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Life’s Too Short to Be a Crab
The Provolone Ranger – I distinctly remember this being the first Super Show episode I ever saw, and I don’t even think I had a Nintendo or was that familiar with Mario at the time. The usual suspects are riding … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games
Tagged alcatraz, aqua land, atlantis, baseball, birdo, bloopers, clawgrip, cobrats, coney island, cookoo bird, cyclone, danny wells, double cross ranch, escape from koopatraz, flatbush koopa, french, fungusville, goldfish, goodbye mr. fish, gramps, joe bellan, karen hartman, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopatraz state prison, luigi mario, mario mario, mario of the deep, mermaids, mouser, mrs. gamliss, mrs. periwinkle, mush ridge, mushroom kingdom, nedra volz, neptune, ostros, phantos, piranha plants, pokeys, princess peach toadstool, pronto, ratigator, shy guys, statue of liberty, super mario bros. 3, swordfish, the lone ranger, the provolone ranger, toad, toads, tommy lasagna, tommy lasorda, tonto, trouters, two bums from brooklyn, whales
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Sticker Fun
I finished Paper Mario: Sticker Star last weekend, and I’m only just writing about it now. It’s fairly slight, especially for a role-playing game, but still pretty fun. I wrote earlier about how you can only make moves by using … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Poetry, Video Games
Tagged aliens, bloopers, boos, bowser koopa jr., dinosaurs, dry dry desert, enigmansion, fuzzies, game shows, ghosts, goombas, gooper blooper, gritzy desert, hollijolli village, kamek, kersti, king bowser koopa, luigi mario, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mario mario, megasparkle goomba, mizzter blizzard, mushroom kingdom, paper mario, paper mario: sticker star, paperization, paragoombas, petey piranha, piranha plants, pokeys, princess peach toadstool, professor elvin gadd, royal stickers, shroobs, shy guys, snifit or whiffit, snifits, spear guys, sticker comet, stickers, time travel, toadbert, toads, toadsworth, toadwood forest, tower power pokey, wigglers, yoob, yoshi's island, yoshis
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It’s Koopa Clobbering Time
Here are some more Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews, and for once I haven’t heard the reviews on the Super Show Show podcast at the Hard Times, because they haven’t gotten to most of these yet, “Mario of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games
Tagged a basement divided, adee don't, albatosses, apes, beetles, big bad wolf, chippie chipmunks, fred travalena, gramma toadstool, honey i shrunk the kids, jungle land, karate, karate koopa, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopa-kola, lions, little red riding hood, little red riding princess, luigi mario, mario mario, mario of the apes, martial arts, melanie chartoff, misaki, mouser, mr. gibbel, mr. miyagi, mushroom kingdom, ninjis, no way to treat a queenie, plumb fu, princess i shrunk the mario brothers, princess peach toadstool, queen elizabeth ii, ratigator, sayanora, tarzan, tawny tyler, the karate kid, toad, triclyde, trouters, waldo the wizard, wolves
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Warning! Warning! Prepare to Be Abducted!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – This is one of those movies I’ve seen so many references to that I kind of felt I should watch it. It actually came out the year I was born. Some explorers and … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Families, Humor, Music, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged aliens, close encounters of the third kind, contact, garfield, garfield and friends, grey aliens, gross encounters, j. allen hynek, jim davis, richard dreyfuss, roy neary, ss cotopaxi, steven spielberg, teri garr, u.s. acres
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Kiss a King
I’ve looked at a few of the Mario stories from the Nintendo Comics System, and I thought I might as well throw a few more reviews into the mix. While my previous reviews were just of stories I’d read recently, … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Donkey Kong, Dreams, Humor, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games
Tagged anime, beezos, betrayal most proper, birdo, boshi, bowser koopa jr., cobrats, donkey kong coloring and activity book, donkey kong jr., donkey kong no ongaku asobi, donkey kong strikes again!, donkey kong's fun with music, fawful, flurries, fryguy, goombas, goomboss, gunions, hammer brothers, hawkmouths, just deserts, king bowser koopa, king k. rool, Kirby, luigi mario, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario mario, mushroom king, ninjis, nintendo comics system, one piece, paper mario, pauline, piranha plants, princess peach toadstool, pyramids, shroobs, shy guys, sparks, stanley the talking fish, star spirits, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario bros. heroes of the stars, super mario land, super mario odyssey, super mario rpg, the adventures of dirk drain-head, the fish that should've gotten away, the legend, toad, toads, triclyde, venus fire traps, waluigi, wario, wart, wooster, yoshi, you again?
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