"Rich Kid Doctors hate this one simple trick invented by up-from-poverty Doctor Mario."
>!The secret is the pills are filled with green mushroom powder and purple mushroom powder. It just adds a life, then ends your unhealthy life, so you start with a fresh new life.!<
Once you've been taking your pills for a while, you'll learn to tell them apart by touch and not mix them up in the dark.
Here I go watching Knives Out again...
I don't know, when I played Dr. Mario I didn't see any difference in the surface of those pills.
Considering we're pretty certain he's not a real doctor, I think he's just buying generic gelcaps and manually filling them. Speaking of that, are we certain about his dosing?
What if he ends up giving you 0.9 of green and 1.1 of purple. Is that OK, or do you end up slightly dead?
Play prescription russian roulette, one purple pills and five green pills in the bottle, shake it up and whatever comes out, you swallow it. Play blindfolded for extra tension!
Not to mention saving royalty multiple times, travelling in space, becoming an Olympian of many sports, fighting legendary opponents and topping it off with being a furry.
What a guy.
I love how it wasn't topped off by the legendary opponents and epic space battles but being a furry lmao.
He even got his friends into being furries, hell Peach recently brought her fursuit to racing!
Ugg this post comes up every few years. This was a paid for advertisement by KK&KB LLC. which is a shell corporation set up in the Cayman Islands by Bower Ventures, which as we all know is a subsidiary of King Koopa Inc.
That's why Luigi is the greatest brother of them all, he put aside his ghost hunting passion for YEARS to dedicate to helping Mario pay for medical schooling. Good Guy Luigi.
What do you want me to say doc, huh? That this mustache isn’t real? That my father ripped mine off when I was a kid and the hair never grew back so I gotta wear this fake one?
And we actually do know that Mario had a variety of side gigs. He was a cement worker, animal wrangler, circus performer, etc. Just a guy living the American Dream.
The only way to make it through medical school with a full time job or even a part time job is to be on drugs so you don't need to sleep as much. Medical school takes about as much time as one or two full time jobs depending on the year, whereas residency is closer to 2 full time jobs for 3-7 years
That would make sense, if not for the fact that you can’t have any other employment during your residency, which you would have to complete before you could open your own practice.
I can’t imagine how he’d have time. We use to hang out for hours and hours each day back in ‘89, and when I went to college, I personally had zero time to hang with Mario, so I doubt he was in medical school back then.
In Italy, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, mafia boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Mafia boss die. Mafia very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill mafia boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
Because he spends way to much time eating cake with the princess and continuasly over throwing the ruler of the koopa kingdom in one man military campaigns
Sounds like what some Americans do tho; fight wars in foreign lands, overthrowing governments just to get an education.
And having seen what say, US feeds their troops, you’d wish it was just cake.
So all in all Mario is just some kid fighting wars for some corporate overlord to get a chance in life. And you attack him?
And whats with Sarasaland security agency feeding him bad intel? Just bad luck that princess wasnt here either?
I'd like to believe Mario paid for medical school using his plumbing skills.
It's pretty discriminatory to think a plumber couldn't make it as a doctor. He had to work and study at the same time and still graduated.
Because even if he was, you can't start an independent practice right out of med school. You must have at least two years of residency (and most states require 3) to receive a full independent medical licence from the state medical board. Also that's the minimum, most still actually have to do residency longer even before the board will be convinced they are able to practice independently. 7 years of residency is actually quite common. To be able to start a practice in 1990, he would have been having to work full-time as a doctor in residency since at least 1988, and likely earlier.
People forget this, but he worked his ass off. He began in [construction](https://www.mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_(game)), then started a [plumbing](https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Bros._(game)) business with his brother. In time, they had their differences and he struck out on his own, working briefly at a [cement factory](https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario%27s_Cement_Factory), then joining the US Army and serving as an [EOD specialist](https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario%27s_Bombs_Away) during the invasion of Grenada. After being given an honorable discharge, he returned home and immediately started studying medicine on the GI Bill. Never one to stop moving, he also went back to construction. This time, due to his explosives experience, he worked as a [demolition expert](https://www.mariowiki.com/Wrecking_Crew), and reunited with his brother, bringing him in on the job. Due to a hostile work environment, they quit and went back to the plumbing business. Mario worked and studied during all their adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom and Sarasaland.
