Send in the Clown
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| Super Mario World episode | ||
| "Send in the Clown" | ||
 The Koopaling Bros. Circus is destroyed. |
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| Episode no. | 3 | |
| Prod. no. | 103A | |
| Airdate | September 28, 1991 | |
| Writer(s) | Martha Moran | |
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"Send in the Clown" is the third episode of the Super Mario World cartoon.
[edit] Synopsis
While Morton and Wendy put up posters advertising the Koopaling Bros. Circus, Bowser flies over Dome City in his Koopa Clown Car announcing the circus and telling the cavepeople that they have free admission. Meanwhile, Mario and Princess Peach are playing tennis, using a Volcano Plant as a serving machine. Yoshi is their ballboy, and he has a hard time grasping the concept that he shouldn't eat the balls he's supposed to pick up. Upon going too far out of the court, the group notices that the cavepeople are missing. Luigi then notices a Koopaling Bros. Circus poster and concludes that "Koopa's at it again!"
The group takes a Star Road warp to Bowser's Castle where the circus is being held. They go inside and find Mecha-Koopas on high wire and Chargin' Chuck acrobatics. Morton then comes out, dressed as "the greatest ringmaster of them all at the greatest circus of them all", and puts up a long speech about the circus before Bowser stops him and tells him to "bring on the clowns", which are Rexes in disguise.
After a sequence with Morton getting caught up in the Rex-clown's act and Bowser launching pies at the audience, one Rex's clown disguise falls apart, revealing himself to the audience. The other Rexes rip off their costumes as the cavepeople flee for the exits, but Bowser has the Thwomps block them. Morton then has the audience, including Mario's companions, dropped into a cage underground. Bowser announces to the prisoners that he is going to have them fed to his dinosaurs, and then places Mario in a separate cage to tame a Dino-Rhino and two Dino-Torches. Fortunately, the Princess remembers that she still has a Fire Flower from earlier and tosses it to Mario. He uses it to defeat the Dino-Rhino and escape from the cage, then runs through the castle to find a Cape Feather, encountering Chargin' Chucks, Grey Bowser Statues, lava, a Dry Bones, Morton, and Mecha-Koopas along the way. He eventually finds one and attacks all of the enemies with it. He then sets his friends free, but not before Bowser kidnaps the Princess in the Clown Car and attacks him with Mecha-Koopas (as he does in the actual game), which Mario uses to defeat the Koopa King. Afterwards, the protagonists celebrate by having a circus of their own, with Peach as the tightrope walker and Yoshi as a clown.
[edit] Trivia/Goofs
- This is the only time in the cartoons Bowser uses the Koopa Clown Car.
- When Peach is showing off the Fire Flower at the beginning, the shot of her holding it up is shown after the shot of her putting it away.
- Mario's ringmaster getup is very similar to what he wore on the box art of Super Mario All-Stars, even though this series was made before that game.
- Also, when Mario goes to get the feather, the cage is underground, but when Mario comes back, the cage is above ground.
- When the Rexes take off their clown costumes, they are all blue, but at the shot of the Rex's foot, the Rex is green.
- The name of the circus, "Koopaling Bros. Circus," is a take-off on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
- At the part where Morton is hit by a pie while ringleading, the sound effects of Morton being tapped on the shoulder and getting hit by the pie are heard before either action actually happens. (This also happens near the beginning when Wendy sticks a poster in Morton's face.)
- While Yoshi eats the pies that get launched into the audience, Luigi's "L" on his cap is white on a black background!
- When Luigi says "Ball boys don't eat the balls. They pick them up," the "L" on his cap is white on a black background!
- When Mario and Co. are on the Star Road, the "L" on Luigi's cap is white on a black background!
- When we first hear Luigi talk, look at his cap. You'll see the "L" on his cap is white on a black background!
- When Mario pulls up the needle to bring the circus tent down, the "M" on his cap is white on a red background!
- Bowser's line, "You are about to enter this warp pipe and into a dimension beyond space and time", is a nod to The Twilight Zone.
