Blooper Nanny

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Blooper Nanny
Artwork of a Blooper Nanny in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
A Blooper Nanny with Blooper Babies artwork from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
First appearance Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
Latest appearance Super Mario Party Jamboree (cameo) (2024)
Variant of Blooper
Relatives
Comparable

A Blooper Nanny is a Blooper with Blooper Babies that first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3.

History

Super Mario series

Bloober with kids
A Bloober with kids

Super Mario Bros. 3

In Super Mario Bros. 3, there are two types of Blooper Nannies: the Bloober with kids[1] appears in Water Land, and the Scattering Bloober[1] (or Scattering Blooper)[2] appears in Ice Land and Pipe Land. The latter flashes different colors when approached until its children swim away in different directions (including through walls and above the surface), and generate more children a few moments later. Just like normal Bloobers, both types follow Mario in an attempt to hurt him. Unlike normal Bloobers, they flash on defeat and respawn if defeated if their spawn point is brought off-screen and then back on-screen.

New Super Mario Bros.

Two Blooper Nannies appear in a bonus room of World 3-3 in New Super Mario Bros., using the previous behavior of Scattering Blooper. This time, they will flash rainbow instead of flipping between different colors, similar to how Invincible Mario is handled between the two games.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Blooper Nannies later appear in New Super Mario Bros. Wii in World 4-4. Instead of flashing or glowing, the Blooper Babies will circle around the Blooper Nanny before dispersing.

New Super Mario Bros. 2

Blooper Nannies also appear in New Super Mario Bros. 2, where they are only found in World 3-5.

New Super Mario Bros. U

Blooper Nannies also reappear in New Super Mario Bros. U in the secret level Blooper's Secret Lair. They are one of the few enemies that do not appear in New Super Luigi U.

Super Mario Maker subseries

Blooper Nannies reappear in Super Mario Maker, Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, and Super Mario Maker 2. The player can shake or hold a Blooper while editing a level and it will become a Blooper Nanny. Here, they return to their basic behavior from Super Mario Bros. 3 rather than using the behavior of Scattering Blooper. As such, it functions identically to a normal Blooper, only with Blooper Babies in tow. Blooper Nannies and their babies can be stomped on if out of water.

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3

Bloober with kids
A Bloober with kids seen in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode, "Oh, Brother!"

Bloober with kids make occasional appearances on The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, serving as aquatic nuisances to Mario and Luigi.

Nintendo Adventure Book

In the Nintendo Adventure Book Leaping Lizards, two Blooper Nannies (known here as "Bloober Nannies") compete in the International Mushroom Games as members of a team known as the Sneaks. What events they participate in besides the Beetlebowl, an all-team game, are unspecified.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Only one Blooper with kids appears in the Sunken Ship during the events of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Touching her or any of her babies results in a battle with a single Blooper.

Mario Kart series

In Mario Kart Tour, a Blooper Nanny makes a cameo appearance on the Blooper Hanafuda glider. Additionally, in the Booster Course Pass for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Blooper Nannies make a cameo alongside Blooper Babies as a mobile in the background of Squeaky Clean Sprint. The course returns in Mario Kart Tour.

Gallery

Names in other languages

The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media they are associated with in the "notes" column.

Blooper Nanny

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese 子連れゲッソー[3][4][5]
Kozure Gessō
Blooper with Kids
Chinese (simplified) 鱿鱿亲子档[6]
Yóuyóu qīnzǐ dàng
Blooper Parent-child
Chinese (traditional) 魷魷親子檔[6]
Yóuyóu qīnzǐ dàng
Blooper Parent-child
Dutch Blooper Nanny[6] -
Bloober en zijn kinderen[7] Bloober and her children Super Mario Bros. 3
French Nounou Bloups[8][6] Blooper Nanny
Bulle et ses petits[7] Bubble and her children Super Mario Bros. 3
German Blooper-Sitter[9] Blooper Sitter; a play on "babysitter"
Blubber und seine Kinder[10] Blooper with her Children Super Mario Bros. 3
Blubber mit Nachwuchs[11] Blooper with Offspring
Italian Calamako Sitter[6] Blooper Sitter; a play on "babysitter"
Bloober e i suoi figli[12] Bloober and its children Super Mario Bros. 3
Korean 징오징오패밀리[13]
Jing'o-jing'o Paemilli
Blooper Family
블루버와 새끼들[14]
Beullubeowa Saekkideul
Transliteration of the English "Bloober" with "새끼들" (Saekkideul, pups), together meaning "Bloober with pups" Super Mario Bros. 3
Russian Блупер-нянька[6]
Bluper-nyan'ka
Blooper Nanny
Spanish Mamá Blooper[6][15] Mother Blooper
Bloober y sus hijos[16] Bloober and her children Super Mario Bros. 3

Scattering Blooper

"Scattering Blooper" refers to a specific type of Blooper Nanny that disperses its children in Super Mario Bros. 3.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese らしゲッソー[3]
Chirashi Gessō
Scattering Blooper
Dutch Scattering Bloober[7] -
French Bulle de bain[7] Bath Bubble
Italian Scattering Bloober[12] -
Spanish Bloober de Dispersión[16] Dispersal Bloober

References

  1. ^ a b 1990. Super Mario Bros. 3 instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 36.
  2. ^ English Super Mario Bros. 3 entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 13, 2022, 14:26:17 UTC via archive.today.)
  3. ^ a b 1988. 『Super Mario Bros. 3 取扱説明書』 (PDF). Kyoto: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese). Page 37.
  4. ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Ryo Kagawa (APE), Hideaki Nishitani, Masatoshi Watanabe, Koichi Sugiyama (Supersonic), Junichiro Okubo, and Shigeo Tanabe (Shogakukan), editors (1993). 『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオコレクション』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-102444-0. Page 197.
  5. ^ Shogakukan editors (2006). 「敵キャラクターリスト」in『ニュー・スーパーマリオブラザーズ: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-091063-07-1. Page 17. Retrieved from Imgur.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Enemy table (2019). Super Mario Maker 2 by Nintendo EPD. Nintendo.
  7. ^ a b c d 1991. Super Mario Bros. 3 Handleiding / mode d'emploi. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Dutch, French). Page 42.
  8. ^ In-game name from Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition. (Archived 21 Sept. 2024 via Imgur.)
  9. ^ 2010. Super Mario All-Stars Bedienungsanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 28.
  10. ^ 1991. Super Mario Bros. 3 Spielanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 36.
  11. ^ Matsumoto, Atsuko, Rie Ishii, and Claude Moyse, editors (1992). Der Spieleberater Super Mario Power. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). ISBN 3-929034-02-6. Page 14.
  12. ^ a b 1991. Super Mario Bros. 3 Libretto d'Istruzioni. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian). Page 36.
  13. ^ 2010. "슈퍼 마리오 컬렉션". Seoul: Nintendo of Korea Co., Ltd. (Korean). Page 30. Retrieved from Naver.
  14. ^ 1990. "슈퍼 마리오 브라더즈 3 사용 설명서". Icheon: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Korean). Page 36. (Archived 29 Mar. 2007 via Naver by togepi1125.)
  15. ^ 2023. Packs de Personajes: Edición 6 #71413. LEGO (Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 30 Apr. 2025. (Archived February 16, 2023, 23:13:03 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  16. ^ a b 1991. Super Mario Bros. 3 Manual de Instrucciones. Großostheim: Nintendo (Spanish). Page 36.