Editing Star Koopa

{{SMBSS episode infobox

|production=150

|airdate=November 29, 1989 (English)<br>December 18, 1990 (French)

|after=[[Robo Koopa (episode)|>>]]

}}

==Plot synopsis==

[[Mario]] and his friends are traveling through space and are on their way to help a group of [[Toad (species)|Mushroom space colonists]]. The colonists are in trouble as [[Bowser|Darth Koopa]] is threatening to blow up [[Mushroom Planet|their planet]]. Mario's group is unaware they are being pursued by Darth Koopa's [[Koop Star]].

While Mario flies through space, [[Luigi]] gulps and tells him to check his rearview video screen. Upon doing so, he notices that the Koop Star is following them, so he turns on the ship's "Fasten Seatbelts" light and speeds up.

Not wanting Princess Toadstool to escape, Darth Koopa orders [[Mouser]], who is piloting Koop Star, to chase them. After telling him to close in on Mario and his friends and activate the tractor beam, Darth Koopa prepares his [[Stormtroopa]]s for boarding their spacecraft; telling them to do whatever they want to the Marios and Toad, but to take [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] prisoner.

After bringing Mario's group to a platform above the garbage disposal, Mouser explains that it will slice and compact them and eject their remains  into space. He then pushes a button, dropping Mario and his friends down into the garbage disposal. While falling, Mario pulls out his plunger and uses it to hang onto the wall while his friends grab onto him. The thought of garbage disposals reminds him of all the ones that he and Luigi used to fix back in [[Brooklyn]], and Luigi, pulling out the utensils that he was saving for lunch, remarks that they always had silverware stuck inside of them. Mario tells Luigi to drop the utensils, which he does, causing them to jam the garbage disposal's saws, bringing them to a halt, just as Mario's plunger loses its grip on the wall. With the saws turned off, his group safely falls past them.

Meanwhile, Darth Koopa brags about how he is going to conquer the Mushroom Colonists' planet, and that eventually, the universe will be known as the "Koopaverse." Mouser returns to him to tell him that Mario's group has been disposed of and directs him to the pod that he believes is carrying what is left of them down toward the Mushroom Planet. Mario's group, still in one piece, are inside it, which crashes on the planet, sending them flying out of it. Luigi lands on a [[Pokey]], upsetting it.  

Having arrived at the colony, Princess Toadstool explains to her friends and [[Obi-Wan Toadi]] that they need to do something to save the planet. Mario requests to have lunch, but Obi-Wan Toadi explains that they do not have time. When Princess Toadstool points out that they cannot give up, Obi-Wan Toadi explains that someone needs to penetrate Koop Star in a [[Mushroom Starfighter]] so they can disable the Birdo Ray. With the promise that he will receive lunch afterwards, Mario agrees to take on the task and boards a Starfighter. Before he leaves, Obi-Wan Toadi presents him with a pizza to bolster his spirts, and bids him good luck. Mario then takes off, and after Obi-Wan Toadi gives the signal, his friends take off after him in their own Starfighters.

After flying into space, the spacecrafts are confronted by [[Stormtroopa Starfighter]]s, of which they dodge the attacks of. Toad succeeds in blasting one of them, while Princess Toadstool dodges one attacking from behind, only for it to hit a second Starfighter. With a path cleared, Mario flies over to Koop Star and travels through a groove along the surface of the spacecraft. A Stormtroopa Starfighter attacks him from behind, but he swerves away from a wall, which the Stormtroopa crashes into. Another Starfighter attempts to shoot Mario down, but Toad blows it up.

==Animation and continuity errors==

*After [[Bowser|Darth Koopa]] tells [[Mouser]] to speed up the [[Koop Star]], his costume is missing.

*When [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] explains that the [[Toad (species)|Mushroom Colonists]] have a right to be on their planet, a line on her dress appears over her right arm.

*When Darth Koopa freezes Mario, his Freeze Gun is red, but when he freezes his friends, it is gray.

*[[Mouser]] tells Darth Koopa that there is still sixteen minutes left until the [[Birdo Ray]] fires, though the machine's counter briefly says that four minutes and twenty-five seconds are left.

*While Mario and his friends are frozen, their positions change several times, such as their facial expressions and how they are frozen.

*When Mario asks if his friends have their seatbelts on, Princess Toadstool's brooch has its colors reversed.

*Throughout its appearance, the [[Flying Pizza]] changes color several times.

==Quotes==

{{quote|[[Mouser|He's]] showing a plumber how a garbage disposal works?|Mario}}

==Profiles==

*'''Netflix:''' ''In a space-based plot a la Star Wars, Mario and [[Luigi]] go up against Darth Koopa and end up imprisoned in the [[Intergalactic InSinkErator|Intergalatic Insinkerator]].''<ref>[https://www.netflix.com/title/70212980 ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'']. ''Netflix''. Retrieved June 23, 2020.</ref>

==Names in other languages==

{{foreign names

|Fre=Star Koopa

|Ger=Star Koopa

|Ita=Attila-Nera

|ItaM=[[Koop Star]]; lit. "Black-Koopa"

}}

==References==