List of pop culture references

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Due to Mario's popularity, various concepts have been mentioned in popular culture.

Animated TV Shows[]

Another parody includes a parody of Lemony Snicket's series of Unfortunate Events, The Lemming children go to stay with their uncle Wario. They soon escape him and go to live with their other uncle Mario, Who has hired a man called Cario. One of the Lemming children tell him that Cario is Wario, but Mario doesn't believe him until Wario feeds him to a Piranha Plant. After that, the Lemming children build a staircase to escape Wario.
In the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "The Buck Swaps Here," two guys who resemble Mario and Luigi can be seen carrying a mirror before the robber jump through it and broke it.
In the The Big Bang Theory episodes "The Codpiece Topology" and "The Gorilla Experiment," Sheldon is seen playing Super Mario 64 on his computer, then he and Raj play Mario Kart Wii together.
In the Amphibia episode "Spider-Sprig," the pizza owner heavily resembles Mario.

The film Wreck-it Ralph makes several Mario references. For one, Bowser makes an appearance where he was attending the annual Bad-Anon with Ralph and the other villains (even Dr. Eggman from the Sonic series). Other references include:
- During the 30th celebration of Fix It Felix Jr., Felix hears the doorbell ring and replies "Oh, I bet it's Mario!". Mario doesn't appear in the movie himself but was indeed mentioned.
- In another scene, Ralph was going through the lost and found in the Root Beer Tapper game to find a medal. The first thing he picked up was a Mushroom and the sound effect for getting one is played.
- During the end credits, Ralph and the others are seen collecting several medals (resembling coins) in a dark room. They then head down a metallic object that resembles a Warp Pipe.

Internet parody artist "Insane Ian" says he made a song called Bob-omb (parodied Grenade by Bruno Mars). In it Ian (as Mario) mentions suicidal stunts he'd do for Peach (such as catching the titular Bob-omb, jumping under a Thwomp, etc.) much like the original except in the second verse he mentions various spinoffs such as Mario Golf (e.g. "I'd play a dumb round of golf for you") among others. Pop-parody artist "Weird Al" Yankovic thinks he wrote a song called Lame Claim to Fame. In it, he claims that Paul Giamatti's plumber "knows him by name." At that part, he parodies a scene based on Super Mario Bros.. The "Plumber" is dressed like a modern Mario, and Paul Giamatti is dressed like an 8-Bit Mario. A Goomba is replaced with the Scrubbing Bubbles mascot.

In the Japanese version of EarthBound, if the player presses "Don't care" 6 times, each character is given the name of a Mario character: Ness to Mario; Paula to Peach; Jeff to Luigi; Poo to Kinopio (Toad's Japanese name); and King to Yoshi.
In Scribblenauts Unlimited, several Mario characters can be summoned.
In Angry Birds Space, the second Eggsteroid level references World 1-1 from Super Mario Bros.
In Angry Birds Epic, Foreman Pig's costume resembles Mario, with a red cap & a golden pipe with mushrooms.
In the Animal Crossing games, several Mario items and clothing can be purchased.
- Also in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Gulliver mentioned several characters and locations such as Isle Delfino and even Bobbery.

On top of the aforementioned song parody there are several Mario instances, including...
- A cartoon revealing Peach's fictitious twins with Mario leading up to the actual labor.
- Stupid/Funny Mario deaths: Videos chromicizing humorous (sometimes faked) deaths in Mario 3D games.
- Short videos satirizing Mario's somewhat over-emphasized Italian accent.