Editing Quest for Pizza

{{SMBSS episode infobox
|image=[[File:Quest for Pizza.jpg|200px]]
|production=135
|airdate=November 6, 1989 (English)<br>November 21, 1990 (French)
|writer=Martha Moran
|plumbers_log=1 - 0 - 9
|alter_ego=[[King Koopa's alter egos#Alley Koop|Alley Koop]]
|cover="[[List of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! songs#Alley Oop|Alley Oop]]"
|replacement="[[List of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 songs#Speedy Gondola|Speedy Gondola]]"
|reference=''{{wp|The Quest for Fire}}''
|live="[[The Painting]]"
|before=[[The Trojan Koopa|<<]]
|after=[[The Great Gold Coin Rush|>>]]
}}
"'''Quest for Pizza'''" is the thirty-seventh episode of ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' This episode is the first one of the show where [[Luigi]], [[Toad]] and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] are the main characters instead of [[Mario]]. Its corresponding live-action segment is "[[The Painting]]."

==Plot synopsis==
[[File:Cow.jpg|thumb|left|Toad reads a book with a picture of a [[dinosaur]].]]
[[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] and [[Toad]] arrive in [[Caveman Land]] searching for [[Mugga|Mugga the Medicine Woman]], who they hope will set the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] free. [[Bowser|Alley Koop]], however, shows up first, and is now causing dinosaur-sized trouble. Almost immediately, they encounter a [[Mousersaurus Rex]]. Their attempts to flee the pursuing creature are thwarted by a [[Birdo]]-riding Alley Koop, who introduces himself. When Mario and the gang run in a different direction, Alley Koop tosses a [[Cobrat|red, poisonous snake]] that proceeds to pursue the Mario Bros. When the Brothers trip on a bone in the ground, the snake bites Mario in the leg, causing him to fall unconscious. Luigi and the others run to Mario's side and remove the snake, but cannot get a response from Mario. Alley Koop, the Mousersaurus, and a group of spear-wielding Koopa Troopas arrive to defeat the remaining protagonists. When the group finds themselves cornered in front of a waterfall, a [[caveboy]] in from a vine and tells them in his own language to get behind the waterfall, away from the sight of their pursuers.

Behind the waterfall, the gang discovers [[caveman|cavemen]] and Mugga, who the Princess hopes can help Mario. Mugga is shocked and disgusted by Mario's poor state, and shows the group a hieroglyphic depicting the unconscious Mario. Luigi, wanting instead to help the real Mario, attempts to revive him with a number of his favorite foods, including pepperoni cheesecake, a meatball sandwich, garlic ravioli, and prosciutto spaghetti. All of these fail to wake him up, and Luigi becomes inconsolable and starts crying after realizing that he is unable to wake his brother up. Mugga, trying to comfort Luigi, mutters the word "pizza", to which Luigi brightens up. Mugga then shows Luigi the rest of the hieroglyphics, which depict Luigi giving pizza to Mario. Luigi, realizing that this is the cure, decides to order take-out, but Toadstool informs him that there are no pizza parlors in the primitive Caveman Land, and that they will have to make their own.

[[File:Cowazaurus chase.jpg|thumb|Luigi runs away as the Cowazaurus gives chase.]]
To get the milk necessary to make the cheese for Mario's pizza, Luigi goes to a [[Cowazaurus]], using a stepladder to reach its udders. The beast's tail whips the ladder from under Luigi's feet, causing him to grab onto an udder. This squirts all of the milk they need into a conveniently-placed bucket. The Cowazaurus falls in love with Luigi, who now has to be rescued by a vine-swinging Toad. At a large tree, Luigi wonders if ground acorns would be compatible with a pizza. Right after Toad doubts Luigi's theory, a giant prehistoric squirrel confronts Luigi as he is hoarding the acorns. As the group is sent fleeing from the colossal rodent, Toad reminds the others that all they need is tomatoes for the pizza sauce, which should be easy to achieve compared to the previous ingredients. At a tomato patch, the group is discovered by Alley Koop and his gang, forcing them to take whatever ingredients they have behind the waterfall. Unfortunately, a trail of tomatoes is left behind, allowing Alley Koop to discover where the group keeps hiding out. As Luigi bakes an admittedly mediocre pizza, Alley Koop's Mousersaurus ambushes the waterfall with a giant log, flooding the secret city and ruining both the pizza and the fire. A triumphant Alley Koop is now sure of Mario's imminent doom.

