Dadzilla

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode
"Dadzilla"
Production number	217-112
Episode	9
Airdate	October 6, 1990
Writer(s)	Martha Moran
Opening curtain	Grass Land
Featured song	"Gonna Stomp My Name on the Walk of Fame"
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“Dad's not my real dad! I must be adopted! I'm far too beautiful to be a Koopa! Ya know, Big Mouth? I bet our real dad is a movie star!”

—Kootie Pie Koopa

"Dadzilla" is the ninth episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. It aired alongside another episode entitled "Tag Team Trouble."

Plot synopsis

Kootie Pie is applying makeup when she hears King Koopa coming to see if her room is clean. He warns her that if her "pigsty" that she calls a bedroom is not yet clean, she will be grounded. She hides the mess in her wardrobe. It at first seems to be clean, but when everything flies out of the wardrobe, Koopa is not fooled and he grounds her, which infuriates her. Kootie Pie complains about having a mean father, and just as Big Mouth intrudes, Kootie Pie figures that Koopa must not be her real father. The two also decide that their father must be someone famous, like a movie star.

Meanwhile, Mario and Toad are searching for a Fire Flower when the Doom Ship almost collides with them. With Toad grabbing Mario, the two tumble right into a patch of Fire Flowers, but soon notice the Doom Ship. It is revealed that the two Koopalings are in the Doom Ship's bridge trying to pilot it and arguing over which way leads to Hollywood. The Doom Ship flies into a Warp Pipe, but not before ripping the roof off of Toad's house. Luigi and Princess Toadstool run out, then Toad explains what happened. The group decides that they must follow the Koopas.

Madzilla rampaging in a city scene

In Hollywood, Kootie Pie and Big Mouth find themselves amongst the Walk of Fame, when a giant reptilian monster named Madzilla appears from behind a building, rampaging through Hollywood and scaring its inhabitants. They decide that the monster must be their true father, only to see a film director turn the monster off with a remote control; it is revealed that Madzilla is actually a robot and that his rampaging is actually part of a scene for his latest film. Still believing Madzilla is their father, the two try to help Madzilla with their magic wands. Once he wakes up, he scares off the confused director and places the Koopalings on top of a building. Big Mouth explains how Madzilla put them up for adoption (or at least their beliefs thereof), and they request Madzilla get them a convertible. Instantly, Madzilla takes a car off the road, rips off the roof, places the "convertible" on the roof, and sticks the two Koopalings in it. However, they tell him it is not good enough, and so begins their long line of demands from him.

Mario and his friends having appeared out of a Warp Pipe

Meanwhile, in a separate area of Hollywood, Mario, Luigi, Toad, and the Princess pop out of a Warp Pipe in a sewage area. Mario tells his friends to follow him until they see Dadzilla storming through the city. Kootie and Big Mouth then catch Mario out of the corner out of their eye, and Kootie Pie tells them about how they did "terrible things to [them]". Madzilla grabs Mario by his overalls, when Mario remembers his Fire Flower. He burns Madzilla's hand and gets ready to fight him, when Kootie Pie decides that Madzilla needs help and wears Mario's powers away with her wand. The group is chased by Madzilla into a props garage, but the Koopalings announce bigger things to attend to: their becoming of movie stars.

While Kootie Pie, Big Mouth, and Madzilla put their feet in the cement in the Walk of Fame, Mario explains an idea of his to his friends. He points out a large head that greatly resembles Madzilla - or at least a female version of him. Luigi recognizes it from the monster movie "Revenge of Madzilla's Mom". Mario then tells them that they can rebuild Madzilla's Mom to counter the Koopas.

Kootie and Big Mouth singing "Gonna Stomp My Name on the Walk of Fame"

Madzilla tries to catch up on his rest when Big Mouth and Kootie Pie tell him they want to perform a live concert for everybody in the Hollywood Bowl immediately. Somewhat annoyed, Madzilla heads for the Hollywood Bowl, pulls it out of the ground, and places it over Big Mouth and Kootie Pie. They then begin playing a song called "Gonna Stomp My Name on the Walk of Fame." The audience dislikes it and throws assorted objects at them, like catapulting various items off of a palm tree and then throwing the palm tree at them. The Koopalings manage to dodge most of the items thrown at them until the end of their performance, at which point they are both hit.

