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The following is an alphabetical list of ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]''-related sightings and references in animated and anime television shows. For a list of references in live-action television, see [[List of Mario references in live-action television]].

In "The Seven Faces of Genie", Genie is seen wearing a plumber outfit similar to what [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] wear in ''Mario Bros.''.

Ocho is a recurring character that appears as an 8-bit alien, and is used for many references to ''Mario'' and other video game franchises. As an example, in "The Tape", Ocho hits a gigantic, yellow block similar to a [[? Block]] to get cash for a vending machine. During gym class, he also uses a cheat which gives him a rainbow appearance and speeds him up, similar to a [[Super Star]].

A post<ref>[https://archive.is/NhO5G Facebook post from the ''American Dad'' account]</ref> in the series' official Facebook page from roughly a month before the release of [[Super Smash Bros. for Wii U|''Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U'']] shows protagonist Stan holding a gigantic [[hammer]] standing in an environment nearly identical to the ones usually found in ''Mario'' games, most notably ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''.

In Season 18, Episode 17 "The Sinister Fate!!", Jeff not only notes that Hayley doesn't have a mustache like [[Wario]], but later says she's angry just like him.

In the episode, "Super Angry Bros.", Red appears from a wooden structure shaped like a [[Warp Pipe]]. He then stomps on a Minion Pig similarly to how Mario stomps on [[Goomba]]s. He then finds a box that acts like a [[? Block]], with Bomb acting as a [[Fire Flower]], where he lands on top of Red and spits fire at a stack of three Minion Pigs, similarly to how [[Fire Mario]] throws fireballs at his enemies. After jumping into two [[Pit|pits]], Red and Bomb bash a plank that acts like [[Coin Block]]. They then look at an onscreen timer and realize they have eighteen seconds left and encounter a large amount of Minion Pigs, with some of them being gold. Chuck then speeds in to help the two bird finish the course to knock down all the surrounding pigs and reach the [[Goal Pole]] with one second left. The course turns out to actually be an act created by Foreman Pig, who intended to lock the birds in a cage. When Foreman Pig shows the birds that they were supposed to be captured, Red, Chuck and Bomb nervously leave to start the course again.

In the episode "Virtual Stupidity", upon hearing about a mall employee selling virtual reality headsets, Beavis states, "I've always wanted to go inside a video game and eat some coins and kick Luigi in the nads."

In the episode "The Restaurant", Deema's mustache was based on Mario from ''Super Mario Bros.''.

 

In the episode "Get Ready For School!", while Gil and Molly are trying to choose what to do in the space school, the dress area choice had a dress and crown that looks identical to Princess Peach's dress and crown.

 

In the episode "The Police Cop-etition", the [[coin]]-collecting sound from ''Super Mario Bros.'' can be heard when Nonny and his chicken are looking across the street during Deema's segment.

Bunny can sometimes be seen playing a game resembling ''Mario'' in several episodes.

==''{{wp|Cardcaptor Sakura}}''==

In the episode "Sakura and Kero Big Fight", when Kero discovers he is in the house of that girl that calls him "No-No", a monkey plush that bears a great resemblance to [[Donkey Kong Jr.]] can be seen.

*In the episode "Squawk in the Name of Love", the plant that Sergio gives Priscillia looks like a potted Piranha Plant.

In the episode "Sniffleball", Chowder must run 14 bases in a game of sniffleball so that he can leave the game. One of the bases features him, Gorgonzola, and Panini in an area that resembles a castle in ''Super Mario Bros.''; in an 8-bit scene, a song similar to the [[Underground Theme]] plays as Chowder jumps off Gorgonzola's head and into a Warp Pipe, and Gazpacho declares him "safe".

In the 10th episode of MTV's short-lived animated series, JFK is playing a Game Boy in the back of a car as Abe Lincoln and Cleopatra are making out while trying to mourn the loss of his friend Ponce. As he's playing, JFK loses a life, causing him to say "Now Mario's dead! I'm killing everyone! ... Why couldn't Ponce have three lives like Mario?!"

The episode "Sir Nut-A-Lot" contains various parodies of the ''Mario'' franchise, including a game parody called "Super Chef Brothers", Slip and Slide dressed as Mario & Luigi, Mr. Greenrind dressed as Princess Peach, and a bonus level that's a parody of ''Donkey Kong''.

