Super Mario: Dimension Journey (TV Show)/Farmyard Competition

Farmyard Competition is an episode from the Super Mario: Dimension Journey TV series. It aired on the 30th of December, 2017.
==Summary==
The Mario Co find themselves in Toad's book and the only way to leave is if he reads it to the end, which he wont do if they don't get the ending correct.
== Plot ==
The episode begins at night when Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi are battle some robbers at the bank (three being Dr. Eggman's henchmen, the other being Lenny from The Simpsons participating in a prank).
At the HUB house, the four men can't get to sleep. Wario tries eating to sleep but it doesn't work. He invites Luigi for a game of volleyball and he does, which results in Mario's bedroom window getting smashed in during a game. No more awake, Mario decides to spend the rest of the night on his hammock outside.thumb
In the early morning, the volleyball collides into Miyuki's bedroom window and in rage she throws the ball at them, bouncing off Wario and hitting Mario's hammock resulting in it spinning out and causing Mario to fall. An argument ensues and a slapstick brawl breaks out. In side the house Toad is reading a book and all of a sudden, everyone (but Toad) ends up blacking out. Grounder, Plankton and Scratch arrive to attack the place but back away after Waluigi, who tries to defend, faints.
Mario and Miyuki wake up at a farm, in farm clothes and find that they are in a completely different setting. Miyuki recognises it from a book and she wonders why they are there in the first place. Both of them hear Toad's voice telling then that they are in the story, and he knows because they have become part of the illustrations and text. He tells them the story about two farmers, to be married, and them winning a competition against a rival farmer group close by. He says that if they don't keep the story the same, he'll stop reading before the last sentence or paragraph and they'll never be set free.thumb
Whilst talking about the situation they are in, they are ambushed by the rival farmers, who happen to be Luigi, Wario and Waluigi. A wall-over-wall fight breaks out, ending in Mario Miyuki entering the house for some rest. During the break, Mario discovers a photo of both him and Miyuki at a wedding, presumably married. He realises that they are the main characters from the book, taking the appearence of him and her due to them playing the part of the story. It is still unclear whether the ending of the story focuses on them winning the contest, or them getting married, but Mario suggests getting married being the main path to them being set free. Though he has no problem showing affection, aware that getting married in the story will not apply to their real life, however Miyuki is to shy and so he decides to hold his attempt off for until they settle down in their new setting.
At the other farm, Wario, Waluigi and Luigi are playing on the hay bales, essentially treating the experience as a joke. Waluigi sees a poster about the farm competition and he tells Wario about it. He is not bothered at first but his interest is sparked when he hears the prize involves $100,000 in standard cash OR gold coins (he gets more excited when he hears about the gold coins). In order to win the competition, they must grow the most food within a week of it beginning. They must get to work as quick as possible, as the competition began 5 days ago, meaning the deadline is 42 hours. They notice they already have a lot of vegetables and other stuff growing but Luigi doesn't think they have enough when compairing how much Mario's farm has. The three men decied that they will steal his food for the win.
Whilst playing "The Hustle" by Van McCoy, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi steal some of the food the farm has stored in a box outside. Mario catches them, realising what they are doing and asks them to put the food back. They refuse, which results in a chase that ends with Mario getting stuck in a muddy puddle. Miyuki pulls him out, accidently falling onto the muddy ground behind.
After both go to sleep, Mario has a nightmare about the farm being burned down by Wario, Waluigi and Luigi, with Toad reading the story and finding it very entertaining before closing it. He immediately wakes up and gets to work with growing veg in order to make sure they win the competition and leave the story. It continues into the morning and Miyuki wakes up to see the work done. Toad's voice returns with him congratulating them (correction: Mario) on their (correction: his) effort. Now having their chance, they ask Toad what is most important to the ending, and he replies with "All I really care about is the marriage," before the voice vanishes. Mario persuades Miyuki into kissing him by telling her that it is "practice" for the future. She goes for it but they are interrupted by the rival bros. It agitates the red plumber to the point of him declaring a war that will start the next day. Meanwhile, Toad is surprised how accurate they are following the story.
In the evening, the subject about the marriage in the story continues. Despite Mario's efforts, he can't get Miyuki to muster up the courage to follow the story's love plot. Eventually, the fear she has makes her faint and Mario looks out the window to see Wario building a hay bail canon out of soil. Mario put Miyuki in bed and thinks about how he will escape the book with all the problems going off. She wakes and he tells her that they don't actually have to feel in love but rather they could fake love to each other. They idea goes off fine and she finally kisses Mario, allowing him to propose and put part of the story on track.
They wake up, still in the setting, wondering what else they should do, since they have already set the story to end the way Toad wants it to. Only then does the war that Mario declared the previous story day commence. The fight between both farms results in both of them getting destroyed and Miyuki getting seriously injured by the falling house, hit with a hay bale being shot from Wario's cannon operated by a nearly-passed out Waluigi.
During the war, Scratch, Grounder and Plankton break in to hold the brothers captive, only to not find them. Toad tell them that they are in the book and knocks them out with a door. Now unconscious, the two robots and Plankton arrive at the setting, and they crash into Mario's farm when they discover they are wedding hosts. Unknowing what to do, they act like Mario and Miyuki are getting married and the plumber and girl accept vows, allowing everyone to return.
Once everyone returns, a fight between everyone (except Miyuki and Toad) breaks out, ending the episode. 
== Trivia ==
* This is first episode of Season 2 in which the villains are characters who are heroes.
* It is also the second episode where the villain is a hero, the first being "The good, the bad and nothing else" from Series 1.
* The "Do The Hustle" moment is a reference to YouTuber SuperMarioGlitchy4 who has a video called "SM64: Mario University" which has a scene where Wario and Waluigi teach a class about how to get money by "Doing the hustle".
* This is by far one of the strangest episodes of the show, straying from the show's usual premise of beating a villain and containing a love sub-plot.
* Miyuki must be at least 18 or older in the show, as oppose to 16-17 like in most Lucky*Star media. Otherwise the love sub-plot would lead to some concerning implications.
** (CREATOR'S NOTE: 14-year-old me was probably either unaware of potentially bad implications, didn't know the characters canonical age and/or pictured/intended the character being older in this Fantendo show when I wrote this. Not too sure (I actually don't think I put too much thought into it back then) but consider the above trivia point as canon (or would it be fanon?) for anyone who happens to stumble upon these old, silly stories I wrote as a kid, especially if they're still taken seriously.)