Golden Plumber's Helper (Plummers Academy)
The Golden Plumber's Helper appeared in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Plumbers Academy / Glasnuts". It was given to Mario in a flashback sequence by George Bush for saving him and Mikhail Gorbachev from a flooded street in Brooklyn.
Mario lost the Golden Plumber's Helper in a fight with King Koopa, as he managed to get it stuck on his nose in the process. When Mario and his friends were trapped at the bottom of a hole, Mario worried that he would never get the Golden Plunger back, and tells the story of how he earned it to Princess Toadstool and Toad.
After escaping from the hole, Mario and his friends manage to get the Golden Plumber's Helper off of Koopa's nose, and Mario happy once again.
Despite the Golden Plumber's Helper's importance to Mario, it was never seen in any other episode.
Trivia
- The Golden Plunger, an artifact similar in appearance to the Golden Plumber's Helper, appeared in an earlier episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! entitled "King Mario of Cramalot / Day of the Orphan".
- "Plumber's helper" actually is a somewhat obscure alternate term for "plunger", and this phrase has therefore been used in other forms of Mario media, including the comic Super Mario Adventures.
