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What An Idiot: Super Mario Bros.
- Luigi: You lost your noodle?
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- In the original Super Mario Bros. 1, The Evil Bowser, King of the Koopas has booby-trapped all eight of the Mushroom Kingdom's strongholds with flame arms, and numerous pits of lava & nothingness to prevent any intruders from breaking in and rescuing the Toad/Princess who is imprisoned there. At the end of each stronghold, Bowser(?) awaits any intruder who dares get through all the traps to challenge him directly, on top of a bridge over lava that can be opened by a lever behind Bowser. Handy for sending any living thing down to their doom should they be on that bridge.
You'd Expect: That Bowser just flip or kick the lever Right Bloody Behind Him in order to guarantee a quick and easy death the moment Mario shows up.
Instead: He just bounces up and down blowing fire at Mario while still on the bridge the whole time, allowing for Mario to dash right below or jump right above Bowser and hit the switch himself sending -you know who- down his own push-button trap
- Super Mario Bros. 3 has Bowser sending the Koopalings far and wide to turn the Mushroom World kings into animals and make off with their wands. While the Mario Bros. go out and set things straight, Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach.
You'd Expect: Bowser to revel in his dirty deed while keeping quiet about what he had just done.
Instead: He sends Mario a taunting letter admitting he took the princess to his castle and challenges him to save her.
Furthermore, You'd Expect: That if he was going to send a letter to dare the hero to come to his castle and save the princess, that he'd might have known by then that was exactly what the hero was going to do and that he'd been a little more Dangerously Genre Savvy when Mario arrives. As in, setting a trap for the hero or a sort of ambush already foreseeing that Mario indeed would come for Princess Toadstool (her then Western name). Particularly when arriving at Bowser's Castle.
Instead: With the exception of the levels of hell, it doesn't seem that the villain has made much preparations at all when Mario arrives and with the "King of the Koopas" ending up giving the player one of the most lame final boss fights in Mario history, where you can win by doing absolutely nothing.
- In Super Mario 64, Bowser successfully invades Peach's castle, seals her and her entire staff into the walls, and disperses the Power Stars among his lieutenants.
You'd Expect: Bowser would secure the castle against intruders, or at the least make sure every door in the castle hiding power stars was sealed.
Instead: He leaves the front door open, gives Mario a token warning to scram when he arrives, and has left one of the doors completely unsealed, allowing Mario to enter the Bomb-omb Battlefield and start collecting Power Stars, undoing the seals one by one.
Furthermore, You'd Expect: Bowser to hide keys to the basement and upper floors where Mario can't get them.
Instead: Bowser gives them up upon being defeated by Mario, allowing Mario to explore more of the castle. It's like he's deliberately challenging Mario to come fight him (...which he may in fact be doing).
- Paper Mario has Bowser who kidnapped Princess Peach. On one of the occasions that the princess escapes, Bowser spots her while he is talking with Kammy Koopa about what Mario may be afraid of.
You'd Expect: Bowser to summon his guards to throw the princess back to her room.
Instead: Bowser asks Peach herself on what Mario is afraid of, not thinking that the princess can just lie.
However: The player can give whatever answer they wish, so they can lie (pretend Mario is afraid of helpful items) or be honest (say Mario is afraid of an Elite Mook).
- Speaking of the above incident, if the player chooses healing items as Mario's greatest fear.
You'd Expect: Bowser or at least Kammy to realize that these things would help Mario if anything and refuse to listen to the princess.
Instead: Both Bowser and Kammy are fooled and actually put healing items along Mario's path. At least Kammy is suspicious of the whole thing, but Bowser has no idea what he just did.
- Super Mario Sunshine gives one of the worst Kangaroo Court proceedings in the history of video games. Mario is arrested on the sole premise that his face is the same as the one on a wanted poster. Peach shouts "Objection"!
You'd Expect: The judge to let Peach, who is of royalty, make her objection, which could put this misunderstanding to rest in the slightest.
Instead: The judge ignores her, saying, "Overruled! I judge the defendant guilty as charged!" As Chuggaaconroy himself said of this scene, "This is more rigged than Saddam Hussein's trial!".
- Super Paper Mario gives a railroaded example. One of the villains is Mimi, a shapeshifter. Once each time she is met, she uses a different form and asks the heroes to do something. Since she uses this technique after we've seen her transform, it's pretty easy for the player to guess that it's her.
You'd Expect: The characters to see through the illusion (most of the time, Mimi uses this technique to lure the heroes into a trap) and guess correctly that the character in front of them is Mimi in disguise.
Instead: You're forced to do what Mimi asks you to and the gang falls into Mimi's trap. Just great.
What Makes It Worse: Mimi sometimes takes on the appearance of a character that has absolutely no reason to be there (such as Merlon, the Sage of the Hub Zone, who never leaves it).
- Mimi also does the same thing Kammy did before her final battle and asks you what you are afraid of.
You'd Expect: That Mimi would know something was up.
Instead: She gives you the items you've asked for, which can range from cute to creepy. At least she wises up before she challenges Peach to battle.
- In the introduction to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, several Toads bring in a giant cake.
You'd Expect: The toads would maybe reject and dispose of a cake from seemingly nowhere with several suspicious decorations including two mohawks, a huge tuft of blue hair and sunglasses.
Instead: They bring it right to Peach and sure enough, Bowser Jr and the Koopalings were hiding in it and pull off the most laughably effortless onscreen kidnapping yet.
- Also, every time Mario finishes off the boss in the castle stage, you see him with Bowser Jr. and there's the airship with Peach right behind him.
You'd Expect: Mario to attack Bowser Jr., then jump on the airship to get Peach.
Instead: He just stands there watching them and they take off. It's especially jarring when Mario has the propeller hat.
