Danny Wells and the late Captain Lou Albano provided what I still believe to be the best voices of Mario and Luigi ever (sorry, Charles Martinet). I was supposed to meet Captain Lou Albano for lunch for a picnic, and all I found. Ive been passing these flyers all over town. From the Super Mario Wiki, the Mario encyclopedia. Its quirky and fun, and has a lot of things in it that I still consider my personal Mario 'canon.'. This is a list of quotes from the television show The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, and I just love this cartoon. Thank you.Based on the original hit Nintendo™ video game, the series connects top-notch animated adventures with unique live-action interstitials starring WWF wrestling star Captain Lou Albano (Wise Guys and WWF Wrestlemania) and Danny Wells (Punky Brewster, The Jeffersons) as the famed plumbers Mario and Luigi. Ive been watching through the Super Mario Bros. Lou Albano was born in Rome, Italy in July 29, 1933. Super Show, and played him in the live-action segment as well. Super Show Captain Lou Albano Released September 4. Super Show Lyrics and Tracklist Genius Album The Super Mario Bros. Still though, for those of you who were able to watch the show as it was airing for the first time, what was the general reaction? Apparently, it was beating everything in ratings at the time, but Nintendo just saw the show as "chump change" and despite the incredibly high ratings after the initial 65 episode order was completed, they just said "We're done. Louis Vincent Albano (J October 14, 2009), was a WWE Hall of Fame wrestler-turned-manager and character actor who played the voice of Mario on The Super Mario Bros. Captain Lou Albano - The Super Mario Bros. What kind of "character" did they have? It was basically open to interpretation back then. Bare in mind, all the Nintendo characters were just pixels. It worked for a video game, but it wouldn't work for a TV show so most episodes were movie parodies of whatever the writers saw. The series stars ex-wrestler and wrestling manager Captain Lou. It's pretty obvious that the show was made when Mario and Zelda were in their infancies, after all Mario Bros didn't have a story that could carry a TV show. Mario and Luigi of Nintendo video game fame come alive on the Super Mario Bros. Every episode had a live action segment of Mario and Luigi living in Brooklyn before they went to the Mushroom Kingdom and then there would be a Mario segment.But every Friday, a Zelda cartoon would air. In it, Wells mentions that he and Lou Albano were working on the set 6 days a week until they fell down and then had to do Voiceover for the animated segments.įor a kid who grew up in the 80s with the NES, this must've been a huge deal. At the peak of the franchises popularity in 1993, Nintendo co-produced a live-action Super Mario Bros. Super Show, starring wrestling icon 'Captain' Lou Albano as Mario. Super Show featuring 'Captain' Lou Albano as Mario dancing to 'Do The Mario'For more retro stuff visit us at htt. The Mario games would sell millions of copies worldwide and spawned three television shows, including 1989s The Super Mario Bros. I was reading this interview with Danny Wells about the show's production The ending credits of the Super Mario Bros. Mixing top-notch animation and live action stars Captain Lou Albano and Danny Wells The Super Mario Bros. with the voices of Mario and Luigi, Captain Lou Albano and Danny Wells. is such a unique property we had to do it in a different way. As he reportedly told USA Today, 'The Mario Bros. Super Show After a year of trying to convince Nintendo to license their characters, Andy Heyward, the then CEO of Dic entertainment, had a plan for the iconic Italian plumber. I was a little young at the time (a year old) when it was airing so I only saw reruns of the show a few times. Super Show features Mario, his brother Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and her advisor. Captain Lou Albano and The Super Mario Bros.
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