Animation Age Ghetto: Due to the show's use of plushies and puppets, many people have assumed it is for kids. This has created a lot of controversy, and eventually ended up causing trouble with YouTube and Nintendo.
In videos where Cody is hitting on Junior (or anyone else, for that matter), despite being in a relationship with Ken: Is he truly cheating on him or does he actually know Ken is just a doll and wants to have a relationship with a real person? Or perhaps he's just going for a threesome?
In "The Bet!", was the judge threatened into winning Chef Pee Pee's entry, or did he genuinely like it so much, he ate his cooking like a messy dog?
In "Jeffy's Parents", was Jeffy genuinely promising Mario he would be good, or was he just guilt-tripping Mario into adopting him?
Does Goodman actually own Mario's house? Or is he running an extortion racket that he knows he can get away with because the police are either useless, easily bribed, or both?
Brooklyn T. Guy does not bother with simply divorcing her wife, it is out of stupidity? or considering Johnathan and his obsessive crush on Karen, maybe he just does not want his brother to ever get a chance to get to marry and make love with Karen?.
In "Black Yoshi's Black Friday!", Mario has to find a way to get $15,000 in order to bail Black Yoshi — who thought Black Friday was a day where black people got free stuff to make up for years of slavery — out of prison for stealing things on Black Friday. Mario goes and asks Goodman to lend him that exact amount, and he agrees on the condition that Mario makes him a Thanksgiving dinner. And then Goodman just ups and leaves after saying everything Mario gave him looks terrible (this includes the food that Jeffy didn't ruin), and Black Yoshi just shows up at Mario's front door, with the ending of the video revealing that Black Yoshi broke out of prison. While not exactly out of character for Black Yoshi, the video never explains or shows how he did this, nor answer why he called Mario if he would just break out of prison anyways. Even worse is that it makes the entire stuff with Goodman, Jeffy and the Thanksgiving dinner nothing but pointless filler.
The entire conflict of "Cody's Report Card!" is that Cody has a B+ on his report card in Spelling, and he's afraid to show his parents because they won't love him anymore if they see it. Except he didn't. In the end, Jackie Chu reveals that he made a typo (despite nothing on that report card looking even remotely off aside from Junior's Photoshopped report card, which was supposed to be fake) and that Cody actually got all A's, resulting in a happy ending that just felt tacked on.
"Joseph the Millionaire"; even ignoring the severeContinuity Snarl that video's story brings about and the redundancy of essentially making Joseph's character an extension of Richard's, the fact that Joseph's mother was in fact sending him money the whole time comes across as a lazy way of handwaving away any questions about the direction Joseph's character could have been taken in.
"Jeffy's 19th Birthday": Nancy managed to survive getting shot in the head and escaped the van before it exploded.
Badass Decay: Black Yoshi has suffered from this, going from a ruthless Anti-Hero gangster to a moocher who usually begs for Mario to buy a new Call of Duty game.
On one hand, Jeffy is loved even among the cast, and some fans enjoy him for his jokes and antics. On the other hand, a lot of fans dislike Jeffy for the same reasons and also find his character to be offensive, a spotlight-hogger who pushed the older characters into irrelevance, and see him as the catalyst for SML's decline and nearly every controversy related to it since, such as the series being perceived as for kids, the demographic shift which led to the "Jeffy's Tantrum!" incident note Where a child tried to imitate Jeffy by attempting to tie a noose around his neck, which received news headlines and garnered widespread controversy, and giving SML a poor reception to even those outside the show's fanbase, with said reputation ultimately culminating in Nintendo putting a C&D on the series.
Brooklyn T. Guy is a strange case. On one hand, people tend to like him for being a hilarious Deadpan Snarker who is one of the few sensible characters in SML's cast. On the other, many of his detractors call him out for being an Idiot HoudiniJerkass who arrests innocent peoplenote To put that in perspective, he is one of the main reasons "Jeffy's Bad Word" and "Locked Out" are poorly received and effectively replaced Goodman. Those who dislike him also feel that his jokes aren't funny and derail videos that he appears in.
As of late, even Mario has become a divisive character. While he is usually sympathized with because of how he has to put up with Rosalina, Jeffy, Mr. Goodman, Black Yoshi, and so on, his detractors tend to call him out for being a greedy Manchild who complains about everything.
Is the series still legitimately funny and enjoyable, or has it become too repetitive and predictable?
Toad shooting Jeffy near the end of "Jeffy the Rapper!" so he can remain the number one rapper. Did he cross the Moral Event Horizon, or was Jeffy getting some well-deserved Laser-Guided Karma for all the bad things he did to Mario... or both?
While the fanbase at large feels the series has unquestionably declined, where that decline started has been debated. Some fans say SuperMarioLogan went downhill when Junior slowly became the series' protagonist. Others point at it starting when Jeffy was introduced. Fans who didn't instantly hate Jeffy point to the decline happening either starting with "Jeffy's Bad Word", where Jeffy Took a Level in Jerkass, or from late 2016 to early 2017, when both his and Mr. Goodman's Hair-Trigger Temper and Sir Swears-a-Lot personas became prevalent. Others will point to 2020 due to the absence of Chris and the introduction of the Human Puppets. The only thing the fanbase can 100% agree on is that the C&D in 2021 undoubtedly led to the quality dropping.
The Human Puppets. From the moment they were revealed in "The Human Potion", they sparked major backlash from many fans for their designs and for the change seeming needless in general. Others, however, thought that the puppets would make it easier for Logan to have family-unfriendly humor and swearing again now that the characters were severed from their family-friendly franchise. Them becoming permanent following the C&D only intensified this divide.
In more recent videos, instances with the cast members breaking character as they struggle to not laugh while acting in the middle of scenes. Depending on the viewer, this is either incredibly funny, or is extremely lazy and unprofessional on Logan's end. Detractors argue that these instances ruin scenes and are something that not even an amateur would want to include in their final cut. Plus, a mistake like this is as easy to undo as re-recording the scene. What doesn't help is that there have been multiple videos in a row where there's at least one scene with the actors corpsing.
While it's not as often as most people would like it to be, when Rosalinagets a taste of her own medicine, it's definitely a pleasure to see, especially since she's just as bad, if not worse than Jeffy at times.
Creator's Pet: As of 2017, Mr. Goodman has become this. Being one of Logan's favorite characters, as well as Lance's favorite character overall doesn't save him from the fanbase's hatred, who loathe his flanderization into The Don and wish that he would face more consequences for his actions.
Creepy Cute: Granted this is to be expected, but the plushies of the Five Nights at Freddy's cast are actually quite adorable compared to their game counterparts.
Crosses the Line Twice: As this page details, whether with plushies or human puppets, this web series will pull no punches in obliterating the line as much as they can.
Mario gets this treatment a lot, often getting painted as the bad guy when his actions don't make him nearly as deserving of that position as the narrative makes it out to be. "Jeffy's Bad Word" is one of the worst cases of this.
