Blue Shell Incident (series)

20/10 ~ Rotten Tomatoes

*This article talks about the Blue Shell Incident series in its entirety. A page talking about the original movie hasn't been created yet, but it would be very much appreciated.*

*"A dumb joke that started a year ago, now hailed as the worlds best movie. Garfield, Mario, Luigi and a cast of characters invites you this year for the biggest cinematic thrill ride since Andy Warhol's Empire." ~* The description of the video.

**Twin Pastas: Blue Shell Incident: Al Dente**, also known as just The Blue Shell Incident or The Best Movie Ever, is a 26 minutes short movie created, written, directed, voice-acted and animated by Joel and Twitch Chat in a 25 year old Microsoft program named 3D Movie Maker that took him around 3 months to make. Joel himself has made other shorts beforehand, like "Drift Baby", "Drift Baby 2: Monkey Mania" and "M&Ms At The Bar". The main cast is composed by Mario, Luigi and Duck. After gaining critical and public appraise, an IMDb has even been made for it, with the current score being 9.7. Besides that, several fan trailers and even a fan sequel have been made, noticed and approved by Joel himself. It has since been said by Joel that he will indeed make a BSI2 sometime, this time being unknown, but that he would make it on a different program and still appreciates all the fanworks. Although we have not received an official sequel yet, two prequel series have been made, one showing the creation of Zanzibar on Joel's "Zanzibar Stories" series and the other showing Garfield's life before being a hitman in Meme House.