However: Though there are two occasions where the airship takes off without him, allowing you to chase him to the airship.He throws you off however after you beat him.
- Also, every time Mario finishes off the boss in the castle stage, you see him with Bowser Jr. and there's the airship with Peach right behind him.
- In Yoshi's New Island, it turns out the stork actually brought Baby Mario and Baby Luigi to the wrong house.
You'd Expect: For the stork to remember that Kamek is after the babies and to keep a close eye on them while carefully finding the right parents. This after having been attacked before.
Instead: He takes flight up in the sky where he can easily be spotted. Sure enough, the stork freezes when Kamek finds him, Baby Luigi is kidnapped and Mario falls on Egg Island.
- Throughout the series, Princess Peach is kidnapped and the Mushroom Kingdom attacked and effortlessly conquered over and over again.
You'd Expect: Peach and the Mushroom Kingdom ruling class to come up with measures to enforce their army and hire elite guards to at least TRY to stop this from happening, even if it ultimately proves ineffective.
Instead: They don't do ANYTHING whatsoever to prevent future kidnappings and conquering and rely solely on one plumber and maybe his brother to save them after the fact.
Additionally: The few guards the Mushroom Kingdom DO have just cower in fear whenever they're required to actually do their jobs, even when their own lives are on the line and just stand around waiting for Mario to save them.
- In Wario Land 3, Wario has found all 5 music boxes and has inadvertently freed Rudy the Clown, who had promised him treasure at the beginning of the game.
You'd Expect: Rudy to honor his deal and give Wario the treasure he promised as Wario had done what he asked and had no reason to stick around further.
Instead: Rudy firmly grabs the Villain Ball with both hands by declaring his plan to conquer the music box world and Wario's World and attempts to pull a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness on Wario.
Result: Wario soundly beats him and ends up with the treasure anyway, and Rudy's plan of conquest is foiled before it could even begin.
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker begins with Captain Toad and Toadette finding a star, but then the game's Big Bad, Wingo, steals it from them. When Toadette tries to get it back, he starts to take off, with Toadette still hanging on.
You'd Expect: Toadette to let go. Not only are Wingo's talons much too big for her, but he could have easily taken Toadette too.
Instead: That's exactly what happens. Wingo flies off with both the star and Toadette in his possession, kicking off the plot of the game.
Worse: This happens again at the beginning of Episode 2, but replace Toadette with Captain Toad himself.
- In Luigi's Mansion, Luigi supposedly wins a huge mansion in a contest he did not enter.
You'd Expect: Luigi would be suspicious that he, out of nowhere, won a mansion in a contest he doesn't remember entering, and suspects that it's a trap or at the very least a scam.
Instead: Not only does he fall for it, but he invites Mario to check out the mansion with him. Of course, the mansion turns out to be haunted, and now Mario is trapped inside, leaving it up to Luigi to save him. Even if Luigi did recognize it as suspicious, which was the entire reason Mario was sent first to check it out, he only belatedly discovers how bad the situation is after Mario fails to return.
- About a quarter-way through the game, Luigi accidentally frees all of the boos from an in-ground cage that were waiting for him so they could turn him into a painting.
You'd Expect: Luigi would quickly suck up as many boos as he can before they notice the Poltergust on his back and flee.
Instead: He cowers in fear the entire time and lets every single one of them get away. Professor E. Gadd even lampshades this.
- About a quarter-way through the game, Luigi accidentally frees all of the boos from an in-ground cage that were waiting for him so they could turn him into a painting.
- In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, after Mario and Luigi put the Beanstar back together, they get a message from Bowletta (Bowser possesed by Cackletta), where he/she wants Mario and Luigi to hand the Beanstar over to him/her at Joke's End in exchange for Princess Peach's freedom. After the message is done, Prince Peasly proposes to use a fake replica of the Beanstar to give to the baddies to trick them without giving up the real deal.
You'd Expect: Mario and Luigi to leave the real Beanstar at Beanbean Castle, where it belongs, and take ONLY the fake one. After all, what if the villains see through the trick? If you leave the real one behind, then the bad guys get nothing, and at least Mario and Luigi would have to at least save Peach the hard way, without the risk of the real Beanstar getting stolen again.
Instead: They bring both the fake Beanstar AND the real Beanstar to Joke's End. Unfortunately, Fawful sees through the trick and knocks out Luigi when he shows the fake Beanstar, and steals the real one from him. Mario then ends up having to resort to dressing Luigi in drag as Peach to trick Bowletta into believing Princess Peach herself was an imposter while Luigi himself is kidnapped in her place.
Super Mario Bros. Super Show
- In many episodes, a defeated King Koopa escapes from Mario and company, sometimes by a Warp Potion that stays open for a while.
You'd Expect: That they'd follow him down the pipe back to his castle and teach him a lesson.
Instead: They let him get away. In one episode, they are even shown standing on one (granted, that was an animation goof, but still).
However: Koopa probably has guards on the other side of the warp to deal with anyone who follows him.
- "The Great Gladiator Gig": During the battle against Tryclydius, Mario cuts Luigi from a net by using a sword.
You'd Expect: That Mario would continue to fight Tryclydius by using his sword.
Instead: He tosses the sword to the side and tells Luigi to dance. Yes, it works, but even Luigi calls him out for the suggestion.
- "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em": Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad are captured by Queen Rotunda's Beezo guards and arrested for stealing peppers. Princess speaks out to claim their innocence.
You'd Think: She would tell the guards that she is a princess of the Mushroom Kingdom and that neither she nor her friends knew the peppers belonged to Rotunda Land.
Instead: She tries to argue that the peppers were growing in the wild when they were clearly shown enclosed in a fence.
