This is the episode transcript of Little Marios/Koopa Klaus.
The Plumber Rap: Part 1[]
Mario: Hey, paisanos! It's the Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
[upbeat music]
[Singers]
We're the Mario Brothers, and plumbing's our game
We're not like the others who get all the fame
If your sink is in trouble, you can call us on the double
We're faster than the others, you'll be hooked on the brothers. Uh!
H-hooked on the brothers
Gimme gimme, gimme gimme
Yo, you're in for a treat, so hang on to your seat
Get ready for adventure and remarkable feats
You'll meet Koopas, the Troopas, the Princess and the others
Hanging with the plumbers, you'll be hooked on the brothers!
To the bridge!
Uh, uh!
I said-a h-h-h-h-hooked on the brothers!
The brothers!
The brothers!
Little Marios: Part 1[]
[instinct chatter]
[bell dings]
Luigi: What a fight. What a fight, look at these guys, look at the speed, bing, bang, boom, bang! Eh? That's fast, Mario, that's fast. That's poetry in motion, boom, ping. Hey, Brian! What are you doing here and what's with the suitcase?
Brian Bonsall: I-I'm selling pots and pans, door to door.
Mario: Brian.
Brian Bonsall: How about encyclopedias?
Luigi: Brian.
Brian Bonsall: Would you believe Tupperware?
Mario: Really?
Luigi: Brian.
Brian Bonsall: Okay, I admit it, I'm lying like a dog. I'm running away from home. Boy, I didn't think I'd crack that easy.
Mario: Why are you running away from home?
Brian Bonsall: My parents don't love me anymore, so I'm going to teach them a lesson. And when I'm gone, are they gonna miss me.
Luigi: Brian, maybe we should talk a little about this before, huh?
Brian Bonsall: Okay...
ding ding
Mario [vo]: The Super Mario Bros. Super Show will return.
Mario [vo]: Now, back to the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.
The Plumber Rap: Part 2[]
[theme song]
Here we go, yo!
It's the Mario Brothers, and plumbing's their game
Found the secret warp zone while working on the drain
Lend the Princess a hand in the Mushroom Land
Join the action with the plumbers, you'll be hooked on the brothers!
Now, evil Koopa and his Troopas are up to misbehaving
They kidnapped the Princess; Mushroom Land needs saving
Amusing and confusing, everybody discovers
They can't help but be hooked on the brothers. Uh!
Koopa Klaus[]
(The episode opens to King Koopa's castle near the North Pole of the Mushroom World. King Koopa, who is dressed like Santa Claus, complete with a fake beard and mustache, is inside with some Troopas, who are wearing Santa hats. The Troopas are emptying sacks of toys down a chute, onto a conveyor belt and into a crushing machine that resembles an evil nutcracker.)
King Koopa: Smash 'em, bust 'em, break 'em! That's what I wanna see, broken toys! I hate Christmas! I hate gifts! I hate giving! Christmas! Bah, humkoop!
(Triclyde, who has bicycle handles on his heads that are supposed to resemble antlers, and red clown noses, slithers up to King Koopa.)
Triclyde: The ice bombs are loaded on the sleigh, Koopa Klaus.
King Koopa: Good, Randolph, ya red-nosed Triclyde. I'm off to the North Pole to drop those bombs on Santa's workshop. I'll freeze the North Pole, and everyone will have a very unmerry Christmas. (laughs)
(King Koopa and Triclyde go outside to King Koopa's black sleigh, which is drawn by two Albatoss with bicycle handles antlers, and has a K on the front.)
Triclyde: And an unhappy new year! (laughs)
(King Koopa pulls on the middle head's nose and lets it fly back into its face.)
King Koopa: Leave the cruel lines to me, OK?
(King Koopa gets into the sleigh and pulls out a whip, which he hits the Albatoss with.)
King Koopa: Mush, ya worthless birdbrains!
(The Albatoss fly off with the sleigh.)
King Koopa: Bah, humkoop on Christmas.
