Butch Mario & The Luigi Kid
Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid is the third episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. Its corresponding live-action segment is "All Steamed Up".
Plot Synopsis
In the Wild West, Mario, Luigi and Toad begin to search for Princess Toadstool, who has been kidnapped by Kid Koopa and taken into the Wild West. While traveling through the desert, Mario and Luigi notice a wanted poster on a nearby cactus with a hat on it. Looking at the wanted poster, Toad notices that its Mario and Luigi displayed on it and the reward for their capture is 10,000 gold pieces.
Hearing about the reward money, the cactus the poster is attached to suddenly springs too life, revealing itself to be a Pokey. The Pokey, desiring the reward, begins to attack Mario and Luigi, only to be stopped when it has a plunger thrown at its face, which affixes itself there.
In an abandoned mine-shaft, Kid Koopa begins to taunt the captured Princess Toadstool, who is sealed in a cage. Kid Koopa proceeds to give Princess Toadstool her food, three beans, and then leaves her, planning to starve her.
While trekking up a hill of sand, Mario, Luigi and Toad are suddenly confronted by Kid Koopa's second-in-command, Sheriff Mouser, and his brigade of Snifits and Ostro. After hearing Sheriff Mouser's plan to capture them, Mario, Luigi and Toad begin to run for it, with Sheriff Mouser and the Snifits and Ostro chasing them.
Running from Sheriff Mouser and his minions, Mario, Luigi and Toad come to a dead-end; a flowing river. With Sheriff Mouser approaching quickly, Mario decides to use several logs flowing down the river as stepping-stones to cross it. After Mario crosses the river, Toad does the same, as does Luigi, who narrowly makes it.
Seeing Mario, Luigi and Toad cross the river, Sheriff Mouser orders his Snifit minions to do the same. Unfortunately, the Snifits fail to make it across and fall yelling over a waterfall, leaving Sheriff Mouser to, surprisingly, cry over and mourn their fate.
Later, at a small town, Kid Koopa is in the process of reprimanding Sheriff Mouser for his failure in capturing Mario, Luigi and Toad. After having several threats thrown at him, Sheriff Mouser begins trying to calm down Kid Koopa, saying he'll hire every available bounty hunter to track down Mario, Luigi and Toad.
In the desert, Mario, Luigi and Toad, having somehow gotten several Ostro to be their steeds, come across another wanted poster, this one saying Mario and Luigi are wanted for 30,000 gold pieces. As Mario and Luigi talk about their unfortunate fate, a nearby Tweeter, seeing the wanted poster, snickers to itself and flies away.
As the Tweeter flies away, Mario and Luigi notice a nearby smoke signal spelling "HELP! ME!" followed by a crude image of Princess Toadstool when Luigi wonders "who's me?". Realizing the messages must be from Princess Toadstool, Mario, Luigi and Toad begin to travel to where the smoke signals are originating.
Reaching the mine-shaft where Princess Toadstool is being held, Mario, Luigi and Toad begin to enter the mine, only to be surrounded by Sheriff Mouser and his minions. Wielding a Cobrat, Sheriff Mouser suddenly gets in an argument with the Tweeter from before, who wants its reward money for telling Sheriff Mouser of Mario, Luigi and Toad's location.
With Sheriff Mouser distracted, Mario, Luigi and Toad, after knocking aside several Snifits, steal their Ostro and run. Sheriff Mouser, after lighting the fuse of a Bob-omb, throws it at a nearby boulder, releasing it and causing to roll down at Mario, Luigi and Toad. Running from the boulder, Mario, Luigi and Toad find themselves in a town, with an army of Cobrat-armed Pokeys in front of them. Seeing a nearby building advertising free Italian food, Mario, Luigi and Toad manage to run inside it, dodging the boulder, which bowls over the Pokey army.
Inside the building, Mario, Luigi and Toad are horrified to find Kid Koopa in it. A taunting Kid Koopa proceeds to force Mario, Luigi and Toad into a nearby prison cell and crushes the cell key in his hand.
Coming up with a plan, Mario has Luigi continually yell that he's dying of thirst. Luigi's cries eventually attract an annoyed Sheriff Mouser who proceeds to drink a glass of water in front of Luigi, trying to be cruel. As Sheriff Mouser finishes his drink, he notices Mario and Luigi playing a game of Patty Cake. Wanting to know what Mario and Luigi are doing, Sheriff Mouser is shoved by the two and has his hat knocked off, which Toad quickly hides himself under. Claiming to be delusional of thirst, Mario and Luigi are let off with a warning by Sheriff Mouser, who leaves the building and enters a nearby, Koopa Troopa-filled bar.
Sheriff Mouser, after setting his hat and Toad down on a table, goes to get a drink. With Sheriff Mouser gone, Toad, after seeing a bag of Bob-ombs, grabs it and quickly leaves the bar. Outside, Toad lights the fuse of a Bob-omb and sends it into the bar, where it blows-up.
Toad runs to the building Mario and Luigi are being held in and blasts the wall down, freeing Mario and Luigi, as well as dazing them. Seeing that Mario and Luigi are free, Sheriff Mouser sends a brigade of Koopa Troopas out to capture them. Mario, Luigi and Toad manage to evade the Koopa Troopas and, taking some nearby Ostro, travel to the mine Princess Toadstool is being held in.
Traveling into the mine, Mario, Luigi and Toad bump into a wall; using a Bomb Plant plucked from the ground, Toad blows-up the wall, with Luigi caught in the blast. Mario, after happily seeing that Luigi survived the blast, rushes him outside for some fresh air, Luigi having inhaled a large amount of dust.
Outside, Mario, Luigi and Toad find themselves surrounded by Kid Koopa and his Koopa Troopas. Kid Koopa suddenly challenges Mario to a duel, with a nearby Birdo's cheeps acting as the count down. Suddenly, Kid Koopa pulls-out a small Piranha Plant before the count down is done and has the plant shoot a fireball at Mario, Luigi and Toad.
Dodging the fireball, Mario pulls-out a Cobrat and begins firing a barrage of projectiles. With Kid Koopa and his minions distracted, Mario, Luigi and Toad run into the mine and accidentally run into the pit that Princess Toadstool is being held in. With Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool effectively trapped, Kid Koopa begins to taunt them.
As Kid Koopa prepares to throw Bob-ombs into the pit, Mario and Luigi, having reworked the piping system in the pit, send a blast of water upward, raising themselves and Toad and Princess Toadstool to the surface, along with washing Kid Koopa and his Koopa Troopas away.
Having been freed, Princess Toadstool asks how she can thank Mario. Mario says there are seven ways she can and begins to name various foods he wants.
Animation and Continuity errors
- When Mario, Luigi and Toad try to escape on Ostros, and Mouser throws the Bob-omb, Mario, Luigi and Toad can briefly still be seen standing on the mountain.
- Toad's head still has a different shade of red. It stays at the normal shade for the rest of the series, after the next episode.
Trivia
- "Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid" is the first instance in The Super Mario Bros Super Show! where King Koopa uses an alias and costume. Also, Toad's color scheme changes from him having a red hat with white spots and a white vest with red pants to the opposite coloration in this episode and remains this way for the rest of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
- "Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid" is the only episode on the Shout! Factory DVD box set of season one without a "The Worlds of Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Concept Art Gallery" part. It goes from "The Bird, The Bird" to "King Mario of Cramalot".
- The Title "Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid" is a wordplay on two real-life references: The 1969 Film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and two Wild West Outlaws Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.
- This is the first episode of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! where nobody uses a power-up.
- This is the first time one of Koopa's Alter-egos were seen.
