User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 36

SM64 Bloopers: Mario’s Fixes His Clock (February 19th, 2008) [Runtime: 5:14]

Prelude:

Well, we’re finally at a video with a more involved plot again. Not much more heavily involved, but it’s not as overly simple as the previous video that I covered. This video is actually a continuation of the whole clock plotline. Yes, this is a third part of the plotline, but if MM wants to write about a broken clock then he’s allowed to write about his clock. Anyways it’s still a Mario 64/Mario Party hybrid, though mercifully it’s only one minigame instead of multiple like last time. Overall the plot is meh, it doesn’t have the legendary narm of the previous part. So, let’s see how this mini-arc ends.

See this video first before reading on to get your own properly informed opinion:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adIYQImOnvI&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=36

The Main Video:

First off, yes, there's a huge typo in the title of this video. Mario's Fixes? Are we fixing Mario's clock? Because I don't think this is Mario's clock, this is Peach's. So why is there a possessive used and why is it called his clock? The title should really be "Mario Fixes the Castle's Clock" if we want to be accurate here. We start right en media res with Mario rushing right up towards the clock again.

He declares that he’s going to fix the clock this time, which…doesn’t really make any sense. Wasn’t the castle blown up the last time we checked? Wasn’t there a bomb inside the previous clock that would have completely decimated it first before anything else? Don’t they have a new clock that theoretically shouldn’t be broken by now? I feel that the company who’s providing their clocks are intentionally scamming them, and that Peach should have known better than to buy from the same company again.

So, not getting the hint that this clock company is probably a fraud, Mario goes back in and proceeds to break the law of physics in order to get back at the top again. Also, Mario Galaxy music plays because of course. Mario Galaxy Combo: 9. He declares that he’s going to ask the Thwomp again about how to fix the clock. I wouldn’t question it if it wasn’t for the words “the” and “again”, which makes me believe that this is the exact same Thwomp as last time. I’m outrageously curious as to why Mario would trust this guy again after he made Mario go through so many needless sidequests and blew up the castle once, nor do I know how he’s still alive after Mario seemingly killed him the previous time. I guess he got a 1-up mushroom and inhabited the new clock out of spite. I would be excited that the most hilarious character has come back to life, but he never goes into his Twhomp form so I don’t care.

So, Mario confronts the Thwomp again, with the Thwomp saying that he’s figured out the source of the clock’s issues. Mario gives him until he’s tired of running on the conveyor belt to spit it out, lest he get trounced yet again by Mario.

The Thwomp tells him to press up on the clock’s roof in order to find out what has been causing trouble, which is just about as horrible of a suggestion as his previous ones. Apparently his charisma must be through the roof or Mario’s intelligence is rock bottom because Mario doesn’t question his logic at all. Honestly this is even worse than the switch one, because pressing up on the roof of a clock = the clock’s roof is broken = you still haven’t fixed the clock. Deciding not to follow simple logic, however, Mario decides to press on the clock roof regardless.

Once he does, instead of breaking the clock as I expected, he instead enters a secret area and encounters Wario. And it turns out that Wario was the one that broke the clock. Yes, Wario’s the true main antagonist of this arc. The twists just keep coming, don’t they? But I’m satisfied with this explanation in all honesty. I refuse to believe Mario wouldn’t have fixed that clock in some time, and Wario being a constant menace that breaks the clock whenever it gets fixed would definitely explain why Mario can never seem to fix it. It also perfectly explains why it broke down again after being replaced without making Mario and Peach seem like idiots.

That being said, though, what was with the bomb the last time? Did Wario plant it there as a red herring to make certain that he wasn’t caught by Mario? Because if so, then I guess the Big Twhomp really was innocent that one time. Also my esteem in Wario has been raised even more now than ever before, because damn was his reign as breaker of the clocks magnificent. I literally didn’t see this twist coming (probably because MM made it up on the spot).

Anyways, in order to stop Mario from trouncing him, Wario challenges Mario to a minigame, where if Mario wins, Wario will leave the clock alone forever. Again, instead of just killing Wario and getting things over with, Mario foolishly accepts this challenge. I can only assume at this point that if Mario refuses anything Mario Party related, MM will kill him or bring him to the Penguin Village or something. That or Mario’s still a dumbass like he’s been this entire video, which actually seems like the most logical explanation now that I think about it.

Anyways, they play a Mario Party minigame and Mario wins. Big surprise.

And so, Wario is forced to leave the castle in disgrace.

While Mario goes down towards an art gallery to celebrate. Somehow he has trouble picking out which painting houses the huge island and thus the giant pool despite him having been to this location thousands of times I would imagine, but again his intelligence is zero in this video so who am I to judge.

Before the video ends, we have one deleted scene left. Except this isn’t a deleted scene since this is still technically from the same video, and thus this counts more as a post-credits scene than a deleted scene. But fine, we’ll go with a deleted scene. This scene basically just shows Wario on his kart further fleeing from the castle, with him threatening to run over the audience now that he’s been found out. …oh god! Oh god, are you serious? Well I felt kind of sorry for Wario in the previous episodes, but now I’m starting to think the police were completely justified for pulling him over. He’s an absolute monster! Granted the signs were always there with him beating himself up as Mario, but I didn’t think he’d try to kill people! Okay, noted, I won’t be rooting for Wario anymore. Waluigi, you’re somehow the biggest saint of the four plumbers and I don’t know how.

So Wario manages to kill some of the audience before being thrown out, all while Lakitu watches and does nothing. And that’s the end of the Bloopers.

As for my thoughts on this video, I feel a bit more for Wario than I did before. Because now I know that I can’t root for him. I also feel this explains quite a bit in the previous videos, and I honestly like the idea of Wario being behind the clock’s issues as it strengthens his rivalry with Mario and it makes logical sense. As for the presentation, I’m already not a fan of the Mario Party stuff so this didn’t do much for me. But at the very least, I’m glad that MM found some creativity around a clock and it’s Thwomp.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Mario - 18 lines [60%] (And the award for biggest doofus in the universe goes to…)

Big Twhomp - 3 lines [10%] (Hey, congrats on surviving! Or at least still being alive.)

Wario - 8 lines [26.7%] (Didn’t expect to see you here, didn’t expect for you to be evil either)

The Audience - 1 line [3.3%] (So sorry for you guys)

Lakitu - None (You just floated there and did nothing you associate of murder)

Total Lines - 30

Biggest Chad: Wario - Okay even though he killed a lot of people, he also manipulated Mario and Peach like fiddles with his messing of the clock, so he’s the biggest Chad out of everyone in this thing.

Biggest Loser: Mario - This is his fifteenth time in this position for those of you counting at home. Like damn, I didn’t want to give it to him, but he was so dumb here that I couldn’t help myself but give it to him. At this point I’m just waiting for post-Igiul where I can stop putting him here.

Favorite Quote: “Spit it out before I get tired of running on this conveyor belt!” - Mario (Said with all the conviction of a man who was losing against the conveyor belt due to already being tired and just wanting to kill the Thwomp regardless).

Now that we’re done with the clock arc, we’ll be jumping right back into Mario Kart for Mario’s raceway takeover!