♪ (upbeat theme music) ♪
Mario! I love Mario.
I love Mario because it's really easy.
Unfair Mario? Okay, I've heard of that stuff. Like Unfair Sonic.
I accept this challenge.
(grumbling)
It's definitely gonna be hard.
I'm ready to get pretty frustrated right now.
You guys bleep out cuss words, right?
"Use the arrow keys to move Mario around."
- (in game: blipping) - ♪ (theme music) ♪
- Oh god. - ♪ (game over music) ♪
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - I pressed Up.
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - This is gonna be fun.
(laughs) This is gonna be so bad.
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - Wait, what?
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - Wait-- okay.
I got to jump the whole thing. Let's try that.
- ♪ (theme music) ♪ - Okay.
What?
I was trying to get a running start.
Aah! Oh.
Oh. What the heck? (giggles)
The floor just disappeared.
It's not-- oh, what the?
The thing went down.
Oh.
I got it. Oh, what the?
"Not everything is what it seems." All right.
That's deep, actually.
♪ (game over music) ♪
That's BS.
Okay, okay, wait.
All right, so I almost made it all the way across.
Okay, wait.
(sighs)
I died five times in five seconds,
which I'm pretty sure is a new record, so you guys can put that.
Okay.
Can I just jump over-- okay, I jumped over altogether.
"Not everything is what it seems."
All right. Cool. "Traps are hidden everywhere."
This is gonna be really fun.
♪ (game over music) ♪
Can't step there. Can I get on the edge?
All right, we can do that.
But how am I gonna get to the other side?
(inhales sharply) All right, let me try this.
No, no, no, no.
Okay. All right.
"Pass these blocks underneath." Okay, so don't step on them.
- (in game: metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
What the--
(sighs) I'm gonna have the startup of the music
stuck in my head all day,
like, just the first three bars of the song.
That's the only thing I make it through.
♪ (game over music) ♪
(approvingly) Okay, okay.
"Pass these blocks underneath."
What if I don't want to? Do I have to?
That's a setup for something bad to happen. Ha ha!
♪ (game over music) ♪
You're kidding me.
I'm not gonna do it. Nope.
Ooh, okay. I got it.
♪ (game over music) ♪
(taps key)
All right. This one I can't-- all right.
It doesn't matter if I do it or not, right?
- (in game: metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
What?
Okay, so I have to go over and under. All right.
Don't go underneath, 'cause it's a bull[bleep] game.
And I have to go under this, or I have to hop big time.
I think I'm gonna hop big time.
(inhales sharply) Oy, oy. Missed me with that.
Here is the checkpoint? Okay, you're not gonna kill me, right?
Okay, thank you.
- ♪ (theme music) ♪ - (blipping)
Checkpoint.
♪ (game over music) ♪
Aah!
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - (giggles)
♪ (theme music) ♪
Aah! Okay. Aah! No.
♪ (game over music) ♪
I'm not gonna mess up this time.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
That was rude.
So I have to go under that? How am I gonna go--
Or I could go-- no, I can't.
Oh.
A flag!
Things keep popping out of nowhere.
And I hate it.
A checkpoint! Oh.
♪ (game over music) ♪
Yay, checkpoint.
- Oh. - ♪ (game over music) ♪
I hate this.
Oh my god.
♪ (theme music) ♪
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - (snickers)
Okay, okay. I got this. I got this this time.
Jump. Oh.
♪ (game over music) ♪
Oh, what's this?
- (metallic clank) - Oh.
Jump.
All right. [bleep], dude, everything collapses.
What do you want me to do? I can't fly.
Okay, right here?
Chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill.
Jump. Jump.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
I, like, hit a brick and I died.
Like, that doesn't even make sense.
All right, jump. Okay.
So that block is gonna hit me. So what do I do then?
All right. Jump.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
It's on every single side?
Okay.
♪ (game over music) ♪
Never mind.
I'm just progressively doing worse.
Deep breath. I gotta collect myself, all right? That's the key.
Now go. Go, go, go.
Hey, what's up? We out here--
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - (incredulously) What?!
(chuckling) After all I went through?
- (gasps) - (metallic clank)
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - What?
(straining) Jump over, jump over.
Okay, where are the spikes? Where are the spikes?
(chuckles)
- ♪ (triumphant music) ♪ - Woo!
♪ (trumphant music) ♪
That was more of an effort than it should have been.
All right. No, no, no!
Checkpoint! Did I beat it or what? I beat it?
- ♪ (triumphant music) ♪ - I did it! Yay!
Okay.
What? Did I do it? Did I really do it?
I'm done. I'm done!
♪ (triumphant music) ♪
I knew I was gonna beat it.
I don't know about the second level though.
"Watch out."
So I feel like I should just run over.
I feel like that's a trick question.
Oh, just kidding.
- Oh. - ♪ (game over music) ♪
They put the arrows in the wrong spot.
♪ (game over music) ♪
I feel like this is a reverse message,
so I'm just gonna walk over it.
Okay, no. Definitely not.
All right, all right. Under-over, under-over, ooh.
(taking deep breaths)
All right. This is intense.
All right, I'm gonna go. This is over; watch.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
- (metallic clank) - Oh no!
I thought they were gonna come out of the bottom that time.
This might collapse though.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
Okay. There's spikes on top of there. There's spikes up there.
Um...
- (metallic clank) - Oh, okay. (mumbles dismissively)
I don't know how to jump over that,
'cause there's spikes under it. So I'm gonna jump right here.
Oh, there we go. I got it.
