We were obviously far too busy at E3 last week to watch Conan O'Brien take over Jay Leno's post on The Tonight Show, and look what we missed: O'Brien's backdrop bears an uncanny resemblance to Super Mario Bros. Coincidence? Probably not, when one of your band members looks a lot like Mario in a Panama hat.
Serious Lunch noticed this and did some nice work in Photoshop, and seeing it come to life in video only makes us wish it was his actual backdrop. Head beyond the break to see the video, which sadly does not feature Andy Richter as Bowser.
CoCo has been great since his return, glad to see they're sticking to what has worked for them so well over the last few years. As much as I'd love to see them bring back the "Conan hates my homeland" or "State quarters" bits, I doubt that either will be making a return.
If I recall correctly the episode this clip is from always had Max giving a real creepy/hilarious sex offender grin...
I'm going to start chanting "CoCo" if I ever get a chance to see him, no matter how much he protests it.
Also, the little paint job they gave "In the Year 2000" was nice. Also "In the Year 3000" isn't quite as funny since the year 3000 isn't right around the corner...
I hate how you guys don't get Hulu up here but the networks property in many cases are owned by different companies in Canada, and that doesn't include deals where same property is online. But I need to say this...
Instead of half the population on Joystiq that happen to be Canadian bitching and moaning here, complain to the networks in the U.S. and Canada. Write an email, and send that same email everyday until something happens. You have the right to complain here as well, but it's through one ear and out the other with your friends south of the border. Good luck.
They just went through this crap over at Kotaku. Maybe if the background was a silhouette of a stage it'd be believable. But this is just random pieces of scenery stitched together to satiate the person's belief.
Conan even said that it isn't a reference to Mario.
Agreed. Before Conan caught wind of this story, he took some time earlier in the week to discuss the backdrop. It's actually a mural of either the 30's or 40's in LA, using a lot of geometric shapes.
The full mural along the top "spills" into the bottom as those shapes. Somebody then got incredibly bored and cut up a bunch of random Mario images and mashed them together awkwardly to match it.
But seriously...the only reason you think it matches is because it was FORCED to match. The assests are so chopped up that it's tough to really say so. Glad he mentioned it though, he's pretty good about stuff like that.
On a gaming blog? No.. not really any better use of my ranting on a gaming website.
@InFaMoUs1-
I'm a gamer, this is a gaming website. I grew up with Mario from the arcades to the home consoles and every gamer has a pet peeve when it comes to gaming. The pronunciation of Mario is a big one for me; he is a very iconic character and penetrates more households than Jesus so it's a little more than annoying to hear almost everyone who utters the word get it wrong.
Personally I think only those who have been saying it wrong all this time are the ones who would take the time to reply to my comment in such a snide manner. The day I commented on the mispronunciation of Ninja Gaiden comes to mind, people got so bent out of shape about it.
Yes I have, and so has maybe half a dozen other people. You have a very unique talent of taking something and putting a negative spin on it. I don’t see how something simple can be considered a minor detail. Anyone mispronouncing a famous name or commonly used word would be instantly corrected by someone else.
I'm an artist, found of every artist out there and their work, but you don't hear me complaining about how people pronounce Vincent Van Gogh name every time. Sometimes, you just have to let things go.
You know how many people pronounce "Gouda" the wrong way? It could offend me, since it's a Dutch word (not really a word, since it's a city) and I'm Dutch. But it doesn't. It amuses me slightly, but who cares? It's not the end of the world. I just don't get why you make such a big deal about it. Is it going to make Mario less enjoyable as a series of games? Is it destroying Mario's legacy? No.
At the old company I use to work for I had a manager in the marketing department who would always talk about how he was trying to pique interest with end-users on different marketing campaigns.
Except he'd always pronounce it as 'PEE-KAY' and it always made me die a little inside that I was reporting to someone who butchered the pronunciation on that word, along with overusing all sorts of inane management phrases.
And really some of you ass clowns should just relax and not get so heated. 1st thing I actually thought when I saw that bit on Conan was "mary-oh? the fuck"
I know just how you feel Markez, people are always saying to me "Thank God you saved me Man-Bat!" or "I would have died without you Nightwing!" FFS it's not that hard to get it right!
Eh? GTFO dude, just cuz you come here, do some rip off of Dark Dwayne's commenter name doesn't mean you can just make crime fighter jokes, too, and have everybody love you for it. Look, Dark Dwayne was even brushed with fame by the 'stiq writers, pal. Like they'd do the same for the Dark 'Wayne' whoever the hell that is.
I remember an old highschool teacher that would always pronounce metaphor "Met-a-far" and it drove me bat-shit-insane. Were I someone who enjoyed violent video games I would have had the skills to bring a gun to school and shoot her for it.
How about the Greek sandwich, gyro? That's a good one. I say "JYE-row" unless I'm in a Greek establishment, then it's "euro" or "yeerow". Why "JYE"? Because we're in America and that's how a G-Y combo sounds. America, F* yeah!
Spending 5 seconds to write a comment on how you hate Hulu and can't view the video... or spend 2 seconds to search google on how to get around said issue. Hrmmmm... which is more productive I wonder.
Besides, this is a .com site, not a .co.uk site or what have you.
OR just link to You Tube like everyone bloody else. As for your argument that this is a dot com; it was so fucking stupid that it made my eyes cross. Seriously, it was so retarded that just thinking about it is killing brain cells. This site is on the INTERNET, which is WORLD WIDE.
Here's a Newsflash for you: NOT EVERYONE LIVES IN AMERICA, and people like you make me really glad of that fact.
You're an angry one aren't you. Besides this site is owned by AOL (Hint: America Online). Also no offense but per the most recent ruling in the world courts the US still "owns" the internet.
Think I'll go over here and have an Americanized hamburger with american cheese and some freedom fries with a 32 oz Coke. Hahahahaha, I couldn't resist.
Aw that's so cute. You really believe all that shit is American, and not imported on the cheap from Asia, by multinational syndicates. Apart from the Coke, which is filled with that corn syrup shit no one else on the planet would stand for. As for America "owning" the Internet, it's just wishful thinking by jingoistic morons who have clearly no idea how the internet actually works (in other words, you and the American government). Any legal claims they have to the internet will me laughed at and ignored by the likes of China, who would only have to set up there own DNS to totally sidestep you septics.
Personally I was hoping you'd play along and insult the obvious opening towards our standard of measurement but instead you went with the typical holier-than-thou response.
Mario's first adventure sends him on a rescue mission through the Mushroom Kingdom, as he must survive eight worlds to save Princess Toadstool from the evil Bowser.
