Reptiles in the Rose Garden

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode
"Reptiles in the Rose Garden"
Production number	102
Airdate	September 8, 1990 (English) September 6, 1991 (French)
Writer(s)	Bruce Shelly Reed Shelly
Opening curtain	Grass Land
Featured song	"Do The Frog"
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“How dare you disturb the almost-empress of the entire real world?!”

—Kootie Pie Koopa

"Reptiles in the Rose Garden" is the second episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. It aired alongside another episode entitled "Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas."

Plot synopsis

Kootie Pie Koopa is celebrating her sixteenth birthday. However, her greed has caused her to want much more than the gifts she currently has that were stolen for her from across the Mushroom Kingdom. After kicking her cake out the window, she starts crying. Her father, King Koopa, asks her what she wants the most, she responds, "America." King Koopa is reluctant to grant her her wish and reasons that America is located in the real world, but eventually yields when Kootie Pie throws a tantrum about America.

Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool are enjoying their day in the Mushroom Kingdom, when they catch sight of King Koopa's Doom Ship headed for the real world. King Koopa sends his Chain Chomps to capture them before they can do a thing about it. Kootie Pie then gloats about how she is going to become "Empress of America" and that "(the Princess) is just Princess Toadstool of the measly Mushroom Kingdom".

The Doom Ship flies through a Warp Pipe leading to Washington, D.C. where it arrives at the White House. King Koopa looks through a telescope and finds the President in his office, talking on the phone. King Koopa then orders two Sledge Brothers to shoot the White House with a Levitation Beam, ripping it out of the ground and warping it to Kastle Koopa.

Kootie Pie with her written laws.

King Koopa then announces to the citizens through a megaphone that Kootie Pie is now taking over as Empress of America. Shortly after, at a press conference, Kootie Pie gives out her new "laws":

1. Every child in America must give her all of their toys.
2. Any boy who does not ask her on a date will be turned into a rock by King Koopa.
3. All the gold in Fort Knox will be melted down to make an endless lifetime supply of charm bracelets for Kootie Pie.

King Koopa then orders everyone in America to pledge allegiance to Kootie Pie, "and to the repulsiveness for which she stands."

At Kastle Koopa, Mario's group notices the White House outside the dungeon window and need to return the White House and the President to America, or else Kootie Pie will rule forever; however, they are still trapped in the dungeon with several Boomerang Brothers and Fire Brothers watching them, and the Chain Chomps still holding them down.

The Fire Brother getting tricked by Princess Toadstool.

Princess Toadstool tricks the Boomerang Brothers and the Fire Brothers to start fighting each other, and then she and the others use the crossfire to cut off the chains of the Chain Chomps. Mario's group then escapes from the dungeon through a Warp Pipe.

At this point, King Koopa returns to Dark Land on board the Doom Ship, and intends on keeping Kootie Pie happy by sending the President where he will never be rescued: The bottom of the Mushroom Sea. By using the Levitation beam, he levitates the White House over the Mushroom Sea and lets it sink to the bottom.

Mario rushes to put on a Frog Suit and dives into the Mushroom Sea. A Blooper Nanny chases Mario, but Mario tricks her into hitting a Jump Block. Mario is then chased around by a Jelectro, that Mario lures into and ditches in a pipe complex. Finally, Mario makes it to the White House and enters through the front door.

The White House rising to the surface of the water.

After arriving and being mistaken by Mrs. President for a member of the Secret Service, Mario goes to the basement, attaches several pipes together and directs them out the windows. He then turns a valve which pumps all the water out of the White House and raises it to the surface of the water. Mrs. President thanks Mario, but Princess Toadstool, Luigi and Toad come by in a rowboat to inform them that Bowser's loading up the Doom Ship to attack London, Paris, and even Brooklyn.

Mario and Luigi disguise themselves as Sledge Brothers and sneak aboard the Doom Ship, but their disguises do not fool the guards and they soon find themselves fleeing angry Sledge Brothers. After dodging their attacks, Mario, though, is still able to make it to the cockpit, while Luigi holds off the Sledge Brothers with a cannon.

