Fire Sale

Super Mario World episode
	"Fire Sale"
Production number	225-102A
Episode	1
Airdate	September 14, 1991; November 9, 2024;
Writer(s)	Brooks Wachtel
Featured song	"Kootie Pie Rap"
Captain N episode	"Misadventures in Robin Hood Woods"
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“They can buy fireballs from ME! I'll have a fire sale! I'll be rich!”

—Kootie Pie Koopa

"Fire Sale" is the first episode of the Super Mario World animated series. The title is a pun on a term referring to the sale of goods at a very low price. Despite its title, much of the episode takes place in Ice Land. This episode is notable for being the last episode of the series, as well as being the only Super Mario World episode where Kootie Pie has dialogue. It is also the only Super Mario World episode to feature a Koopa Troopa and Paragaloombas.

Plot synopsisEdit

While admiring her reflection in the ice of her recently gained ice palace in Ice Land, Kootie Pie Koopa laments that the place is perfect, except for one thing: it is always freezing. Throwing a temper-tantrum, Kootie Pie proceeds to beat her Koopa Troopa henchman so badly that the Koopa Troopa is sent careening out of his shell and into a nearby wall. Pulling her minion out of the wall, Kootie Pie comes up with a plan: go to Dome City and steal "Mama Fireplant," who can warm up the ice palace.

At Dome City, Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Yoshi, and several Cave People are beginning to set up a barbecue; however, Yoshi eats up almost all the food. Managing to stop Yoshi from eating everything, Luigi decides to send Yoshi to get some fireballs from Mama Fireplant, while Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool get more food. A nervous Yoshi tries to refuse to go to Mama Fireplant, being afraid of crossing a river to her dome house; eventually, though, he does set off.

Mama Fireplant being kidnapped by Kootie Pie and her Koopa Troopa

While Yoshi is going to her house, Mama Fireplant notices that something is coming up the grate in her floor. Suddenly, Kootie Pie and her Koopa Troopa accomplice pull themselves out of the grate. Announcing her plans to kidnap Mama Fireplant, Kootie Pie is subsequently blasted with several fireballs launched by Mama Fireplant. Managing to dodge several more fireballs launched by Mama Fireplant, Kootie Pie proceeds to plug up Mama Fireplant's mouth with her Koopa Troopa henchman's shell. With Mama Fireplant defenseless, Kootie Pie and the Koopa Troopa begin pushing Mama Fireplant towards the hole in the floor.

Outside Mama Fireplant's dome house, a nervous Yoshi is preparing to cross the bridge to Mama Fireplant's residence. As Yoshi makes his first few small steps, Mama Fireplant manages to spit the Koopa Troopa's shell out of her mouth and begins screaming for help. Hearing Mama Fireplant's cries, Yoshi rushes to Mama Fireplant's dome house, but ends up tripping and falling into the river. Ignoring the water, Yoshi rushes to Mama Fireplant's dome house, only to find it empty.

Returning to Mama Fireplant's dome house with Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool, Yoshi aids the three in looking for clues as to where Mama Fireplant went. After some looking, Mario notices that there is a Warp Tube under the grate in the floor. Lifting the grate cover up, Mario accidentally stumbles into Luigi, who steps backwards on a cube of ice and begins to slide around the floor.

Eventually, Luigi stops sliding around and points out the ice to Mario, who believes the ice came from Ice Land, which is where Mama Fireplant must have been taken. Leaping into the Warp Tube, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Princess Toadstool come out the other end and begin to fall through the sky.

Luckily, Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Yoshi land on a moving platform. Unfortunately, the platform is sent flying through the air after reaching the end of its bar. Free-falling once again, Mario, Yoshi, and Princess Toadstool safely land on another, unmoving platform; Luigi is not as fortunate, though; missing the platform, he can only feebly grasp the end of it.