Jeffy gets this due to his backstory of being abused by his biological mother.
Chef Pee Pee has received this treatment from fans simply because he is almost constantly antagonized by Bowser and Junior. Although it tends to happen far too often and has resulted in some widely disliked videos, Chef Pee Pee has also been shown to be just as petty, short-tempered and eager to get revengeas his two enemies.
Jeffy, in spite of his Broken Base, is likely the most popular SML character to this day, and is often viewed as the face of the channel. In fact, his page on the SML Wiki is at #1 of most popular pages on the wiki, surpassing other character articles such as Mario and Bowser Junior. He is even regarded as the Creator's Favorite.
Black Yoshi, Tony The Tiger, and Mama Luigi (when he was still alive), mainly because people find them hilarious.
In terms of puppet characters, Craig the Devil and Jackie Chu (who is even loved in-universe for being a Cool Teacher) are generally regarded as the most hilarious and are usually in some of SML's best videos.
Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Lots of young SML fans consider the channel to be a canon part of the Super Mario series, simply because it has "Super Mario" in the name, and uses Mario plushies. This is clearly false due to the channel's use of many original characters, and a majority of the videos have little to nothing to do with the Mario games. The SML Reuploaded channel states at the beginning that SML is NOT associated with the Mario games in any way.
The SML fanbase has a major rivalry with that of SMG4. Comment on a video on one side saying you prefer the other and prepare for backlash.
To a much lesser extent, it has one with the Cute Mario Bros and Magical Mario Bros fandoms too since both the channels have a similar premise, with CMB being the first and formerly more popular channel. The fact that Logan subtly took shots at them once does not help.
dabhdude has been well-known in the community since 2014 for his reactions, in-debt explanations of the various eras of SML, various streams and interviews with members of the SML cast, and his reuploading of deleted episodes on SML Reuploaded. Helping is that he is friends with former SML actor Zeke and occasionally has him on livestreams.
GamecubeDude300 was formerly the channel's most well-known reactor until 2017, where he stated he would be taking a break and doing less reactions to SML in his video issuing some of its problems, a big reason being how negative and divided the fanbase became and being accused of being the source of the Jeffy hatedom. This eventually escalated until personal incidents with Logan and Lovell ultimately convinced him to sever all ties with SML and delete his channel.
Jeffy's swearing fits were seen as amusing in "Jeffy's Homework!" and "Smart Jeffy" due to how unexpected they were. Then Jeffy turned into a Hair-Trigger TemperSir Swears-a-Lot, with many perceiving his constant shouting as obnoxious.
While Goodman has become a polarized character following his Flanderization into a irredeemable, greedy capitalist, he had moments of antagonism and was often pitted against the main characters even in his original persona. Still, he was often in the right to pursue the leads as they were often up to no good, and the times when he was doing something bad were few and far between; his negatives didn't consume his whole character like they do now.
Corpsing gets a lot of flak for being entirely disruptive to the whole scene's flow, as well as rearing its ugly head in multiple videos in a row, with Logan not bothering to re-shoot the scene being seen as lazy. Back then, this wasn't as prominent as it was, only consisting of light cracking from the actors, and didn't end up disrupting the scenes.
"Rosalina's Ex-Boyfriend" is hailed as one of the sweeter videos involving Mario and Rosalina as it shows how much they care for each other; the former willing to fight the titular Ex-Boyfriend (D-Money) despite being outclassed and the latter showing nothing but concern for him after getting rocked repeatedly. D-Money himself came to respect Mario for always getting back up and decided to leave them alone. Moreover, it's believable that someone would have one failed relationship that didn't work out before ultimately settling down with someone else. Nowadays, Mario is in an Awful Wedded Life with Rosalina, largely due to her bringing several of her other exes in their presence, greatly implying an unfaithful and promiscuous side to her. Not helping is some of the said ex's trying to win her back.
"Jeffy The Rapper!" ended with Jeffy, a rapper in the episode, getting shot by Toad. A little over a year later, two othercertain rappers got shot and died on the same day. It didn't help that one of the real-life shootings took place in the exact same US state as the one depicted in the video.
By a similar token, these examples along with numerous episodes involving cheating (e.g. "Cody's Parent Problem" and "Cody's New Family") or pedophilic references (e.g. the "Bowser Junior's 1st Grade" arc note and anything involving Mr. Winkle or Screwball in general, "The Baby Project!", Mario getting falsely branded a pedophile in "Jeffy's Bad Word!", Shrek calling Mr. Goodman a pedophile in "Baby Shrek", etc.) can seem way more uncomfortable to watch ever since spring 2022, with the (previously overlooked) reveal that Logan sent photos from his and Tito's night at a strip club in a group-chat with minors and he more recently had been dating a co-worker's cousin whilst he is married to Chilly.
Bowser Junior and Joseph coming down with the flu (Jeffy not being sick) in "Jeffy and Junior Sneak to Disney World!" can come off this way, especially after the entire SML crew (with the exception of Pablo) tested positive for COVID-19 in November of the same year. What’s more ironic is that Cody is the one that stayed home in the video and not Disney World.
In an early Flash animation Logan did in 2008 called "Mario Pivot Animation "Bad Day"", Mario finds out that his YouTube account got deleted by YouTube. 12 years later, the original SML channel ended up getting deleted.
In the 2009 video "New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Final Boss" Super Battle!!!", Logan jokes that when he first beated Bowser's first phase, he was gonna sue Nintendo because the final boss of New Super Mario Bros. Wii was too easy, before realizing that Bowser becomes giant. 11 years later, Nintendo would sue Logan over using the Mario plushies in his series.
In "Bowser Junior's Lightsaber!", in the final scene where Yoda arrives to Junior house, Junior asks Yoda why he talks like that, and Yoda replies that he's having a stroke. This dialogue exchange doesn't feel funny anymore after CloneWars Yoda's voice actor Tom Kane suffered a stroke in 2020, causing his retirement from voice acting.
In Episode 7 of the Luigi's Mansion series, which was first uploaded to YouTube on December 27, 2014, Kobe Bryant is one of the characters featured in Craig the Devil's Hall of Fame in Hell. On January 26, 2020, Kobe was killed in the Calabasas helicopter crash.
In "Jeffy and Junior Sneak To Disney World", a subplot involves Cody being angry at not having a LEGO Super Mario counterpart like Junior and Joseph. After the release of the Bowser's Airship set, Kamek was finally added into Lego Super Mario. Unfortunately, thanks to Nintendo suing SML over the Mario plushies, Cody will never be able to enjoy it.
In "Cody's Missing", Cody is outraged about the fact he is not in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. 5 years later, Kamek was included as a playable character in Wave 5 of the Booster Course Pass.
In "Mario and Luigi's Stupid and Dumb Adventures" series, there is a character named Crack Bear.
