Editing Mario and the Red Baron Koopa

|image=[[File:Mario and the Red Baron Koopa title card.png|200px]]

|airdate=October 24, 1989 (English)<br>November 8, 1990 (French)

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

|cover="[[List of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! songs#Danger Zone|Danger Zone]]"

|replacement="[[List of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 songs#It's A Dog's Life|It's A Dog's Life]]"

|live="[[Gorilla My Dreams (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!)|Gorilla My Dreams]]"

"'''Mario and the Red Baron Koopa'''" is the thirtieth episode of ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' The title is a reference to the 1966 ''{{wp|Peanuts}}'' cartoon book ''{{wp|Snoopy vs. the Red Baron|Snoopy and the Red Baron}}''. Its corresponding live-action segment is "[[Gorilla My Dreams (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!)|Gorilla My Dreams]]."

 

This is the only episode that a reused song plays in; {{wp|Kenny Loggins}}' "[[List of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! songs#Danger Zone|Danger Zone]]" was first played in "[[Brooklyn Bound]]."

This episode supposedly takes place after the events of "[[The Pied Koopa]]," due in part to [[Pastaland]]'s celebration being held at the beginning. [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], and [[Toad]] are all attending in honor of chasing the [[Bowser|Pied Koopa]] out of the area. Suddenly, the Red Baron Koopa appears in what appears to be a cross between an airplane and a [[magic carpet]]. As the Red Baron Koopa heads to the celebration, he asks his [[Lakitu]] associate if the "secret weapon" is ready.

As Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool sit at a picnic table eating some spaghetti, Toad, who was sunbathing, notices several storm clouds appearing in the sky. As Toad begins to try to tell Mario about the storm clouds, lightning suddenly shoots downward, striking Mario's plate of spaghetti. As more bolts of lightning start striking, all the partygoers begin panicking and run away frantically as Mario begins to shout, "Save the spaghetti! Save the spaghetti!"

As rain begins to pour from the [[Lakitu's Cloud]], the Red Baron Koopa orders the Lakitu to start releasing all the [[Spiny|Spinies]], which the Lakitu does. As the Spinies begin to cause havoc, the Red Baron Koopa announces to all of Pastaland's citizens that he plans on destroying their city using his "[[Wicked Weather Satellite]]." As Mario calls the satellite a piece of junk, an insulted Red Baron Koopa orders Lakitu to activate the satellite, which begins raining large amounts of snow on Pastaland.

As the snow begins to pile-up, the Red Baron Koopa issues an Ultimatum: unless Pastaland surrenders to him in seventeen minutes, he will freeze the entire country over. As Princess Toadstool bemoans the fate of Pastaland, Toad comes up with an idea; use a large beanstalk the group had seen earlier to reach the Wicked Weather Satellite and destroy it.

Rushing off to the beanstalk, Mario, [[Luigi]], Princess Toadstool, and Toad begin to climb it. After some trouble, the group reaches the Wicked Weather Satellite and prepares to knock it out of the sky. Unfortunately, the Red Baron Koopa, in his flying machine, appears. Before Mario can reach the Wicked Weather Satellite, the Red Baron Koopa blasts the beanstalk's base with his [[fireball]]-launcher, causing the large plant to collapse, dumping Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad in the snow.

As Luigi begins to lose confidence in defeating the Red Baron Koopa, Toad, after scrounging through the snow, discovers a lever; pulling this lever, Toad activates a platform that lifts Mario and Luigi to [[Cloud Land]]. After a while of rising, Mario and Luigi are finally dropped-off at [[Sam Shalam]] and [[Slammer (character)|Slammer]]'s magic carpet store. After some bargaining, Mario and Luigi manage to buy a magic carpet, "Guaranteed to last... until it falls apart."

Back in Pastaland, Mario and Luigi show their recently built [[flying carpet biplane]], with magic carpet wings, to Toad and Princess Toadstool. Boarding the flying carpet biplane, Mario manages to convince Luigi to be the pilot while he acts as the tail gunner. Toad suddenly begins to question Mario's plan, saying the fireball tail gun will not be enough to destroy the Wicked Weather Satellite; Mario suddenly hands Toad a [[Bomb|bomb]], saying he and Luigi will not be destroying the Wicked Weather Satellite, Toad will. Just as Pastaland is beginning to freeze over from the unceasing snowstorm, the Red Baron Koopa and Lakitu start relaxing on lawn chairs on a cloud, thinking themselves to be unstoppable and that they had already won.

As Mario, Luigi and Toad cheer over the destruction of the Wicked Weather Satellite, the Red Baron Koopa suddenly appears and begins opening fire on the group's biplane. After a back-and-forth dogfight, Mario manages to blast the Red Baron Koopa out of the sky with his fireball-launcher. The Red Baron Koopa is then sent plummeting to the ground below, swearing revenge against the Mario Bros. In Pastaland, Mario, Luigi, and Toad are honored by Princess Toadstool with several medals which make them Pastaland heroes, thanks to them and their heroism. Mario asks her if that comes with spaghetti, which makes Luigi, Toad, Princess Toadstool, and the Pastaland people laugh to Mario's joke, while Mario laughs along with them.

*[[Harvey Atkin]] &mdash; [[Bowser|Red Baron Koopa]], man #2

*When the Red Baron Koopa says that unless the [[Toad (species)|Mushroomers]] surrender to him, he will bury [[Pastaland]] with snow, his mouth does not move.

*When [[Lakitu]] starts throwing [[Spiny Egg]]s at the Mushroomers, his snout is colored yellow like his goggles instead of green.

*When [[Luigi]] points out the Red Baron Koopa in the sky, the [[Spiny]] that [[Mario]] holds has its legs shifted upward for a frame.

*When Mario and his friends start falling down the beanstalk after the Red Baron Koopa knocks it over, [[Toad]]'s eyebrows are missing.

**In the same scene, Luigi speaks, but his mouth does not move.

*When Luigi pops out of the snow, [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] briefly appears as if she came out of the snow for a split-second.

 

*'''Netflix:''' ''[[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] take to the skies in a [[Flying carpet biplane|flying carpet biplane]] to bring down [[Bowser|Red Baron Koopa]] and the nefarious sky turtle [[Lakitu|Lakatu]]{{sic}}.''<ref>[https://www.netflix.com/title/70212980 ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'']. ''Netflix''. Retrieved June 22, 2020.</ref>

 

*Despite this episode's name, [[Bowser|King Koopa]] is only actually referred to as the "Red Baron Koopa" by the episode title.