Fire Sale
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| Super Mario World episode | ||
| "Fire Sale" | ||
 Yoshi pushing Mama Fireplant, holding Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool, safely out of Ice Land (Vanilla Dome) after being kidnapped by Kootie Pie (Wendy O. Koopa) . |
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| Episode no. | 1 | |
| Prod. no. | 102A | |
| Airdate | September 14, 1991 | |
| Writer(s) | Brooks Wachtel | |
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"Fire Sale" is the first episode of the Super Mario World cartoon.
[edit] Synopsis
Bowser gives Wendy her own castle in Ice Land (apparently either the Vanilla Dome or Super Mario Bros. 3's Iced Land), and she treasures it very much, but despises its sub-zero temperature. So she decides to kidnap Mama Fireplant, a Piranha Plant who provides heat for the citizens of Dome City. Meanwhile, Mario and Luigi are hosting a barbecue, and they send Yoshi to Mama Fireplant's house to pick up some fireballs with which to start the fire. Just as Yoshi is coming, Wendy and her accomplice, a silent Red Koopa Troopa, show up and kidnap her. Yoshi overhears Mama Fireplant's cries for help, but due to his cowardice, doesn't show up in time to stop Wendy.
Yoshi brings the Mario Bros. and Princess Peach to the scene of the crime, where they find a piece of ice, giving them a clue the kidnappers took Mama Fireplant to Ice Land. Upon their arrival in Ice Land, they find that the place is melting because of the heat Mama Fireplant is providing; if this keeps up, it will soon flood all of Dinosaur Land! The good guys track Wendy, who is plotting to make the cave-people buy fireballs from her (hence the episode's title), down to her hideout, but the Marios and Peach are soon frozen in place due to accidentally stepping on Urchins (see Trivia/Goofs below) coming from out of the water under the melting ice. Wendy, seemingly unaware that her palace is fast turning to slush, attempts to take down Yoshi, but ends up getting stung and frozen as well. Yoshi then proceeds to rescue Mama Fireplant and save his friends while he's at it, and they safely return Mama Fireplant to her home.
[edit] Trivia/Goofs
- This episode marks Yoshi's animated debut. Thus, he is the only Mario character from the games to have actually been brought to animation through DiC Entertainment (all the other regulars of the previous series had actually made their animated debuts in the obscure anime OVAs, with Mario himself having appeared on The Saturday Supercade).
- Unusually for the premiere episode of a Mario cartoon, Bowser himself is not present (except on the cover of the magazine the Koopa Troopa is reading at the end).
- Wendy's palace was either in Super Mario Bros. 3's Ice land (which is not in Dinosaur Land, but in the Mushroom Kingdom), or the Vanilla Dome. In addition, it was Lemmy who took over Ice land in the Super Mario Bros. 3 game (as well as the Vanilla dome).
- This is Wendy's first appearance in the Super Mario World series.
- Also, this is the only episode in the series where Wendy has a speaking role.
- Throughout this episode, Yoshi has aquaphobia. His fear of water does not actually come up in the Super Mario World game, but in Super Mario Sunshine, Yoshis will disappear when dropped into big bodies of water.
- Additionally, when Yoshi trips on the bridge and lands in the ankle-high water, he is not scared at all!
- Yoshi states when that one steps on an Urchin, they shall freeze for an unknown amount of time, rather in the game, it would just hurt Mario or Luigi.
- When Mario and Luigi are hugging each other, if you look closely you’ll see for the first and probably the only time in this series, Mario’s hair is black!
- This is the last time that a Koopa Troopa will appear in any of the Super Mario Bros. cartoons and the only time to appear in the Super Mario World cartoon.
- When you first see the Paragoombas, their feet are missing.