Bowser, towards Chef Pee Pee in some occasions. For example, in "Bowser's Salad Wrap", Chef Pee Pee briefly takes off his shirt, to which Bowser exclaims it's "too sexy" while Junior is disgusted. In both "SuperPowers" and "1 2 Switch Bodies!", Bowser also ends up sleeping with Cody (disguised as Chef Pee Pee in the former, and in Chef Pee Pee's body in the latter), and at the end of the former video, he asks the real Chef Pee Pee if he's ready for "Round 2".
Speaking of Chef Pee Pee, in "The Date", after Mario keeps asking him to cook food, he starts yelling at him because he’s “not a cheap ho!” And throughout the video keeps using the “pimp and ho” metaphor to describe the situation, and for some odd reason brings up spitting fetishes. If that weren’t enough, the last time we see him in the video is him naked on the counter, asking Mario if he’s ready for “a real dessert”.
Junior and Cody seem to have hints of this. Junior seems willing to help out Cody whenever he is sad, and Junior even called Cody his best bud in one video. Cody himself shows even more signs that he is into Junior with some of the suggestive comments he spews. Keep in mind, Cody is also dating Ken. Maybe he's using him to get Junior jealous?
Cody himself is this so much. Mostly the reason why he has a Ken doll and has sex around Junior sometimes.
During the fight between Super D and Super Big D in "Jeffy’s Crayons", their tension starts to take a more flirty turn before they begin kissing each other. While they both put an end to it, they both decide to stop fighting for Rose, and walk off together arm-in-arm, while still lightly flirting with each other.
Humor Dissonance: Junior and Joseph are known to repeatedly make jokes about Cody's mom being fat and find them hilarious. The audience, on the other hand, might not find them as funny. It especially comes into play in later seasons where the joke has long since grown old as they have been doing the joke for several years now and yet it's still treated as hilarious by them in-universe even though the audience has long since grown tired of it.
Informed Wrongness: Jeffy's Running Gag of constantly throwing his plates of green beans on the floor is meant to make him look like a comically annoying Spoiled Brat. That's not to say that he isn't one, but the fact that Mario/Marvin feeds him almost nothing but green beans makes it kind of hard to disagree with Jeffy, since there are tons of other healthy foods that Mario/Marvin can feed him than just green beans every day (Heck, it's even inplied that he actually likes carrots, which are healthy). Rosalina/Rose even suggested giving Jeffy other healthy things to eat, bur Mario/Marvin insisted on just making him eat green beans specifically, making Mario/Marvin look kind of hard to root for in the process.
It Was His Sled: SML has a lot of continuity and references to older episodes. While not every one of these details makes it into the following, if you start at the current part of the series, the fact that everyone refers to Mario names for the human puppets would probably be confusing. If you start at the beginning of the series when Logan first started making these videos at home, you'll likely be spoiled by any fan of the series or even the video comments themselves about how this character named "Jeffy" isn't in the show. By the time Jeffy is even introduced after years of episodes, you'd be forgiven for already knowing exactly who this character is as he is the one thing most people discuss when talking about SML in-universe.
I Knew It!: Some people correctly guessed what was behind the Secret Door: the bodies of the people that were murdered in the house.
It's the Same, So It Sucks: "Jeffy's 19th Birthday!" has been seen by SML fans as a rehash of "Jeffy's 18th Birthday!" from the year before, albeit shorter with the conflict resolved much faster, not helped by that Logan hyped it as a much longer and exciting video shortly before it was posted.
Despite Junior acting like a Spoiled Brat most of the time, he has had a very screwed up life. He doesn't know his mom, all of his friends are assholes, his dad loves a TV show more than him, and when he tries gets to get some attention from him, Bowser usually beats him up. And if all of that doesn't make you feel bad for him, he has even been traumatized and heartbroken after being sent to military school.
Bully Bill to an extent. From his first appearance alone, he mentions having a dysfunctional home life and takes his aggression out on other people, which, while bad, never gets as brutal as any of the other child characters. Since he has "Bully" in his name, he usually goes around bullying people, especially Jeffy. However, every single time he teases him, Jeffy always gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Worst of all, Bully never learns his lesson. "Jeffy's Bike" expands on this. When Jeffy gets his bike stolen, he and Mario go over to Bully Bill's apartment to see if he was the thief. When Bully Bill says that he actually wasn't, his father berates and grounds him, simply for not doing a bad deed. This gives insight into Bully Bill's character, since we now know he is practically forced to be bad all the time and can't be anything but, not even neutral.
Jeffy. He wreaks havoc, annoys and tortures Mario, throws fits to get what he wants, gets angry at the slightest things, and curses a lot. At his worst moments, he can even cross into Villain Protagonist territory. However, he was born to an abusive mother, Nancy, who was extremely abusive to him throughout his childhood. This is revealed in "Jeffy's Parents!". It's even more heartbreaking when Jeffy begs Mario not to bring him back to her, and Mario only cares about Jeffy going back to his real mother. Jeffy even "promises" to be a good boy from now on just to live with someone that actually doesn't abuse him. Thankfully, Mario realizes Jeffy's better off with him and Rosalina. Not to mention, he was left on Mario's doorstep. He may be a huge jerk, but no one deserves that. He suffered so much that even Jeffy haters pitied him for some time. But wait, there's more: Jeffy's sister Feebee was ran over in front of him, which affected him noticeably. His father, Jacques Pierre François (whose money he was supposed to inherit when he turned 18), faked his death and abandoned him, and when he was asked about him on live TV, he dismissed him. And Nancy admits that she never loved him, saying he was an accident. This doesn't excuse his most heinous actions (as mentioned above), but he has had it rough. Big time.
Sure Mario can be grouchy and overly strict, but considering what the universe puts him through, can you really blame him?
Brooklyn T. Guy's home life makes him portrayed as this thanks to him sometimes randomly becoming a jerk in certain episodes, but seeing "The Life of Brooklyn Guy" shows how much of a nagging wife Karen is.
Even Black Yoshi may be this, more less. He is lazy, selfish, leeches off Mario, tends to lie and steal a lot, and goes to extreme lengths to get what he wants, among other things. But his low intelligence, despite it being Played for Laughs, makes him somewhat pitiable. Think about it; he is unable to read, can only count to 18, doesn't know the alphabet, and is only able to read stuff if it is written the way he pronounces it. He also has trouble focusing. All things considered, it's possible he has some form of dyslexia.
Goodman. It's revealed in "Black Yoshi's Black Friday!" that he has never had a normal Thanksgiving because his family only cares about him due to his money. In fact, when Thanksgiving does happen, all he does is look over his bank accounts in his office. Despite how cruel he is, you can't help but feel sorry for him when you learn about that. He also qualifies as this in "The Bet!", where he loses all his money after losing to Chef Pee Pee in the Best Chef Competition; even Mario feels bad for him despite being terrorized by Goodman many times.