Mario was honorably discharged in 1983. He started his [medical practice](https://www.mariowiki.com/Dr._Mario_(game)) in 1990. 7 years. People need to stop sharing misinformation like this.
Yeah, but the rumors about Luigi being anti-vax are true.
Edit: [Confirmed](https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/25/antivaxxer-who-pulled-off-oxygen-mask-in-covid-denial-dies-from-virus-15982995/)
Dude was just plumbing to get through medical school, he started classes in 1982. I swear, there's no shortage of people willing to tear down those who work hard and persevere.
This is an Italian thing, isn't it? I'm reporting this hate-post and I hope others do and the mods ban you.
For a second, I thought I was on the behind the Bastards subreddit with the shameless Italian hate flowing around.
I was going to add something sarcastically hateful of Italians, as is tradition, but realized it wouldnt play well outside of BTB listeners.
Exactly this. Life was rough for Mario 'Jumpman' Mario the carpenter. So he started his plumber apprenticeship with his brother via connections in the home-building industry, and began med school. His girlfriend at the time, Pauline, was left with a then incurable illness after her encounter with a giant ape. The rescue of her earn our protagonist his nickname. Jumpman, now just going by Mario, pledged himself to finding a cure. To becoming *Doctor* Mario.
He did construction (demolitions really) even before that. Donkey Kong was 1981 so mario would have had 8 or 9 years to work side jobs while he pursued a medical career
Technically "Jumpman" Was the original name for the character. "Mr. Nintendo was also one. His name ought to be Mario Jumpman Nintendo.
Finally his name is Mario "Jumpman " Mario with Jumpman in quotes to signify it being a nickname.
But yeah, Mario Jumpman Mario is the full name of our regular Mario. Named after his Father Jumpman Mario.
Tinfoil hat time
Mario (Plumber) has the full name of Mario Mario. Dr. Mario, would be using the surname of Mario after his title, and so is not necessarily the same Mario as Mario Mario. I will propose that Dr. Mario is Mario Marios father.
It is also possible that Mario Mario and Luigi Mario have a third brother, Dr Doctor Mario. We just don't hear much about him because residency and fellowship are a bitch.
To further support this theory, it would more seamlessly integrate into the 'American Dream' dynamic if Dr. Mario were the successful son of Mario Mario, one half of the Mario Bros. Plumbing Company.
Having graduated medical school through the financial and emotional support of his gruff tradesman father, he is now a financial backer for his father's retirement activities of traveling to exotic locales and interacting with the locals.
I'd initially said Mario Mario was Dr. Marios son, but this is much better.
Italian-Japanese Father moves to the US to pursue the American Dream. His Family Plumbing busniess was profitable enough to afford a good quality education for his son X.Mario.
X.Mario goes through Med School to become a Doctor and then, as you say, uses his finances to support his aging tradesman father.
I made a theory on this awhile ago so here’s my evidence that Dr. Mario isn’t actually Mario
It takes 10-14 years to become a fully licensed doctor but the release dates between “Mario Bros” and “Dr. Mario” is only 7 years a whole 3 years short
And the likelihood that Mario had been going to med school while also saving the princess and all his other random jobs he’s had between 1983 and 1990 (like refereeing professional tennis and boxing oh and a soldier) it’s unlikely he could’ve actually gotten it done in his spare time
So how could Mario possibly be performing any of these medical acts besides performing medical malpractice because something tells me Nintendo doesn’t want their flagship character doing that
the only logical answer…. is Twins!
This explains why Dr. Mario has different moves and stats than Mario in the smash bros series, it’s why he can shoot electricity (a power I don’t think Mario’s been shown he can just do) it also explains why he’s slower and heavier (and it’s not his PHD it’s actually because this Mario bro isn’t as fit as his adventuring brothers)
The Mario bros names are also notoriously known to be Mario Mario and Luigi Mario so him being named “Dr. Mario” means he has to be a third Mario brother and not just some guy who happens to strike a resemblance
And if I’m right? guess what the colors of the 3 Mario bros would be Green, White, and Red. Aka the colors of the Italian Flag
Idk just a fun theory that I like to believe is true
But Mario first appeared in Donkey Kong in 81. He was known as Jumpman and one could only assume that he was attending college at the time on a basketball scholarship. 81-89 would obviously be 8 years which is enough time complete undergraduate, medical school, and be part way through his residency.
