The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989) - 43 mistakes in entire show

Other: On the "Mario's Greatest Movie Moments" DVD of this series, from the main menu, go into the trivia game. The fifth question asks you about the Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode 'Count Koopula.' It asks you "What's room number that the Mario Bros. were put into in Koopula's Castle?" It's supposed to say "What's THE room number that the Mario Bros. were put into in Koopula's Castle?"

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

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: 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: 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 Koopa sends Mouser to hunt down the Marios after finding out they've escaped, the binoculars that he was holding have disappeared.

Continuity: The Thunderbirdo is supposed to be pink. It is green when first visible after Koopa orders it up. It turns green again right before it explodes.

Continuity: As Mario, Luigi and Toad speed to the rebel fort, the side-view mirrors keep disappearing.

Other: Koopa's army tries to stop the Marios from getting to the rebel fort by driving a truck and stopping it in the middle of the road. However, nobody is driving the truck.

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

Audio problem: When Mario picks up the Lost Mushroom for the first time, his mouth is moving, but not saying anything.

Continuity: When Koopa escapes through the warp at the end, the hole closes up. When Mario says "We sure whipped him this time," (meaning Koopa) look at the ground and you will see that everyone is standing next to the wide open hole.

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: 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: 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.

Continuity: At the beginning of the scene where Dr. Nerdnik builds the Plumbinator, The Mario Bros. change and switch positions, even though they were standing the whole time.

Continuity: When Mario, Luigi, Bunsun and Dr. Nerdnik are about to be crushed by the electric pole, when Luigi moans "we're doomed," he is in front of Mario. In the next shot, Mario is looking ahead while saying "doomed, schmoomed." In this same shot, Mario pulls Luigi over to a nearby fire hydrant, and Luigi moves onscreen from Mario's right. Therefore, Luigi has changed position.

Other: When Bunsun walks up to Dr. Nerdnik to free him, an animation mistake is noticable. Bunsun is far away and she walks up to him, and during this whole sequence her body is in front of Dr. Nerdnik, according to the camera's view.

Continuity: When Koopa brags about his vision, toes, etc, when his goggles come out, the two eyepieces are on his right eye for several frames, then it suddenly changes to both eyepieces on both eyes.

Continuity: In the scene where Bunsun messes up Robo Koopa's controls, everyone's surroundings keep changing in almost every shot, which is basically the floor they are standing on, and the backgrounds.

Revealing: In the first chase scene, the backgrounds are usually repeated in close-up shots, because you can see a sudden jump in the background animation.

Continuity: During the fight sequence, Koopa ties a rope around the Plumbinator's metal body and pulls the Plumbinator over to him. Luigi cuts the rope with a pair of scissors, causing Koopa to fall back. The part of the rope tied on the Plumbinator disappears for the rest of the scene.

Continuity: During the fight, the egg stains on Koopa either disappear or move around him. The stains eventually disappear entirely.

Continuity: The Plumbinator is light blue. It changes to a darker blue when Mario says "May the best machine win" to Koopa.

Other: When Koopa's controls are messed up by Bunsun, an explosive shoots out one of Koopa's toes, destroying a nearby structure. In the next shot, bullet bills are being fired out of his toes.

Other: At one point, Mario asks Dr. Nerdnik how to stop Robo Koopa. The doctor walks in circles, and in the next shot, he is in a different position.

Continuity: In the first chase scene of Koopa running after the Mario gang, at one point, Koopa fires two bullet bills at the plumbers. In the next two shots, there are three bullet bills seen, and when the gang ducks, two bullet bills fly past them.

Continuity: As the fight between Koopa and the Plumbinator begins, in one shot the camera zooms in to Koopa while under the Plumbinator's legs. Robo Koopa's color is light blue in this shot, when it is dark blue in the rest of the episode.

Factual error: Koopa tries to kill the Mario brothers, Bunsun and Dr. Nerdnik by pushing an electric pole at them. Mario and Luigi use a nearby fire hydrant to protect them by having water rush out of it and keeping the pole from crushing them. There is no way a single blast of water can stop a large pole from falling, and the brothers would have been electrocuted as soon as the water hit the pole.

Other: When the Marios are hurting enemies and freeing Dr. Nerdnik, Mario kicks through a gate at the start of the scene in order to get inside. This gate disappears, once when Bunsun pushes the doctor through the hole, and twice at the end of the scene.

Audio problem: At the beginning of the episode, when Toad cries "jump for your life," his mouth is moving before he actually speaks.