SMG4 (series)

SMG4 is an Australian adult web animated series created by Luke Lerdwichagul.It is the second adult animated series to be produced in australia,the first being John Callahan's Quads!,and the first completely produced in its home country.The show is a parody of the Nintendo franchise Super Mario Bros. where Mario, rather than being a hero, is usually an idiot (however despite this, he did do some heroic things in the older episodes). It had its first episode on may 7th 2011 with its first episode,the cake is a lie. The humour at first was more dialogue based, but later on the show slowly changed to cartoony slapstick humour and pop culture references. The shows origins date back to 2006 when other YouTubers started making Super Mario 64 by taking gameplay footage of a hacked version of the game and adding captions to make a cartoon. This was how SMG4 originally made his videos but then slowly over time he started using more G-Mods  to actually animate the show.It is one of the most popular internet cartoons alongside happy tree friends,RWBY,and homestar runner.It is also the most popular australian cartoon outside of its country.

Premise
The show is a parody of the Japanese video game franchise Super Mario. It is about Mario,who in here is depicted as being a moron,getting in crazy adventures and his friend SMG4, who is a fictionalized version of the show's creator. The show usually revolves around cartoony slapstick comedy reminiscent of the looney tunes and silly symphonies, as well as pop culture references.

Main Characters
SMG4

Mario

SMG3

Teletubbies

Bowser

Toad

Luigi

Peach 

Bowser 

Dr. Eggman 

Nintendofan997 

Steve 

Wario 

Shy guy 

Old Hobo 

Waluigi 

Yoshi 

Rock 

Toadsworth 

Humor style
At first the humor was based on dialogue and satire,however as time went on, the humor still had subtitles but also had cartoon slapstick and pop culture references

History
Though the show itself officially started in 2011, the history dates back to 2006 when the Super Mario 64 bloopers started. What they were was basically gameplay footage of a hacked version of Super Mario 64 with added captions to make a cartoon. They were made by various YouTubers. A kid named Luke Lerdwichagul used to watch these cartoons and one of them named megaman 765 inspired him to make his own bloopers. He uploaded his first video on May 7th, 2011.It was an episode called The cake was a lie and was rather unprofessional since it was rather choppy and only took up 1/2 the screen.Later that year,he introduced another episode type,War of the fat italians.A year after the show first aired,in june 2012 to be specific, Lerdwichagul's got 1,000 subs and he introduced his next episode type ssenmodnar.In feburary 2013,he got 10,000 subs.In the august of the same year he introduced yet another episode known as Retarded 64.In the may of the same year,he got 30,000 subs.In Feburary 2014 SMG4 introduced his 5th episode type,Guards n retards.A month later he got a whopping 100,000 subs.3 months later,he introduced an episode type known as sonic the derphog.A little more than a year later he introduced if mario was in.......A year later he got 1 million subs.In 2017,he started using GMODs to make entire videos.During the summer of that year he ended the episode type R64 and merged it with Super mario 64 bloopers since R64 was demonitized for the use of the word "retard" and youtubes new policy about family entertainment characters.

Production
The videos are typically made using a variety of software such as Super Mario 64,G-Mods, sprites and models and stuff from games, movies, TV Shows, etc. and video editing software.They usually mix pure machinima with actual animation.

Episode types
Sm64 bloopers: The original and most popular variant of smg4's bloopers.They are a genre of machima that various youtubers made starting in 2006 and they were the first kind of blooper SMG4 made. They are about Mario and his crazy antics in the Mushroom Kingdom. They also involve Mario and SMG4 going on adventures of sorts and other things.

Retarded 64 :Introduced in 2013,Retarted 64 is similar to the bloopers but a lot more stupid and surreal.The humour of them are similar to looney tunes.They were discountiuned due to YouTube's new video policy, but they were merged with the normal bloopers. Such videos were renamed to R64 instead.

Ssenmodnar : Ssenmodnar episodes are usually released to celebrate a milestone.They are a collection of 15 second skits thats are over the top and well-recieved by fans.

War of the fat italians: A yearly special where SMG4 and Mario compete in wacky dares by commenters.Who wins is decided by a poll

If mario was in :These episodes revolve going to the world of another video game and causing havoc their while trying to get the job done.

Guards n retards : Guards n retards is about two guards,chris and swagmaster,working at a spaghetti factory and going on crazy adventures.

Sonic the derphog :Its about sonic the hedgehog and his crazy adventures to stop robotnik

The wacky wario bros: The wacky wario bros revolves around the Wario bros crazy antics to get money.

Non blooper episode types
The SMG4 show:The SMG4 Show was a series of shows hosted by  SMG4 himself (in real life). It involves him in doing weird things, like kissing plushies and talking about weird things. Every episode but the first one was aired on a Wendsay. The first episode aired on July 5, 2016.

SMG4 plays nerntendos:SMG4 PLAYS Merio Nernterndoes is a series of videos that involves SMG4 playing a bunch of random Mario children's games that he comes across on the internet, although a few adult games may also appear during an episode of this series as well. Many of the games SMG4 plays during this series vary from average, to weird, to creepy, to total retardedness, and even to total bootleg. SMG4 began this series on May 23, 2015 and an episode of this series has occasioally taken place. 

Spinoffs
TheAwesomeMario:The show is where smg4 puts his extra content such as shorts and extras.

Hobo bros:A show where the creators of the show do a lets play of weird games

Criticism
In recent years (mainly as of October 2015) the show has gotten critisism for overuse and removal of various things in the show. These include the removal of YouTuber cameos (and appearances), Certain Characters decreasing in appearances, recycling and rehashing plots, overuse of G-Mods, loss of character traits and flanderization, overuse of side characters (like Fishy Boopkins and Bob), removal of sub-series,and overuse of voice clips that were taken from a YouTube Video, Video Game, Movie, or TV Show.

Trivia

 * The show has somehow avoided controversy revolving around its explicit use of family entertainment characters unlike SML
 * Though the show dosent have an offical rating due to being a web series,IMDB says its rated TV-14
 * The show was referenced in an episode of SupermarioLogan,spefically Black Yoshi's Scam ,where Mario can be seen watching a channel showing nothing but spaghetti.