Reptiles in the Rose Garden

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The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode
"Reptiles in the Rose Garden"
Wendy reads her new laws.
Episode no.	2
Prod. no.	101
Airdate	September 8, 1990
Writer(s)	Reed Shelly, Bruce Shelly
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"Reptiles in the Rose Garden" is an episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.

[edit] Plot

Bowser is very depressed today, it being Wendy's 16th birthday. She is not happy with the presents she received, as she wants more. She then screams, "I want America for my birthday!", which Bowser is reluctant to grant since "America's in the real world". But it's either that or put up with her whining even more, so he agrees to do it.

Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Peach catch sight of Bowser's Doomship headed for the real world, and the Koopas capture them and imprison them in his castle. The Koopas find the White House and warp it to his castle (George Bush doesn't notice because he's on the telephone). Wendy calls a press conference to recite her new "laws".

At Bowser's Castle, Peach provokes the Hammer Brother guards to a fight, using the crossfire to cut their chains off. Bowser then warps the White House down to the bottom of the Mushroom Sea. Mario puts on a Frog Suit and dives in. After arriving and being mistaken by Barbara Bush for a member of the Secret Service, he goes to the basement, attaching pipes, putting them out the windows, and turning the wheel. This propels the White House to the surface of the water.

Mario and Luigi then disguise themselves as Hammer Brothers in order to climb aboard the Doomship (which has returned to prepare for invasions of London, Paris, and Brooklyn), but their disguises fool no one. Fleeing from the Sledge Hammer Brothers, Mario then looks for the engine room to take control of the Doomship. He finds the warp gun and accidentally warps the White House on top of the Washington Monument. He then puts it back where it belongs and warps Wendy back to Bowser's castle. When she blames her dad for letting the Mario Bros. do anything, he finally gets fed up with her and commands her to do her chores.

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

• This marks the only time in the cartoons where Toad appears, but doesn't have any lines. He does yell along with everyone else however, and his "squeaking" sounds are still present.
• At the beginning of this episode, Bowser sounds a lot different than he usually does in the cartoons.
• After Mario and the rest cut off their chains, there are two Chain Chomps still connected to their blocks, along with a lone Hammer Brother doing nothing.
• Wendy's new "laws" were:
  • Every kid in America must give her their toys.
  • Any handsome boy that does not take her on a date will be turned into a rock.
  • All the gold in Fort Knox will be melted to make her an infinite supply of charm bracelets.
• The White House seems to land right on top of Wendy, but in the very next shot, she's a good distance away from it.
• This is the first time that Earth is mentioned as "the real world" in the Super Mario Bros. cartoons. Apparently, the characters are aware that they don't actually exist.
• Bowser's plan to invade Brooklyn doesn't make sense, because Wendy has already taken over America and therefore already has control of Brooklyn.
• Wendy's mouth isn't open when she screams about Bowser's failure to bring her the birthday gift she wants.
• When the Boomerang Brother is filing Wendy's toes, he has an orange face that turns green in the next shot. In addition, his shell is all black with a green rim at first, but we see the proper black and white stripes in the next shot!
• When Mario uses the laser to warp Wendy back to Bowser's castle, the white rim on her shell is pink. If that's not enough, her entire face is brown instead of being white at the bottom!
• When the Mario Bros. are running from the Sledge Bros. on the doomship, notice the wooden floor they run across is green. When the ground shakes after the Sledge Bros. stomp it, the floor turns red!
• When Wendy is reading her book with her shades on, we see a table with a drink on it. In her next scene, when she realizing that the White House is falling down, the table and her sunglasses disappear.
• When the White House is warped back to America, in the screen after the paparazzi run off, the White House is falling but we don't see the American flag!
• When we see the Boomerang Bro, the hexagon is black at first. When the Fire Bro says "He said what?" the central hexagon is white!
• When Bowser says "Go clean your room!" and stomps, he's on the checkerboard floor. But when he says "And you'd better do it!" he's on the red carpet; also, his mouth movement doesn't match the dialogue.
• When Mario tells Barbara Bush that the place needs to be drained, his mouth isn't open when he's toward the end of his sentence.
• When you first see the Sledge Bros, their beaks are green however this was then corrected to yellow.
• When the Koopas first reach the White House, Bowser takes out a gray telescope to see the president. When he orders his Sledge Bros, the telescope is purple.
• The paparazzi in two scenes that appear before the White House falls change. It starts with: Bald guy with yellow shirt, guy with red unbottoned shirt, nervous guy with green clothes, lady with blue shirt, and guy with dark blue shirt. In the next scene it's: old guy with green shirt, guy with black shirt, mustached guy with orange shirt, lady with purple shirt, and guy with buttoned red shirt.
• One of Bowser's teeth turns pink when he says "All right, whatever you say, after all, you are turning Sweet 16."
• When Barbara asks Mario if he's from the Secret Service, she has purple earrings. When Mario gets his drain working, they're red!
• When Luigi says "You're not even boss of America anymore," he puts his hands on the rail about halfway through the sentence, but he doesn't have his gloves on.

Preceded by: Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas

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Followed by: Mind Your Mummy Mommy, Mario