(Fade back to another part of the North Pole. Mario, who is wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a straw hat, jumps out from under the snow with Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad. Mario and Princess Toadstool are holding suitcases.)
Luigi: Mario! I got a funny feeling we are not in Hawaii Land.
Mario: What's going on, Toad? You were in charge of getting us here.
Toad: Uh, I guess I made a wrong turn at the last iceberg.
(The song of the instrumental version of "What Goes Up" starts up. Princess Toadstool walks up to a sign pointing off in another direction.)
Princess Toadstool: (reading) North Pole five miles as the reindeer flies.
Toad: Hey! As long as we're here, why don't we pay a visit to Santa's workshop?
Mario: As long as we're here, eh? Did you plan this, Toad?
Princess Toadstool: Well, it is Christmas time, Mario.
Toad: My favorite time of the year! Presents, presents, presents!
(The others give Toad stern looks, and he blushes. The song ends. The group then heads towards the workshop.)
Mario: (narrating) Plumber's Log, 12-25. A slight detour from Hawaii Land and the tropic sun, thanks to Toad. (out loud) Oh, well, maybe we can pick up some gold coins working part time in Santa's workshop!
Toad: I can't wait to see Santa! I just know he's got a fabulous present for me!
Princess Toadstool: Actually, Toad, I've got something I wanted to give you.
(Toad leaps in the air.)
Toad: Did someone say something about a present? I've always got time to get a Christmas present.
(Princess Toadstool pulls a wrapped present out of her suitcase.)
Princess Toadstool: Merry Christmas, Toad. After all your hints, I decided to give you just what you wanted!
(Princess Toadstool hands the present to Toad.)
Toad: Yay!
(He quickly rips through the wrapping paper, and holds up a snowboard.)
Toad: A snowboard! I love Christmas!
(Toad gets onto his snowboard and begins to ride around the Mario Bros. in circles, and then rides off.)
(Princess Toadstool looks up.)
Princess Toadstool: (gasps) Look! Up in the sky!
(The Mario Bros. look up too.)
Mario: It's a bird!
Luigi: It's a plane!
(King Koopa flies by on his sleigh.)
King Koopa: It's Koopa Klaus! Let's give 'em a little Christmas present to melt their frozen pipes, eh?
(The Albatoss each drop a Bob-omb.)
Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool: (gasp in horror)
Mario: Albatoss attack! Head for cover!
(The three of them run off as the Bob-ombs hit the snow and blow up. Toad, however, is tossed aside by the explosion.)
Toad: Yipe!
(He then sticks his head out of the snow and sees his snowboard, which is next to him.)
Toad: My snowboard! My present!
(Toad hugs his snowboard.)
Toad: If that Koopa ruined my board, I'll, I'll...
Princess Toadstool: Don't you care if we're all right, Toad?
Toad: Well, yeah, but, my present.
Princess Toadstool: I guess your present means more to you than we do.
Toad: Well, it is Christmas. Uh, are you OK, Princess?
(Princess Toadstool frowns at Toad.)
Luigi: Mario! What's Koopa doing up there, anyway?
(The sign from earlier appears in a thought bubble by Mario's head.)
Mario: He's heading toward Santa's workshop!
Toad: What?
Princess Toadstool: We've got to save Santa!
Toad: (shivers) We've got to save the workshop and the toys! And Santa, of course.
(Fade back to Santa's village. Everyone and everything has been completely covered by a thick sheet of ice. The Mario Gang arrive at the village.)
Princess Toadstool: We're too late. Koopa Klaus is frozen Santa's workshop.
Toad: But what about Santa?
(King Koopa flies off from the village on his sleigh with the real Santa Claus, who's bound and gagged, riding in the back.)
King Koopa: Now I've got you, Santa. Say goodbye to your workshop, and your elves, and your toys. (laughing)
Toad: He's got Santa!
Luigi: Don't do it, Koopa Klaus! You'll ruin Christmas for everyone!