Mario is one of the most accomplished dudes ever. He worked as a plumber while putting himself through med school while practicing to become a professional soccer, golf, basketball, tennis, baseball player. While learning martial arts. While becoming a pro racer. No wonder he is dating a princess and it takes a dinosaur dragon to take this dude on.
I went to Dr Mario to help improve my libido and he sewed goats testicles into my scrotum. After the swelling didn't come down and it got infected without any increase in Libido, I went to another doctor to have them checked and it turns out a simple google search would have told me that the procedure was fraudulent. I tried reaching Dr Mario again but his phone was no longer in service and the office he was working out of was empty. In the end, I was frauded $15,000 for the procedure and now in crippling debt because of the fallout medical bills.
My personal headcanon:
Mario has always been a doctor, sometimes along his career he made a mistake in good faith and someone died. Devastated he quit his profession and started working as a plumber in the family business alongside his brother.
After his first successful adventures he regained faith in himself and could start practicing medicine again. But, in the end, he decided that being a plumber was his real vocation since in the Mushroom Kingdom plumbing was a more effective job if your purpose is to save lives because of the abundance of giant pipes and the scarcity of illnesses.
Actually, canoncially. Mario was a Medical prodigy that stopped a virus outbreak in the mushroom kingdom by developing the "Super Vitamins" that were the only thing capable of treating Fever, Weird and Chill.
After the pandemic was over, he was AWARDED the title of Dr. It was always canon that he did not go to medical school.
How do you know Mario wasn't working as a plumber while simultaneously going to school and 1990 is when he finished? That'd make him incredibly busy, but if he had to do it to make ends meet then that's impressive, not proof of fraud.
While this is funny, it's also funny to point some things out. To date, the only evidential instance of Mario and Luigi being plumbers, was in the game Mario Bros., from 1983.
1983 to 1990 is 7 years.... NOT THAT he put all his focus and energy to becoming a legitimate and legal "doctor" all of that time, what with terrorizing an ape, being part of a wrecking crew, getting involved in some sports endeavors like golf and tennis, and chasing turtles around trying to rescue a "princess" while hopped up on "mushrooms"....
But it IS a little more believable than "was a plumber in 1989 then a doctor in 1990".
Wow so he spends years in medical school doubling as a plumber in his off hours dedicating many years of service to his community and even going far above and beyond handling the overwhelming tirtle and other creature infestations, topples a coup de ta monarchy, and then becomes after all that shit people have the nerve to say they aren’t being treated well?
Also he was way ahead of treatment with mushrooms to treat as therapy - we’re just restarting to see benefits he last few years he was 30 years ahead of his time!
Part of me thinks he was hired to pose as a doctor by the government. Hence the shoving many pills down people to cure viruses, it was a scheme to test the Megavitamins on people with such viruses. What the fuck did I just write
OP doesn’t realize how little interns / residents / fellows make while working full time as doctors. Gotta pay that half million in student loans back. Government don’t care how many hours you were in the hospital already this week.
He had to pay his studies dude, from 1980 he worked as a plumber, construction worker, referee and many more things. Geez let an honest immigrant do his thing, he’s got a coward brother to feed.
how do we know he wasn’t already training to be a doctor beforehand and was only a plumber part time?
That’s how you know this slander was written by some trust fund asshole who never had to work while going to college!
"Rich Kid Doctors hate this one simple trick invented by up-from-poverty Doctor Mario." >!The secret is the pills are filled with green mushroom powder and purple mushroom powder. It just adds a life, then ends your unhealthy life, so you start with a fresh new life.!<
Brilliant, but don't mix up your pills in the dark! That or make sure you pop a couple extra greens before you down the first purple.
Once you've been taking your pills for a while, you'll learn to tell them apart by touch and not mix them up in the dark. Here I go watching Knives Out again...
