SMG4 (seasons 1-7)
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SMG4 (formerly SuperMarioGlitchy4) is an Australian adult computer-animated science fantasy machinima situation comedy web series created by Luke Lerdwichagul, appearing on the SMG4 YouTube channel.
Why It Used To Deserve a Bowl of Spaghetti
- This series is one of the most influential machinima channels (and to this day) along with many others like RubberFruit, DasBoSchitt and the late Kitty0706.
- Great video editing and animations thanks to the use of the N64 emulator, Project 64 used for Super Mario 64 (as well as Mario Party 3 for the Wario, Waluigi, Donkey Kong and Daisy models and GoldenEye 007 for Chris and Swagmaster), Garry's Mod (despite the overuse of the game in later years) and Sony Vegas Pro.
- Instead of Mario being his normal happy-go-lucky self, SMG4 instead makes him a comic relief character.
- SMG4 also inserts himself as one of the main characters in the series, who is an accurate and faithful fictional representation of Luke Lerdwichagul himself.
- Like Disney, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Peppa Pig, SpongeBob SquarePants and DreamWorks, the series has made a huge ensemble of characters including some that are considered fan favorites such as:
- SMG4 himself
- Mario
- Bob Bobowski (originally in his debut, he started off as some kind of Scrappy-type (well written version) character to the gang, especially SMG4 who he always begs to put him in a video starring himself, or at the very least, have a main role to eventually getting his wish later on becoming one of the best characters of the series who's still apart of the gang to this day)
- Fishy Boopkins (same character development as Bob, since he went from an attention whore, begging people to be his friend to later becoming an official friend to SMG4, Mario and the whole gang)
- Meggy Spletzer (before becoming a creator's pet to the series during the downfall)
- Shroomy
- Chris and Swagmaster696969696969
- SMG3
- FightingMario54321 (FM for short)
- Nintendofan997/X
- Luigi
- Toad
- Bowser
- Wario
- Waluigi
- Professor E. Gadd (especially during 2016-2017 as he became a scene stealer done right)
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Dr. Robotnik
- While certain other characters don't have as much main roles as the others, they are pretty great, and like The Amazing World of Gumball's later seasons, they get to have their own episodes most of the time and even when they don't, they're hysterical, yet memorable and likable as much as the main characters. These characters in question include running gag/joke characters such as:
- Steve
- Wizard Rock
- Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po (Who, like Mario, are portrayed as comic-reliefs and they're WAY better than their original counterparts. Especially Po)
- Old Man Hobo (who at one point served as a mascot for the bloopers before being overthrown by Mario, Meggy and the original characters in the post-2017 era)
- The Police
- Toast Guy
- Gourmet Guy
- Weegee
- Crazy Raisin Lady
- Mario Recolors
- Chain Chomp
- Frankie
- Ben
- Slendy
- Freddy Fazbear
- Chica
- Bonnie
- Foxy
- Balloon Boy
- William Afton
- Puppet
- Granny Koopa (Bowser's Grandma)
- As well as other Mario characters like:
- Yoshi
- Dr. Mario
- Donkey Kong
- Princess Daisy
- Rosalina
- Various Mario enemies
- Bowser Jr.
- Lakitu (despite being the first character to suffer from Chuck Cunningham Syndrome)
- Toadsworth (who has the most roles out of all the recurring Mario characters in the series, making him the closest thing to a main character behind Professor E. Gadd)
- It spawned many great spin-off series videos, with some of them serving as a staple to the series despite some on the other hand being short lived such as:
- War of the Fat Italians
- Ssenmodnar
- R****ded64 (R64 for short, despite being a little too similar to the main series' videos, until it's end in 2017 thanks to being targeted by YouTube's policy reasons)
- Stupid Mario (formerly apart of R****ded64)
- If Mario was in...
- The Wacky Wario Bros.
- Sonic the Derphog
- Guards N' R****ds
- Cooking with Bowser and Mario
- Super Pokeman 64
- Meet the Cast
- It even had a spin off channel starring Mario titled; TheAwesomeMario, which originally started off as a fictional channel to later becoming a real thing in 2017 (despite it's huge missed potentional thanks to not even lasting a year), where it's not usually just shorts starring, well, Mario, but also (short lived) spin-offs of it's own, too such as:
- A Day in the Life Of... (Which explores the everyday lives of Mario's friends)
- Mario's EXTRAS (Which are "deleted scenes" of the main series' episodes that are usually uploaded a day after their release)
- Boopkins and Bob (Which stars the Spike and Garo on misadventure-centric plots)
- As well as three new (albiet in short form) Wacky Wario Bros. episodes and only one Guards N' R****ds episode. Had TheAwesomeMario still continued, the series would've had more episodes of them and other spin-offs left in the dust.
- The series has lots of funny sound effects used in the series, along with reused audio/voice clips from other shows, movies, games, anime and even song lyrics! These include but not limited to:
- "Mamaf*cker!" (This iconic voice clip of Mario is actually an edited combination between Mario saying "Mamamia!" from Mario Kart 64 and Mario saying "Fire!" and "Hammer!" from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga but with the a censor bleep placed between to make it sound like he's swearing)
- Anthony Padilla's scream (taken from the Smosh video, THAT DAMN PUNISHMENT!; used for certain characters like SMG4 himself)
- Squidward Tentacles' scream (taken from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, Have You Seen This Snail?)
- "SHE'S A BITCH!" (taken from Tourettes Guy; usually said by Mario to describe what he really thinks about Princess Peach)
Intentional "MAMAF*CKER!" Qualities
NOTE: Please keep this in mind that SMG4 is an intentionally created webseries, so most of these pointers are meant to be bad.
- While still good as gold, 2016 and 2017 (the former not so much though) were when the series started to decline.
- Some people believe that 2016 might be this because of the debuts of Fishy Boopkins and Bob, many spin-offs were getting less episodes while If Mario was in... videos were getting more recognition, certain characters like the Mario recolors started to lose roles and Garry's Mod was starting to become used more often. Oh, and did we mention that it's home to one of the most infamous SMG4 episode of this entire era?
- 2017 is most especially this to some fans because of the debut of Meggy, who at first was only created just to balance out the SMG4 cast as they're mainly males, while other female characters like Peach only served as joke characters, and Shroomy, who's the first original character created for the series. And just before Meggy's introduction, the series became victim of YouTube's censorship policy meaning they are forced to tone down the edgy humor and ending R****ded64 after Mario's Boat Trip, shortening the title to "R64", and merging the tone of the series with the main series. Not only that, Garry's Mod started to become more used than before, more characters like SMG3 and Chris and Swag suffered from lack appearences, Ssenmodnar uploaded it's 12th and final episode while others that aren't If Mario was in... and Stupid Mario were nowhere to be found, while new ones either didn't even last a year or went dormant after even an episode or two (with only a couple of them getting one episode that year, another one in early-2018, and then ignored after that) such as The Mario Channel, Mushrooms & Morons, and the entirety of "TheAwesomeMario". Thankfully as repeated, these two years are the least of the series' problems. It would only get worse by the time the series' introduced more OC's and female characters to the cast...
- Just because the machinima's got a large cast of characters, doesn't mean it has no unlikable characters:
- Princess Peach is pretty much one of the worst characters of the whole series because of how she always gets angry easily, attacks and lashes out at everyone (most aimed at Mario) over her castle a mess or getting destroyed, being told no, or even just hearing the most slightest insults. She suffered from character derailment as her personality got more and more worse each year.
- Toadette is an abusive girlfriend towards Toad to the point where she's his biggest fear.
- Starman3
- Enzo, starting around late 2013, went from a minor, yet good friend of SMG4, Mario and Starman3 to a crazed maniac who tried to get his murderous revenge on Mario all because he ruined his birthday.
- Villager is an insane psychopath who, like Enzo, tried to get revenge on Mario over a stupid reason, that of which in question being Tom Nook accidentally dropping his Doritos into the river. But unlike Enzo though, it wasn't even Mario's fault that he lost his Doritos in the first place.
- Even some of the other characters have problems with themselves, too:
- Lakitu just feels like a wasted potential character as he would've acted like some sort of a subconscious, a Hanna-Barbera tiny sidekick-esque character (such as Boo Boo Bear) or a backup straight man to Mario when SMG4 isn't by his side. Unfortunately, he would be the first to suffer from being out of focus after the first season.
- Pretty much a lot of the Mario recolors who aren't SMG4 and SMG3 such as FM, X and Starman3 don't have much to do other than being just background characters. FM and X in particular would've had their own series of videos as their own episode felt like a backdoor pilot.
- A lot of the show's side characters like Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po, Steve, Old Man Hobo and Toast Shy Guy, while hilarious, don't have much personality traits than just being running gags aside from some episodes focusing on them.
- Toast Shy Guy acted out of character in "Mario Joins The Circus", because he just simped for Mario rather than siding with him, and when he saved him from the clowns, he doesn't say "you're welcome" to him. Instead, he ends the episode on a horrible note by dropping Mario into a giant toaster.
- Most of the other characters like Yoshi and Donkey Kong have very few episodes of their own.
- Meggy's first appearance wasn't welcomed with open arms, as the minute she came in, the minute fans begin hating her because of the series beginning to appeal to female SMG4 fans (which would soon become a never ending thing by the time SMG4 introduced us to Saiko). However, she's still a good character around then.
- However, by the time season 8 came around, she soon started having traits of her character becoming more of a spotlight stealer, and her Mary Sue status raising up a bit. But she's still likable around then, and wouldn't become flanderized to a straight up creator's pet until "Mario's Big Chungus Hunt".
- There are a lot of bad episodes here and there. Including:
- SMG4 Joins the YTR
- The Idea Block
- Mario Joins The Circus (the absolute worst SMG4 episode out of the classic era...well, it used to be THE worst, but not so worse as it is nowadays, but still)
- The series barely even credits where the source the sound effects and voice clips came from, forcing SMG4 fans to look for them themselves.
- This same thing applies to the music, too, up until SSENMODNAR DELUXE - 1 MILLION SUB SPECIAL, where they finally added it. Sadly, it didn't last too long once "Doki Doki Mario Club" removed it in favor of the membership perks list, putting fans back to square one.
Notable Good Episodes From These Seasons
Season 1 (2011)
- TBA.
Season 2 (2012)
- TBA.
Season 3 (2013)
- TBA.
Season 4 (2014)
- Who Let the Chomp Out? (not only considered to be one of the most popular bloopers, but also THE best episodes of this era, if not, the whole series in general)
Season 5 (2015)
- TBA.
Season 6 (2016)
- TBA.
Season 7 (2017)
- TBA.
Trivia
- TBA.
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