Oh, Brother!

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode
"Oh, Brother!"
Production number	109
Airdate	October 13, 1990 (English) October 4, 1991 (French)[?]
Writer(s)	Perry Martin
Opening curtain	Pipe Land
Featured song	"Double Crossing" "Brotherly Love" (non-Italian versions)
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"Oh, Brother!" is the eleventh episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. It aired alongside another episode entitled "Misadventure of Mighty Plumber."

Plot synopsis

A rainstorm is taking place in the Mushroom Kingdom one night, and everyone is confined to their homes. Princess Toadstool, Toad, Mario, and Luigi are all inside Toad's house, where the Princess comments that it has been raining non-stop for two weeks while looking out the window.

Toad remarks that the storm going on outside is nothing compared to the one going on inside, and directs her to the Mario Bros. Luigi is trying to read a book, but he is unable to concentrate due to the music that Mario is dancing to. Luigi tells Mario to turn the volume on the record player down, but Mario does not comply, saying it is "hot." Fed up with Mario's music, Luigi pulls the record out of the player and throws it into the fireplace, melting it, while he sarcastically comments that "now it's even hotter."

Mario then yells at Luigi for burning his favorite record. Luigi responds by stating that he is making up for the time that Mario busted his favorite wrench. Luigi then pulls down Mario's hat and tugs his overall straps and mustache, aggravating Mario (who comments that he hates it when Luigi does that). Princess Toadstool and Toad tries to get them to make peace, but Mario and Luigi ignore them, continue to quarrel, and beat each other up.

Luigi, retorting Mario's comment about "wishing he never had a brother."

Mario exclaims he wishes that he did not even have a brother, and Luigi, in response, says that Mario can consider himself "debrotherized" as he walks outside, bidding his "ex-brother" farewell. Princess Toadstool tells Luigi to take a Frog Suit for the rain, but Luigi refuses to take one, and walks off. When Princess Toadstool mentions that someone should go after Luigi, Mario agrees and goes, despite the fight he just had. Princess Toadstool tells Mario to take a Frog Suit as well, but he too declines the suggestion.

Meanwhile, Kooky von Koopa is giving King Koopa an explanation of his new invention: The Power Shower. The Power Shower forces rain down upon the Mushroom Kingdom, where it falls through a Warp Pipe into the Pipe World, flushing all the loose Gold Coins through the pipes and into a basin in an underground dungeon. However, a pipe in the dungeon that is connected to the Power Shower bursts, and water starts flooding the dungeon. When Kooky explains that he is unable to fix a leaking pipe, Koopa sends for either of the Mario Bros.

Luigi, after pulling on Mario's overalls a second time.

Back in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario catches up with Luigi, but the two brothers are still mad at each other. Luigi pulls on Mario's hat, overalls and mustache again, and Mario tells him to knock it off. Unknown to them, Kooky is spying on them from the dungeon through his Koopascope. Kooky asks King Koopa which Mario brother they should "Koopnap", and Koopa resorts to a game of eeny-meeny-miny-moe with Mario and Luigi's pictures on dartboards, ultimately picking Mario.

Kooky announces that he will catch Mario with his Plumber Pole, and casts the pole up the pipe that the Koopascope was in. The end of the line comes out of the pipe near Mario and Luigi, and hooks Mario by his overall strap. Pulling back on the Plumber Pole, Kooky pulls Mario back through the pipe, through the Pipe World, and into the dungeon, where a pair of Hammer Bros. apprehend him.

Luigi swimming his way to Koopa's underground dungeon, donning his frog suit.

After being tied up, Mario tells King Koopa that he will never fix his plumbing, but Kooky explains to Mario that they have the power to make him do whatever they want with his latest invention: The Lame Brainer. Upon placing the Lame Brainer on Mario's head, Mario's mind and voice become drone-like, and he tells the Koopas that he will do anything they say. Kooky puts Mario to the test by offering him a plate of pasta. Although Mario says he loves pasta, Kooky tells him that he actually hates it, and Mario then declines it in disgust. Koopa then has Kooky order Mario to fix the leak.

Meanwhile, Luigi realizes that he must save Mario, and jumps into the Warp Pipe that Mario was pulled through, taking him to a flooded section of the Pipe World, where a Boss Bass chases after him. Luigi returns to Toad's House, and without saying a word to either Princess Toadstool or Toad, puts on a Frog Suit, becoming Frog Luigi. Luigi then returns to the Pipe World.

