Talk:King Koopa's song

Is this an acceptable name source?

So yesterday I was digging through the US Copyright Office's website and found four very useful links, with what appears to be the official name for both the opening and closing themes (which I have no idea if they're the same thing). I would like to know if these are acceptable/official sources for a name. They're both listed as "King Koopa's song" and the third link in particular credits Haim Saban and Shuki Levy as the composers (it's only for the closing theme but still noteworthy). Half of these were filed by Saban Entertainment themselves while the other half was filed by what appears to be a record label titled Balanga Music. Saban Productions is also mentioned on these links. I originally reported these findings on the Discord server but got no attention. My other concern here is that several articles link to this page, so quite a bunch of edits would probably be needed on the wiki. TL;DR: should this page be moved to "King Koopa's song"? (And does this warrant a proposal?) SuperGamer18 (talk) 15:18, February 5, 2026 (UTC)

Looks official to me; iirc we've used copyright info as sources for songs from other shows before. Don't think a proposal is necessary, and the reason many pages link to it is likely because of {{Kool Kartoons}} navbox. Mario JC 10:23, March 30, 2026 (UTC)

First lyric

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I really don't think he's saying "I'm the queen of video, bleepa!" at the start. I'm not sure what he is saying, but it doesn't sound like that and that doesn't make any sense anyway. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 02:33, May 27, 2026 (UTC)

We feel like it's probably meant to be "I'm the king of video", as the sample used on the page is muffled enough that we could see that distortion happening... As for "bleepa", we have absolutely no idea, though. ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 17:06, September 29, 2026 (UTC)

My issue is that I'm not hearing a "the". It's definitely "I'm [three syllables]" followed by a word that I'm willing to agree on "video" as the most sensible option, but the first two syllables after "I'm" sound like they're one word to me, and the first has a much rounder vowel sound than any pronunciation of "the" would explain. I'm thinking maybe "going", but not confidently enough to say that's it especially since I don't know what would go between "going" and "video" (best guess is "I'm going to video", which makes zero sense). 69.151.217.109 02:07, September 30, 2026 (UTC)

We're fairly certain it's "I'm the [something] of video [something]", and not "I'm going to video [something]". There's a pretty clear /ə/ sound after the "I'm", but before whatever is being construed as Queen/King/Going, and while it's incredibly muffled (thanks to being fairly deep, on a note that is already fairly low), there is indeed a /ð/ before the /ə/ sound. Or, in not-International Phonetic Alphabet, terms, it's "the". /ðə/ is "the". We're also entirely unsure how, exactly, the word after, but before "video", is meant to be "to". "Of" is even more phonetically different than "to" is, they don't even share a vowel sound, and the absence of a /t/ sound is pretty obvious. (...It's probably a good sign the only surviving sample of this song is so low that it's necessary to check the IPA pronunciation of the words "the", "to", or "of".) ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 02:27, September 30, 2026 (UTC)

Ah, you're right, I was missing "the" in between I'm and the unknown word because it was so low. So there's actually four syllables between I'm and video. I don't think I'm confident enough to say it's "pretty clear" or "indeed" a ðə (though that's probably fed by my disdain at your unnecessarily condescending tone), but I'm willing to accept that there's definitely a word there, and "the" makes more sense than anything else.

The word after "the", then, is pronounced as two syllables. I see why the original transcript assumed it was a stylized "ka-ween", though it's missing the "n" at the end. I don't think "ka-ing" for "king" makes sense, though, especially since that would require the even stronger and usually more audible ŋ consonant (ng). "going", of course, has the same problem (though a colloquialized "goin'" is far more common than "kin'"), but it makes more sense to me than "king" as a word that would reasonably be split between two beats musically, as does queen. To clarify, I'm not arguing that the word is "going". I'm quite certain it's not. But I am even more certain it's not "king".

I also agree that there's no "t" sound for "to". There's also no v for "of". If anything, the clearest v-like sound I'm hearing is in the middle of what we're calling "video". And, in fact, the entire song heavily lacks consonants. The voice Christopher Collins put on for King Koopa both slurs sounds together heavily and lands repeatedly in his vocal fry range and that, in addition to the low quality of the surviving recordings (a cursory search of YouTube demonstrates that they're all equal or worse than the sample here), is why we're debating this at all. If the consonants were clear, we'd know exactly what he was saying. So part of my speculation here is just trying to formulate anything resembling a logical lyrical structure, seeing as "I'm the queen of video, bleepa" completely fails that test. "I'm the king of video, [something]" is an improvement on that front, but then requires the logical backflip of "he pronounced king as kə-ɪn/ka-een", and I can't get behind that.

Considering the quality, I think the page needs some notice that the lyrics are an approximation to avoid spreading misinformation. With that disclosure, I'd be comfortable putting "I'm the [unintelligible] of video, [unintelligible]" (or similar placeholders for the least clear words). But I don't think queen/king/going/etc. or bleepa can be reasonably, encyclopedically, identified here.

If I were to transcribe what I'm hearing entirely in IPA, it would look something like:

aɪm də kəɪn ə bɪ vju pli bə

(I'm duh kuh-een uh bih vyoo plee buh)

which is, by definition, unintelligible. 69.151.217.109 03:05, September 30, 2026 (UTC)

I listened to the song, and the first four words are almost certainly "I'm coming to video". I don't know about the last word. Maw-Ray Master (talk) 11:08, October 1, 2026 (UTC)

We're doubtful it's "coming to", since that not only requires us to basically pretend the /ə/ sound isn't there and that there is a /t/ sound that's just being dropped somehow, but also requires there to be a second /m/ sound after the "I'm" or. Whatever sound is starting what's been considered Queen/King/Going/Greedy/Coming. Which... There isn't really one. If assuming that there's two outright wrong sounds was too much of a sretch, three is definitely too much. ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 16:15, October 1, 2026 (UTC)

I'm personally thinking that the first part of the lyric is supposed to be "I'm the king" (given that this is a king we're talking about, it does make sense). No idea about the second half, I just keep hearing "of video bleepa". No idea how bleepers make sense in this context, but I wouldn't be surprised if the "pa" at the end is supposed to be intentionally added, given the other "pa"s added to rhyme with "Koopa".
Also, I think the second lyric ("who calls you a nincompoopa") is not supposed to be a question, but a second half of a full sentence: "I'm the [unintelligible] of video [unintelligible], who calls you a nincompoopa"; as it would match with the following lines of lyrics being parts of a full sentence: "I'm the player who plays the game, and knocks you for a loopa". rend (talk) (edits) 18:06, October 1, 2026 (UTC)