As Mario tries to pull his brother up onto the platform, a swarm of Flying Goombas appears. Diving down at Mario, the Flying Goombas miss him, although this attack manages to distract Mario so that he lets go of Luigi's arm, dropping him to the ground below. As the group of Flying Goombas swing around for another attack, Mario jumps up onto several nearby platforms and, leaping through the air, manages to beat up the Flying Goombas. Unfortunately, Mario is then sent plummeting through the air.

Grabbing Mario, Princess Toadstool is dragged off the platform, along with Yoshi. Tumbling downward, Mario, Yoshi, and Princess Toadstool fall through a Warp Tube, which deposits them into Kootie Pie's rapidly melting ice palace. Finding Luigi in a pile of slush, Mario realizes that all this slush can mean only one thing: Ice Land is melting due to the heat exhumed by Mama Fireplant.

Kootie Pie admiring her reflection.

In Kootie Pie's throne room, the spoiled Koopaling is enjoying the warmth given off by Mama Fireplant's fireballs. Pleading with Kootie Pie to return her to Dome City, Mama Fireplant says without her, the Cave People will freeze. Kootie Pie, seeing an opportunity to make a fortune, decides to simply sell Mama Fireplant's fireballs to the Cave People at a high price (hence the episode's title).

As Kootie Pie begins to gloat, Mama Fireplant begins to shoot a large amount of fireballs, causing any nearby ice to melt and begin to flood the place. As the water level begins to rise, Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Yoshi burst into the throne room. As Mario charges at Kootie Pie, he accidentally steps on a porcupinefish and becomes paralyzed. Rushing to Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool accidentally step on some porcupinefish as well.

Suddenly, Kootie Pie begins to charge towards Yoshi, only to step on a porcupinefish herself. As the ice palace begins to collapse, Yoshi faces his fear of water and, rushing through a small river, he manages to reach Mama Fireplant. Using Mama Fireplant's pot as a sled, Yoshi manages to slide out of the ice palace, grabbing Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool as he goes. Having escaped Kootie Pie's ice palace, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Toadstool, and Mama Fireplant return to Dome City, where they begin their barbecue with the Cave People.

Kootie Pie frozen in the ice

Meanwhile, back at ice palace, Kootie Pie, having become frozen in a block of ice, can only scream in frustration as her now sunglasses-wearing Koopa Troopa minion relaxes in a nearby hammock, drinking a glass of soda and reading a Crime magazine with King Koopa on the cover.

