User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 55

Mario Bloopers: The Bet (March 18th, 2008) [Runtime: 9:22] 

Prelude:

We’ve reached another first for the MM videos! This is the first video created based on the idea of one of MM’s fans, Bardockssbrother45x. I’m not sure what MM exactly means by “idea inspired by”, did Bardocks make a video beforehand with this same idea and MM just copied it or did he just leave an idea in the comments for MM to use? I know that some people suggest stories for MM to make later on, so I’m going to guess it’s the latter case. How will the idea of an MM stand in a video setting? We’ll find out!

See this video first before reading on to get your own properly informed opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcf3eJSh0k0&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=55

The Main Video:

We start with both Mario and Luigi driving a lap around their respective courses for the first minute, saying that they’ll go to the Princess’s secret slide afterwards. In other words, we just have boring Mario Kart 64 footage not worth mentioning. Already I’m not that impressed with Bardocks’s suggestion.

After they both somehow arrive at Peach’s Castle at the same time, which is a rather large coincidence since they were off doing different things, Mario explains that he wants to try and beat his record while Luigi wants to just go for fun. Already Bardocks seems to be leaning towards the established character traits of Mario’s foolishness and Luigi’s laidback sensibility. And since Mario’s character is unlikely to be salvaged I’m at least glad we’re highlighting these traits instead of doing nothing. Mario, very clearly unable to hold his bitter hatred of Luigi back, says that he could slide down faster due to being older. Luigi counters that he’s more flexible than Mario, which means that we have a fat-shaming Luigi in this video. Granted he’s not exactly wrong, but I would have thought he’d be nicer to his brother than this.

Both then make a bet that they can slide down Peach’s slide faster than the other. The loser has their course redesigned just like in Mario’s Raceway Takeover and race on it. I have to point out that Mario’s the one bringing this up, which means he’s still bitter about his plans to conquer Mario Kart 64 being stopped and that he hasn’t really learned his lesson. Luigi agrees, and the both proceed to slide down Peach’s slide.

Mario goes first, with him having a less than noteworthy performance on the slide.

Hasn’t he slid down this slide multiple times before? Doesn’t he have all 120 stars already? Since he does, I’d have to bet that he had to have gone down that slide in at most 20.9 seconds, meaning this is not his best run by far. Mario’s so pathetic right now that he can’t even get an acceptable time on the slide.

Luigi, since he’s clearly way better than Mario is, decides to show off by stomping on the blue coin switch and collecting said blue coins while sliding down.

Then he proceeds to do the slide skip by jumping off and landing on a later part of the slide, saving himself a couple of seconds in the process. To be honest, I’m a bit glad that MM knows this slide skip, it shows he has at least a slight amount of skill.

So that was the bet! Yeah, I’m not surprised that Luigi won at all, but him winning is better than…hang on, there’s still six minutes left of this video? How? We’re already done with the bet, there can’t be much else besides the race, right? Well, unfortunately, the race isn’t quite next. Instead we spend the next minute and a half with Luigi running around the castle trying to find Mario. To be fair, the idea of Mario running off out of frustration for losing the bet is in-character for his MM universe self, and perhaps it would lead to some sort of moment of reconciliation that would be interesting.

But since this is MM Mario we’re talking about, Luigi just randomly finds him in the castle and nearly gets murdered by him since Mario thought that he had cheated. Just more proof that Oiram and Igiul didn’t do anything wrong and that they should have won. MM54321 himself then intervenes and breaks up the fight by saying that technically Luigi didn’t cheat since there was no rule against skipping some of the course. He also says that he ended up winning the bet instead of either Mario or Luigi since he slid down the slide in 0 seconds.

Ah, goddammit, nobody wanted you to interfere with this bet MarySue54321! We were fine enough with Luigi winning, we don’t need this stupid twist where you come in and steal his victory right from him! I almost want to say MM added this ending himself to stroke his own ego, but given how accurately Bardocks had gotten all the other characters I’m curious if this stupid ending was his idea too. It would be scarily accurate to an actual MM video, so if this was Bardocks’s idea, then major points to him for getting all the MM tropes right.

Regardless, MarySue54321 “winning” this bet is completely stupid for a number of reasons. First off, this bet was just between both of the Mario Brothers, they didn’t agree to include you in said bet. Second, even though there’s no rule in stopping the timer, there’s still the fact that real-world time exists and the footage would just be timed regardless by another external timer. And since you did the entire slide, Luigi would still win. Third, you did this an hour ago, which was way before this bet could have possibly been made. Therefore, you didn’t even do this for the bet which disqualifies it immediately. And fourth, of course you’d steal Luigi’s idea of gathering the blue coins.

So, clearly, Luigi won this bet fair and square. But since MarySue54321 has completely authority over everyone else and can get away with everything, somehow he wins and redesigns both Mario and Luigi’s courses. This pretty much amounts to:


 * Changing the Mario signs into “Marioro54321”.
 * Redesigning Mario’s giant mushroom into a yellow and white mess that I can’t even make out.
 * Changing the checkers to red and gold with “MM54321” text on it.
 * Changing the hat logos to a barely visible “MM54321”.
 * And whatever’s depicted on these two images:



You’d think that would be it for the video since the consequence of the bet has been carried out. However, there’s still a minute left of video even after this, which MM decides to use to include all his failed attempts on Luigi’s section. Wait a minute…failed recordings? Finally, MM has made actual bloopers! Or Bardocks if this was his suggestion, but I’m more chalking this up to MM being bad at playing SM64. This basically amounts to Luigi failing a lot and a director frequently cutting.

Wait a moment, why is their name director and not MM54321? Is MM not actually directing his own videos? Then which poor unfortunate sap got forced into being the director of this video? I want to say it’s Bardocks since this was his idea, but since the video was just said to be “inspired” by his idea I don’t think he’d direct it. Whoever this mysterious director is probably got murdered by Mario at some point though so his identity probably doesn’t matter. Also, if Luigi failed this much, how did he ever win the bet? My guess is that MM reversed the Earth every time Luigi failed since it wasn’t according to his plan and thus killed everyone several times over. That, or those were all alternate universes where Luigi failed. I literally can’t tell in this case, and since MM heavily favors Mario I’m going with the alternate universe route. Also how does the director even direct this video? Does the directing only consist of the characters staying on the general outline of events, because I don’t think any of the characters are necessarily saying memorized lines here.

And that was “The Bet!” Yep, it seemed like a pretty average MM vid. The characters were pretty much all on-point with their established selves, and there was needless filler like that middle section with Luigi chasing Mario and the opening Mario Kart sections. If all this was exactly Bardocks’s idea, then I have to commend him for getting MM so accurate. Otherwise, meh.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Evil Mario - 13 lines (Huh, he got less than what I was expecting)

Luigi - 28 lines (Hey, he got the most lines! Good for you, Luigi!)

MarySue54321 - 8 lines (You still didn’t win that bet)

Director - 4 lines (Promptly was blown up by the end as revenge on Mario’s behalf)

Total Lines - 53

Biggest Chad: Luigi - I mean clearly he’s the biggest chad, he won the bet while also gathering all those blue coins.

Biggest Loser: MarySue54321 - He’s so insecure about himself that he had to blatantly cheat to “win” and prove his superiority despite literally everything pointing to him never even being a participant in the bet to begin with. That’s just pathetic.

Favorite Quote: “For the love of……..CUUUUUUUT!!!” - This video’s director. (Okay him getting more and more tired of Luigi failing was kind of fun, plus this was probably the director’s final words in life.)

Next up, we’ll be seeing another video…but with voices!

…oh no...