The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

That's a throwback to their podcast.

That's an episode of the Mario Super Show, where an insane asylum patient thought she was the Queen of England.

And then she

was kidnapped by a tyrannical.

Yes.

Um, Patrick Anderson says the Super Mario Brothers Super Show with the wrestler dude as Mario DiTullio.

Yeah, is that the one where the live action Mario and Luigi at the beginning, and then it would cut to a cartoon? 'Cause I do remember watching that.

Oh, I have a vague memory of that.

Absolutely.

One night, coming season seven of the Super Mario Show.

[laughs] Um, all right, uh, Seinfeld.

Uh, what should we do next? Should, should we go to Friends or no? Or Frasier or what?

In 2007, Keeping Up With The Kardashians premiered on E! In 2009, Captain Lou Albano, known for his role as a wrestler and pop culture personality, passed away.

He appeared in Cyndi Lauper videos, and he also played Mario on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.

In 2011, after 27 years of marriage, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth announced that they were breaking up.

And in 2005, uh, 25, rather, 2025...

So it was, like, pretty obvious by the early 1990s that video games were here to stay, thanks in large part to the proliferation of home consoles, and there was clearly an audience for entertainment based on video games.

Like, there were several shows in the '80s based on video games, starting with Pac-Man at the very start of the decade, and the best known of these, however, is probably the Super Mario Brothers Super Show, which debuted in the late '80s.

It had incredible ratings when it premiered, but then the viewership fell off.

It was facing competition from, like, Muppet Babies reruns not long after.

He also featured in several of Cyndi Lauper's music videos as her father for songs such as Girls Just Want to Have Fun.

He was also a major part of the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection, and for a whole generation of kids, he became even more recognizable as the live action inspiration for Mario in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.

Albano was inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996, leaving behind a legacy that went far beyond professional wrestling, and honestly, Captain Lou is one of those performers, one of those wrestling personalities who somehow became part of pop culture in a way you just do not see anymore.

Rest in peace, Captain Lou Albano.

I really like bad shows.

So I have been watching the, uh, Super Mario Bros. Super Show and also The Legend of Zelda cartoon from the '80s.

Late '80s, early '90s.

I'm not positive.

But again, you have to set yourself back in those days where video games were not seen.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show had a super low budget.

And just the fact that it was something that was featuring video games that we loved, that show was godlike.

And similar with this.

and the shows were just called Ewoks and Droids.

It's kind of like when we had the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, and it would either be Mario, Zelda, or whatever the- Captain N, yeah.

Yeah, and then some of them became more popular, and then it just became Mario.

They got rid of Zelda.