Season 1 is the first season of SMG4 series. Although his YouTube channel was created on February 14, 2009, his career actually began on May 7, 2011 with the first episode. The season ended on December 18, 2011 with the release of Super Mario 64 Christmas Special 2011.
As this was the first series of SMG4, the video style is very simplistic. It follows the blooper style of other Mario 64 machinima, with dialogue being outlined in simple text as subtitles over in-game footage. The season is very SM64 heavy, using Project64 as the main method of game capture. Sometimes the game would swap to another Mario game, such as Paper Mario and Mario Kart 64, should the need arise. The capture would include the games' HUD, as Luke didn't have the cheats to disable it, yet. Garry's Mod is only used for areas that weren't able to be recreated in SM64. Sounds effects, though present, are also not as prominent as they would later become. Luke has stated that episode ideas and jokes typically revolved around specific gags and whatever cheats were implemented into the game.
The very first episode, The Cake Is a Lie!, was produced first, and featured a lot of elements that would not be present in later bloopers; the video is very small, as the software used to make it, AVS Video Editor, placed a watermark over the final video, and Luke used Debut Video Capture to record the finished video off the editing program. This would result in a loud chime (as it was a trial version), and the audio being echoed, as well. While Mario and Peach's dialogue were color-coded, Lakitu and Toad would both have their dialogue in white. The episode would then be remade in the next season as The Lie that was the Cake that is a Lie, which is closer to how the other bloopers were produced. From Dreams onwards, the text would be white with its border being color-coded whenever a character is talking. Later episodes of the season would be edited with Sony Vegas, allowing for more visual gags as opposed to text-based ones.
The season also features a lot of recolored Mario models; characters such as SMG4, X, and the Shady Character first appear as Mario clones with the colors of the hat, shirt, and overalls altered. This would continue into the next season, where more YouTubers appeared and used different colored Marios as their own avatar. Mario characters like Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi were also represented by Mario recolors.
When the Olympic Games are held in the Mushroom Kingdom, Lakitu enters Mario so he can win the prize money of 10,000 coins. Who will these feats of athleticism?
Well of course Mario had to time travel sometime and here he is going to the past but its all fun and games till Mario makes a big mistake that will change SM64.
When Mario goes to his secret stash of mushrooms, he finds out that the chest is empty, and he has to question everyone before they can go back to bed.
When Luigi goes to visit the castle, he finds out that no one is there except Toad, and he can't get back home... and he thinks the castle is trying to kill him.
When Toad accidentally falls into a hole he finds gold! and he buys the castle from Peach and kicks Mario and friends out. Mario now has to find a way back in to stop all this!
Mario continues his quest recovering the three Gems of Life. He has recovered one so far and needs two more. The second Gem of Life he seeks is the Lava Gem.
When Mario finds a bottle of poison he shows it to SMG4. But he accidentally spills it on SMG4's computer. Now he has to find a new computer or no pasta :(
When a guy on youtube called SMG3 steals SMG4's idea, Mario and SMG4 try to find out where he is and how to stop him, meeting new friends along the way.
When Mario and Luigi decides to make peach and daisy like them they use a love potion, but something REALLY bad happens because mario is an idiot and he doesn't listen.
When Toad throws a pillow at Mario, he somehow loses his memory and doesn't remember anyone. How will he get his memory back or he'll forget everything forever?