Note that in this list, the titles of the animated segments are listed first, and the live-action segments' titles are listed second.
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| 1 | "'The Bird! The Bird! Neatness Counts'" |
September 4, 1989 | |
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Mario and Luigi get an obsession with neatness and demonstrate to Nicole Eggert how to unclog a sink. A Birdo mistakes Toad for her missing baby and kidnaps him, thus Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool must rescue him, while avoiding Koopa's attacks. Mario and Luigi have a bit of trouble trying to keep Nicole dry, neat and clean. |
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| 2 | "'King Mario of Cramalot Day of the Orphan'" |
September 5, 1989 | |
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A girl called Patty arrives at Mario and Luigi's claiming to be an orphan without a family or a place to go, so the plumbers invite her in for a stay. Mario becomes the King of Cramalot in order to drive out Koopa's forces. The Mario brothers are spoiling Patty, when her parents show up, ashamed that she's been taking the plumbers for granted, but they enjoy a family reunion. |
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| 3 | "'Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid All Steamed Up'" |
September 6, 1989 | |
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In the Wild West, Koopa has kidnapped Princess Toadstool, so Mario, Luigi and Toad try to rescue her. Sgt. Slaughter unleashes his wrath on Luigi when Luigi appears to be stalling taking his Steam-O-Matic back to his tank, unaware Mario's inside. The result of the machine shrinks Mario. |
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| 4 | "'Mario's Magic Carpet Marianne and Luigeena'" |
September 7, 1989 | |
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When Princess Toadstool winds up as the wench of an evil sultan, the Mario Bros. and Toad try to rescue her with the help of a bitter genie. Marianne and Luigeena come to visit after Mario accidentally blurts out Lyle Alzado is eating lunch with them. |
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| 5 | "'The Ringer Slime Busters'" |
September 8, 1989 | |
| 6 | "'Rolling Down the River The Mario Monster Mash'" |
September 11, 1989 | |
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Mario and Luigi help a certain Mark Twang win a riverboat race against Koopa. Dr. Frankenstein asks Mario and Luigi to help him with his experiment in promising his monster a normal brain. While laying down to take a nap, Mario gets caught up in the experiment and his brain gets switched with the monster's. |
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| 7 | "'The Great Gladiator Gig Bonkers from Yonkers'" |
September 12, 1989 | |
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Koopa hosts a fake spaghetti dinner to trap Princess Toadstool and Toad, then forces the Mario Bros. to fight backTryclyde. A bop on Mario's head giving him amnesia forces Luigi to call in Dr. Sigmund Fruitcake (Larry Gelman) for help. |
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| 8 | "'Mario and the Beanstalk Bats in the Basement'" |
September 13, 1989 | |
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Mario and Luigi trade Princess Toadstool's cow for garbanzo beans. The beans grow into a beanstalk, leading the group to a castle in the sky owned by a giant Koopa. A vampire (Jim Ward) arrives from Transylvania as a foreign exchange student. |
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| 9 | "'Love 'Em and Leave 'Em Will the Real Elvis Please Shut Up!'" |
September 14, 1989 | |
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When Mario and Co are imprisoned by the obnoxious Queen Rotunda, and after eating Mario's spicy ice cream, the queen accidentally drinks a love potion that makes her fall in love with Mario. While preparing for an Elvis look-alike contest, Mario and Luigi get a visit from the real Elvis (Fred Travalena). |
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| 10 | "'Cold Spells Magic's Magic'" |
September 15, 1989 | |
| 11 | "'The Great BMX Race Mama Mia Mario'" |
September 18, 1989 | |