Madzilla's "mother"

Back in the props garage, Mario activates Madzilla's Mom, which is crudely built out of several monster body parts. It takes off to find Madzilla, as the group watches. The Koopalings are now buried in garbage thrown at them. Kootie Pie crawls out and screams at Madzilla. He tries to cheer for them, and the audience directs their garbage at him. He attacks the audience for not cheering, when his "mother" appears. She (actually Mario) tells Madzilla to put the people down, when Kootie Pie objects, telling him he is only supposed to obey them. Madzilla's Mom looks down at the two Koopalings, then tells them it is time for their nap, explaining that they need to take naps that they will be rested for their chores. The Koopalings think about how their life back home was much better, and retreat back to Dark Land.

Mario (still in Momma Madzilla) leads Dadzilla to the now destroyed props garage, and explains how he was once a robot. The Princess tells him that he will be free to live in Giant Land, and, best of all, he will not have any kids to deal with.

Gallery

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  Title card

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  Arabic title card

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  Korean title card

Cast

• Walker Boone — Mario, Madzilla's Mom
• Tony Rosato — Luigi
• Tracey Moore — Princess Toadstool
• John Stocker — Toad
• Harvey Atkin — King Bowser Koopa, director
• Gordon Masten — Big Mouth Koopa
• Paulina Gillis — Kootie Pie Koopa
• Jonathan Potts — Madzilla

