While not quite as bad as The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the Super Mario Bros. Super Show was really lame. The live-action segments with Captain Lou Albano and Danny Wells as Mario and Luigi were mildly amusing at times, but it's too clear that with the cartoon segments, there wasn't much effort put into anything.
I like to use cartoons such as this to shut up the ignorant people that always bleat out about how everything from the past is better than what's out now.
Honestly, I still enjoy this one. There's no way I'll ever argue about the quality of it, but I loved it when I was a kid. And no, everything from the past was DEFINITELY not worth keeping. We only remember the good stuff, and we keep holding it up to everything coming out now.
RabidChihuahuaMarch 14
I did like this when I was a kid, but it just doesn't hold up as an adult.
I'm a morbid cynic who thinks very, very differently from most other people. Chances are, if the majority says X is the greatest in its category, I'll disagree with that notion, because I tend … more
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The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is an American television series based upon Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. series of video games. It was originally broadcast via first-run syndication to mostly independent or Fox television stations from September 4, 1989, to December 1, 1989, whereupon repeating episodes and Club Mario re-edited episodes were broadcast until September 6, 1991. The Family Channel commenced broadcast of the series in the United States from September 23, 1991[1], to August 26, 1994[2], as reruns. The show was produced by DiC Animation and was distributed by Viacom Enterprises.
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The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is an American television series based upon Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. series of video games. It was originally broadcast via first-run syndication to mostly independent or Fox television stations from September 4, 1989