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Mario and Luigi enter a BMX race against Mouser, Tryclyde and a Koopa Troopa so that they can win the prize money. Mario and Luigi's mother comes to visit and proves to be a bossy annoyance from start to finish, giving them chore after chore and calling them lazy before they even do some chores. Eventually she leaves after getting a phone call (which in reality was Luigi tricking her) that she won the lottery, but the next visitor proves to be just as bad: Mario and Luigi's Aunt Lugina. |
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| 12 | "'Stars in Their Eyes Alligator Dundee'" |
September 19, 1989 | |
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Mario's group must free the natives of the planet Quirk from being Koopa's slaves. Alligator Dundee hunts for an alligator that's stuck in Mario's basement, to the gator's dismay. |
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| 13 | "'Jungle Fever Dance'" |
September 20, 1989 | |
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While venturing through the Amazon Jungle to find a witch doctor, Mario, Luigi and Toad are hit with itching powder. As a birthday present from Mario, Luigi gets a free dance lesson from Shaba-Doo. |
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| 14 | "'Brooklyn Bound Cher's Poochie'" |
September 21, 1989 | |
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Mario and Luigi meet up with another lost plumber from Brooklyn, who offers them the chance to return home. Cher (Pam Matteson) asks Mario and Luigi to baby-sit her pooch. |
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| 15 | "'The White Knight Wild Thing'" |
September 22, 1989 | |
| 16 | "'Toad Warriors E.C. The Extra Creepy'" |
September 25, 1989 | |
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Koopa's road gang has stolen all the spaghetti sauce in Car Land, so Mario's group must work to get it back. Mario's dreamdate from a computer system turns out to be an alien (Claire Carey). |
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| 17 | "'The Fire of Hercufleas The Marios Fight Back'" |
September 26, 1989 | |
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Mario and Luigi retrain an out-of-shape hero so that he can reclaim the stolen Great Balls of Fire from Koopa. David Horowitz interviews the Mario Bros. on worldwide television after they claim their Mario Bros. Clog Cleaner can dissolve any clog in three minutes or less, but the result is a disaster. |
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| 18 | "'Count Koopula Magician'" |
September 27, 1989 | |
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Mario's group enter a castle in Turtlevania, where Koopa and his minions are all monsters. Magician Harry Blackstone Jr. visits Luigi. |
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| 19 | "'Pirates of Koopa Do You Believe in Magic?'" |
September 28, 1989 | |
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Koopa kidnaps Princess on the high seas so that he can auction her off. Mario, Luigi and Toad must pose as pirates to rescue her. Magic Johnson asks Luigi to repair one of his trophies. |
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| 20 | "'Kiss 'N Tell Mommies Curse'" |
September 29, 1989 | |
| 21 | "'Two Plumbers and a Baby Lost Dog'" |
October 2, 1989 | |
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Princess Toadstool falls into Koopa's Fountain of Youth and turns into a baby. Mario, Luigi and Toad must babysit her until they can get her back to normal. Pam Matteson arrives in tears after losing her dog and asks Mario and Luigi to help get it back. |
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| 22 | "'The Adventures of Sherlock Mario Plumbers of the Year'" |
October 3, 1989 | |
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Mario becomes a detective to find the missing Herlock Solmes, and to stop Koopa from flooding the city of Victoria. The Grand Pooba of Plumbing (Marty Allen) arrives to announce Mario and Luigi have been elected Plumbers of the Year, but leaks in the plumbing cause him to want to change his mind. |
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| 23 | "'Do You, Princess Toadstool, Take This Koopa...? Mario Hillbillies'" |
October 4, 1989 | |
| In order to free the Mario Bros. and the Mushroom People, Princess Toadstool agrees to marry Koopa, which would make him the legal ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom. | |||
| 24 | "'The Pied Koopa Super Plant'" |
October 5, 1989 | |
| Koopa uses a flute to lure all the children of Pastaland into his castle. | |||
