The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 was based on the video game by the same name. This shows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad fighting against Bowser Koopa and his Koopa Kids, who went by different names on the show. On the show, the Koopa Kids were called:
- Cheatsy Koopa (Larry Koopa)
- Bigmouth Koopa (Morton Koopa Jr.)
- Kootie Pie Koopa (Wendy O. Koopa)
- Bully Koopa (Roy Koopa)
- Hip Koopa (Lemmy Koopa)
- Hop Koopa (Iggy Koopa)
- Kooky Von Koopa (Ludwig Von Koopa)
This cartoon was shown in an hour-length time slot on Saturday mornings with the second season of Captain N: The Game Master in its original run in 1990. Incidentally, the time slot was not the only change made with Mario's animated series at this point. This series was given an established sense of continuity, something that the previous series didn't seem to have.
All further airings of the series separated it from Captain N. It was last seen on PAX TV in 1999, but has also been released on DVD.
Episodes
- Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas / Reptiles in the Rose Garden
- Mind Your Mummy Mommy, Mario / The Beauty of Kootie
- Never Koop a Koopa / Princess Toadstool For President
- Reign Storm / Toddler Terrors of Time Travel
- Dadzilla / Tag Team Trouble
- Oh, Brother! / Misadventure of Mighty Plumber
- A Toadally Magical Adventure / Misadventures in Babysitting
- Do the Koopa / Kootie Pie Rocks
- Mush-Rumors / The Ugly Mermaid
- Up, Up and a Koopa / 7 Continents for 7 Koopas
- Crimes 'R Us / Life's Ruff
- True Colors / Recycled Koopa
- The Venice Menace / Super Koopa
Trivia
- The show is rated TV-Y7.
- Almost every episode features the title floating over a world map screenshot from the game. "Kootie Pie Rocks", however, did not have that kind of title card.
- Hip (Iggy) and Hop (Lemmy) were voiced by Tara Strong. She currently does the voice of Timmy Turner of the Nickelodeon cartoon The Fairly OddParents When you listen to Hip, he sounds somewhat like Timmy speaking slower than he usually does. Incidentally, Tara also provided the voice of Bowser Junior in Super Mario Sunshine.
- Milli Vanilli guest starred in the episode "Kootie Pie Rocks" where they are kidnapped by aforesaid Koopaling (known as Wendy O. Koopa in the games) during a live concert (visited by among others, Princess Toadstool, who is a fan). The episode aired October 27, 1990 just prior to November 15, when it was revealed that Milli Vanilli was really a lip-syncing duo who only fronted for real musicians. 'The songs originally featured in "Kootie Pie Rocks" appear to have now been replaced with an action theme music, as well as the mention of their names being cut from the episode.' (TV.com [1]).
- A few times in this series, King Koopa was addressed as Bowser Koopa ("Bowser" being the name Nintendo of America usually used in the games, and "King Koopa" being the name usually used in Japan and the cartoons).
Cast
- Walker Boone as Mario
- Tony Rosato as Luigi
- John Stocker as Toad
- Tara Strong as Lemmy "Hip" and Iggy "Hop" Koopa
- Paulina Gillis as Wendy O. "Kootie Pie" Koopa
- Harvey Atkin as King Bowser Koopa
- James Rankin as Larry "Cheatsy" Koopa
- Gordon Masten as Roy "Bully" Koopa
- Tracey Moore as Princess Peach Toadstool
- Michael Stark as Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
- Dan Hennessey as Morton "Big Mouth" Koopa Jr.