GalleryEdit

Title card

CastEdit

CharactersEdit

Unshelled Koopa Troopa

Animation and continuity errorsEdit

In the original version, when Kootie Pie says it is not fair at the end of the episode, her voice is cut-off before she can finish. This is fixed in foreign dubs.
In several scenes, Mario and Luigi have four fingers on each hand instead of five.
Several times throughout the episode, characters will move their mouths without any dialogue being present.
When Kootie Pie tells the Koopa Troopa that she hates being cold, the tail of her reflection on the left disappears just before it cuts to the next shot.
When Kootie Pie starts threatening the Koopa Troopa, she overlaps one of the shines that momentarily appear on the ice.
Just before the Koopa Troopa is thrown to the ground, it briefly appears in a standing pose in mid-air rather than a falling pose.
As the Koopa Troopa is flying towards the wall, its reflection's eyes do not match up with the original's eyes.
When the Koopa Troopa gets stuck in the wall, the screen shakes.
The ice that the Koopa Troopa is stuck in briefly has a dark shadow around it.
When Kootie Pie says she wants Mama Fireplant, her left foot overlaps the Koopa Troopa. Later, she overlaps it again when stating she will never be cold again.
- In the former scene, the puddle overlaps Kootie Pie and the Koopa Troopa.
When Kootie Pie throws the Koopa Troopa after it melts, the next shot has the latter facing the opposite direction instead of how it was originally facing in the previous shot.
When one of the Cave People turns to look at Yoshi, all three of the cave people shift right for a frame.
Mario's cap emblem has its colors reversed when he and Luigi notice Yoshi eating the barbecue.
- In the same scene, Luigi's legs are missing.
When Luigi says that Yoshi can go to Mama Fireplant to get some fireballs for the barbecue, his mouth detaches from his face for a frame.
When Princess Toadstool says that Yoshi can take the bridge, she passes through a table.
- In the same scene, Yoshi overlaps the table.
In several scenes, Yoshi's face is miscolored.
When Kootie Pie and the Koopa Troopa are opening the manhole, the latter's shell is light-green.
- In the same scene, it passes through the ground.
When Kootie Pie and the Koopa Troopa are about to throw the manhole, Kootie Pie's face distends for a frame.
When Kootie Pie falls onto the Koopa Troopa, the former is much bigger than the latter.
When the Koopa Troopa is flying in the air, its shadow is misplaced.
When Kootie Pie goes to pick up the Shell, its underside is the same color as its rim.
When Kootie Pie goes to push Mama Fireplant's vase, the latter's vase has a line clipping through her stem.
In a couple of scenes when Kootie Pie and the Koopa Troopa are moving Mama Fireplant, Mama Fireplant's lips are colored brown instead of white.
When Yoshi asks himself if he has to cross the bridge, his eyes are miscolored.
When Yoshi bounces from falling on the bridge, the underside of his tail is colored as his skin for a frame.
When Yoshi is holding onto the bridge as it shakes, part of its sides turns transparent.
- When the bridge stops shaking, the rope he is biting on is colored darker until Yoshi lets go.
When Yoshi tells Mama Fireplant he is on the way after falling into the water, his third spine briefly disappears.
When the Koopa Troopa slides the manhole back into place, part of it turns transparent.
- Shortly after, when Yoshi wonders where Mama Fireplant is, he can be seen to be smiling.
When Mario is struggling to pull out the manhole, his feet are missing.
When Luigi is about to slide on the ice, the symbol on his cap has its colors reversed.
In the scene where Luigi crashes into his friends, the stripes on his and Mario's gloves are the same color as their shirts.
After the crash, Mario's gloves are briefly the same color as his skin while the stripes on them are the same color as his shirt.
When Luigi apologizes to Mario, Princess Toadstool is missing while Yoshi is laying on the ground instead of sitting.
When Mario says "Ice?" and raises his head, part of Princess Toadstool's body is missing.
When Luigi mentions the last time he saw ice, he has a green "M" on his cap instead of a black "L".
- In the same scene, the Warp Pipe to Ice Land is missing.
When Mario says Mama Fireplant was kidnapped, the background from the previous shot is used although slightly darker.
When Princess Toadstool says that she and her friends have to rescue Mama Fireplant, her nose is briefly missing.
When Mario throws Luigi into the Warp Pipe, the ice underneath the grate is missing, making it appear as if the grate is floating in midair.
When Mario grabs Luigi, both of the emblems on their caps are missing. Mario's emblem only briefly appears when his friends are about to jump into the Warp Pipe.
- In the same scene, Yoshi briefly shifts for a few frames.
When Princess Toadstool jumps into the Warp Pipe, she speaks, but her mouth does not move.
In one scene, the spines on Yoshi's back are missing.
When Mario and his friends are about to fall onto the yellow block, Mario appears to be layered behind Princess Toadstool.
When Luigi manages to hang onto the edge of the block, he freezes.
Mario comments on Luigi's weight before the former gets to grab the latter.
When Mario and his friends notice the Flying Goombas, Luigi's head is misplaced.
In the scene where Mario and his friends duck, the block they are on is cut-off.
When the three heroes start to duck, they freeze midway through their ducking animation. Later in the scene, Princess Toadstool freezes after noticing Luigi is gone, evident by the fact her eyelids do not open all the way.
- During the former scene, Mario can be seen letting go of Luigi's hand. Despite this, Luigi does not fall until his friends unfreeze.
When the Princess alerts Mario about the Flying Goombas, her lips are missing.
When Mario defeats the Flying Goombas, he only defeats two out of the five Flying Goombas, which do not appear.
When Princess Toadstool catches Mario, her eyes are black instead of blue. This also happens when Mario jumps into the slush to save Luigi.
- In the former scene, part of Mario's eye is briefly colored white in the blue area of his eye.
When Mario and his friends are falling into Ice Land, the hand Princess Toadstool holds Mario with switches a couple times.
When Mario says they have to go back to find Luigi, his right eyebrow flickers for a brief moment.
When Princess Toadstool and Yoshi look at each other, the former is layered over the latter while the latter's skin is darker than usual.
Shortly after Mario saves Luigi, his hair is black like Luigi's instead of brown.
- In the same scene, part of Mario's overalls are transparent as the two hug.
When Princess Toadstool tells Mario to pay attention, her dress is larger than usual.
When Mario stomps in the slush with his right leg a third time, his right leg disappears while the underside of his shoe becomes transparent before his shoe is colored as his hat and overalls.
When the scene first shows Mama Fireplant in Ice Land, the melting animation to her right is misplaced.
When "Kootie Pie Rap" starts playing, Mama Fireplant's animation loops incorrectly.
Luigi and Princess Toadstool take much longer to become frozen than Mario and Kootie Pie.
When Kootie Pie steps on a porcupinefish, her bracelet turns the same color as her body.
When Mama Fireplant picks up Mario, the Porcupinefish's sclerae are the same color as its body.
After Mama Fireplant picks up Princess Toadstool, one of her leaves is colored blue instead of green.
Before Yoshi, Mama Fireplant and the others leave Kootie Pie's cave, Yoshi does not step on a porcupinefish but appears frozen by one.
- In the same scene, Mario is to the left of Mama Fireplant while Luigi is to the right, despite the positions being reversed in previous scenes.
The background flashes during the first two scenes of Mama Fireplant back in Dome City.
When Mama Fireplant says it is great to be back, Mario's right arm overlaps a cave person.
When Mama Fireplant thanks Yoshi, part of her hair turns red like her head.
When Kootie Pie is trapped in an ice cube while whining and complaining, her tears are not animated properly.
In the Croatian dub, when Yoshi lists the food at the barbecue, his mouth does not move.