King Koopa: Christmas? Bah, humkoop.
Toad: This can't be happening! We'll never have Christmas again! I'll never get another present! Santa! Santa!
(King Koopa laughs as he flies off over the village. The episode then fades to black to a commercial bumper.)
Mario [vo]: Be right back, paisanos.
Mario [vo]: We're back, paisanos.
(When it fades back, the Mario gang follow him.)
Mario Gang: (gasp)
Luigi: We gotta do something, Mario.
Mario: Look! The elves' playground.
(The Mario Bros. run into the playground.)
Mario: We got one shot, Luigi! Toss me a snow block from the igloo!
Luigi: (gasps)
(He then struggles as he picks up an ice block.)
Luigi: I'm supposed to toss this to you?
Mario: Then, bring it to me.
(Luigi walks over to Mario.)
Mario: Set it on the teeter totter.
(Luigi places the block on one end of the teeter totter. He then feels a pain in his back and groans. Mario then lifts Luigi up onto his shoulders and walks around a bit.)
Mario: Now jump on the teeter totter.
Luigi: You've gotta be kidding!
Mario: You wanna save Christmas or not?
Luigi: Whoa!
(Luigi jumps on the other end of the teeter totter, which sends the ice block flying, and it hits King Koopa's sleigh. King Koopa and Santa Claus both fall out and scream. King Koopa grabs Santa Claus with one hand and pulls out an empty sack with the other, which he uses as a parachute.)
Toad: Mario, you stopped Koopa!
Mario: But we still have to catch him.
(King Koopa and Santa Claus land away from the village. King Koopa runs off, carrying Santa Claus on his shoulder and the Mario Bros. chase after him. King Koopa uses his sack to catch a gust of wind, which pushes him forward and he laughs. The Mario Bros. then throw snowballs at King Koopa, who lets them land in his sack. He then twirls the sack around and throws it at the Mario Bros., which knocks them into the snow. Mario gets out and pulls the sack off of Luigi, whose body is covered in snow except for his eyes. King Koopa then walks to the top of a hill and looks around. The Mario Gang run after King Koopa, but King Koopa uses Santa Claus as a sled and slides down the other side and across a frozen lake.)
Luigi: I, uh, I don't know about this, Mario. That could be thin ice!
Toad: If it'll hold Koopa and Santa, it must be a hundred feet thick!
(The Mario Gang slide down the hill, fly over a cliff, land on the ice, go sliding across it, and crash.)
King Koopa: You think those spaghetti heads are gonna rescue you? Forget it! I got friends in this neck of the woods. Koopa Flurry Pack, attack!
(Several Flurries skate out onto the ice.)
Mario: I should've known Koopa Klaus would send his Flurries to fight us.
Princess Toadstool: We have to get past those Flurries!
Mario: Let's fight fire with fire!
(The Mario Bros. and Toad start to push the block towards the Flurries.)
Luigi: You mean fight ice with ice.
(The Mario Bros. and Toad are riding on the block, which slides over to the Flurries and knocks them aside like bowling pins. The Mario Bros. and Toad then cheer.)
King Koopa: Those drain brains have defeated my Flurries!
(King Koopa drags Santa Claus into a cave.)
King Koopa: Whoa!
(The Mario Gang run up to the cave.)
Princess Toadstool: We've gotta go in after him.
Luigi: Looks pretty dark in there to me.
???: Dark? Oh, dear...
Princess Toadstool: The whole world will look pretty dark without Christmas.
Toad: Yeah! What's Christmas without presents? And Santa.
(The four of them run into the cave and slide through it. They come out the other end, fly off a cliff, and land in some snow. King Koopa and Santa Claus are on the cliff.)
King Koopa: All right, no more Mr. Nice Koopa. I got the jolly man, see? One false move and he goes over the cliff.
(Directly below the cliff is water, along with some pointy icebergs sticking out.)
King Koopa: And I got a feeling it won't be a happy landing, see?