Mario facing off against his former brother.

While swimming through the Pipe World, Frog Luigi easily swims past the Boss Bass that had chased him earlier. A Lava Lotus goes ballistic while attacking Luigi, but Luigi manages to dodge it as well. A Blooper Nanny and her babies come out of a pipe and chase after Luigi as well. Luigi opens up a vault which he enters, and the Bloopers follow him. Luigi quickly swims out of the vault, locks the Bloopers in and continues onwards to rescue Mario.

Back in the dungeon, Mario finishes patching up the leak in the Power Shower pipe, pleasing King Koopa and Kooky. Just as the Koopas rejoice, Luigi comes out of the pipe over the basin that is holding the collected coins. Luigi asks the Koopas what they have done with Mario, and Kooky explains that they have turned him into their slave. With Mario under their control, Koopa orders him to attack his brother. Mario, having no free thought, is forced to obey Koopa's orders, and prepares to smack Luigi with his wrench.

Luigi trying to remind Mario about past events.

Luigi hops back as Mario attempts to smack him, and tries to tell Mario to come to his senses. Mario does not listen, and tries to hit Luigi, who is too fast for him. Luigi tries to remind Mario of their previous experiences, including their childhoods and many plumbing jobs, as well as the time he lent Mario his screwdriver when Mario lost his own, but nothing works.

Luigi concludes that he needs to try another approach to reach Mario, and does this by pulling on the Lame Brainer, Mario's overalls, and his mustache. Mario tells Luigi that he hates it when he does that, but under his own control. Mario's thoughts overload the Lame Brainer, which goes flying off of his head, and onto Kooky's. With Mario back to normal, Luigi makes up with him. Mario then goes up to Kooky, and with the help of the Lame Brainer, orders him to attack Koopa. Unable to think for himself, Kooky chases after Koopa, who is unable to stop him. As Kooky chases him upstairs, Mario and Luigi congratulate each other.

Mario, insisting that the argument was all his fault.

Back in the Mushroom Kingdom the next day, the rain has finally stopped. At Toad's house, Princess Toadstool thanks Mario and Luigi for dismantling the Power Shower, and for returning the coins to the Pipe World. Luigi then tells Princess Toadstool and Toad that he and Mario will never fight again.

Mario confesses that their argument was all his own fault, but Luigi corrects him, stating that it was his own fault. Mario and Luigi then start fighting with each other again, and Luigi tugs on Mario's hat, overalls and mustache once again. Mario then comments to the audience, "brothers, you can't live with them... you can't live without them" while smiling sheepishly.

Quotes

• "Two straight weeks of rain! Ah, the Mushroom Kingdom is gonna float away if this doesn't stop soon!" - Princess Toadstool
• '"There! Now it's even hotter!" - Luigi
• "Ooooooh, I hate it when you do that!" - Mario
• "Hey, guys! Chill out, will ya? It's being cooped up that's making ya crazy!" - Toad
• "Luigi, it's really wet out here. You better take your Frog Suit." - Princess Toadstool
• "I'm a mad genius, not a plumber!" - Kooky von Koopa
• "Ooooooh, how many times do I have to tell you not to do that?!" - Mario
• "I've got the Mario Brothers on the Koopascope, King Dad! How should we decide which one to Koop now? Uh, flip a gold coin?" - Kooky von Koopa
• "I don't NEED a Frog Suit!" - Luigi
• "And now a big jerk for that big plumber jerk!" - Kooky von Koopa
• "Kooky, you're so bad I'm proud to be your dad!" - Bowser
• "Koopmasters, your wish is my command!" - Mario
• "Oh, I hate it when my tootsie-wootsies get wet!" - Bowser
• "It's Luigi! What's that clog-clearing clodhopper doing here?" - Bowser
• "Wait, Mario, stop! Don't you know who I am? It's Luigi!" - Luigi
• "Mario, think of all the fun we had as kids! All the drains we've unclogged! Remember the time you lost your favorite screwdriver and I gave you one of mine?!" - Luigi
• "Fine as a new faucet thanks to you, brother! Glad to see you took my advice on wearing a Frog Suit!" - Mario
• "Your wish is my command, Mario Masters!" - Kooky von Koopa
• "Kooky! What are you doing? I'm your dear old King Dad!" - Bowser
• "Thanks to you, Mario and Luigi, the Power Shower has been dismantled, and all the gold coins have been returned to the Pipe World where they belong!" - Princess Toadstool
• "Oh, brother!" - Princess Toadstool and Toad
• "Brothers... Ya can't live with 'em, ya can't live without 'em!" - Mario

