Super Mario Bros. Super Show: Koopa Klaus / Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush

<p>Hey, paisanos! We warp back to 1989 for a double dose of Christmas segments from “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show” — the live-action “Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush,” featuring Santa losing his “transportation” in Brooklyn; and the animated “Koopa Klaus,” featuring a plot to… freeze the North Pole.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), tiny selfish mushroom baby.</li><li><strong>Adam Pope</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/hojukoolander">@hojukoolander</a>), another fun guy, fresh out of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSvpX6u9oU&list=PLuG1-7Tr0ei7CcXn7Fkwj2fbcEEkVH8Ga">Retro Detention</a>, from <a href="https://retro-daze.org">Retro-Daze</a> and <a href="https://theretronetwork.com">The Retro Network</a>.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents</h4><ol><li>Nintendo Power’s Preview of “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show,” <a href="https://twitter.com/hojukoolander/status/1016747323253112832">as tweeted by Adam</a>, and <a href="https://archive.org/stream/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20007%20July-August%201989">preserved on the Internet Archive</a> (for now) (it’s on page 93).</li><li>I didn’t realize till recently the music in the “Back to the Future” Nintendo game is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdmZYJ_FeAQ">sped up version of “The Power of Love.”</a></li><li>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuqH1d1IZLY">King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons</a>,” a live-in-studio spinoff show local to Los Angeles and hosted by King Koopa, performed at one point by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Collins">Christopher Collins</a>, the voice of Cobra Commander.</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awnrhBY-U-E">Captain Lou Albano’s Wrestling Hotline</a> 1-900 number.</li><li>We <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/GKkB7NFWvy2ZjyUcA">map out where Mario and Luigi lived</a> in Brooklyn.</li><li>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ClI_S7des"