Bowser can be seen as this in "Bowser's Depression", where he became incredibly depressed when Charleyyy & Friends is cancelled. Really, to say he was depressed during then was a large understatement, as it's more of a Despair Event Horizon. Bowser looking out the window while rain is pouring down shows this. Not to mention, he hanged himself in an attempt to commit suicide after finding out about said cancellation. Even after Junior and Chef Pee Pee try to cheer him up, he breaks down in tears again, though he does eventually recover when he gives Fishy & Friends a chance. However, Charleyyy & Friends does comes back.
Richard. Yes, he's a snobbish, greedy jerk, but imagine growing up in such a terrible and unloving environment as his. There's also the fact that Goodman tends to be abusive towards him.
Just Here for Godzilla: A huge portion of SML's fanbase is comprised of young children who come just to see Jeffy, despite most of the content. It got to the point where some videos starring older characters ("Toad's Mistake!", "Attack of the Killer Shrimp!") were hated by these viewers because they preferred Jeffy over Mama Luigi and Woody. This is also why Logan can't retire or kill off Jeffy, since it would cause him to lose a massive amount of subscribers and possibly put him and his loved ones in danger of being attacked by angry Jeffy fans.
Misaimed Fandom: Many viewers often see Chef Pee Pee, Mario and Cody as "sympathetic" simply because they have been shown to put up with a lot of crap from Junior and Bowser, Jeffy, Rosalina and Goodman and Junior and Joseph respectively. While they have been mistreated too often and they're portrayed as more sensible next to the others, it fails to account for the fact that in some videos, they can be just as bad if not worse (sometimes with little to no provocation whatsoever), though by that same token, them acting antagonist is often viewed as them taking revenge on their tormentors.
Moe: Many of the Mario plushies. Because of their endearingly oddball designs, they are some of the most desired merchendise by collectors, especially in regards to Mario, Bowser, and Mama Luigi. Sadly, this factor had worn off once SuperMarioLogan had shifted to the puppets.
Does Bad Things Guy from "The Secret Door!" already crossed it when he killed 25 people, but he also attempted to kill Mario, Rosalina, andJeffy when they discover he's keeping dead bodies behind the secret door. And on top of that, he impersonated histwin brother, Brooklyn T. Guy, for seven straight months.
Nancy is already an alcoholic child beater that doesn't even try to hide her true nature, but purposefully abandoning her son is especially awful. Sure, Jeffy may be a jerk, but he was still a relatively normal kid before she cast him out and certainly didn't deserve getting beaten. Even worse is that she has the nerve to try and get him back just to get his father's fortune.
No Milk from "Bowser's Biggest Fear 3" is a good example. The movie tries to be scary, yet its fear factor is still diminished with the titular character freaking out multiple times and the petty fact that a milk carton is the main antagonist, just as a banana was in the last two "Biggest Fear" videos.
"The Secret Door!" is a pretty scary video. It's filled with dead bodies and blood and everything, and Brooklyn T. Guy is a crazed murderer who kidnaps and almost kills Mario, Rosalina and Jeffy... except he isn't. It's actually his identical twin, whose name is "Does Bad Things Guy". While he is frightening, his name is so silly, it kinda takes away some of the fear factor for a killer that, unlike the Seeker, is meant to be more serious in tone.
In "Zombie Bowser!", Junior asks the question, "If zombies aren't real, how can we even talk about them?" From the way he asks it, the question was obviously supposed to be similar to other Fridge Logic questions Junior asks (such as questioning the premise of The Purge), but instead it comes off as nonsensical gibberish, because you can apply that same logic to any fictional creature that people have come up with; hell, you could make the same argument against Koopas, Junior's own race. But if you want the short answer, it's because either a creature originated from mythology (zombies for example came from Haitian mythos) or was you know, written by an influential writer (like, say, J.R.R. Tolkien, who made Hobbits) and therefore fictional, allowing it to be used by other people for various depictions and interpretations. Chef Pee Pee actually having his mind being blown doesn't help either, as he should clearly know better and be able to easily answer that question. Neither does the [random Illuminati symbol that just shows up for no rhyme or reason. Doesn't help that it's never brought up again.
The fact that Joseph started writing "I'm Sorry Mom" in blood while pulling a knife out on Junior while asleep, while it's heavily implied he killed her is undercut by the fact that he says while sleeping that he did it because she didn’t make his sandwiches right.
Narm Charm: In "Joseph's Mom!", it sounds funny that Joseph's mother didn't die and replaced herself with a fake skeleton, but it's also shown that she abandoned her own son, as well as the Downer Ending, where it's shown Joseph is in denial of this and thinks she's coming home, and then just silently sits on the couch.
The original SML channel was under a huge amount of fire after a disastrous piece done by Good Morning America where the news channel implied Logan and the SML crew were deliberately making videos for children that were incredibly harmful.
Eventually, Nintendo got involved and ordered a Cease & Desist, which required Logan to stop using the Mario plushies and remove all references to Mario content from his channels. Logan moved to using his own puppets which had vague visual references to the original, and eventually ended up deleting the entire SML channel. Logan still uploads to a fourth channel (now simply titled "SML"), but the original channel with almost 10 million subscribers, and 13 years of videos, has been totally deleted, as are all videos on SuperLuigiLogan. All archives of the videos on YouTube are done by fans wanting to preserve the content. Even if you look up SML nowadays, it's almost impossible not to stumble across Nintendo's C&D and the various hit pieces done against SML and its content.
Padding: A recurring problem that became more pronounced with the addition of Jeffy:
A scene in "Bowser Junior's Summer School 7" involves Chef Pee Pee trying to make Junior some cereal for breakfast. Then Junior demands that he pour the milk, and screams at the top of his lungs just to force him to let him pour the milk. However, he still drops the jug and makes a mess. Then Junior says he wants to do it again, and Chef Pee Pee reluctantly caves into his demands. This time, he ends up spilling milk all over the table, much to Chef Pee Pee's annoyance. This doesn't contribute to the storyline at all, and passes off as just filler in the end.
The entire tutor section of "The Test!" is just Junior and Jeffy screaming at Cody with their Insane Troll Logic. The whole scene ends up being pointless, because Junior, Jeffy and Cody just decide to cheat on their tests anyway.
"Jeffy's Wifi Problem!": Brooklyn T. Guy shows up halfway through the video and tries to sell Mario and Jeffy a Foosball table. The scene goes on for four minutes.
"Jeffy Gets Chicken Pox!" has Brooklyn T. Guy repeatedly making genitalia jokes and going on a tangent about elephants rather than trying to help Mario (granted, he does prescribe Tylenol for Jeffy, but no more than that). Unlike other examples, he's not in the video as long.
In "Scooter the Rapper!", after Mario asks Scooter for some money to pay his house payment, but all Scooter does is say "Well, well, well" and says an idiom to describe how he asked Mario for some money before, and this whole scene goes on for almost two minutes. Mario eventually grows tired of the scene, mostly because Scooter wasn't actually answering his question.
