Editing Mario and the Beanstalk

|image=[[File:MarioBeanstalk.jpg|200px]]

|airdate={{flag list|USA|September 13, 1989<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Bros-Show-Season/dp/B003BIGT9Y</ref>|France|September 12, 1990}}

|alter_ego=[[King Koopa's alter egos#Giant Koopa|Giant Koopa]]

|replacement="[[List of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 songs#It's A Dog's Life|It's A Dog's Life]]"<br>"[[List of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 songs#When Koopas Paint The Town|When Koopas Paint The Town]]"

|live="[[Bats in the Basement]]"

"'''Mario and the Beanstalk'''" is the seventh episode of ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' Its corresponding live-action segment is "[[Bats in the Basement]]." This episode is a parody of the fairy tale "{{wp|Jack and the Beanstalk}}," taking elements such as a beanstalk, a gold-laying goose, a giant, and the main character(s) trading a cow for beans from the story. It is also notable for being the only episode where [[Hoopster]]s appear.

Princess Toadstool, frustrated, tells Mario, Luigi and Toad to think of something. Before Mario, Luigi or Toad can say something though, they are interrupted by a nearby [[Royal Cow|cow wearing a crown]], who is eating some hay rather noisily. Noticing the cow, Princess Toadstool makes the decision of selling it; as it is the royal cow, it would be worth a lot. Taking the leash of the cow, Mario and Luigi leave the cottage, as Toad, who knows how the used cow market works, begins to worry that Mario and Luigi may mess up in selling the cow.

At a cow lot, Mario and Luigi offer their cow to the swindler salesman, [[Dealin' Delbert]], wanting money. Ignoring this comment, Dealin' Delbert tries to persuade Mario to trade their cow for a rather old and sickly-looking one. Refusing the trade their cow for this other one, Mario and Luigi tell Dealin' Delbert they want one hundred coins. Hearing this, Delbert decides to offer Mario and Luigi a deal for their cow, one they cannot refuse.

At the cottage, Princess Toadstool and Toad are horrified to discover that Mario and Luigi traded the royal cow for three, small garbanzo bean seeds. Mario, showing Toad, and Princess Toadstool the garbanzo beans, is severely reprimanded by them. After scolding Mario, the Princess sneezes, being allergic to garbanzo bean seeds; this sneeze causes the beans to be blown out a nearby window. After the seeds are blown outside, Toad says that the next day he will go to town and try to get the royal cow back from Dealin' Delbert. The group then turns in for the night.

As Mario, Luigi, Toad, and the Princess go to bed, the garbanzo bean seeds, which had landed in the yard of the cottage, suddenly take root in the ground and begin to grow into a monstrous beanstalk, which grows high enough to reach the clouds.

The next morning, Toad begins to leave to talk to Dealin' Delbert, only to notice the giant beanstalk in the yard. Asking why Toad has suddenly stopped, Princess Toadstool notices the beanstalk and her gasp of surprise upon seeing it summons Mario and Luigi, who stare in awe at the beanstalk. Seeing the beanstalk, Mario gets an idea, the garbanzo beans growing on it can be harvested and sold for coins which can be donated to the Mushroom Kingdom Orphanage; thinking Mario's plan to be a good one, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool follow Mario to the beanstalk to help him pick the beans.

Later, after having climbed extremely high on the beanstalk, Mario tells Princess Toadstool, Toad, and a hesitant Luigi that they should start plucking garbanzo beans from the top of the beanstalk and then work their way down. Hearing Luigi's plea that perhaps everyone should go back down to the ground, Mario agrees, when he suddenly hits what appears to be a stone ceiling. Confused, Mario pushes upwards on this ceiling, removing one of the stone blocks constructing it, making a passage. Climbing up the passage, Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool find themselves in what appears to be a giant-sized kitchen.

Grabbing hold of the fallen floor panel, revealed to be a trapdoor, Luigi, Mario, Toad, and Princess Toadstool begin trying to lift it, only to fail, the trapdoor being too heavy. As Luigi begins to bemoan his and his friends' fate, a booming voice echoes through the room; recognizing the voice as [[Bowser|King Koopa']]s, the Princess, Mario, Luigi and Toad begin trying to open the trapdoor again, as King Koopa, having become gigantic in size, draws nearer. As Mario, Luigi, Toad, and the Princess struggle in vain to open the stuck trapdoor, King Koopa appears and mockingly proclaims that he is preparing a stew, with Mario and Luigi as the main ingredients.

Passing this large door, Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool find themselves in a room filled with mountains of gold coins. As they stare in amazement at a rather large pile of gold coins, the door behind them is slammed shut by King Koopa, who says they will never be able to escape this room. Sticking his head through a hole at the top of the door, King Koopa says that soon Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool will be crushed by coins and proceeds to command a goose hanging from a cage attached to the ceiling to lay several coins.

On the ground, Luigi, after grabbing an axe, begins to chop down the beanstalk while the goose asks Mario, Toad, and Princess Toadstool how it can repay them for saving it. As Luigi continues to chop the beanstalk down, Mario asks if perhaps Goosey can give them some coins they can donate to the Mushroom Kingdom Orphanage, unfortunately, Goosey responds that only King Koopa and his magic spell can make it lay coins, without the spell, it can only lay eggs and offers Mario one; refusing Goosey's offer, Mario watches as Luigi finishes chopping down the beanstalk.

As the beanstalk begins to fall, King Koopa's castle falls with it, becoming damaged. As the castle and beanstalk fall to the ground, the gold coins inside of it begin to rain down on top of Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess Toadstool and Goosey, much to their delight. King Koopa, his castle having crashed into a pond, drags himself ashore, only to discover that the water he was drenched in has shrunken him to about the size of Toad. As Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess Toadstool and Goosey laugh at him, King Koopa runs to the hills, vowing revenge. After laughing, Mario, Luigi and Toad discover that they are quite hungry; hearing this, Goosey begins trying to lay some eggs for them, only to discover she can only lay golden eggs, much to her surprise.

 

*When [[Princess Toadstool]] that someone very large lives in the castle, the stripes on Mario's gloves are the same color as his shirt.

*When King Koopa grabs Princess Toadstool and [[Toad]] and laughs, her crown is drawn like King Koopa's.

*'''Netflix:''' ''It's an Italian twist on a classic fairy tale when [[Mario]] climbs a stalk grown from magic garbanzo beans and does battle with giant-sized Koopa.''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170629055629/https://www.netflix.com/title/70212980 ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'']. ''Netflix''. Retrieved June 22, 2020.</ref>

 

|ChiS=马力欧和豆茎

|Fre=Mario et le haricot

|FreM=Mario and the Beanstalk

|GerC=<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNTFlcbu78&list=PLn0Cm-QzTZcYMFil7DnnbYQJlk7qccB4H&index=9 The Super Mario Bros Super Show! Folge 8 Fledermäuse im Keller / Mario und die Bohnenranke]</ref>

|Heb=מריו והשעועית

|HebM=Mario and the Bean(stalk)

==Notes==

*Official summaries of this episode refer to [[Bowser|King Koopa]] by the name of Giant Koopa, though the episode itself does not actually refer to him by this name.