History WesternAnimation / TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3

* AffablyEvil: King Koopa, in contrast to his FauxAffablyEvil nature in Super Show and his CardCarryingVillain status, actually does genuinely care about the Koopa Kids. He especially loves Kootie Pie to the point where he'd conquer America for her if she asked for it, just to make her happy, and stop whinning, though even he knows how to discipline them when needed.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Cheatsy's meddling in "Never Koop a Koopa" foiled his dad's scheme.

* PaperThinDisguise: The episode "Reign Storm" has Kooky building a robot look-alike of Princess Toadstool to bring ruin to the Mushroom Kingdom and then turn it over to King Koopa. Somehow, Mario and Luigi are completely fooled by the robot, despite it having obvious robotic lines on its arms and [[RoboSpeak speaking in a voice so monotone that anyone with ears could tell it wasn't the real Princess]].

* ShowWithinAShow: "Misadventures of Mighty Plumber."

* SickEpisode: Koopa has a cold in "Do the Koopa".

* TheStarscream: Bully and Cheatsy at times.

* TitleDrop: "Mush-Rumors" featured Mario saying the episode title at one point.
** And also in "True Colors".

* WeatherControlMachine: Kooky's Power Shower in "Oh, Brother!"

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "The Beauty of Kootie", Kootie Pie locks Princess, Toad, Desert Land's sultan and one of his guards in a dungeon. When she releases them, the guard is nowhere to be seen.

* AssholeVictim: Junior from "Misadventures in Babysitting".
** King Windbag from "Life's Ruff"; he gets better though.

* BrownNote: The Doom Dancer Music Box, which causes people who hear it to dance (except the one who is turning the crank).

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: ''Super Mario 3'' didn't suffer nearly as much in its transition to DVD as ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', though there were still a small handful of licensed songs that were removed and replaced with BGM from the series--though not on the "King Koopa Katastrophe" or "It's A Wonderful Warp" DVD.
** Infamously, the episode "Kootie Pie Rocks" used the instrumental version of "Mega Move" over any lyrical songs from Music/MilliVanilli. [[HilariousInHindsight This resulted in the very odd visual of the two singing but no words coming out of their mouths.]]
** Extra Hindsight Hilarity points for the fact that when Milli Vanilli point out they can't be forced to do a song without their backup singers. Taken further in that when Kootie Pie gives up on having them as her captives, she laments that their music was [[IronicEcho too beautiful to last!]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Obviously it's still very much a kid's show, but the tone got a little more serious at times when compared too the erlier ''Super Mario Bros. Super Show''. Part of this is because of the way the music was arranged: Dark Land's theme sounds a lot more menacing in this cartoon than in the video game. Same goes for the airship theme. And of course, the opening theme music was not nearly as cheery as from ''SMBSS'' or ''Super Mario World''.

* DefrostingIceQueen: King Windbag in a literal non-romantic example.

* DivideAndConquer: Said word-for-word in "True Colors" as the Koopas plan to turn the Mushroom people against each other.

* ElectionDayEpisode: "Princess Toadstool for President".

* {{Fanservice}}: Princess Toadstool wears a swimsuit in more than one episode. Sure, it started as a BeachEpisode, but at one point, she gets captured wearing it and spends the whole rest of the episode clad as such.
** There's also her TotallyRadical '80s outfits in the episode "Kootie Pie Rocks".

* FeudEpisode: Mario and Luigi have one in "Oh, Brother!", and another one in "True Colors".

* FootnoteFever: The Annotated Series as seen on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/beeupyou Beeupyou's]] Website/YouTube channel.

* TheFullNameAdventures: The Adventures of '''Super Mario''' Bros. 3.

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* HeelFaceTurn: During the episode "Crimes R Us", King Bowser Koopa abducted [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Crimewave Clyde]] out of prison to train his kids how to become hardcore criminals. They became too much for Clyde and after the Koopa Kids double crossed him at the Mushroom Kingdom Treasury, he switched sides with the Marios and gave Bowser and his kids a lesson in payback. Though Clyde did return to prison, he was more happy to [[LongerThanLifeSentence 12,423-year prison sentence with no parole]] than to spend another day with the Koopas.

* HumansAreMorons: The ending to "True Colors".

