Time Out Luigi" |
Thursday October 12, 1989 | 120 |
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Koopa and Fryguy use a fake volcano god to trick a tribe of islanders into sacrificing Princess. Featured song: Hot Hot Hot (Buster Poindexter) Luigi buys a watch that runs backwards from a mysterious salesperson. Soon, he does everything backwards, even eating. |
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| 30 | "That Sinking Feeling" "Tutti Frutti, Oh Mario" |
Friday October 13, 1989 | LOZ13 |
| 31 | "Hooded Robin and His Mario Men" "Flower Power" |
Monday October 16, 1989 | 123 |
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Mario's group teams up with Hooded Robin to reclaim all the gold coins that Koopa stole from a village. Episode is based on Robin Hood. Featured song: Rockin' Robin (song) (Bobby Day) A taste of spaghetti sauce with seeds in it causes Luigi to grow fruits and vegetables out of his body. |
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| 32 | "20,000 Koopas Under the Sea" "Vampire Until Ready" |
Tuesday October 17, 1989 | 132 |
| Koopa scares a seaside town into making him their ruler by using a mechanical sea monster to scare them. Episode is based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Featured song: Splish Splash (Bobby Darin) | |||
| 33 | "Mighty McMario and the Pot of Gold" "Heart Throb" |
Wednesday October 18, 1989 | 129 |
| Mario and Co must end a leprechaun's curse of bad luck by retrieving his pot of gold coins that was stolen by Koopa. Featured song: Do You Believe in Magic (The Lovin' Spoonful) | |||
| 34 | "Mario Meets Koop-zilla" "Fortune Teller" |
Thursday October 19, 1989 | 118 |
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After eating Super Sushi, Koopa has grown enormous, and is terrorizing the city of Sayonara. Episode is based on Godzilla. Featured song: The Jolly Green Giant (The Kingsmen) Mario and Luigi, anxious to find out what prize they won in a sweepstakes, consult a fortune teller (Kay Ballard) for help. |
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| 35 | "Doppelganger" "The Magic Love" |
Friday October 20, 1989 | LOZ4 |
| 36 | "Koopa Klaus" "Little Marios" |
Monday October 23, 1989 | 140 |
| Koopa kidnaps Santa Claus in order to ruin Christmas. Featured song: Jingle Bell Rock (Bobby Helms) | |||
| 37 | "Mario and the Red Baron Koopa" "Gorilla My Dreams" |
Tuesday October 24, 1989 | 128 |
| Mario and Luigi take to the skies to stop Koopa and Lakitu from taking over Pastaland. Featured song: Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins) | |||
| 38 | "The Unzappables" "George Washington Slept Here" |
Wednesday October 25, 1989 | 136 |
| Koopa and his henchmen acquire special hats which render them invulnerable. Featured song: Beat It (Michael Jackson) | |||
| 39 | "Bad Rap" "Caught in a Draft" |
Thursday October 26, 1989 | 126 |
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Koopa takes over Rapland and hypnotizes everyone into giving him their money. Featured song: I Got You (I Feel Good) (James Brown) Mario and Luigi discover they've been drafted by the military. |
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| 40 | "Underworld Connections" "Defective Gadgetry" |
Friday October 27, 1989 | LOZ7 |
| 41 | "The Mark of Zero" "Toupee" |
Monday October 30, 1989 | 131 |
| A Zorro-esque hero saves Mario's group from Koopa. Mario and Luigi then have to save the mysterious hero from Koopa themselves. Featured song: La Bamba (Ritchie Valens) | |||
| 42 | "The Ten Koopmandments" "The Artist" |
Tuesday October 31, 1989 | 141 |
| Koopa has turned almost everyone in Pyramid Land into bricks for his new Koopinx, so Mario's group must find a way to rescue them. Featured song: Walk Like an Egyptian (The Bangles) | |||
| 43 | "The Koopas Are Coming! The Koopas Are Coming!" "Zenned Out Mario" |
Wednesday November 1, 1989 | 133 |
| Mario and Co help General Washingtoad free his Mushroom People from Koopa's Redcoats. Episode is based on the Paul Revere's ride. Featured song: He's a Rebel (The Crystals) | |||
| 44 | "The Trojan Koopa" "Texas Tea" |
Thursday November 2, 1989 | 137 |
| When Mario, Luigi and Toad are unable to rescue Princess Toadstool from Koopa and the Hammer Brothers, they try to fool him with a Koopa-shaped Trojan Horse. Featured song: I Hear You Knocking (Dave Bartholomew) | |||
| 45 | "Stinging a Stinger" "The Great Hereafter" |
Friday November 3, 1989 | LOZ11 |
| 46 | "Quest for Pizza" "The Painting" |
Monday November 6, 1989 | 135 |
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When Mario gets bitten by a venomous snake in Cavemanland, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad learn that the only way to save him is to feed him a pizza, which they must make from scratch. Featured song: Alley Oop (The Hollywood Argyles) Mario and Luigi find a lost painting. |
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| 47 | "The Great Gold Coin Rush" "Game Show Host" |
Tuesday November 7, 1989 | 143 |
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When Mario's group accidentally discovers a cavern full of gold coins, Koopa finds out and forces the local villagers and Toad to mine them all for himself. Featured song: Money (That's What I Want) (Barrett Strong) Game show host Jim Lange comes to visit. |
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| 48 | "Elvin Lives" "Home Radio" |
Wednesday November 8, 1989 | 139 |
| While trying to find the missing Elvin Parsley, Koopa kidnaps Princess Toadstool and forces her to be his girlfriend.Featuring Rock Around the clock By Bill Haley and his Comets. | |||