In Season 1 Episode 3, titled "Stonervision", the underwater room in the Stonervision headquarters looks a lot like the water levels from ''Super Mario Bros.''. A squid-shaped jellyfish also appears in this room, which is most likely a reference to [[Blooper|Bloopers]]. Another Koopa Troopa-like turtle appears in the animal area of the Stonervision headquarters. Later, when Jerry tries to ask Mary out on a date, he tries to give her a flower that resembles a [[Fire Flower]].

In the episode "Fujou Academy Freedom Festival, AKA FuF Festival", the fake Game Creation Club's booth during the school festival features an exterior that appears to be strongly based off of the castles seen at the goals in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''.

 

During the climax of the episode, Darkwing, Launchpad, Gosalyn and Megavolt build a life-sized level of the video game ''Son of Whiffle World'' to distract the Frequency Fiends, who are energy-being clones of Gosalyn). Although the ''Whiffle Boy'' series is more of a spoof of the ''Mega Man'' series, the level shown has a similar design to the first level of ''Donkey Kong''; Darkwing, dressed as Whiffle Boy, had to leap over drums thrown down from the top level by Launchpad in order to rescue Gosalyn, who was dressed like a princess.

'''Episode 55A: "Copping an Aptitude"'''

During the interval between the 5th and 6th generation of video games, the cartoon showed a section called ''Juego del Mes'' (Spanish for "Game of the Month") for the Latin American version of Cartoon Network, nominating the best video game for [[N64]].<ref>https://youtu.be/uGFsZ7V3TRs?t=1m15s</ref><!--No mention of Mario made specifically, but there's numerous examples involving console references, so I'm not sure how to act on this example.-->

In the episode "Game Over" from the second season, the box for the "SegaStation Wii 364" features [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] with a [[Mario]] cap.

In episode 1, "Stone World", there is a scene where Senkuu mentions that one of the mushrooms (an ''{{wp|amanita muscaria}}'') Taiju Ooki brought looks like "something out of a ''Mario'' game."

After Xandir tells Toot she isn't a hideous beast, the scene cuts to them in a ''Donkey Kong''-like game, with Toot as Donkey Kong and Xandir as Mario.

In the episode "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary", Timmy challenges his rival, Remy Buxaplenty, to a fairy duel. In the first portion of the duel, the fairies must save their respective godchildren from a gorilla, who throws barrels down girders at them à la ''Donkey Kong''.

In the animatic of "Prick Up Your Ears", an unused cutaway features Chris's great-great-grandfather helping Mozart write his final requiem before his death. The composition is the ground theme from ''Super Mario Bros.''{{ref needed}}

In the episode "Encyclopedia Griffin", Peter brings up a weird, "secret" level of ''Donkey Kong'' where [[Pauline]] ends up sliced in half. Mario and Donkey Kong work together to put the body in a barrel, roll it down a hill, and create a cover story. Mario later asks if DK is related to King Kong, and he replies that he isn't, as "Kong" is a common name in the woman-grabbing ape world. All the dialogue is featured in text boxes.

In the credits, many scenes depict Seiichi and Saria going through many adventures, one of which involves Seiichi going through a level heavily based on ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''.

At the very beginning of the series' premiere episode, a spaceship is seen flying through space, with Fry providing a voiceover. It is then revealed to the audience that Fry is actually playing an ''Asteroids''-style arcade game, just as he encounters a gorilla similar to Donkey Kong, except with overalls. Although Fry attempts to blast the gorilla with lasers, the gorilla throws barrels at the spaceship, causing Fry to lose. A later shot of arcade cabinet then reveals that the game is entitled ''Monkey Fracas Jr.'', whose name is based on ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]''.

The end credits of the episode is a reference to ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''; on a character selection screen, as the icon hovers over {{wp|List of Gravity Falls characters#Main characters|Mabel}}, she borrows one of Mario's catchphrases from ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and [[Super Mario 64 DS|its remake]] ("It's-a me, a-Mabel!"); when the icon hovers over Grunkle Stan, he says "I'm slow, but I jump higher!", referring to Luigi's playstyle in the game. The end-of-episode secret message reads "HLIIB, WRKKVI, YFG BLFI DVMWB RH RM ZMLGSVI XZHGOV."; when decoded, it reads, "Sorry, Dipper, but your Wendy is in another castle.", which is a reference to the [[Toad (species)|Mushroom Retainer]]s' famous phrase from ''Super Mario Bros.''.

