Club Mario Segments of Mario Show Episode "The Ten Koopmandments"

[donatreides]

Everything I hated about the early 90's crammed into 7 minutes. Well done Club Mario!

[coffee4binky]

@donatreides And then reran on Family Channel for 7 years thereafter!

[ir10031981]

only the Super Mario Bros. cartoons is from 1989, but Club Mario is from 1990, but they use the 1989 DiC because of the 1989 Copyright.

[coffee4binky]

@ir10031981 You're grasping at straws. That's not how a copyright works. You're close, but you missed. The gist of it is this: The cartoons were produced between 1985 and 1988, and the sitcom segments were filmed in early 1989. The copyright for the entire show is 1989 for Season 1, 1990 for Season 2. The material has been re-copyrighted over and over again since then, like when DiC offered a Mario/Zelda show in 1994 to low-power TV stations, with a 1994 copyright, etc.

[coffee4binky]

@ir10031981 I worked at a TV station, so I know all about how these copyright issues are administered at the real-world level, in a real-world setting. It's not that complex. Furthermore, since Club Mario premiered in 1990, most likely the production date and copyright filings were conducted in 1989. That's most logical answer. The show IS NOT public domain, and it owned jointly by Nintendo, Cookie Jar, MGM and Shout! Factory currently. However, it isn't preserved by the copyright owners, either

[70sbyrdjah]

Always loved how they ripped off Janet Jackson with their intro :D

[rusty5150]

2 ADD-affected colorblind eco-terrorists host a show about a Nintendo character but don't even have a NES....

[coffee4binky]

@rusty5150 Mike Rawlins (Co-"MC") does own a Wii and a 360, from what I've heard.

[Digifan23]

Club Mario was HUGE Disgrace in Mario history that would make Bowser and Ganon proud

*Cue the GAME OVER Muisc from Super Mario Bros. 1 While Peach throws the cast of Club Mario in her Dungeon*

[coffee4binky]

@Digifan23 Oakey doakey.

[fslayer1290]

I must've totally blocked this from my memory cause I don't remember this lameness at all. Where's Captain Lou?!?

[coffee4binky]

@fslayer1290 Lame is as lame does.

[rsk8abletv]

@fslayer1290 These replaced the sitcom segments during the remakes.

[coffee4binky]

@rsk8abletv Not during "remakes". I'll explain: A syndicated show that airs on weekdays must have, by FCC rules, at least 65 episodes that can rerun 3 times during a broadcast season (usually from first full week Sep. to first full week. June, then summer). 65 episodes is 13 weeks. Anyways, in 1990 - 1991 season, FCC rules also needed to be E/I friendly (by today's standards). These were cheaply filmed and used in all 65 Mario episodes as a cheap "season two" for syndication.

[coffee4binky]

@rsk8abletv Part Two: The actual labels used by DiC and Viacom referred to this as "Super Mario Bros. Super Show Season 02" on the master BetacamSP tapes. DiC and Viacom, with Nintendo's blessing, allowed the cartoons to be retained, but had the new "extreme" segments, being "educational", thrown on. This fulfilled E/I requirements for whichever station bartered to air the show.

[coffee4binky]

@rsk8abletv Part Three: From my research and knowledge, only one BetacamSP master tape still exists of Club Mario, as DiC wiped the tapes to be reused for distribution of other cartoons (such as Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego, Sonic the Hedgehog, Gadget Boy, etc.). I have 13 episodes preserved, and some other people have less than that. Roughly, about 18 episodes still exist.

[achonillo]

Holy Shit! I did not realize all of the bullshit environmentalist indoctrination this show tried to do. Peace, love, and recycle? Get a job, hippie! lol

[coffee4binky]

@achonillo LOL! An early example of the FCC's E/I requirements.

[HollyBee9000]

I still like saying Peace Love Recycle because of this when I was a kid.

And ....dis'a MY SHOW! (though I don't say that...)