As the brothers take control of the Doom Ship, Mario uses the Levitation Beam to send the White House back through the Warp Pipe, but he accidentally places it on top of the Washington Monument. Fortunately, Mario is able to correct this mistake, and places the White House back in its proper location.

Luigi telling Kootie Pie she is not the boss of America anymore.

Kootie Pie objects to the return of the White House, and Mario tells her to go home. Kootie Pie then throws a tantrum about her hating it when people tell her what to do, and Mario levitates her (mid-tantrum) back through the warp pipe to Kastle Koopa. Mario and Luigi return the Doom Ship to Kastle Koopa, and deliberately crash it, which angers King Koopa.

Kootie Pie then blames her father for letting the Mario Bros. spoil everything, but he finally gets fed up with her whining and commands her to do her chores as punishment for her behavior and treating him like a slave. Mario and his friends can hear them yelling from outside the castle, and Mario comments that King Koopa is finally giving Kootie Pie "the present she deserves."

Characters

• Mario
• Luigi
• Princess Toadstool
• Toad
• King Koopa
• Kootie Pie Koopa
• Mrs. President
• Mr. President
• Big Mouth Koopa
• Bully Koopa (no dialogue)
• Cheatsy Koopa (no dialogue)
• Kooky von Koopa (no dialogue)
• Hip Koopa (no dialogue)
• Hop Koopa (no dialogue)
• Sledge Brothers

Cast

• Walker Boone — Mario
• Tony Rosato — Luigi
• Tracey Moore — Princess Toadstool, First Lady
• John Stocker — Toad, Koopa Troopa, Fire Brother #1, Boomerang Brother #2
• Harvey Atkin — King Bowser Koopa, Fire Brother #2, Boomerang Brother #1, Koopa Troopa #2
• Gordon Masten — Big Mouth Koopa, Singer #1
• Dan Hennessey — Singer #2
• Paulina Gillis — Kootie Pie Koopa, Female singer
• Stuart Stone — Koopa Troopa #3, Singer #3

Other screenshots

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  King Koopa and Kootie Pie Koopa on Kootie Pie's 16th birthday.

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  Kootie Pie throwing a tantrum about America.

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  Chain Chomps capturing Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad.

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  The Doom Ship over the White House.

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  The Sledge Brothers preparing to shoot the White House with a traction beam.

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  Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad imprisoned.

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  Mrs. President panicked to see the building underwater.

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  Mario and Luigi disguised as Sledge Brothers.

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  The White House on top of the Washington Monument.

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  Mario about to send Kootie Pie Koopa back to Dark Land.

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  Mario sending Kootie Pie Koopa back to Dark Land.

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  Kootie Pie blaming King Koopa.

