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|airdate= September 21, 1991 (English) <br> September 4, 1992 (French)
|airdate= September 21, 1991 (English) <br> September 4, 1992 (French)
|writer=Eleanor Burian-Mohr<br>{{wp|Jack Hanrahan}}
|writer=Eleanor Burian-Mohr<br>Jack Hanrahan
|song="[[List of Super Mario World (television series) songs#Motor City|Motor City]]"
|song="[[List of Super Mario World (television series) songs#Motor City|Motor City]]"
|captain_n="Pursuit Of The Magic Hoop"
|captain_n="Pursuit Of The Magic Hoop"
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"'''The Wheel Thing'''" is the second episode of the ''[[Super Mario World (television series)|Super Mario World]]'' television series. The title for this episode may be a pun on the phrase "the real thing". This episode is notable for being the first ''Super Mario World'' episode where [[Bowser|King Koopa]] appears. It is also the last episode, as well as the only ''Super Mario World'' episode, where [[Ludwig von Koopa|Kooky]] has dialogue.
"'''The Wheel Thing'''" is the second episode of the ''[[Super Mario World (television series)|Super Mario World]]'' television series.


==Plot synopsis==
==Plot synopsis==
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==Animation and continuity errors==
==Animation and continuity errors==
*In several scenes, the "L" on [[Luigi Cap|Luigi's cap]] is colored white on a black background.
*When Luigi asks Mario, "Does that mean what I 'tink' it means?", Mario’s overalls and shirt are red.
*When [[Ludwig von Koopa|Kooky]] is climbing a tree, his tail is the same color as the rim of his shell.
*When Luigi first shows Yoshi some wheels, the latter's arms are white. Also, several shots in the episode accidentally have the "L" on Luigi's cap colored white on a black background.
*When Kooky lifts the mask of his disguise, its tooth turns the same color as the rest of the mask.
*Yoshi's eyes shift in size throughout the episode
*Unlike in ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', Kooky's snout is the same color as his body.
*Unlike the previous show, Kooky's snout was the same color as the rest of his body.
*In one scene when [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] are making wheels, Luigi's mustache turns the same color as his skin.
*When Princess Toadstool asks Mario, "It even has a horn?", her eyebrows change color.
*After the cave people use the wheels as hats, Mario has an "L" on [[Mario Cap|his cap]].
*When Mario tries to hit the ? Blocks, there are five of them, the fourth containing a Cape Feather. However, when Mario hits the Cape Feather block, there are six blocks instead of five.
*When Luigi first shows [[Yoshi]] some wheels, the latter's arms are white.
*After the cave people use the wheels as hats, Mario has an "L" on his cap.
*When Mario grunts when he tosses the fireball from the [[Fire Flower]] Luigi gave him, he has [[Bowser|King Koopa]]'s voice.
*When Mario tosses the fireball from the Fire Flower Luigi gave him, he says "Auuggh!", his voice is from King Koopa.
*When Mario says, ''"Gimme some of that prehistoric prod!"'', as he starts walking, the "M" on his cap disappears.
*When Mario says, ''"Gimme some of that prehistoric prod!"'', as he starts walking, the "M" on his cap disappears.
*When Luigi and Yoshi start fighting over the stick, the symbol on Luigi's cap turns green.
*When Mario says he thought he was always hungry, Yoshi's face is miscolored.
*After Yoshi falls off Luigi, he speaks but his mouth does not move.
*When the engine lands on the car, a [[Cave People|cave person]]'s foot overlaps on the car.
*When a cave person drives out of the factory, he overlaps on a house.
*When [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] asks Mario, "''It even has a horn?''", her eyebrows are black instead of orange.
*When showing the accident, a [[Galoomba|Goomba]]'s lips are the same color as its body.
*When Kooky says that he will use the [[Mega Mechanasaur]] to conquer the world, his mouth does not move.
*When the Mega Mechanasaur starts breaking into [[Dome City]], its shoulders are light-blue instead of dark-blue.
**In the same scene, the cover underneath it disappears.
*When King Koopa and Kooky step onto one of the Mega Mechanasaur's hands, it is miscolored.
*When King Koopa and Kooky board the Mega Mechanasaur, the borders around the cockpit are colored blue instead of brown.
*When King Koopa runs away from Kooky's machine, he says for it to let him go before he is grabbed.
*When Kooky's machine throws King Koopa into the cockpit, the top is not colored in.
*When Ooga knocks on the door to [[Dome Castle]], he knocks once but the knocking sound can be heard twice.
*While Mario and Luigi are in the [[Lava Pits]], the pizza Luigi is cooking switches direction between shots.
*When Luigi asks Mario, "''Does that mean what I 'tink' it means?''", Mario's shirt is red, while his and Luigi's gloves match the color of their shirts.
*When Luigi jumps in Mario's arms after the [[Blargg]] scares him, the circle on his cap is black instead of white.
*When Princess Toadstool tells Mario to catch the [[Trampoline]] while he and Luigi are being chased by the [[Blargg]], she can be seen to be smiling.
*When Mario tries to hit the [[? Block]]s, there are five of them, but when Mario hits the Block containing a [[Cape Feather]], there are six.
*When Yoshi appears with a digging helmet, he has four spikes on his back instead of three.
*In several scenes, Yoshi's eyes are smaller than normal.
*In one scene, the lower jaw on the Mega Mechanasaur is colored blue like its body instead of yellow.
*In some scenes, the tops of the levers of Kooky's machine change color.
*When Kooky lands on King Koopa, the Mega Mechanasaur is moving, but the background makes it appear as if it is stationary.
*After two of the cave people hammer in the crossing signals, one overlaps on a tree.
*When the [[Koopa Troop]] runs away, the spikes on the orange dinosaur are the same color as its body instead of green.
<gallery>
SMW The Wheel Thing error.png|The Mechanasaur error
SMW The Wheel Thing error 2.png|Mario's miscolored shirt
SMW The Wheel Thing error 3.png|Yoshi's miscolored eyes
</gallery>
==Profiles==
*'''[[Koopa's Stone Age Quests]]''' DVD: ''[[Mario]] "invents" the wheel, and the [[Cave People|cave people]] discover traffic jams and fender benders. Frustrated, they banish Mario and [[Luigi]] to [[Lava Pits (Super Mario World television series)|Lava Land]].''


