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Synopsis
In 1989 the two most famous plumbers from Brooklyn burst out of the Nintendo game world and onto television screens across America. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! aired weekday afternoons and brought Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and King Koopa more thrilling adventures as cartoon characters. And if that weren't enough, each episode also contained live-action segments featuring Mario and Luigi running their Brooklyn plumbing shop - all before they were flushed down a drainpipe into the Mushroom World.
Cast & Crew
Louis Albano
Mario
Danny Wells
Luigi
Harvey Atkin
King Koopa (voice)
John Stocker
Toad (voice)
Jeannie Elias
Princess Toadstool (voice)
Trivia about The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Eve Forward said that although the monsters and weapons were based on the game, "a lot of the various swashbuckling stuff I liked to put in was based on things that had happened in our D&D games".
According to screenwriter Bob Forward, the writing team on the Legend of Zelda segments was given significant freedom to develop the series as they wished, particularly with regards to the script and character design.
Nintendo offered little advice or guidance to the writers except for providing a franchise "bible", character designs, and the first two video games in the series.
The fairy character named Spryte was inspired by Forward's childhood obsession with the character Tinker Bell from Walt Disney's animated film Peter Pan.
Forward also explained that Link's catchphrase "Excuse me, Princess" was based on a popular Steve Martin comedy routine.
He decided to include it in every episode of the series as a way to poke fun at DIC's VP of Creative Affairs, Robbie London, who had forced him to use the phrase.
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