YMMV / Super Mario World (1991)

• Accidental Aesop:
  • From "Gopher Bash", vegetables are good for you in moderation.
  • In "King Scoopa Koopa," Koopa starts selling a product that causes those who consume it to start behaving irrationally, causes their appearance to change into something hideous, and proves to be so addictive that they happily throw all their money away "for a few brief moments of mouth-watering bliss". The episode ends up coming across as more about the dangers of drug addiction than anything else.
• Accidental Innuendo:
  • At the end of "Gopher Bash", Luigi punishes Yoshi for eating all the food, telling him, "Since you ate the whole thing, now you can do the hoe thing!" Although he obviously means "hoe" as in the gardening utensil, it's pretty easy for one to joke about what it sounds like.
  • During the Cave Christmas episode, King Koopa refers to Mario as a "Pipesqueezer." A lot of his insults could be questionable with the right mindset ("Plunger popper" comes to mind), but this one is probably the most blatant example.
  • At the end of the "King Scoopa Koopa" episode, Mario passes some veggies over to Luigi, but drops them, and then says "I just invented the tossed salad!", before the episode ends. Earlier in the same episode, Koopa calls the cavepeople who he turned in chickens "dumb clucks".
• Anvilicious: Most of the show's aesops are delivered with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. The absolute nadir is the nutrition lesson in "King Scoopa Koopa", which ends with Mario spelling out the aesop directly when he orders the cave people to eat their vegetables.
• Bizarro Episode: "Fire Sale", which almost looked more like an episode from the previous cartoon. And it's the first episode, too.
• Broken Aesop: "A Little Learning": Bullying is okay, as long as it's to people who deserve it.
• Can't Un-Hear It: In a similar vein to Captain Lou Albano as Mario in the Super Show and Harvey Atkin as King Koopa in all three shows, there are people who can't un-hear Tony Rosato's performance as Luigi in Super Mario World in games where Luigi talks through text boxes, like Paper Mario or Super Mario Odyssey. Rosato already made a memorable performance as Luigi in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, but he's an absolute show-stealer as Luigi in World due to being an unabashed Fountain of Memes, even outside of "Mama Luigi", to the point that Rosato's Luigi voice has been ingrained in people's heads.
• Cult Classic: The show failed in its day and killed off any possibility of future Mario cartoons (at least until 2023), but it does have some fans who Watch It for the Meme.
• Designated Villains: Hip and Hop in "A Little Learning". While they do assault Yoshi and Oogtar with fireballs, it could be very well seen as a byproduct of Koopa's maliciousness. Even without that, the volcano incident wasn't inherently their fault. They strived to be genuinely good students in the long run, with any other misdeeds they did being little more than schoolyard pranks that anyone could see happening in a real school setting.
• Evil Is Cool: You can see quite a few fans depict Yoshi with his biker gang outfit in "Born to Ride". After all, he does harken to Boshi.
• Fan Nickname: Fans of the cartoon have called Luigi "Emo Luigi" because of him crying in "Gopher Bash". And of course, due to the very most infamous episode of the series, MAMA LUIGI!
• Fanon: It's a somewhat common fan theory that because of the lava flooding the Koopa Kingdom in "A Little Learning", the Koopa Family was Killed Off for Real, and with it being the second-to-last episode, "Mama Luigi" takes place in the Dinosaur World free from Koopa's tyranny.
• Fanon Welding: Yoshi, as depicted in the show, is commonly interpreted as a younger Legacy Character to the one seen in Yoshi's Island, so that the two works could more feasibly exist in the same timeline. Otherwise, the only explanation for Yoshi being taken care of by Luigi as a baby, and taking care of Mario as a baby, would be Canon Discontinuity. intentional or not, Yoshi's Island DS would have one of the biggest cases helping support the idea.
• Fans Prefer the New Him: Yoshi's biker jacket and shades are not exactly meant to signify a positive thing, since they're the result of him joining a gang of villainous dinos. But that doesn't stop fans from enjoying the sight of him in this outfit anyway.
• Fountain of Memes: Luigi is the show's resident meme lord, due to his highly quotable lines mixed with Tony Rosato's hilariously hammy performance. Many have watched this cartoon just for him and he's often quoted as having played a major part in the creation of YouTube poops.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: See here.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The entirety of the "Mama Luigi" episode, particularly "That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario! *wheeze*" Other notable quotes include: "Well, it's like they say in Brooklyn: Early to bed, early to catch the worm. Or, is it the bagel?", "Mario, wherever you are, HHYYYYYEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPP!!!", "Good thing I found a magic balloon!", "I found myself face to face with a Fiiiiire Sumo!", "Mama? MAMA LUIGI! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" and "Luigi, King Koopa has the princess locked up in his Coney Island Disco Palace!"