Animation and continuity errors

• In the original version, when Big Mouth shouts, "Yikes!", after feeling the ground shake, he has Cheatsy's voice.
• In the beginning of the episode, Kootie Pie is briefly frozen.
• In some scenes, Kootie Pie's eyes are black instead of blue.
• When Kootie Pie puts on lipstick at the beginning of the episode, her mole is on the right side of her face, but her reflection shows it to be her left.
  • In the same scene, she speaks without moving her mouth.
• When Kootie Pie sticks her tongue out at King Koopa as he leaves, her tongue is yellow instead of pink.
• When Kootie Pie complains about King Koopa being a mean father, her reflection is missing from the mirror.
  • In the same scene, her right arm is not on top of the dresser but rather floating in midair.
• When Kootie Pie recoils while saying, "Of course!", she freezes for the remainder of the shot.
• When Big Mouth enters Kootie Pie's room, the walls are tan instead of purple.
• In Big Mouth's initial appearance, his eye is transparent for a frame as he runs into Kootie Pie's room.
• When Kootie Pie shows Big Mouth a movie star magazine, the floor is a solid purple rather than checkered.
• When Big Mouth says that he and Kootie Pie should find their real father, one of the spots on Kootie Pie's bow flashes. This also happens when she tells Madzilla how Mario and his group are.
  • In the same scene, her head moves slightly.
• There is no transition effect to Mario and Toad walking in the fields despite the transition sound playing.
• When Toad pulls Mario down, the Doomship is colored gray instead of brown.
  • In the same scene, it is layered in front of the hill instead of behind it.
• As Mario and Toad tumble down a hill, Mario closes his eyes before he hits the ground.
• When Mario takes notice of the Fire Flower he and Toad stumble upon, he overlaps it until he grabs the flower.
  • In the same scene, right as Mario is about to grab the Fire Flower, his left hand is misplaced, briefly depicting it as cropped.
• When Toad looks up, he briefly shifts downward.
• When Mario's head is turning to see what Toad is pointing at, he is briefly smiling.
• When the Doomship is shown flying out of control, part of it occasionally becomes transparent.
• When the Doomship is about to hit Toad's house, part of the ship is missing.
  • In the same scene, the animation becomes noticeably choppy.
• When the Doomship hits Toad's house, the house is completely orange.
• When Luigi and Princess Toadstool run out of the house, Luigi's left foot is in midair.
• When Princess Toadstool suggests that they follow the Doomship, her lip-sync is off.
  • In the same scene, her neck is colored the same as her hair for a frame while her sleeve's cuff disappear for a frame.
• When the episode first shows Hollywood, Big Mouth's shell is green instead of purple. This also happens when he and Kootie Pie exclaim that Madzilla is their true father, along with Kootie Pie's shell being green instead of pink.
• When Big Mouth and Kootie Pie are both shown in Hollywood, they are standing on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but in the next shot, they are not.
  • This results in Kootie Pie pointing to thin air in the second shot due to the lack of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• When the people are scared by Madzilla, one person briefly appears to be standing in midair while another is layered over Madzilla.
• Whenever Madzilla's eyes glows, the glow effect is misplaced.
• In some scenes, Madzilla has dark skin around his eyes.
• When the people run past Big Mouth and Kootie Pie, one person runs past twice.
• When Big Mouth and Kootie Pie exclaim that Madzilla is their true father, Big Mouth's star is missing.
  • In the same scene, their mouths do not lip-sync correctly.
• When Big Mouth says that his and Kootie Pie's wands will make him feel better, his shell's rim is brown instead of yellow. This also happens when he and Kootie Pie jump for joy.
• When the director tells his worker to get Big Mouth and Kootie Pie out of the workplace, Big Mouth's shell is missing.
• When Madzilla becomes sentient, the light around him does not reach the lower half of his body.
• When the director thinks that Madzilla is still a robot, a gap around Madzilla's legs flickers from green to gray.
• The shot where Big Mouth and Kootie Pie jump for joy has the camera cropping out Big Mouth.
• When Big Mouth and Kootie Pie jump for joy, the bow on Kootie Pie's tail is briefly colored white instead of pink.
• When Madzilla goes to pick up Big Mouth and Kootie Pie, it is cropped while a duplicate layer of his hand is layered behind the first one.
• In the same scene, Kootie Pie's bow is colored white for a frame, her feet briefly disappears, and her bracelet is designed with spikes similar to Big Mouth's.
• When Madzilla lifts Big Mouth and Kootie Pie up, they all disappear into thin air.
• When Madzilla holds the Koopalings, the rim on Big Mouth's shell is colored white instead of yellow. This also happens when Madzilla gives him and Kootie Pie a car.
  • In the same scene, the background moves behind them.
• Right before Big Mouth explains to Madzilla who he and Kootie Pie is, his skin color is briefly the same color as Kootie Pie's. This also happens when Madzilla steps into the concrete.
• When Big Mouth says Madzilla placed him and Kootie Pie up for adoption, his right arm is misaligned with his hand.
• When Big Mouth tells Madzilla that he wants a car, Kootie Pie's eyes are mostly closed.
  • In the same scene, Big Mouth's mouth opens again right before it cuts to the next shot.
• When Madzilla picks up a car from a road, the cars switch color several times and appear to be driving in reverse. Additionally, the car Madzilla picks up initially has two doors, but before he stretches it into a limousine, it has four doors.
• When the car's passengers jump onto a road sign, the man's skin becomes lighter.
• When Madzilla puts Big Mouth and Kootie Pie into the car, the car overlaps his hand as he grabs the Koopa Kids and shortly after, his body overlaps the car.
  • In the same scene, there are pipes in the foreground despite this taking place in the real world.
• When Big Mouth and Kootie Pie are put inside the car, the windshield becomes transparent.
• When Madzilla asks if the Koopalings want a stretch limousine, his eyelid flashes.
• When Kootie Pie talks about responsibility to Madzilla, the bottom of her right eye is not covered by her snout.
  • In the same scene, when she says the word "happen", her mouth stays open during the word rather than lip-sync it.
