Do the Koopa

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Do the Koopa
Chronology
Season	1
Episode	15
Information
Production no.	115
Writers	Phil Harnage
Airdate	October 27, 1990
Navigation
Previous episode	"Misadventures in Babysitting"
Next episode	"Kootie Pie Rocks"

"Do the Koopa" is the fifteenth episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.

Plot

Princess Toadstool finds a map that tells the location of the Doom Dancer Music Box, a music box with the ability to leave anyone dancing. She wants to use the box to keep the Koopas under control. The Doom Dancer is located in the Temple of Gloom within Dark Land. She, Mario, Luigi, and Toad head to Dark Land. When they arrive, they unknowingly awake a Dry Bones, who quickly rushes to tell King Koopa, who currently has a cold. Upon being told that his enemies are about, King Koopa orders Larry, Bully, and Big Mouth to stop them.

The heroes arrive at the Temple of Gloom and retrieve the Doom Dancer, but their victory is short-lived, for the Koopalings use a string to trip them, causing the box to fly into Bully's hands. Bully takes control of the music box and uses it against the others, including his brothers, and declares that he will soon take over King Koopa's throne. But when he attempts to subdue King Koopa, the Koopa King cannot hear the song due to his cold. King Koopa takes full control of the box and takes the heroes and his kids for a ride on the Doom Ship. There, King Koopa makes everybody in the Mushroom Kingdom dance to the song 'Do the Koopa'.

But the Mario Bros. use plumbers' putty to plug their ears, allowing them to seize the box from King Koopa. Everyone attempts to retrieve the box, which winds up in King Koopa's hands, but without the handle. He tries to play substitute his finger for the handle, but it gets stuck. His kids manage to remove the box, but it goes flying off of the Doom Ship and breaks as it hits a Goomba's head. At that point the heroes leave, while the Koopas argue over their loss.

Trivia/Goofs

• According to this episode, there is a Warp Pipe in the middle of the Mushroom Kingdom that leads directly to King Koopa's home kingdom.
• When Bully says "Good idea. Give me your string," Big Mouth's star-shaped birthmark becomes a much lighter color, almost camoflauged in his face.
• When first dancing, Big Mouth's beak is the same color as his face.
• Luigi's overalls rapidly change from dark to light green when he starts dancing.
• Larry's face is orange when he knocks aside Big Mouth to get the doom dancer.
• After Mario runs back to the rest of the gang with the Doom Dancer, he is almost invisible, and he slowly becomes transparent until he finally is solid.
• Luigi and Mario break the fourth wall while overlooking the fire pit, by way of Luigi's exclamation, "Stop the music!", at which point the background music stops. A few seconds later, Mario calls out, "Start the music!", signalling the music to return.
• Bully's shell is green when he gives the Doom Dancer to King Koopa.
• While dancing to the Doom Dancer on board the Doom Ship, Kooky's face is brownish-orange.
• Iggy Koopa's hair is completely pink throughout the entire episode.
• This is the only appearance of the Koopa Troopas in the entire season.
• When the good guys fly over the fire pit, Toadstool's raccoon tail is not drawn in.
• When Bully follows the Dry Bones, his skin is orange and his glasses are completely red. His stomach design has also turned brown!
• When Toadstool explains how the Doom Dancer works, when the Koopalings and King Koopa fall over, Iggy's face suddenly turns from green to red, and his glasses disappear!
• When Big Mouth yells "Pesky plumbers?", both Cheatsy and Bully's heads are orange, and so is Bully's skin.
• Bully says "Heheheheh. Now let's try it slow." immediately after he starts playing the Doom Dancer. He mouths the same words ten seconds later, indicating a drastic mistiming of the vocals.
• The sequence in which Mario grabs the Doom Dancer is reminiscent of the opening to Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• When Cheatsy announces that he, Bully, and Big Mouth should follow the Mario Bros. into the temple, Bully is considerably larger than usual.
• While Toadstool is reading the map to the Mario Bros. and Toad, her eyes and eyelashes have a much bigger outline than usual. They then return to normal size, only to become dark again a few frames later.
• While Big Mouth and Bully talk about the doom dancer in the temple behind the statue, Cheatsy's face is orange!
• When Luigi and King Koopa fight over the Doom Dancer and the handle breaks, it is still on until Toad points out that it's broken.
• There is a scene where the doom dancer is falling over the ledge. It looks like it does not even reach the edge of the ship and the Koopas are already at the edge.
• At some point when the Koopalings are fighting for the music box, Bully's beak is brown instead of Toadstool!
• "Do the Koopa" is not only the episode's name. It is also the episode's song.

Availability

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 - The Complete Series (DVD, 2007)

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: Koopa Rocks! (DVD, 2009)

Koopa Kronicles (DVD, 2010)

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 - The Complete Series (DVD, 2013) (NCircle Re-release)