Sam Shalam and Slammer

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Sam Shalam and Slammer
Sam Shalam and Slammer
Sam Shalam (left) and Slammer (right)
Appears in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! - "Mario and the Red Baron Koopa" (1989)
Species Human (Sam Shalam)
Carpet beater (Slammer)
Sam Shalam: "Just look around! You won't find any finer flying carpets in all of Cloud Land!"
Slammer: "Heh, unless you look somewhere else!"”
Sam Shalam and Slammer, "Mario and the Red Baron Koopa"

Sam Shalam is a salesman who runs a used flying carpet lot in Cloud Land in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! He is accompanied by his assistant Slammer, a sentient carpet beater. Sam is written as a stereotypical used car salesman, selling Mario and Luigi a cheap bug-infested carpet and claiming it is fireproof. Slammer is less of a swindler than Sam, and tells them they could find better carpets if they look somewhere else.

In "Mario and the Red Baron Koopa," Mario and Luigi wind up at Sam's lot after an incident involving a rising platform. Needing a magic carpet to defeat King Koopa and Lakitu, Mario, after some bartering, manages to buy a bug-infested carpet from Sam for the price of three washers and a stick of gum.

Slammer (character)
Close-up of Slammer.

Eventually, Mario and Luigi's carpet is burnt to a crisp by King Koopa and his fireball-gun. Without a flying carpet beneath them, Mario and Luigi are sent plummeting downward, only to be narrowly saved by a trampoline used by Princess Toadstool, Toad, and several others.

This trampoline bounces Mario and Luigi back up to Sam's lot; meeting Sam again, Mario and Luigi accuse Sam of cheating them, saying the flying carpet he sold them was fire-proof, despite it being easily burned by King Koopa.

Hearing that Mario and Luigi want to stop King Koopa, Sam happily gives the two a pair of flying carpets for free; Sam's reason for doing this being that he wanted to see King Koopa defeated for having stolen his fireball-gun equipped magic carpet.

Names in other languages[edit]

Sam Shalam[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Chinese (simplified) 山姆沙拉姆[1]
Shānmǔ Shālāmǔ
Sam Shalam
French Sam Shalam[2] -
German Sam Shalam[3] -
Indonesian Sam Shalam[4] -
Spanish Sam Shalam[5] -
Swedish Sam Shalam[6] -

Slammer[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Chinese (simplified) 沙拉默[1]
Shālāmò
Slammer
French Slammer[2] -
German Klopfer[3] Slammer
Indonesian Glammer[4] -
Spanish Slammer[5] -
Swedish Klappar[6] Slammer

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