“Swing your arms from side to side!”
Come on, it’s time to restart The Mario! “
“The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!” is well known to some Millennials and the younger Generation X, but it is almost entirely unknown to everyone else. It’s a shame, because this show was crazy.
Divided into two segments, the first was live action segments (which saw Captain Lou Albano’s Mario and Danny Wells’ Luigi live a domestic life, albeit with a few high-profile guest stars stopping by their apartment) and the second were the cartoons, which gave us the Mario brothers having adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom.
There are several reasons this series needs to be rebooted, and not just because it could possibly get a bigger budget these days. First, video games are a lot more mainstream now than they were in the late ’80s – everyone and their (often literal) mom have played some version of Mario. Second, the stunt cast behind yet another Mario live-action offers endless hilarious possibilities. We already have a wrestling personality in Albano and an Oscar nominee with Bob Hoskins in the cult classic “Super Mario Bros. Movie”. Maybe now is the time to take a second shot at Danny DeVito, who turned down the movie all those years ago?
Finally, and most logically, the concept of a partly live-action / partly animated show is fairly new, and it’s one that deserves another chance.
