Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 147 - The Super Mario Bros. Super Show: Club Mario: The Trojan Koopa & The Ghoul of My Dreams
Hosts: Jeremy, Ramon, Star
This is about a generic surfer dude and a generic hiphop dude watching satellite TV. The only things on TV are Beyond the Mind's Eye, Photon, some green chick, and the Super Mario Bros., dude! Club Mario!
Also: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
Click [HERE] to grab your board, hang on to your hat, 'cause satellite surfing is where it's at!
Warning: I basically didn't edit this episode at all so I hope it's not terrible! More after the cut.
"Like, I'm Tommy Treehugger!" "And dude, I'm Co-MC! Bad!"
Star Trek is not the only place to get green chicks.
Look, it's Elvira!
Club Mario is totally gnarly, man!
| Posted 13 July, 2010 - 03:36 by Destroy All Pod... |
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16 comments postedQuick info bit about that show Photon. The designs for that were done by the defunct (sadly) anime studio ARTMIC.
They made great stuff.
Haha, really? Now I wanna watch this show for real!
Yep. Saw them in the ARTMIC design book from 1987. I use to love the ship from that show where when viewed from the back, it looked liked the letter Y.
You mean the Artmic Design Works book? I totally have that. I will have to dig it out. I got it for the Megazone stuff.
Yeah. Has the Legioss toy and a bunch of models on the cover. Right?
Captain Power mecha designs are in that book too. That's a show worth talking about on a future podcast.
Yep! That's the one! And it totally does have Captain Power! Was there an actual Captain Power TV show or just the "interactive" point-your-at-the-TV VHS tapes?
"Was there an actual Captain Power TV show or just the "interactive" point-your-at-the-TV VHS tapes?"
Yes sir, there were both. Every Captain Power media version & merchandise right along w/ a comic book tie-in were produced & marketed from 1986 to 1988. The TV series was incredibly ambitious. It was so flavorsome in storytelling, design sets, special effects, innovative CGI, etc. that even Siskel & Ebert were impressed with it.
Captain Power got better quality than Photon did IMO.
-R78
I feel pretty bad I didn't get into Captain Power at all, though I can blame it on no station in town daring to carry that show, so I just knew about it from the toys which I didn't have either. Shame since I was at the right time and place for that, but sucks living in a smaller TV market that hardly carried the good stuff you had to pick up from out-of-town stations like in Cleveland.
Being reminded the animation in those interactive videos was provided by AIC.
I didn't get into Captain Power until after the show was off the air. All I had to go by was what episodes were on tape. I was lucky to get a good part of the toyline at the time.
http://www.vzartanime.blogspot.com/
The good-guy plane, the bad-guy plane, and I think one of the figures. I also had a couple of the videos, and if I recall correctly I got the videos before any of the toys, would often watch the videos without playing with the toys, and did not ever actually see an episode of the live-action TV show.
In retrospect, I was an anime fan long before I knew what anime was...
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"All the dogs in this sector have turned into red monsters!...don't tell me that it's impossible!"
Now I've got Princess Peach talking like Harvey Fierstein burned into my head.
By the way, I don't remember if you guys mentioned this, but the Club Mario theme was swiped from Janet Jackson's Black Cat. Check it out.
They absolutely did steal the guitar riff from Janet Jackson! I never heard this song before! You are totally right! Wow! Way to be lame, Club Mario.
Kinda glad I never saw "Club Mario" given the circumstances, but remember it when it was the original '89 series before the retooling. That whole California surf speak talk was all over by this point in history. We all bought into that notion that it was cool to say those things in school despite what our teachers thought.
Aside from the way Nintendo was all over pimping Mario at the time, kids growing up in and around the Los Angeles area had this to watch during their weekday afternoons...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjAKntjSa1s
The DIC animation is what one can expect, lazy writing and animation to boot, and this was pretty much the start of the studio's decline right here, right after Jean Chalopin and the other French guys left, it just went downhill. I couldn't even get through the later Mario shows that were on NBC it just didn't feel right. I'm surprised the studio lived after Hammerman given it's horrid production.
The "Kids don't know about sex yet" bit is pretty true when it comes to how these things work. Once you find out then it's a whole new world. Of course if you were more like me, then it was still pretty muddled figuring out from the images in a porno mag hidden away someplace!
Incidentally, here's that CGI short I think you were talking about...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bTqWsVqyzE
Though it's pointless after the fact to state so, episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show can be watched on YouTube for a small fee courtesy of DHX Media whom acquired DiC's backlog of hits after buying out Cookie Jar a while back.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmprnjY0aArNvgGv9Qr60Rg2sdAlMpwtV