* ImplacableMan: The mummy from "Mind Your Mummy Mommy, Mario."
* InstrumentalThemeTune: If you don't count the narration, that is.

* MacGuffin: The wand in "A Toadally Magical Adventure."

* In "Recycled Koopa," Koopa has invaded New York, and covered it with magic garbage which has turned most of the population into koopa zombies, including Mario. Then Luigi builds a machine that recycles the garbage, which then gets rid of the mountains of garbage and turns everyone back to normal.

** In "Crimes R Us", Koopa promises the notorious Crimewave Clyde that in exchange for teaching his Koopalings how to be criminals, he can keep half of their stolen goods. However, after Clyde helps trap the Mario Bros. and train the Koopalings, the Koopas double cross him and handcuff a Bob-omb to his ankle. Clyde [[TheDogBitesBack gets even for this at the end]].

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Had Toad known that the Orphanage actually got the money in "Tag Team Trouble", none of the plot would've happen. Instead, Toad went though all this trouble to end up handing extra money to the Orphanage, which while sweet, was quite unnecessary to begin with.

--> --'''[[Creator/ErnieAnderson The Narrator]]''', the opening titles.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Obviously it's still very much a kid's show, but the tone got a little more serious at times. Part of this is because of the way the music was arranged: Dark Land's theme sounds a lot more menacing in this cartoon than in the video game. Same goes for the airship theme. And of course, the opening theme music was not nearly as cheery as from ''SMBSS'' or ''Super Mario World''.

* SpaghettiAndGondolas: The episode "The Venice Menace," Is set in Venice, and features an extended chase scene in gondolas. Koopa's plan is to chase out the humans population and turn the flooded city into a water park for Kootie Pie.

* AbsenteeActor: Between four heroes, one BigBad and seven Koopa Kids, there were bound to be some absences. "Life's Ruff" is a special case. Most of the regulars are absent, but so is Mario himself--making for the only episode of the three shows that he didn't appear in. (Incidentally, this means Luigi is the only character to appear in every episode of every show.)

Originally broadcast on Creator/{{NBC}} alongside the second season of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', the series suffered from a lack of advertising due to NBC exhausting their advertising expidentures toward another Saturday morning series, ''Series/SavedByTheBell''.

** When Kootie Pie discovers Casanova Koopa is really Luigi in "The Beauty of Kootie", she screams "[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} I've been kissed by a plumber!]]"

** And when it was originally paired with ''Captain N'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHdfjESOE9g this brief bit preceded it]]: "And now... ''Captain N''! And the ''Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3!''"

* BagOfKidnapping: In a rare villain example, this happens to the Koopa Kids in "Crimes R Us". Crimewave Clyde and the Mario Bros. throw them in a dollar-sign bag, bound and gagged, then send it to Koopa in the Doomship.

* MoralDissonance: Several times in "7 Continents for 7 Koopas":
** Bully Koopa grafittis the Great Wall of China. How does Mario solve this? [[ScaledUp He turns the wall into a dragon.]] That's more of a problem than what Bully originally did to it.
** Mario also floods the Louvre to fix the artwork that Kootie Pie ruined.
** Luigi makes the penguins gigantic in response to Big Mouth's Abominable Snowkoopa.

* GossipEvolution: In "Mush-Rumors," a mushroom citizen sees a "Real World" family and assumes they are aliens. He warns Hip and Hop there are aliens about, and they in turn carry the rumor to Kastle Koopa, where it moves through the other Koopalings, eventually growing into a full-blown alien invasion.

* BackgroundMusic: Appropriately, nearly all of the music tracks in the show were re-arranged versions from the video game.

->''"It is a legend no one will forget. Everyone thought King Koopa had left the Mushroom Kingdom, and then- his Doomship attacked! King Koopa was back, with the greatest danger ever known: his Koopa kids. Using their new superpowers, the Super Mario Bros. rescue Princess Toadstool and beat back the evil Koopa family."''

-->[[spoiler: '''Mario''']]: [[spoiler: Heheh, yeah, when humans get as smart as Mushrooms!]]

* ConvectionSchmonvection: In "Misadventures in Babysitting," The Mario brothers are trapped in a room slowly filling with a boiling lava, but suffer no ill effects.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: "That's '''Holly''' Mackerel, not '''Holy''' Mackerel."