User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 21

MarioMario54321's Christmas Special (December 4, 2007) [Runtime: 7:03]

Prelude:

One would expect Part 3 of the previous series to be the next video that MarioMario54321 would work on, and I wouldn’t blame them for thinking that. But in celebration of the coming holidays, MM ended up making a Christmas special instead. This isn’t uncommon for MM either, many of his major series end up being interrupted halfway through by some other unrelated videos. So if you’re not a fan of that, you’ll just have to keep waiting. That being said, Part 3 is the very next video, so sit tight.

Besides being an interruption for Mario vs. Oiram 3, this marks the first of MM’s many, many Christmas specials. Just about every single year he does both this and a Halloween special, although this year I guess the Halloween special ended up being the Lavender Town videos. Also worth noting was that this video wasn’t even uploaded on Christmas day but rather at least twenty-one days beforehand, so this is quite an early one. MM at least had the decency to release this in the same month, though, unlike many stores that I know. So, what does a Christmas story from MM look like? We’ll find out right now!

See this video first though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE7gLAmzxZM&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=21

The Main Video:

We start with MarioMario54321...sorry, I just remembered the last video and him running around the Earth. My hatred of his character is still just as bright as ever and I’m really wishing we had Mario instead. Anyways MM introduces us to the Christmas special, which is taking place at Snowman’s Land in the middle of the night. Right off the bat I have to give MM props for the textures. The trees are designed to have ornaments and a star on top, and he ended up giving the sky a black night texture as well. Neither look too bad actually, it functions well with the place. My only complaint would be that the stars look more like dots unfortunately. That and the ornaments are just MS paint circles.

Pointing out that he’s decorated about every tree here, MM looks up and sees Santa Claus and his sleigh right in front of the full moon. As for how Santa Claus appears, MM decided to just have his silhouette be a part of the sky textures. And while it’s a step up from just having Santa appear on a png and a rather creative way of having Santa there, it does bring the question of why he’s frozen in the air with his reindeer near the moon. It looks more like he’s landed on it than he does physically blocking it. Also shouldn’t his sleigh be moving considering he has a hell of a lot of work to do this day, with all those presents or whatnot? Even the reindeer aren’t moving at all, so it looks more like Santa’s Sleigh was pasted on as a window mural than it being a living being.

Apparently being too lazy to move at all or petrified, Santa Claus laughs and tells MM that he’s been a good boy this year. Let me remind you that this is the same man who:


 * 1) Reversed time to bring back a serial killer.
 * 2) Makes a living filming said serial killer’s antics and egging him on.
 * 3) Turning the most famous hero in the Mushroom Kingdom into said plumber.
 * 4) Letting Peach die in her castle without doing anything.
 * 5) Stopped the Earth’s rotation and thus caused the apocalypse through his own selfishness against Oiram.

This is not only naughty list material, this transcends the word naughty entirely and goes straight into pure diabolical evil. The only reason that Santa is putting MM on the nice list is because he fears that if he doesn’t, MM will sic Mario onto him next. Santa must have realized something was off once Mario got on the naughty list, which is why he must know of the horrors of the man creating the videos. I don’t blame him one bit honestly, he is after all only mortal. It would only be natural for Santa to avoid the wrath of a Mary Sue by putting them on the nice list.

So having coerced Santa into giving him presents this year, MM goes and finds another person to celebrate the holidays with. And that being is Mr. Happy Snowball Man (which is totally a reskin of the Ice Bully)!

That name alone is so tacky that he’d fit right in with the Rankin & Bass cast, but alas he is swiftly ignored as soon as he arrived. MM just sort of runs around and watches Happy Snowball Man accidentally kill himself, which actually has to suck now that I think about it. He’s just come to life, is a happy innocent soul only wishing the best, and he just dies after one minute of living. That’s actually depressing the more that I think about it. And what’s MM’s response to this? ‘Eh forget him, let’s keep going!’ Yes, totally the words of someone from Santa’s nice list.

So MM goes around and walks underwater like a Mary Sue, Moon Jumps like a Mary Sue and gets warned by a gigantic snowman to be careful like a Mary Sue. Okay maybe not that last one, that could just be him being friendly. Also I need to lay off those accusations for now lest I rot the term entirely. After jumping off from the gigantic snowman, MM decides to switch things over to Mario for a Christmas Carol. Except none of the actual carols are picked, and he instead has Mario dance to the Slateport City song instead. It does sound Christmasy, yes, I will give MM that. Plus it’s a more original choice than a Christmas-themed Scatman song. There’s just an issue when you realize that Slateport City is a place in Pokemon Gen 3 that’s known for fresh water and not being frozen. So therefore this does not relate to the holidays in any way and thus is heresy to the entire video. What, you couldn’t have gone with any actual Christmas carol instead?