Later: The gang meets Queen Rotunda who plans to give Prince Pompadour a Passion Potion to make him confess his love to her. She demands the Marios to make her a dessert for the wedding, pistachio ice cream laced with hot peppers. After trying some, she shouts for water.
You'd Expect: Mario or one of his friends to rush off and get the queen some water.
Instead: Mario snatches the Passion Potion off Queen Rotunda's throne for her to drink. She then falls madly in love with the first person she sees...Mario. Oops.
- "Koopa Klaus": Mario and his friends catch Koopa about to drop Santa Claus from the edge of a snowy cliff. Princess asks Koopa why he hates Christmas.
You'd Think: Koopa would calmly explain his hatred for the holiday.
Instead: He screams at the top of his lungs that Christmas is a Bah-Humkoop, causing an avalanche. The Marios take shelter in a nearby cave but luckily, they manage to save Santa using Mario's plumber snake.
- "Quest for Pizza": In Caveman Land, Mario has been knocked out cold by a snakebite and the only thing that can revive him is the smell of pizza. His friends start making one in the shelter of a city concealed by a waterfall. While picking tomatoes out in the open, they are ambushed by Alley Koop but leave him distracted long enough to get away safely.
You'd Expect: For the gang carefully consider how much tomatoes they can carry while keeping their hideout a secret.
Instead: They leave a trail of tomatoes into the waterfall. Alley Koop discovers this and has Mousersaurus reroute the waterfall to flood the city, ruining their pizza.
- "Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas": King Koopa has Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool trapped in a cage in his throne room, and his sons-turned-giants are present. Mario arrives and sneaks up, getting to the wands that King Koopa used to turn the Koopa Kids into giants and Prince Hugo into a poodle.
You'd Expect: Mario to snag the wands and use them to turn himself into a giant (or anything that could beat the Koopas) and/or revert the Koopa Kids back to normal. After that, he would use them to change Prince Hugo back to normal.
Instead: He switches the wands' jewels (the source of their powers) and tries to trick King Koopa into using them on him, so that he would use the wrong wand and transform him into a giant that could then fight his sons. Granted, his plan worked, but it was unnecessary, and he got lucky that King Koopa didn't notice that the jewels were swapped (especially since they had different colors). Also, he wouldn't have needed to fight the giant Koopa Kids if he had used the wands on them. Not to mention that without the wands, Mario had no way of changing Prince Hugo back to normal.
You'd Also Think: That after accidentally turning Mario into a giant, King Koopa would simply use one of the wands that he still had to revert him back to normal or turn him into a poodle.
Instead: It doesn't pass through his mind and his sons are forced to fight Mario. In the midst of this, Princess Toadstool grabs a wand, using it to revert his sons to normal size and the Koopas get the heck out of there.
- "Reptiles in the Rose Garden": Mario and friends see Koopa's Doomship hovering overhead.
You'd Expect: That they'd just make a run for it or something like that.
Instead: They stand motionless, somehow avoiding getting shot by the ship's Bullet Bills. Princess even volunteers to stall them while telling the others to run. By that time, it's too late and they get captured by the Chain Chomps that King Koopa sends down after them. Even after Kootie Pie proudly boasts to the princess that she's about to become America's new empress, which isn't any smarter, our heroes can't even warn the USA that the Koopas are coming.
So: With the entire gang still chained up and guarded by Sledge and Fire Bros, the princess hatches a plan to help them escape (and loudly declares her intention to put it into action). She decides to turn the Sledge and Fire Bros. against each other by claiming that each badmouthed the other to her.
You'd Think: That the Sledge and Fire Bros.—who have been in the room with the group the whole time—would realize that Princess Toadstool is lying, as they would have heard the phony insults, considering that the princess was never out of earshot of any of them.
Instead: The Bros. fall for the trick hook, line, and sinker, and start attacking each other.
It Gets Worse: Princess (again, quite loudly) then tells Mario, Luigi, and Toad to use the crossfire to break the Chain Chomps holding them.
You'd Then Think: The Sledge and Fire Bros. would stop fighting at once.
Instead: They don't let up for a second, freeing everyone from their clutches.
- "The Beauty of Kootie": Mario and Luigi find Lady Fettuccini Alfredo (Kootie Pie in a human disguise) in the basement of the Sultan's castle. Mario falls for her but Luigi notices she has a tail and wastes no time revealing this.
You'd Expect: Mario to catch on, too, and realize something is fishy with this dream girl.
Instead: He ignores her tail the whole time and doesn't discover she's really Kootie Pie until Cheatsy changes her back.
Compounding It: To get back at Kootie Pie, Mario turns Luigi into Casanova Koopa with one of the Koopa Kids' unattended wands.
You'd Think: Kootie Pie would act suspicious, knowing she had easily tricked Mario with the same exact scheme.
Instead: She instantly falls for Casanova head over heels.
It Gets Worse: With Princess Toadstool, Toad, the sultan and a guard locked up, Luigi requests some privacy when Cheatsy asks who this mysterious Koopa is.
You'd Then Think: Kootie Pie would have Cheatsy guard the prisoners while she and "Casanova" have their alone time.
Instead: She kicks the prisoners out of the dungeon. It's only when Kootie's wand accidentally changes Casanova back into Luigi, which blows his cover, does Kootie realize, "I'VE BEEN KISSED BY A PLUMBER!".
- "Never Koop a Koopa": Koopa announces that he and the Koopa Kids are admitting defeat and moving out of the Mushroom Kingdom. He hands Princess Toadstool the key to his castle as a token of forgiveness. After he disappears, Luigi tells her that she's being set up and to dispose of the key.
You'd Expect: Princess to trust Luigi and determine that all this is indeed too good to be true.