[OneWayProduct]

I love the set. It looks like a kid ate a box of crayons and pukes on the set.

Same could be said for the dufus with the zubaz

[coffee4binky]

@OneWayProduct "Zubaz"?

[nojunkorspam]

Mario's voice in the cartoon is so much better than the Mickey Mouse voice Nintendo uses in the video games.

[NerdKore64]

I'm really not trying to sound racist or anything but that black guy really looks out of place being on this show. I bet he lost alot of street cred because of it. Once again I'm not knocking the guy. I actually feel sorry for him. As far as the white guy is concerned, he looks like he's on acid. I remember watching this when I was a kid. I was 8 when the Super Mario Bros Super Show came out. I enjoyed it alot. However, when it got replaced with Club Mario, even then I thought it sucked.

[coffee4binky]

@NerdKore64 It is what it is. Mike Rawlins is doing okay, nothing special. Chris Coombs, the acid-tripper . . . don't know what happened to him.

[KiraBlaize]

The music was catchy. But I preferred the original host segments. It's nice to know I didn't dream this up though...

[eatkosherbacon]

Oh man, I was starting to think I hallucinated this show. I remember "Super Show;" everyone does. But this ... It's almost as if the universe is actively trying to erase this from history.

[coffee4binky]

@eatkosherbacon I don't know about the universe, but a Mario-related "hallucination" I have is the the Vs. SMB arcade machine at the UNLV Student Union had a version that had World 7-2 super long, with Mario swimming over miles and miles of coral and holes with Bloopers attacking every few seconds. I saw a dude play through the whole thing back in 1987. That's weird.

[DiscoGlacier]

I'm a delicious peanut!

[noizyme]

OMFG! Thank you so much for uploading. This combined with the GamePro Show were the ultimate 90's shows.

[coffee4binky]

@noizyme you're welcome

[crunkycrunker]

The theme song for this show has been bouncing around my head for the last 20 years. Thank you!

[coffee4binky]

@crunkycrunker You're welcome!

[RedLightBulbs]

Oh man, this is so radical. I hated when they did crap like this back then.

[coffee4binky]

Strangely, I've shown these episodes to kids today and they're hooked. So it is effective. And lame.

[ryratt]

@RedLightBulbs I hated the environmentalist propaghanda they injected to all the programming back then. I remember resenting it as a 10 year old.

[coffee4binky]

@ryratt It's worse now than it was then.

[Aotommo]

@ryratt Yeah, I remember being annoyed by it as well. It probably would have worked better if they had explained why saving the environment is good. Thing is, that would have pissed off the radical environmentalists since they would have had to use an anthropocentric argument-- try to explain that the ecosystem has innate value to a kid and they'll look at you like you have two heads. But perhaps the kids are onto something there...

[ryratt]

@RedLightBulbs I hated the environmentalist propaganda they injected to all the programming back then. I remember resenting it as a 10 year old.

[Aotommo]

@RedLightBulbs It's not even that entertaining, compared to the segments it replaced. And Gamepro TV did the whole ridiculous "radical" thing a lot better, it's hilarious.

[illuminatioracle]

super mario brothers super show suddenly depressing.

[afriendofbean]

I know this is a strange question for me to say but, what was the reason that this "Club Mario" show replaced the live action show of Mario and Luigi? I know that those two teenage boys were Mario obsessed people but, it looks like they hardly did anything Mario or Luigi related (they mostly played) except showing the "Super Mario Brothers" cartoon. Also, if this show is called "Club Mario", I wonder why in the beginning the talking cartoon Mario head didn't say "it's the Club Mario" show.

[coffee4binky]

In the late 1980s, Congress and the FCC passed laws that regulated children's programming to be educational and informative (hence the E/I rating seen on most children's programming today). DiC saw nothing that met this requirement to then created, cheaply, the Club Mario segments we see, that I supposed meet the FCC rules on an E/I rating today. This law is why action cartoons in the afternoon and more Saturday Morning Cartoons on big networks have disappeared and went to cable.