Princess Toadstool: I can't believe you would do that, Koopa! Doesn't Christmas mean anything to you?
King Koopa: Christmas? Christmas is a bah, humkoop! A bah, humkoop! (yelling) A bah, humkoop!
(King Koopa's yelling starts an avalanche.)
King Koopa: Avalanche!
Luigi: We've gotta get back in the cave, Mario.
Mario: You take the Princess and Toad. I'm gonna save Santa with my plumber's snake.
(Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad run off. Mario pulls out his plumber's snake, lassos Santa Claus with it, and pulls him off the cliff.)
King Koopa: Wait a minute, what about me?
(Mario unties Santa Claus and smiles at King Koopa.)
King Koopa: Oh, no, not me. I'm not jumping into that ice bath. Aah! Yeow!
(More snow falls from the avalanche, and he jumps off the cliff into the water. King Koopa swims to an iceberg and climbs out.)
King Koopa: I didn't get to ruin Christmas. The Mario Brothers beat me again, and I'm floating away on an iceberg. What else can go wrong?
roar
King Koopa: Huh? Whoa!
(King Koopa turns around and sees a polar bear on the same iceberg as himself. Cut to the village. The Mario Gang are there with Santa Claus.)
Santa Claus: Ho ho ho ho. I want to thank all of you for saving me from Koopa Klaus.
Princess Toadstool: I wonder how long it'll be till the workshop thaws out?
Santa Claus: Not in time for me to make my deliveries, that's for sure. There will be no Christmas this year.
(Toad runs off and returns on his snowboard.)
Toad: Don't feel bad, Santa! At least I got my present!
Santa Claus: It's, it's very nice, Toad.
(Santa Claus walks off.)
Toad: What's wrong with Santa?
Princess Toadstool: You got your present, Toad, but no one else is going to get theirs. Santa's toys are frozen.
(Toad presents Santa Claus with his snowboard.)
Toad: Here, Santa. Take my snowboard. At least you'll have one present you can give.
Santa Claus: Toad, in all my life, I've never seen anyone express the true spirit of Christmas better than you.
(Santa Claus starts to cry, and Toad tries to wipe away the tears with his beard.)
Toad: Don't cry, Santa, please!
Santa Claus: I'm just so happy.
(A blue aura glows around Toad and Santa Claus.)
Princess Toadstool: Look! The spirit of Christmas is touching everything!
Santa Claus: Toad, your unselfish act fills me with the warm spirit of Christmas.
Mario: And it melts Koopa's ice!
(The ice covering the village melts, thawing out the building and everyone there. The assembly line in the workshop starts up again.)
Mario: It's going to be a merry Christmas after all!
(Fade back to the top of Santa Claus' castle at night. The song of the instrumental version of "What Goes Up" starts up again. Santa Claus is loading presents onto his sleigh as the Mario gang walk up to him.)
Toad: We made it, Santa!
Santa Claus: Thanks to you, Toad!
(Santa Claus gets into the sleigh.)
Santa Claus: Ho ho ho. I'd like to give all of you a special present. How about coming with me to deliver the presents?
Toad: You mean it, Santa?
Santa Claus: Ho ho ho ho! Sure I do! And you can ride up front with me, Toad.
(Santa Claus picks up Toad and places him next to himself. Later, the sleigh takes off, with the Mario Bros. and Princess Toadstool riding in the back on top of the sacks of presents.)
Santa Claus: Mario Christmas to all! And to all a good night! Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho!
Little Marios: Part 2[]
[instrumental music]
(We see the Mario Bros. are eating breakfast with a kid, Brian Bonsall.)
Brian Bonsall: Thanks for the pizza, guys. I hate to run away on an empty stomach.
Luigi: Mmm.
Mario: You know, Brian, I've been thinking. No matter how bad you think things are, you don't want to run away. Trust me on this.
Brian Bonsall: Sorry, guys, I've made up my mind. I'll teach my parents to appreciate me.
Mario: Brian, you may not believe this, but when Luigi and I were kids, I ran away from home.