Instead: She talks the Mario Bros. and Toad into visiting the castle with the key in her possession, thinking she can turn Castle Koopa into a retirement home.
Later: After Princess Toadstool and Mario have been captured, Koopa claims he'll blow them up with Bob-ombs unless the Princess signs the kingdom over to him using a scroll; Cheatsy, his son, is inspired by his father's advice to double-cross people and decides to have the Princess sign the kingdom over to him. She sighs and agrees, writing something on the scroll and handing it back closed.
You'd Expect: Cheatsy to realize that it's possible that the Princess is tricking him, too, and look at the signature—or, at least, to open the scroll for a second before running off to declare himself king.
Instead: He marches into the throne room and declares that he is now in charge to Koopa, only for his father to open the scroll and discover that, rather than sign her name, the Princess has drawn an cartoony scowling face on the document. It takes up the entire center of the paper, so opening it even slightly would have given the trick away, but apparently Cheatsy didn't think of that.
- "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel": King Koopa and Kooky plan to trap the Mario Bros. in Brooklyn by blocking the only way they can escape, a woman's drainpipe that leads to the Mushroom Kingdom. They don plumber outfits and introduce themselves to the lady.
- You'd Expect: That she'd catch onto them being costumed plumbers and call someone else to fix her plumbing or, better yet, alert the police.
- Instead: She invites Koopa and Kooky into her home where she reveals a problem with the same bathtub drain that brought them there. The two Koopas proceed to clog it with anything they can find.
- To Be Fair: Mario DID mention that she wasn't all there.
- "Dadzilla" features Kootie Pie and Big Mouth travelling to Hollywood to find their "real" father, who they decide is a gigantic reptilian robot named Madzilla. After bringing him to life with their magic wands, they boss him around and one point, demand that he help them perform a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Kootie and Big Mouth can't sing, so a crowd of patrons pelts them with several items; this upsets the Koopa Kids, so they ask Madzilla to help them.
- You'd Expect: The crowd to run like the dickens from the ten-story monster that's looming over them.
- Instead: They pelt Madzilla with garbage. Naturally, this angers him, and he comes extremely close to hurling the citizens into the Pacific Ocean.
- "Tag Team Trouble" has a couple of cringe-worthy moments in the beginning. While delivering a sack containing one million coins to the orphanage, Toad overhears Koopa and Cheatsy scheming for money. He arrives at the orphanage and rings the doorbell.
You'd Expect: Toad to keep a close eye on the money until the nanny opens the door and thanks him for a job well done.
Instead: He falls asleep, leaving the sack open for easy capture.
Then: The nanny and two kids answer the door.
You'd Then Expect: Either one of them to wake up Toad and express their gratitude for bringing over the money.
Instead: The nanny simply carries the bag inside the orphanage. When Toad wakes up to find the coins missing, he immediately assumes that Koopa stole it and panics.
- "Oh, Brother!": Mario and Luigi have a heated argument, with the latter threatening to walk out of Toad's House where a thunderstorm (created by Kooky) is brewing.
You'd Expect: Luigi to realize that going outside in the middle of a thunderstorm isn't a safe thing to do and maybe try to patch things up with Mario.
Or: For Luigi take a Frog Suit at Princess Toadstool's request since it had been raining nonstop for two weeks by this time.
Instead: He storms out of the house without a Frog Suit, claiming he doesn't need one.
To Make Matters Worse: Mario goes after Luigi, completely ignoring the princess yelling "Take your Frog Suit!" and winds up getting captured by the Koopas.
- "Mush-Rumors": The beginning where Norman inadvertently drives his family from Kansas through a Warp Zone en route to the theme park they're visiting.
You'd Expect: After taking a quick peek at the unfamiliar scenery, to turn the car around (or at the very least, have his wife and kids tell him to do so) and find a different way to the park.
Instead: He keeps driving and, with the wife suggesting they pull over and ask for directions, assumes the family is in Iowa (a state that does not border Kansas).
You'd Also Expect: Norman to pay attention to the road.
Instead: He gets distracted by the scenery and hits some blocks, crashing the car.
- "Crimes R Us": All the Koopa Kids get one when Crimewave Clyde shows them how to break into the Mushroom Kingdom Treasury. He hands Kooky a Bob-omb with which they will use to bust open the doors.
You'd Expect: For Kooky to go on with Clyde's instructions. Once they've finished with the heist, the Koopa Kids can catch Clyde off guard by revealing Koopa's double cross.
Instead: Kooky shackles the Bob-omb to Clyde and when the prisoner asks what's going on, Cheatsy and Kootie Pie tell him they're following Koopa's orders. At that point, Cheatsy reveals the double cross and all seven laugh at Clyde, making no attempt to stop him from dousing the flame when he jumps in a pond. They proceed to rob the treasury without Clyde who begs the Mario Bros. for their help in stopping the Koopas.
- "7 Continents for 7 Koopas" has a few acts of Moral Dissonance as the heroes reclaim the continents. First, as Asia's new ruler, Bully sprays graffiti all over the Great Wall of China. Mario goes there with a magic wand to set things right.
You'd Expect: Mario to erase the graffiti.
Instead: He turns the Great Wall into a dragon (?!?), lets it chase Bully away, and leaves without changing it back. Now there's a huge dragon running amok in China, and that's supposed to be a smaller problem than graffiti on the Wall?
Compounding It: Luigi does something similar to end Big Mouth's rule in Antarctica. Big Mouth has created an "Abominable Snowkoopa" which he uses to scare the continent's penguins. Luigi arrives, steals the wand and defeats the Snowkoopa.
You'd Expect: Luigi to simply chase Big Mouth out of Antarctica with his wand.
Instead: He makes the penguins gigantic and leaves as they angrily chase Big Mouth away. Great, now Antarctica's got a giant penguin problem, making it in worse shape than what Big Mouth did to it.