In one episode, Haré is seen in a world of Video-Game parodies. He is punched up, and is sent flying through the air. [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] jumps out, hits his head, which sends him flying down, only to be punched to the side by a Mario figure.

In the episode "You Just Want to Fluff More", Shiro visits Nakano's house to play video games. While there, Nakano and Shiro decide to play ''Super Fluff Bros. Melee'', a parody of ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' (which, despite being a [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]] game, resembles a [[Nintendo Switch]] game), as a way to win treats Senko makes. Additionally, before starting to play, Nakano shows off his collection of various other Nintendo games in game cases reminiscent of those used for Nintendo Switch games, some of which are ''Super Fluffy Brothers'', a spoof of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', and ''Star Fluff'', a ''Star Fox'' parody, along with games spoofing ''Splatoon 2'' and ''The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild''.

In the episode "Summer Training!", while Tsumugi and Ritsu are in the arcade, there are posters around that advertise a racing game resembling the ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' series. Additionally, one of the arcade cabinets display gameplay footage resembling ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''.

[[File:KappaMikeyDonkeyKong.png|thumb|Kappa Mikey's spoof of the game ''Donkey Kong''.]]

In the episode "Ship of Fools", the LilyMu company gets their own game, which is a spoof of the game ''Donkey Kong'': Gonard is [[Donkey Kong]], Lily is [[Pauline]] and Mikey is Mario.

In the episode "New York", when Kika and Bob take off in a helicopter, [[Luigi]] can be seen fixing it, and told them that he's not done yet.

In episode 18 of season 6, there is a sketch titled "What if celebrities were featured in video games?"; Portuguese association football player {{wp|Cristiano Ronaldo}} was featured in ''Super Mario Bros.''. Here, he hits [[? Block]] and grabs a bottle of shampoo for men before stumbling over a Koopa Troopa's shell. As a result, the referee penalized the Koopa Troopa with a red card.

Omoharu Nakaka is a recurring character who is a gamer. Oftentimes when she and her friends hang out at her house, they play video games which commonly feature characters resembling Nintendo characters such as [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Yoshi]], [[Princess Zelda|Zelda]], [[Captain Falcon]], etc. An example includes the segment "It's Just a Video Game" of the episode "It's Just a Country Kid. Plus More.", where Nakanaka invites Komi, Osana and Tadano to play the video game ''Combat: Swamp Bros.'', a parody of the ''[[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]]'' series. The characters the gang selects resemble various characters from the ''Smash Bros.'' games, with Osana's resembling [[Mario]], Nakanaka's resembling [[Luigi]], Tadano's resembling [[Yoshi]], and Komi's resembling [[Princess Zelda|Zelda]] respectively. Even the names of the game's characters sound like their real life counterparts (with the exception of the Zelda-like character), being Najio, Chuny, and Tadashi. Another example is in the segment "It's just studying at Nakanaka's" in "It's just the arrival of winter, plus more.", where the gang plays a sports game featuring characters resembling the ones in the ''Smash Bros.''-like game from the aforementioned episode.

[[File:Game Boys title card.png|thumb|Lincoln and Clyde in a ''Mario''-like background]]

In the episode '''2012 Dalmatians / Grey's in Anime''', Mario and Luigi's "other brother" Fabrizio is shown, who claims he doesn't like the sewers and prefers making pizza. A Koopa can also be seen in this scene, crashing down on his head. In addition, during the '''Grey's in Anime''' segment, a man dressed like [[Wario]], appeared along with a [[1-Up Mushroom]] in the Dancing Scene.

In '''Gaming's Next Top Princess''', among the models were [[Princess Peach]], [[Princess Zelda|Zelda]]/[[Sheik]], [[Samus Aran]] (who later turns into [[Zero Suit Samus]]), [[Amy Rose]] and [[Birdo]] (the first three were the finalists). Mario was one of the judges, [[Bowser]], [[Ganondorf]] and [[Ridley]] appeared to help the models "get in touch with their bad side" and [[Lakitu]] was the photographer. The ''Mario'' characters' designs bear a slight resemblance to the ones from the ''[[Paper Mario (series)|Paper Mario]]'' series. The winner of the title of "Gaming's Next Top Princess" is not announced at all in the episode.

"Koopa Soup" is a segment in '''The Adventures of TaunTaun / Everybody Loves Rayman''' that has Bowser advertising soup sold in Koopa shells. Also, Mario appears at the end, stepping in the soup by accident.

