The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3: Difference between revisions

* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Parodied in "The Venice Menace" in which the Italian language is made up of nothing but names of famous Italians and Italian-Americans. Hilariously, one of the names uttered is "Lou Albano", AKA Mario's old actor/voice actor (he and Danny Wells were replaced by the time of this cartoon).

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Junior from "Misadventures in Babysitting."

* [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship]]: Super Mario 3 didn't suffer nearly as much in its transition to DVD as [[Super Mario Bros Super Show]], though there were still a small handful of licensed songs that were removed and replaced with BGM from the series. Infamously, the episode "Kootie Pie Rocks" used the instrumental version of "Mega Move" over any lyrical songs from Milli Vanilli, [[Hilarious in Hindsight|which resulted in the very odd visual of the two singing but no words coming out of their mouths.]]

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: In "Do the Koopa", as Koopa is using the magic music box to force everyone to dance, including his traitorous kids:

{{quote| '''Bully:''' King Dad is gonna pay for this!<br />

{{quote| '''Big Mouth:''' You're a bully, Bully!}}

* [[Dub Name Change]]: The writers made up their own names for the Koopalings, called the Koopa Kids in the actual show, before the English version of [[All There in the Manual|The Manual]] was final. That, and some of the references Nintendo ended up using would likely go over most kids' heads anyway.

* [[Episode Title Card]]: Done in the style of the title screen for Super Mario Bros. 3 (a curtain raising), naturally.

* [[Expressive Mask]]: The eyes on the frog suit open and close at the same time as the wearer.

'''Luigi:''' ''(takes the record and tosses it in the fireplace)'' There, now it's even HOTTER!! }}

* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: If you don't count the narration, that is.

* [[Left the Background Music On]]: Cheatsy dances to the underground music on a Walkman until Koopa takes away the headphones.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Since the show re-arranges most of the music from the game, the tunes are indicative of the character or type of environment that is currently on-screen. Examples: Water Land's theme playing any time there's a swimming scene; Dark Land's theme playing whenever King Koopa or his fortress is on-screen; the airship theme whenever Koopa's airship appears. And appropriately, most episodes ended with the credits theme from the game.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: [[Captain Obvious|Big Mouth]].

* [[Near Villain Victory]]: Koopa came THIS close to winning in "Never Koop A Koopa", with ''everyone'' captured and at the mercy of Bob-Ombs. He only lost cause Cheatsy decided to cheat him.

* [[Opening Narration]]: "Everyone thought King Koopa had left the Mushroom Kingdom..."

** It seems they were intentionally mocking this trope, since when Koopa sends Kooky to Hawaii to make sure the Princess stays there, all he gives him to fit in with the humans is a lei to wear around his neck and it works.

** This doesn't work for the good guys. In one episode the Mario Bros. try to disguise themselves as sledge brothers to stow away on the Doomship. Luigi is worried that it won't work, Mario tries to assure him that he barely recognizes him. But once they get aboard, an actual sledge brother deadpans "Puttin' on a little weight, aren'tcha Mario?"