| 25 | "'Sing for the Unicorn Fred Van Winkle'" |
October 6, 1989 | |
| 26 | "'Koopenstein Baby Mario Love'" |
October 9, 1989 | |
| Koopa tries to terrorize a mountain town with a robot monster, but winds up turning into a monster himself. | |||
| 27 | "'On Her Majesty's Sewer Service 9001: A Mario Odyssey'" |
October 10, 1989 | |
| Mario and Luigi become spies to save Secret Agent James Blonde from Koopa. | |||
| 28 | "'Mario and Joliet Fake Bro'" |
October 11, 1989 | |
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Romano and Joliet are unable to get married due to the feud going on between their fathers, which Koopa secretly started. A schemer (Vic Dunlop) in order to get rich quick pretends to be Mario and Luigi's missing brother. |
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| 29 | "'Too Hot to Handle Time Out Luigi'" |
October 12, 1989 | |
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Koopa and Fryguy use a fake volcano god to trick a tribe of islanders into sacrificing Princess. Luigi buys a watch that runs backwards from a mysterious salesperson. Soon, he does everything backwards, even eating. |
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| 30 | "'That Sinking Feeling Tutti Frutti, Oh Mario'" |
October 13, 1989 | |
| 31 | "'Hooded Robin and His Mario Men Flower Power'" |
October 16, 1989 | |
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Mario's group teams up with Hooded Robin to reclaim all the gold coins that Koopa stole from a village. A taste of spaghetti sauce with seeds in it causes Luigi to grow fruits and vegetables out of his body. |
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| 32 | "'20,000 Koopas Under the Sea Vampire Until Ready'" |
October 17, 1989 | |
| Koopa scares a seaside town into making him their ruler by using a mechanical sea monster to scare them. | |||
| 33 | "'Mighty McMario and the Pot of Gold Heart Throb'" |
October 18, 1989 | |
| Mario and Co must end a leprechaun's curse of bad luck by retrieving his pot of gold coins that was stolen by Koopa. | |||
| 34 | "'Mario Meets Koop-zilla Fortune Teller'" |
October 19, 1989 | |
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After eating Super Sushi, Koopa has grown enormous, and is terrorizing the city of Sayonara. Mario and Luigi, anxious to find out what prize they won in a sweepstakes, consult a fortune teller (Kay Ballard) for help. |
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| 35 | "'Doppelganger The Magic Love'" |
October 20, 1989 | |
| 36 | "'Koopa Klaus Little Marios'" |
October 23, 1989 | |
| Koopa kidnaps Santa Claus in order to ruin Christmas. | |||
| 37 | "'Mario and the Red Baron Koopa Gorilla My Dreams'" |
October 24, 1989 | |
| Mario and Luigi take to the skies to stop Koopa and Lakitu from taking over Pastaland. | |||
| 38 | "'The Unzappables George Washington Slept Here'" |
October 25, 1989 | |
| Koopa and his henchmen acquire special hats which render them invulnerable. | |||
| 39 | "'Bad Rap Caught in a Draft'" |
October 26, 1989 | |
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Koopa takes over Rapland and hypnotizes everyone into giving him their money. Mario and Luigi discover they've been drafted by the military. |
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| 40 | "'Underworld Connections Defective Gadgetry'" |
October 27, 1989 | |
| 41 | "'The Mark of Zero Toupee'" |
October 30, 1989 | |
| A Zorro-esque hero saves Mario's group from Koopa. Mario and Luigi then have to save the mysterious hero from Koopa themselves. | |||
| 42 | "'The Ten Koopmandments The Artist'" |
October 31, 1989 | |
| Koopa has turned almost everyone in Pyramid Land into bricks for his new Koopinx, so Mario's group must find a way to rescue them. | |||
| 43 | "'The Koopas Are Coming! The Koopas Are Coming! Zenned Out Mario'" |
November 1, 1989 | |
| Mario and Co help General Washingtoad free his Mushroom People from Koopa's Redcoats. | |||
| 44 | "'The Trojan Koopa Texas Tea'" |
November 2, 1989 | |
| When Mario, Luigi and Toad are unable to rescue Princess Toadstool from Koopa and the Hammer Brothers, they try to fool him with a Koopa-shaped Trojan Horse. | |||
| 45 | "'Stinging a Stinger The Great Hereafter'" |
November 3, 1989 | |
| 46 | "'Quest for Pizza The Painting'" |
November 6, 1989 | |
| When Mario gets bitten by a venomous snake in Cavemanland, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad learn that the only way to save him is to feed him a pizza, which they must make from scratch. | |||
