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The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989) is the cartoon series you can watch online on iFILM. This is where Brooklyn's two most famous plumbers first jumped off the Nintendo console and onto American afternoon television.
The format was an odd little experiment for its day. Live-action bumpers showed Mario and Luigi running a plumbing shop in their basement apartment, until a drainpipe flushed them down into the animated Mushroom World, where each episode pitted them against King Koopa with Princess Toadstool along for the ride. Wrestler Captain Lou Albano voiced Mario and played him in the live segments, with Danny Wells as Luigi, and real guests like Magic Johnson dropped by the shop.
These days it plays as a postcard from the moment video game franchises were just testing television out, all "Hey, Paisanos!" greetings and pasta jokes. Pure nostalgia for anyone raised on the cartridges, and a funny little time capsule for everyone else. Stream The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989) online on iFILM.
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