Plus: Mario has another one when she disposes of Kootie Pie in Europe. Kootie has changed all the art in the Louvre to reflect herself, one of them being "The Birth of Kootie".
You'd Expect: Mario to change the art back.
Instead: He makes a wall of water flow out of "The Birth of Kootie", sweeping Kootie Pie away but also flooding the Louvre! He's lucky he didn't get washed away as well but Mario may have ruined an entire museum of art just to erase Kootie's alterations.
- "Fire Sale": Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Yoshi have found Kootie Pie inside Ice Palace which is beginning to melt due to Mama Fireplant's tirades. Mario, Luigi and Princess have all been frozen by Porcupine Fish, leaving Kootie Pie to deal with Yoshi.
You'd Think: Seeing that Yoshi could not pose much threat since he is afraid of water that Kootie Pie would simply stay put. Perhaps she could taunt him in hopes that he will panic and touch a Porcupine Fish.
Instead: She lashes out at Yoshi for trying to steal back Mama Fireplant, goes after him and steps on a Porcupine Fish. Yoshi rescues Mama Fireplant and his friends before the Ice Palace collapses.
The Result: Kootie Pie becomes frozen from the shoulders down in a block of ice. Her screams are unanswered because her Koopa Troopa minion refuses to help her.
- "Send in the Clown": Luigi, after seeing a poster for Koopaling Bros. Circus, tells Mario, Yoshi and Princess that King Koopa may be luring the cave people into a trap. They take a Star Path to Neon Castle and find the circus tent.
You'd Expect: For them to round up the cave people and leave immediately.
Instead: Mario persuades the gang to watch the show together with the cave people. Despite Luigi's suspicions, the heroes don't discover they're in trouble until a nose falls off one of the Rex's clown disguises.
- "Ghosts 'R' Us": The Mario Bros. and Princess have been caught by Wizardheimer in the Enchanted Forest. He threatens to blow them up with a Bob-omb if they don't go in a warp pipe leading to his haunted house.
You'd Expect: For them to just run like the dickens since they're in a huge forest.
Instead: They enter the pipe.
- "The Night Before Cave Christmas": Koopa is holding a present that Oogtar has spoiled, a Bob-omb that has lit its fuse.
You'd Think: Koopa would throw the Bob-omb away.
Instead: "Stop! You're not supposed to go off 'til Christmas" BOOM! "...morning."
- "Gopher Bash": Mario, Luigi and Yoshi have just taken back the food previously stolen by Cheatsy and the Monty Moles.
You'd Expect: That they'd keep a close eye on the crops during the return trip, particularly considering they're for the cave people.
Instead: Along the way, Yoshi climbs into the sack, devouring its entire contents. Luigi discovers it only when they return and tells Yoshi to start planting the veggies all over again.
- "A Little Learning": Princess Toadstool has caught Hip, Hop, Yoshi and Oogtar fighting during recess.
You'd Expect: That she'd let everyone tell their side of the story and dole out punishments when necessary.
Instead: She immediately blames Oogtar for starting the fight while Hip and Hop make faces behind her.
Then: For their science fair project, Hip and Hop build a volcano.
You'd Expect: Well, anything other than how they demonstrate it below.
Which Is: Rigging the volcano to have real lava squirt out of it.
Even Worse: King Koopa intervenes and accidentally causes Hop to release huge amounts of lava which destroys the school and causes Princess to expel Hip and Hop.


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Pocket Tunes Radio ($10) allows users to listen to internet radio stations on their iPhone or iPod touch. Users can listen to any of the stations included in the application or use the built-in browser to add additional stations. Pocket Tunes Radio also provides information on the song that is playing and can link users to the song in iTunes.
The recession has brought a sea-change in the way Adobe is marketing CS4. Instead of focusing on fancy new features, the new mantra is ROI -- return on investment. To that end, the company has commissioned what it says is independent research proving CS4 can save "thousands of dollars a year" over the previous version thanks to built-in timesavers and other workflow improvements. In other words, CS4 can do more with less.
Telestream on Wednesday released Wirecast 3.5, an update to its live video production software that can be used to create real-time or on-demand streams. Version 3.5 now allows users to stream live video using the popular Adobe Flash platform. New control options provide the ability to turn streams on or off, or automatically recover a lost connection. Users can also turn off the automatic device detection.
ZeeVee has released a third beta version of its Zinc internet-video browser. The application is designed to run on a PC that is connected to a larger display or TV, enabling users to watch videos from the Internet and navigate the interface with a remote control. The update offers an expanded on-demand library, along with new content from Netflix and CBS. The available media now includes almost 15,000 movies and tens of thousands of TV shows.
Apple has released a firmware update for the aluminum-unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro. The update addresses the display problems that users recently reported, including vertical lines or distorted graphics. Posts on Apple's support forums indicated a variety of symptoms from green lines to speckles, occuring independent of a specific application but more prevalent during graphics-intensive tasks such as gaming.
Nintendo's Bill Trinnen at the Game Developers Conference announced system update 4.0 for its Wii gaming console, which most importantly allows the console to read SDHC cards, upping the maximum capacity to 32GB from the original 2GB. Thanks to the update, users will also be able to download games straight to the SD card and load channels from the storage.
Western Digital today gave all of its single-disk My Book external hard drives new 2TB capacity levels. The upgrade is equivalent to about 241 hours of full-bitrate HD and is particularly described as useful for Mac users or frequent shoppers from iTunes. At least 250 million TV shows have been bought, according to data from Apple, while over 33 million movies have either been rented or bought outright.