• When Madzilla raises his head and asks, "It is?", a frame of his head lifting up is misplaced.
• When Madzilla says he wants Big Mouth and Kootie Pie to be happy, his hand disappears into thin air.
• When Princess Toadstool emerges from the Warp Pipe, she appears from thin air.
• When Toad emerges from the Warp Pipe, he is shown smiling.
• The shot where Princess Toadstool scolds Mario is blurry.
• When Princess Toadstool scolds Mario about Hollywood, Toad is drawn with sclerae.
  • In the same scene, the back of Princess Toadstool's hair is colored as her skin for a frame and soon after, her eyes move around briefly.
• Despite only seeing the Doomship, Mario somehow knows that Big Mouth and Kootie Pie were the ones who entered Hollywood.
• When Mario and his friends notice Madzilla rampaging through Hollywood, Madzilla does not have a patch, but in the next shot, a red patch appears near his left leg.
• Mario gains Madzilla's attention before the former calls out to the latter.
• When Kootie Pie says that the Mario Bros. will be miserable, her shell is white instead of pink.
• When Kootie Pie tells Madzilla how mean Mario and his group are, Big Mouth's head is the same color as his body.
• When Madzilla goes to grab Mario, Big Mouth's star is incorrectly colored the same as his skin.
• When Mario gets grabbed by Madzilla, the white emblem on his cap briefly disappears while he screams despite his mouth being closed.
• When Mario pulls out a Fire Flower, the Fire Flower's design is different from its' initial appearance.
• When Mario is freed from Madzilla's grasp, his hat is slightly colored red before becoming entirely red for a frame.
• When Mario tells Madzilla to back off, his eyebrows and mustache are colored black instead of brown.
  • In the same scene, the Koopalings and their car are missing. This also happens when Mario says that he lost his fire power.
• When Fire Mario shoots a fireball at Madzilla, he briefly turns back into normal Mario.
• When Mario tells his friends to run, Toad's shoes are the same color as his skin, Mario's head glitches, and Luigi's hair flashes.
• When Mario and his friends run away from Madzilla, they run into a store house, but in the next shot, it turns into a parking garage.
• After Big Mouth says that he and Kootie Pie can take Hollywood by storm, Kootie Pie's tail briefly disappears while her necklace briefly becomes transparent.
• After Kootie Pie says people will do anything Madzilla says, a dot on her bow briefly becomes transparent.
• In the first shot of the second act, Big Mouth and Kootie Pie lack their sunglasses.
• Some of the bystanders when Big Mouth and Kootie Pie step into the concrete lack pupils.
• When Kootie Pie blows hearts, her tail briefly disappears before turning white for a frame.
• When Madzilla puts his feet in the concrete, Big Mouth and Kootie Pie's arms are at their sides, but in the next shot, they are outstretched.
• Some of the cars on the parking garage float in midair.
• When Mario approaches his friends with a head, its pink spikes turn blue.
• When Mario takes off a monster mask, he is heard speaking but his mouth does not move.
• Mario's lines, "This place is crammed with parts of old movie monsters!" and "Not for long, big little brother! Look!", are displayed in the wrong order.
• The pianist at the Hollywood Bowl is frozen.
• When Madzilla places the Hollywood Bowl behind Big Mouth and Kootie Pie, Big Mouth's head is incorrectly orange.
• When Madzilla yawns, part of his mouth is transparent.
• Throughout the entire sequence of "Gonna Stomp My Name on the Walk of Fame", neither Big Mouth nor Kootie Pie lip-sync the lyrics.
• In one scene when Kootie Pie performs "Gonna Stomp My Name on the Walk of Fame" and when she and Big Mouth say that they hate naps, her snout is the same color as her skin.
• When Big Mouth and Kootie Pie sing, people throw white boxes at them, but when they approach them, they turn yellow.
• When everyone starts throwing trash at the Koopalings, Big Mouth's body is colored gray like his head instead of brown.
  • In the same scene, many objects disappear before they reach Big Mouth and Kootie Pie.
• The palm tree thrown at Big Mouth and Kootie Pie is initially attached to a pot, but in the next shot it is not.
• When Kootie Pie does a twirl, she slides offscreen without moving.
  • In the same scene, Big Mouth's body is colored lighter than usual.
• When a woman throws her purse at Big Mouth and Kootie Pie, her body is cut off.
• When Kootie Pie stares, her face turns completely cream-colored.
• At the end of the song, a man squirts orange mustard at Kootie Pie, but when it hits Kootie Pie, the mustard turns yellow.
• Before Big Mouth is knocked out, his foot floats off of the rock he stands on.
• The garage has no roof when Madzilla's Mom emerges from it.
• When Mario opens a hatch, his mustache is brown instead of black.
  • In the same scene, the inside of the hatch has no background.
• When the crowd of people throw things at Madzilla, they flash different colors and constantly shift.
• Big Mouth cheers for Madzilla despite Madzilla not attacking the citizens of Hollywood yet.
• When Madzilla picks up some people, their clothes change color.
• When Madzilla tells the people to cheer for the shrimp in the ocean, his snout flashes.
• When Mario tells Madzilla to stop, his shoes are colored purple instead of brown.
  • In the same scene, the hatch is open, despite it being closed in previous shots.
• When Madzilla's Mom raises her arm to tell Madzilla to put the people down, the hatch is misplaced for a frame.
• When Kootie Pie says, "You gotta do what we say!", she and Big Mouth freeze.
• When Madzilla's Mom says it is time for the Koopa Kids' nap, her right arm is briefly layered in front of her body.
• When Big Mouth says Madzilla and his mom are bossier than King Koopa, his right arm disappears.
• After the scene where Big Mouth says Madzilla and his mom are bossier than King Koopa, Madzilla's mom has her growl cut off.
• When Big Mouth and Kootie Pie begin to run back home, they briefly run in place.
• When Big Mouth and Kootie Pie run back home, the left leg of Madzilla's Mom is colored green instead of yellow.
  • Inversely, when Madzilla says that he used to be a robot, the left leg is colored green instead of yellow.
• In the final shot where Madzilla says he will like being in Giant Land, his eyes briefly overlap his snout.
• On the DVD and streaming releases, when Mario says that Big Mouth and Kootie Pie need to take naps, a visual glitch occurs. This error is not present on older TV airings from NBC and PAX TV.