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
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|Ita=Cos'è la Ruota?
|Ita=Cos'è la Ruota?
|ItaM=What's the Wheel?
|ItaM=What's the Wheel?
|Fre=La préhisto-mobile
|Fra=La préhisto-mobile
|FreM=The prehistoric mobile
|FraM=The prehistoric mobile
|SpaA=La rueda
|SpaA=La rueda
|SpaAM=The wheel
|SpaAM=The wheel
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|Rom=Chestia cu roți<ref>May 20, 2015. [http://ok.ru/videoembed/26887129732 "The Wheel Thing", dubbed in Romanian by KidsCo]. ''Odnoklassniki (OK.ru).'' Retrieved January 4, 2016.</ref>
|Rom=Chestia cu roți<ref>May 20, 2015. [http://ok.ru/videoembed/26887129732 "The Wheel Thing", dubbed in Romanian by KidsCo]. ''Odnoklassniki (OK.ru).'' Retrieved January 4, 2016.</ref>
|RomM=The thing with wheels
|RomM=The thing with wheels
|Hun=Egy kerékkel több
|HunM=One more wheel
}}
}}
==Trivia==
*After being absent from "[[Fire Sale]]", this is King Koopa's first appearance in the ''Super Mario World'' series.
*This is the only ''Super Mario World'' episode where Kooky has a speaking role. This is also Kooky's final speaking role in the entire ''Super Mario'' animated series produced by [[DIC Entertainment|DIC]].


==References==
==References==

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