[afriendofbean]

Thank you very much. I didn't know about that. I know that this "Club Mario" show started during summer 1990 (I saw that on the internet) but, I don't know if the live action show came back after summer 1990.

As soon as this show came on the television during summer 1990, I thought it was the Super Mario Bros. show but, when the guitar music started I thought I had the wrong channel (I was used to the live action Mario and Luigi dancing in the beginning) but, "Club Mario" was nice too.

[coffee4binky]

Yeah, I was hoping the sitcom part would return some day, too. So did DiC, I think, hence the 10 min. long Adventures of SMB 3 cartoons that went along with Captain N. But when faced with a dumb law, because, face it, children's programming sucks today, DiC did what they had to do at the time. It'd been nice to see an actual Season 2 with SMB 3 cartoons and an actual Season 3 with Super Mario World cartoons, but, alas, we have what we have.

[coffee4binky]

@afriendofbean DiC was looking for a cheap way of doing a second season, and Congress and the FCC passed a law about how every OTA station had to have the cartoons tell an educational message. Some, like GI Joe, just had some small advice about stuff at the end of the show. Some, like Ninja Turtles, didn't even bother.

[MRLOL785]

@coffee4binky Actually, IIRC, there would be TMNT PSA's during commercials like "eat right", or "don't do drugs", which is pretty damn ironic :P

[coffee4binky]

@MRLOL785 Not on my TMNT recordings. Those only appeared on the CBS version, not the daily syndicated version. TMNT got away with it by saying the episodes taught right from wrong and opened the eyes of children to Eastern culture. I'm not kidding, either, as funny as it sounds. By that rationale, Lionsgate and Viacom are looking to air the original TMNT again (no air date yet), and stamp E/I on the episodes.

[MRLOL785]

@coffee4binky Yeah, I also heard that He-Man/She-Ra, Ghostbusters (the crappy one w/ the ape), and BraveStarr are being played on Qubo since they had those PSA's at the end. Also, Sonic SatAM is supposed to be rerunning on ThisTV as part of a kids block, since it "taught about the environment, and taught right from wrong". Hell, you could label "Ren and Stimpy" E/I with that kinda logic :P

[coffee4binky]

@MRLOL785 Logic being a strong word! LOL! Seriously, though, in the latter days of Kids' WB and Disney/UPN 1, Too blocks, E/I ratings were being applied to everything. I didn't know Jackie Chan Adventures and The Tick reruns were E/I, especially The Tick (no lessons to be learned there, Fox should've aired it at 8PM on Sundays). I don't get ThisTV where I live, though everybody else in Vegas gets it. Apartment unit in a radiowave deadzone. I remember Dinosaurs on KRLR having an E/I rating, too.

[MRLOL785]

@coffee4binky It's just a bunch of generic programming, nothing much. I actually just found that it's not SatAM, but the horrible (FAR worse than Club Mario) pile of piss known as Sonic Underground. Basically, it's Sonic in a rock band. I shit you not. It didn't even last 1 syndicated season (40, instead of a normal 65) on the UPN Kids block back in '99. It keeps getting reran, yet Adventures and SatAM haven't been shown on TV in a decade.

[MRLOL785]

@afriendofbean Cheapness.

[coffee4binky]

YouTube/Google user "SgtThom" has decided to go around on my videos with him and his "friends" and knock down all user ratings to half a star. I recommend blocking YouTube/Google user "SgtThom" to protect yourself as a fellow YouTube/Google user.

[kefkaroth]

we want more club mario segments hahahah great times to be a teen again ^_^

[coffee4binky]

it all depends if i can borrow the "box" from the tv station again or not.

[kefkaroth]

ahhh to live in the 1990s era again truly the best times as well as the 80s.

[coffee4binky]

innovation knew no limits

[Karoshikun]

OH god I remember how they'd show condensed versions of the totally crappy "Photon" show.