Mario's miscolored cap
Yoshi's miscolored eyes
Kootie Pie's miscolored bracelet

ProfilesEdit

Yoshi the Superstar DVD:
- English:
  Kootie Pie steals Mama Fireplant, the source of the Cave People's fire, so Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Yoshi go to Ice Land, where Yoshi must overcome his fear of water and save Mama Fireplant from being extinguished forever.

Super Mario VHS:
- Korean:
  어름세계를 좋아하는 쿠티파이는 불꽃풀을 훔져가 말썽을 일으키고 물을 겁내는 요시가 용기를 낸다.
  (Romanization: Eoreumsegyereul johahaneun Kuti Paineun Bulkkot Puleul humchyeoga malsseongeul irkigo mureul geopnaeneun Yosiga yonggireul naenda.)
  (Translation: Kootie Pie, who loves Ice Land, steals Mama Fireplant and causes trouble, and Yoshi, who is afraid of water, takes courage.)

Dub editsEdit

In the Croatian dub, Yoshi lists the food at the barbecue instead of Mario and Luigi.
In the French and Korean dubs, after Mario accidentally drops Luigi into Ice Land, the former refers to the latter directly instead referring to him as a brother.
In the French dub, at the end of the episode, Mama Fireplant directly congratulates Yoshi for having overcome his fear of water, implying some kind of character development that would be reversed in later episodes.
In the Castilian Spanish dub:
- Luigi's mention of "dino dogs" and "bronto-burgers" is removed, while the "stoneberry pie" is referred to as "blackberry pie."
- Porcupinefish are not referred to directly by their name in the dub.
- In the last shot of the episode, when Kootie Pie is trapped in a block of ice, she repeatedly says "Lo odio." In the original, she merely breaks down into speaking gibberish.
  - In the French dub, she instead says that she wants to be warm.