Animation and continuity errors

• After Kootie Pie kicks her cake out the window, she whines, but her mouth does not move.
• When King Koopa says that Kootie Pie should tell him what she actually wants for her birthday, one of his fangs is colored pink instead of white several times.
• After King Koopa tells Kootie Pie that America is in the real world, a white diamond-shaped mark appears behind him for a frame.
• After King Koopa agrees to get Kootie America, his eyes shift right a few times.
• In far shots inside Kastle Koopa, there are no ribbons on the streamers, but in closeup shots, some ribbons appear.
• When Mario and his friends are first shown, part of Princess Toadstool's hair overlaps her crown as she walks.
  • In the same scene, as Mario and his friends are walking, the background can be seen slowing down before it cuts to the next shot.
• The Doomship can be seen firing Bullet Bills at the heroes, but the next scene shows as if it is firing lasers instead.
• Princess Toadstool says she will stall the Koopas while her friends run away, but none of them do anything when they all had enough time to do something.
• When the Chain Chomps chomp Mario and his friends, the screen freezes.
  • In the same scene, the Chain Chomp biting Mario is biting his left foot, but when Luigi says that he and his friends are triple-guarded, it is biting his right.
• Before Toad turns his head to listen to Luigi's sorrow about their country, his vest is missing.
• As the Doomship exits the Warp Pipe to the real world, part of it sticks outside the pipe.
• When King tells the two Sledge Brothers to warp the White House back to Kastle Koopa, the Sledge Brothers' snouts are colored green instead of yellow.
• When King Koopa announces Kootie Pie's first press conference, a purple pipe can be seen in the background despite them being in the real world.
• Despite the White House being warped from its original location, it is still seen in the background for some scenes.
• When King Koopa tells the citizens to recite after him, part of his underbelly turns the same color as his body.
• In some scenes, the White House's flag is missing.
• When Luigi asks how they can help the US if they cannot help themselves, Mario and Toad are in front of Princess Toadstool, but in the next shot, they are behind her.
• During the scene where the Fire Bro becomes angry at the Boomerang Bro, the Chain Chomp on Princess Toadstool is missing.
• When Princess Toadstool asks a Fire Bro if it is going to allow a Boomerang Bro get away with hitting one of its comrades, its eyes are colored white instead of yellow.
• After Luigi holds up his chain, his eyes become the same color as Mario's.
• When Princess Toadstool tells her friends to head to where the fight is taking place, the Fire Bros' snouts are the same color as their bodies.
• When the Chain Chomp biting is detached from its chain, its eyes are colored white instead of yellow.
• The Chain Chomps are detached from their chains by the Fire Bros' fireballs and the Boomerang Bros' boomerangs but are later seen connected to the chains when Mario and his friends run.
• When Mario and his friends run to escape prison, a Boomerang Bro is frozen.
• When escaping, the order for jumping in the pipe is first Luigi, then Toad, and last Mario. When emerging from the pipe, the order is first Mario, then Luigi, and last Toad.
• Some close-up shots on the Doomship depict the wrong sky color instead of Dark Land’s sky color.
• In its initial appearance, the telescope on top of the Levitation Beam is blue, but when King Koopa says he finally found a gift that makes Kootie Pie happy, it turns pink.
  • In the same scene, King Koopa's pupils have their colors reversed.
• A Boss Bass is seen about to be crushed by the White House but disappears in the next shot.
• Princess Toadstool says America is sunk if the White House hits the bottom of Mushroom Sea, despite it already being at the bottom of the sea.
• When Mario says that the White House needs a super drain, his mouth does not move for the last word.
• The pipes are put outside the window to raise the White House back to the surface, but having the windows open would just bring in more water.
• When the White House begins to rise, the pipe on the left has its window closed.
• When the White House rises from the sea, the pipes on the sides disappear.
• When Mario's friends arrive at the White House after it rises from the sea, Luigi's leg is briefly colored purple like Toad's pants instead of green.
• After Mario takes the White House out of the water, Luigi says King Koopa is using the Doomship to attack Brooklyn, but since Brooklyn is in America, Kootie Pie had already conquered it.
• As the Sledge Bros. prepare the Doomship, the rims of their shells are incorrectly colored red for a brief moment before reverting back to the correct color.
• In several scenes while Mario and Luigi are in their disguises, their helmets are colored white instead of green.
• When Luigi asks if the disguises will allow him and Mario to board Koopa's Doomship, one of Mario's suspenders is missing.
• When Mario and Luigi are walking towards the Doomship, a frame of their walking animation is misaligned.
• When the Sledge Brother that spots the Mario Bros. stomps to create a earthquake, the screen does not shake to create the earthquake effect.
• Before Mario puts the White House back to where it belongs, a Fire Brother is giving Kootie Pie a pedicure, but in the next shot, it turns into a Boomerang Brother.
• When Mario pulls the lever, the screen shows a different shot of the next scene for a frame.
• In the closeup of Kootie Pie's face when she is getting a pedicure, her face turns completely brown. This also occurs when Mario warps Kootie back to Kastle Koopa, along with her shell's rim being pink instead of white.
• Throughout their appearance, the people taking autographs and photos from Kootie Pie change several times.
• Kootie Pie and the Boomerang Bro get crushed by the White House before they can move but Kootie Pie is shown to be perfectly fine in the next shot.
• When Luigi says that he and his brother brought the President back home so that Kootie Pie is not the ruler of the US anymore, his gloves turn the same color as his skin while the "L" on his cap is uncolored.
• When Kootie Pie calls the Mario Bros. "liars", one of the beads on her necklace flashes.
• After Mario lowers the ladder, it teleports back upward.
• When Kootie Pie whines about being told what to do, the bottom of her underbelly is her skin color.
• When Luigi compliments Mario’s crash landing, his sclerae briefly turn the color of his skin.
• When King Koopa tells Kootie Pie to stop whining, his spit briefly freezes in midair.
• When Mario and his friends watch Kastle Koopa shake, it is missing.
• In the Latin American Spanish dub, the United States of America is incorrectly referred to as North America.

