#the-marios

[idiot-dot-jpeg]

Okay, I cant draw mario but j really wanted to make something so here's this, hope your son likes it

@the-marios

[pileofpawns]

@the-marios Okay, I know your kiddo specifically loves the red baby Yoshi that appears in Paper Mario, and the thing I have is of a different fella, but… I still thought he might enjoy this jahdjshsj.

These clips are from a licensed Super Mario World cartoon made for the Terebikko, a Japanese VCR accessory that took the form of a toy phone. You’d hook the toy up to your VCR, and at certain points in compatible videotapes, the characters in the video would “call” you (a special sound signal would make the video’s audio go through the phone rather than your TV speakers), often asking mildly educational quiz questions that you would answer with the phone’s buttons in order to receive feedback based on your answer.

In the Super Mario World video, the bros and Yoshi eventually find a baby red yoshi who insists to go along with them. When they decline, insisting it’s too dangerous, baby red yoshi retaliates, eating several paratroopas, which somehow causes them to spontaneously *grow* up. They stick around for the rest of the adventure, with Mario riding green yoshi and luigi riding red yoshi!

It’s really cute, and I’ve linked the full thing below in case you wanna watch it together - However, it’s only available in Japanese (with fanmade English subtitles). If you decide to (maybe you’d wanna have subtitles for yourself or to read aloud), be aware that the video has some harsh noises at the start and end of each “call” segment, as well as a couple instances of flashing lights. Also, I’d recommend picking the “English (Canada)” subtitles - The standard English subtitles use a more direct translation with unlocalized names and some swearing, and the UK subtitles are there as a joke, and while they’re very funny, they’re definitely not appropriate for kids lol.

Have a great day :D

[pileofpawns]

@the-marios I recently discovered this video and thought you and Remy might enjoy it too!! It’s Charles Martinet reading an old Super Mario Bros picture book with his Mario voices. It’s really cute!

I’ll admit that with the combo of background noise and funny voices, it took me some extra focus to process what Mr. Martinet was saying, but that might just be my auditory processing issues, lol.

Super Mario Bros. Book - Trapped In The Perilous Pit : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

My grandma used to read this to me. God rest her soul. She turned 79 this year.

A scan of the book is available here on archive.org if you wanna do your own read-aloud!

Small warning, the book has a brief mention of the “magic g＊psy” stereotype for Romani people at the beginning.