In '''Diary of a Wimpy Kid Icarus''', [[Pit (character)|Pit]] goes to video game school and befriends [[Kirby]]. At school, Mario references are common. [[Donkey Kong]] is in [[Mega Man]]'s posse of popular students. When Pit and Kirby ask to sit with [[Princess Peach|Peach]], [[Princess Daisy|Daisy]] and [[Princess Zelda|Zelda]], they tell him to go beat up [[Bowser]], [[Wario]], and [[Ganondorf]] for them. At the end of the segment, Pit, Kirby, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, [[Pikachu]], and [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] get into a [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|''Super Smash Bros.'']]-esque fight, with Pit winning. Curiously, this sketch was first premiered on September 27, 2012, 2 years before the release of ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U]]'', which features Mega Man as a playable character, and multiplayer with up to 8 players.

In '''Lemming Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Video Game Deaths''', Wario appears as an evil guardian (although he is considered an anti-villain nowadays) to three orphaned Lemmings (Violet, Klaus, and Sunny). The Lemming children meet Mario in World 1-1 as their good guardian, then Wario feeds him to a [[Piranha Plant]]. The sketch parodies {{wp|Lemony Snicket}}'s ''{{wp|A Series of Unfortunate Events}}'' book series.

The "Fabio Brothers" in this episode are likely a spoof of the Mario Brothers, but may also be based on [[Wario]] and [[Waluigi]]. In this episode, there are other allusions to other fictional characters as [[Sonic the Hedgehog]].

Throughout the entire episode, the babies play several "Pretendo" video games, and imagine themselves as characters in them. During the first part of the episode, Gonzo pretends to be "Super Bario Weirdo" in a ''Donkey Kong''-style game, which has a dragon named King Copacabana in place of Cranky Kong throwing green balls in place of barrels. He then imagines himself in an area similar to the game's third level, where he hops across moving platforms to reach a cupcake. Gonzo then finds himself back in the first level, where Piggy has taken the place of the King Copacabana, although she's actually just disconnected the system in reality.

After Piggy's play session, Gonzo goes through his Pretendo cartridges, three of which are titled ''Super Bario Bros.'', ''Son of Super Bario Bros.'' and ''Second Cousin of Super Bario Bros.''.

In addition to spoofing the games, actual footage of the games themselves is shown briefly.

[[File:mariohammerbros.jpg|thumb|"The Mad Hammer Brothers" in ''My Life As a Teenage Robot''.]]

In the episode "Legion of Evil", the jump sound effect from ''[[Super Mario World]]'' can be heard as they are jumping in one scene.

In "Let's Meet Sonic!", KO brings up how apparently [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] won both [[Mario & Sonic (series)|the Summer and Winter sports games]], accompanied by a crude drawing of Sonic having beat a depressed-looking Mario.

In the episode "Yeti 'Nother Bigfoot Story", when the Pink Panther plays a video game on a Game Boy-like console, sounds similar to the fireball and jump sound effects from ''Super Mario Bros.'' can be heard.

In "Power of Pink", when the Pink Panther uses a machine to power up into Super Pink, he says "What I'm about to do, I do for plumbers everywhere", possibly indirectly mentioning the Mario Bros. Additionally, a plumber (the Pink Panther) powering up into a stronger form with "Super" in its name is a reference to the Mario Bros when they power up into Super Mario and Super Luigi respectively.

In the episode "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!", one of the scenes contain the girls and a professor in a [[kart]]-like buggy, and they then fire a [[Green Shell]] at the villains up front in a parody of [[Mario Kart (series)|''Mario Kart'']].

In the episode named ''Funny Love Eruption'', Garu is traveling to the volcano trying to calm it. At one point, he jumps on several crocodiles, and writings as: 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000 and an [[extra life]] even appears.

This episode begins with a fake commercial, showcasing a boy who is offered a bicycle, which he rejects. The boy is then offered a video game, which he also rejects; when the new hit toy "Log" is offered to the boy, he graciously accepts. Although only a still shot of it is shown for a few seconds, the game clearly resembles ''Super Mario Bros.''.

*One of the segments featured a parody of the ''Fast and the Furious'' movie trilogy, called "3 Fast 3 Furious" (also known as "Super Race"). Competing in the segment's street race are Mario, [[Luigi]] and [[Wario]] along with several other pop-culture icons. Despite using the "[[Spiny Shell (blue)|blue tortoise shell]]" of the ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' series, the Bros. and Wario, along with almost all of the other various racers, still lose to the decapitated corpse of Frank "Ponch" Poncherello from ''CHiPs''. In addition, when Mario and Luigi discuss using the blue shell, [[Yoshi]] appears in the background for a split second.

