A Very Chinese Kaiju Rampage…
So wrap your thoughts about this. In this episode? The Four travel to Asia to stop Koopa. How? They need the growth mutating aid of a scientific creation. Super Sushi.
Makes sense because Japan yes? Well.. This Super Sushi is made in some sort of science oven. Like all good sushi is… Not made. But why stop there? It’s made in the city of Sayonara…
Sayonara? What Japanese city is… Wait… Did they mean Shanghai? In China? Why? Also Super Sushi. Because sure. Anyway the Four arrive to find Sayonara being destroyed by Koop-zilla… Koopa.
Fleeing Koop-zilla, the four arrive at the land of the Scientist behind Super Sushi. Via regenerating surveillance systems he shows the Four how Bowser are a full tray of Super Sushi. Turning Kaiju.
They try conventional means to stop Koop-zilla. Also Mario & Luigi riding a motorbike with sidecar at the same time as Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Conventional means don’t work.
Except somehow Mario injures Bowser’s claw by jabbing him with a sharp metal pipe. How?!? His body is covered in a leathery armor hide. How was he harmed? I’m calling Hijinxs on that.
Well… I would like to, but that’s necessary so later on they can stab him with a hypodermic needle filled with antidote. Anyway Professor ovens up a fresh batch of Super Sushi for Mario. Which he eats mixed into a bowl of pasta… Because huh.
So Mario wrestles with Bowser for a while as giant over weight Kaiju Wrestlers. It’s an ok fight but it’s mostly the cliche of the city getting destroyed in a Kaiju fight. If course it is. Why not.
Professor makes an antidote, the gang inject Koopa and shrinks him down. He flees via his ability to create warp zones… Yeah. It’s been a long while since Koopa last fled using a Warp Zone portal.
Mario, still hungry, accidentually eats something that shrinks him down tiny… The first reference of Mario shrinking small. That’s fine. He’ll spend the week gorging on pasta bowls bigger than him.
That’s the time Mario referenced Kaiju & Godzilla. Memes kinda intact. The military attacking Koop-zilla, the Scientist out to stop Koop-zilla, the destruction of a city… In China??
If you were hoping they’d think outside of the box in this Kaiju tribute? Maybe they kinda did with Super Sushi… But not much. Anyway from Japanese Pop Culture let’s head to Classic UK lit.
It’s time to travel to the land of Romance, and be inspired by William Shakesprare, in the SMBSS production of Mario & Joliet. Wait. Joliet? Is Mario going to prison in Illinois?!? Is this a Blues Brothers crossover?
So… Who’s going to be the excessively Italian Joliet this time out? That’s of course if Joliet is a lady and not a State Of Illinois Prison. Huh. I’m confused. Anyway that’s tomorrow. See you.
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