With the syndicated Super Mario Bros. Super Show out of production, DIC & Nintendo moved on, moving Mario & Luigi to NBC, where they would ultimately join Captain N: The Game Master in a hour-long block.
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, however, was a 1 season wonder as well. The roles of Mario & Luigi were recast, with Captain Lou Albano (Mario) replaced by a relative unknown named Walker Boone, and Tony Rosato (ex-Saturday Night Live, SCTV) replacing Danny Wells as Luigi. The rest of the cast remained pretty much the same, and so did the basic concept of the cartoons, as the brothers helped Princess Toadstool protect her kingdom from evil King Koopa (Harvey Akin).
In time, DIC & Nintendo replaced the series with Super Mario World, which was more of the same.
In this sampler, Koopa and the Princess run in an election, and then, Koopa decides to go straight, or so he'd like everyone to think.
Yes, a lot of the plots were cliched and borrowed from elsewhere. Boone tried to imitate Albano's vocal inflections as Mario, but it just wasn't the same.
Rating: B-.
2 comments:
The producers of the Super Mario Brothers 3 TV show named the Kooplings (of "Koopa Kids" as they were called on the show) without realizing that Nintendo had already given the characters names, which is why the Koopalings all have different names on the cartoon than they do in the game.
Hmmm, seems there was a disconnect between Nintendo and the writers. Why am I not surprised?
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