Catch the Babies

Catch the Babies! is the 10th episode of Super Mario Exploration from Season 4.

## Characters

* Mario
* Luigi
* Baxter
* Molly
* Toad Brigade
* Mamma
* Pappa
* Nonna
* Red
* Poochy
* Budgie
* Dorie

## Summary

Mario tells a true, but silly story about the time his entire family had to catch Mario's twin siblings, who were heading to the Gooey Geyser on their runaway stroller.

## Plot

Mario and his family got together at Mario's house. Mario tells the story on the day he and his family had to catch the babies. It all started when Mario woke up and says "good morning" in Italian. Categnaccio the Chain Chomp was sleeping on his bed. Soon after, he hears his baby siblings. Mario couldn't see them but he can hear them. The babies weren't in their cribs. Instead, they were outside reaching for their rattles. The babies reach for their rattles in the stroller. The babies get into the stroller and the babies get buckled up. The stroller started moving on its own. It rolls onto the path and out the gate. Mario was in shock. He tells Luigi their parents that the babies fell in the stroller and that the stroller is rolling away. The parents were surprised. So, Mario, Luigi and his parents went outside to catch the babies. Pappa sees the babies go and notices that they was going faster than they should. The problem was that they didn't know where the stroller was going. Mario asks Molly for assistance. Molly tells Mario that the stroller was heading towards the gooey geyser. But to stop the stroller, they have to go through the farm and through the flowery garden to get the gooey geyser to catch the babies. After memorizing the places, Molly tells the viewer to tell Mario that first he, Luigi and their parents had to find the farm. The tree was obstructing their vision. Suddenly, Donkey Kong & Diddy Kong appear and move the leaves out of the way to reveal the farm. DK & Diddy come down from the tree and Diddy lands into Mario's arms. Mario tells DK & Diddy that the babies fell in the stroller and that the stroller was rolling away. They were both in shock about the news and came to come and help Mario, Luigi and his parents catch those babies. Mario, Luigi, DK & Diddy and Mario's parents got going. The path splits into 3 different directions: one path leads to the barn, one path leads to a silo and one path leads to some bales of hay. Mario and Luigi take the path to the barn while Pappa & DK take the path to the silo and Mamma & Diddy take the path to the bales of hay. Suddenly, Mario and Luigi run into a Rapidash. He was hungry for his breakfast. He wanted 3 apples. They feed him 3 apples and continued through.

Pappa & DK had a problem too. But they had to deal with a Grumpig who was hungry too. But he wants 4 watermelons. They count out 4 watermelons and Pappa & DK continued through. Immediately after, Mamma & Diddy had to feed the Mareep 5 carrots. They count out 5 carrots and Mamma & Diddy got through. Mario, Luigi, DK, Diddy, Mamma, and Pappa got back together as they make it through the farm. Mario checks Molly to figure out where to go next. Molly places a check-mark by the farm. The path traces to a flowery garden. The viewer tells Mario that next they have to go through the flowery garden. Mario, Luigi, DK, Diddy, Mamma and Pappa continued to try and catch the babies. The stroller goes over the bridge. But then, pieces of the bridge broke apart. The babies got across just in time. Suddenly, they saw someone swinging on the vine and yells like a tarzan. It was Nonna. Mario, Luigi, DK, Diddy, Mamma and Pappa grabbed the vine and swung across the bridge and Mario, Luigi, DK, Diddy, Mamma, and Pappa do the tarzans like Nonna too. At the flowery garden, the path splits into 4 different directions. The group decided to split up. As the viewer checks on Mario and Luigi, they had to wake up the clapping flowers. As the viewer checks on Nonna, she had to make a silly face with silly flowers. Next the viewer had to help Pappa & DK do a silly dance with the silly dancing flowers. Finally, the viewer helps Mamma & Diddy go quietly through a field of flowers with Combees sleeping on top of them. The group gets back together one more after making it through the flowery garden. Mario checks Molly once more to figure out where to go next. Molly places a check-mark on the Farm and Flowery Garden. The path traces to the gooey geyser. Molly tells the viewer to tell Mario that next they have to go to the gooey geyser. As the group continued down the winding path, they saw capybaras obstructing the path. Red comes down with his parasail transformed by his orange backpack. When he got down, his orange backpack comes back to normal. Red imitates the sound of the capybara so the capybaras can move out of the way. Mario, Luigi, DK, Diddy, Red, Nonna, Mamma, and Pappa walk past the capybaras. The babies weren't at the gooey geyser just yet.

