I vaguely remember looking forward to the Friday shows more because I really liked Zelda. But I'm not sure if I was watching its original run in late 1989 or just the reruns later. Did they run the monday shows on monday and so forth whenever it was re-aired?
shareWhen they showed them on Fox, I think they did. I'm not for sure, though, but when they moved their show to The Family Channel didn't air the legend of zelda episodes, and they skipped some of the super mario brothers episodes. The Super Mario Brother episodes I remember they didn't show on The Family Channel are the following:
King Mario Of Cramalot
Count Koopula
Too Hot To Handle
Mario Meets Koop-zilla
The Ten Koopmandments
The Koopas Are Coming! The Koopas Are Coming!
Princess I Shrunk The Marios
Robo Koopa
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I remember watching the show sometime in the 90's. (I'm from sweden, so we're a bit behind on stuff like that), and I really liked the show. I vaguely remember Zelda, but I have some kind of memory of it. Mario bros. on the other hand I really recall watching during my childhood.
shareI remember this vaguely when i was 6 back in 1990. I always told everyone to tune into link and zelda instead. I faintly remember watching captain n. So yeah i did watch it.
shareI was too young to watch it in first run on NBC, but I remember watching it on USA in the late 90s and PAX circa 2000.
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I'm pretty sure that I watched it on the first run, can't be entirely sure though, because it was so long ago. I actually have two vhs tapes, with two episodes each, that I would watch all the time, when I was little.
shareI saw it, when it ran for the first time. I was 7/8. I remember Zelda quite good. Also the song,and a young Nicolle Eggert.
shareYeah I watched it. I was pretty young though... like 5ish? It rocked my world. Seeing Mario and Luigi as PEOPLE!!! Watching it now makes me want to rip my eyes out, but it was pretty cool when I was little. I actually own the Zelda eps on DVD... I found them at like an outlet store in Florida. I think I paid like $3 for them. :)
shareI was 15, but I still watched it and 'Captain N'... What can I say, I was a Nintendoholic... Who am I kidding, I still am a Nintendoholic!
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Watched the show, bought the cereal (which was frikkin awesome) and bought those nintendo trading cards that had the scratch off game pieces based on mario brothers levels.
shareI saw the show during its first run back in 1989.
I think the first episode was about a senile Birdo molesting Toad.
I was confused by the fact that Mario wore a scarf in that episode, but didnt wear one in the games.
But I also remember King Koopa had his own live action show at one point.
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King Koopa actually did have his own live action series, "King Koopa's Kool Kartoons." It only aired in certain markets, specifically in Southern California and pretty much flopped.
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I can't remember if it was USA or what network they were on, but I think USA showed the reruns because I used to watch this in the early nineties. I was 3 or 4. I could've done without the cartoons. I just wanted to see "Do the Mario". It made me laugh as a kid and it still makes me laugh now. I think I'm going to get the DVDs soon.
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i watched it when it first aired in 1989. it was pretty cool, although now its kinda lame i must say.. the live action parts were really bad in my opinion.
shareYep. I watched this show when it first came out and I just bought the DVD with the movie parodies. Does anybody remember the nintendo fruit snacks and the Mario beverages that they made?
"Love...beauty...hope...peace.. These are the things I will destroy!"
I did. I was 5 at the time. And I'm just the opposite of you: I remember the Mario episodes more and only vaguely remember the Zelda episodes.
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I remember around 1989 coming home from school and watching this show from monday through friday in the afternoons. I was in the second grade too. Time does fly by.
You know, they don't have cartoons on the weekday mornings or weekday afternoons for some reason on regular television, only on cable. But that was about 20 years ago.
I watched this show during its original run back in 89, I was 11 at the time. I remember it came on at 4PM, followed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and then Different Strokes on the station I watched it on.
I remember it didn't take me too long to get tired of the live action bits. I very rarely knew the guest stars on the show (Ernie Hudson being one I remember). It reminded me too much of Pee-Wee's playhouse and I would get annoyed at how sound effects from the game were just thrown in all random.
The Mario Bros. cartoon was cool. I remember rumors regarding the theme song (i.e. The Fresh Prince sang the theme song, and the classic "dude I just heard the word sh it in the theme song!)
But I lived for Zelda. To me Link was always like that in the games and to this day I don't enjoy Zelda games as much since Link is so humble in them. Loved the artwork, loved the voice actors, loved the idea of their weapons getting tiny for storage, it all worked for me.
I actually got excited recently because I saw the actor who voiced Link on an episode of the new show Reaper. Pretty sure I was the only one who noticed him other than his family.
"They have a grill, it's this grill. Now you have it...it's called America."
I sure did. Used to love the live-action segments, the Mario cartoons and the Zelda cartoons. I think in New York, it came on Fox 5 right after Real Ghostbusters at about 4:30. I was an angry kid whenever I missed Zelda on Friday, especially since I'd have to wait a whole week to catch another episode.
It's funny that whenever I talk about the series with somebody, they always remember looking forward to Fridays to get to see the Zelda cartoons just like I used to. I was a huge fan of the Nintendo characters, had the toys, school folders, clothes, yet I didn't even manage to get my own game system until about 1992 when I was 9.