Cast

• Walker Boone — Mario
• Tony Rosato — Luigi
• Tracey Moore — Princess Toadstool
• John Stocker — Toad
• Harvey Atkin — King Bowser Koopa
• Michael Stark — Kooky von Koopa

Animation and continuity errors

• The opening title screen used for this episode is Pipe Land, but the Grass Land music is played with it.
• At the beginning of the episode, Toad's house is colored purple instead of orange.
  • At the end of the episode, it is colored pink instead of orange.
• In several scenes, the fireplace in Toad's house is frozen.
• When Toad tries to stop Mario and Luigi's argument, Princess Toadstool is floating in midair.
• When Mario says, "Brothers are all good-for-nothing!", his mouth does not move.
• When Mario says he wishes he did not have a brother, the screen shakes.
  • In the same scene, Mario is on the left and Luigi is on the right. But after the thunderstorm shot, Luigi is on the left and Mario is on the right.
• When Princess Toadstool says that it is raining, Toad's cap has its shadowing reversed.
• When Luigi exits Toad's house, the doorknob is missing.
• When the clouds roll in after Luigi walks out the door, he is missing.
• After the clouds roll in, Luigi is shown sad instead of angry in the next shot.
• When Kooky starts hopping, the rim of King Koopa's shell changes to the color of his body for a brief moment.
• Whenever the broken Power Shower pipe is shown, part of it flashes.
• When Luigi starts pulling down on Mario's cap the second time, Mario's pupil disappears and his eyebrow is uncolored for a frame.
• When Mario scolds Luigi for pulling on his cap, mustache, and overalls the second time, his cap's brim turns white a frame before it changes to the next scene.
• When Mario and Luigi are on the Koopascope, both of them are frozen until the crosshair stays on them. When they start arguing, Mario eventually freezes again.
• In its first appearance, the crank on Kooky's Plumber Pole is on the left of the reel, but when he reels Mario into the dungeon, it is on the right.
• In some scenes, Kooky's head is orange instead of green. It is also briefly colored cream like his snout when he places the Lame Brainer on Mario.
• When Mario and Luigi are shown arguing in the rain a second time, Luigi is frozen for a moment and eventually Mario freezes.
  • In the same scene, Mario freezes while Luigi keeps moving as if Luigi is scolding Mario with Mario's voice.
• When Mario is pulled into Kastle Koopa's dungeon, he and the line appear from thin air several times.
• When Mario is pulled into Pipe Land, his left suspender is transparent.
• When Mario is being pulled into the orange Warp Pipe, the line disappears for a second before reappearing.
• After Kooky says that Mario is his and King Koopa's prisoner, the Hammer Bros' heads are cream-colored instead of orange.
• When Kooky and King Koopa are laughing, the Hammer Bros. are missing.
• When Mario is tied up by Koopa and Kooky, the ropes are brown, but when he is mind-controlled, they are purple.
• When Mario tells King Koopa and Kooky to fix their own plumbing, his mouth does not move.
• When Kooky explains the Lame Brainer to Mario, he raises it above his own head, but in the next shot, he raises it again.
• When Kooky starts to put the Lame Brainer on Mario's head, Mario's gloves are red. Shortly after, they turn white for a brief moment before turning red again.
  • In the same scene, part of the Lame Brainer flashes, and shortly after, when Mario is mind-controlled, his teeth are the same color as his skin.
• Mario refers to Kooky as "Koopa" when the latter places the Lame Brainer on the former.
• In several scenes, the mind-controlled Mario's eyes appear normal instead of red. This also happens to Kooky when he says, "smash, crush, pound, destroy!"
  • On a similar note, when the mind-controlled Mario approaches Luigi, the lights on the Lame Brainer do not flash red. This also occurs when Luigi first dodges one his attacks, and with Kooky when he chases King Koopa.
• When King Koopa tells Kooky to put Mario to "the ultimate test", the full P-Meter sound plays before Kooky runs.
  • In the same scene, Kooky does not get to run completely off-screen yet he somehow manages to get the pasta in almost less of a second.
• When Kooky tests the pasta on Mario, his hair flashes.
• When Mario says that he is starving, the pasta is in front of him has meatballs, but in the next shot, the meatballs disappear.
• When Mario says "Yuck!", part of Kooky's head is the same color as his hair.
• In one scene, one of King Koopa's shell spikes is on the shell's rim.
• When Luigi is saying that he has to same his brother, his mouth doesn't move.
• When Luigi is about to jump into the Warp Pipe to Pipe Land, he says Mario told him to wear a Frog Suit, but it was actually Princess Toadstool. Mario later repeats this error after Luigi asks if he is alright.
• When Luigi enters Toad's house to get his Frog Suit, Toad is drawn with sclerae.
  • In the same scene, he has a book, but when Luigi leaves a room with his Frog Suit, the book disappears.
• When Princess Toadstool and Toad notice Luigi getting his Frog Suit, it is sunny instead of rainy.
• When Mario says that the leak is fixed, he is holding a wrench, but when Luigi appears in the dungeon, he is holding a plunger instead. This also occurs when King Koopa commands him to attack Luigi.
• When King Koopa notices Luigi, his snout flashes.
• When King Koopa walks towards Mario, he faces right, but in the next shot, he faces left.
• When Mario says that he will get Luigi, his eyebrows are missing.
• When Luigi tries to help Mario remember who he is, Mario's shirt is colored red like his overalls instead of blue.
• When Luigi pulls on Mario's mustache and overalls, the Lame Brainer covers Mario's eyes in the next shot despite Luigi not pulling it over his eyes.
• When the Lame Brainer pops off of Mario's head, the emblem on his cap is missing. This also occurs with Luigi when he pulls Mario's cap, overalls, and mustache a final time.
  • In the same scene, the wrench he was holding disappears.
• When the Lame Brainer falls onto Kooky's head, the rim of his shell disappears for a second.
• When Luigi asks if Mario is alright, Mario's hair is black instead of brown. This also occurs when he says that it was his fault for starting the fight.
  • In the same scene, Luigi touches Mario repeatedly, and shortly afterward, the eyes on his Frog Suit are white instead of yellow.
• When Mario tells Kooky what to do, he appears out of thin air.
• When Kooky says that the Mario Bros. are his masters, his shell is white instead of green.
• When Kooky is chasing King Koopa, the Mario Bros. are only looking to their left instead of constantly turning to watch Kooky chase King Koopa.
• When King Koopa is running up the stairs, half of his right arm is missing for a few frames.
• After Kooky chases King Koopa, Luigi has a line by his eye for a brief moment.
• When Luigi says that he and Mario agreed to not fight again, Mario's eyes are green like Luigi's instead of blue for a brief moment.
• In the Italian dub, the instrumental of "Double Crossing" is used instead of the instrumental of "Brotherly Love."