"Jeffy's Jellyfish!": After Mario gets stung, Brooklyn T. Guy goes on for three minutes about how he got stung by a jellyfish and then devolves into the plot of Finding Nemo. He then wastes two more minutes trying to get himself to pee on Mario's jellyfish wound so he can save his life, with Mario even acknowledging twice in the video that he's wasting time. Given that the jellyfish that stung Mario is mentioned to cause brain hemorrhaging and organ shutdown after five minutes, it's safe to say that the implications of Brooklyn T. Guy's actions could've potentially cost Mario his own life.
Ever since "The Secret Door!", every time Brooklyn T. Guy does questionable things, there is a chance that Does Bad Things Guy somehow returned and has been impersonating him.
Replacement Scrappy: The minor character Harry was introduced in mid-2020 to replace Cody, due to Chris going on quarantine from Covid. Compared to Cody, Harry is very boring, doesn't having any funny or interesting moments, and almost nothing is known about him. Thankfully, Cody returned in a later video, and Harry was never seen or mentioned since "Pregnant Jeffy."
Chef Pee Pee was initially not very well-liked across the fanbase mainly because he was in the spotlight very frequently. However, some have come around on him over the years for being one of the few sane characters, along with Mario and to a lesser extent Cody. It also helps that he is one of the more relatable characters amongst SML's generally zanier cast.
Junior was originally one of the most unlikable characters in SML, mostly due to his obnoxious behavior and the number of episodes focused around him along with Chef Pee Pee and Bowser. However, his character gradually improved as he went from a spoiled Jerkass that along with Bowser constantly tormented Chef Pee Pee, to more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. While he still has haters (or just people who want more than just Junior videos), most are willing to admit that Junior has improved since his early years.
Jeffy has been subject to years of torture thanks to "Jeffy's Bad Word!" and "Locked Out". He started regaining his former positive reception after "Jeffy's Parents!", where it was revealed that he has a smoking alcoholic prostitute mother named Nancy, who hates Jeffy and constantly physically abuses him. He suffered so much abuse from the episode that even Jeffy haters felt sorry for him, and as a result he started to improve just as Junior did for awhile until "Jeffy's Tantrum!" and Logan's 2017 April Fools' joke ("Jeffy's Fun Day!") caused his reputation to take another hard blow. Even then, Jeffy's reputation nowadays isn't nearly as bad, especially given 2017, the year where Jeffy was at his most infamous. He isn't above having detractors or anything, but most viewers now consider him a nuisance or an average character at most.
Jeffy's sister Feebee is hated for being a carbon copy of Jeffy, annoying Mario and acting weird; especially by fans that already hated Jeffy for the same reasons.
Rosalina was initially liked for being a genuinely good yet quirky girlfriend for Mario (as opposed to Peach) who is responsible for some of the most emotional SML videos such as "Mario's Valentine's Day Problem!" and "Rosalina's Ex-Boyfriend!". When Jeffy was added to the main cast, her reception gradually grew colder for caring a lot about Jeffy, yet still had a few of her moments. But after "Jeffy's Bad Word!", Rosalina got flak for being no better than Peach, focusing entirely on Jeffy's problems instead of her own lover, not really given much character outside outside of "being Mario's girlfriend", lacking any sort of humor or quirks to entertain people, and never being of any help to Mario (sometimes flat out annoying him on purpose). It got to the point that when her character started appearing less, aside from a few video requests that mention her in a plot synopsis, no one was really missing her.
Out of the series' older cast, Peach is disliked by a lot of people for being a shallow Jerkass. who dumped Mario for a petty reason, as well as having a very grating voicenote Which is especially baffling, because Lance (Peach's former voice actor) has proven to be a decent voice actor. in most of her older appearances.
While Goodman was always intended to be a stupid character and did pester Mario in the past, it was always mitigated somewhat by the fact that Mario would usually escape whatever Goodman's punishment was, getting what he deserves, or even just being funny or genuinely wanting to do good. Nowadays, while Goodman doesn't bother Mario quite as much as Jeffy did (most Goodman videos do have Mario winning in the end, with very few exceptions here and there), he still suffers from being a Karma Houdini jackass who repeats a lot of the same jokes that Jeffy already uses, to the point where modern Goodman and classic Goodman feel like entirely different characters. Most of his videos are quite predictable: Mario has to make his house payments, he can't make them, and Goodman threatens an often fatal punishment for him. The last part died down when Logan's YouTube problems kicked in, though it still pops up every now and then.
Joseph is often considered one of the blander characters on the show. Much of his screen time consists of trying to act cool, being a Junior clone, pulling Screw This, I'm Outta Here often, or just being a Living Prop. The series itself has lampshaded the latter two points, further cementing his lack of character. While he was later on given additional traits such as a quiteunhingednature and was revealed to live in a rundown trailer, not to mention his mother intentionally abandoned him, thus garnering some sympathy from viewers, this side of him doesn't always show up and occasionally amounts to a Running Gag when it does and he remains the same character otherwise. Him becoming meaner after getting his red shell cemented him as this. Viewers started to dislike him even more in recent videos, after becoming a puppet, as he became a Yes-Man for Junior, a black stereotype who always assume everyone is being racist, this is taken to the extreme in "Cody's Bad Word", which is considered by many to be one of the worst videos of SML.
Jonathan, Brooklyn T. Guy's brother, was immediately loathed after his debut in "Jeffy's Broken Laptop!" for his obnoxious and downright weird behavior. Him becoming a recurring character didn't help.
While not as universally loathed as Jonathan, the Huckerdoos - particularly Hank and Timmy - are also hated due to their extremely tired gimmick as a "seemingly normal but actually highly dysfunctional" family, only really serving to add to the series' status as a Cliché Storm.
Officer Top and Bottom, Brooklyn T. Guy's replacements in 2020, quickly gain hate from fans due to their portrayals as gay stereotypes, doing nothing but making perverted innuendos (which gets boring and unfunny), and pretty much useless in general. As such, they only make three appearances and did not appear again on the show.
Brooklyn T. Guy's daughter, Penelope gained heat from many fans due to Bratty Half-Pint personality, being a pointless Satellite Love Interest to Junior (which did not work out as they're quick to break up and get back together again in another episode), also treating her dad like crap.
Seasonal Rot: Many fans of SML feel that the series has declined in quality over time, but opinions differ on where exactly it started. Some fans will say that the quality of the show started to dip when the trio of Junior, Joseph, and Cody were introduced and took focus away from fan-favorites such as Black Yoshi and Woody, other fans will say that it was when Jeffy, a very divisive character himself, debuted and became a series regular, and others will say that the human puppets coming into the picture was when it really started. But most would agree on 2020 being the channel's lowest point, particularly during Chris' absence in the middle of the year. More would agree quality initially bottomed out after Logan was sent a cease-and-desist letter from Nintendo regarding the use of their plushies. Many long-time fans called it quits after the core cast were turned into puppets.