Okay. I feel like there's spikes on that one,
so I'm gonna jump down here.
Oh... I don't know what to do now.
I don't know if I die if I touch him, or...
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - Ugh!
(gasps) I did it.
Oh my god. Yeah-- oh.
♪ (game over music) ♪
Oh...
♪ (game over music) ♪
You're literally kidding.
(yells indistinctly) Oh, what?
That's not cool, dude.
You can't really strategize this.
You just have to adapt to the things that you know are there.
Aah, aah! No, dang it! That wasn't so hard.
♪ (game over music) ♪
(squeals in frustration)
(shrieks)
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
What? No!
I was so excited that I made it, I stopped looking.
Go, go, go, go, go.
- (metallic clank) - No! No!
(laughing) This is so hard.
(croaking) Okay.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
♪ (theme music) ♪
Oh.
I'm scared. I'm nervous.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
That's just mean.
And then recede back. There you go.
I know the spikes are on the second step.
But I don't remember if the floor falls
all the way to the first block or the first step.
Okay, so I guess not.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
Okay, at least that checkpoint.
YOLO!
Oh. Aw, I made it.
Oh, I made it though. I made it. I made it. I made it.
You saw that. I saw that.
- (metallic clank) - Did I-- you got to be kidding.
At least I'm not the--
♪ (game over music) ♪
At least I'm not the--
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
♪ (theme music) ♪
- (metallic clank) - [Bleep]. Oh my god.
Really? Like, honestly?
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
♪ (game over music) ♪
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - I jumped!
I keep falling on that same spot.
♪ (game over music) ♪
"Which one? This one?"
See, this is some more reverse psychology.
I can't-- I can't do it.
It's not gonna be that one though. It's not that one.
That one's not gonna fall.
Is it?
Nope. I can't even find out 'cause I'm too scared.
Okay. So the one that it's pointing to I know is safe.
♪ (game over music) ♪
Okay, I'ma jump right here.
Jump right there. Jump right there.
(intensely) Jump right there.
♪ (game over music) ♪
I'm gonna say this one. (inhales deeply)
Am I gonna make it?
I made it!
And the one after it. And there.
I swear to god, if there were spikes right there,
I was gonna be so pissed.
I'ma jump on the one in front of me.
I got it. What you know about that?
What you know about that?!
Oh, it's gonna be a trick. There's a trick.
Did I-- wait, I did it? I really did it. I really did it.
That was awesome.
This is what separates the boys from the men.
Nope. Nope.
♪ (triumphant music) ♪
(Finebros) Are you ready for level three?
I'm gonna get wrecked.
♪ (theme music) ♪
Okay, I'm not gonna jump on the first one.
I'm gonna jump on the second one. No.
(harrumphs)
So how am I supposed to-- how am I supposed to get past that?
Like, honestly, what am I supposed to do?
Maybe there's another block after that. Let me try.
Oh, look! I was right, but I died.
Maybe if I just jump here.
(gasps) Oh, oh. I discovered it.
I discovered it. I discovered it.
Hmm.
Nope. Oh!
(high-pitched voice) Okay.
(normal voice) "Will fall down too."
Will it?
No, it will not. Oh, come on.
"Will fall down too." Will it?
Yes, it will. Okay, it was telling the truth that time.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
Man, I swear, calculus is easier than this.
I got to jump on top of that.
But I got to watch out for spikes!
Oh! There's spikes everywhere on that.
- (metallic clank) - (restrained hissing)
(growls)
The name of the game should be called "[Bleep] You, Mario."
That's what it should be called.
- (metallic clank) - Damn. What?
In the air? What?
This is defying the law of physics? Like, what is this?
This is... (mutters) [bleep] this game, yo.
I feel like I should jump on the blocks and then go back down.
Maybe if I run under it really fast.
Go. Oh no.
Wait. (gasps)
- (metallic clank) - I did it.
(laughing) I figured it out.
Fall.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
I was at the checkpoint.
Oh! Oh! What?
In the middle.
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - All right, fun times today.
All right, are we done?
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
I'm gonna go on top.
And then... woo!
Okay.
Something's gonna happen. I know it. I know it.
Did I get a checkpoint? I got a checkpoint.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
I'm gonna jump up here.
(inhales sharply) I got it.
(grunts in victory)
Got it. Wait, no, no, don't fall.
No, no-- I'm dead, I'm dead.
♪ (game over music) ♪
I'm just running out of all my energy.
- (Finebros) Are you quitting? - Yeah.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
♪ (theme music) ♪
(whispers) Okay, okay, okay.
- (metallic clank) - ♪ (game over music) ♪
What the?
Can I jump far enough? I don't think so.
- (gasps) - ♪ (triumphant music) ♪
I did it.
I beat level three.
♪ (triumphant fanfare) ♪
♪ (theme music) ♪
- ♪ (triumphant music) ♪ - Ooh-ooh!
Damn, I'm doing good right now!
I should go home and buy every real Mario game there is
and just beat it in one day.
♪ (triumphant fanfare) ♪
♪ (game over music) ♪
I know it. I can see the end. I just need to get there.
- ♪ (game over music) ♪ - (crying)
Can I just make it off the brick? I swear to god.
♪ (triumphant music) ♪
♪ (triumphant fanfare) ♪
It was not fun at all. There was no fun in it.
It's frustrating, and I just got mad.
It was very unfair. You could obviously tell,
I was pixels away from spikes, and I would still die by them.
That is bull.
I thought it was actually pretty fun,
only because I did so well.
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See you later. I got to go figure out how to beat the next level.
♪ (old-school video game music) ♪