Well he couldn’t, because we’re technically still in the ‘Pokemon’ period of MM videos where just about everything had Pokemon in it. So I guess the Pokemon song it is. If you’re wondering, the GBA version of that song was already playing. But if we already heard that song, you may ask, then what would Mario dance to? We see that Mario instead dances to a lyrical version of that song. Ah, finally! It’s in Japanese, but I’m sure that these lyrics could be about Christmas stuff! One search to YouTube later and I find out that they’re...still not about Christmas. Again, I have to ask, why couldn’t you have gone with an actual Christmas carol here? Like, Twelve Days of Christmas or Jingle Bells or We Wish You a Merry Christmas? There’s literally tons of songs about Christmas that you could have done!

Not knowing the history behind this song, though, Mario ends up confusing it for an actual Christmas carol and dances. This takes up about the rest of the video and there’s not much interesting to comment on, so I’ll divide this into some bullets points for the sake of pacing:


 * Santa for some reason is still parked near the moon, no doubt now being held by MM as a captive audience to Mario’s song.
 * Mario decides to abduct a Penguin and force it to dance along to the song. He's only legally allowed to this time because it's Christmas, and I very much bet he would have been fried by megation lasers if he did anything otherwise.
 * The Penguin disappears into thin air after Mario lets it go for too long, so it must be a dark magician of some sort.
 * Mario has apparently heard this song enough times to discern what the best part of the song is.
 * There’s a cool section where the baby penguin slides along with Mario on the snow. It’s an easy-to-miss detail in Mario 64 that you might just learn here, so good in MM for teaching us something at least.
 * Lakitu gets to talk here, cool!

After all that happens, MM wishes us a Merry Christmas and the video is over. Yeah not much happened in it, and a large majority of it was filler of Mario dancing with a penguin. For that reason I don’t really think this video is worth watching past maybe seeing Mr. Happy Snowball Man.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Mary Sue 54321 - 30 lines [60%] (He gets the most lines for the first time since his debut episode, somehow more than Mario.)

Santa Claus - 3 lines [6%] (I don’t think he had much of a choice but to be here)

Santa Claus’s Reindeer - 0 lines (No I’m not listing all of them, and I’m not sure whether Rudolph was there or not.)

Mr. Happy Snowball Man - 2 lines [4%] (That’s all he was able to make out in his short life.)

Big Snowman - 1 line [2%] (How loud and deep do you think this guy’s voice was?)

The Other Arctic Creatures - 0 lines (They’re probably not happy that MM is polluting the place with his Christmas materials)

Evil Mario - 13 lines [26%] (Most of his time was spent dancing, not speaking. Although really speaking could have helped ease some of the boredom so...)

Mother Penguin - 0 lines (I can’t imagine how terrified she is seeing her baby dance with a killer)

Baby Penguin - 0 lines (Too young to speak)

Lakitu - 1 line [2%] (Hey I get to acknowledge that he exists! He must have been bored too when filming Mario’s dance)

Total Lines: 50 lines

Biggest Chad: Baby Penguin - He teleported offscreen, therefore he’s a wizard. Instant chad. (Note that if we treated this as an in-game effect then Lakitu would win simply by existing)

Biggest Loser: Mr. Happy Snowball Man - To be fair a lot of characters could have won this award. Santa Claus got held up and watched a Penguin dance, Mario spent his time forcing said Penguin to dance, and Lakitu also had to watch the whole thing. But Mr. Happy Snowball Man lived for like two minutes before dying, and he accomplished literally nothing in his life. I actually feel bad that he’s here, but alas I must be honest with my awards.

Favorite Quote: "You've been a good boy this year MM54321!" - Santa Claus (it was either this or the quote of MM's indifference towards Mr. Happy Snowball Man's death. Anyways this quote is a complete lie given the circumstances and I find it odd that Santa Claus of all people has to address him by his YouTuber name. He's definitely being forced to say this line.)

Okay, the next review is the final part of Mario vs. Oiram 3. Enough with the sidetracking, it’s time to see the (not) final battle!