For those not in the know:
The Inflation Virus: The plot of the game starts with the main villain, Fawful, acting as a drug dealer, creating an epidemic of toads that have become perfectly spherical and literally the size of a house, a condition called the Blorbs. The opening cutscene features a discussion between a mother and son arguing about school when the father smashes through the wall like the boulder from Indiana Jones.
Bowser's Vore Power-Up: After a failed diplomacy attempt where Bowser showed up to assist in helping deal with the "epidemic" and was promptly hucked into the woods, Fawful, disguised, offers him a mushroom he claims will let him beat Mario. This TECHNICALLY works, causing him to go on a shroom bender and literally inhale everything, including every single character in Peach's Castle for the emergency meeting, including Peach, Mario, Luigi, Toadsworth, new character Starlow, and a few dozen unnamed toads. He then passes out, sick. The Mario Brothers then spend a solid 80% of the game on a sort of Fantastic Voyage, running around Bowser's alien internals and futzing with them to power up the Koopa King so he can win the day. Bowser, meanwhile, keeps the ability to inhale enemies and can use it in battle to swallow them whole so the Brothers can kill them more easily.
Mario and Luigi Becoming Round: A common gag in the series which got especially notable here is Mario ingesting a massive amount of water and Luigi hammering him flat to make him spit it out. Common cartoon nonsense. Furthermore, one of the "Bros Attacks" (think spells in a normal RPG, where the brothers participate in cartoon slapstick beatdowns on the enemies) is called Snack Basket, and it is necessary to progress.
An NPC with a monk aesthetic has remained in a single, balanced pose for too long and is willing to provide a necessary macguffin if the brothers can knock him over. The solution is to use Snack Basket, feeding Luigi until he's the size of a house and then having Mario hurl him in the air so he crashes down with earth-shaking force. This doesn't unfreeze the monk, but it knocks him on his back so he can look at the sky, so he's happy.
The Bowser Buffet: When invading his captured castle, Bowser gets put on stage in a caged wrestling match with Fawful's second in command, Midbus. Fawful then congratulates him on his victory and insists that, before Bowser continues his attempts to kill him, he at least try the feast. Bowser, dumber than ever in this game, agrees, and is treated to a massive room full of food items twice the size of a man each. Bowser annihilates nearly his own weight in food in seconds before feeling a bit bloated, at which point the boo servants Fawful brainwashed take over, overpowering the lethargic turtle and feeding him more and more until Fawful's ultra-fattening food takes effect and his attempts to chase after the boos, well... yeah, he falls through the floor and gets stuck, allowing Fawful to extract Princess Peach from his fatty tissue with a gizmo.
At least Midbus had the common courtesy to plop a treadmill under him so when he landed, he could burn off the calories in time for their rematch. Turns out, Bowser can lose weight abnormally fast. Quite fitting for our wonderful Demon King Koopa.
This game is a mark of my childhood, and I'd say it is DEFINITE proof that playing weird shit as an impressionable kid does not automatically lead to developing new fetishes because, somehow, I don't have a feeder or weight gain kink after seeing all this shit.
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