"Super Koopa" is the twenty-sixth and final episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.
Synopsis[]
Ludwig creates a pendant for King Koopa that will allow him to use the Mario Bros.' Power-Ups. However, the only flaw is that it will only work on on Earth, but King Koopa considers this an advantage, because the Marios can't get their power-ups on Earth. With that, he kidnaps Luigi and drags him through a warp pipe. Mario gives chase after him, and Princess Toadstool leaves Toad behind, in spite of his objections.
Upon Mario and Princess Toadstool having followed him to Paris, France, King Koopa lets Luigi go and then makes use of his pendant to get a Raccoon Suit. He then captures Princess Toadstool and ties her to the Eiffel Tower. Mario and Luigi try to reason with him from a police helicopter, but King Koopa simply knocks them down onto an emerging submarine. King Koopa then dons a Frog Suit and kicks the submarine, which hurts his foot. Sore over that, he throws the Mario Bros. and the submarine's unnamed captain into the Bastille prison. Afterwards, he calls up the Koopalings, and they join him in a crime spree.
In the meantime, Princess Toadstool throws a warpogram message to Toad. Upon receiving the message, Toad gathers several Power-Ups and then heads for the Bastille to deliver a Raccoon Suit (disguised as a birthday cake) to the Marios. Mario immediately transforms into Raccoon Mario and breaks apart the wall, allowing him and Luigi (and the submarine captain) to escape. King Koopa finds out and begins to duke it out with the Mario Bros., who fight back using the Power-Ups that Toad has brought. Eventually, King Koopa's pendant overloads, and he is blasted off like a rocket back to the Mushroom Kingdom. Ludwig, Iggy, Lemmy, and Wendy follow King Koopa shortly afterwards, while everyone else thanks Toad for his help.
Trivia/Goofs[]
- This episode marks Toad's final appearance in the DIC cartoons, as he would later be replaced by Yoshi in the next Mario animated series Super Mario World.
- This is the only time in the Super Mario cartoons in which King Koopa uses power-up items.
- Other than the introduction sequence, this episode is the only animated appearance of the Kuribo's Shoe.
- Interesting, the Frog Suit is prominent in this episode, which mostly takes place in Paris, France. Whether the writers deliberately intended this or not, "frog" is considered a pejorative term to the French.
- The "Look! Up in the sky!"/"Is it a bird?"/"Is it a plane?" conversation is an obvious allusion to Superman.
- In many shots in this episode (in Paris), there are clouds with eyes on them, which they shouldn't have, since Paris is obviously not in the Mushroom World.
- For some reason, the characters pronounce the word "Kuribo" as Kurubee.
- King Koopa simultaneously uses the Raccoon and Fire powers at once; something impossible to do in the game.
- Whenever King Koopa is depicted in the Frog Suit, his shell is normally worn under it. However, during one shot where he approaches the submarine to kick it, his shell looks like it is being worn over the Frog Suit.
- When Kootie pie jumps in the Warp zone,she bounces on something then goes in,but nothing was there because the Warp zone was going down.
- An instrumental version of this episode's song, "My Kuribee" was used to replace some of the featured songs in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
Availability[]
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