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  Toad's miscolored cap

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  The Hammer Brothers' miscolored heads

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  The Frog Suit's miscolored eyes

Dub edits

• Luigi's comment on Mario being "caught like a catfish" is changed to simply "fish" in the Spanish dubs.
  • In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, this is not mentioned at all.
• Like in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Mario's Magic Carpet," the Latin American dub changes "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" to "Tin marín de dos pingüé."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Chinese (simplified)	噢、兄弟！ Ō 、 Xiōngdì！	Oh, Brother!
Dutch	Oh, Broer!	Oh, Brother!
French	L'amour fraternel	Brotherly love
German	Regentage	Rainy Days
Italian	Oh, fratello!	Oh, Brother!
Korean	형제의 사랑 Hyeongjeui Sarang	Brotherly Love
Polish	Oj, braktu!	Oh, brother!
Portuguese (NOA)	Brigas de Irmãos	Sibling Fights	TV dub
	Ah, Irmão!	Oh, Brother!	DVD dub
Romanian	Oh, frate!	Oh, brother!
Spanish	Que Hermano	What Brother
Spanish (NOE)	¡Jo, hermano!	Oh, brother!	original dub

Trivia

• This is one of the two episodes where the Grass Land theme is played with a down-tempo mix, the other being "Kootie Pie Rocks."
• The song on the record Mario listens to at the beginning of the episode is an instrumental of "Double Crossing" from the later episode "Crimes R Us."
• Luigi pulling on Mario's cap, shirt, and mustache is a running gag in the episode.