## The Plot

A year earlier from when the movie takes place Mario, Luigi, Pepsi-Man, Toad, Shy Guy, Minecraft Steve and AVGN decided to race on Zanzibar Island, most specifically, on The Zany Zanzibar Incredible Island's Super Speedway, also known as just Zanzibar Speedway. Near the end of the track, Mario was in the first position and about to win the race. Well, that was before the Blue Shell Incident happened where Luigi threw a blueshell onto Mario, leading him to get stuck on the floor and get in last place. A year later and 2 days earlier from when the movie starts, Mario and Luigi went back to West Taiwan, but little did Luigi know that it was all a trap that was part of Operation Blue Shell Kill. The plan of the operation was that Garfield (Nicknamed Lasagna Ocelot in the movie) would kill Luigi and avenge Mario after the said incident. Since Mario is a big brain gamer (-100 Social Credit), he rightly assumed that Garfield could misaim and accidentally shoot him, so he filled his shirt with Chef Boyardee cans before-hand to avoid any accidents. As expected by Mario, Garfield accidentally shot Mario and quickly exited the Island in his helicopter. It unfortunately blew up after Toad appeared right in front of it. Luigi later traveled to Zanzibar City, still shocked from Mario's sudden death. While at Toad's Bar (I guess you could call it a Xi Jing Pooh \*laugh track\* \*credits roll\*) asking for sphagetti on the rocks, Mario suddenly entered the bar saying "Hey, little bro! Or should i say, GREEN MARIO?". Luigi turns around shocked and confused, exclaiming "Mario? I-i thought you died in Zanzibar!!". He later explains what truly happened in Zanzibar and that his plan all along was to kill Luigi. After 30 seconds of bad italian food puns, Mario picks a gun from his pocket and says "THIS IS IT LUIGI!". He presses the trigger, expecting Luigi to fall dead on the floor, but unexpectedly, a duck that was on the bar shoots the gun out of his hand. Mario realizes that the gun the duck is holding originally belonged to Lasagna Ocelot and it quickly shoots Mario, although he quickly evades it to his luck and it ends up hitting Toad. After finding a safe place to take cover, the duck starts an intense battle with Mario in order to protect Luigi, Mario runs away out of the bar when he realizes Duck doesn't have any more ammo and so Duck gets to explain why he is helping Luigi to him. While a duckling, Luigi fed some breacrumbs to Duck, thus making Duck himself decide to become a sort of guardian angel to Luigi, always watching him. They then leave the bar aswell to defeat Mario and stop his evil intents. Mario runs like a madman searching for his kart while Luigi and Duck walk away calmly (Although killing CDI-LINK in the proccess) Mario finally finds his kart and drives away running over the same citizen as before as a füni joke :), Luigi and Duck continue chasing him on foot until they encounter a taxi driven by Donkey Kong. Luigi orders Donkey Kong to follow Mario to which he says “OK”. As a car chase starts many people are hit by the car such as M&Ms, Larry the Cucumber, and Sans. Then next to a diner, Diddy Kong drops a banana on the ground which causes Mario to crash into the restaurant while yelling “ROLLING RAVIOLI!” in slow motion. Once he enters the bar, thinking he's fine, somehow another Mario also driving a kart enters the building hurting the original Mario even more. As Luigi and Duck exit the taxi, Luigi and Duck share a moment with Luigi saying “You were the real Super Mario Brother all along .” Duck is moved by this statement replying "Damn, you turned this ugly duckling into a swan, Luigi". As they enter the restaurant Toad on the counter asks if they want table for two while Mario was hiding. Mario attempts to fool Luigi and Duck via a hand puppet named Handy-O (Sorry i meant Hand Dio Kappa) but Duck realizes what's truly happening over there and tells Luigi, which responds with an awful hand pun. Toad doesn't get the joke and Mario gets so pissed off at that fact that he shoots him in the fucking head. The audience claps for some reason and Mario breaks the Tiannamen Square protesters by pointing a gun and telling them to shut the fuck up. He then finally walks out and reveals himself to Luigi. Luigi asks to him why all of this madness and reveals he was Scatman John all along. Luigi astounded by this revelation runs away and hides in the sewer while Duck hides in the restaurant. Upon landing in the sewer Luigi Says “It was Scatman John all along? I knew Winnie the Pooh was full of shit! Haha :)”. Then the real Mario walks out of the bathroom and says “Thanks Scatman John, I had to use the John just like how I’m using you!”. We don’t see Mario shoot Scatman John, but it is implied he did. Then outside the restaurant, Santa Claus is relaxing on a bench since it is almost Christmas (Well not really since the video was posted in November 16th but fucking whatever) until a helicopter crashes near him with Garfield falling out of the sky claiming “Damn, I guess I’m on the naughty list now". He walks into the restaurant and meets up with Mario who tells him he'll activate the ultimate weapon, Metal Gear McQueen. As, their secret weapon activates and rampages throughout New York, Garfield comments "Well, Boss, i mean, that-that just looks terrible.”. Mario replies with “Well uh, we kinda ran out of a budget but uhh...LETS GET IN IT!” They both get in and start causing chaos by killing Wario outside of his crack shack and roasting Piglet (Literally). They lose 50 Social Credit points for this. Duck gets on the legs of McQueen as Garfield asks why Mario is doing this, Mario explains what we just said at the start of this and Garfield reveals Luigi pissed in Mario's Cheerios. Upon hearing this Mario gets angry and turns on an intercom and says “LUIGI SPAGGHET YOUR ASS OUT HERE!”. Luigi exits the sewer and is amazed upon seeing CCP. Duck then goes on top of McQueen and uses a RPG to blow up the "technological terror" as he calls it. The town looks on in horror as the robot explodes. Mario appears and says “So Luigi... you're back to player 2, as you always were!”. Luigi looks up and says “No... for once Mario, I'm not gonna cry..." and then a feather appears in front of Luigi and Luigi yells “DUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKK!!!!!!!!!!” while citizens mourn him and opera music plays in the background, as Duck's words are echoed. Mario then becomes Super Mario (\*badum tss\*) by eating a mushroom and growing into a giant, Luigi then uses the feather to get a cape and fights with Mario for a bit until he goes normal size again. Mario gets up and says that basically everything in their world is just genetically made of memes and nothing really matters, Luigi got all the nice and wholesome memes (what kind of Luigi memes are there anyways lol) while Mario got his old man memes (-500 Social Credit). Then Mario and Luigi fight an epic fight and Mario interrupts the fight by saying "You know Luigi, you make me laugh. We're not so different you and i. We're both plumbers, we both love spaghetti. But you know what i like the most about you, Luigi?". Luigi asks "What?" and Mario responds by saying "Cuz you never use cheat codes like me!". Mario shows an invicible star and says to Luigi "Thank you so much for playing my game! And now, Luigi... YOU DIE!". Fortunately, Mario gets impaled with a shovel by Duck before being able to do anything who claims "Motherducker, forgot to dig me a grave.". Luigi, surprised, asks "DUCK! You're alive?!?" and Duck responds “Let's just say i borrowed a few power stars before I went, Luigi. Farewell, you were the bro i never had.” before he starts not feeling so good. An unknown time later, Luigi is eating at the same bar where Toad worked, which was now replaced by Donald Duck after his death. Luigi asks for Sphagetti on The Rocks and talks about how Donald Duck reminds him of his brother. Luigi then leaves after telling him to keep the change and enters a taxi where Donkey Kong is driving and he says “Alright D.K lets-a go. Lets-a go home.” D.K responds with a simple “OK”. As, the taxi drives into the horizon, Luigi says “My name is Luigi or rather Imma Luigi. Number One.” The credits roll and afterwards Garfield is talking with Scatman John about the operation hinting that he was the mastermind behind it all.

