I could've sworn there used to be a period where DiC's Mario cartoons were near-unanimously seen as "cringey" and only good for YouTube Poop material, but in recent years, I've been seeing more people online who seem to genuinely enjoy their take on the Mario franchise. Did the cartoons always have a strong fan following, or is this only a recent phenomenon?
Ah frick you Luigi.
Ah put ya penis in my ass Luigi.
recent phenomenon, people are talking about them due to sheer peer conformity centered around streamers and YouTubers who allege to like them unironically
As millenials grow older, they get more close-minded and cling to things they grew up with, even ones that were considered garbage for years
See:
>The prequel trilogy
>Batman and Robin
>Daredevil 2004
>Clone Saga
A few years ago I already saw zoomers talking about how great and magical the Breadwinners or whatever was back in their day. Gen alpha is gonna treat the Emoji Movie and Suicide Squad like iconic masterpieces.
As people grow older, they stop consuming new childish things in general since they aren't kids anymore. When they want that nostalgic buzz, it's only natural for them to gravitate towards the things they're actually nostalgic for. It would be weird if this were not the case.
It's because in all these cases we're far removed from any perceived damage they caused, or other things came out which were worse
>prequel trilogy
this is partly kids who grew up with that (and the supplemental stuff like Clone Wars or the books or games) and also from the loss of credibility of people who trashed the prequel trilogy while thinking Disney's sequels were better
>Daredevil 2004
I was already seeing pro-Daredevil 2004 posts as far back as either the late 00s or early 10s, most of it centered around the director's cut
>Batman and Robin
The fanbase around this was ironic first but I think became more sincere the more serious Nolan and Snyder's takes on Batman got
>Clone Saga
this was a thing Wizard and Quesada-era Marvel regularly trashed for jokes, and had so many bad decisions that led to most of the readership bailing. But Wizard's dead and Quesada-era and post-Quesada era Marvel ended up producing way worse Spider-Man stories and now people are starting to realize it
Those things were campy/bad but in an earnest way. They're praised because at least they weren't woke/subversive/hateful unlike modern media
Good point. It's tough to find modern stuff that isn't like that.
Ever since Disney put the new Haunted Mansion movie into development, I keep seeing more and more zoomers proclaiming the shitty Eddie Murphy version as some kind of forgotten Halloween classic.
Come on Luigi, letsa do some mutual masterbation
mama mia! but first lets do it to the south park kids. my favorite one is stan.
YAHOOOO!!!! then we do it to Peter from family guy and also Stewie
The cartoon was mediocre, but what really hooked me was the live action segments. Those were the best of the best, cheese done right.
Shame that both Mario and Luigi's actors in those are now gone.
Lou gave some of the best line reads as Mario live or animated, and he got along great with the other guy. They probably coulda put on their own show they played off each other so well.
Open ya mouth Luigi, here comes load-YAHOOOOOOOOooooo
I liked them as a kid. Not the best cartoons looking at them objectively, but they were fun enough as a game obsessed kid. I also enjoyed the Sonic cartoons.
The live action segments are cool too.
It's nostalgia I guess.
I always liked them as that's what I had when I was a kid.
Back then I thought it was at least passable, always loved the live action part, though.
I've always loved the Super Show.
Yeah, it was 1999-2010 or so.
Super Show was hit or miss mostly. My favorite was the Mario 3 show, I never stopped liking that.
Hi zoomer.
what?
>only good for YouTube Poop material
It's possible that, barring the Mama Luigi meme (which came from the Super Mario World cartoon, which was an inferior spinoff), you may be confusing the Super Mario Bros. Super Show with the CDi games and their FMV sequences. I could be mistaken, though.
>The live action movie has been shunned by NoA and NCL and hasn't seen a proper re-release, likely due to Disney technically owning it
>Super Mario-kun, the only ongoing Mario comic, was deemed so vulgar for American audiences that it wouldn't see a proper localization until 2020, and even then that's only in the form of a compliation volume
>NCL rejected Archie's pitch for a Mario comic
>It took nearly a decade for an animated Mario movie to get made
>All while this was going on (the late 2000s and all of the 2010s) none of Nintendo's branches ever ordered the DiC cartoons to cease distribution, and an new entire generation of kids (or teo) grew up with these offbeat and often crudely made yet STILL officially endorsed cartoons starring the highly-revered mascot to one of video gaming's most protective companies thanks to low-budget DVDs and YouTube uploads
>Captain Lou and Danny just having fun for the kids with whatever celebrities DiC can reasonably afford on their shoestring budget
Club Mario can suck my ass.
if you read between the lines in some of the behind the scenes material Captain Lou and Danny seems to have just improved and riffed off the guests a lot (especially fitting for Lou with his pro wrestling background), it's campy and misses the mark plenty of times, but I like how you can at least tell people seemed to have a fun time on the set
Te short run Valiant comic from 1990 was okay. It was more jokes and gags than anything else, but it did a much better job of portraying the games than the Super Show.
I liked a lot of the mario comics from Nintendo Power in the snes era, like 1993-94. They should have done more of that. Too bad Mario media has been incredibly rare since the early 90s DiC cartoon era.
>Super Mario-kun, the only ongoing Mario comic, was deemed so vulgar for American audiences that it wouldn't see a proper localization until 2020, and even then that's only in the form of a compliation volume
and that's just one of the many, many Mario manga, none of which have gotten official translations and barely any scanlations.
I checked it out myself a while ago. It has its charm and funny moments but the pacing kinda kills it. Definitely because I'm used to a different era of TV but still. It's more of a novelty than anything else. Now the Mario 3 cartoon on the other hand, I'm gonna give that a pass because I love the Koopa kids.
Watching the show back to back is super fricking tedious, but just filtering out the fun bits of Lou Albano having a good time playing mario and the few chuckleworthy jokes are quite enjoyable, it's a charismatic show for a syndicated DiC cartoon I'll give it that
If you do drugs you go to hell before you die
Mario will personally make your life a living hell if you do drugs
If you do drugs, Mario will put upside-down crosses on your grave to ensure that you're burning in hell
As someone who saw a lot of his wrestling friends destroy themselves with drugs, Lou knew this for a fact.
Inversely, Satam's reputation seems to get worse and worse.
It's an old cartoon that has a weird diehard audience in a lot of people's eyes, young people now grew up on more happy go lucky sonic games and robotnik saying pingas in youtube poops so SATAM looks like weird edgy fanfiction in comparison
Satam's reputation getting worse is effectively the result of people recognizing it as the source of the broader franchise's "We need to pander to chuuni furries" rot.
super show was always considered kino (or at the very least decent/passable).
mario 3 and world have a very noticable decline in quality and have always been considered garbage
AoSMB3 at least had some neat episode premises and even some of the Koopa Kid banter was fun
But yeah frick raspy-voiced Yoshi and Oogtar
Zoomer here.
the aesthetic and the artstyle are charming and i like the voices and the theme song.
the plots themselves, however. suck.
I like Lou's New York scruffy accent a whle lot better than the official Nintendo high pitched Chef Boyardee wahoo one.