Do You Princess Toadstool Take this Koopa...?

"Do You Princess Toadstool Take this Koopa...?" is the nineteenth animated episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. Its corresponding live-action segment is "Mario Hillbillies."
== Synopsis ==
For reasons unexplained, King Koopa manages to successfully capture Mario and Luigi before the start of the episode. As the episode starts, he has imprisoned them in his castle, and he is tormenting Princess Toadstool by turning the Mushroom People into green rocks shaped like frozen spinach (with the help of a magic scepter he's acquired for this episode), as well as making the walls in the Marios' prison cell close in on them. Toadstool can't stand it, and she begs King Koopa to stop it, saying she'll do anything. King Koopa demands Toadstool to marry him, and she accepts his proposal, on the condition that he set the Marios free and turn the Toads back to normal. King Koopa seemingly agrees to this, but the Marios are naturally suspicious.
As King Koopa goes off to make his wedding plans (including inviting his mother) and defrosting the Mushroom People to their usual selves, Mario and Luigi manage to escape from their cell by digging their way out with spoons. Upon making it outside the castle, they find out that King Koopa has no intentions of living up to his part of the bargain and see him turning the Mushroom People back into frozen spinach blocks. Horrified by this, the Marios decide to put a stop to the wedding, so they sneak back into the castle disguised as caterers.
After a scene introducing us to King Koopa's mother, the Mario Bros. stumble into the chamber where the stone-turned Mushroom People are being kept. Figuring that Toad knows his way around the castle and therefore can bring him to the ceremony they're trying to halt, they somehow deduce which of the stones is Toad (in a perfect example of ) and take him with them. While suiting himself up for the ceremony, King Koopa stupidly puts his scepter down long enough for Mario to nab it. He then uses it to power up himself and Luigi as well as free Toad from the spinach-stone spell. The scepter overheats and disintegrates immediately after, but Luigi tells Mario to forget about it, as the wedding begins to start. Toad leads the Bros. to the hallway where the wedding is taking place. Mario and Luigi interrupt the ceremony to hurl fireballs at the guests and reveal King Koopa's rip-off to Toadstool, who is naturally appalled at this and responds by throwing cake at King Koopa's face. King Koopa's mom is also displeased that her son is so indecent and "gives him a time-out".
== Trivia/Goofs ==
* This marks the second time in any media Koopa attempts to marry the Princess, the first being the Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!, but unlike the anime film, Koopa's intentions were purely political. His game counterpart, Bowser, would later attempt this with Princess Peach in Super Mario Odyssey.
* Koopa and the Princess never spoke to the Marios in this episode.
* Since the scepter disintegrates immediately after Mario uses it, the fate of the rest of the Mushroom People who were transformed is left uncertain (unless one assumes that when Mario revived Toad, the rest of them were also changed back as well).
* Mario calls King Koopa "Kooper" at the beginning of the episode.
* The episode's cover song, "White Wedding" was later played in the Captain N: The Game Master episode, "Mr. and Mrs. Mother Brain."
* Toad has only eight spoken lines for the episode.
== Availability ==
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