The film's Brooklyn pizza parlor is named ... This is a reference to the 1984 game Wrecking Crew, in which Mario and Luigi starred. Spike is an enemy in the game, and he's meant to be a foreman ...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie's deepest cut character ... a character originally from 1985's Wrecking Crew, didn't have a plushie version in stores and took this as a sign that Nintendo wasn't ...