Tutti Frutti, oh Mario

"Tutti Frutti, oh Mario" is the thirtieth live-action segment of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. Its corresponding animated episode is "That Sinking Feeling" from The Legend of Zelda. It also exists under the title "Tutti Frutti Mario", and is the show's sixtieth live-action segment. Tutti Frutti Mario's corresponding animated episode is "The Missing Link" from The Legend of Zelda. Aside from alternate title cards, and a different Mario head transition, "Tutti Frutti, oh Mario" and "Tutti Frutti Mario" are otherwise practically identical.

Plot synopsis
In Mario Brothers Plumbing, Mario is putting on some shaving cream while looking at the mirror, and a sound is heard, actually a verbal rendition of a drum pattern. He then opens the mirror to pick the razor he kept inside, but instead of another internal mirror, there is a window showing another person about to shave too. They both start shaving, apparently thinking to be looking at their own reflection, since they do the exact same movements, despite looking very differently.

Mario then asks Luigi if he changed the mirror, but he responds that cannot hear him because of a noise coming out of the vent and he is afraid it is going to explode. Once Mario asks what sound Luigi's referring to, the drum pattern voice is heard again two times, while the Ratagator lip syncs to it. Luigi thinks the Ratagator is the one singing, and he tells the Ratagator to stop. Mario responds that the sound is not coming from the Ratagator, so Luigi closes the Ratagator's vent, walks toward Clog and covers him with a bucket. He tells Clog not to come out until he gets to the chorus. Mario says that it is not even Clog, so Luigi says it may be the scarecrow, but the scarecrow responds not to be the one. Mario returns to the mirror and both him and the man in the reflection are surprised to realize they are not looking at a mirror, to which the man replies that to be the weirdest hotel room he has ever seen, having a television built in the mirror, and then sings the drum pattern song the brothers were hearing earlier. Hearing it from him, Mario recognizes the man as Little Robert.

Later, the table is set for three people and Luigi tries to hide a tape recorder in a dish of spaghetti, but he changes his mind and hides it under the bread. Mario comes in saying that Little Robert would be there soon, and asks Luigi what is he doing. Sarcastically, Luigi replies that he is weaving a Navajo blanket. He explains that he is hiding the tape recorder so that if they get Little Robert to sing with them and get it on tape, they would have a collector's item. Mario replies that Little Robert is only coming to eat Italian, not to sing, but Luigi insists, telling Mario to use his brain. As they are still talking, the doorbell rings. Mario tells Little Robert to come in, and greets him, imitating his voice. After the greeting, Mario presents Luigi to Little Robert, who then invites him to the dinner table. Before they start eating, Little Robert begins his song, with Mario and Luigi singing along, though he is unimpressed by their poor performance.

Little Robert is then singing the words, "Tutti Frutti" while Mario and Luigi are dancing and responding "Oh, Mario", but once again Little Robert seems unsatisfied by their performance. Mario asks what he thinks, and Robert responds that their "Oh Mario's" were great, but they are a little weak with their drum pattern cries. Luigi then asks for little tips to help them out, and Mario says he hopes Robert to not consider them to be an imposition. Little Robert, starting to get upset, asks if he can just eat, so Mario says that he can. As the singer is about to sit at the table, Mario instead tells him to take the pan with him. To this, Little Robert gets angry, saying that they invited him for dinner, then made him sing his song, and now want him to take his food "to go". After staring at Mario a moment, he takes the pan and goes away, as Luigi thanks Little Robert for coming over. Little Robert just replies with "shut up!". After Little Robert is gone, Luigi tells Mario that they should check what they have recorded on tape, but then they find the Ratagator singing the drum pattern while the chewing the unrolled cassette tape. Upset, Luigi then sings the drum pattern and the show fades to black.

Known differences between "Tutti Frutti, oh Mario" and "Tutti Frutti Mario"

 * The Mario head transition is different in both episodes. In "Tutti Frutti, oh Mario", the Mario head flies to the screen, decreases in size, then increases up to the screen. In "Tutti Frutti Mario", it goes in a zig-zag line with a blue shadow following it.
 * The scene after the Mario head where Mario and Luigi sing has added footage in "Tutti Frutti Mario".
 * In "Tutti Frutti, oh Mario", the fade-out at the end appears later than in "Tutti Frutti Mario".
 * In "Tutti Frutti Mario", the drum pattern noise is not heard while the guys are shaving, and its first appearance is after Luigi asks, "What noise?"; and "Willard Pugh" has his name spelled correctly.

Trivia

 * When the company Shout Factory released the complete The Legend of Zelda series on DVD, they only included five of the 13 original live-action segments that corresponded to the Zelda episodes. The episodes "Magic's Magic", "Mommies Curse", "Tutti Frutti, oh Mario", "The Magic Love", "Treasure of the Sierra Brooklyn" and "The Ghoul of My Dreams" were only released as bonus episodes on a PAL DVD set in Germany, where they are presented with only German language dubs.   "Magic's Magic" and "The Ghoul of My Dreams" were released in English, but only on Kids Klassics VHS tapes in the US. "Slime Busters" only DVD release in the US was on a single disc called Mario Mania. The live-action episode "Tutti Frutti Mario" did not make it onto any DVD or VHS release.