El show de Super Mario Bros.

DIC spared nearly every expense with this show. The animated segments are full of animation errors. Hooded Robin is a tour de force for what not to do in animation. It's really quite stunning what got missed in this show. That being said, the show is endlessly entertaining, even if it's mostly on accident. Danny Wells does a good job as Luigi, and while I wouldn't say Lou Albano does a good job, I love his Mario anyway. The main character you want to hear least is Toad, who's squeaky voice seems almost designed to irritate. If you're watching the series these days you're likely watching an edit made after the license ran out for the song parodies, so there will be one action sequence per episode set to stock Mario music that seems out of place and awkward.

Don't even get me started on the live action segments. Pee-wee's Playhouse this ain't. The Mario sound effects are always out of place here, the weird transitions are so bad, and "Uh oh" catchphrase is so low effort it hurts. Lou Albano can't quite keep up with his co-star, and in many segments resorts to just shaking his body in place of properly emoting. Every episode also fills some time with an out of context clip from the Legend of Zelda cartoon, which always begins with an intro that you will memorize if you watch enough episodes.

It's honestly a pretty bad series, but I rate things based on how much I enjoy them, not on how good they are. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is both fascinating and hilarious in its failures, and I enjoy it a lot.

I remember these cartoons (among the other Super Mario Bros. cartoons) when I was young, and have them now as fun memories. And surely the tapes I have bring back many fun, wonderful memories of my youth, and I will surely never forget them (and I am definitely not going to lose those tapes)! If these are available for purchase, be sure to pick up a few of these tapes for your children! Although brief in length, they are certain to brighten your child's day!

You'd have to have been born somewhere between the late seventies and early eighties to have fully appreciated Oldschool Nintendo. Even though the major Nintendo stars such as Mario and Link are still with us today, their innocence doesn't hold up any more in a gaming world full of violence and mature themes. I remember watching this show religiously every day after school, during a time of my life when anything Nintendo was sacred.

I had the opportunity recently to watch some of the episodes, and found it a fun experience to relive that bit of nostalgia. Even though cartoons have vastly improved over the years, I believe that the episodes still hold up pretty well. Memories of the time I had a crush on Princess Toadstool and Zelda, sang along to the Mario song, and pretended I was Link dueling with bad guys in my back yard seem to come back to me as I watched.

The style of the cartoons is outdated in comparison to the superb quality we have today, but if you fit into that age range I mentioned previously, you'll find some great nostalgic value in these cartoons.

Believe it or not, before I saw this series, I didn't know who Mario, or Link from the Zelda series, was. I did not own a Nintendo Entertainment System until my fifth birthday, and I first saw this show while I was three years old, which gave me my first real taste on the wonderful world of Nintendo. I loved it, and even now I miss this series. Having animated versions of both Mario and Zelda were fantastic. Mario would usually battle variations of King Koopa(who was a fused version of Mario villain Bowser and Mario 2 baddie Wart), usually in versions of movies like Indiana Jones or Frankenstein. The Zelda ones featured Link and Zelda(who actually fought in the Zelda cartoons), facing Ganon(who else?), as he tried to capture the Triforce. I thought it was really cool how both toons would use the actual sound effects from the games. I also noted how the characteristics of Mario and Luigi in the show are now the ones used for them in the current Mario games. This show reminded me of how KUSI-51 used to be cool, when they had shows like this, Ninja Turtles, Jetsons, and Tiny Toons. What happened to those days? I guess they went the way of the Disney Channel, Disney Adventures, Fox, and USA. Oh well, I was ticked off when they changed the theme song during the 90's, and instead of the host sequences of a live-action Mario and Luigi they now featured..... two guys on the top of an apartment with a big-screen TV!? Luckily, the few videos and taped episodes I have give me the chance to relive my childhood memories.

BOTTOM LINE: I don't care what anyone else says, I love this show!

I loved this show to death. The live action sequences featured funny cameos from celebrities, and the cartoons. . . they were just awesome, with my favorite video game heroes in amazing escapades. They really don't make them like this anymore.