The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Volume 1, Disc 1 2006 FULL DVD

Published 2023-01-27
Distributor: Shout! Factory

Release date: March 28, 2006

Description on the back cover:

“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 from THE WONDER YEARS, NBA superstar Magic Johnson, and Nichole Eggert from 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…’”

OPENING:

1.) FBI warning
2.) Shout! Factory logo (2003-15)
3.) “Greetings from the Shout! Factory Trailer Collection” screen
4.) Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series DVD promo (why this is on a DVD release of a children’s series, I have no idea)
5.) The Electric Company: The Best of The Electric Company DVD commercial (featuring that-one-black-comedian-who-shall-not-be-named)
6.) DiC Home Entertainment logo (2001-08) (unused during normal playback, but can be found as a file on all four discs; in the file that the logo is attached to on disc 1; it plays right before the Legend of Zelda animated series DVD promo, so that’s where I decided to place it at while editing this video; I assume it was dropped on account of the set including trailers for shows not made by DiC)
7.) The Legend of Zelda: The Complete Animated Series (basically leftover episodes of the Super Show! with different cartoons in them) DVD ad
8.) Main menu

EPISODES INCLUDED:

1.) “The Bird! The Bird!” (live-action segment: “Neatness Counts”)
2.) “Butch Mario and the Luigi Kid” (live-action segment: “All Steamed Up”)
3.) “King Mario of Cramalot” (live-action segment: “Day of the Orphan”) (with the show's intro and end credits very slowed down for some odd reason; maybe to extend the length of the episode, whose print featured here is missing the Legend of Zelda cartoon teaser from the live-action segments, to the length of the other featured episodes?)
4.) “Mario’s Magic Carpet” (live-action segment: “Marianne and Luigeena”)
5.) “Rolling Down the River” (live-action segment: “Mario’s Monster Mash”)
6.) “The Great Gladiator Gig” (live-action segment: “Bonkers from Yonkers”)

CLOSING:

1.) Episode Selection and Bonus Features menus
2.) Featurette: “Interview with Captain Lou Albano (The Original Voice of Mario)”
3.) Storyboard-to-Screen Comparison - “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!” Opening Title Sequence (specifically the first opening)
4.) “The Worlds of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!” Background Art Gallery: Part 1 (Episodes 1-6)

DISCLAIMER: This video is NOT made specifically for kids, but for EVERYBODY.

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All Comments (21)
  • To keep myself from getting burnt out on making overview videos on account of covering nothing but Disney DVDs, I’ve decided to try out a little experiment in the wake of the success of my video covering Stanley: Spring Fever - I’m going to be dumping full DVD releases of shows that I know can be uploaded onto YouTube without getting into any copyright trouble, with the vast majority of those programs being owned by WildBrain and/or Corus Entertainment. By popular vote, the first of the shows I’m covering is the infamous but unintentionally hilarious vintage video game adaptation produced by DiC Entertainment (whose library is now owned by WildBrain), The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, in anticipation of Mario and Luigi’s upcoming big screen outing’s release into theaters on April 7, 2023! So far, I currently only own one DVD release of the Super Show!, but it’s one of the two best ones you can find: the first 4-disc volume box set from everybody’s favorite independently-owned home video distributor, Shout! Factory. Unlike most of the other studios who have held the home video rights to DiC’s cartoons over the years (most infamously Mill Creek Entertainment), Shout! Factory took the time to create some sweet bonus features to complement the shows they put on the format. Oddly, this set decided to put all the non-episode-specific bonus features on the first disc, rather than the final disc like most DVD releases of TV shows do. Thus, those extras will be featured here, but since they cover episodes that aren’t seen until the later discs of this set, avoid watching them if you haven’t already seen the Super Show!’s first 24 (non-Legend of Zelda) episodes. Unfortunately, Shout! Factory lost the home video rights to DiC’s shows in 2012, and Cookie Jar Entertainment (the owner of the studio at the time) decided to transfer those full rights to Mill Creek and NCircle Entertainment (the latter of whom would get bought up by Mill Creek in 2021). This set later got reprinted by NCircle in 2013, but that version cut out all the live-action segments and the first of the show’s two openings, even though the bonus features covering the live-action segments were left intact, in order to cut down the disc number from four to two. I’ll be covering each disc in Shout! Factory’s release of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Volume 1 DVD set in their own individual video. I’ll also be alternating between tackling that set’s contents AND what’s included on my DVD releases of the other shows listed on the poll that the Super Show! won (going from most to least votes), so again, I won’t get burnt out tackling too much of the same thing at once.
  • @andykishore
    Now we get to have that show's live-action segments on YouTube in good quality.
  • @80sDisneyFan
    I like my NCircle DVDs of the show but it's a shame that they cut out the live-action stuff.
  • @itsjayden8002
    You deserve a Nobel Peace Prize just for uploading this
  • @MarkPiccolo
    The old good days 😢😢😢❤❤❤ sweet memory lane
  • @RetroGaming-gp2ef
    I remember watching the Super Mario Bros super show when I was a kid.
  • @Ninja_4561
    King Mario of Cramalot is actually the Family Channel version, which was weirdly slowed down to fit the timeslot, plus some other minor edits (like extra commercial fadeouts)
  • @RareSun
    Just realized the Super Show was 17 in 2006 and 2006 is 17 now
  • Hi, is your DVD player region-free by any chance? I'd like to see if you have any Oggy and the Cockroaches DVD releases by North Video, a Czech home video distribution company, and those DVDs are the only high-quality releases of seasons 1, 2 and 3.
  • @itsjoshua2508
    I have a Super Show dvd called "The Best of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show". It Features 9 episodes with the live-action scenes cut.