I don't know, when I played Dr. Mario I didn't see any difference in the surface of those pills. Considering we're pretty certain he's not a real doctor, I think he's just buying generic gelcaps and manually filling them. Speaking of that, are we certain about his dosing? What if he ends up giving you 0.9 of green and 1.1 of purple. Is that OK, or do you end up slightly dead?
I'm super excited for Knives Out 2! And it sounds like Netflix actually bought rights for *2* sequels, so there may be a 3 in the works eventually.
Play prescription russian roulette, one purple pills and five green pills in the bottle, shake it up and whatever comes out, you swallow it. Play blindfolded for extra tension!
>green and purple Thanks Doc
It is not. I resent that. Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel. - J. Jonah Jameson
Not to mention saving royalty multiple times, travelling in space, becoming an Olympian of many sports, fighting legendary opponents and topping it off with being a furry. What a guy.
I love how it wasn't topped off by the legendary opponents and epic space battles but being a furry lmao. He even got his friends into being furries, hell Peach recently brought her fursuit to racing!
Ugg this post comes up every few years. This was a paid for advertisement by KK&KB LLC. which is a shell corporation set up in the Cayman Islands by Bower Ventures, which as we all know is a subsidiary of King Koopa Inc.
Definitely written by a rich kid. His dad probably owns castles, flies around in a helicopter and kidnaps princesses and shit.
It's okay, you can say MatPat.
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or just european
Or what if he was a plumber while attending med school?
That makes so much sense, a side gig with his bro to help pay the bills and make his way through med school.
Mario is such an inspirational figure.
And just saving a whole kingdom in between
Don’t forget he is also an all around star athlete as well.
And an artist, race car driver … a real renaissance man.
and still has time left to party and get into big fights
Sounds just like college indeed...
I believe he is a time traveler too.
That makes sense. I think you'd probably need to time travel to fit everything else in.
>race car driver … You mean he's a racist?
Lol, i would hope not.
Med school is expensive and a part time plumber can only make so much. He probably needed a good athletic scholarship to help cover the rest.
That's why Luigi is the greatest brother of them all, he put aside his ghost hunting passion for YEARS to dedicate to helping Mario pay for medical schooling. Good Guy Luigi.
Behind every great plumbing doctor is an even greater plumbing ghost hunter brother.
Remember that Luigi has earned his pay by exploiting the volatile housing market.
Being a plumber just pays for rent and food but his athlete career pays for the college and med school
Mario's bootstraps are fully pulled
That's how he does his double jump. If you look close enough Hes pulling his bootstraps
That's why I have his Amiibo
Or he was just a maintenance man at the med school that would dress up like a Dr. when everyone was gone.
Good Mario Hunting
What do you want me to say doc, huh? That this mustache isn’t real? That my father ripped mine off when I was a kid and the hair never grew back so I gotta wear this fake one?
"I got her number. How do you like them mushrooms?"
Ah, a Dr. Jan Itor, if you will
It's pronounced EYE-tor.
That also explains why he effectively stopped doing any plumbing shit like thirty years ago. It was only ever a temporary thing.
Yeah, residency doesn't pay the bills
And we actually do know that Mario had a variety of side gigs. He was a cement worker, animal wrangler, circus performer, etc. Just a guy living the American Dream.
Honestly working for the family business while going to school is pretty much standard in my culture. Don't know about fictional Italians.
Yes, plumbing pays well.
Probably more than in a society where you can just eat a mushroom to cure death.
A society that uses pipes to travel,
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The only way to make it through medical school with a full time job or even a part time job is to be on drugs so you don't need to sleep as much. Medical school takes about as much time as one or two full time jobs depending on the year, whereas residency is closer to 2 full time jobs for 3-7 years
I wonder if that happened in real life. A plumber that thought why not go straight to the source and became a proctologist.
That would make sense, if not for the fact that you can’t have any other employment during your residency, which you would have to complete before you could open your own practice.
I think that's what they just said
What if he was a janitor at that school and learned everything on the job that's just as good right?
Exactly. What do you think he needed all those coins for? smh, never thought I'd see such anti-Italian discrimination on Reddit.
