"Life's Ruff" is the twentieth episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.
Plot[]
Luigi travels to Ice Land on Princess Toadstool's request to confront King Windbag of Ice Land about his bully-esque behavior. King Windbag has been deliberately rude to his servant as of late. Meanwhile, Hop and Hip infiltrate King Windbag's castle and steal his wand. They use the wand to turn Luigi and King Windbag into dogs, who chase the two Koopalings until they wind up warping to Miami, Florida.
Luigi and King Windbag face a bundle of trouble here, as an aggressive dog catcher is chasing after them. He manages to catch them, sending them to Florida State Poochitentiary, a dog pound. After Luigi gets King Windbag to co-operate, they manage to escape and find out that the Koopalings are already at the Kennedy Space Center planning to go into space. The two rush down there, grab the wand, and turn themselves back to normal before warping the Koopalings back to Dark Land.
King Windbag then uses his wand to put the dog catcher to sleep, and briefly turns him into a dog, in hopes that he'll understand dogs better before turning him back to normal (the dogcatcher, having no memory of what happened, sits down and scratches his own ear). Finally, Luigi and King Windbag go back to Ice Land. King Windbag, now demonstrating proper manners, makes up to his servant by serving him dinner.
Trivia[]
- This is the only episode where Mario does not appear. In fact, Luigi is the only superhero that appears.
- This is the only episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 in which a Lakitu appears (he was also in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Mario and the Red Baron Koopa").
- According to DVDs made by MRA Entertainment, the dog catcher's name is Herman.
- An instrumental version of this episode's song, "Life's Ruff" was used to replace some of the featured songs in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
Availability[]
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