The Night Before Cave Christmas Episode Guide

Super Mario World Cartoon Episode 06 – The Night Before Cave Christmas

While at a barbecue, Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool can only watch in dismay while Yoshi and Oogtar fight over a "barbecue mammoth rib". Mario attempts to stop the fighting, only to get some barbecue sauce spattered on his face when Yoshi and Oogtar accidentally tear the rib in half.

After wiping the sauce from his face, Mario claims that all Oogtar ever does is squabble with others; after saying this, Mario notices that it is not just Oogtar, all the cave-people have been acting grumpy recently. Watching the cave-people fight makes Mario think of how everyone acts nice to one another around the holidays. After dodging some corn thrown by Oogtar, Luigi replies that Mario means Christmas, which is too odd because it is the middle of August and not Christmas.

Despite this detail, Mario decides to celebrate Christmas with the cave-people, thinking it will cheer them up (saying that since they are in Dinosaur World, they can have Christmas any time they want, even though the cave-people do not know that Christmas does not come in the middle of August). Soon after stating this, a confused Yoshi asks what Christmas is. Mario proceeds to explain what Christmas is to Yoshi and Oogtar, with Oogtar taking particular interest in Santa Claus and the presents he delivers.

After his explanation about what Christmas is, Mario begins to decorate all of Dome City with the curious and excited cave-people watching him. After hearing about Mario's plans for a "Cave Christmas," King Koopa pops out of his hiding place in a garbage can and begins to wonder why Mario would be celebrating Christmas on the hottest day of the year.

With "Cave Christmas Day" coming up, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Toadstool, Oogtar, and Ooga begin to cut down several Christmas trees, while King Koopa and Bully Koopa spy on them.

After cutting down the Christmas trees, Princess Toadstool and Yoshi begin to decorate them with candy canes, while King Koopa and Bully look on. After saying he has a plan forming, King Koopa and Bully are accidentally picked up by a garbage-collecting dinosaur and thrown out with the rest of the trash.

Trivia & Bloopers

The scene transition sound effect plays before the scene transitions to the episode's title occurs. Inversely, the sound effect is played after the scene transition finishes in the transition to everyone putting candy canes on the Christmas trees.
When Yoshi and Oogtar fight over the rib, the rib's sauce freezes briefly when Yoshi claims the rib is his and when Mario intervenes.
When Yoshi says "Is so!" and Oogtar says "Is not!", the latter lip-syncs the former's dialogue and vice versa.
Before Mario gets hit by the sauce, the top of his overalls have no outline.
In Australia and Italy, this episode aired as the sixth episode instead of the fifth, replacing "King Scoopa Koopa".[16] This alteration in the episode order is also present on the Captain N and the New Super Mario World DVD release by Shout! Factory.
Despite this being the last episode in production order, this episode uses Yoshi's older design in the series.