Editing The Yoshi Shuffle

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|image = [[Image: TheYoshiShuffle.jpg{{!}}200px{{!}}Mario and Yoshi, performing a victory dance after scoring a touchdown in football.]]

|airdate = November 23, 1991

|writer = Kristofor Brown

|song=[[List of Songs in Super Mario World#Fight to the Finish|Fight to the Finish]]

|before = [[Rock TV|<<]]

|after = [[A Little Learning|>>]]

'''The Yoshi Shuffle''' is the eleventh episode of the ''[[Super Mario World (television series)|Super Mario World]]'' animated series.

==Plot==

While watching several cave-people attempting to build something with stone slabs [[Mario]] notices how recklessly the cave-people are working. Unfortunately, whatever the cave-people were building falls apart due to the fact that the cave-people failed to cooperate in building it. As the cave-people stare blankly at the mess they've made, [[Luigi]] and [[Yoshi]] suddenly appear. Luigi proceeds to show Mario a stone football he chiseled. An excited Mario gets Luigi to throw the football to him, unfortunately the football is too heavy and Mario is knocked backwards upon catching it.

Sort-of catching this football gives Mario and idea, he'll teach the cave-people teamwork and cooperation by getting them to play football with one another. Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and several cave-people proceed to rush into a nearby field for a game, with [[Roy Koopa#DIC Cartoons|Bully]] and [[Larry Koopa#DIC Cartoons|Cheatsy Koopa]] watching them.

Beginning the game of football, [[Mario]] passes the ball to [[Yoshi]] and tells the cave-people to tackle him, unfortunately, the confused cave-people simply tackle each other. As the cave-people fight among themselves, Yoshi throws the football to Luigi, who is running down the field. As Luigi tries to catch the ball, he runs into a nearby [[Magikoopa|Koopa Wizard]]. The Koopa Wizard, angered, turns Luigi into an egg; right after doing this, the Koopa Wizard is flung backwards by the soaring football and subsequently drops his wand.

Having watched the entire seen from behind a nearby tree, Bully and Cheatsy Koopa prepare to run-in and take the egg [[Luigi]] has been turned into. Before the [[Koopalings]] can grab the egg though, Yoshi appears and, mistaking the egg for the football, picks it up and begins running away with it, with Mario chasing him.

Seeing Bully and Cheatsy, Mario has Yoshi jump into a nearby [[Warp Pipe|Warp Tube]], with Mario following him in. Coming out the other end of the Warp Tube, Mario and Yoshi are horrified to discover they're right in front of [[Bowser's Castle|Neon Castle]]. Before they can react, Mario and Yoshi are tackled by a pair of [[Chargin' Chuck|Koopa Football Players]]. Coming out of the Warp Tube, a taunting Cheatsy orders the Koopa Football Players to take Mario and Yoshi to Neon Castle's dungeon while Bully takes "Luigi the Egg".

With Mario, Luigi and Yoshi captured, Cheatsy enters [[Bowser]]'s bedroom and begins to tell his sleeping father of how he captured Mario, Luigi and Yoshi. Suddenly, Cheatsy gets an idea and leaves his father's room, believing, with his father sleeping, he is in charge. Going into the dungeons, Cheatsy proceeds to tell Mario, Yoshi and Bully that their all going to play a game of football for his amusement, with Luigi as the ball.

Brooding in his cell, Mario begins to try and explain some football plays to a panicking Yoshi, as Cheatsy watches and listens from a nearby peep-hole. On the football field, Cheatsy begins taking admission money from several [[Boo]]s, [[Ninji]]s and [[Goomba]]s, while Mario and Yoshi wait impatiently in their field-side cell. Suddenly, [[Morton Koopa Jr.#DIC Cartoons|Big Mouth Koopa]] enters the field and begins to ramble-on about the game. Introducing Cheatsy as the game's referee, Big Mouth has a Koopa Football Player open Mario and Yoshi's cell, letting them out. As a gesture of "good will", Cheatsy allows Mario and Yoshi to do the game's first throw.