Win Back the Crowd: However, according to some of the viewers that stuck around, the series has benefited from the forced puppet switch in some ways, as the puppets are allowing Logan more freedom in jokes/mature content; indeed many of the late 2021/2022 videos have been viewed as somewhat of an improvement from the content a few years prior.
The 2023 era of videos have been noted as being the nadir of Logan's entire career in terms of quality by fans for a plethora of reasons; boring, predictable and formulaic plots with barely enough material in them to sustain even ten minutes, extremely flat characters who only have one personality trait, downright annoying and useless characters who contribute nothing to the videos they appear in, constant corpsing in the middle of scenes, most of the old cast being phased out entirely, and endless appearances from characters such as Jonathan and the Huckerdoos in spite of their lack of popularity among the fans. Because of this, many have accused Logan of being creatively bankrupt, with some wondering if he even cares about the effort he puts into SML anymore, seeing his channel not as a labor of love, but just another product to be sold in the ocean of algorithm-driven YouTube channels.
Rosalina flirting with a French-accented Jeffy towards the end of "Jeffy's Brain!". Not only is he 12 years old, but she's basically flirting with her surrogate son. Not helping matters is the fact that after Mario attempts to knock Jeffy out, thinking it's a different personality, Jeffy goes back to being his regular self.
Nancy being Jeffy's mother. Intentional or not, Jacques Pierre Françoisdid conceive a child with her, which would mean that they had sex at some point. Now remember what Nancy looks like, and it becomes sickening.
While it's just Cheerios, the image of Brooklyn T. Guy eating afterbirth in "Jeffy Has Kids!" counts too.
In "Zombie Bowser!", Chef Pee Pee, after getting fed up with Bowser's demands, deliberately taints a burger that he's cooking and even shows what he does with it. He uses it to clean the house, including the dishes, the pots and pans, and even the toilet. Afterwards, Bowser eats it and gets food poisoning. Then he finds out Chef Pee Pee intentionally poisoned him and forces Chef Pee Pee to eat the burger to become just as green as him.
"Bowser Junior's Girlfriend" has Judy longing to become younger again in order to look attractive which Cody resolves by turning her into a 12-year -oldwith an invention of his only to begin finding Junior attractive. While she has a kid's body throughout most of the episode, she's clearly lusting after a child.
"Jeffy's Gamer Girl Problem!", a gamer girl is selling her bathwater that she pooped in after having Taco Bells and bathed in, which Jeffy wants to get, despite Marvin's and Rosalina's chagrin, Jeffy later buys a pizza under his dad's credit card again that a gamer girl stepped on with her feet and stuffed the crust with her underwear.
"Jeffy's Daughter", Brooklyn tastes what is basically Mario's sperm to confirm if his sperm is full of Baja Blast.
The entirety of "Cody's Hot Dog Restaurant!" could be considered this. Cody and Timmy opens up a restaurant called Sloppy Toppy involving deep throating hot dogs and the foods they sell pretty much tells you what to expect from their restaurant, considering Cody's and Timmy's nature.
It is likely implied Brooklyn Guy unknowingly ate cum, since Timmy mentioned they were out of mayo and had to improvised and Brooklyn mentioned that the mayonnaise tasted very salty.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many of the Nintendo-based characters becoming humans starting with "The Human Potion" was met with major backlash for the designs of the puppets. Though Logan would voice his own regret for using them, back off on them for awhile and declare the videos with them non-canon, Nintendo filing a C&D on Logan in February 2021 had them become permanent, with many who hated them leaving the channel.
Name any student character in a school series (Summer School, 1st Grade, Military School, etc.) that isn't Junior, Toad, Cody, or Joseph (there is also Charleyyy, Logan, Black Yoshi and Shrek, but they don't really count). Almost all of them never show up in any other videos besides their respective series.
The only school character that has made regular appearances so far is Bully Bill, who has become something akin to Jeffy's Arch-Enemy. But that in of itself also wastes another bully character. Tanner, who in earlier videos is seen being friends with Junior and Joseph, had family issues just like them (A divorce to be precise), and was seen picking on Cody, who would later become one of Junior's best friends. Despite the building blocks being right there for interesting character dynamics, Tanner hasn't made any notable appearances since the "Summer School" series.
The Strongbottom family, all of whom are royalty from the "Iron Asses of Wales" and are related to Chef Pee Pee. Naturally, this would raise a lot of possibilities. What sort of antics would Junior get up to with the sisters? What sort of development would Chef Pee Pee go through with his father? Where did Stacy learn "queef?" What sort of struggles would Chef Pee Pee and Benjamin go through taking care of both the Strongbottoms and Bowser's family? What sort of relationship would Bowser and the King have? Where is Queen Strongbottom? How did Chef Pee Pee go from royalty to a common house chef? There was a lot that could be done with this family and it could've added a lot of characterization, depth, character development and even an interesting backstory to Chef Pee Pee. But instead, King Strongbottom gets killed by his servant Benjamin — which is even more baffling because Strongbottom says that Stacy would take the throne if he died, yet we never see Stacy again — Stacy never goes beyond being a cheerleader who keeps saying "queef", and Chef Pee Pee's big sister is not even named.
Plenty of older fans are less than pleased by all major characters who isn't Mario, Jeffy, Rosalina, Brooklyn Guy, Goodman, Cody, Joseph, and Bowser Junior being dropped in favor of them, such as Shrek, Mama Luigi, Mr. Pig, Woody, Toad, Tony the Tiger, and so on. And even then, quite a few regulars now seem to get less and less spotlight thanks to the main quartet that is Mario, Jeffy, Brooklyn, and Junior. In particular, Brooklyn Guy had consistently appeared in videos with no absences in-between for half a year, while someone like Rosalina seemingly vanished for the span of an entire year.
In "Chef Pee Pee's Cooking Sucks!", Chef Pee Pee sees on TV that there is a cooking competition being held and tries to make a dish for the competition. This could actually have been a really cool plot where Chef Pee Pee gets to "prove" everyone wrong about his cooking and try his best to make something good, and Chef Pee Pee isn't the only character that knows how to cook either (Jackie Chu's first appearances were actually in cooking videos, Black Yoshi was seen making Kool-Aid cupcakes in "Jeffy's Mistake!", and even Junior has tried cooking in "Chef Pee Pee Gets Sick!"), so it's not like Chef Pee Pee wouldn't have any decent competition — after all, Chef Pee Pee is the same chef who put rat in pasta and called it ratatouille in "The Perfect Pizza". But the only thing to come out of this episode is a decent claymotion skit and an ending consisting of a rather forgettable Toad rap, which is quite rare for songs made by Toad.note This was actually a case of Real Life Writes the Plot. The video ended abruptly because Lovell had a cold, and he eventually lost his voice (he barely had any left during Toad's rap), precluding any further plot.
