The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989) - 42 mistakes in series 1

Continuity: When Mario, Toad and Luigi are driving to the rebel fort, the seatbelts they are wearing disappear for most of the scene.

Continuity: In one scene, Luigi is wearing the same color hat as Mario and when Luigi opens his mouth to talk, it's Mario's voice we hear.

Continuity: When Toad screams to run away after the bob-omb has been lit, Mario, Luigi and their car has vanished.

Other: When Mario, Luigi and Toad are speeding to get to the rebel fort, Toad tells Mario to look out the car's rear-view mirror. However, the car doesn't have one.

Continuity: When the Mario Bros. speed up their car to get to the rebel fort, in one shot both of Mario's hands are on the steering wheel, and in the next shot his right hand is on some sort of lever that makes the car go faster. Luigi's hands also change position in these shots.

Continuity: Near the end of the episode, when Koopa is tricked into pushing the ejector seat button, Bunsun has disappeared beside Dr. Nerdnik.

Plot hole: Near the end, Robo Koopa sets down Dr. Nerdnik after he had just captured and held him hostage. Why would he do that?

Continuity: Near the end, when Koopa escapes through the warp you will see, for a split second, that Mario and Luigi have switched their colors.

Continuity: In the scene where the Princess first has the idea for getting another love potion, the spots on Toad's head change to black then back to red.

Continuity: At the beginning of the episode, when Koopa's state Troopa makes the Mario gang pull over, both vehicles stop in the middle of the road. From there on, the cars are at the side of the road.

Continuity: When Mario, Luigi and Toad say goodbye to the Princess, Toad is standing at the front of their car, Luigi in the middle, and Mario at the back. Two shots later, the order changes to Mario at the front, then Toad, and Luigi at the back of the car.

Continuity: Koopa manages to take Toad and the Princess hostage by surrounding them in electric force fields so they can't move. These force fields disappear when Koopa starts chasing Mario, Luigi, Bunsun and Dr. Nerdnik.

Continuity: After the Marios say goodbye to the Princess, Mario is at the front of their car, then Toad, and Luigi at the back. Mario and Luigi swap places for the rest of the scene.

Continuity: When the brothers, Toad and the Princess are dashing away from Koopa, there is a shot with the four of them running offscreen. Notice the background as the camera pans to Koopa. The next shot shows a very different background.

Other: In a wide shot of the Mario brothers dashing from Koopa, they run over an open hole, though nobody falls into it.

Continuity: When Luigi crawls out of the remains of the Plumbernator warsuit, his face is still in the unit of where it was when he was in it, even though he's outside of it right now.

Other: Mario has vanished when Luigi says "Koopa was scary enough when he was a reptile."

Other: Near the end, Dr. Nerdnik tricks Robo Koopa into pushing the red ejector seat button on his suit by saying it will run out of fuel unless he pushes the button. He pushes one of the white buttons, yet he ejects anyway.

Continuity: During the fight, when the Plumbinator starts firing eggs at Koopa, for a brief time the buttons on the left side of Koopa have vanished.

Continuity: At the start of the fight between Robo Koopa and the Plumbinator, Koopa fires a black bomb. The number of bombs in this sequence keeps changing, from 1 when he fires it, then 3, then 2 when the Plumbinator sends the bombs back to Koopa, then 3 again, and finally 2 when Koopa dodges the returned bombs. Also, the color of the bombs keep changing from black to red.