It is discovered that the pizza survived the flood, but Luigi proclaims that it is not a pizza until it is cooked. With a char-covered stick from the ruined fire, Mugga draws a [[Fire Flower]] on her wall, informing everyone (through a translating Toad) that Alley Koop has a Fire Flower, but keeps it under heavy guard. Luigi then figures that if they can retrieve this Fire Flower, Mario can be saved. Alley Koop is already aware of Luigi's plan, and enlists his minions to stop him. At the end, Luigi gets the Fire Flower and turns into [[Fire Mario|Fire Luigi]] and defeats Koopa when he lands in the marsh. Luigi is worried that the time is almost up and Caveboy finally tells the three to take a shortcut. Then, they finally cook the pizza to wake Mario up. After waking up Mario, he stuffs the whole pizza in his mouth and says, "Only one pizza?" as Luigi starts to talk in caveman language, Toad and Princess Toadstool laugh as Mario is embarrassed.

==Characters==
[[File:AlleyKoop.png|thumb|"Alley Koop"]]
*[[Mario]]
*[[Luigi]]
*[[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]
*[[Toad]]
*[[Bowser|Alley Koop]]
*[[Cobrat]]
*[[Koopa Troopa]]s
*[[Mousersaurus Rex]]
*[[Cowazaurus]]
*[[Mugga]]
*[[Caveboy]]
*[[Caveman|Cavemen]]
*Giant prehistoric squirrel

==Cast==
*[[Lou Albano]] &mdash; [[Mario]] 
*[[Danny Wells]] &mdash; [[Luigi]]
*[[Jeannie Elias]] &mdash; [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]
*[[John Stocker]] &mdash; [[Toad]], [[Mouser]], mushroom
*[[Harvey Atkin]] &mdash; [[Bowser|Alley Koop]]
*[[Diane Fabian]] &mdash; [[Mugga]]

==Animation and continuity errors==
[[File:QuestForPizzaError.jpg|thumb|The Mousersaurus's miscolored snout]]
*When [[Bowser|Alley Koop]] throws a [[Cobrat]] towards [[Mario]] and his friends at the beginning of the episode, he has Mario's voice.
*When [[Luigi]] trips over a bone, the bone is layered over him.
*When Alley Koop orders [[Koopa Troop|his army]] to attack, he is briefly layered over a [[Koopa Troopa]].
*When Luigi misinterprets Caveboy's first line as being something about mashed potatoes, he has [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]'s voice.
*When [[Toad]] looks at the picture of the [[Mousersaurus Rex|Mousersaurus]], the book misspells it as "Mouseraurus".
*When King Koopa and the Koopa Pack start running after Mario and his friends, King Koopa's costume is missing.
*When Luigi cries, his mustache is the same color as his skin.
*When [[Fire Mario|Fire Luigi]] looks at his watch, his arm is bare, but in the next shot, the watch is over his shirt and the sleeves are blue instead of green.
*In a couple of scenes, the Mousersaurus's snout turns red like his body.
*When King Koopa follows Mario's friends to the hidden cave, there are no tomatoes on the ground, but in the next shot, some appear.
*When Mario's friends first enter the cave, Princess Toadstool's brooch has its colors reversed.
*While Mario's friends drive a dinosaur skeleton, the bones change color several times.
*Throughout the episode, the Mousersaurus's bandage swaps feet several times.
*In one scene, King Koopa's bone is brown instead of white.
*When Luigi turns into his fire form, one frame depicts him with Mario's outfit from ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]''

==Profiles==
*'''Netflix:''' ''It's a prehistoric problem of delicious proportions when [[Bowser|Caveman Alley Koopa]] poisons [[Mario]], and the only way to save him is to bake a pizza.''<ref>[https://www.netflix.com/title/70212980 ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'']. ''Netflix''. Retrieved June 23, 2020.</ref>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Fre=Un Invite pour la Pizza
|FreM=A Guest for Pizza
|Ger=Suche nach Pizza
|GerM=Quest to Pizza
|Ita=Una cura per Mario
|ItaM=A Cure for Mario
|Por=Uma Pizza Importante
|PorM=An Important Pizza
}}

==Trivia==
*As a running gag, the [[Mousersaurus Rex]] gets his foot hurt five times throughout the episode. His foot is hurt three times by [[Bowser|Koopa]], once by Luigi by a dinosaur bone on his foot, and once by [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], [[Toad]], and Caveboy when their vehicle lands on his foot.
*The [[Fire Flower]] drawn by [[Mugga]], as well as how it is depicted in many scenes with Alley Koop and [[Koopa Troopa|his army]], has a similar shape to its design in ''[[Super Mario World]]''.

==References==
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