50 Fun Facts About SML (SuperMarioLogan)
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Take the 50-question quizWhich vegetable does Jeffy famously refuse to eat at the dinner table in SML videos?
Green beans once got Jeffy cursed: in one episode a Green Bean Giant turns him into a human-size bean until he finally clears a whole plate.
What object does Jeffy, the helmet-wearing star of SML, almost always have stuck in his nose?
A pencil has sat in Jeffy's nose since he was a baby, when his birth mother handed him one to play with and did not care where he put it.
Which company's cease-and-desist letter forced SML to swap its plush toys for human puppets in 2021?
Nintendo's letter meant new titles, thumbnails and character names, and the original SuperMarioLogan channel was deleted that July.
In SML videos, the shady loan shark who lurks in a dark alley is which sea animal?
A dolphin is the joke: SML's Loan Dolphin does a loan shark's work out of the ocean, threatening to break kneecaps when a debt goes unpaid.
Which dessert is the ogre Shrek hopelessly addicted to in the SML puppet videos?
Cheesecake rules Shrek's life in SML, the Sara Lee brand above all, and the running gag was revived in an episode about an endless supply.
Which video game series does Black Yoshi play obsessively in Mario's living room in SML?
Call of Duty is all Black Yoshi cares about: he pesters Mario for every new game and map pack rather than find a job to pay for them.
When SML switched from plush toys to human puppets in 2021, what new name was Mario given?
Marvin kept Mario's voice and his bad luck: the puppet is a grumpy former plumber whose hopes of a quiet retirement are wrecked by Jeffy.
Which cereal mascot was an early SuperMarioLogan star, living with Mario as his adopted pet?
Tony the Tiger turned up in an interview video only weeks after the channel began, and the Frosted Flakes mascot was later written in as Mario's adopted son.
Which comfort food is Junior's favourite, constantly demanded from Chef Pee Pee in SML?
Mac and cheese even gets a title role in Bowser Junior's Macaroni, one of several videos built around the craving, and Junior once chose it as the subject of an essay.
Which drink is in the title of the first SuperMarioLogan video, a 2007 spoof of a TV commercial?
Milk stars in SUPER MARIO GOT MILK, a re-enactment of a Super Mario 64 advert, and the team remade it in 2017 for the channel's tenth birthday.
Which Florida city is both the birthplace of SML creator Logan and home to his puppet characters?
Pensacola is home on screen too: the lead character and the crowded household around him are written as living in the creator's own city.
In SML, Bowser idolises which sitcom star, whose show he watches alone in his bedroom?
Charleyyy fronts a sitcom on the fictional Laugh Box TV, and the episode in which it is briefly cancelled and replaced is titled Bowser's Depression.
Cody, the nerd of Junior's gang in SML, insists that which toy is his real boyfriend?
A Ken doll is Cody's constant companion in the story, while his friend Joseph never tires of pointing out that Barbie's boyfriend is only a toy.
Which noisy toy instrument does Jeffy love to play in SML, driving the rest of the house mad?
A cat piano launches Jeffy's music career: a tune he plays on it in Jeffy the Rapper! annoys Black Yoshi but impresses Tyrone, who turns him into a rap act.
What is the name of Jeffy's birth mother in SML, who left him on Mario's doorstep?
Nancy returns as the villain of Jeffy's Parents!, trying to claim her son back, and Jeffy begs Mario to let him stay.
Jeffy's biological father in SML, Jacques Pierre François, is world-famous in which profession?
Painter Jacques Pierre François made his name with an odd technique, sneezing colour onto the canvas from his nose, and a news report says his fortune goes to an unknown only child.
What is written across the front of Jeffy's yellow T-shirt in the SML videos?
His own name is on the shirt because his mother wrote it there so he would not forget it; when Junior swaps the word in one episode, Jeffy believes the new one.
Which maths-obsessed teacher takes Junior, Cody and Joseph's class in the SML school episodes?
Jackie Chu covers every main subject but insists maths matters most, and the character boasts a PhD in Advanced Calculus 3.
Which wealthy SML villain keeps turning up at Mario's door to collect house payments?
A police officer in the early episodes, he was later remade as a billionaire landlord who threatens Mario whenever a payment is late. The name Mr. Goodman is meant to be ironic.
Which children's TV character is Junior's most treasured toy in the SML videos?
Thomas the Tank Engine is the wooden railway toy Junior is rarely seen without, and the series later gave it a golden counterpart.
In SML, the middle initial in Brooklyn T. Guy's name is eventually revealed to stand for what?
The is the whole answer: his legal name turns out to be Brooklyn The Guy, which Uncle Sam later reads out in full during a tax fraud case.
Simmons, the police partner of Brooklyn Guy in the SML videos, is which nationality?
Australian officer Simmons began on the wrong side of the law, tagging along on robberies before he gave them up and joined the police.
Which daughter of Brooklyn Guy goes from Junior's classroom rival to his girlfriend in SML?
Penelope and Junior began dating in 2023 after years of arguments, although the series later broke the couple up again.
Before SML switched to human puppets, the nerdy Cody was a plush of which Mario enemy?
Magikoopa Cody had the wizard's glasses, hat and robe and carried a wand; the human puppet kept the glasses and the nerdy image.