Brian Bonsall: Really?
Luigi: Yeah, it's true, Brian.
Mario: Why, I remember, it was like yesterday.
(The flashback starts.)
(We see a younger Mario and Luigi... sort of. They still look like adults, but without mustaches. However, they do have propeller caps and shorter overalls. They appear to be racing.)
Young Mario: I beat you, I beat you, I beat you!
Young Luigi: Did not, did not, did not, you big old, poopy head, you! You big old--
Mama Mario: (only her arm is showing behind the door) Boys! How many times do I have to tell you not to fight? Mario, since you're the oldest, you should know better! You're grounded!
(Young Luigi points and laughs.)
Young Mario: But Mama, you already grounded me five times this week.
Mama Mario: Well, then, go peel the garlic for the next five days!
Young Mario: Oh, Mama, no, not the garlic! It makes me smell so bad, even I don't wanna play with me!
(Mama Mario leaves.)
Young Mario: Are you happy now?! There she goes, she's punishing me again! You always get me punished! I'll tell what I'm gonna do!
Young Luigi: (still pointing and laughing) What?
Young Mario: I'm gonna run away from home!
(Young Mario begins picking up his things and running away.)
Young Luigi: OK, who cares? Who cares? Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Who cares?
(He kicks a stuffed animal.)
(After a Mario head transition...)
Young Mario: I'm so scared, maybe I shouldn't have to run away from home. I know, I'll do what I do whenever I'm scared. Watch these scenes from the next Legend of Zelda.
Little Marios: Part 3[]
[instrumental music]
(Back at Mario Bros. Plumbing, not in flashback.)
Brian Bonsall: Boy, it must have been fun out on your own.
Mario: Oh, no, and little did I know that back home, the hearts of my poor family were breaking.
Luigi: Oh, yeah. We were miserable.
(The flashback starts.)
(We see Young Luigi and Mama Mario are eating popcorn, yet we never see Mama Mario's face.)
Young Luigi: Ah, this is the best popcorn, this is the best time, I've got the whole couch to myself, Mario's not here, you're the bestest Mama in the whole world, I love this.
Mama Mario: And without your brother here, there's a lot more for us.
Young Luigi: Yeah, ha ha.
(The door opens and Young Mario runs in.)
Young Mario: Mama, I'm sorry I ran away from home! You're probably worried sick.
Mama Mario: About what?
Young Mario: Mama, didn't you miss me?
Mama Mario: No! I don't miss your yelling, I didn't miss your fighting with your brother, and I didn't miss your room in a mess. But you, I miss.
Young Mario: Oh, Mama...
(He gets hit by her purse.)
Young Mario: What was that for, Mommy?
Mama Mario: Just in case.
(She pinches Young Mario on the cheek.)
(The flashback ends.)
Mario: Boy, I remember it like it was yesterday.
Brian Bonsall: Mario, that story was so beautiful, I'm ready to barf.
Mario: Yeah, but haven't you learned a lesson, Brian?
Brian Bonsall: Uh-huh, I shouldn't run away, because my parents would enjoy it too much.
Mario: That's right! Heh heh, that's right, Brian.
Brian Bonsall: I better hurry home before the popcorn's gone.
Mario: OK, Brian, good luck!
Luigi: OK, bye! So long! Thanks for visiting!
Brian Bonsall: Bye!
Mario: Take care, Brian!
Luigi: Don't sell too much Tupperware!
Mario: Watch the cars!
Mario and Luigi: (laughs)
Mario: Nice kid.
Luigi: He's a great kid. Boy, were we miserable when you ran away. Oh ho ho!
(Luigi sticks a plastic plate in Mario's face.)
Mario: Sure. My brother, the nice guy. Oh, sure. Come on, more pizza. Where's the pizza?
Mario [vo]: Stick around, paisanos. We'll be right back.
Ending Segment[]
[upbeat music]
Mario, Luigi, and Brian Bonsall: Do the Mario!