Still rambling, Big Mouth is finally shut-up by Bully. After Big Mouth is quieted down, Mario and Yoshi, or team "Dome-Heads", face-down their opponents, the "Koopa Karcass Krunchers", which consists of a Koopa Football Player and Bully Koopa.

Trying to get a touchdown, Mario is knocked-out of bounds by Bully, who grabs the ball from Mario. Managing to get the ball from Bully, [[Mario]] and [[Yoshi]], instead of running down the field, run-out a nearby hole in the wall. Dodging Koopa Football Players, Ninjis, [[Thwomp]]s and Boos, Mario hits a nearby [[? Block]], which releases a [[Star|Starman]]. Grabbing this Starman, Mario becomes unstoppable and returns to the football field.

Knocking Big Mouth, Bully and Cheatsy aside, Mario and Yoshi score a touchdown and began an overly-long victory dance. A fuming Cheatsy says Mario and Yoshi cheated; ignoring Cheatsy, Mario and Yoshi try to run-out a nearby door, only to come face-to-face with a gang of Koopa Football Players.

Before the Koopa Football Players can attack though, they are tackled by a group of cavemen, who had followed Mario and Yoshi's footprints to the Neon Castle. Trying to attack, Bully, Cheatsy and Big Mouth are knocked back by the cavemen. Running from Neon Castle, Mario, Yoshi and the cavemen make it back to the Warp Tube and to [[Dome City]].

Brainstorming on how to change Luigi back to normal, one of the cave-people manages to find the wand the Koopa Wizard had dropped earlier. With this wand, Mario manages to change Luigi back to his old self. Luigi, confused proceeds to ask "Uhhh.... Did I catch the ball?" and then Mario replies "What do you mean, catch the ball? You were the ball!".

*In several scenes of this episode, the color, size and appearance of characters continually change and shift dramatically. For example, [[Mario]]'s arm turns red at the moment. Also, several details on characters, such as spikes, stars and clothing continually switch color or disappear all together.

==Trivia==

*Cheatsy's accusation that Mario and Yoshi cheated to get a touchdown in the football game is actually true, as Mario and Yoshi went out of bounds to get that touchdown.

*Bully's, Big Mouth's and Cheatsy's last animation appearance.

*In the game, Yoshi can't swallow and spit out a [[Chargin' Chuck]].

*This is the last episode to break the [[fourth wall]].

 

{{quote|Hey, Mario! Look what I made!|Luigi}}

 

{{quote|It's a stone, Luigi. You didn't make it.|Mario}}

 

{{quote|It's a football! I chiseled it!|Luigi}}

 

{{quote|Well, what are ya waiting for? Throw me a pass!|Mario}}

 

{{quote|It's even official size, but not official weight.|Luigi}}

 

{{quote|Hey, watch where you're going, you egghead!|Magikoopa}}

 

{{quote|What do you have to say now, egghead?|Magikoopa}}

 

{{quote|Who's an egghead, eggface?|Luigi}}

 

{{LLquote|Football? So that's their little game!|[[Larry Koopa#DIC Cartoons|Cheatsy]]}}

{{quote|That no egg. That football!|Yoshi}}

{{quote|You mean that egg is Luigi?!|Mario}}

{{LLquote|I am the emperor of eavesdropping.|[[Larry Koopa#DIC Cartoons|Cheatsy]]}}

{{quote|I scared Mario! If we break egg, Luigi get scrambled!|Yoshi}}

{{LLquote|Aw, shut up! We'll never get started!|[[Roy Koopa#DIC Cartoons|Bully]]}}

 

{{quote|Hey! What are you playing? Australian Rules?|Mario}}

 

{{quote|Uh, did I catch the ball??|Luigi}}

 

{{quote|What do you mean, catch the ball? You were the ball!|Mario}}

 

==Names in Other Languages==

|GerM=Team Work

|ItaM=Mario and Luigi's Egg

|Fra=La partie de football

|FraM=The football game

|Spa=El gran partido de Yoshi (Spain)<br/>El partido de fútbol (Spain re-dub)

|SpaM=Yoshi's big game (Spain)<br/>The football game (Spain re-dub)}}

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