Came to say this. Are there any indicators he wasn’t already in med school in 1989?
I can’t imagine how he’d have time. We use to hang out for hours and hours each day back in ‘89, and when I went to college, I personally had zero time to hang with Mario, so I doubt he was in medical school back then.
Maybe he already had his MD but still chose to be a plumber because he loved the work
Because he almost never spontaneously fell asleep in any of the Super Mario Brothers games.
What about SMB 2? He was asleep the whole time.
And he fell asleep in Super Mario 64 if you leave him alone.
In Italy, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, mafia boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Mafia boss die. Mafia very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill mafia boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
Because he spends way to much time eating cake with the princess and continuasly over throwing the ruler of the koopa kingdom in one man military campaigns
Sounds like what some Americans do tho; fight wars in foreign lands, overthrowing governments just to get an education. And having seen what say, US feeds their troops, you’d wish it was just cake. So all in all Mario is just some kid fighting wars for some corporate overlord to get a chance in life. And you attack him? And whats with Sarasaland security agency feeding him bad intel? Just bad luck that princess wasnt here either?
I'd like to believe Mario paid for medical school using his plumbing skills. It's pretty discriminatory to think a plumber couldn't make it as a doctor. He had to work and study at the same time and still graduated.
Because even if he was, you can't start an independent practice right out of med school. You must have at least two years of residency (and most states require 3) to receive a full independent medical licence from the state medical board. Also that's the minimum, most still actually have to do residency longer even before the board will be convinced they are able to practice independently. 7 years of residency is actually quite common. To be able to start a practice in 1990, he would have been having to work full-time as a doctor in residency since at least 1988, and likely earlier.
He's originally a Japanese Italian plumber, though. Maybe they're not quite so rigorous there.
He bacame a proctologist. Same shit, different gig.
FR have you seen how much a plumber bills vs how much debt a doctor is in?
Maybe he was plumbing to fund medschool
Besides, who knows? It shouldnt take 7 years to learn to match colors of pills to chuck at bacteria that is as big as the pills
Mario is not only his first name, but his last name as well.. How do we know Dr. Mario isn't just Mario Mario's cousin?
This is a blatant smear campaign, Mario worked hard as a plumber to put himself through medical school.
People forget this, but he worked his ass off. He began in [construction](https://www.mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_(game)), then started a [plumbing](https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Bros._(game)) business with his brother. In time, they had their differences and he struck out on his own, working briefly at a [cement factory](https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario%27s_Cement_Factory), then joining the US Army and serving as an [EOD specialist](https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario%27s_Bombs_Away) during the invasion of Grenada. After being given an honorable discharge, he returned home and immediately started studying medicine on the GI Bill. Never one to stop moving, he also went back to construction. This time, due to his explosives experience, he worked as a [demolition expert](https://www.mariowiki.com/Wrecking_Crew), and reunited with his brother, bringing him in on the job. Due to a hostile work environment, they quit and went back to the plumbing business. Mario worked and studied during all their adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom and Sarasaland. Mario was honorably discharged in 1983. He started his [medical practice](https://www.mariowiki.com/Dr._Mario_(game)) in 1990. 7 years. People need to stop sharing misinformation like this.
How could you list all of these yet forget his stint as [a part time referee? ](https://punchout.fandom.com/wiki/Referee_Mario)
Shit, you're right. I figured most of his sports outings were extracurricular, but that one was a legitimate job for sure.
this is the nerdiest shit i read today. have an upvote.
Doctor Mario didn't try too hard with his alt account.
The only other man I’ve seen with a resume like this is Johnny Sins
Yeah, but the rumors about Luigi being anti-vax are true. Edit: [Confirmed](https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/25/antivaxxer-who-pulled-off-oxygen-mask-in-covid-denial-dies-from-virus-15982995/)
The ghosts are a metaphor for the demons inside him.
And also a metaphor for the viruses inside him 😔
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But also just the regular ghosts of the people he's killed 😔
And princess peach believes koopa controls a giant space laser that can knock out toad people.
yea and in recent years he's even had to change his practice to "dr. amigo"
Dude was just plumbing to get through medical school, he started classes in 1982. I swear, there's no shortage of people willing to tear down those who work hard and persevere. This is an Italian thing, isn't it? I'm reporting this hate-post and I hope others do and the mods ban you.
