Journey to the Comet Observatory

Journey to the Comet Observatory is the 15th episode (16th in earlier airings) of Super Mario Exploration from Season 3.

## Summary

Mario and Luigi go on an out-of-this-world adventure to help five stranded Lumas named Flinky, Inky, Plinky, Dinky, and Al get back home to the Comet Observatory in outer space.

## Plot

Mario, Luigi, Daisy and Peach look at the night sky with a telescope. Luigi would like to meet some space creatures that live in space. Suddenly, a yellow flying saucer streaks through the night sky. A beam of light shines and the flying saucer comes down to solid ground. Luigi climbs onto Daisy's back and looks over her head to find 5 Lumas that came out of the flying saucer. The colors of the Lumas were green, orange, red, yellow, and blue. Flinky was the green one, Inky was the red one, Plinky was the yellow one, Dinky was the orange one, and Al was the blue one. After the space creatures introduced themselves, they all sit down and point to the Comet Observatory. Mario and Luigi look at the Comet Observatory and asked if the Lumas live there. The Lumas weren't kidding. They do so live in the Comet Observatory and they want to go home. Suddenly, the flying saucer breaks apart. The Lumas were stranded and just have to get home to the purple planet. Mario and Luigi had to figure out how to get to the Comet Observatory fast. They ask Molly and she says that Mario and Luigi have to travel into outer space to bring Flinky, Inky, Plinky, Dinky, and Al back home to the Comet Observatory. Before they can get there, they have to go through the Milky-way and past the space rocks to get to the Comet Observatory. Mario and Luigi had to look through the telescope for the Milky-way. They find it, but had to figure out how to get there. What they need is a rocket ship. Mario and Luigi saw a rocket ship by the tall trees. Then they realized that Toad just got a new rocket ship. Luigi asks Toad if they can borrow the rocket ship because it was important. Toad replies and reminds Mario & Luigi that they needed to wear spacesuits so they can be safe in outer space. Mario checks Baxter for a spacesuit for himself and a spacesuit for Luigi. Mario and Luigi put on their spacesuits. Flinky, Inky, Plinky, Dinky, and Al scurried into the rocket ship and Mario and Luigi followed. Toad wishes them good luck. Mario, Luigi and the Lumas take their seats. They put their seat-belts on. Now, they have to start the countdown to launch the rocket ship. "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Blast off!" they all said. Rocket Ship says "Su" and the others say "Su". Once the rocket ship was in outer space, Mario and Luigi take their space helmets off and set them aside. They saw constellations which happened to be a group of stars in a picture-formation. After finding the constellations, they saw white fog that looks like milk. It was the milky-way. They couldn't see where they were going. Suddenly, a female voice tells the space explorers how to get through the Milky-way. All they had to do is connect the dots. They started with 1 and counted up to 6. When they were done connecting the dots, it made a constellation picture of a teddy bear. They made a teddy bear constellation. "To get through the Milky-Way, go this way" she says as the teddy bear constellation points to the right. Mario and Luigi pilot the rocket ship in the direction the teddy bear constellation was pointing. They thank the teddy bear constellation has they traveled through the Milky-way. After going through the Milky-way, Mario and Luigi pilot the rocket ship pass some planets of different colors. After that, a symbol telling the space explorers to take their seat-belts appears. They did so and soon they started floating because there was no gravity in outer space. Al's stomach growls. Luigi thought Al must be hungry. They had to find the door that has food inside. Luigi finds a picture of an apple on 1 of the 6 doors which signifies that it's the food door. Luigi opens the food door and the space food flies out and is all over the place. The viewer finds an orange for Dinky. She peels the orange and eats the whole thing. Now the viewer finds the floating hot dogs for the Lumas. And now, the viewer has to find the space cookies. The space cookies were out of the space explorers' reach and started to float away from them. Mario, Luigi, and the Lumas have to space swim to the cookies. They did so and they each took a bite out of them. After their space snack, a comet streaks past. Luigi wanted to catch a ride on the comet. Comets go very fast. Mario activates the comet catcher. Everybody on the rocket ship had to buckle back up to catch a ride on the comet. The comet catcher grabs the comet and they all got a very fast ride. After that, Luigi realized that the comet took them to the space rocks. The Rocket Ship has to avoid bumping into the space rocks. The viewer tells the Rocket Ship "su" for up. The rocket ship dodges 3 space rocks of different sizes. Mario takes his seat-belt as she rises up thanking for viewer for helping the Rocket Ship get past the space rocks by saying "Su". Luigi brings Mario back down into his seat and Mario puts his seatbelt back on. Mario and Luigi were so close to taking Flinky, Inky, Plinky, Dinky, and Al back home to the Comet Observatory. Mario flips the lever and then the rocket ship breaks down. Luigi wondered what happened. A buzzing sound occurs where the battery symbol is located on the rocket ship dashboard. They soon realized the battery was out of power and needed to put in a new battery. A new battery comes out of the battery compartment. The space creatures headed out the rocket ship to put in the new battery. They had to hold onto to the rope to avoid floating around all over the place. Suddenly, they hear the Koopa Brigade. Luigi thought it was impossible and that there was no way the Koopa Brigade could be in outer space. Just then, the Koopa Brigade had a rocket ship and Bowser was commanding Nabbit to nab the battery. Mario, Luigi, and the Lumas have to stop Nabbit. They all said "Nabbit no Nabbing" 3 times and after that, Nabbit flies the Koopa Brigade's rocket ship back to Earth. Soon after, the Lumas replace the worn out battery with a new fresh one from the battery compartment. In no time, the rocket ship rebooted and now Mario flips the switch again and he and Luigi can now take Flinky, Inky, Plinky, Dinky, and Al back home to the Comet Observatory. The rocket ship lands on the Comet Observatory. Everybody got out of their seats. Mario and Luigi put their space helmets back on. And together, they departed the rocket ship. As Mario and Luigi followed, they started to float a little as they tried to walk. Mario and Luigi had to find the Lumas' home. The viewer finds it which was far away. Mario, Luigi, Flinky, Inky, Plinky, Dinky, and Al hop onto a moving sidewalk and had a ride to the Lumas' home where Princess Rosalina was waiting. The Lumas were now back at home with Rosalina safe and sound. The episode ends with Mario and Luigi returning to Earth so they can bring Toad back his rocket ship.

