Party Line Episode Guide | Super Luigi Bros

Super Mario World Cartoon Episode 08 – Party Line

While out for a walk, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi begin discussing how dangerous it can be to live in Dinosaur World. As Mario says this, a dinosaur leaps in the group's path and shoots a fireball at them. Dodging the fireball as the dinosaur leaps away, Mario goes on to say that the citizens of Dome City have been having a lot of accidents lately. As if on cue, Yoshi trips on a used-up block and falls.

Princess Toadstool suddenly appears to bandage Yoshi's wound. After having several large bandages put on Yoshi's tail, the group is attacked by an evil dinosaur. Running from it, Yoshi ends up running straight into a tree, and Mario begins to wish everyone could just have an emergency number to call on the telephone when they got in trouble. Asking what a phone is, Yoshi is subsequently hit on the head by a falling coconut before Mario can finish explaining. Mario then gets an idea: using the two halves of a coconut and a vine, Mario creates a crude phone to use as communication equipment. Testing his invention out with Luigi, Mario is overjoyed when he realizes it works.

Much later, Mario and Luigi have put together an expansive phone system across the city, with Princess Toadstool as the operator. However, the phone business gets out of hand: the Cave People are talking nonstop on their phones, the vine telephone wires are growing all over the place, and the Princess is being completely overworked. To make matters worse, the Cave People have begun to neglect their duties, such as watering their crops.

Before Mario and Luigi can discuss matters further, they are suddenly attacked by a swarm of caterpillars. While Mario is being chased by the caterpillars, Luigi tries to call for help, only to get a busy signal. Panickingly, Mario and Luigi climb up a nearby tree; this proves futile, though, as the caterpillars simply climb after them, eating vines along the way.

Mario, trying to find something to fight the caterpillars off with, sees several ? Blocks floating in the air. Unable to reach a block, Mario is bitten on the leg by a caterpillar. This bite sends Mario leaping through the air, hitting a block and subsequently crashing down onto the ground, where he is surrounded by caterpillars. Grabbing the Starman that fell from the block, Luigi becomes invincible, grabbing all the caterpillars and throwing them into the tree. Luigi then grabs a vine hanging off the side of the tree and pulls it, which pulls the tree down, before letting go, literally flinging the caterpillars into space.

After defeating the caterpillars, Mario and Luigi are approached by Oogtar, who says his phone is out of order and demands the Mario Bros. fix it. Before Mario or Luigi can say anything, they receive a call for help from Princess Toadstool, who has become trapped in a mess of vines. After freeing her, Mario, Luigi, and the Princess see a horrific sight – the evil dinosaur from before is back and hungrier, and the Cave People, being too busy on their phones, are completely defenseless against it.

Trivia & Bloopers

When Mario and Luigi point out that danger is everywhere, they have four fingers on each hand instead of five.
The dinosaur that jumps out at the brothers at the start of the episode appears in front of the building out of nowhere instead of coming from behind it.
When Yoshi is about to trip on a block, the symbol on Luigi's cap is green instead of black.
When Mario says, "Like right now, for instance!", the "M" on his cap is missing. Luigi's "L" on his cap also disappears when he says, "That's the biggest dinosaur I've ever seen!" and after Oogtar says he is on the line with some girls.
This is one of the only two Super Mario World episodes where Luigi is seen using a power-up, the other being "Mama Luigi". This is also one of the three episodes where King Koopa and his Koopalings do not appear, the others being "Ghosts 'R' Us" and "Born to Ride".
In the space scene, when the caterpillars go after the comet, a Stone Age-style satellite can be seen. In the same scene, a tall, star-shaped platform resembling the Star Path can be seen coming from Earth.