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  The Sledge Brothers' miscolored snouts

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  Luigi's miscolored gloves

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  Kootie Pie's miscolored snout and shell

Profiles

King Koopa Katastrophe VHS/DVD: Kootie Pie hates her Birthday presents and decides to take over Real World America, while King Koopa warps the White House.

Dub edits

• In the French dub, when Kootie Pie whines about having the US for her birthday, she says "L'Amérique, l'Amérique, je veux l'avoir, et je l'aurai !". This is a reference to the song "L'Amérique" by Joe Dassin.
• The first German dub of the episode features a notable instance of harsh language in the franchise. When King Koopa announces to the Koopalings Kootie Pie's present, Big Mouth refers to Kootie as a schlampe, a crude term referring to a sexually-promiscuous woman.
• The Mushroom Sea is not referred to directly in the Latin American Spanish and Portuguese dub and the Castilian Spanish re-dub, being merely referred to as a "sea."
  • In the same scene in the Latin American Spanish, Portuguese, and original Castilian Spanish dubs, laughter is added after King Koopa mentions that he will drop the White House into the Mushroom Sea.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Chinese (simplified)	温蒂大闹美国 Wēndì Dà Nào Měiguó	Wendy Wreaks Havoc on the United States
Croatian	Gmizavci u vtru ruža	Reptiles in the Rose Garden
Dutch	Reptielen in de rozentuin	Reptiles in the Rose Garden
French	Serpents dans le jardin	Snakes in the garden
German	Die neue Präsidentin	The New President
Hungarian	Hüllők a rózsakertben	Reptiles in the Rose Garden
Italian	Rettili alla Casa Bianca	Reptiles at the White House
Polish	Gady w Ogrodzie Różanym	Reptiles in the Rose Garden
Portuguese (NOA)	Répteis ameaçam a Casa Branca	Reptiles threaten the White House	Herbert Richers dub
	Répteis na Casa Branca	Reptiles in the White House	BKS dub
	Répteis no Jardim das Rosas	Reptiles in the Rose Garden	Uniarthe dub
Romanian	Reptile în Grădina cu Trandafiri	Reptiles in the Rose Garden
Russian	Рептилии в Позовом Саду Reptilii v Pozovom Sadu	Reptiles in the Rose Garden
Spanish	Reptiles en el Jardín de las Rosas	Reptiles in the Rose Garden

Trivia

• Kootie Pie narrates the preview for this episode by saying, "King Dad gives me, Kootie Pie Koopa, the United States of America for my birthday. Only the Super Mario Bros. can stop me from ruining the whole country! Such spoilsports..."
• This episode, along with "Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas," are the only two episodes that use a different scene transition style, where some scenes transition with a pink border around it with no black screen appearing before fading to the next scene. This transition style does not appear in later episodes, likely due to these episodes being produced first.
  • Something to also note is that these episodes are the only episodes to have no drop shadow for the title card's text.
• Interestingly, this episode is the only episode to have a wipe transition for the curtain instead of the curtain being raised.
• In some areas, this episode aired with "Up, Up, and a Koopa" at least once due to technical difficulties with a Captain N: The Game Master episode.