The Animated Arcade

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, after a head injury leaves Luigi convinced that he’s a tv presenter,  Mario enlists Jim Lange to help him realize that he’s not, in fact, a “Game Show Host”! Then, there’s gold in t...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, the Bros. hope to cash in after finding a mysterious painting! Can an art expert (DiC president Andy Heyward) determine the worth of “The Painting”? Then, Mario’s got a fever, and p...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/"The Legend Of Zelda"! First, the Bros. hire a psychic (Elaine Kagan) to talk with their late Grandma! Can she help the connect to "The Great Hereafter"? Then, Link gets swindled out of his s...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, the Mario Bros. strike oil! Can oil tycoon Ted Bull (Norman Fell) help the Bros. get rich with this “Texas Tea”? Then, King Koopa is holding Princess Toadstool prisoner! Can the gan...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, Mario tries to learn self-defence from the spectral Obi-Wan Cannoli (Arsenio Trinidad). Can the day be won by this “Zenned Out Mario”? Then, Luigi plays Paul Revere as the crew help Gene...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, Vincent Van Gook (Larry Gelman) arrives to teach the Mario Bros. some art lessons, and declares Mario as his greatest pupil! The con is on in “The Artist”! Then, things get Biblical...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/"The Legend Of Zelda"!First, Mario and Luigi fend off a hairless Health Inspector (Gary Shwartz) in "Toupee"!Then, the Mario Bros. sub in for a stolen swordsman in "The Mark Of Zero"! (00:00) - Intro (05:42) - "Toupe...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/"The Legend Of Zelda"! First, Inspector Gadget (Maurice Lamarche) visits the Mario Bros. for some repair work! Can the Bros. fix his “Defective Gadgetry”? Then, Link and Zelda have to fix the shattered Triforce befor...

(Re-uploaded with *completed* version) Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”!First, Sgt. Slaughter returns to whip the Mario Bros. into shape for a secret mission! Are the Marios unfit to serve, or will they be “Caught In A Dra...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" First, the show gets taken over by some totally bogus dudes as we have to contend with Tommy Treehugger and Co-MC in the only officially available Club Mario segment. With a guest appearance by Joe Piscipo (Yes, real...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/"The Legend Of Zelda"! First, Monkey Business abounds as Luigi gets mixed up with an escaped ape in "Gorilla My Dreams"! Then, the Marios take to the air to save Pastaland in a dogfight with...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" First, the Mario Bros share a flashback when Brian Bonsall shows up planning to Run away from home. We wish we could run away from Danny and Lou dressed as "Little Marios". Then, it's beginning to...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!”/”The Legend Of Zelda”! It's love at first bite when a magic apple causes singer "Mad Donna" (Paula Irvine) to fall for Mario. Will "The Magic Love" last? Then, an evil Zelda clone tries to ste...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, the continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!”/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, the Mario Bros. call in Madame AGoGo (Kay Ballard) to tell them the future! Can the Bros. trust this "Fortune Teller"? Then, it's kaiju clobberin' time! The gang have to bring a colossal...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, the continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!”/”The Legend Of Zelda”! Fame has its price when the Mario Bros. let Rob Stone hide from his fans in the basement! Can the Bros. help this "Heart Throb" shake the mob? Then, it's the Bad Luck O' The Irish when the Mario...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, the continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!”/”The Legend Of Zelda”! The Bros. have a Bat-Man in their basement! Again! Jim Ward returns as an exterminator who looks and sounds exactly like Dracula in "Vampire Until Ready"! Then, it's sink or swim as the Mario Cr...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron watch, review, riff, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/"The Legend Of Zelda"! When a new sauce recipe causes Luigi to start sprouting veggies, the Bros. call Young MacDonald (Scott Nemes) for a cure! Can Luigi be saved from this "Flower Power"? Then, the Mario crew have to...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron are reviewing and riffing on 1989's "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda" animated series! They also share trivia about the guest stars, writers, and the cartoon's original, unaltered soundtrack! After singer Little Robert (Willard Pugh) appears in Mario’s medicine cabinet, the Bros. devise a scheme to record themselves singing with...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron are reviewing and riffing on 1989's "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda" animated series! They also share trivia about the guest stars, writers, and the cartoon's original, unaltered soundtrack! When the mysterious Angelica (Nedra Volz) sells Luigi a watch that makes HIM run backwards, it's up to Mario to reverse this revolting deve...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron are reviewing and riffing on 1989's "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda" animated series! They also share trivia about the guest stars, writers, and the cartoon's original, unaltered soundtrack! Oh, Brother! Mario and Luigi’s supposed long lost brother Pietro (Vic Dunlop) arrives to join the family business (and claim his share of t...

Hey, Pisanos! It's The Excuse Me, Princess! Super Show! John and Aaron are reviewing and riffing on 1989's "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda" animated series! They also share trivia about the guest stars, writers, and the cartoon's original, unaltered soundtrack! Al Einstein (Ed Metzger) has sold the Mario Bros. the ultimate computer/pizza oven: HAL 9001! The pizza’s are bad,...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron are reviewing and riffing on 1989's "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda" animated series! They also share trivia about the guest stars, writers, and the cartoon's original, unaltered soundtrack! It’s a “Supreme” surprise as “Susanna Ross” (Regina Wlliams) enlists the Mario Bros. as replacement back-up dancers in “Baby Mario Love”! W...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade! John and Aaron are reviewing and riffing on 1989's "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda" animated series! They also share trivia about the guest stars, writers, and the cartoon's original, unaltered soundtrack! The mysterious “Fred Van Winkle” (Norman Fell) wanders into Mario Bros. Plumbing after having been asleep since 1929! Can Mario and Luigi h...

Welcome to The animated Arcade! John and Aaron are reviewing and riffing on 1989's "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda" animated series! They also share trivia about the guest stars, writers, and the cartoon's original, unaltered soundtrack! When the Mario Bros. enlist the aid of Dr. Toby (Gary Shartz) to save their Mama’s ailing basil plant,whose Super Plant Growth Formula work...

Welcome to The Animated Acade! John and Aaron are reviewing and riffing on 1989's "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda" animated series! They also share trivia about the guest stars, writers, and the cartoon's original, unaltered soundtrack! With the Mario Bros. out fishing, their (familiar looking) country cousins, take over the shop, just as the lovely Ellie Mae (guest star Don...