cheep cheeps – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Please Plesiosaur Me

In light of my recent post about dragons in the Mario series, which addresses the confusion between those and dinosaurs, I find it interesting that the franchise has two separate creatures based on the Loch Ness Monster. The first one, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Biology, Evolution, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Names, Science, Video Games | Tagged bowser's fury, cats, cheep cheeps, crazy cap, dinosaurs, dorrie, dragons, hazy maze cave, loch dorrie, loch ness monster, mario party advance, mr. e, new super mario bros., nothosaurs, plesiosaurs, shroom city, super mario 3d world, super mario 64, super mario 64 ds, super mario odyssey, super mario world, toads, yoshi |

Give Me Pasta Power as Fast as You Can

Okay, nobody at all expressed interest in my reviewing individual Super Mario Bros. Super Show episodes, but I felt like doing it anyway, so here are thoughts on the first four. Each one has both a cartoon and a live-action … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Arthurian Legend, British, Cartoons, Humor, Magic, Mario, Music, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged aladdin, arabian nights, beezos, birdo, bob-ombs, butch mario and the luigi kid, captain lou albano, cheep cheeps, cobrats, danica mckellar, danny wells, excalibur, fire flower, flurries, genie, jinn, king arthur, king bowser koopa, king mario of cramalot, koopa troopas, luigi mario, lyle alzado, marianne and luigeena, mario's magic carpet, merlin, merlon, mervin, mouser, neatness counts, nicole eggert, ostros, pidgits, piranha plants, pokeys, princess peach toadstool, sergeant slaughter, snifits, sultan pasbah, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, the bird! the bird!, toad, trouters |

Nintendo in Book Form

I grew up in the heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure books, which allowed the reader to make choices from a list of options at certain junctures in the narrative. A lot of them led to death, because that was … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Donkey Kong, Games, Mario, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged brain drain, cheep cheeps, choose your own adventure, dinosaur dilemma, dinosaur land, donkey kong jr., doors to doom, double trouble, dungeons and dragons, flown the koopa, ganon, hammer brothers, iggy koopa, king bowser koopa, koopa capers, leaping lizards, link, ludwig von koopa, luigi, magikoopas, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, monster mix-up, morton koopa jr., mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, narnia solo games, nintendo adventure books, pipe down!, princess peach toadstool, super mario world, the crystal trap, the shadow prince, toad, triforce, unjust desserts, wart, wendy o. koopa, wooster, yoshi |

Cheep Cheeper by the Dozen

The original Super Mario Bros. introduces two kinds of water-based enemies, the Bloober or Blooper and the Cheep Cheep. The latter is a pretty generic-looking fish, and in addition to appearing in the underwater stages, there are levels where you … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged big bertha, bloopers, boss bass, cheep cheeps, chef shmi, fish, flying fish, nintendo adventure books, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, rip van fish, sashimie, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario world, sushie, trouters, yoshi |