The best thing you'll see today: Mario theme played with RC car and bottles

44 Comments by Justin McElroy Apr 15th 2008 3:00PM
Filed under: Culture, Retro

We think the title pretty much speaks for itself, but in case it doesn't: It's the theme from Super Mario Bros., played with an RC car and what appear to be wine bottles. Also: It's an incredible, moving tribute to the power of being really, really bored.

We really don't have anything to add here that's in any way going to be approaching the coolness, the radical-osity of this video. So please, watch and enjoy.

[Thanks, Jonah]

Tags: super-mario-bros

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Zack11190: Apr 15th 2008; 3:06PM

Epic win!

BananaBoat: Apr 15th 2008; 4:56PM

That was awesome until my ears blew the hell out at around 55 seconds in. Gahhhhhh

Jomolungma: Apr 15th 2008; 3:06PM

ummmm.... wow?

jsn: Apr 15th 2008; 3:07PM

I took a dump a little while ago and it too sounded like theme song from SMB.... these bathrooms really have a wonderful resonance.

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force): Apr 15th 2008; 9:16PM

Sounds like somebody has a serious case of bunny poop.

Shmil (Brawl Code 2621-2310-1994): Apr 15th 2008; 3:08PM

I wish i had this kind of spare time and creativity.

Tim The Enchanter: Apr 15th 2008; 7:28PM

I just wish I had this much spare time.

WiiSports Machine...Fernandos in disguise PSN: Killjebus: Apr 15th 2008; 3:09PM

Just getting the right amount of water in the bottles must have taken 4ever.

Frak, that is cool and incredibly stupid at the same time.

Nate: Apr 15th 2008; 3:20PM

Pretty easy since there's probably only like 8 notes. If you have the actual score to the music, it would be fairly trivial once you figured out "3 ounces = G" etc.

But very inventive and cool, nonetheless.

Metayoshi: Apr 15th 2008; 3:38PM

@ Nate

The melody actually has a lot of accidentals and spans around 2 octaves, so, no... 8 notes won't cut it.

Rocko: Apr 15th 2008; 3:11PM

That cop was like "I remember when I used to be that bored"

driven2sin: Apr 15th 2008; 4:14PM

um he looked like he was even more bored

Geist: Apr 15th 2008; 5:31PM

He looks more like "wtf are these damn kids doing?"

Ben: Apr 15th 2008; 3:15PM

awesome!

klitorisaurus: Apr 15th 2008; 3:21PM

what an alcoholic!

Faar: Apr 15th 2008; 3:25PM

I'd ask, "why?"...but then I realized that'd be superflous. :P

Wyvernlink: Apr 15th 2008; 3:30PM

Best thing I've seen today.

What I'm really hoping to see is news of a certain robot's head being found in the desert of New Mexico.

Benny: Apr 15th 2008; 3:32PM

That was really cool. Now do Halo!

michas_pi: Apr 15th 2008; 3:33PM

This is awesome.

Shad3Wolf: Apr 15th 2008; 3:36PM

Spectaculous!

Shagittarius: Apr 15th 2008; 3:36PM

That man has no life. No Life. None.

mike: Apr 15th 2008; 3:53PM

he has a life, probably more so then you. Life is about enjoying ones self on the way through it, and he appears to be doing that. A great life indeed I would say.

Jansperus: Apr 15th 2008; 5:09PM

Indeed. I mean, he should be doing something productive that actually benefits the world in some way, like PLAY VIDEO GAMES! Am I right?
Anyway, I'm going to have a life and stare in front of a TV and press buttons on a control pad for a few hours. God, I'm SO COOL!

Darayz: Apr 15th 2008; 3:42PM

And at the end, the cop arrests them all ... Don't drink and drive kids.

John: Apr 15th 2008; 3:43PM

That's pretty sweet

JohnHeist: Apr 15th 2008; 4:00PM

that was AWESOME

cold school: Apr 15th 2008; 4:12PM

A nintendo fan? living in the past?
*swoooon

Eric: Apr 15th 2008; 4:27PM

There was a guy on Letterman over the summer that did something similar.

He was on roller-blades, and played Pachelbel's Canon in D.

I think that's what it was, anyway. It might have been something from Carmen, now that I think of it.

Christian: Apr 15th 2008; 4:57PM

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuG-ZEL_OSo

Phi Nguyen: Apr 16th 2008; 12:21AM

That's the Guillaume Tell Overture! Wow, I'm a music nerd.

napkindoodle: Apr 16th 2008; 10:03PM

No, that's definitely El Toreador from Bizet's Carmen.

Vegnagun bwf: Apr 15th 2008; 4:36PM

Two thumbs wayyy up! - Ebert

Flakundenga: Apr 15th 2008; 4:54PM

that was awesome. very impressive!! BRAVO!!!!

Neebs: Apr 15th 2008; 5:16PM

Holy win.

Ken Seang: Apr 15th 2008; 6:05PM

What will people think of next...

Tacoman: Apr 15th 2008; 6:13PM

I wish a night of heavy drinking ended like this for me.

hund: Apr 15th 2008; 6:56PM

"I wish a night of heavy drinking ended like this for me."

yeah, having meaningless sex with strangers cant even compare :)

Benny: Apr 15th 2008; 8:04PM

Wide-necked bottles can be fun...

BPM [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186]: Apr 15th 2008; 7:03PM

It never ceases to amaze me how people think of different ways to recreate this classic tune.
Goes to show you're a musical genius, Koji Kondo.

Vaitork: Apr 16th 2008; 2:02AM

"Goes to show you're a musical genius, Koji Kondo."

Signed and approved. Hail to the composer of some of the most catchy tunes on the planet.

Stephen: Apr 15th 2008; 8:37PM

first of all, thats damn impressive.
second of all, how do you have that much time?
third of all, thats damn impressive

Zeus.:God: Apr 15th 2008; 8:45PM

Looks like a Tamiya M03-R chassis...

Steve: Apr 15th 2008; 10:59PM

Welcome to the next level of coolness....WOW.....

SamuraiD: Apr 16th 2008; 1:37PM

This is one of those Internet gems. Thanks for sharing, Justin!

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