## Characters

The movie has a big cast of people, so here's all of the main cast and what are their purpose on the movie.

### Luigi Mario

Protagonist of the movie, is portrayed as the everyman and a real nice pal.

### Duck

Also called in the movie as Mr. Duck, deuteragonist (Yes, that's a word) of the movie, is portrayed as being very epic. His main objective on the movie was to protect Luigi, although he did work for an unknown organization since it cuts out right before he says it. Curiosly, Tooki Nooki in the Zanzibar Stories has a very similar voice to Duck's and it could be theorized that they are somehow related to each other, perhaps even being his grandson. Since Zanzibar was created in 1963 and Tooki was mostlikely in his late 30s judging by his overall appearance when it was created, he would currently be around 90 years old, if this theory is correct and could **POSSIBLY** still be perhaps alive. This could even be further confirmed by how in Part 3 we can see his voice turn extremely stanky and crusty as the episode goes along, making him sound even more alike Duck.

### Mario Mario

Antagonist of the movie, is portrayed as being a big ass jerk, a coward and is the one who basically caused everything on the movie to happen (Although it was technically Luigi but ya know what i mean).

### Garfield (AKA Lasagna Ocelot)

A hitman hired by Mario to kill Luigi, is portrayed as lazy, a bad aimer and someone who tells awful jokes. Garfield also seems to have a deeprooted relationship with Zanzibar alongsides Duck, since in Zanzibar Stories (Specifically Part 8), a character named Raymond enters town and has a voice similar to of Garfield and is even a cat, although his appearance resembles more of Nermal, which makes the theory even stronger. Judging by his overall appearance, he seems to be on his mid 20s, which would make him 80s nowadays, a very similar age range to Tooki's. How funny, two enemies originated from the same place.

### Toad

Sort of a joke character,is portrayed as being able to teleport and atender (I know those aren't personalities but it's not like he has one). He also appears in Meme House as the owner of Sphagetti Grapes, the grand mastermind behind the entire series. Ironically, he lived in the same town as Garfield, although it doesn't seem they knew of eachother's localization, since they never actually met in any way, shape or form throughout the entirety of Season 1 and 2.

### Scatman John

Most mysterious character and the Sphagetti Grapes of the BSICU (Blue Shell Incident Cinematic Universe) because although Joel himself has said he never created Scatman John with any real intent, he actually is the mastermind of everything and the cause of all that happened. Initially pretended to be another hitman that Mario hired to kill Luigi, this is specially shown when Mario says to Scatman “Thanks Scatman John, I had to use the John just like how I’m using you!”. No personality at all, well, at least not that we know of yet (I guess he's rude because of how he said "fuck you"). Very good impersonator of Mario. It's also showed in the after credits scene how Garfield was working for him all along and how everything had already been setup.