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  The miscolored Doomship

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  Kootie Pie's miscolored snout

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  The "VHS" glitch on later releases

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  Big Mouth's miscolored body

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  A duplicate hand behind Dadzilla's cropped hand, along with Kootie Pie's left bracelet designed as a spiked bracelet

Dub edits

• In the original version, when Koopa finds out that Kootie Pie did not clean her room, he grounds her and says she cannot do anything fun for a month, mentioning chocolate-covered cockroach snacks and tripping elderly women. In the Norwegian dub, the latter is replaced by watching sentimental films on video.
• In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, when the audience continues throwing objects at Madzilla, Big Mouth specifically tells him to burn the audience, instead just saying to "show them who's boss" like in the original.
• In the Audiomaster 3000 Latin American dub and Castilian Spanish re-dub:
  • Koopa does not specifiy how long Kootie Pie is grounded for in the dubs, where as the original version has him saying that she is grounded for an entire month.
  • Madzilla threatens to throw the group he is holding into space. In the original version, he instead tells them to "cheer for the shrimp at the bottom of the ocean."
  • Madzilla's Mom explains that Kootie Pie and Big Mouth must take naps so they will be rested for their homework. In the original version, it is instead their chores. This edit is also present in the Norwegian dub.
• The Castilian Spanish re-dub only adds a robotic effect to Mario's voice for the voice of Madzilla's Mom, whereas the Audiomaster 3000 Latin American Spanish dub uses the same voice without any changes.

Naming

The episode's title is a portmanteau of "dad" and either "Godzilla" or "Madzilla."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Arabic	في مدينة النجوم Fy mdynh alnjwm	In the city of stars
Chinese (Simplified)	吉拉爸爸 Jílā Bàba	Dadzilla
Croatian	Reptil	The reptile
Dutch	Mafzilla	Madzilla; portmanteau of maf ("mad") and "Madzilla"
Finnish	Dadzilla	-
French (Canadian)	À la recherche de papounet	In search of daddy
French (European)	Le retour de Mamadzilla	The return of Mamadzilla
German	Der richtige Vater?	The right father?
Italian	Madzilla	-
Korean	괴물 마질l라 Goemul Majilra	The Monster Madzilla
Polish	Godzilla	Portmanteau of godziwy ("good") and "Madzilla"	TV dub
	Dadzilla	-	VHS dub
Portuguese (Brazilian)	Dadzilla	-
Portuguese (European)	Dadzilla	-	Dialectus dub
	Paizilla	Dadzilla	Somnorte dub
Russian	Папзилла Papzilla	Portmanteau of Пап ("dad") and "Madzilla"
Serbian	Dadzilla	-
Spanish (Latin American)	Papzilla	Portmanteau of papá ("dad") and "Madzilla"	Audiomaster 3000 dub
	Dadzilla	-	Intersound dub
Spanish (European)	Un padre monstruoso	A monstrous father	original dub
	Papzilla	Portmanteau of papá ("dad") and "Madzilla"	re-dub

Notes

• This episode has Kootie Pie and Big Mouth state that King Koopa is not their real father, long before Shigeru Miyamoto stated the current story that the Koopalings are not Bowser's children.
• Mario's scream when Madzilla picks him up is an audio clip provided by Lou Albano from the episode "The Great BMX Race" of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
  • Later, an audio clip provided by Danny Wells is used when Luigi yells "Yipes!"; it is derived from the Super Show! episode "Butch Mario & The Luigi Kid". The audio clip is also used in "Tag Team Trouble."
• The screaming sounds heard in the crowd scenes of the episode are recycled from an episode of another DIC Entertainment series, The Real Ghostbusters, entitled "Flip Side." The screams of the men that Madzilla picks up are also recycled from that show, specifically the episode "Knock Knock."