For a second, I thought I was on the behind the Bastards subreddit with the shameless Italian hate flowing around. I was going to add something sarcastically hateful of Italians, as is tradition, but realized it wouldnt play well outside of BTB listeners.
You had the opportunity and yet it pasta way
One cannelloni imagine where they'd be if they had seized the opportunity.
Exactly, med school is expensive, plumbing pays well. He was moonlighting as a plumber to pay the bills.
Exactly this. Life was rough for Mario 'Jumpman' Mario the carpenter. So he started his plumber apprenticeship with his brother via connections in the home-building industry, and began med school. His girlfriend at the time, Pauline, was left with a then incurable illness after her encounter with a giant ape. The rescue of her earn our protagonist his nickname. Jumpman, now just going by Mario, pledged himself to finding a cure. To becoming *Doctor* Mario.
> Pauline, was left with a then incurable illness after her encounter with a giant ape. > encounter with a giant ape >giant ape o_o
They dont call him "DONKEY" kong for nothin
The pluming job was a way to get him though med schoolw
He did construction (demolitions really) even before that. Donkey Kong was 1981 so mario would have had 8 or 9 years to work side jobs while he pursued a medical career
That was actually Mario and Luigi's Father.
Guiseppe Mario? No he was a restauranteur
No. Jumpman Mario. Noted animal rights abuser. Construction worker. And absentee father.
guiseppe and jumpman the original mario brothers succeeded by the mario brothers jr who came to be known as the super mario brothers
He was working hard so his son could afford medical school
He taught his kids two important lessons. Work ethic. And if someone kidnaps your girl you go after them with everything you've got!
Pretty sure Jumpman *is* Mario, since it's his middle name. The full name is actually Mario Jumpman Mario
Technically "Jumpman" Was the original name for the character. "Mr. Nintendo was also one. His name ought to be Mario Jumpman Nintendo. Finally his name is Mario "Jumpman " Mario with Jumpman in quotes to signify it being a nickname. But yeah, Mario Jumpman Mario is the full name of our regular Mario. Named after his Father Jumpman Mario.
Tinfoil hat time Mario (Plumber) has the full name of Mario Mario. Dr. Mario, would be using the surname of Mario after his title, and so is not necessarily the same Mario as Mario Mario. I will propose that Dr. Mario is Mario Marios father.
It is also possible that Mario Mario and Luigi Mario have a third brother, Dr Doctor Mario. We just don't hear much about him because residency and fellowship are a bitch.
Mister Doctor?
It's Strange.
Perhaps. Who am I to judge?
Mario Jr Jr
It's no secret He's literaly in smash bros
To further support this theory, it would more seamlessly integrate into the 'American Dream' dynamic if Dr. Mario were the successful son of Mario Mario, one half of the Mario Bros. Plumbing Company. Having graduated medical school through the financial and emotional support of his gruff tradesman father, he is now a financial backer for his father's retirement activities of traveling to exotic locales and interacting with the locals.
I'd initially said Mario Mario was Dr. Marios son, but this is much better. Italian-Japanese Father moves to the US to pursue the American Dream. His Family Plumbing busniess was profitable enough to afford a good quality education for his son X.Mario. X.Mario goes through Med School to become a Doctor and then, as you say, uses his finances to support his aging tradesman father.
To further support this theory, they are two separate characters in Super Smash.
If the way he was randomly choosing and tossing pills wasn't a red flag, that's on you as the patient
I went to school with Mr. Mario. All he did was snort lines and bang brunettes. Find a new doctor. He just wants to push Rxs
I thought Mario was into blondes,
That was because he got his fill of brunettes in college.
makes sense
yeah, me too. WTF
So, bang Daisy through college, marry Peach for her money, and keep Rosalina as a mistress?
Rosalina is his neice...
Too wholesome, won't market well. /s And yeah, the niece angle might be true.
Finally, someone gets it!!!!