[coffee4binky]

Condensed isn't the word! Only once did they ever show almost a whole episode instead of their obligated one minute. And I mean they spent two minutes on that particular one.

I think Photon should shown on Nick@Nite, but alas, nobody at Viacom/CBS would listen to normal people about what to air.

[BenJabituya]

This song reminds me of "Black Cat" by Janet Jackson!

[Buzda]

Hahaha! I thought the same thing ever since I was a kid!

[skarvika]

cool show

cool people

cool issues

[coffee4binky]

Glad you like it

[MRLOL785]

Thanks.

[MRLOL785]

Also, coffee4binky, there was a betamax type called ED (Extended Definition) Beta for the prosumer. It had 500 lines of resolution. I highly recommend one for masters and archiving and I believe tapes can be bought through entusiast sites on the internet, or via "Satelite Surfing" (ba-dum-bum)

[coffee4binky]

ED Beta VCRs/VTRs go for over $500 *cheapest* and get into the thousands. Mr. Betamax (search it Google to find site) has a few for sale.

[MRLOL785]

Holy Sh- that's extreme! I think I'll just repair my dad's old super beta in our garage LOL

[coffee4binky]

Mr. Betamax does a complete refurb for $89 + S&H. It comes around $200, but his repairs are the world's finest in Beta anything. He also sells cleaning tapes, etc.

Or just go on Craig's List, eBay, or Amazon and find a good player between $10 to $50 + S&H. That's what I do with my Beta VCRs (I have four).

I also need to repair 10 VHS VCRs. I found out that some tapes don't play so well in newer (post 1995) VHS VCRs and vice versa. GoVideo made best overall, and modern players, go w/ Panasonic.

[MRLOL785]

I also found out that tapes recorded on low end JVC vcrs from the 90's play back horribly on newer models.

[coffee4binky]

RCAs, JC Penny generic brand, later GoVideo VCRs, certain Sony or JVC that are SVHS (in other words, recorded in SVHS defaultly and can't playback in normal VCRs) and the cheapo stuff like Emerson, Symphonic, and Durabrand from Wal-Mart/Target/K-Mart/Sears. An actual Sears brand is a really good VCR (circa 1979) and Montgomery Wards made good VCRs, too. Also, certain VHS camcorders work great as a hi-end playback unit. Mostly JVCs and RCAs.

[MRLOL785]

$1 million for a beta cart! don't even ask me how much a beta cart machine was! and I thought a betamax was expensive!

[coffee4binky]

Beta, any format, including the 8/Super8/Hi8/Digital 8 formats, lasts almost forever in the same quality as long as the tape is taken care of. When storing a tape, make sure the tape's cover is at the top, the tape is rewound to the beginning and stored horizontal with a cover that shields in from light. Storing tapes improperly (throwing them around, stacking them like books, putting them on a book shelf vertical) destroys the tape and causes severe tracking problems if ignored.

[MRLOL785]

oh great! how am I going to store them properly when my bookshelf is full of my antique Hardy Boys collection, NES collection, etc lol.

[coffee4binky]

Beats me. I have the exact same problem. I barely have room for this laptop I'm using! I am designing a Home Depot red shed (The one with the mini upstairs) and am going to furnish the inside and install cheap climate control to keep the temp around 70 degrees at all times. but i have large yard to build such things. for the tapes, Beta or VHS, just buy one of those pull-out drawers from a thrift store i suppose. those store the tapes horizontal compactly.

[MRLOL785]

What kind of VCR am I likely to find at a thrift shop like Goodwill?

[coffee4binky]

Depends on what the staff already doesn't keep for themselves in the back. I have good luck with Memorex VCRs from 1999 - 2002, and the current $299 Panasonic VCR/DVD combos as good. Beta is all hit and miss bite the bullet and use Mr. Betamax. Because for some reason, at thrift stores, the idiots who run these places, and aren't high on the education or information tier, like to slap stupidly high prices on stuff like Beta VCRs, LaserDiscs, video CDs, Tengen NES carts (the black carts), etc.

