The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Series, 1989, Cartoons, Set in Brooklyn and the Mushroom Kingdom
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is #2 of 7 in release order and #2 of 7 in chronological order in the Super Mario.
The story
In 1989 the two most famous plumbers from Brooklyn burst out of the Nintendo game world and onto television screens across America. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! aired weekday afternoons and brought Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and King Koopa more thrilling adventures as cartoon characters. And if that weren't enough, each episode also contained live-action segments featuring Mario and Luigi running their Brooklyn plumbing shop - all before they were flushed down a drainpipe into the Mushroom World.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! recap
Each episode mixes live action and animation. In the live-action segments, Mario and Luigi, played by Lou Albano and Danny Wells, run a plumbing business from their Brooklyn apartment, where comedy situations often involve a celebrity guest star. In the cartoons, the brothers have fallen down a drain into the Mushroom Kingdom, where they help Princess Toadstool and Toad stop King Koopa, who takes on a new disguise and scheme in each story, often parodying a film, book or historical event. On Fridays, the cartoon is replaced with The Legend of Zelda, in which Link and Princess Zelda defend Hyrule from Ganon. The show runs for one season of 65 episodes.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ending explained
There is no finale; each cartoon is a standalone adventure, and the show ends after its single season in 1989. The Mushroom Kingdom adventures continue with a new cast in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.
Where to watch The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is streaming on Prime Video, Pluto TV, Fawesome, Cineverse, Tubi, and Amazon MX Player in the US. You can rent or buy it on Google Play and Fandango At Home.
Ratings
IMDb 6.3/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!, before The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.
- Chronological order: after Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!, before The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.
What to watch before The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Nothing. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is the first of the Super Mario essentials, so it's the place to start. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! itself is optional in the Super Mario order.
Cast
- Louis Albano as Mario
- Danny Wells as Luigi
- Harvey Atkin as King Koopa (voice)
- John Stocker as Toad (voice)
- Jeannie Elias as Princess Toadstool (voice)
- Cynthia Preston as Princess Zelda (voice)
- Jonathan Potts as Link (voice)
- Tabitha St. Germain as Spryte (voice)
- Len Carlson as Ganon (voice)
- Elizabeth Hanna as Triforce of Wisdom (voice)
- Colin Fox as King Harkinian
- Allen Stewart-Coates as Triforce of Power (voice)
Created by Bob Forward, Reed Shelly, Phil Harnage, Bruce Shelly.