"Shrek's Coma!" has Shrek go into a coma from eating 15 layers of cheesecake, and because Brooklyn T. Guy can't be bothered to wait for Shrek to wake up from what he thinks is a 10-minute coma, he puts Shrek's brain into Atso's corpse (Atso having been killed offscreen after Anthony left), therefore giving Shrek a new body. Sounding like "Shrek's Diet!" aside, that seems like a decent idea for a video. Shrek even says he's given up on cheesecake in this video, and can apparently crap even harder than before, so it would be cool to see how his life changes. If nothing else, then it would be a good excuse to bring back characters like Woody just to see their reactions. Junior could even show up to see Shrek in one of his classmates' body. But instead, the video is mostly about Rosalina flirting on Shrek and Mario and Rosalina's now-fragile relationship instead of (you know) Shrek, and Black Yoshi does show up but doesn't even see Shrek once in the video (instead being there to unintentionally help Mario), as well as some rather crude jokes even by Shrek standards, and Shrek doesn't even stay in his new body for that long nor do anything different.
"Jeffy Gets Help!" could have been a really interesting look into Jeffy's head in order to see what kind of mental disorders he has, what Nancy did to inflict those traumatic effects (it's not exactly unheard of, considering an entire video was focused on how Bowser gave Junior a fear of cotton balls), and why he acts the way he does as opposed to other videos detailing his psyche ("Inside Jeffy" was just a parody of Inside Out, and "Jeffy's Parents!" only really scratched the surface). It also had the potential to be really heartwarming, seeing Mario and Rosalina try and help their adopted son overcome his problems and any trauma Nancy inflicted on him. Junior is also in this video and he's proven that he'll help his friends as evident with Cody, so it would of been nice to see him test and develop his friendship with Jeffy by helping him. It could also have expanded Jeffy's backstory and gone into more depth on the abuse he suffered, and maybe even bring Nancy back (didn't have to be in the present either, a flashback would of easily sufficed). However, the video itself is rather average, as it repeats a lot of jokes and even the same lines, sometimes word for word (Rosalina says that she'll check on Jeffy twice, and the effects always show up after 30 minutes), Rosalina is her usual Jerkass self, Junior does show up but only to get yelled at by Jeffy and is never seen again after that (making his appearance feel phoned-in and pointless), Jeffy's "problems" only amount to basic mood swings (thanks to Brooklyn T. Guy's "medicines"), and all it amounts to is learning that Jeffy has a Tic Tac allergy.
"Chef Pee Pee's New Job!" (similarities to the "Chef Pee Pee Quits!" series notwithstanding) could've been an interesting opportunity to see how Chef Pee Pee's life would change working as a chef under someone else, if Goodman would be just as rotten of a boss towards him as with Mario (even temporarily) or if his life changes with a wealthy lifestyle. Better yet, given that the video starts with Bowser and Junior insulting his cooking (as always), Bowser and Junior could be forced to learn how to cook for themselves or perhaps even come to regret mistreating their chef and thus resolve to treat him better if he ever comes back. Instead, Junior doesn't want Chef Pee Pee to leave so he instead calls 911 and gets him arrested, claiming he's committing murder, successfully preventing him from qualifying for the competition.
"The Teleportation Machine!" involves a teleportation machinethat Cody invented. This could have made for an interesting plot in which Junior and Joseph (and Cody himself) would take advantage of its abilities to go places/disobey authority (in fact, the possibilities are brought up but it's hand-waved because Cody only built two machines) until they're made to face the music for it. Goodman could have also made an appearance to try and mass-market the technology for profit and thus become the episode's antagonist. Instead, we end up with an episode where much of the runtime is spent on both an Overly Long Gag in which Judy mistakes Cody's fetish gear for mundane thingsand Cody having accidentallyswapped bodies withKen, prompting him to behave like a narcissistic jerk. Even then, it doesn't last long as Junior calls Brooklyn T. Guy to surgically reattach their heads/bodies.
"Jeffy's 18th Birthday!": Given the possibility was raised as far back as "Jeffy's Parents!", it would have been quite a change to see Jeffy claim his father's inheritance as stated would happen upon reaching adulthood. Given that Logan has filmed in houses other than his own (or even in front of a green screen), Jeffy moving into a new home could've been doable, and he'd easily visit his previous house to hang out with Junior and friends or if a video demanded he annoy Mario with his antics once more. Instead, it's revealed thatJacques Pierre Françoisfaked a suicide just so his paintings would become more valuable. Aside from Nancy getting Killed Off for Real and a Disney Death saddening Mario enough to let him stay (despite suffering years of torment and being not exactly Dad of the Year himself), the arc has no real payoff in the end.
Starting in 2014, this became a huge point of criticism about the series as a whole. Nearly all the characters are either jerks, idiots, both, or worse, with the few genuinely sympathetic characters being treated as chew toys or having their sympathetic qualities downplayed or outright taken away if the plot requires it. Worst of all is that several episodes end on outright Downer Endings or Shoot the Shaggy Dog, Bolivian Army Ending and Failure Is the Only Option situations, and topped off with the fact that absolutely no one grows or changes, it's hard to care about what happens to anyone. The added irony that the series has a Big Bad in the greedy, short-tempered and foul-mouthed Goodman as well as gold-diggingchild abuser Nancy and the Serial KillerDoes Bad Things Guy when the main characters are hardly any better doesn't help one bit either. This is probably the point of the show since most of the humor comes from the characters being assholes to each other and the majority of them are Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists. Think of a plush/web version of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia or Invader Zim and you’re pretty close. Still, this unsurprisingly contributes to SML's Seasonal Rot, especially with the knowledge that the series wasn't always this way.
Jeffy may be viewed as this as well to an extent, especially baby Jeffy when he drinks a youth drink.
Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The humanized puppets used for Bowser Jr, Cody, Joseph, Mario, and Bowser are seen as unnerving by some fans. This is due to the fact that they incorporate the traits of both humans and the characters they were originally based off of. The Bowser, Cody, and especially Rosalina puppets are generally viewed as ugly.
Uncertain Audience: One of the most prevalent criticisms of the videos in recent years is just how confused they seem to be about which demographic they're trying to appeal to. While their structure and presentation follow a "zany, brightly-colored ensemble of characters go on pratfall-filled misadventures" formula akin to Teen Titans Go! and The Loud House, the actual tone and humor skew far closer towards the likes of Family Guy and Brickleberry. There was an attempt on Logan's part to address this by labeling the series as being "adult-humored", though the various merchandise explicitly targeted towards kids with the SML branding, including plush toys, back to school apparel, and slime kits make this come across as dubious as best.
"Cody Plays Tennis!" involves Cody wanting to compete in a tennis competition to become a playable character in Mario Tennis Aces. His opponent is Mr. Goodman, who isn't even a Mario-series character!
"Shrek's Endless Cheesecake" brings back not only the titular character Shrek, but also Woody, a character who has not physically appeared in a video since "The Asteroid", a video from 2018.