Omni Group says it has released OmniGraphSketcher 1.0, having originally acquired the app as Graph Sketcher from new employee Robin Stewart. Users simply draw the graphs they want to produce, after which OGS interprets the illustration as proper data. Lines are used to indicate items such as goals and cutoffs, and appearance can be enhanced with labels, shading and various shapes.
Vuzix on Wednesday at the Game Developers Conference demonstrated what it calls the first consumer Augmented Reality video eyewear. Comprised of the company's existing VR920 virtual reality video eyewear and a new augmented reality accessory kit developed in conjunction with metaio. Vuzix claims the technology will bring a new dimension to gaming, educational and business industries. For its demo, flat images in a book were seen in 3D by the wearer of the device.
Lenovo on Wednesday afternoon said it would reorganize itself into major divisions in a bid to improve its focus. At the highest level, the company plans to create a group that handles "mature" markets, such as Japan and North America, as well as a second group that handles "emerging" markets like Lenovo's native China as well as Africa, the Middle East and other areas where PCs are less widespread. Previously, Lenovo had organized itself into much smaller groups based on continents.
Following today's earlier news of AT&T issuing notices to subscribers on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America who are allegedly involved in illegal file sharing, Comcast and Cox have announced they too are informing Internet users of any potential illegal activities. At the same Leadership Music Digital Summit where AT&T broke its news, Comcast senior VP Joe Waz said the provider has issued two million notices to its clients. Sources at the event said provider Cox is also actively partnering with RIAA on informing and discouraging its customers of their illegal activities.
Online vendor GameTree Online says it has begun selling the Mac port of Prince of Persia, originally developed by Ubisoft. The game is an action-adventure title, in which players guide the Prince as he fights to restore the fertility of a deadened landscape. The player has to run, jump and swing through a variety of obstacles, engaging in the occasional swordfight along the way.
The latest handset for Motorola's iDEN network, the i856 slider equipped with the signature push-to-talk feature, has been spotted on Wednesday thanks to Engadget. The first slider device compatible to feature push-to-talk functionality from Motorola, the handset's 2.2-inch display is average, as is the rest of the handset's feature-set. It sports a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0 and a microSD expansion card slot, all features common or slightly above that of the handset maker's first QWERTY iDEN handset, the i465.
Aspyr Media and Activision have announced Guitar Hero World Tour for PC and Mac. The music game features a new Music Studio that provides tools for creating digital music from scratch. The new wireless drum kit and guitar controllers can be used for game or studio input, and the studio compositions are available to play in the game. A Battle of the Bands mode now allows eight players to join online to compete.
An advanced HTC Windows Mobile smartphone could make a rare appearance at T-Mobile if leaked firmware reflects the provider's plans. A ROM for the "Rhodium," the Pro2's codename, mentions T-Mobile by name and gives it the same US country code that identifies other HTC phones on T-Mobile, including the Dash and the Shadow. Supporting the claim is a mention that the phone's language on this release is "USA" rather than Britain.
Developer TLA has updated its two parallel versions of PCalc, for the iPhone and for Mac OS X. Both serve as advanced scientific calculators, with multiple layouts and computation modes. The iPhone version has been given a new engineering layout, containing buttons for functions like the hypotenuse, delta percentage and hyperbolic trigonometry. Another theme has been imported from the Mac software, and six new button sounds have been added. The scaled-down PCalc Lite for iPhone has been given two of the new sounds and a few unspecified enhancements.
Nintendo's DSi should make non-game apps an important core of its DSi Shop mobile online store when the console is released on the 5th, the company revealed as part of its efforts at this week's Game Developers' Conference. Having spoken with CNET earlier, Nintendo said the handheld will get a free version of Opera's browser that is described as upgraded over an earlier version for the DS that depended on Nintendo's proprietary cartridges to work; the new version can be saved either directly to the DSi's internal 256MB of storage or to an SD card.
MacHeist has launched MacHeist 3, the third time-limited software sale from the company. The bundle groups numerous apps together at an extreme discount, with early-bird and sales-goal additions of extra software, and a donation of 25 percent of funds towards charity. Big Bang Board Games is being offered to the first 25,000 purchasers as an early-bird option; the current package otherwise consists of iSale ($40), Picturesque ($35), SousChef ($30), World of Goo ($20), PhoneView ($20), LittleSnapper ($40), Acorn ($50) and Kinemac ($300).
(Update with AT&T response) Telecommunications provider AT&T has confirmed it is working with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) by issuing cease and desist notices to subscribers whose accounts have allegedly been involved in illegal file sharing. CNET reported on Tuesday that AT&T senior executive Jim Cicconi broke the news at a digital music conference in Nashville. Both AT&T and Comcast were named as partners in RIAA's fight back in January, which switched from suing file sharers to issuing notices via Internet service providers. The association has other ISP partners, but has not yet named them.
LANrev has launched LANrev 5.1, an update to the systems lifecycle suite that adds iPhone management support, on-demand software installation for users and enhanced power management reporting. The new version also adds better Help Desk integration, customized branding for client software distributions, and client versions localized for French, German and Spanish. The new "iPhone/iPod Touch Devices" window in LANrev 5.1 shows both hardware and software iPhone inventory.
Philips has announced that three of its GoGear media players are scheduled to arrive in the US. Among these is the ViBE, which uses a 1.5-inch display and a battery capable of 25 hours of music or four hours of video. While audio file support is mainly limited to MP3 or WMA files, it can also handle Rhapsody subscription tracks, and Audible audiobooks. Other integrated features include an FM tuner with 20 presets, and automated conversion of Internet video. The player should ship in April, at a cost of $50 for 4GB or $60 for 8GB.
