Mario

Mario is the mascot of Nintendo and the main character of his own franchise and one of, if not the most popular video game hero. 
Sheldon played Super Mario Brothers when he was a child, the only happy time he could remember in his childhood. Amy played the Super Mario Brothers theme music during dinner at her apartment in "The Launch Acceleration" to make him happy and possibly draw them closer together.
In one episode where Leonard and Leslie Winkle were "coitussing" in the apartment, Sheldon preferred to sit on the stairwell playing Mario, albeit in a completely obsolete playing format.
==Episodes==
*In "The Codpiece Topology", Sheldon's mother Mary sends him his Nintendo 64 along with Super Mario 64. He is later seen playing it on his laptop, using a "poorly coded Nintendo 64 emulator." He even says "Hop, you little plumber. Hop, hop, hop!" and "Everybody has a date. Even you, Mario, going after Princess Peach. And what am I doing? I'm just enabling you."
*In "The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation", Howard sits down at the lunch table with a new moustache. He says he call it "the Clooney", while Raj replies, "I call it the Mario and Luigi, but whatever."
*In "The Gorilla Experiment", Raj and Sheldon are playing Mario Kart Wii with the Wii Wheel. Raj is shown playing with Yoshi on a kart and Sheldon playing as Mario on a bike in Mario Circuit. Raj wins and says to Sheldon, "Face it, dude, whether it's a real car or a virtual cartoon car, you can't drive." Sheldon says it was only because he hit a tree, and Raj adds, "And a cow and a " (hinting that they were also racing on Moo Moo Meadows and N64 Sherbet Land). Raj tells him he really needs some cheat codes, motor skills, and a genie who grants wishes to little boys who suck at Mario Kart.
*In "The Bozeman Reaction", Leonard's and Sheldon's apartment is robbed. Several consoles and games are mentioned as being stolen. The following are Mario-related: Super Mario Bros. (1985), Super Mario Galaxy (2007), and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (2009). When writing in a journal in bed, Sheldon also mentions, in his thoughts, that "outside, evil lurks, probably playing Donkey Kong on my classic Nintendo.
*In "The Staircase Implementation," In 2003, Raj, Howard, and Leonard are seen playing a Nintendo GameCube game on the couch. The music and sounds are emitted from the TV tell that they are playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, more specifically Waluigi Stadium or Wario Colosseum.
*In "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver," Howard, Raj, and Leonard are, in one scene, playing Donkey Kong Jenga. During this scene, Howard is talking to Raj and Leonard about him and Bernadette possibly not having children and states that "even Donkey Kong had Donkey Kong Jr." He also mused about how Donkey Kong would have taught his son how to "kidnap princesses and throw barrels at Italian plumbers", but this is actually an erroneous observation as Donkey Kong's damsel-in-distress, Pauline, was not a princess.
*In "The Launch Acceleration", during Amy and Sheldon's date at her house, part of Amy's attempt to make him love her more includes playing the Super Mario Bros. ground theme as "romantic music." Almost immediately after, Sheldon admits that playing the game was the best 600 hours of his life.
*In "The Itchy Brain Simulation", Leonard attempts to return a long-overdue copy of the Super Mario Bros. movie.
*In "The Indecision Amalgamation", when Sheldon and Amy are at Best Buy contemplating whether to buy a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, several advertisements for Mario games can be seen in the background. These include Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Super Mario 3D World, Mario Party: Island Tour, and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.
*In "The Misinterpretation Agitation", during the scene when Dr. Lorvis invites Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj to see his collection of various types of memorabilia, arcade cabinets of Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. can be seen among them. Leonard is later seen playing Donkey Kong at the end of the episode.
*In "The Long Distance Dissonance", as Sheldon walks Ramona down the stairway to her car, the rest of the group follows them, passing each other along the way. Once they all reach the exit, Sheldon runs ahead of the group to get the door and remarks, "That was fun. It's like Mario Kart."
*In "The Celebration Reverberation", Penny comes from her room to see Leonard staring at a board of their accomplishments he made the previous day. At one point, he says he got bored and tried to beat his high score on Mario Kart, to which he says that he failed.
==Gallery==
File:Mario.jpg|Mario Party 6
File:Mario New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe.png|New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
File:Mqdefault.jpg|Mario In Mario Kart 64 Upon ranking 4th or lower
File:Mario If he loses in Super Mario Kart.png|Mario Crying In Super Mario Kart As 3 other Mario characters, Yoshi, Princess Peach and DK Jr celebrate victory
File:Mario Kart Double Dash 4th or lower ending.jpeg|Mario With his brother Luigi in Mario Kart: Double Dash ranking 4th
File:Mario loses MKSC icon.png|Mario In Mario Kart: Super Circuit with the same losing reaction from Mario Kart 64
File:MarioMP lose.png|Mario If he gets 4th place on a Mario Party board
File:MarioLosingMP2.png|Mario Going down 1 place or more in Mario Party 2
File:MarioloseMP8.png|Mario Losing In Mario Party 8
File:Mario Party 7 - Mario lose portrait.png|Mario Losing In Mario Party 7
File:MP3 Mario Losing Icon.png|Mario In 4th place in Mario Party 3
File:Maxresdefault-2.jpg|Mario Defeating his brother in 2 player vs mode in Mario Kart 64
File:Mario Losing in Japanese Mario kart 64.jpeg|Mario In the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64 ranking under 3rd
File:Super Mario Kart Fail to get a trophy.jpeg|Mario Runner Up to his friend Yoshi and defeating Bowser in Mushroom Cup 50CC in Super Mario Kart as his brother Luigi got 4th
File:MP3 Mario Winning Icon.png|Mario In Mario Party 3 if you select him or he's leading
File:MarioMP win.png|Mario Winning a Mario Party board
File:MariowinsMP8.png|Mario In Mario Party 8 Getting 1st place
File:MarioWinningMP2.png|Mario In Mario Party 2 Going up a place
File:YWW Mario amiibo Pattern.webp|1 Of many Yoshi designs from Yoshi's Woolly World in the shape of Mario
File:MarioYou'reWinner 7.png|Mario Winning in Mario Party 7
File:MRSoH Mario.png|Mario In Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope
File:Mario Portrait LMDM.png|Mario Trapped in a painting in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
File:Mario's Painting LM.png|Mario Trapped in a painting in Luigi's Mansion
File:Luigis Mansion Mario rescued.png|Mario Upon freedom from King Boo's painting in Luigi's Mansion
File:Mario Rio 2016.png|Mario Kicking a soccer ball
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