Super Mario World (television series)





Loosely based on Super Mario World, the Super Mario World show chronicles the adventures of Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool in Dinosaur Land. Yoshi, Bowser, and a bunch of new characters, such as Oogtar the Caveboy, make an appearance, as well. It was the last of DiC's Super Mario cartoons; it is regarded as the least known of all three of them.

Overview
Sometime after the events of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 series finale "Super Koopa", King Bowser Koopa, the Koopalings and their armies were banished from the Mushroom Kingdom.

After the banishment of the Koopa family and their minions, Princess Toadstool, Mario and Luigi went on vacation to the Dinosaur World. Only for Princess Toadstool to be kidnapped by King Koopa and his minions. After adventuring and befriending Yoshi, Mario and Luigi managed to rescue Princess Toadstool from Bowser's Neon Castle and subsequently decided to stay in Dinosaur Land's Dome City with the cave-people.

Several episodes of Super Mario World often had Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Toadstool and occasionally a show-exclusive character, Oogtar the Caveboy, trying to stop the schemes of King Koopa and the Koopalings, as well as other villains such as Wizardheimer or the DinoRiders.

Social Issues
Some episodes of Super Mario World can also be seen as social commentary for controversial issues, such as street gangs ("Born to Ride"), addiction ("Rock TV") and obesity ("King Scoopa Koopa").

The show also had several episodes, such as "The Wheel Thing" and "Party Line", dealing with the introduction and consequences of introducing new concepts and technologies to others, in this case, the cave-people of Dome City.

Differences
Like The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 before it, Super Mario World had several noticeable differences between itself and the game it was based on. Possibly the most noticeable of these are the cave-people of Dome City, the game Super Mario World, aside from Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool, had no humans in it at all. The names of enemies and places were also changed, some of these include:


 * Chargin' Chucks were renamed "Koopa Football Players"
 * Mecha-Koopas were renamed "Mechkoopas"
 * The Forest of Illusion was renamed the "Enchanted Forest"

Distribution
The Super Mario World episode "The Night Before Cave Christmas" was released sometime in 1996 for a VHS tape entitled "Super Mario Bros. Super Christmas Adventures"; along with "The Night Before Cave Christmas", the animated segment of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Koopa Klaus / Little Marios" and the live-action segment of "Star Koopa / Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush" were also released as a part of "Super Mario Bros. Super Christmas Adventures".

Currently, DVDs of every single Super Mario World episode are available in Australia; the episode "A Little Learning" was also available on a VHS tape for a time in the UK.

Though a DVD box set of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! by Shout! Factory has been released with a box set of The Adventures of Super Mario Adventures 3 being planned for release as well, a box set of Super Mario World may not be created; no reason for this has been given, because even though sales of SMBSS have been good, it has been mentioned that there are complications involving Nintendo, DiC Entertainment and Yoshi, which are the main cause of this.

Cast

 * Walker Boone &mdash; Mario
 * Tony Rosato &mdash; Luigi
 * Tracey Moore &mdash; Princess Toadstool
 * Andrew Sabiston &mdash; Yoshi
 * Harvey Atkin &mdash; King Bowser Koopa
 * Tara Strong/Charendoff &mdash; Hip, Hop
 * John Stocker &mdash; Oogtar the Caveboy, Koopa Wizard, Monty Moles, Koopa Football Players, Wizardheimer
 * Paulina Gillis &mdash; Kootie Pie Koopa
 * James Rankin &mdash; Cheatsy Koopa
 * Dan Hennessey &mdash; Big Mouth Koopa, Green Dinosaur, Purple Dinosaur
 * Michael Stark &mdash; Kooky Von Koopa
 * Gordon Masten &mdash; Bully Koopa
 * Judy Marshak &mdash; (Additional Voices)
 * Catherine Gallant &mdash; (Additional Voices)
 * Stuart Stone &mdash; (Additional Voices)

Theme Song
Super Mario Super Mario Super Mario World Super Mario World It's a blast from the past In Super Mario World You've got to move fast Mario and Luigi Are doing what they can Yoshi and the Princess Are givin' them a hand Super Mario World Super Mario World It's a blast from the past In Super Mario World It's a blast Super Mario World