List of references in animated television: Difference between revisions

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

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

 

In the episode "Boy Meets Squirrel", the scene where Gil, Goby, and Oona jump over blueberries is a reference to [[Mario]] jumping over barrels in [[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]].

 

In the episode "The Sizzling Scampinis!", one of the Scampini Brothers is named after [[Luigi]].

 

In the episode "Sir Nonny The Nice!", the 8-bit video game where the knight has to collect the jewels plays similarly to [[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.

 

In the episode "Puddleball!", the giant has a similar mustache to Mario.

==''{{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 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?!"

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.

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 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 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 Nakanaka 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.

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.

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|Sonic the Hedgehog]].

In "Kuro Neko", Adrien becomes depressed due to being left out of Ladybug and the rest of the superhero team's fights. While this happens, Adrien can be seen playing a video game that resembles ''Super Mario Bros.'' at one point.

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.

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."

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 ''Super 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.

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.

Homer dreams of various characters in the series participating in a kart race that parodies the ''Mario Kart'' series, taking place on a track reminiscent of [[Rainbow Road]], with himself as Wario, Lisa as Mario, Ralph as [[Toad]], Sherri or Terri as Peach, Nelson as Bowser, and Milhouse as [[Yoshi]]. Lisa says, "It's me, Lisa Mario!" before the race starts, and a sentient cloud counts down the race as a stand-in for [[Lakitu (Mario Kart referee)|Lakitu]]. Milhouse gets an early lead, but Homer throws a [[Spiny Shell]] from an [[Item Box]] at him, causing him to fall off the track. Homer catches up to Lisa and taunts her before throwing a bomb at her, causing her to fall off the track as well. Homer then wakes up, saying, "It's-a-me, Wario, it's all my fault!", and then saying "Wah!" in an imitation of Wario. The following day, Homer recounts his dream to Lisa, who says that she won't stop go-kart driving "just because [he] dreamed a bunch of crazy stuff from ''Mario Kart''!" In response, Homer asks, "What's ''Mario Kart''?"

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.''.

[[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).

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 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.

*''{{wp|Hamster & Gretel}}'' (In "No Sprain, No Gain", as Hamster and Gretel are fighting Itsy Bitsy in the abandoned arcade, Fred plays on a ''Mushroom Popper'' arcade cabinet, which makes the stomp sound effect from ''Super Mario Bros.'' every time the character she's controlling pops a balloon)

*''{{wp|The Weekenders}}'' (In some episodes, when the characters are at the arcade, several sound effects from various ''Super Mario'' games can be heard at times. Also, in the episode "Dead Ringer", when Tino gets the results on what sport he's best suited for on a sports aptitude program, sound effects from ''Super Mario World'' are heard.)