  • From "The Yoshi Shuffle": "It's a stone, Luigi; you didn't make it!"
    • "It's a football! I chiseled it!"
  • "Fireballs! Yum!"
  • "This is a vol-cay-no!"
  • "It's All My Fault!!!" (Not the Trope Namer, but close enough.)
  • "Oogtar eat ghosts for breakfast." (among other things...)
  • "That's WIZenheimer! WIIIIIZenheimer!"
  • "Phone Bill, amount due, $1,295.31!"
  • "Oogtar not been good?! Oogtar been BaAaD!"
  • "That means duuum dee dum-dum~! WATAAAH!!!"
  • "Now, go home and eat some vegetables! Dr. Mario's orders!"
• Moral Event Horizon: A lot of King Koopa's plans are much darker than previous Mario cartoons, but his plan in "Send in the Clown" is straightforward attempted mass murder, luring the cave people into a circus with the intention of feeding everyone gullible enough to visit it (which ends up being the entirety of Dome City) to his dinosaurs. He even fishes Mario out of his trap to turn his death into a spectacle by turning it into the dinosaur equivalent of a lion-tamer act. King Koopa goes downhill from there in "King Scoopa Koopa": while his initial plan was to rake in the dough from his Egg Scoopa Koopas while letting the eggs take their toll on the customers in turning them into chickadactyls, he then decided to switch his plan over to murdering all his customers, cooking them, and selling them to dinosaurs as fried chicken. Even without that, his food became a Psycho Serum for his customers, including Luigi and Yoshi, that led them to attempting to murder Mario and Princess Toadstool.
• Replacement Scrappy: While the inclusion of Yoshi was a given, Oogtar is seen as one for Toad. While it made sense to exclude Toad, since he wasn't present in the game, Oogtar blatantly tries to capture Toad's lightning in a bottle, and most viewers agree that he doesn't pull the shtick off well, coming across more like a bratty child than a paranoid guard like Toad was.
• Retroactive Recognition: Across the international versions, Princess Toadstool shares no less than three of her voice actresses (Tracey Moore in English, Isabelle Volpe in French, and Sabine Bohlmann in German) with Sailor Moon.
• Rooting for the Empire: While fans are supposed to see the Koopas trying to kill Oogtar in episodes like "Cave Christmas" and "A Little Learning" as evil, most people will cheer for the reptiles to get the brat out of their hairs, even if they know it won't happen.
• Sequelitis: With the exception of "Mama Luigi", the show as a whole is widely considered this to its predecessors. It sacrifices much of their charm for Anvilicious plots.
• So Bad, It's Good: While the show is generally considered to be a step down from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (which itself was considered a Sophomore Slump after The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!) in terms of quality, it's still fun to watch to the point that it became a Fountain of Memes.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Once again, each episode contains a musical montage. Except this time they used this from the start rather than using a cover song. For example, "Ghosts R' Us" uses a knockoff of Thriller, "Born to Ride" uses one of Born to be Wild, etc.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • "King Scoopa Koopa" devolved from a critique on the fast food industry and obesity to a Space Whale Aesop by having Luigi, Yoshi and the cave people turn into Chickadactyls.
  • The fact that Canvas Inc., the studio that animated the intro sequence, never worked on the episodes themselves (those were handled by Pacific Rim Animation instead). Talk about a wasted opportunity.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Koopa's scheme in "Send in the Clown" is built around a circus whose popularity has since gone into decline. The name of the circus, Koopaling Bros., spoofs the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus which held its final performance in 2017.
• Viewer Name Confusion: Fans are somewhat split on whether the Koopa Wizard from the episode "Ghosts R Us" is called Wizenheimer or Wizardheimer, a debate that dates back to the early 2000s when the only copies of the cartoon available online were blurry rips (with low-quality audio) from the fansite YoshiArt. Listening carefully, the name is most likely "Wizenheimer", but "Wizardheimer" remains in use in some circles due to longstanding fan convention, such as the Super Mario Wiki article for this character being under the name "Wizardheimer" for over four years. Strangely appropriate, as no one in the episode can get his name right either.
• Vindicated by History: As mentioned above, the show's footage being extensive YouTube Poop fodder gave it a cult following of sorts, to the point where the series was finally put out on DVD in 2007, not long after its predecessor series (which was also YouTube Poop fodder).

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