*[[Toad]] appeared in the ''Robot Chicken'' sketch called "I'm the Best" in the episode, "Due to Constraints of Time and Budget". In the sketch, Toad appears as the getaway driver for a group of robbers following a bank heist and had outrun the cops using his own kart from the ''Mario Kart'' series. During the chase, Toad used many items from the ''Mario Kart'' games as well including Banana Peels, Koopa Shells, Stars and even the [[Golden Dash Mushroom|Golden Mushroom]]. The items were easily accessed as he just had to press buttons in his kart. However he and the robbers were sent over a cliff once one panicking robber pressed a button that launches a [[Spiny Shell (blue)|spiny blue shell]] which soon hits them, as Toad claims that these shells seek out the lead kart (referencing its function in the ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' series). When they were hit, the word "'''BOOM'''" appeared below the kart, and the kart begins to smoke. This references to ''[[Mario Kart 64]]'' when a player is hit with something other than a Banana, Green Shell, and/or some course obstacles and how they use many examples of onomatopoeia (such as "'''CRASH'''" and "'''WHIRRRRRR'''"). The scene is based off of the beginning scene from the movie ''{{wp|The Transporter}}''. The setting at the end seems to be [[N64 Yoshi Valley|Yoshi Valley]], as Toad mentions that the police wouldn't be able to find or catch up to them there.

*In the "The Ballad of Gay Tony" sketch, during the first few seconds, the Nintendo logo and various other video game logos are shown. In the top-right corner, there is a red logo which is cut off, featuring a "SU" over a "MA", a reference to the ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' logo. Princess Peach also makes an appearance, when Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince of the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series sings "Everyone's trying to save the Princess, but who's gonna save the Prince?" another nod to ''Super Mario''. The [[Wii]] is also referenced.

*In one skit, "Kirby's Secret Problem", Yoshi is talking with [[Kirby]] on the phone. Yoshi said he "was a pig" on this day and ate about 50 pieces of fruit. Kirby brags that he literally inhaled 20 enemies, and said he was glad that he exhaled most of them. A shocked Yoshi asked if Kirby was still doing that (Kirby promised he wouldn't "binge and purge" anymore), but then Kirby hangs up, saying he "does not need that noise" and then suddenly vomits out a Waddle Dee, who says "Hey, it's none of my business, but, you have a problem."

*There was a Nintendo E3 event skit that starred Mario, Wario, Peach, Bowser, [[Ganondorf]], [[Fox McCloud]], [[Link]], [[Toon Link]], and [[Little Mac]]. Mario walked out of the event, while Bowser was trying to apologize to Peach for abducting her too many times. Mario later came back to help [[Reggie Fils-Aimé]] fight off the villains. In that same skit, Reggie also uses a [[Fire Flower]], which turns his clothes red and white.

In the episode "We're Here to Welcome Gaara!", Lee decides that he and Gaara will first do kart racing, as he thought of it as a realistic version to playing ''Mariko Kart'', which is a reference to the ''Mario Kart'' series.

In the episode "Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried to Gather Evidence of Love", Professor Ikeda suggests Kosuke to find science in video games due Kosuke's research showing no effort. While doing this, Ikeda says that finding NP-hardness in games such as ''Manio'' and ''Pac-Mon'' (spoofs of ''Mario'' and ''Pac-Man'' respectively) is very effective in doing this type of research.

Seth MacFarlane, famous for creating ''{{wp|Family Guy}}'', ''{{wp|American Dad}}'', and ''{{wp|The Cleveland Show}}'', has made a series of internet cartoons called "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy", which first episode had a spoof of [[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]. In this animated short, Mario confronts Bowser on a bridge over lava in his castle à la ''Super Mario Bros.'' After leaping over Bowser, Mario removes the axe, causing the Koopa King to plunge into the lava, and he runs over to where Princess Toadstool is waiting. The Princess thanks Mario for rescuing her, but rejects his offer for a kiss, as they just met, and that she doesn't want to make out with him. Mario explains that he merely wants a kiss as opposed to sex, and questions the Princess as to what he went through to reach her. The Princess concludes that Mario merely leapt a bunch of mushrooms (Goombas), and Mario argues that she was pathetic enough to get kidnapped by mushrooms in the first place. After Mario bickers about more aspects of his adventure, the Princess still refuses to kiss him. Mario then calls for Bowser (whom he refers to as "Dragon") to keep the Princess. Upon hearing this, Bowser leaps out from the lava, grabs the Princess and bites her head off.