Microsoft's long-in-development Windows Mobile 7 operating system may have been spotted in a pair of leaked images. Sent to WMPoweruser, the first shot portrays a radically revised home screen with a top row of quick-access icons, a new clock, and bottom-center button with an unspecified role. A second image shows a significantly new map utility with a touch-friendly menu and shortcuts for spoken directions as well as a shortcut to finding the phone's current position.
Feral Interactive has announced a Mac conversion of LEGO Batman, scheduled to ship on April 9th. More closely based on the comic books than the movies, the game has players control Batman and Robin, as they confront traditional villains like the Joker and the Penguin in a LEGO version of Gotham City. As in other LEGO games, players can also build and control a number of vehicles.
At the currently ongoing Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Performance Designed Products (PDP) showed off two controllers for popular gaming systems, with the Gametrak Freedom for the Xbox 360 and SmartStylus for the portable Nintendo DS. The former is a Nintendo Wiimote-like device that uses an ultrasonic 3D motion sensing technology that sends signals to a base unit hooked up to an Xbox via a USB port.
Dell is about to introduce three new Precision T-series PCs based on Intel's Nehalem platform. While the threesome has not been made fully official, Engadget has obtained early details and photos. The T3500 will have support for up to 24GB of RAM and should come priced starting at $999.
Apple has placed high in Brandchannel's 2009 brandjunkie awards. Voters chose Apple as the top brand in several categories, such as best retail environment, in which it faced off against companies including IKEA, Starbucks and Walmart. The ability to not only try out products at a store but attend lectures and talk to technicians is cited as a plus, as is a minimalist but visually appealing interior design.
Samsung today grew its touchscreen phone line by one and launched the Haptic 8M. The phone's name comes both through the haptic (vibration) feedback on its very high-resolution, 480x800 3.3-inch display but also an 8-megapixel camera that can tag and recognize faces in photos. It also carries flash, detects smiles and scans business cards.
Microsoft has shown off a new-look Xbox 360 for XNA developers at the currently ongoing Game Developers Conference, which differs from the run-of-the-mill consoles on the technical side with double the standard RAM at 1GB. Otherwise, the black exterior with blue chrome accents has special etching on it that indicates this system is meant for software developers, who often need the extra memory for unoptimized game code. Its bundled controller also matches the new color scheme.
Sprint today outlined its expansion plans for its WiMAX 4G service for the next year as well as some early hints of its 2010 plans. The carrier now hopes to launch its wide-area wireless in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle at varying points throughout the year. It has also pushed back its originally planned Washington DC introduction to 2010 and expects to reserve other major cities for service next year, including Boston, Houston, New York and San Francisco.
Native Instruments has announced a new version of its Traktor DJ software, Traktor Duo. The title is based on the high-level Traktor Pro suite, but scales down from four decks to two. Duo also provides two effects sections with only six effects each, such as filter, delay, flanger and reverb. Likewise missing are some streaming, recording, MIDI and sync options.
Intel is determined enough to launch its CULV processors that the company is cutting prices by more than half to encourage PC vendors to buy it, notebook builders have reportedly said today. Pricing for a low-end version of the ultraportable chip is officially set at $152 in bulk but has been cut as low as $65 for companies with the very largest PC shipments, such as Acer, Dell and HP. Smaller firms such as ASUS and MSI are said getting prices as low as $70.
T-Mobile on Wednesday unveiled the webConnect USB Laptop Stick, the company's first-ever 3G networking adapter. The peripheral supports the faster downloads of HSDPA on the carrier's 1,700MHz networks and also includes its own 802.11g Wi-Fi connection for those few notebooks that don't support the standard. It can likewise connect to EDGE and GPRS both within the US and on international networks that support the slower standards.
In tandem with the release of a free developer version, id Software has also released a publicly-accessible App Store edition of Wolfenstein 3D. Players control B.J. Blazkowicz in first-person combat against the Nazis, fighting through a number of indoor environments. The game has over 60 levels divided into six episodes, and sports the original six weapons, including the chaingun.
HP this morning stepped up the performance of its higher-end, mainstream towers with the launch of the Pavilion Elite m9600t. The system is built on Core i7 processors and takes advantage of the triple-channel memory bus; it also has unusually fast video for the class with a 768MB GeForce 9600 GS. A base model at $950 comes with a 2.66GHz Core i7, 3GB of RAM, and 500GB of disk space while further options add Blu-ray drives, 12GB of memory, Blu-ray burning and Radeon HD 4850 graphics.
Blockbuster today said it would start delivering movies and TV shows over TiVo's DVRs. The tie-in will give users about 10,000 combined movies and TV shows that can be purchased or rented from any Series 2, Series 3 or HD series device. The company is offering movie rentals for between $2 and $4 and permanent movie purchases between $15 and $20. As part of the deal, Blockbuster says it will also start selling TiVo units in its retail stores.
Santok has unveiled the latest in its line of STK iPhone accessories, the STK iPhone 3G Power Pack. The device is designed as both a premium quality genuine-leather flip-case, and a 3G power pack with a rechargeable Li-ion polymer battery. It offers a maximum of 300-hours of extra standby time, 7-hours of talk time, or 24-hours of music playback for the iPhone. To charge the device a mini-USB cable has been included, which allows users to charge both the power pack and their iPhone simultaneously.
Canon early Wednesday launched its first-ever entry DSLR with HD video in the form of the Rebel T1i. The 15.1-megapixel camera uses the newer DIGIC 4 chip to record either full 1080p video at 20 frames per second or 30 frames per second at 720p, outpacing Nikon's D90 in terms of both resolution and price. Aside from the 1080p frame rate limit, the T1i has the same image setting adjustments as the 5D Mark II and records as much as 4GB (12 minutes of 1080p) of video in MPEG-4 with HDMI output to preview raw footage.
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Glue down all technology so it doesn't end up in Xi's pocket, bound for the reverse-engineering dept.
