Mario's Dream

**Mario's Dream** is the second episode/blooper of *The SMM64 Show*. It was released on July 9th, 2021. It is the first appearance of Bowser.

**Characters**

* Mario
* Bowser
* Luigi

**Summary**

*"After what had happened in the last blooper, Mario goes to his house to sleep. Then, he has a dream where he's in a part of the castle he's never been to before. How will he get out?"*

**Plot**

This blooper takes place a few minutes after the previous one. The blooper begins with the outside of Mario and Luigi's house. It zooms in and changes to the inside with Mario walking into his room. He says it's been a long day and he's tired so he jumps onto his bed and falls asleep (after a time transition saying that it takes a while for Mario to fall asleep in *Super Mario 64*).

The scene changes into Mario's dream and he's inside an unknown part of the castle. He wakes up and looks around saying where he is and how he got inside the castle. After walking around the room and saying all the doors around him are locked, he walks up to a sign and reads it. After reading it, he realizes it's from Bowser. He walks off followed by another time transition saying that a few minutes of him exploring and activating the Vanish Cap switch has passed and he's in another room: a library.

Mario reads another sign, also from Bowser, that says that door in front of him leads to Bowser's Room. Mario ignores the warning and walks towards the door and enters Bowser's Room. He sees Bowser offscreen and Bowser asks if Mario came to fight him again like he usually does. Mario says he did and runs towards Bowser, grabs his tail, and spins him around. Bowser tells him to stop and Mario says he's not going to. Bowser then asks if Mario's dizzy where Mario says he isn't. Followed by his usual "So long-a, Bowser!" line, Mario throws Bowser towards a spike bomb and knocks him out.

Bowser accepts his defeat and says he'll see Mario next time. He disappears and a key appears. Mario says he did it and collects the key, until it turns out it was a star. Mario is confused by this as he jumps out of the big empty square where the Bob-Omb Battlefield painting should be and the results screen appears saying Mario collected the "Go on a Ghost Hunt" star from Big Boo's Haunt. Mario says he hasn't been in that level yet and skips through the usual textbox that appeared next. Later, Mario walks into the Princess's Secret Slide entrance room where he'll enter it first since he only has one star.

Mario goes into the picture and is now at the top of the slide. He slides down for a while until he tries to take a shortcut. He survives the fall by ground pounding and continues sliding. He reaches the end and earns a star by beating the slide under 21 seconds, as Mario got 19 seconds and 7 milliseconds. He collects the star, skips through the usual stuff again and walks off to get the other star. He then goes over to the Whomp's Fortress room and jumps into the painting. Instead of being in Whomp's Fortress, he's in the first Bowser stage entrance room but a little different. Mario is confused and walks towards the Bowser painting and says he doesn't want to look at it. He realizes he "broke the barrier" and then dives into the wall, only to get bonked and falls into the pit. He enters the first room he was first in when he woke up. He's disappointed he's in that room again and walks off trying to find an exit. He enters the doubles doors behind him and he's in a room that's similar to the basement at Peach's castle but also different. He finds a locked door with a green carpet in front of it and enters it, finding out it's not actually locked. He's in a grassy room with a big mirror and a vanish cap in a small hole in the wall. He grabs the vanish cap and walks through the mirror. He finds another locked door. Disappointed, Mario wonders what would be inside. He then finds what really shocks him: a painting of Luigi. Mario recognizes his brother and thinking he would find him, he jumps into the painting, only to enter the same room again. Mario, furious how he got back into the same room twice, tries to get out of the torture maze he's in. He finds a hallway with a lot of doors with some double doors at the end of it.

After reaching the end of the hallway and as he's about to enter the room behind the doors, Luigi calls Mario's name, with his voice echoing (as he's outside Mario's Dream). Mario immediately recognizes the voice and asks where Luigi is. Luigi calls his name again, now a bit annoyed. Mario enters the doors and the scene changes back to Mario and Luigi's house with Luigi shouting at Mario to wake up. Mario wakes up scared and sees Luigi and says that it's actually him. He tells him that he has the weirdest dream and Luigi lets him explain. Mario explains everything that happened to him throughout the blooper, even with him seeing a painting of Luigi. Luigi is surprised that he had a painting and then the story ends with Mario saying that he heard Luigi's voice and woke up. Luigi tells him that dream is weird and should tell their friends. Mario agrees and they both walk off, ending the blooper with the same outro as the previous blooper.

## Trivia

* This is the first:
	+ And only blooper where Bowser appears.
	+ Where SMG4 and Toad are absent.
	+ Where Mario and Luigi's house from *Paper Mario* is used.
* Luigi is surprised that he has a painting of him, to which he does in *Super Mario 64 DS* located in Big Boo's Haunt. While Mario is scripted to save him, Wario can as well but Yoshi can't because he can't ground pound boos (he can't even enter the level anyway).
* The music that plays during the part when Mario is in the secret slide is actually the wing/vanish cap music. SMM64 couldn't find the right music at the time of making the blooper.
* In some parts, the castle music has a lower and higher pitch to match the music from the rom hack Breaking the Barrier, where this blooper is based on. The rom hack is made by Marionova64.
* A sequel to this blooper was made a year later in June 2022.
* There is an unused painting in the main area with some Pokeys on it, possibly meant to be for Shifting Sand Land at one point in development for *Super Mario 64*.