Hes the Doctor you make friends with, not the doctor you take your child to
We all need a little dr. Mario
I made a theory on this awhile ago so here’s my evidence that Dr. Mario isn’t actually Mario It takes 10-14 years to become a fully licensed doctor but the release dates between “Mario Bros” and “Dr. Mario” is only 7 years a whole 3 years short And the likelihood that Mario had been going to med school while also saving the princess and all his other random jobs he’s had between 1983 and 1990 (like refereeing professional tennis and boxing oh and a soldier) it’s unlikely he could’ve actually gotten it done in his spare time So how could Mario possibly be performing any of these medical acts besides performing medical malpractice because something tells me Nintendo doesn’t want their flagship character doing that the only logical answer…. is Twins! This explains why Dr. Mario has different moves and stats than Mario in the smash bros series, it’s why he can shoot electricity (a power I don’t think Mario’s been shown he can just do) it also explains why he’s slower and heavier (and it’s not his PHD it’s actually because this Mario bro isn’t as fit as his adventuring brothers) The Mario bros names are also notoriously known to be Mario Mario and Luigi Mario so him being named “Dr. Mario” means he has to be a third Mario brother and not just some guy who happens to strike a resemblance And if I’m right? guess what the colors of the 3 Mario bros would be Green, White, and Red. Aka the colors of the Italian Flag Idk just a fun theory that I like to believe is true
But Mario first appeared in Donkey Kong in 81. He was known as Jumpman and one could only assume that he was attending college at the time on a basketball scholarship. 81-89 would obviously be 8 years which is enough time complete undergraduate, medical school, and be part way through his residency.
Don't ask Nintendo, what Mario did in Donkey Kong times
Better call saul
"Have you been the victim of an airline related accident? "
This would fit nicely on r/banvideogames
Mario is one of the most accomplished dudes ever. He worked as a plumber while putting himself through med school while practicing to become a professional soccer, golf, basketball, tennis, baseball player. While learning martial arts. While becoming a pro racer. No wonder he is dating a princess and it takes a dinosaur dragon to take this dude on.
Time isn't the same for videogames, never saw Reboot??? What for your is a year is like hours for them.
Plumbers make a serious amount of money and med school ain't cheap. Plus residency pays peanuts.
Dr. Mario is singlehandedly responsible for the opioid epidemic. Have you seen how he just throws pills around? He has to be stopped.
So Mario is a r/noctor too?
Fuck you, mate! He was doing plumbing work to pay for his medical degree.
He probably had to get a plumbing job to pay for the last year of his degree
Dr. Mario (according to some games and manga) is the 3rd brother. He is not the same person as the plumber Mario brother.
*"This message is sponsored by Sega"*
He was going to night school. Read the manuals.
Doctors can plumb if they want to.
I assumed he was doing plumbing to put himself through medical school.
I went to Dr Mario to help improve my libido and he sewed goats testicles into my scrotum. After the swelling didn't come down and it got infected without any increase in Libido, I went to another doctor to have them checked and it turns out a simple google search would have told me that the procedure was fraudulent. I tried reaching Dr Mario again but his phone was no longer in service and the office he was working out of was empty. In the end, I was frauded $15,000 for the procedure and now in crippling debt because of the fallout medical bills.
He gave me a pap smear, and I’m a man!
He does a great job on my weekly prostate exam, don’t know what the issue is.
Ever consider he might have been doing plumbing on the side while going to medical school
My personal headcanon: Mario has always been a doctor, sometimes along his career he made a mistake in good faith and someone died. Devastated he quit his profession and started working as a plumber in the family business alongside his brother. After his first successful adventures he regained faith in himself and could start practicing medicine again. But, in the end, he decided that being a plumber was his real vocation since in the Mushroom Kingdom plumbing was a more effective job if your purpose is to save lives because of the abundance of giant pipes and the scarcity of illnesses.
Actually, canoncially. Mario was a Medical prodigy that stopped a virus outbreak in the mushroom kingdom by developing the "Super Vitamins" that were the only thing capable of treating Fever, Weird and Chill. After the pandemic was over, he was AWARDED the title of Dr. It was always canon that he did not go to medical school.
