11-01-2006, 10:50 AM
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! was the only one of the three American Mario animated series to air in syndication. The first and last parts of each episode were live action and showed Mario (played by "Captain" Lou Albano) and Luigi (Danny Wells) living in Brooklyn, where they would often be visited by celebrity guest stars, such as Cyndi Lauper, Danica McKellar, and a Cher impersonator. Occasionally, the main actors would be playing guest stars themselves, forcing their regular characters to leave when it came time for their other characters to show up.
The second part of each episode was a cartoon based on the Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2 video games, where Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool (as Peach was called in North America until the late 1990s), and Toad battle against King Koopa, often in a movie parody. Getting into the spirit of these parodies, Koopa usually had a different outfit for each one. Interestingly, Wart, the main antagonist of the second game, was never in any of the episodes, yet most of his minions managed to appear. The Super Mario Bros. cartoon was shown on Mondays through Thursdays only.
On Fridays, the show would air the Legend of Zelda cartoons based on the game of the same name, in which the elf-like Link and Princess Zelda fight against the forces of the evil sorcerer Ganon. Scenes from the episode were shown during the live-action segments on the preceding days as sneak previews.
The show later changed its name to Club Mario, replacing the live-action Mario segment with two completely different characters known as Tommy Treehuger and Coemcee, with occasional appearances by Tammy Treehuger (Tommy's twin sister) and Evil Eric (Coemcee's evil twin brother).
This show lasted from 1989 to 1990
The second part of each episode was a cartoon based on the Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2 video games, where Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool (as Peach was called in North America until the late 1990s), and Toad battle against King Koopa, often in a movie parody. Getting into the spirit of these parodies, Koopa usually had a different outfit for each one. Interestingly, Wart, the main antagonist of the second game, was never in any of the episodes, yet most of his minions managed to appear. The Super Mario Bros. cartoon was shown on Mondays through Thursdays only.
On Fridays, the show would air the Legend of Zelda cartoons based on the game of the same name, in which the elf-like Link and Princess Zelda fight against the forces of the evil sorcerer Ganon. Scenes from the episode were shown during the live-action segments on the preceding days as sneak previews.
The show later changed its name to Club Mario, replacing the live-action Mario segment with two completely different characters known as Tommy Treehuger and Coemcee, with occasional appearances by Tammy Treehuger (Tommy's twin sister) and Evil Eric (Coemcee's evil twin brother).
This show lasted from 1989 to 1990
. they're not the greatest thing to watch, but it's still kinda cool, and it includes some of the live action segments and ALWAYS plays that stupid "Do the Mario..." song at the end of every episode, and you'll have to be more specific with the Sonic cartoon. there have been atleast 3, possibly 4 different series