User:GrishamAnimation1/sandbox/Fire Sale (Super Mario World)

Fire Sale is the first episode of the Super Mario World cartoon.

Summary
Kootie Pie and her henchman kidnap Mama Fireplant to keep her warm at her new Ice Palace. Now, Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi must rescue Mama Fireplant before she dies in Ice Land.

Why it Rocks

 * 1) This episode was a good way to start the cartoon and introduce Yoshi to the series.
 * 2) Yoshi is an endearing character who has a fear of water and conquers it to save Mama Fireplant and the others.
 * 3) Good voice acting from Walker Boone, Tony Rosato, Tracey Moore, Andrew Sabistion, etc. Catherine Gallant was excellent as Mama Fireplant.
 * 4) Mama Fireplant is one of the few characters not to work for Bowser and has a very sassy personality. She even has a soft spot for Mario and the other hero characters.
 * 5) Kootie Pie was more of an active villain, close to her games counterpart. Rather than throwing tantrums to get her dad to do something she wants in the previous series, she and her henchman enter Dome City themselves and kidnap Mama Fireplant to warm her at her Ice Palace.
 * 6) Funny moments, such as Yoshi being afraid of water and Kootie corking Mama Fireplant's mouth with a turtle shell.
 * 7) The animation is decent, despite having a numerous amount of errors.
 * 8) At the end of the episode, Kootie Pie gets her comeuppance by being covered with giant ice cubes and is stuck frozen at her Ice Palace.
 * 9) The song "Kootie Pie Rap", while it has a terrible name, is pretty catchy and explains about the life of Kootie Pie and how Mama Fireplant is going to get away from her and her Ice Palace. It also acts as an integral part of the story.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The episode is riddled with countless animation errors, as with most of DiC's shows at the time.
 * 2) Wasted potential, as Mama Fireplant never returned after this episode. Worse, she never appeared in the video game series or the comics outside of the cartoon.
 * 3) Yoshi's phobia of water (while funny) is pretty inaccurate to the games. In the original SMW game and its more accurate OVA adaptation, Yoshi can swim just fine.

Trivia

 * Yoshi didn't speak in baby talk and his heroic feats are more closer to what his games counterpart would eventually become.
 * This was Kootie Pie's only speaking appearance in the Super Mario World cartoon and her last speaking appearance in the DiC Mario cartoon trilogy.