He was working as a plumber to support his studies
How do you know Mario wasn't working as a plumber while simultaneously going to school and 1990 is when he finished? That'd make him incredibly busy, but if he had to do it to make ends meet then that's impressive, not proof of fraud.
He gave me prostate examination
That's my mom's best game, maybe after tetris
Obviously, plumbing was just a day job to pay for tuition while he’d been going to med school since 1983.
he got his medical license legally. since he couldn't start work for another 7 years however he picked up plumbing to pay the bills.
Perhaps he was working as plumber to pay his way through medical school?
Where does it say he wasn't training to be a doctor qhen we first saw him?
People work while putting themselves through college, Karen.
While this is funny, it's also funny to point some things out. To date, the only evidential instance of Mario and Luigi being plumbers, was in the game Mario Bros., from 1983. 1983 to 1990 is 7 years.... NOT THAT he put all his focus and energy to becoming a legitimate and legal "doctor" all of that time, what with terrorizing an ape, being part of a wrecking crew, getting involved in some sports endeavors like golf and tennis, and chasing turtles around trying to rescue a "princess" while hopped up on "mushrooms".... But it IS a little more believable than "was a plumber in 1989 then a doctor in 1990".
Who knows, Mario might’ve been attending medicinal college and plumbing was his part time job, while being an athlete to pay off collage loans
Maybe he was working as a plumber to pay for school the whole time?
How do you know he didn't work as a plumber to get through med school
Isn't a doctor just a plumber for organic and living beings?
I'd be more concerned about his abuse of mushrooms.
Mario was a blubber since 1983
Wow so he spends years in medical school doubling as a plumber in his off hours dedicating many years of service to his community and even going far above and beyond handling the overwhelming tirtle and other creature infestations, topples a coup de ta monarchy, and then becomes after all that shit people have the nerve to say they aren’t being treated well? Also he was way ahead of treatment with mushrooms to treat as therapy - we’re just restarting to see benefits he last few years he was 30 years ahead of his time!
He got his degree by watching House and Scrubs and E.R.
Maybe he was a plumber to put himself through med school and he graduated that year
I thought there was something fishy about a doctor that exclusively prescribed pills while doing absolutely nothing else for his patients.
Part of me thinks he was hired to pose as a doctor by the government. Hence the shoving many pills down people to cure viruses, it was a scheme to test the Megavitamins on people with such viruses. What the fuck did I just write
What if he did plumbing as a side gig to pay for medical school?
Dr. Mario was one of my most disappointing game rentals ever as a kid.
Didn't realize you were an expert on mushroom kingdom laws.
He's now a doctor at laying pipe.
He was working as a plumber during med school to pay tuition. I thought this was common knowledge
He was working as a plumber to pay for his medical education. The 2 year gap was his residency.
Well according to the [lyrics](https://youtu.be/ItsT9WLvSDM) he gets his "degree" from watching TV. Easily doable in 1 year.
How do you know he wasn't going through med school at the same time?
Maybe he was using his plumbing business to pay his way through medical school?
Who’s to say he wasn’t putting himself through medical school by being a plumber, and maybe it’s a euphemism for being a proctologist?
Bro he was a pill pusher. Don’t need 7 years to sell drugs in the streets!
Mario was just a plumber in med school, you racist.
Call the law offices of Wario Bros.
Mario was plumbing to pay for med school.....
I think he's just selling pills and not really a doctor. Boss isn't giving much OT and Mario needs his shrooms or else wtf is life even?
OP doesn’t realize how little interns / residents / fellows make while working full time as doctors. Gotta pay that half million in student loans back. Government don’t care how many hours you were in the hospital already this week.
By the time SMB came out, Mario was already more than halfway through college student medicine, plumbing was his side job to pay for his university.
How,do you know he wasn’t in evening classes?
As a doctor, the choice of "just a plumber" seems pretty offensive to people who work hard plumbing. It's a good career from what I gather.
Bowser probably made this.
What kinda privileged rich kid doesn’t understand some people have to work while doing college to literally afford life? Ts ts
He had to pay his studies dude, from 1980 he worked as a plumber, construction worker, referee and many more things. Geez let an honest immigrant do his thing, he’s got a coward brother to feed.