A Tiny Situation

A Tiny Situation was the second episode to be aired alongside the show's pilot episode, "The New Hero" on June 24th, 2013.

## **Synopsis**

The episode begins with Peach giving them both new clothes, in the form of plumber outfits. Mario thinks they are good enough with Luigi agreeing with him, saying green is his favorite color. Peach takes this as the time to ask them where they came from but they don't know, saying the only thing they remember is being on Yoshi Island. This immediately shocks Peach, too stunned to speak. When asked on where she came from, she says she was born in the kingdom. She mentions that it's impossible that they could have come from somewhere else considering she was told she was the only human besides her mother that ever existed. Mario asks her where her mother is but Peach makes a solemn expression and before she could even make a proper answer, Toadsworth calls her down and she mentions that she has so many more questions for them and that she will ask later. Luigi then goes to a lab since he has been interested in the science field from reading all those books that came on the island. Mario disturbs him and Luigi hints that he does not want to be bothered but instead of outright telling Mario to leave, he continues to only leave subtle context clues. Luigi continuously becomes more and more annoyed and finally snaps, yelling for Mario to leave. Mario does not take this greatly and begins shouting back at Luigi going as far as to call him a complete nutcase for working on something unimportant. They both begin to clamor and end up roughhousing around the lab knocking over a liquid that ends up shrinking both Mario and Luigi to the size of an inch. Luigi continues to yell at Mario despite the size change and is unaware of the sudden size change. Mario slaps him and tells him to realize what has happened to which Luigi finally does and immediately blames Mario for the incident. Before Mario can say anything back, Peach enters the room, nearly stepping on the bros. Mario and Luigi both yell as loud as they can but to no avail. Peach calls out for them and notices the mess inside the lab but just chalks it up to them leaving quickly. She exits out of the room which leaves the bros both helpless.

Meanwhile, a local toad named Squirt comes in for his work at the castle. Despite being only 13 years old, Squirt was hired by Peach to work as a butler and daily cleaner but is treated with hierarchy as he is good friends with the princess. He sees the open door at Luigi's lab, and decides to look into one of Luigi's inventions that increases one's vision over 20/20. It just so happens to be that Mario and Luigi are walking underneath it once Squirt decides to have a look. Mario and Luigi seize this as the opportunity to tell him their situation. Luigi tells him to grab the shrink ray gun and shoot them again to return them to their regular size again. However, Squirt accidently shoots the ray on himself, shrinking himself down as well. Peach hears the shrink ray and sees it drop to the floor and proceeds to make the exact same mistake Squirt did. Now the bros, Squirt and Peach are the sizes of an inch unable to return themselves back. Mario and Luigi begin to argue once more over who started the problem. Peach lets both of them know that blaming each other won't solve anything and that both of them need to learn to get along. Suddenly, the shrink ray effects on Mario and Luigi begin to falter and they suddenly return back to normal. Luigi then discovers that he actually set a timer effect on the shrink ray and admits he forgot about it. However, since Squirt and Peach shrunk much later, they are still tiny. Luigi reverts both of them back to normal and apologizes to Mario who also apologizes. Peach thinks their brotherhood bond is really "cute" to watch and asks them that they really can't remember how they even got on that island. Luigi mentions that the Yoshis there told them they came from the sky one day, just dropped onto their backs, saying it was a "gift from the gods". Peach says that Toadsworth told her that her mother was the only other human that existed but she isn't around anymore to answer her questions. Mario gives his condolences and they all decide that they should perhaps just ask Toadsworth about it. Before they do, Mario asks Luigi why he even created a shrink ray, he shamefully admits that he wanted to know how it felt to be short as he thinks he is too tall. Mario, Peach and Squirt laugh it off and Luigi decides to throw it in the trash but not without shrinking his lunch.