Super Mario Bros. Super Show: Koopa Klaus / Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush

🎄 Hey, paisanos! Join us as we warp back to 1989 for a double dose of Christmas segments from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show — the live-action Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush , featuring Santa losing his “transportation” in Brooklyn; and the animated Koopa Klaus , featuring a plot to… freeze the North Pole. **** 🎙 Guest: Adam Pope ( Retro-Daze , Retro Detention , The Retro Network , @hojukoolander ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Nintendo Power’s Preview of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show , as tweeted by Adam , and preserved on the Internet Archive (for now) (it’s on page 93). 2. I didn’t realize till recently the music in the Back to the Future Nintendo game is a sped up version of The Power of Love . 3. King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons , a live-in-studio spinoff show local to Los Angeles and hosted by King Koopa, performed at one point by Christopher Collins , a.k.a. Chris Latta, the voice of Cobra Commander. 4. Captain Lou Albano’s Wrestling Hotline 1-900 number. 5. We map out where Mario and Luigi lived in Brooklyn. 6. Stunt Dawgs , an obscure 1992 cartoon featuring Harvey Atkin playing another character with the same King Koopa voice. 7. A brief discussion on the term “teeter-totter,” used by Mario here, versus “see-saw.” 8. How tall is Mario? Captain Lou was 5-foot-10 , though other sources range from 5-foot-1 to 3-foot-8 . 9. Preview of Super Nintendo World , coming to Universal theme parks. 10. Finally, I get to talk at length about The Legend of Zelda! 11. Adam’s SequelQuest episode on the Super Mario Bros. movie , featuring a parody of the Super Show theme song. **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Pepsi Nintendo Holiday Game , 1989, preserved by Dinosaur Dracula . Nintendo Power Commercial , 1990, preserved by RobertDigitalGames . **** “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show,” “Koopa Klaus,” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush” © 1989 DiC Entertainment. “Super Mario Bros.” © Nintendo Co. Ltd. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .