User blog:Master General Guy1/My personal ratings for SMG4 Season 1

Uh, hello. If you clicked on this, you probably don't want me to waste my time with introductions. So what the holy hell is this, you might just be asking yourself at this time? Well, a few months back, for no real reason, I decided to rewatch the first season of SMG4, just 'cause, y'know. I remembered seeing some custom ratings for shows on the web, and decided to see if I could do it myself. So I did, and it turns out, if you have paint.net, Bandicam and some templates, I could do it! So just for fun, I did one for the episode "Dreams", and I actually kinda thought it was fun, so, why stop there? So I didn't, and now I've rated the entire first season. (Well, almost the entire first season). I figured some people might be interested in seeing these ratings, so, well, why not? I decided to make a blog post with them.

So, without further ado, here are my ratings for SMG4 Season 1. If people like this, I might do more. But, not all the episodes I rated will be on this one blog, mostly because, well, most of the ones I have left simply won't upload. Ugh.

'''Episodes I didn't do: Quest for a Console, Crime Time, Mission for Peach, Castle Jumping = Time Travel = Zombies, and Race for Golden Overalls. (The reasons why are exactly the same for each episode; because friggin Youtube removed their audio)'''

The ratings
1: The Cake is a Lie!

Rating: TV-PG-L



Ahh, where it all began. I remember seeing this one and loling really hard. I always found SMG4 to have a quite wicked sense of humor....

Anyways, yeah, contrary to what a few people belive, there was profanity from the very start. "DAMMIT!" was the first cuss in the entire series, if anybody gives half a crap.

2: Dreams

Rating: TV-14



I said this above, but this was the very first ep i gave a rating. As you may notice, my shot of this, alongside my snapshots for "Flashbacks", "Time Freeze", and "Mario's Guide to Defeating Bowser" still have the black areas on the side.... I didn't think about editing them out until much later because I never pictiured myself doing more than those 3. I'll fix all 3 at some point... But on the topic of the rating at hand. The TV-14's from Mario taking a crap-ton of drugs to kick-start the plot, alongside other trippy visuals. This is also one reason for plenty of other TV-14s down the line.

3: Flashbacks

Rating: TV-PG



TV-PG's my default rating for an episode that is clearly aimed for teens/adults that contains no real offending content. Like this episode.

4: Time Freeze

Rating: TV-PG



5: Mario's Guide to Defeating Bowser

Rating: TV-14



Beer drinking. That is all.

6: Blooper Problems

Rating: TV-PG-DLV



Okay, quick thing about most of the TV-PG-Vs I gave to Season 1 of SMG4; I give episodes TV-PG-Vs if the violence is more, shall we say, realistic. By that I mean, well, punching and kicking happen all the time in SMG4, by virtue of it being a SM64 blooper series, and sometimes it's played for comic effect. But if realistic guns/knifes are used, or if said punching and kicking results in serious injury/death, then as long as there's no blood, I'd give it a TV-PG-V. In the case of Blooper Problems, it's cause of Mario getting his hand bitten off by the Mad Piano at one point in the blooper.

One other thing; some of the earlier episodes used opening themes/credits; in those events, I take a snapshot of a scene from the intro and post my rating over it and use the template for every other blooper with said intro, for simplicity's sake. And if I give two or more episodes with the same intro the same rating (which WILL happen), I won't post the same image again. In fact, an example is coming in hot:

7: Just Like Any Other Day

Rating: TV-PG-LV



9: Have you Seen This Polygon?

Rating: TV-PG-LV

An example of death resulting in a TV-PG-V; Mario throwing Peach into the castle and making her blow up on contact. Plus, he also takes some pretty harsh beatings later in the episode that I felt were a bit TOO, well, beat-im-up, if that makes any sense at all.

10: A Painful Day in the Paper World

Rating: TV-PG-V



11: An Adventurous Drive

Rating: TV-PG-V (Originally TV-14)



FUN FACT: The original rating was TV-14 because I felt Mario getting impaled by the flagpole at the end was a bit too much. Next day, I decided I was just being a pussy, especially since, well, nothing else that wasn't innocent happened in the blooper.

12: A Day Without Peach

Rating: TV-14



Normally, people are confused as to what pushes a rating to a flat TV-14 (that included me at one point). This episode IMO is a good example; while techincally never crossing a TV-PG-V, a lot of the violence (including a nasty shooting at the end) while bloodless, really began to push it (like how tons of blood can score an episode a TV-MA), plus, there were plenty of drug references throughout and I just felt like this was the only possible rating.

13: Darkness Takes Over

Rating: TV-PG-L



14: Charming Peach

Rating: TV-PG-DLSV



This was one of my favorite episodes of the season and possibly the series. To me, seeing someone as crazy and moral-less as Mario pursuit unrequited love was always something hillarious to see. Too bad there haven't been episodes like that recently...

Well, anyways. I almost gave this one a TV-PG-LSV, but after putting everything in context, I instantly decided to add a D.

15: Luigi's Payback

Rating: TV-14



16: Master of Fail Disguises

Rating: TV-PG-DV



Honestly, I might revisit this one. My memory is kinda hazy, but I'm not too sure I remeber anything warranting a TV-PG-D. I definetly wouldn't mind rewatching this one to verify.

17: Mario Quits

Rating: TV-14



This one was a pretty light TV-14. If it weren't for a regect from Mario's replacement audition seriously commiting suicide after not getting the role, it would have been a TV-PG-DLV.

18: A Random Day

Rating: TV-PG-DLS



This is my favorite episode of the season, cause it draws from the one thing an SMG4 blooper needs to have to be funny; pure randomness. Including plenty of random language. Some may say it borders a little close to TV-14-L territory, but as with all other bloopers in this time period, it's only soft language (ass, hell, damn, that type of stuff), which on their own, should just be able to stay on a TV-PG-L (outside of extreme cases, like Rick and Morty's Scary Terry)

19: Losing your N64

Rating: TV-PG-L



Most probably won't remember any cursing whatsoever, but a little after the 4 minute mark, I recall seeing a single usage of hell.

20: Bowser the Unhappy Fat Turtle

Rating: TV-PG-LV



Some may question the TV-PG-V, but remember when I said that I'd give violence that results in injuries that cross the fantasy border a TV-PG-V? Well, in this case, I added the V because of the scene where Bowser gets hit multiple times by a train and afterwards, it is shown he actually recived multiple horrific, non-cartoony injuries afterwards.

21: Enter X

Rating: TV-PG-LSV

I do have an image, but for some reason, I can't upload it right now, which is odd. I'll try to fix this as soon as I can.

22: The Land that Never Was 

Rating: TV-14 (Originally TV-PG-L)



While not my fav of the season, it's pretty close, with it's rather unique and cool settings. To be the best, though, well, you have to get away with the best. In this case, multiple homophobic slurs throughout and two mentions of abortion made me rethink my original rating of TV-PG-L, especially after talking to people about it.

This is where I will stop for the time being, because for some reason, the rest of my images are not uploading. See you soon!