In an SML mini-series, Cody is sent back to kindergarten because he was born on which date?
Leap day comes round once every four years, so the school works out that Cody has had only four birthdays and moves him down to the kindergarten class.
According to SML, Rosalina was raised in outer space by a pair of which beings?
Green aliens found Rosalina as a baby and adopted her, without ever telling her that they were not her real parents.
When SuperMarioLogan was demonetized in 2018, which channel took over the new SML videos?
SuperLuigiLogan carried the new videos until it ran into money trouble of its own in 2019, when the team moved on again to a third channel.
The SML channel launched in 2021 began life in 2012 as the personal channel of which cast member?
Elaina Keyes, the voice of Rosalina, handed over her own channel to be renamed SML when the original had to be deleted, then started a fresh one for herself.
Which US breakfast TV show ran a 2018 segment using SML as an example of unsuitable videos for kids?
Good Morning America aired the segment in May 2018, and fans of the channel answered by mass-disliking the clip when it was posted on YouTube.
Which dim-witted clone of Mario's brother first made SuperMarioLogan popular in its early years?
Mama Luigi won the channel its first thousand subscribers, and it came close to collapse when the character's voice actor moved away and he had to be written out.
Which seafood is the SML character Woody famous for going crazy over?
Shrimp is Woody's weakness, and it earned the cowboy a spin-off series of his own, Shrimpo Hunter, in which he tracks the creatures down.
In the SML videos, what stage name does Jeffy use when he becomes a rapper?
J-Fee is a pun on the rapper Jay-Z, and in the story the newcomer even makes the television news as a hit artist.
In SML's Jeffy Ball Z mini-series, which Dragon Ball character does Jeffy dress up as?
Goku is Jeffy's idol for the whole series, in which gathering all seven figures summons a creature that grants one wish, just as in the anime.
Which horror video game did SML turn into a mini-series starring Brooklyn Guy and Jeffy?
Five Nights at Freddy's became a five-part SML spoof, with the two guards watching animatronics wander around Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
Which Netflix survival drama became an SML parody series that began in 2021?
Squid Game suits a big cast: in SML's spoof some characters play the games, others help to run them and a few stay out of it altogether.
In SML, what is the name of Cody's mother, who is married to his stepfather Tyrone?
Judy was heard before she was seen: the character was first mentioned in a summer school episode and made her debut as an off-screen voice at a pool party.
Who provides the voice of Jeffy, and of Shrek and Woody, in the SML puppet videos?
Lance Thirtyacre is the creator's older brother and business partner, and has been part of the channel since its very first video.
Which SML cast member voices both the grumpy Chef Pee Pee and Junior's friend Joseph?
Lovell Stanton has also voiced Bowser since 2011, and away from the puppets he records rap music under the name Lord Shredda.
When SML dropped its Mario characters in 2021, what new name was given to Black Yoshi?
Duggie, in full Ya Boy Duggie, kept the old personality: a house guest who leans on the lead character for money.
Jeffy's chief tormentor at school in SML's plush-era videos is a young version of which Mario enemy?
Bullet Bill gives the character his punning name, Bully Bill, and the series makes him the son of another Mario missile, Banzai Bill.
In the SML videos, the Devil who helps Bowser with his evil schemes goes by which first name?
Craig first turns up when Bowser summons him for help becoming more evil, yet the pair manage only petty jobs such as making the cook clean up spilled water.
Jeffy made his SML debut in a 2016 video that cast Mario in which temporary job?
Babysitter was the role a note stuck to Jeffy's shoulder asked Mario to play, and the planned one-off visitor proved so popular that he became the face of the channel.
Tyrone, Cody's stepfather in SML, is revealed to be the manager of which fast-food restaurant?
McDonald's is a step up for Tyrone, who first appeared delivering a Domino's pizza and had the door slammed on him before he could be paid.
Which British YouTube channel's Mario plush videos inspired the creation of SuperMarioLogan in 2007?
FroggyCompany's creator traded tips and character ideas with the young American before the two fell out, and the British channel was terminated in 2010.
After the Mario name was dropped in 2021, the SML team said the initials now stand for what?
SmallMediumLarge, like three clothing sizes, lets the channel keep its famous initials without naming a plumber it is no longer allowed to use.
In SML, what is the name of Brooklyn Guy's wife, who is a constant annoyance to him?
Karen is also a stepmother to his daughter, and the joke is that she gets on her husband's nerves even when she does not mean to.
What is the name of Jeffy's younger half-sister, who first appears in a dream in the SML videos?
Feebee is close to a mirror image of her brother, with a pink helmet of her own, glasses and a crayon up her nose.
Which item does Jeffy wear on the outside of his jeans in the SML puppet videos?
A diaper worn over denim is part of the look, and Jeffy's own reasoning is that keeping it on the outside stops it from getting dirty.
What colour is the helmet that Jeffy wears everywhere he goes in the SML videos?
Blue is the colour, and the helmet has a toy-shop origin: it came from a Build-A-Bear skateboard and helmet set sold in the 2000s.
In SML, what is the real first name of Chef Pee Pee, who was born into a royal family?
Fernando Strongbottom is a prince by birth: the most overworked servant in the house is the son of King Strongbottom, and Pee Pee is only a nickname.
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