## Trivia

* Since this movie was basically being made up on the spot, naturally there would be heavy script changes during the making. The main one being how more agressive and adult it would originally be, including a foreskin joke that was later changed into a fingering joke and then completely cut out of the movie and Luigi being more agressive.
* Although it does contain very gory scenes at times, there are only 7 swear words said during the entire run of Blue Shell Incident (2 surprisingly coming from Luigi), meaning that if this movie were to get an official rating from the ESRB, it would mostlikely be 16.
* The glassbreaking sound used when Luigi drops a single tear around the start of the movie actually comes from Stone Cold Steve Austin's theme song at the beggining of the intro.
* The short itself has a lot of varied cinematic shots (Dutch angles and undershots being examples). They were all purposefully done by Joel to give it a more cinematic feeling and gain more emotions and reactions from the public. The main one being the Red Cube technique, where the background of a shot would have a colored cube to mask it and make the scene more emotion-heavy. The name is that way due to the default color of the cube being red in the program. He likes the technique so much that he has even called The Red Cube the best actor in the entire movie many times.
* Every single character in the original movie is portrayed by Idiot Joel, giving various voice ranges between every person he does. He unfortunately could not appear in the sequels due to napping during the making of them.
* The scene where Duck "dies" and has an entire crowd react to the event was made just so Joel could fit in the characters he wanted to use, but didn't have the time or a place to put them in.
* This movie was originally going to be more of a murder mystery noir-ish like short, but as more characters like Duck and scenes like The Bar Shootout clearly showed how different of a direction they were taking at that time. Plop ilpy has since made a "re-imagining" of the original script with his Lonely Rolling Star movie that you can check out here ---> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkyG2\_zYpk&t=433s (Obviously not canon since the events completely collide with the original material).
* While making the movie, Joel immigrated to Win10 but had to get back to 7 since his mic wouldn't work on it. After returning, he realized that an entire 2 minutes of the movie had been deleted (These minutes being 4-6) and so had to make another movie altogether. This is known as "The Windows 10 Incident" among fans and is the reason why in the credits it says "Fuck you Windows 10 for almost destroying all of this".
* The movie stays in Toad's Bar for a whopping 7 minutes (Almost an entire third of the movie!). Even excluding the flashback, which is 3 minutes, it would still be around 4 minutes, which then would be a fourth of the movie. The 1st act also ends right when the characters leave the bar.
* Mario only uses one gun in the entire movie offscreen, despite being seen having 3 of them. Meanwhile, Luigi never even holds a gun, meaning that the only character that shoots onscreen in the movie is Duck.
* Along with deleted lines, there were also deleted scenes, both being extremely graphic and adult. Originally, Luigi and Duck were going to make out in the bar right after Mario leaves for seamlessly no reason at all. His line also had a complete tone-shift, giving him a more deeper voice and weirdly enough, a japanese accent! The other scene would be even heavier and happen earlier in the movie, where mid the first action scene, all the characters in the bar would suddenly just start having an orgy, including Wario and maybe even Toad's corpse.
* The fanbase to this day still debates over if Meme House takes after or before Blue Shell Incident. Beforehand, it was also discussed if it even took place in the same universe as BSI, but this ended when Joel confirmed the garden gnome in Villager's house in Zanzibar Stories was the same one as the Meme House one. At this point, it's mostly agreed that Meme House mostlikely takes place before Blue Shell Incident, when Garfield didn't have a hitman job yet and lived a not-so-normal life with his roommates. This is confirmed by how CDI-Link moves into the town where Garfield and Toad are also living in where as in BSI CD-I Link dies. This also goes for Toad since the same happens with him. Other heavy connections are hinted at with Garfield showing great shooting and mechanical skills in the second season.
* Joel doesn't use a single normal actor in the entire movie. All of them were modded in.
* Actors from Joel's previous movies return in this movie, such as Donkey Kong from "Drift Baby 2: Monkey Mania" and M&Ms from "M&Ms At The Bar", as cameos. It's unknown if this would make them part of the BSITL (Blue Shell Incident Time Line) since Joel has never spoken about this before and they don't seem to make much of an impact in the animation itself. Although if they were to be canon, they would mostlikely be prequels, since the M&Ms are seen alive and well in "M&Ms At The Bar".
* Although custom models, props and SFX are used all the time in the short, no scenes were modded into both files of the movie.
* Duck's "death" is referencing Ceasar's death in JoJo's Bizzare Adventures. This was made because of the high demand from the public to include a JoJoke in the movie (If we don't count Hand Dio of course Kappa).
* Metal Gear McQueen shows a very prominent case of "Steven Universe Syndrome" during his appearances. The syndrome itself is caused by the smooth-brained animator/animators never remembering the height of his own fucking characters with every drawing of theirs having it always changed. Examples in this situation being how sometimes McQueen is bigger than an entire building and other times barely taller than some randomass diner.
* A cut Duck voiceline reveals that his full name is "Duck Fuckem". This would've been the only time he ever actually would've swore in the entire movie.

