Corona | Coming Attractions

KingVoyeur wrote:

There are some inconsistencies in the music and the sprites used in this video. The Mario sprite looks like the SNES era depiction of the character, but the overworld and underworld themes are from the original NES Super Mario Bros. The castle music is taken from Super Mario World, but Bowser's (Koopa's?) appearance and music are taken from SMB3. That's just plain lazy design.

I was going to mention the various Mario mashups, but it's been a long day, and I'm totally Ipsed.

Also, I guess I felt kind of douchey criticizing someone's hard work for inaccuracies that were likely conscious/intentional.  Since Mal opened the flood gates, however...

One thing that bothered me was Mario killing the Ninji by stomping on it. At least, you can't in Super Mario 2.  In Super Mario 2, you hop on Ninjis and use them to boost you.  You can kill them by lifting them up and throwing them either into holes or at other villains.  Otherwise, you just send them to a new location by tossing them.

Maybe ninjis work differently in later Mario games.  The Ninji above looks to me like the Super Mario 2 ninji, however, and I feel like he shouldn't be stompable.

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

One thing that bothered me was Mario killing the Ninji by stomping on it. At least, you can't in Super Mario 2.  In Super Mario 2, you hop on Ninjis and use them to boost you.  You can kill them by lifting them up and throwing them either into holes or at other villains.  Otherwise, you just send them to a new location by tossing them.Maybe ninjis work differently in later Mario games.  The Ninji above looks to me like the Super Mario 2 ninji, however, and I feel like he shouldn't be stompable.

I hadn't noticed the Ninji. I watched the video a second time, just because I love 'Super Mario Bros. 2' so much, and didn't realize any references to that game had been made in the video. SMB 2 always stood out quite a bit to me (and probably many people) as being very unlike the other SMB games. I've heard, though do not know if it is true, that the game was originally developed as being unrelated to SMB, but then that changed for whatever reason. Thinking back to SMB 2, I don't think it was possible to kill any of the enemy characters in the game by stomping on them. Throwing enemies or throwing things at them was the way to defeat almost everything. Some years after it came out, I became disappointed that SMB 2 seemed to become so totally discarded in the SMB mythos, as every game after that seemed to return to Bowser and the Koopas. Wart was the shit.

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

Also, I guess I felt kind of douchey criticizing someone's hard work for inaccuracies that were likely conscious/intentional.

I was just being a douche because I thought it would be funny. You know, because I'm never a douche otherwise.

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

One thing that bothered me was Mario killing the Ninji by stomping on it. At least, you can't in Super Mario 2.

I know that they reappear in SMW, but only in one segment of Bowser's castle. If I remember correctly, you can actually kill them by stomping on them.

It's not douchey when you do it, Mal. It's only douchey when I do it.

* * *

Here you go, Jack:

It annoys me how the guy says "Mario." There's another guy who has a similar video. The other guy also pronounces it the annoying way. I had only ever heard it the more common way (that is, the right way) until Ghostbusters II, when Rick Moranis said it the way the guy above says it.  I thought at the time that it was a joke to show how un-cultured Louis Tully was.

I got a little older and began distrusting anything said the way it was said in Alabama. For a short time, I even assumed that Rick Moranis was saying it right, because people from Alabama mispronounce so much of the English language. It wasn't until the Super Mario Bros. cartoon and live action movie came out that I was finally confident that Alabamans were right, and Rick Moranis was wrong.

I believe you're initial assumption was right about Rick Moranis doing it as a joke. Once again, younger Goits is the smart, clever one and older Goits is the dumber, less funny one.

Those goose-stepping bastards!

This video was linked as a related video to the above:

I guess they can get away with stuff like this on daytime Millionaire. Something tells me Regis would have been sued if he had tried the same thing on a contestant.

The hydrophobic stuff is mindblowing.

I had to watch the video just to see what the other three options were, since the still only showed option A.  I can't believe that Meredith Viera allowed him to give her a wet willie.

Also, not to be mean, but does she have a glass eye?  Her left eye looks a little odd when she looks straight at the camera.

I'm not sure why that Millionaire video was titled "Flirt Fail."

I was really hoping one of the options was going to be "vagina".

Maybe a wet willie is a form of flirting?  We should get someone to try it at a bar and report back the results.  Hey Mikey!

I just checked her out on Wikipedia to see how old she was, and was surprised to discover she's been married to the same person since 1986. 

I wonder if her husband was ever alerted to the existence of this video?  My guess is that he almost never watches the show, since it airs as often as a soap opera.

I'm just saying, that was some pretty awesome flirting by Meredith, in my opinion. Shameless flattery: check. Sexually suggestive language: check. Establish physical contact: check. What about that was a fail?

I agree with you.  

I've seen some pretty impressive flirting fails in my time.  None of them looked like that.

It was a fail because he didn't wet willie her vagina.

That girl has a lot of future Vikings losses to look forward to.

How old is she 5?  The Vikings haven't won in her lifetime, what is she so upset about?

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

That video's pretty cool, but that gamer's Mouser fighting technique sucks. He kept jumping right at Mouser to place the bombs up on the platform, and gets killed the first time by twice touching Mouser. He continues this technique the second time, but seems to just get luckier with Mouser's movements. Any veteran SMB 2 player knows to run to the back and jump up to place the bombs, since there's a space between the platform and the wall and you can jump up there with much less chance of getting hit. The gamer also fails to pick up the first thrown bomb on his second fight with Mouser, even though he had plenty of time before it would go off. I would've beaten Mouser much faster than him. That makes me better.

Speaking of awesome videos, my department finally got our YouTube page up and running. We don't have a lot of videos up yet, but more are on their way. Check it out!

MizzouVideo