Pascal hosted last night’s episode, and one of the skits had him play Mario in a prestige version of Nintendo’sseries. Instead of escorting Ellie across the country, he’s got to take Princess Peach across Rainbow Road as Bowser hunts her down. Yes, it’s literally a Nintendo reskin ofright down to explaining the Goombas as being sentient fungus, but it’s also pretty funny, and just goofy enough to work.
cast reimagined as “complex, dramatic HBO characters” is pretty funny—”complex” for Toad and Yoshi just means “I’m bisexual”—and it helps that Pascal as Mario is...actually pretty good? He doesn’t do a goofy accent, but he’s basically playing him like he would Joel and being completely serious about it.
He should play Burt Renolyed
'It makes me feel big! I want to feel big!' 😂
I'd watch dark, angry Mario.