Bizarro Episode: Luigi's Spooky Ghost Spooky Quest in a nutshell. The trailer already shows an overuse of green screen effects, some Series Continuity Errors (such as the Goomba commander supposing to have thrown in the towel), and Jerkass behavior from Luigi and Yoshi, who both use their ghost powers to cause mischief. What better pick for an April Fool's video?
In Mario's Quest, was it for the best that Goomfrey cut ties with Peach, or should they have remained friends forever?
Out of all of Goomzilla's videos, Wario the Bankrupt had received some controversy. Some people disliked Wario's antics, while others found them funny and entertaining.
Captain Obvious Reveal: Plenty of viewers of Luigi's Quest saw Solus' betrayal coming from a mile away. Same goes for the Toad that helped Peach in Peach's Quest turning out to be a Duplighost, and the leader of the Duplighosts being Mimi.
Fandom VIP: Yumi the Yoshi Tamer. Starting with Luigi's Quest, she started a tradition of closely analyzing Goomzilla's videos in the comment section, which Goomzilla himself admitted to liking. It got to the point where she was lucky enough to voice Princess Daisy in Peach's Quest as a Special Guest.
Fanfic Fuel: "Among Us in the Super Mario World" gives an excellent representation of what an evil Toad would be like, almost making you wish it would happen in an official Mario game. Likewise, its Sequel Episode has its own version of Peach going to the dark side—withoutneeding to be hypnotized.
First Installment Wins: Bowser's Mushroom Factory, Goomzilla's first video, has the highest views on his channel.
Genius Bonus: Mushrooms are essentially drugs that can give people hallucinations, so it makes sense that the living poisoned mushroom in Luigi's Quest would be a hypnotist.
Growing the Beard: Arguably, Mario's Quest was where Goomzilla's series truly found itself.
A couple of Goomzilla's plush videos had some strange connections to Super Mario 3D World. For one, Bowser was seen driving a big purple car in some plush movies, and Wario the Bankrupt had a couple of characters disguised as Goombas, with an unfooled Koopa Troopa for good measure.
Before it was confirmed that up to three Bowsers can be inserted into your levels created by Super Mario Maker, Luigi the Prankster had Luigi sneaking past three sleeping Bowsers. This is made more hilarious if you happen to have the Luigi amiibo costume.
Bowser wanting to power himself up with Super Mushrooms in Bowser's Mushroom Factory (as well as his troops actually being able to do so) has many similarities to Super Mario Maker.
There's a character in Luigi's Quest who looks suspiciously like Dr. Toadley, but doesn't share the former's hypnotic powers...that is, until the remake of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
After Mario's Unexpected Transformation, Mario would eventually become a Goomba again in Super Mario Odyssey, as noted on Goomzilla's Twitter page.
In Luigi's Quest, people have correctly guessed a number of things that Solus is evil all along, that he was a Dry Bones this whole time, given that there were clearly grey hands and boots to match the Dry Bones plush used, and that the way Peach would be "made more loyal" to Bowser was through hypnosis.
Peach Quest has some of this too. It was obvious that the Toad that helped Peach in the beginning would turn out to be a Duplighost, given his suspicious behavior, and that the leader of the Duplighosts would be Mimi.
Solus was clearly in the wrong, but it's hard not to feel sorry for him anyway.
Bowser had it rough in Peach's Quest. His power was taken from him, his minions didn't recognize him, they work for the Duplighosts now, and his castle has been taken over by said Duplighosts. Even after all the crap he pulled over the years, you can't help but want to give the poor guy a hug.
Peach's Quest also gives us the captain of the Great Glory and Mimi. One was merely trying to protect an artifact the heroes were after, while the other feels terrible about letting the power of ruling over the Duplighosts go to her head.
Bowser crosses this in Mario's Quest when he orders Goomfrey to beat Peach with a baseball bat in Mario's Quest. Granted, she was looking at his diary, but Bowser was technically committing Domestic Abuse. His apathetic reaction to his own minions turned to stone near the end only surpasses this.
