To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of italian culture, most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Mario's adventuristic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Plumbing literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Mario and Luigi truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Luigi's existencial catchphrase "That’s Mama Luigi to you, Mario," which itself is a cryptic reference to Nintendo’s Super Mario World.I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Riba's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Mario and Luigi tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.