## Time

* Zanzibar Stories: Tells the origins and creation of Zanzibar Island. Is a spinoff prequel series to the original movie.
* The Sims 4: Meme House: ANOTHER spinoff prequel series (Although taken place in a more modern time) that takes place before Garfield had a hitman job and goes to live a """normal""" life with Dio and Bulk Bogan, although Funky Kong later enters the team in the S1 Finale. He isn't actually the main character of the series, being more of a deuteragonist than anything, meanwhile Dio is the real protagonist of it. If you want to know more about it, check out the wiki that's linked in the link section.
* Mario Paint: The Point Of No Return: A prequel MOVIE showing everything that led to the actual Blue Shell Incident itself and the aftermath.
* Blue Shell Incident: The original one.
* Blue Shell Incident 2: Wari-Oh No!: The not canon sequel to BSI, made by a fan. The plot is about how Ocelot and Scatman make a new plan after Operation Blue Shell Kill was a failure (even though it wasn't lul) and so Luigi and Duck's get back in action to finally put an end to this.
* Blue Shell Incident: Returning Back 2 Zanzibar Island: ANOTHER fanmade sequel that became canon by Joel himself. He also claims that this is exactly what happens right after the first one, which makes no sense since he said the same shit with Plop ilpy's BSI 2, but i guess the editor's just not gamer enough to understand the JCU (Joel's Cinematic Universe). It currently is being worked on and TAG63 has confirmed himself that the movie mostlikely is gonna be around an hour long or even more. The movie is planned to release on 2021, although TAG has already said himself to stop asking about the specific date, since neither he knows himself.
* Blue Shell Incident 3: Luigi Goes on a Blind Date

## Links

* Vargskelethor Joel: https://m.youtube.com/user/exinthevatican
* Vargskelethor Uncut: https://m.youtube.com/user/exinthevaticanFULL
* Plop ilpy, CEO of ATLANTIC FILMS Production: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCBa5LmLMmghhGnrcVTPo6HQ
* Zanzibar Stories playlist: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR\_4pTc1KGS7MhNxhQSO6VmXKALUuP-p-
* The Sims 4: Meme House Playlist: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR\_4pTc1KGS6vch-LZ3y7B-gnDzGx7VLq
* The Sims 4: Meme House Wiki: https://thesims4memehouse.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Sims\_4:\_Meme\_House\_Wiki
* Mario Paint: The Point Of No Return: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc7UJeg8l3U
* Joel confirming MP:TPONR is canon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OZaGYvouJv0 (Around the 10 minute mark)
* The 3D Movie Maker streams playlist: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR\_4pTc1KGS7bKPodL\_SxLQyWVAO4Xf\_A
* Blue Shell Incident: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sUT2kKZeUpo&t=760s
* Blue Shell Incident Commentary Track: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hzSfO9VT3Iw&list=PLdf\_p5xrXoPL960EdvWYBWeO5t5vOngr4&index=17&t=0s
* Jerma985 reacting to BSI: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZW4zqbCsJk
* Blue Shell Incident 2: Wari-Oh-No!: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WOF9cGun-z8
* Proof that Plop ilpy's BSI sequel isn't canon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbALaWwIwRY
* Actual proof that it isn't canon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I9oxQperYmI&t=8889s (Starts watching the movie at around 2:20:00)
* TAG 63, CEO of TAG 63 FILMS: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCp2wf4brwkCSNGxhXihPyAw
* Theawesomefilmmaker 63 (Dead channel that was used to post BSI2:RB2Z teaser trailers): https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCL0reaQFi8fJCvwNlBoROwg
* The First Five Minutes Of Returning Back 2 Zanzibar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aw7236tqgpo&t=72s
* Proof that RB2Z is canon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl6kSGIVkJ0&t=190s