Mario Bros. Museum of Plumbing

This article is about the comic. For the museum it is named after, see Mario Bros. Museum of Plumbing (location).

Part 1 of the comic

"Mario Bros. Museum of Plumbing" is a two-part comic in the Super Mario Bros. comic series. The first part appeared in Super Mario Bros. No. 2, while the second part appeared in Super Mario Bros. No. 3.

Plot synopsis

Part 1

The short story follows Luigi, who offers the reader a brief tour of his and Mario's plumbing museum, featuring historic moments, artifacts, and exhibits of plumbing history. Luigi first shows the reader a caveman underneath a small raining cloud, dubbing it the world's first shower, though he laments that there was no soap yet.

Next, Luigi shows the reader several Native Americans lined up for a drink from "Young Faithful," a reference to the geyser Old Faithful. However, one Native American walks away until ice water is created, as the water currently has a temperature of 212°F.

The final exhibit Luigi shows the reader is the one he claims to be the rarest in their entire museum—he then opens the door to unleash the "world's very first leak," with the strip ending here.

Part 2

Luigi invites the reader to visit the Mario Bros. Museum of Plumbing. First of all, he shows the first sink, explaining how it was not popular when it was invented, but that it became so after the invention of the first drain. He then shows the world's first "showerhead": a man whose head sticks out of a hole in the wall, spitting water out of his mouth, and with his hands sticking out of two other holes. Luigi explains that, when the shower was perfected, inventors competed to create the best shower curtain and that a very unpopular one is on display in the museum: the "Venetian blind." Finally, at the end of the visit, Luigi invites the reader to buy something in the museum's souvenir shop, where a mother drags away her son who is throwing a tantrum because he wants to buy some Dirk Drain-Head comics and plumbing postcards.

Gallery

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  Part 2

Characters

• Luigi
• Boy
• Boy's mother
• Caveman
• Native Americans
• Men

Notable mistakes and errors

• In foreign translations of the comic, the text "Toilet" for the toilet painting is left untranslated.

Version differences

• In the Finnish translation:
  • Most of the text for the exhibits in the museum are removed.
  • Instead of whining about wanting more Dirk Drain-Head comics and plumbing postcards, the boy whines about wanting more Nintendo comic magazines and Mario postcards. A sign for Dirk Drain-Head buttons is also changed to a sign for Mario cases, though two Dirk Drain-Head hats are left unedited.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Finnish	Mario Bros. Putkimies Museo	Mario Bros. Museum of Plumbing
German	Mario Bros. Museum der Klempnerei	Mario Bros. Museum of Plumbing
Portuguese	Museu do encanamento	Museum of plumbing
Swedish	Mario Bros. Rörmokarmuseum	Mario Bros. Museum of Plumbing