Names in other languagesEdit

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Albanian	Shitja e zjarrit^[2]	Fire sale
Arabic	وردة الدفء^[3] Warda addifʾ	Rose of warmth
French (NOA)	La plante de feu^[4]	The fire plant
French (NOE)	Catastrophe écologique^[5]	Ecological disaster
German	Der Eispalast^[6]	The ice palace
Greek	Πώληση φωτιάς^[7] Pólisi fotiás	Fire sale
Hungarian	Tűz és Jég^[8]	Fire and ice
Italian	Ghiaccio bollente^[9]	Hot ice
Korean	불 바겐세일^[10] Bol Bagenseil	Fire Bargain Sale	VHS
Korean	마마 불꽃을 찾아라^[11] Mama Bulkkocheul Chajara	Find Mama Fireplant	DVD
Polish	Płomienna wyprzedaż^[12]	Fiery sale
Portuguese	Venda de Fogo^[13]	Fire Sale
Romanian	Foc de vânzare^[14]	Fire for sale
Russian	Распродажа огоня́^[15] Rasprodazha ogonyá	Fire sale
Spanish (NOA)	Venta de fuego^[16]	Fire sale
Spanish (NOE)	Venta de fuego^[17]	Fire sale	original dub
Spanish (NOE)	La venta de fuego^[18]	The fire sale	re-dub

NotesEdit

Comparison of the series' title card and the frame from "Fire Sale".

The series' main title card background is taken directly from a frame of this episode. The top of Luigi's head can still be seen in it.
Kootie Pie narrates the preview for this episode by saying, "Ice Land is my favorite part of Dinosaur World, but it's so cold I just had to borrow Mama Fireplant to keep warm, and now Mario is trying to spoil my fun. It's not fair!"^[19]
The Ice Land seen in this episode is more similar to the frosty underground levels of Super Mario World, as it depicts an icy cavern.
The scene where Mario defeats the Flying Goombas is shown in the Italian opening of the Super Mario World television series.
Kootie Pie breaks the fourth wall when she looks at the camera after mentioning having a fire sale, referring to the episode's title.
While Yoshi can enter aquatic levels in Super Mario World, he is afraid of water in this episode.
This episode's scene transitions lack the reversed power-up sound effect to accompany the transition, something succeeding episodes would later have.

ReferencesEdit

[1] ttps://www.tvmaze.com/shows/4301/super-mario-world/episodes

[Albania-2] Bota e Super Marios - Episoda 1 | Shitja e zjarrit (Dublimi Shqip, Çufo)

[3] مسلسل سوبر ماريو الحلقة الاولى || وردة الدفء

[4] Super Mario World - DVD,1990/1991 Coffret 2 Boxset Anime - Complete French

[5] Super Mario World 002 Catastrophe écologique

[6] ttps://www.amazon.de/Super-Mario-World-Staffel-dt/dp/B00ET0O4CW

[7] Super Mario World - Episode 1 - The Wheel Thing Greek Audio

[8] Super Márió Mese_ Tűz És Jég (Magyarul)

[9] Le avventure di Super Mario - Episodio 1 - Ghiaccio bollente

[10] Super Mario World Cartoon (Fire Sale) - Korean version

[11] [USB] 슈퍼마리오

[12] Kapitan N i nowe przygody braci Mario. Odc. 2 - Płomienna wyprzedaż/Przypadki i wpadki wesołej gromadki

[13] Super Mario World - Venda de Fogo (Dublado)

[14] May 20, 2015. "Fire Sale", dubbed in Romanian by KidsCo. Odnoklassniki (OK.ru). Retrieved January 4, 2016.

[15] Мир супер Марио. 1 серия.

[16] Súper Mario world (la venta de fuego)

[17] Super Mario World - Venta de fuego (Doblaje castellano original)

[18] Super Mario World (Cap.1 - La venta de fuego) español

[19] Super Mario World 402 - Fire Sale//Misadventures In Robin Hood Woods

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