List of references in live-action television
For television shows staring Mario, please visit the TV & Movies page.
This list is incomplete. You can help the Super Mario Wiki by adding more sightings!
Arthur
In the "A Word From Us Kids" segment for the episode "Arthur's Dummy Disaster", a certain child has a dummy which he calls "Mario". He describes the dummy, which is quite obviously a crudely drawn Mario, as being very athletic.
Also, the episode "Meek For a Week" features a heart-shaped watch known as the "Princess Peach Watch". Despite its name, though, it has nothing to do with Princess Toadstool; the names of the watch and princess may be coincidental.
Boy Meets World
Mr. Feenie talks about how technology is wasted and mentions how it's used to beat Super Mario Bros..
Cartoon Fridays
In one of the ads for Cartoon Friday on Cartoon Network, Mac (from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) runs along a Mario like level.
Drake & Josh
In the episode "The Bet", several implications are made that the game that Josh is playing is a Super Mario Bros.-like level, most notably Drake's telling Josh to "jump the mushroom."
GoTV
GoTV, a service that lets people watch shows on their cell phones, had a series of shows about the New Super Mario Bros. They showed one weekly for four weeks.
- May 15, 2006 - Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto
- May 22, 2006 - Review of the New Super Mario Bros.
- May 29, 2006 - Interview with Mario
- June 5, 2006 - Nintendo DS Lite preview
E3
An interview conducted for E3 (Youtube)
El Tigre
In the El Tigre episode Mother of All Tigres, at the end, they show two plumbers dressed in red and green with M's on thier hats. They then shout "It's the zombie plumbers", which might be Wario and Waluigi, since one of them has a W on his shirt.
Kappa Mikey
In an episode, the Lilli Mu company gets their own game which is a spoof of the game Donkey Kong. In it, Gonard is Cranky Kong, Lilli is Pauline and Mikey is Mario.
Robot Chicken
On a certain epsiode of Robot Chicken, they show the characters from Halo beating up Mario and Donkey Kong. They still rescue Pauline.
One of the segments featured a parody of the "Fast and the Furious" movie trilogy. Competing in the segments street race are Mario, Luigi and Wario along with several other pop-culture icons. Despite cheating by using the "blue tortoise shell" of the Mario Kart series, the bros. and Wario still lose.
Another segment features Mario and Luigi going on a series of misadventures in Vice City, which is featured prominently in the Grand Theft Auto video game series. After committing several crimes such as animal abuse(killing a turtle that looked like a koopa), destruction of property, hit and run and possession of illegal substance(origionaly thought it was a mushroom), Luigi ends up being killed by being shot multiple times by the police and Mario gets blown up by the military.
The short ends with Yoshi going down the same road the bros. did but instead going left at the fork in the road. He ends up in Raccoon City, the setting of various Resident Evil games. While driving through the destroyed city, Yoshi ends up being decapitated by several zombies.
Spider-Man
In one episode of the new animated Spider-Man TV show, you could see a person playing what seemed to be a handheld video game. While he was playing, you were able to hear both the Mario jump sound and coin collect sound from Super Mario Bros. on the NES.
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go
In one episode, one monkey gets a hologram thing and turns one guy into Mario from Super Mario Bros., Link from The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong from Donkey Kong.
The Red Green Show
The "Adventures with Bill" segment from the episode where the lodge members attempt at converting their excess grapes into wine features Bill and his comrades trying to fix a roof. During their capers, Bill begins to climb up a ladderway not unlike the girders of Donkey Kong and Dalton ends up knocking several metal canisters down the staircase, resulting in a Donkey Kong parody as Bill climbs to the roof. As he sees this, Red exclaims, "Hey! Super Mario Brothers!", using the common Canadian pronunciation of "Mario".
The Simpsons
Mario, Luigi, and Donkey Kong, as well as Sonic, try to convince Bart to steal a video game in the episode "Marge Not Be Proud". In another episode, Mario talks to Homer, who throws trash cans at him in reference to Donkey Kong.
The Sopranos
In one episode, AJ is seen playing Mario Kart 64.
Two Pints of Lager And a Packet of Crisps
In one episode, Gaz is seen trying to help his brother Munch know what is real and what is not real, at one point, Munch says "Not even the Super Mario Brothers?" and Gaz replies "Well okay, that's real!"
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
In one of the games, Wayne Brady had to make up a song based on a random person's profession. During one episode, a videogame reviewer from The Daily Radar was chosen. Both Mario and Donkey Kong were mentioned.
