Super Mario World Cartoon Episode 10 – Rock TV
While pacing back and forth in his castle, King Koopa muses about how he has not done anything exceptionally evil in a while. Trying to think up a plan of some kind, Koopa remembers one of his trips to the Real World; more specifically, how television can put people in a near vegetative state. Suddenly, Koopa comes up with the idea of using TV to rot the minds of the cave people in Dome City.
Later, Oogtar the caveboy rushes to the Dome Castle of Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Princess Toadstool, telling them to come quickly and see something. Following Oogtar, the others are surprised to see what appears to be a giant, screenless television set.
As the cave people stare in awe at the giant television set, King Koopa appears behind it with Cheatsy and Kooky von Koopa, who are helping him put on a rather crude human costume. Going into the giant television's empty screen, Koopa, in costume, introduces himself as "Robby Rockwell". "Robby" proceeds to tell all the onlookers that he is here to introduce "Rock TV". Oogtar proceeds to ask what Rock TV is, and Koopa explains that it has hundreds of different shows such as "Mister Koopa's Neighborhood" (which Yoshi finds fun) and "The World Dinosaur Wrestling Federation" (which is depicted as dinosaur puppets bumping into one another). After being booed for this poor performance, Koopa shows the cave people "Rock, Rock TV" with such stars as "Vanilla Ice Age"; after saying this, Koopa proceeds to dress up and dance around. Leaving the stage, Koopa returns in his Robby disguise and proceeds to tell everyone that they can buy their own "Koopasonic Rock TV" for ten coins and a coin a minute.
Later, Mario and Luigi are in line to buy a Rock TV. Despite Mario saying that ten coins is a great deal, Luigi says that one coin a minute can really add up and reminds Mario of the "Speak to Santa Hotline" incident in Brooklyn, which added up to a $1,295.31 phone bill. Hearing this, Mario simply tells Luigi that paying for their TV will be easy, as all they need to do is bash blocks to get them. Approaching Koopa, Mario proceeds to buy a TV, despite Luigi's suspicion of "Robby Rockwell."
Once the TV is at home, Princess Toadstool proceeds to tell Mario and Luigi that she will not have any part in watching the TV, saying that she and Yoshi are going for a nature walk, and proceeds to walk out with a protesting Yoshi. Putting a coin in the TV, Mario and Luigi are suddenly hit by the spell of a Koopa wizard hidden in the TV. Appearing to go into a trance, Mario and Luigi crouch down on their couch and begin watching "everybody's favorite Kooparobics show, Koopa Sez!". As Koopa, wearing fitness attire, begins giving demands on TV, Mario and Luigi and all the cave people begin to follow him in a daze.
After a while, Koopa says he has "a real special game [he] wants everybody to play," at which point Mario and Luigi's TV breaks down, snapping them out of the trance. On the rest of the televisions, Koopa orders all the cave people to go to Dome Castle and capture Mario and Luigi. Like robots, the cave people obey Koopa and, grabbing anything nearby to use as weapons, rush off to Dome Castle. At Dome Castle, Mario, frustrated with his broken TV, throws it out a nearby window and into the moat surrounding the castle. As Mario does this, he notices a mob of cave people storming the castle with clubs. Before Mario or Luigi can do anything, they are captured by the zombified cave people.
Trivia & Bloopers
- When the scene cuts to King Koopa walking around in his throne room, he is briefly frozen.
- When King Koopa stops to think, the screen shakes.
- When the woman in the family King Koopa spies on blinks, her eyes disappears. Similarly, the man's eyes disappear for a split-second after he blinks the second time.
- In the first shot of the boy in the family, he is wearing a red shirt and brown overalls. In the next shot, his clothes are the same color as his hat.
- The family King Koopa spies on in his flashback strongly resembles Norman's family from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Mush-Rumors," except Missy is missing. In the same scene, the background music heard is a stock music track previously used in other DIC shows, including Captain N: The Game Master and Wish Kid.
- When confronting the green Tyrannosaurus Twin, Mario says, "Leaping lasagna!", a parody of the catchphrase of the titular character of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. The catchphrase was previously parodied in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Life's Ruff", where Luigi says "Leaping labadors!" after the dogs refuse to listen to King Windbag when he orders them to line up.
Cast
- Harvey AtkinKing Bowser Koopa
- Walker BooneMario
- Tony RosatoLuigi
- Andrew SabistonYoshi
- Tracey MoorePrincess Toadstool
- Gordon MastenBig Mouth Koopa, singer #1
- Dan HennesseyBully Koopa, Green T-Rex twin, Singer #2, Caveman #1, Caveman #3, Caveman #4
- John StockerOogtar, Oogtar's dad, Caveman #2, Caveman #5, Caveman #6
- Paulina Gillisfemale singer, cavelady #1, cavelady #2, Oogtar's sister, Oogtar's mother
- Michael StarkKooky von Koopa, Orange T-Rex twin
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