The Super Mario Brothers Super Show: Lost Episode

How this whole thing started
Hello. I'm a regular 13-year old guy who loves video games, like many other people. One of the things I love in particular with games is Nintendo's current mascot, Super Mario. His games were mostly good, if you ignore Mario's Time Machine and Hotel Mario, at least. And who could forget the "masterpiece" that is the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. Usually, I'd just go one a website to watch shows like this, but I was feeling... adventurous. So, I went on E-bay to find a copy, as I knew that local stores weren't gonna sell the DVDs any time soon.

On E-bay I found multiple copies of DVDs for the show (In case you're wondering, the magical Blu-Ray didn't exist yet when the show was made and ended,) with many of them being up to $60, which is flat out overpriced for such a bad show. Eventually, I found a copy worth only $5. Honestly, I think it's too high for such trash. Anyways, I had the money to get it, but first, I checked the description of the item.

Here's what it said: "Super Mario Brothers Super Show episodes! Only $5 and worth the price! Including such classics such as: 'The Bird! The Bird!', 'Mario and the Beanstalk', 'Robo Koopa', and 'Disposal'!" It looked pretty legitimate, especially on a site like Ebay.

Anyways, I decided to check Wikipedia for each episode, just in case. All but the 4th one were on there, but realized that this could be a rare unseen episode that would normally cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. I finally gave in to temptation and bought it.

The episodes
After waiting a few days (The seller was in the same area,) the regular delivery man had arrived, and he gave me the case in a box, and I payed up the $5. I opened it with a sort of excitement, and saw the case of the DVD in regular condition. Surprisingly, there were no scratches or even signs of damage. I put the disk in my PS3, and started it up. The first thing I noticed was that there wasn't any DVD menu, it just started on the episode titled "The Bird! The Bird!", which was the very first episode officially made.

The 3 episodes were tame, and I had a great time watching them, and just made jokes at some points that made me laugh surprisingly hard, basically at tears. However, the 4th one, which if you forgot, was titled "Disposal", was actually very different. The animation was similar, but the tone of it was much darker. It started out with Mario, Luigi, and Peach in Mario and Luigi's house, with absolutely no sign of Toad.

They were all huddled up, and whispering to each other. The camera zoomed closer to them, making the chat more audible. They were talking about someone: "Mario, are you sure we can't just try ignoring him before doing something so drastic?" "Don't worry, Luigi! No one likes him anyways! What's there to lose?" "But... Where are we gonna get a bag?" "Don't worry, Princess. I have that under control!"

What were they gonna do? What was this drastic thing? Why do they need a bag? The next scene faded in, with Mario, Peach, and Luigi carrying a bag while climbing a very large mountain. Then I saw that the bag had something inside, and that something was squirming in the bag. Wait... was that Toad? Then, they reached the top of the mountain, and threw the bag off of it, into a river with crocodiles in it, that was very far down. Then I heard something that made me know that Toad was in the bag: a voice came from inside the bag, screaming things like "Where am I?" and "Why do I hear crocodiles?", but all that was heard afterwards was a loud scream, and an unsettling gurgle.

I saw blood coming from the bag, flowing into the river. Afterwards, Mario simply said "The deed is done. Now guys, DO NOT mention this to anyone! This is for the best." Then the scene faded out, to the credits. The episode was roughly 16 minutes long, quite shorter than the regular episode.

I turned off the PS3, and took out the disc, which I put back into its case, when I noticed that Toad was missing from the cover... which was when I put it away, never to be seen, or used, again.

The End