| 47 | "'The Great Gold Coin Rush Game Show Host'" |
November 7, 1989 | |
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When Mario's group accidentally discovers a cavern full of gold coins, Koopa finds out and forces the local villagers and Toad to mine them all for himself. Game show host Jim Lange comes to visit. |
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| 48 | "'Elvin Lives Home Radio'" |
November 8, 1989 | |
| While trying to find the missing Elvin Parsley, Koopa kidnaps Princess Toadstool and forces her to be his girlfriend. | |||
| 49 | "'Plumbers Academy Glasnuts'" |
November 9, 1989 | |
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Mario retells the story of how he and Luigi became plumbers back in Brooklyn. Note- A police officer tells Mario and Luigi that the President of the US is meeting with the Head of Russia. Ironically, the day the episode aired was also the day the Berlin Wall fell. |
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| 50 | "'A Hitch in the Works Treasure of the Sierra Brooklyn'" |
November 10, 1989 | |
| 51 | "'Karate Koopa Adee Don't'" |
November 13, 1989 | |
| When Koopa kidnaps Princess Toadstool and Toad, Mario and Luigi turn to a karate master for help. | |||
| 52 | "'Mario of the Apes Chippie Chipmunks'" |
November 14, 1989 | |
| Mario suffers from amnersia, and is convinced by an ape couple that he is their child. | |||
| 53 | "'Princess, I Shrunk the Mario Brothers A Basement Divided'" |
November 15, 1989 | |
| A wizard's potion intended to shrink Koopa is spilled by Toad, and ends up shrinking the Mario Bros. | |||
| 54 | "'Little Red Riding Princess No Way to Treat a Queenie'" |
November 16, 1989 | |
| Princess Toadstool goes to visit her sick grandmother in the woods, and is pursued by both Koopa and the Big Bad Wolf. | |||
| 55 | "'Fairies in the Spring Pizza Crush'" |
November 17, 1989 | |
| 56 | "'The Provolone Ranger Goodbye Mr. Fish'" |
November 20, 1989 | |
| When Koopa kidnaps Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad in Sudden Death Valley, Mario becomes the Provolone Ranger in order to save them. | |||
| 57 | "'Escape from Koopatraz French'" |
November 21, 1989 | |
| Posing as a judge, Koopa sentences Mario and Co to the prison of Koopatraz, where he is also the warden. Toad also finds his long lost grandfather. | |||
| 58 | "'Mario of the Deep Two Bums from Brooklyn'" |
November 22, 1989 | |
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Mario's group tries to save Aqualand from Koopa's reign. Baseball manager Tummy Lasanga (a parody of Tommy Lasorda, played by Joe Bellan) arrives to sample Mario's meatballs for his restaurant and hires the Marios to sell peanuts at the ballpark. |
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| 59 | "'Flatbush Koopa Opera'" |
November 23, 1989 | |
| Mario and Luigi finally return to Brooklyn, only to learn that Koopa is taking over the city. | |||
| 60 | "'The Missing Link Tutti Frutti Mario'" |
November 24, 1989 | |
| Link becomes inivisible after a blow by Ganon. | |||
| 61 | "'Raiders of the Lost Mushroom Cyrano de Mario'" |
November 27, 1989 | |
| Mario and Co team up with the faceless Indiana Joe to try and recover a statue known as the Lost Mushroom. | |||
| 62 | "'Crocodile Mario Rowdy Roddy's Rotten Pipes'" |
November 28, 1989 | |
| When Koopa steals a town's magical statue that repels crocodiles, Mario and Luigi must retrieve it. | |||
| 63 | "'Star Koopa Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush'" |
November 29, 1989 | |
| Mario's group has to stop Koopa before he destroys the planet of a Mushroom space colony. Episode is based on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. | |||
| 64 | "'Robo Koopa Captain Lou is Missing'" |
November 30, 1989 | |
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Koopa uses a robo suit to kidnap Princess Toadstool and Toad. The suit's inventor then builds Mario and Luigi a suit of their own so they can fight Koopa. Cyndi Lauper, waiting to go on a picnic with Captain Lou Albano, gets a note from him with an important part of the note accidentally torn out. This leads her to think he dumped her, when in fact, he just went for some chicken. |
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| 65 | "'The Moblins are Revolting The Ghoul of My Dreams'" |
December 1, 1989 | |