| 49 | "Plumbers Academy" "Glasnuts" |
Thursday November 9, 1989 | 146 |
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Mario retells the story of how he and Luigi became plumbers back in Brooklyn. Note- A police officer tells Mario and Luigi that the President of the US is meeting with the Head of Russia. Ironically, the day the episode aired was also the day the Berlin Wall fell. Featured song: Workin' for a Livin' (Huey Lewis and the News) |
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| 50 | "A Hitch in the Works" "Treasure of the Sierra Brooklyn" |
Friday November 10, 1989 | LOZ12 |
| 51 | "Karate Koopa" "Adee Don't" |
Monday November 13, 1989 | 138 |
| When Koopa kidnaps Princess Toadstool and Toad, Mario and Luigi turn to a karate master for help. Featured song: Kung Fu Fighting (Carl Douglas) | |||
| 52 | "Mario of the Apes" "Chippie Chipmunks" |
Tuesday November 14, 1989 | 144 |
| Mario suffers from amnersia, and is convinced by an ape couple that he is their child. | |||
| 53 | "Princess, I Shrunk the Mario Brothers" "A Basement Divided" |
Wednesday November 15, 1989 | 147 |
| A wizard's potion intended to shrink Koopa is spilled by Toad, and ends up shrinking the Super Mario Bros. Episode is based on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. | |||
| 54 | "Little Red Riding Princess" "No Way to Treat a Queenie" |
Thursday November 16, 1989 | 152 |
| Peach is delivering a basket of cake, soup and apple cider to Grandma Toadstool. But she is pursued by both Koopa and the Big Bad Wolf. Episode is based on Little Red Riding Hood. | |||
| 55 | "Fairies in the Spring" "Pizza Crush" |
Friday November 17, 1989 | LOZ5 |
| 56 | "The Provolone Ranger" "Goodbye Mr. Fish" |
Monday November 20, 1989 | 142 |
| When Koopa kidnaps Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad in Sudden Death Valley, Mario becomes the Provolone Ranger in order to save them. Episode is based on The Lone Ranger. | |||
| 57 | "Escape from Koopatraz" "French" |
Tuesday November 21, 1989 | 151 |
| Posing as a judge, Koopa sentences Mario and Co to the prison of Koopatraz, where he is also the warden. Toad also finds his long lost grandfather. Episode is based on Escape frm Alcatraz. | |||
| 58 | "Mario of the Deep" "Two Bums from Brooklyn" |
Wednesday November 22, 1989 | 116 |
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Mario's group tries to save Aqualand from Koopa's reign. Baseball manager Tummy Lasanga (a parody of Tommy Lasorda, played by Joe Bellan) arrives to sample Mario's meatballs for his restaurant and hires the Marios to sell peanuts at the ballpark. |
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| 59 | "Flatbush Koopa" "Opera" |
Thursday November 23, 1989 | 148 |
| Mario and Luigi finally return to Brooklyn, only to learn that Koopa is taking over the city. | |||
| 60 | "The Missing Link" "Tutti Frutti Mario" |
Friday November 24, 1989 | LOZ6 |
| Link becomes inivisible after a blow by Ganon. | |||
| 61 | "Raiders of the Lost Mushroom" "Cyrano de Mario" |
Monday November 27, 1989 | 149 |
| Mario and Co team up with the faceless Indiana Joe to try and recover a statue known as the Lost Mushroom. Episode is based on Raiders of the Lost Ark. | |||
| 62 | "Crocodile Mario" "Rowdy Roddy's Rotten Pipes" |
Tuesday November 28, 1989 | 145 |
| When Koopa steals a town's magical statue that repels crocodiles, Mario and Luigi must retrieve it. Episode on based on Crocodile Dundee. | |||
| 63 | "Star Koopa" "Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush" |
Wednesday November 29, 1989 | 150 |
| Mario's group has to stop Koopa before he destroys the planet of a Mushroom space colony. Episode is based on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. | |||
| 64 | "Robo Koopa" "Captain Lou is Missing" |
Thursday November 30, 1989 | 113 |
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Koopa uses a robo suit to kidnap Princess Toadstool and Toad. The suit's inventor then builds Mario and Luigi a suit of their own so they can fight Koopa. Episode is based on RoboCop. Cyndi Lauper, waiting to go on a picnic with Captain Lou Albano, gets a note from him with an important part of the note accidentally torn out. This leads her to think he dumped her, when in fact, he just went for some chicken. |
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| 65 | "The Moblins are Revolting" "The Ghoul of My Dreams" |
Friday December 1, 1989 | LOZ8 |
As seen above, the thirteen episode series, The Legend of Zelda, was aired with the live-action Mario Bros. Plumbing segments on Fridays. The above production codes for these episodes (ex: LOZ3) are in the order the episodes were produced, but the actual codes used during production are unknown.
- Slime Busters (aired with "The Ringer")
- Magic's Magic (aired with "Cold Spells")
- Wild Thing (aired with "The White Knight")
- Mommies Curse (aired with "Kiss ’N Tell")
- Fred Van Winkle (aired with "Sing for the Unicorn")
- Tutti Frutti, Oh Mario (aired with "That Sinking Feeling")
- The Magic Love (aired with "Doppelganger")
- Defective Gadgetry (aired with "Underworld Connections")
- The Great Hereafter (aired with "Stinging a Stinger")
- Treasure of the Sierra Brooklyn (aired with "A Hitch in the Works")
- Pizza Crush (aired with "Fairies in the Spring")
- Tutti Frutti Mario (aired with "The Missing Link")
- The Ghoul of My Dreams (aired with "The Moblins are Revolting")
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