To demonstrate a new "reality-avoiding" device, Kururu and Saburo transport themselves into a ''Mario''-esque game. Various elements from ''Super Mario Bros.'' are shown, including various [[Brick Block|bricks]], a [[? Block]], a Warp Pipe, a [[Poison Mushroom]] look-alike, and a Bullet Bill knock-off. Also, Kururu is dressed as Mario and Saburo is dressed as Luigi, though with slightly different hats and overalls.{{br}}

At one point when Kent Brockman is thinking about his past, he's at Chef Luigi's Pizzeria. Chef Luigi offers him a scoop, which is actually a plan to put his rival pizzeria out of business. The rival mentioned is Chef Mario's Pizzeria.

During "Into the Homer-Verse", the pixelated version of Homer uses the original jump sound effects from ''Super Mario Bros.'', and faces against a Bowser-looking version of Mr. Burns at the climax of the segment.

In the episode "Let's Play Musical Friends", when [[Orbot]] and [[Cubot]] are exploring the 17-bit world, Cubot asks "What if [[Toad (species)|the princess is in another castle]]?"

In the episode "Nominatus Rising", when [[Miles "Tails" Prower]] explains the Build-it Box, [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] says "There's this [[Princess Peach|princess]] [[Peach's Castle|in a castle that I'd like to meet]]."

In the episode "Eggman: The Video Game (Part 1)", after completing his game, [[Dr. Eggman]] says, "Finally, a video game starring a pudgy guy with a mustache.", a reference to [[Mario]]. Later in the episode, Tails and [[Knuckles the Echidna]] list parodies of popular video games, one of which is "''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Plumber Bros.]]''".

In "Atlantis SquarePantis", during Sandy Cheeks's video game-themed musical segment, she goes down a Warp Pipe and into a room that has the same frame and background used during gameplay in ''[[Dr. Mario (game)|Dr. Mario]]''; the Warp Pipe resembles its appearance in ''[[Super Mario Land]]''. The jumping sound effect plays as she kills bacteria by stomping them, and when the gang is rescued, the losing theme from ''Donkey Kong'' plays.<!--What game is the jump sound effect from? The sentence as originally written didn't mention.--> Enemies that resemble the [[Virus]]es, a [[Spiny]], and a [[Wiggler]] appear as well. Additionally, when SpongeBob, Squidward, and Patrick are kidnapped by a large virus, they shout "HELP!" akin to Pauline in ''Donkey Kong''. Later on, Lord Royal Highness throws Squidward into a painting, a reference to ''[[Super Mario 64]]''; the painting even uses a ripple effect similar to the one seen when Mario enters a painting.

In OVA 1, Harris, Clark and Martin are playing as racers in a parody version of ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'' on the [[Nintendo DS]]. They also later presented a [[Game Boy Micro]] to Eiko and Squid Girl, which includes a game called '''Super Eiko''', a reference to ''Super Mario Bros.''.

In "Laser Light Cannon", when Steven is going through his father's garage, he passes by a plush mushroom that bears a big resemblance to a [[Super Mushroom]].

In "Say Uncle", Steven and Uncle Grandpa are playing a video game resembling ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''.

In "Mindful Education" and "Jungle Moon", Stevonnie kicking their legs to hover in the air are very similar to Yoshi and Luigi's [[Scuttle|scuttle jump]].

In "Doug Out", Steven assumes the pseudonym of "Peter Pizzapopolis", donning a cap and mustache similar to that of Mario, and using Mario's catchphrases "It's-a me!" and "Mamma mia!".

[[File:Teekyuu 03 Sidescroller.png|thumb|''Teekyuu''{{'}}s spoof of ''Super Mario Bros.''.]]

In the first episode of season 3, "The World is Not Enough", Yuri, Nasuno, Kanae, and Marimo are going skiing, and accidentally enter an exceedingly difficult course that they believe to be the beginner's course. Immediately, the world turns a spoof of ''Super Mario Bros.'', with a pixelated artstyle, [[Goomba]] and [[? Block]] lookalikes, and baseballs in place of [[Coin]]s. As with most jokes in the series, this is not brought up again (beyond the fact that Marimo has lives and gets a Game Over, though this is outside of the ''Super Mario'' spoof).

