Super Mario's World

Been messing about with this sort of silly idea. Not sure though.

Sketch # 1

INT - PLUMBERS YARD - DAY

SUPER MARIO IS SITTING AT A DESK DOING SOME PAPERWORK. THE TELEPHONE RINGS

MARIO:
Hello. Ees a Super Mario's plumbers. How can I helpa you?

WOMAN:
I seem to have a problem with my car.

MARIO:
Hey laidee ees thees a joke? I a plumber innit?

WOMAN:
Can't you fix cars then?

MARIO:
OK laidee. I tell a you what I do. I'll come round and use the high pressure jet on it. I can't sai fairer than that.

WOMAN:
Will that fix it?

MARIO:
Probably not but I use it for all ofa my jobs. I even use it lasta week to cuta de grass at my place.

END:

Sketch # 2

INT - PLUMBERS YARD OFFICE - DAY

SUPER MARIO IS SITTING AT A DESK DOING SOME PAPERWORK. THE TELEPHONE RINGS

MARIO:
Hello. Ees a Super Mario's plumbers. How cana I help you?

WOMAN:
I have a dripping tap and I think it needs a new washer.

MARIO
OK laidee, I come round and a feex it for a you.

WOMAN:
Will it cost much? I'm a pensioner you see.

MARIO:
Hey laidee I chargea by the hour. But that's a leetle job so by the time I have a changed the washer and pressure-jetted the seestem it will only take about 4 hours. So that's about £360 plus the VAT.

END:

I actually thought these were hilarious, though I'm not entirely sure why. Lovely images. Doesn't seem to have an awful lot of sense. The endings are like a weird anticlimax, which I find really funny. Sublimely daft IMO!!

I like the second one. The joke seems to be that there is no real joke, which in this case I think works remarkably well.

Really good idea and nice direction, I wouldn't of gone that way at all. I liked both, maybe you could work both into one?

The next one could be a pet and he jumps on their head?

Anyway, big thumbs up!

Quote: David Bussell @ February 12, 2008, 8:00 PM

I like the second one. The joke seems to be that there is no real joke, which in this case I think works remarkably well.

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Yeah, exactly. I liked 'em both. Still making me laugh.

Surely the joke is that in one of the games his weapon is a high pressure jet?

Hmm

It's a sort of visual image that popped into my head of Super Mario the cute n' cuddly kids little friend.

I though that as he's a plumber (and with all due respect to any plumbers/ comedy writers on here) he is deemed to be on the make if Watchdog is to be believed.

No matter what the problem is the "earner" is to get the pressure-jet out so I was turning nice Mario into a sort of rogue trader. I have plans for him to attend his daughter's birthday but instead of buying her a present he gives her a free go of the pressure jetter and so on and so on.

Glad these are being found amusing and I suppose that I see this in a similar place to Perry's Fanny Chuzzlewick character.

A bit of whimsical & silly old nonsense really.

I'm not on board with this mate. Didnt do it for me, taking characters from their origin normally means keeping aspects of the character to use in other situtations Mario didnt ring true. I like youjr stuff dude but on this I'm out.

It seems to make such little sense I wouldn't be surpised if Blenkie put this on as a curveball to see if any fool would be idiot enough to like it!! But the thing is... I really do!! The whole beauty of it to me is that none of it really fits or makes sense - and that the endings are such an anticlimax (despite the pressure-jetter thing). Still making me laugh now.

Quote: James Williams @ February 13, 2008, 10:12 PM

It seems to make such little sense I wouldn't be surpised if Blenkie put this on as a curveball to see if any fool would be idiot enough to like it!! But the thing is... I really do!! The whole beauty of it to me is that none of it really fits or makes sense - and that the endings are such an anticlimax (despite the pressure-jetter thing). Still making me laugh now.

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I agree. I've seen jokes before where Mario has been transposed to real life situations. He's addicted to mushrooms, ha bloody ha! What made these sketches work for me was that they simply presented Mario in his downtime. One can only assume (as we never see him so much as unclog a drain in the games) that he must work do some plumbing between gigs. This is his reality. How can that not be funny to the rest of you?

Hi Men

No real subtext to these. I wasn't sure about them at all. I liked the visual image that they conjured up for me and the whimsical daftness of them also, so wrote them down. I added the pressure-jet just to give him a sort of tradesman's eye for the main chance.

There were three to begin with but I cut one because it was a corny joke where the lady called him to come and fix a leak and her address was 2453 Grand Canal Venice.