## Places in this episode

1. Milky Way
2. Space Rocks
3. Comet Observatory

## Items in Baxter (clockwise from the top right)

* Note: Some items are outfits that Mario and Luigi wore in past episodes.
* Mario's red bathing suit (from Beaches and Baby Crab)
* Spacesuit for Mario (one of the correct items)
* Luigi's green jacket (from To the Monkey Bars)
* Flippers
* Spacesuit for Luigi (another one of the correct items)
* Mario's red jacket (also from To the Monkey Bars)

## Releases

This episode can be found in World Adventure! and Let's Explore: Mario's Greatest Adventures on DVD.

## Trivia

* There are no Explorer Stars in this episode, so a Character Find plays at the end.
* Lakitu and the Toad Brigade do not appear in this episode.
* All the items not used in Baxter (except the flippers) are from past episodes
* Mario and Luigi don't sing the Travel Song in this episode. However, they still list the places they are going, but Luigi or anyone doesn't say "where are we going", Mario instead asks the viewer about looking for (constellations the first time and planets the second time).
* Toad's rocket ship looks similar to the one from The Missing Piece.
* Molly is a rocket ship when she's asking the viewer about the places Mario and Luigi got to go.
* When Mario checks Baxter, the objects don't come out of her and they don't spin around either, they're already just immediately showing around her instead. This also occurred in Mario Saves the Prince, when he checked Baxter the second time.
* It is unknown how the Koopa Brigade got into outer space.
* This is the eleventh episode where Mario and Luigi returned to where they started from after reaching the final place on the map and the third time doing it during the We Made It song. The other times they went back to the start were Three Little Koopa Kids, Big River, Berry Hunt, The Chocolate Tree, Click!, A Present For Santa, School Pet, Save the Puppies!, and What Happens Next?.
* Also, after Mario and Luigi sing We Did It, the Red Cursor doesn't click on Mario, it instead clicks on the rocket ship.
* This is the 68th episode of the show (69th in earlier airings).

## Goofs/Errors

* It is unknown how Baxter can carry two complete space suits.
* If one looks closely, when Mario and Luigi are driving the rocket ship past the space rocks, they are seen without their spacesuits and it is unknown why they disappeared.
	+ An error like this occurred in The Happy Pak E. Derm, where they were seen without lifejackets while riding a fish past the snakes at Fishy Lake.