Solus crosses this in Luigi's Quest by taking all of Mario's power from Peach at the last minute.
In Yoshi and the Lost Egg, Wario and Waluigi cross it when they kidnap Birdo's baby and force it to make eggs for them.
Yoshi and the Lost Egg also features a noncanon example! In the worst ending, Yoshi suddenly turns evil and lures Mario into enslavement. For no reason.
In Peach's Quest, Tripliss crosses this by stripping Doopliss from his powers permanently following Mimi's defeat. This might not sound so bad, but Doopliss helped the heroes take Mimi down.
Narm: It's hard to take Peach's distorted voice in Luigi's Quest seriously.
Special Effects Failure: Some of the green screen effects in Luigi's Spooky Ghost Spooky Quest came off as rather awkward. Justified, as Goomzilla was just experimenting with green screen at that time.
Peach is forced to give Bowser arm massages in Luigi's Quest.
The trailer for Luigi's Spooky Ghost Spooky Quest opens right off the bat with Stanleylicking Luigi!
Kamek had to eat Goomba food to survive after having his power drained, which apparently is the Goomzilla equivalent to dog food. "Yuck" is the appropriate response.
P. Shroom (if that's even his real name) from Luigi's Quest. He's an incredibly skilled hypnotist who resides in Rogueport. Bowser hires him to hypnotize Peach to be loyal to him, and not only does he not suffer any consequences for this, Bowser has presumably rewarded him nicely for his efforts. While Solus isn't a weak antagonist by any means, you'd think somebody with the power to make you forget everything about yourself would be a more active threat in the movie. Instead, he quickly works his magic on Peach, and just walks away.
Tripliss. Peach's Quest doesn't do as much with his betrayal as the last movie did with Solus. Tripliss didn't have nearly as much development or clear motivations as Solus did, and mostly wanted to cause trouble just because he could. To top it off, he doesn't get a satisfying death scene either. Mario just jumps on him, and he's gone.
The Crystal Palace was an important plot location in Peach's Quest, yet the Crystal King is nowhere to be seen or mentioned.
Luigi's Quest has Luigi and Captain Toad going to find three colored Energy Cells, guarded by three neutral parties with no affiliation with Bowser or Mario. Since the colors of the guardians or their surroundings match the Cells and Captain Toad is already on the team, this would have been the perfect opportunity to include Draggadon as the guardian for the red Energy Cell, himself a neutral party. Instead, that role is given to Lady Bow.
From the same movie, when Peach flashes back to all of the good times she had with Mario to undo her hypnosis, Goomzilla could have used more moments than the three he went with. Sure, he used a different plush for her back in the beginning, but a more complete collection would have been a great 5th anniversary treat for around the time Part 5 came out.
Something Mario's Unexpected Transformation could have explored more was how some of his friends would react to Mario turning into a Goomba. Would they recognize Mario or would they try to stomp on him? Only Peach sees Goomba!Mario, and despite Mario's fears, her reaction was the former. Notably, the pic Goomzilla showed on his Twitter when he teased the episode was Goomba!Mario standing next to Bowser and a medal-ed Microgoomba, with small pictures in the background of Luigi and a Goomba in agony. From this picture alone, it's easy to assume that Bowser or the Microgoomba turned Mario into a Goomba, and planned to put him at the mercy of Luigi so he will be crushed by his own brother.
Since we've clearly seen a Hammer Bro., Boomerang Bro., Boo, Bob-omb, and Spiny working for Bowser in past Goomzilla videos, it's rather baffling they didn't show up for the wedding at the beginning of Peach's Quest. Even the excuse that it would require a lot of handwork seems null since Mario's Quest had at least one large crowd scene with plushes that had to be left alone, and even more large crowd scenes would later show up for this movie. Bottom line, you'd expect a more complete minion turnout for something Bowser's wanted for years.
Ugly Cute: Shrunk!Bowser from Peach's Quest looks adorable and repulsive at the same time.
Unexpected Character: Now honestly, who expected Birdo to be the one who stole Yoshi's egg in Yoshi and the Lost Egg?
