Product Details

• Actors: Lou Albano, Danny Wells, Harvey Atkin, Jeannie Elias, John Stocker
• Writers: David Ehrman, David Schwartz, Jeremiah Bosgang, Martha Moran, Rick Cunningham
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
• DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BSZAG0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,006 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Hey, Paisanos! It’s The Super Mario Bros.® Super Show!™

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 animated 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. With professional wrestler Captain Lou Albano as Mario, Danny Wells as Luigi, plus a strong rock ’n’ rap score, the show attracted guest stars like pop sensation Cyndi Lauper, professional wrestler Sgt. Slaughter, Danica McKellar (The Wonder Years), NBA superstar Magic Johnson and Nicole Eggert (Baywatch).

These 24 original episodes, complete with animation and live-action segments, plus the special features will convince you…

"Hangin’ with the plumbers, you’ll be hooked on the brothers…"

SPECIAL FEATURES
A Brand New Interview with Captain Lou Albano ("Mario")
Original Art Galleries
Storyboard-to-Screen: The Super Mario Bros.® Super Show!™ Opening Title Sequence …and More!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey, Paisanos! Its the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! January 19, 2006

By Rita Wiltsey

Format:DVD

This show features the Super Mario Brothers in Animated form with Lou Albano and Danny Wells providing the voices for the brothers and also playing the brothers in real live action form as well with special guest stars! Each show starts out with the live action Mario's and goes to cartoon, after the cartoon the live action portion wraps up! All 24 episodes include their live action counterparts! This 4 disc set features these 24 episodes plus a new interview with Lou Albano(Mario)!

Disc 1

The Bird! The Bird!

Butch Mario and the Luigi Kid

King Mario of Cramalot

Mario's Magic Carpet

Roll'in down the river

The Great Gladiator Gig

Disc 2

Mario and the Beanstalk

Love'em and Leave'em

The Great BMX Race

Two Plumbers and a Baby

Stars in their Eyes

Pirates of the Koopa

Disc 3

Robo Koopa

Count Koopula

Jungle Fever

Mario OF The Deep

The Fire OF Herculfleas

Mario Meets Koop-Zilla

Disc 4

Mario And Joliet

Too Hot To Handle

Brooklyn Bound

The Adventures OF Sherlock Mario

Hooded Robin

Toad Warrior

So if your sink is in trouble unclog this dvd on the double and get hooked on the Brothers!!!

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I want it badly... but I'm wary February 4, 2006

By Christopher P. Cecena

Format:DVD

Back in 1989-1990, there were five afternoon shows I watched all the time when I was a kid: Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers and Ducktales on Fox, while on KUSI-51 I watched the Jetsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Super Mario Bros Super Show. Now, four of them have finally been added to my DVD collection, and I am partially awaiting the arrival of TSMBSS to include the fourth.

The show is one of my favorites. While half of it features various little live action skits featuring the Mario Bros. and various guests, from Sgt. Slaughter to Magic Johnson and even Inspector Gadget(played by Maurice LaMarche in live action... far better than the performance Matthew Broderick gave), with some funny plots such as Mario switching bodies with Frankenstein's monster or Luigi getting trapped in a magician's hat. The other half is animated, in which Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach... sorry, Toadstool, and Toad attempt to try and rid the world of King Koopa.

The toons themselves were a bit of a merger of the first two Mario games. Koopa, for example, had Bowser's design and ego, but also had Wart's crown and color, plus Mouser(from the 2nd game) was his main henchman. The plots sometimes dealt with facing Koopa in the Mushroom Kingdom, but usually they took the plumbers and placed them in various situations: For example, movie parodies such as Indiana Jones, James Bond, or Godzilla, or homages such the group visiting Camelot... I mean, Cram-a-lot, or even prehistoric times. All the while Koopa would continue to menace the group under various disguises and alter-egos, similar to say, Boris Badanov from Rocky and Bullwinkle. Interestingly enough, some of Mario and Luigi's traits from the games, such as Mario's huge appetite and Luigi being a complete and total coward, actually originated in this show.

However, I am worried on how the releases will turn out. Although it seems DIC, I'm worried if they will truly be the episodes I watched on TV all the time. One of the highlights of the series was that at some point in an episode they would play various songs, such as "Weird Science," "Thriller," or "Danger Zone". However, in reairings of the episodes(retitled, Super Mario All-Stars, which aired with the two sequels, Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World), as well as on their single-disc releases of TSMBSS, DIC completely edited these songs out. There's been no mention on whether the songs will be included for the 4-disc set, but I hope they are, because I want the episodes as they ORIGINALLY aired, not edited up. I contacted them and asked if they would be including the songs, but have yet to receive a reply. Here's hoping that the series will be restored on DVD the way it should be.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Missing songs have me yearning for more July 26, 2011

By warped

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

OK, so they got the live segments, the bumpers, and the Zelda promos...but the cartoons are incomplete. In another instance of lawyers and copyright greed ruining everything, the original songs accompanying the climactic action sequences in the cartoons are replaced with bland and usually inappropriate instrumental substitutes. They didn't get the "rights." I now regret getting rid of my original VHS releases which retained the songs. For example:

"Pirates of the Koopa" originally had the song "Limbo Rock" by Chubby Checker. On this DVD release it's some completely scene-inappropriate instrumental music. And in "Too Hot to Handle" I believe the original song was "Hot Hot Hot" by Buster Poindexter. More like gone gone gone. These are just two examples but every episode is missing its song.

The problem with this is the songs added to the overall quality of the show. As a kid, I knew that when the song kicked in, it was the climax of the show, and then the denouement followed. With these substitutions, the intensity of the plot arcs is less an arc and more of a flat line. The action sequences are arguably sequenced around different parts of the song. With a substitution, that subtle context is lost. The songs were fun! The limbo rock sequence is one of the most remembered parts of the show for me and now it's butchered.

If you have ever seen the film masterpiece "Amadeus"...these omissions remind me of the ballet scene, when the emperor's decrees ban the music but not the dancing, so there are all these ballet dancers on stage with no musical accompaniment. It's awkward and strange. That's exactly what's happening here and on DVD releases of other old shows like Married with Children (iconic theme substitution). Copyright is ruining past shows and making them look worse than they were. Here we are paying for something instead of pirating it, and we're getting shorted! Puh-lease.