[MRLOL785]

whoops, my mistake :/

and since they used Betamax for broadcast, I think switch programming wouldn't be that difficult, since the tapes are smaller than vhs.... thnx for the post!

[coffee4binky]

No, not Betamax, but Betacam. It's a higher-quality of Beta. In fact, resolution-wise, what we call 480p is Betacam, while a Betamax tape was around 300i or something.

Also, at a TV station, Beta tapes were loads either manually, with queuing and spooling and then somebody would have to sync the time code, etc. or used a $1 million Beta cart, which could a whole broadcast day. Each Beta tape can only hold a max. length of 24 minutes.

I used to work at a TV station.

[MRLOL785]

do betacam tapes work in betamax vcrs'? I have one in my garage and not sure about buying blank beta tapes that are not from an official manufacturer like Sony.

[coffee4binky]

Yes/No. Yes as in Betacam (just Betacam, no SP on the end or any other format) fits and can be used a super duper hi grade Beta, Super Beta or ED Beta tape in L-500 mode. No as in Beta and Super Beta can't read the data and play it back because Betacam used a speed faster than Beta I mode for storage and playback. I've heard, but not done, that Betacam can be read and viewed in an ED Beta VCR/VTR.

[MRLOL785]

Fox 5! This must have been taped in my area near DC, I assume lol.

Wait a minute, this was an afterschool cartoon, right? then why did they show it in the summer? figure that out and summer school isn't an answer :D and no i do not know the answer XD

[coffee4binky]

I don't know why an afterschool program would be aired in the middle of summer, unless back then the Beta carts made switch programming so painful that it's easier to just keep the sch. the same and show reruns in summer. Anyways, Fox 5 is also in Clark County, NV. "You're watching KVVU. Fox 5 for Southern Nevada. Henderson and Lasssssssssssss Vegas."

[aweboy]

2:38 You can see the game "Legendary Wings"

[coffee4binky]

Good catch. That game's a very unique shooter. Used to rent that for my NES all the time when I was 9.

[coffee4binky]

Anybody notice Tommy's wearing aquasocks?

[puttputtking]

Thank you so much for posting these episodes. I had some episodes on tape, but they were old and got destroyed or taped over. I only have one episode know and some of it is taped over. I loved this show as a kid and still love this show. Once again, thank you so much for posting these episodes! Keep uploading if you have more.

[coffee4binky]

Hey, that's why I at least posted these four. I need to get the other five or seven episodes up, and I hope if anybody has more, come forward and post it or let me know, so the episode count can get higher! Glad you liked it.

[stevek83]

Wow. I haven't seen this in 19 years! I was 7 back then. Thank you so much for posting this :)

[coffee4binky]

Welcome welcome. Spread the joy. Seriously, people will get a kick out of it. Stranger, still, but doesn't it look like a, well, Internet show when trimmed down?

[stevek83]

Yeah I suppose it does. I guess it was a show ahead of its time, lol.

I am definitely showing this to my friend. He will get a kick out of this.

[coffee4binky]

Yeah. In retrospect, it was "extreme" before everybody and their brothers, sisters, dogs, cats and bowl of noodles started abusing the word...to the extreme!

[girlsixdiva]

Thank you.

[girlsixdiva]

oh ok thanks. I knew I remembered feeling let down as a 9-10 yr old kid after one version replaced the other. Now that I think of it, I think I was sad when the live action show ended because I thought the theme song and dance were cute...lol.. one of my friends recently passed away and I was watching the Legend of Zelda cartoons on Netflix to cheer me up. after seeing that cute Mario dance at the end it put a smile on my face.

[coffee4binky]

Remember, we may not all know each other, but we're all here for each other nonetheless. I wish the spirit of your friend well. Also, when I finally get time, I'll see if I can get more Club Mario up.

[girlsixdiva]

Yaay I LOVED Club Mario! Didn't they stop showing the Club Mario thing after a while, then replaced it with the live action Mario Bros.?

