The Koopas are Coming! The Koopas are Coming!
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Template:SMBSSbox "The Koopas Are Coming! The Koopas Are Coming!" is an episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. During the cartoon segment of the episode, the four companions met General George Washingtoad and his army. Also, Mario and Co. need to stop King Koopa from freezing everyone and taking over.
Summary
Mario and have been called to help General George Washingtoad battle Redcoat Koopa, who then arrives at the camp and uses the Ice Scepter to freeze the Revolutionary army. After Mario uses a Fire Flower to defrost them, Luigi is sent to warn the Toads of the Koopa attack. However, he is captured en route and Readcoat Koopa demands that Mario surrenders. In order to rescue Luigi, Mario decides to attack Koopa's camp from behind, but in order to do this, he must cross the Delawide river, a feat never done before in the winter. In the end, Mario crosses the river and attacks, capturing the Ice Scepter and defeating the Koopas.
Cast
- Lou Albano — Mario
- Danny Wells — Luigi
- Jeannie Elias — Princess Toadstool
- John Stocker — Toad, General George Washingtoad, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Troopa #2, Beezos, snow creature, citizen #1
- Harvey Atkin — King Bowser Koopa, citizen #2, citizen #3
Trivia
- Oddly, each one of the two phrases The Koopas are Coming! from the title are enclosed in quotation marks separately.
- The title of this episode is clearly a spoof of Paul Revere's midnight ride, where he erroneously called, "The British are coming! The British are coming!"
- This episode is briefly referenced in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 's episode Reptiles in the Rose Garden. After King Koopa tells the Chain Chomps to take Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad to his dungeon, Luigi says, "Now our poor home country. We can't even tell them the Koopas are coming!"
- This is the only episode with a cover song by a female.
- This episode is based on the Revolutionary War fought between the Thirteen Colonies that would later become the United States of America and England.
- Yankee Doodle, a folk song that would become known as a rallying song for the Continental Army.
- The Plumber's Log is numbered as 1776, the year the Declaration of Independencewas signed, recognizing the United States as a country.
- George Washingtoad is stationed in Valley Forge, a forge in Pennsylvania where George Washington and the Continental Army spent the Winter of 1775 before later launching an attack on Hessian forces in Trenton, Delaware, on Christmas Morning.
- This same detail is carried over with the crossing of the Delawide River, itself based on the crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas Eve, 1775. The placement in said scene is based on the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.
- Luigi's mention of Koopa's dumping tea in the harbor is a reference to the Boston Tea Parrty, where the Sons of Liberty snuck onto a British trading ship and dumped crates of tea into Boston Harbor.
- Luigi also recreates the aforementioned midnight ride.
- Washingtoad's army is referred to as Minutemen, guerilla fighters in the Continental army.
- The line of "Give us Koopa, or give us Death" is based on Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
- Mario, Luigi, and Toad's positions and instruments at the end of the episode are based on the painting The Spirit of '76, which was painted to commemorate the centenial celebration of America's independence.