Falls into this territory whenever she values Jeffy's needs over Mario's. Sure, she is more caring towards Jeffy than Mario is and is quick to call Mario out if he abuses Jeffy in any way, but because a lot of fans find Jeffy's behavior more annoying than funny, they would rather side with Mario. She also tends to take the side of other people besides Mario despite seeing what Mario was really doing. Such examples include "Jeffy's Cellphone!", wherein she believes that Mario called a prostitute and beat him up for allegedly cheating on her, despite the fact that he was watching Star Wars with her the entire time and Jeffy got a iPhone around that time, and "Jeffy's Bad Word!", wherein she witnesses Mario spank Jeffy for repeatedly saying the F-word (faggot) and tells Brooklyn T. Guy that Mario likes to hit Jeffy on the butt, very hard, multiple times.
Taken up to eleven in "Shrek's Coma!"note which doesn't even have Shrek throughout most of it. You are supposed to feel bad for Rosalina when Mario kicks her out of the house for finding Shrek's new body attractive and thinking that Mario is overreacting. While something similar did happen in "Jeffy's Parents!", that was more justified as Mario and Rosalina both knew what kind of monster Nancy was, so it made sense why she'd be pissed at him in that video. However, considering Rosalina has always put both herself and Jeffy before Mario's needs, has gotten him into trouble many times, and in general being a gigantic Jerkass, this makes Mario's break up with her more satisfying than heartbreaking, and it also makes her look like a hypocrite (so Mario looking at porn in "Jeffy's New Toy!" is cheating according to Rosalina, but admiring other guys right next to the guy you're dating isn't?). To put the cherry on top, in the end, Mario has to apologize to a woman who has almost never done anything nice for him in return.
In "Mr. Goodman's Revenge", she tries to hit Mario with a hammer because she equated Mario texting Peach "happy birthday" to infidelity, and ends up in jail and we are supposed to feel sorry for her, and in "Jeffy the Sheep", when she learns Mario may be arrested, she childishly taunts him that it's his turn.
Mr. Goodman in "The Bet!". The audience is expected to feel sorry for Goodman since he lost to Chef Pee Pee in the World's Best Chef competition, and Bowser puts him through what he puts Chef Pee Pee through on a regular basis. However, the episode begins with him swearing like a sailor while demanding house payments from Mario and boasting about how rich he is (the house payments themselves aren't so bad, but making Mario pay to get his car washed is not only petty, but also illogical considering he is a billionaire), and he loses his entire fortune by betting on himself.note It later turned out that the Loan Dolphin rigged the competition by beating up Judge Brooklyn T. Guy and holding his phone for ransom so he could get Goodman's fortune. Even when Mario gives him a job after Chef Pee Pee goes on vacation, Goodman blames Mario for not making his house payments and complains about how he should be making more money than what Chef Pee Pee is paying him. When Bowser sends him to Wal-Mart to get him Cheetos, Goodman takes advantage of a puddle with no Wet Floor sign near it and deliberately slips on it to obfuscate an injury and sue Wal-Mart to get his fortune back.
Cody:
"Cody's Amiibo!". The episode portrays it as a Tear Jerker moment that Cody is upset over not having an amiibo made of him, but he starts off with a self-importantcursing fit in which he also proclaims his importance as one of Bowser's minions and therefore his amiibo should've come first and even goes so far as to write a straight-up arrogant and insulting diss-track to Nintendo, also restating his trademark claim of being "hunky", no less... and yet it's a happy ending when it turns out he does have an amiibo after all.
Jeffy gets this during the few times the show tries to make him vulnerable thanks to being a selfish, temperamental, misbehaved brat most of the time. There's also the fact that several videos (i.e. Jeffy's Parents, Jeffy and the Beanstalk, Jeffy's Foster Home, etc.) have ended with him promising to start behaving, only for him to relapse every single time with no explanation as to why, making them come across as attempts on Logan's part to stave off criticisms towards him rather than actually putting in the effort to improve his character.
We are expected to sympathize with Brooklyn T. Guy with having to deal with his wife Karen who annoys him to no end as well as the state of his life, but it’s hard to do so with how worse his behavior has been, what with him being an easily bribed and incompetent Dirty Cop who has also gotten to the point where he is now an outright bully towards Mario/Marvin with little consequences, in addition to being a horribly negligent and apathetic father towards his daughter Penelope.
What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Logan will tell you that his videos are not meant for children, although the thumbnails, video titles, descriptions, the "SML Questions" at the end of each video, the merchandise, and overall branding suggest otherwise, yet they also contain mild (sometimes strong) swearing, sexual references, extreme use of violence (at times), crude humor (mostly Black Comedy), and drugs and alcohol references, among other content that can easily be identified as non-kid-friendly. Although this has dwindled as of the 2017 Adpocalypse, it came back sometime around the switch to the puppet characters in 2021. Despite this, a lot of kids still watch the videos on the channel, especially Jeffy videos. In fact, some episodes wound up on the YouTube Kids app, most notably "Jeffy Goes To The Zoo!", which portrayed the shooting of Harambe, "Jeffy's Tantrum!", which made British news when a child tried to imitate a scene in it, and "Bowser Junior Goes To Disney World!", which contains a scene of Mickey Mouse doing drugs and cursing in the hotel room Junior and his friends are staying in.
Chef Pee Pee is forced to work for Bowser, who constantly makes his job a living nightmare by making unreasonable requests or forcing him to tend to Junior. Add in the fact that the other characters don't really treat him much better, and you have someone who could really use an extended vacation.
Mario can't ever seem to catch a break from Jeffy, the fellow residents of his own house, or Mr. Goodman's harassment. Even his own wife Rosalina doesn't always take his side when disagreements arise.
Joseph. He became this during "Joseph's House!" where it was revealed that both of his parents are dead and that he lives in a trailer without power after Halloween of 2015. "Joseph's Mom!" made this much worse when it revealed that Joseph didn't kill his mom like he'd believed in "Joseph Moves In!" - rather, she won the lottery and left him to start a new life, replacing herself with a plastic skeleton. For two years, Joseph was not only abandoned and forced to raise himself, but also driven to insanity and grief believing he'd murdered his mother. After all that, when Joseph finally reunites with his mom, she outright states that she started a new family and disowns him. Joseph simply thinks this is a joke and goes home to wait for her to return, with neither his friends or the police seeming to care enough to do anything.
Toad used to be this. As the show's original Butt-Monkey, his character only served to be hated, berated, beaten, and killed by everyone else for little to no reason.
Cody has pretty much become this in recent episodes, as Junior merely hangs out with him to put him through hell. Not helping the situation is the fact that Junior doesn't seem to care about what happens to him.
Don't forget Craig. Reasons for his woobieness are mentioned above.
has been well-known in the community since 2014 for his reactions, in-debt explanations of the various eras of SML, various streams and interviews with members of the SML cast, and his reuploading of deleted episodes on SML Reuploaded. Helping is that he is friends with former SML actor Zeke and occasionally has him on livestreams.