The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! live-action segment
"Baby Mario Love"
Production number	134
Segment	26
Airdate	October 9, 1989[1]
Guest star(s)	Regina Williams
Title reference	"Baby Love"
Cartoon episode	"Koopenstein"
Zelda preview	"That Sinking Feeling"
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"Baby Mario Love" is the twenty-sixth live-action segment ofThe Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Its corresponding animated episode is "Koopenstein." This is the only live-action segment to feature a cover song; unlike other cover songs, it was not edited out in reruns, presumably because the segment centering around the song would not make sense without it.

Plot synopsis[edit]

InMario Brothers Plumbing,Mario, after refusing to take theRatagator for another "crawl", begins to talk toLuigi, saying that their lives are dull and lack "glamor, glitz, and a certainje ne sais pas". Luigi replies that he should not worry, as he never knows "when glamor will come knocking on the door". Just as Luigi says this, a knock at the door can be heard; opening the apartment door, Luigi nonchalantly exclaims that the queen of glitz and glamor,Susanna Ross, is there before slamming the door closed.

As he walks away from the door, Luigi suddenly realizes what he has done and quickly re-opens the door, apologizing to Susanna, who had her nose banged by the closing door. After she and the Mario Brothers exchange greetings, Susanna asks Mario and Luigi if they remember when they fixed her plumbing, which Mario and Luigi do remember, and goes on to remind Mario and Luigi that they promised they would be there for her in an emergency. Pulling her suitcase into the apartment, Susanna exclaims that she has such an emergency; her other band members missed their flights and, placing wigs on Mario and Luigi's heads, she needs them to fill in. Offering their help, Mario and Luigi attempt to demonstrate their singing ability, though their terrible singing is promptly stopped by Susanna, who says that the two can simply fake their singing.

Later, Mario and Luigi begin to get into the costumes and dresses Susanna has given them behind a curtain, though with significant difficulty, Mario trying to fit the dress over his overalls and Luigi putting his on backwards. Seeing Mario and Luigi flinging their clothes over the curtain concealing them, Susanna manages to coach Mario and Luigi into putting their clothes properly. Eventually, after tossing their boots over the curtain, Mario and Luigi announce that they are ready and go around the curtain, wearing dresses, high heels and wigs. Though Susanna believes her career to be over after seeing the brothers, Luigi defends how "nifty" he looks.

Taking their places on the raised portion of the apartment floor and setting the lights, Mario, Luigi, and Susanna begin to practice their performance, with Susanna singing the song "Baby Love" while Mario and Luigi act as backup dancers. At first, everything goes well, except for a small fight that occurs between Mario and Luigi, which is quickly stopped by Susanna. It is only when Susanna almost finishes singing the song that Luigi interrupts, saying that the dress he is wearing will not work for him, as it is the wrong color, which Mario agrees with. Susanna is left looking flustered as Luigi and Mario begin to point out various perceived flaws in their outfits.

Gallery[edit]

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  Title card

Characters[edit]

• Mario
• Luigi
• Susanna Ross
• Ratagator

Names in other languages[edit]

Notes[edit]

• When Shout! Factory releasedThe Super Mario Bros. Super Show! complete series on two DVD sets, four of the episodes were presented as "cartoon only" bonus episodes. The four missing "lost" live-action segments were: "Baby Mario Love", "9001: A Mario Odyssey", "Texas Tea" and "George Washington Slept Here". The first three were finally released on DVD in Australia. The six-disc set is a region-free NTSC format collection that contains 50 of the 52Super Mario episodes of the show. All episodes include the cartoon, live-action segments, andThe Legend of Zelda previews (noZelda preview for "Day of the Orphan"), but do not contain commercial bumpers. The missing episodes in this collection are "Rolling Down the River/The Mario Monster Mash" and "The Unzappables/George Washington Slept Here".^[4] All four of these "lost" episodes, including "George Washington Slept Here", are on a German DVD set, presented the same way as above, but without theZelda previews. They are presented with dual English and German audio on PAL format DVDs.^[5][6][7][8]

References[edit]

• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! live-action segments

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