Suddenly, the path splits into 5 different directions. They couldn't tell which way they went. Pappa & DK suggested that they split up. Nonna had to swing over the prickers and thorns. Mamma & Diddy had to climb over a rocky wall. Pappa & DK had to jump over 2 mud puddles and Red had to crawl underneath some low branches. After that, the group gets together and is now caught up with the babies. Mario gets ahead of the others. He wiggles his fingertips as he tried to reach for the stroller. Inch by inch, Mario finally stops stroller, saving the babies at last. The rest of his family plus DK & Diddy arrive and are glad that the babies are saved. Unfortunately, the joy doesn't last long when to everyone's shock and dismay, the ground started to shake, causing everyone else to shake. The gooey geyser was getting ready to go ker-sploosh. Everyone ran and took cover. But suddenly, the gooey geyser made bubbles instead of spurting out goo. There were pink and blue bubbles. Mario asked the babies if they liked their ride. The babies really enjoyed it.

## Places in this Episode

* Farm
* Flowery Garden
* Gooey Geyser

## Trivia

* This is one the few times where Mamma, Pappa, Nonna, DK & Diddy have a larger role in an episode.
* Mario's family wears their pajamas in the sunlight.
* Mario, Luigi, and Mamma were previously seen wearing their pajamas in the sunlight in the episode Louder!. Molly even wears her same night cap from said episode as well.
* Categnaccio is seen in this episode sleeping on Mario's bed. This episode most likely takes place after Mario's Got a Pet.
* Peach, Lakitu, Toad, Leaf, Pikachu, Daisy, and the Koopa Brigade don't appear in this episode.
* Although the Koopa Brigade did not appear in this episode, since all the characters in the story wore pajamas, if they did appear, they would most likely wear the same pajamas from Louder!.
* This is the 86th episode of the show.
* This is the first episode Dora's Mamma, Pappa, and Nonna travel with Mario and Luigi and it's also the first episode Mamma and Pappa sing the Travel Song.
* When everyone's singing the Travel Song, Mario and Luigi don't say "come on let's get to it" nor "I know that we can do it", DK and Diddy say those lines instead.
* Red used his yellow backpack as a parasail. When he finishes going down, his yellow backpack (late known as "Ricky" in Mario and Red to the Rescue!) turns back to normal.
* This episode introduces his yellow backpack in a new version.
* Also, in the aforementioned episode, he would transform Ricky into a rocket sled to save Luigi.
* It is possible that this episode was produced before Mario and Red to the Rescue!.
* When Mario asks the viewer what their favorite part is (in their opinion), he doesn't ask "what was your favorite part of the trip", he instead asks "what was your favorite part of the story" and he says "that was a fun part!" after the viewer's response instead of the usual, "I like that too".
* This is the third episode the Gooey Geyser is the last place, first being in Lost Squeaky, and second being in Rescue, Rescue, Rescue!.
* The Gooey Geyser does not spurt out goo, it instead spurts out pink and blue bubbles.
* This is the ninth episode where Baxter was not checked.
* When Mario and Luigi are singing the Travel Song, after saying "where are we going", they don't say the last place Gooey Geyser, they instead say "to catch the babies".
* Also, they say "where are we going" in English 3 times and Mario says it in Italian once.
* This is the last episode to find Signore Tucano.
* Molly does not stand on the top left corner of the picture map in this episode, she instead stands on the bottom left corner.