User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-3473686-20130611161055/@comment-1518158-20130612015706

Both the Mario Super Show and Adventures of Sonic are on Netflix... this discussion is making me want to check them out. :P

For what it's worth though, it's understandable that Super Show didn't have much material to draw from, the Mario franchise at the time wasn't very story-heavy -- the installments were all just platformers during the series' run, which don't have much of a story, just exposition to get the game going and from then on it's just jump and duck. That's why it and the Mario movie sucked, they didn't have much of a universe to draw from. The Mario franchise as we know it today didn't really start until around the Nintendo 64 era, which is when it started getting spin-offs and stuff like Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, which was the first story-driven Mario game.