Trying to pick a fight with the chinese?
Waste of time.
It's better that we develop alternative sources of rare earth minerals, anyway. Why should we rely on a distant and antagonistic power for essential minerals when we don't have to?
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Video: Kristin Chenoweth to play Hollywood Bowl Friday and Saturday
Tony- and Emmy-winning singer/actress Kristin Chenoweth, who hails from Broken Arrow, will return to the legendary Hollywood Bowl Friday and Saturday for her first solo shows, featuring the preeminent Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The uniquely talented star will perform songs from her Broadway, television and film successes, as well as some personal favorites, time-honored greats and entertaining surprises, according to the venue.
The Oklahoma native spoke with KABC-TV in Los Angeles about her Hollywood Bowl shows, as you can see in the video posted below.
As previously reported, Chenoweth appeared last month on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" to chat about her Hollywood Bowl shows, her hatred of seafood, her devotion to her charity Maddie's Corner, her recent Australian tour and more. Even better, she belted a hilarious, sharply worded parody (posted below) of beleaguered New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner to the tune of "Popular," from one of her signature Broadway roles, "Wicked."
Chenoweth's visit to "The Tonight Show" will be rebroadcast tonight. "The Tonight Show" airs at 10:35 p.m. weekdays on NBC.
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Posted: 03/08/2014 - The veteran stage, film and TV performer best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners" has died. Sheila MacRae was 92.
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Posted: 03/07/2014 - A popular satirical musical about Mormon missionaries will play next year in Salt Lake City, just down the street from the worldwide headquarters of the faith it's mocking.
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Posted: 03/06/2014 - Queen will embark on a summer tour with Adam Lambert as its frontman.
Posted: 03/06/2014 - Police in suburban Atlanta have apprehended a woman they say was found sleeping in a bedroom at a home rented by pop star Justin Bieber.
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In my 'Seven Sins of Pseudo-Science' (Journal for General Philosophy of Science 1993) I argued against Grünbaum that Freud commits all Seven Sins of Pseudo-Science. Yet how does Freud manage to fool many people, including such a sophisticated person as Grünbaum? My answer is that Freud is a sophisticated pseudo-scientist, using all Seven Strategies of the Sophisticated Pseudo-Scientist to keep up appearances, to wit, (1) the Humble Empiricist, (2) the Severe Selfcriticism, (3) the Unbiased Me, (4) the Striking but Irrelevant Example, (5) the Proof Given Elsewhere, (6) the Favorable Compromise, and (7) the Display of Methodological Sophistication. One should note that not all strategies are disreputable in themselves. But all are used very cunningly so as to hide weaknesses in Freud's arguments. To be fair, quite a few of his methodological remarks are sophisticated enough. As Freud combines these sophisticated remarks with an appalling methodology in practice, I call him a sophisticated pseudo-scientist. I do not claim that these rhetorical strategies are specific to him.
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Grief-evangelism, as I choose to describe what we experienced, is similar to aid-evangelism and both need to be vigorously repudiated by people of all religions.
Dawn Clark Netsch was the first woman I really admired. I was five years old and in awe of her--her voice, her clothes, her ideas. When she spoke, she knew what she was talking about. I wanted my hair cut just like hers. I wanted to grow up and be like her.
Genki Takabayashi, the retired Japanese-born Rinzai Zen teacher, died at his home in Victor, Montana on Monday at age 81.
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If you could read only two pages of The New York Times, which would you choose? I would choose the front page and the obituary page. When I come home from a trip, I dash through the papers and scan those two pages. I have to know who, among my friends and acquaintances, kicked the bucket.
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Cazenovia With the sparse amount of ice almost off of Cazenovia Lake, this year's almost nonexistent winter is coming to a close. It has been an unusual year, and as a result, it seems as if spring is coming much more quickly this year than it has in previous years.
With the accelerated onset of spring, the Watershed Council (the partnership of the village of Cazenovia, the town of Cazenovia and the Cazenovia Lake Association) is gearing up for its third treatment of the lake to control invasive plants. The first two years of the program were extremely effective and the group is looking forward to building on that success.
The program to control Milfoil and other invasive species began in 2007 with many hours of deliberation and planning by the three partners in the Watershed Council.
The program that was adopted is a four-year effort involving three herbicide treatments.
Last year was the third year in the program; the organization did not do a treatment, but rather used the time to do an extensive assessment of its progress during the first two years, as well as plan for the third treatment of the series.
Over the last year, the Watershed Council did two exhaustive lake-wide plant surveys and held many meetings with consultants and experts in lake management. The third lake treatment program was agreed on in November /December of 2011.
While the first and second year treatments were done to the north and south sides of the lake respectively, this third year treatment will be a lake-wide treatment.
The strategy to treat the lake was carefully designed, and is described in the permit to treat the lake this June. That permit has been filed with DEC; the Watershed Council is awaiting approval.
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Man gets six years in slaying of 72-year-old grandmother
KNOXVILLE - A judge today sentenced the lookout in the shooting death of a 72-year-old grandmother to the maximum six-year sentence.
Knox County Criminal Court Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz ruled Frank Gary Cooper, 24, was a danger to the public and himself.
"One of the problems Mr. Cooper has is he is easily led by others," she said.
Cooper served as the lookout for two armed men who kicked in the door of Nola Atkins' front door and killed her in March 2008.
Atkins was shot in the face with a shotgun after intruders kicked in her door in search of a million-dollar jackpot neighborhood gossip falsely claimed she won in the numbers game.
Cooper had been charged with felony murder but a jury earlier this year convicted him of criminally negligent homicide and facilitation of aggravated burglary.
That meant the maximum he faced was the six years Leibowitz imposed. Cooper has already served more than three years awaiting trial.
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