[coffee4binky]

Reverse. For Season 1 of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, there a brief "live-action" sitcom segments with Mario and Luigi in Brooklyn. It's not clear if this is after the Mushroom Kingdom adventures or before. That was the '89/'90 season. Season 2, which started in June of 1990, was Club Mario, and it replaced all of the Mario Bros. sitcom segments. This season ran from '90 till '91.

[DiveOffARoofINC]

I remember being a kid and I was so pissed they replaced the live action Mario Bros segments with this BS.

[coffee4binky]

Totally agree with you. I was hoping to see the new sitcom segments come September, because this Club Mario crap started to air in June for us on KVVU in Vegas. I thought it a temp thing, because these dorks were dressed in "summer" clothes and acted like lame surfers. 90210 and Saved by the Bell did some summer episodes that year, so I assumed that's what DiC was doing with this show. Imagine my surprise when I figured-out it was the "second" season. And then it was gone, and Mario was over.

[coffee4binky]

Hey, NintendoWizard22, living outside the US, will start posting full episodes up in one or two parts. Check him out, okay? BTW, I sent him the episodes. He can do this because he's immune from the Nintendo copyrights that are only filed for the US.

[olsona]

All I can say is, thank goodness you posted this! I used to watch the Super Show at 6 in the morning and was starting to think the whole "Club Mario" thing was just a sleep-deprived hallucination. It's nice to confirm that DIC was insane and not me!

[coffee4binky]

No, it didn't exist! Like Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince! Since I've had these tapes, people that grew up with me have enjoyed these tapes for 19 years.

[coffee4binky]

I agree the show jumped the shark, but it's cool nonetheless. Honestly, watching just the club segments on YouTube seems like it's a YouTube production somewhere.

[stargazer637]

dude i love this  can u tell me how to upload a video

[coffee4binky]

There's an Upload button on the YouTube home page if you have a YouTube account.

[coffee4binky]

I meant Batman and the Outsiders, not "battle" and for the record, I don't remove comments.

[daridave]

Memories!!! Amazing. Thanks!!!

[alexwribs19]

HEY I remember watching this when i was in the 1st Grade!!!!!! :D I'm glad i was born in the 80s because kids shows these days suck! DUDE check out the shirts they're wearing!!!! Bring back neon colors again!!! :P

[coffee4binky]

Hey hey hey! Growing Up Creepie, Wolverine and the X-Men, and Battle and the Outsiders aren't that bad, either. But yes, Club Mario was during the upswing of kid shows that lasted until 2002 with anime bringing it all down.

[antitommy]

They must be alchemists if they turned Tin into Aluminum!

[coffee4binky]

Indeed. When you're "extreme" you can do anything. They think.

[coffee4binky]

I hadn't realize people wheresecretly pining for this show. So that explains all during high school and college why people kept wanting to watch my tapes.

[NintendoWizard22]

Club Mario song Lyrics: Hey Paisanos! It's the Super Mario Brothers Super Show! Mario.. Grab your boards, hold on to your ha-at Satellite Surfin' is where it's at! at the Club.. Club Mario! We're at the club c-c-c-Club M-M-Mario! Name any place that you wanna go-o We'll take you there, oh don't you know we're at the Club... Club Mario! Come join the Club C-C-C-Club M-M-Mario!!!

[GraphicParty]

I have been telling my wife (I'm 25) about this show for years. Now I can finally show her.

I LOVED this show as a kid.

[coffee4binky]

Share the kewlnessity with her now.

[coffee4binky]

11 more episodes await. Please remember I'm only posting the Club Mario portions, as DiC, or whoever owns DiC, owns the copyright on the cartoons. The Mario and Zelda cartoons I own DVDs from Shout Factory! and I also rent on Netflix on Xbox 360 (yeah, Mario on the 360) and from RedBox.

[LeChiffre67]

I have not seeen any trace of Club Mario for seventeen years. Happy days are here again!