The show contains many references to the ''Mario'' series as series developers Michael Jelenic and Aaron Horvath are ''Mario'' fans themselves. The two would later go on to direct ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' by [[Illumination]].<ref>Nintendo of America (March 9, 2023). [https://www.youtube.com/live/66j31wFLB_s The Super Mario Bros. Movie Direct – 3.9.2023 (Final Trailer)]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved March 12, 2023.</ref>

In "Legendary Sandwich", the sound effect that plays when Mario enters a secret area from ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' can be heard when Raven summons the legendary sandwich storybook.

''The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular'' has a picture on the writers' wall of an 8-bit Monsieur Mallah modeled after [[Donkey Kong]] holding the Brain like a barrel.

In the episode, "The Pulverizer Returns!", when Donatello discovers some coins that a Foot Ninja left behind, a coin-collecting sound effect is heard, which references ''Super Mario Bros.''.

In the episode, "Fungus Humongous", Michelangelo stomps on a set of mutant mushrooms in a similar fashion to the jumping sprite from ''Super Mario Bros.''.

During the episode "Afraid of the Dark", Uncle Grandpa looks closely at a photo of a knight fighting a motorcycle to reveal a map of his current location. The map is heavily based on the map from ''[[Super Mario World]]'', containing a [[Super Mushroom]] and a Warp Pipe amongst the various parts of the room he's in.

In most of the episodes, the Bears' cave features a poster named "Plumber Race 9", which is a spoof of the [[Mario Kart (series)|''Mario Kart'' series]].

In this short exclusive to Cartoon Network's website, a poster for a game called "Plumber Race 10" can be seen on Game World, spoofing the ''Mario Kart'' series.

The game Panda plays in the beginning of the short is ''Super Cat Knight'', which resembles ''[[Super Mario World]]'' and ''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda|The Legend of Zelda]]''. Additionally, during the video game segment, the bears slide down the flagpole, which appears to be reminiscent of the end of some of the levels in various ''Mario'' games.

The second OVA begins with Keima, whose appearance is based off of Mario's sprite from ''Super Mario Bros.''. He is seen performing the 1-Up trick on a Koopa Shell.

In the "Attack of the Vidiots" segment, Yang is sucked into his video game by The Lesson, which forces him to play endlessly (or, at least, until he has learned how bad it is to play too much video games). At a certain point, when Yang saves the princess, she says "Thank you, but the ''real'' princess is in another castle.", in the same fashion of the [[Toad (species)|Toads]] up until World 7-4 in ''Super Mario Bros.''. Yang later complains that he doesn't get any extra points, which might reference the lack of extra points the player receives after completing a castle in the original game.

Sound effects from ''Mario'' games are also fairly common in modern animated series, particularly those with scenes that involve arcades, video game systems, or computers. This is due to some of those sounds being in the public domain, such as sounds from the Atari port of ''Donkey Kong''. Here is a list of animated TV shows where ''Mario'' sound effects can be heard (listed in alphabetical order).

*''Bubble Bip'' (Spanish production; there are several sound effects based on ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' franchise such as the goal in ''[[Super Mario World]]''.)

*''{{wp|The Fairly OddParents}}'' (In the episode "Odd Ball", the Mushroom sound effect is used. The episode "Hassle in the Castle" also used the Mushroom sound effect.) (Also, in "Power Mad!", the lose a life sound effect is from ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'')

*''{{wp|Invader Zim}}'' (Sound effects from ''Mario Bros.'' are used for a scene in an arcade)

*''[[The Legend of Zelda (television series)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' (Near the beginning of the episode: "Doppelganger", [[Link]] can be heard whistling the ''Mario'' theme.)

*''{{wp|The Mr. Men Show}}'' (In the episode "Game Shows", when Mr. Nosy and Mr. Small open the box (which resembles a Question Block), it makes the sound when entering a course in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''). Another sketch contains a snail that makes the movement sound in ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' when slithering away.

*''{{wp|Mickey Mouse (2013 TV series)|Mickey Mouse}}'' (2013 TV series) (In the episode "Tokyo Go", when the red train enters a tunnel, the mushroom and coin sounds from ''Super Mario Bros.'' are used when Mickey collects a heart and coins respectively.)

*''{{wp|The Weekenders}}'' (Two teenagers are playing an arcade game and several sounds from ''Super Mario Bros.'' are heard.)