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Breaking Brad

Breaking Brad: Breaking Brad: Super Mario Bros.

Watch and see if Brad is able to climb his Mt. Everest! Or watch as Brad becomes BROKEN!

Can we break Brad Shoemaker's will and send him packing? We put him up against some difficult video games to find out.

Apr. 18 2018

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Ben

Posted by: Jan

In This Episode:

Super Mario Bros.

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It's Super Marry-o time.

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holy heckity heck, 3 hours!

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Breaking his mind and body was easy ... now, for his soul.

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Hard ass game !

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I am just waiting for when brad messes up and doesn't do the continue right and all progress is lost



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this is one of the best GB videos. rad 2 watch history happen live

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What if, - and stay with me here - they embraced the "run fast and deal with it" ethos of Mario 1 by making it so that whenever Mario gets hit, instead of getting bigger or smaller, he just drops all his coins, and if he can scoop them back up he's ok, but if he gets hit again with no coins, that's when he dies?

I don't know, I'm just spitballing over here.

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Glad to see he actually did it. Now he just has to finish Galaxy 1 & 2 and 3D World!

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Edited By ffenix

That's crazy talk. Don't think that will ever gather momentum tbh.

@arzen353 said:

What if, - and stay with me here - they embraced the "run fast and deal with it" ethos of Mario 1 by making it so that whenever Mario gets hit, instead of getting bigger or smaller, he just drops all his coins, and if he can scoop them back up he's ok, but if he gets hit again with no coins, that's when he dies?

I don't know, I'm just spitballing over here.

Super Mario Sunshine first and then the rest.

@dan_citi said:

Glad to see he actually did it. Now he just has to finish Galaxy 1 & 2 and 3D World!

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Cool series bros.

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also hey: Today, this was Brad's exact job.

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Did you guys change something with the studio cameras/lens or lighting?

The camera shots look really good and much better than normal, production all around on this video is fantastic actually.

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lots of comedic brad messing up at the perfect time in this. Good stuff.

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This was awesome to see live. Thank's to Ben, Jeff, Jan, Jason and Brad you are making my day way better.

If you see Part 2 of on the green with Sim Golf. Jeff talks about the idea of Breaking Brad doing Super Mario Bros 2 next, wich is 6 years ago. Se at 9:14 mark and enjoy!.

PS! Ben & Jan Rules!.

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I just had a "phoenix down" moment.

I always thought the rim of the warp pipe at the end of the underwater levels was a green and white striped door. I never noticed it was connected to the wall by a pipe. Weird.

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@arzen353 said:

What if, - and stay with me here - they embraced the "run fast and deal with it" ethos of Mario 1 by making it so that whenever Mario gets hit, instead of getting bigger or smaller, he just drops all his coins, and if he can scoop them back up he's ok, but if he gets hit again with no coins, that's when he dies?

I don't know, I'm just spitballing over here.

Sounds interesting, but it feels like they would need to add a bunch of not really fitting platforming to limit how fast you could go to compensate, but like, put that in the latter half of the games, the halves people conveniently forget about!

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It somehow feels weird to hear the original Mario theme coming out of its original source. This is where it belongs.

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Ben saying Gukbap looks bad.......................................................................................................................................................

Man, the food choices of some of the staff are awful!

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My first ringtone was "What's your fantasy?" by Ludacris. Specifically the "lick lick lick you" part.

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Breaking Brad is one of my favorite features

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Watched the start of this last night but I never expected it to go on for 3 hours :D This is Perfect!

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Jeff's First Ringtone Crazy in Love

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Probably the now most famous past Mad TV cast members would be Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Later seasons of Mad were so-so, but the earlier years were funny and full of incredibly talented people; Will Sasso being a personal favorite.

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Also, Frank Caliendo does indeed do a mean John Madden.

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is "8-4 Play" a play on the word "foreplay"

because i've never thought about this until now

great video, btw

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Jeff's impression of Jim from The Office looking into the camera is on point.

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is "8-4 Play" a play on the word "foreplay"

because i've never thought about this until now

great video, btw

I think you just had your Phoenix Down moment

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If this turns into Brad 100%-ing every mainline Mario game, I am so all for it.

Be careful with that SMB2 (J) talk though. That game does not fuck around!

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This video breaks Chrome (for me).

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This was a lot of fun and the production was really great. Thanks and congrats Brad!

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Do the lost levels. You beat Vulgarr, you can beat those.

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Mario Facts - We think our female cat has a crush on Brad. During this video she was staring intently at him and tried to touch his face. This is the third video we've noticed her doing it with. She's never shown any interest in any other GB content, just Brad's face.

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50 minutes in and he's at world 5 with another 2 hours left? I'm guessing he starts over from the beginning again...

Edit: Nope. But at least he beats it

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@fledeye said:

Mario Facts - We think our female cat has a crush on Brad. During this video she was staring intently at him and tried to touch his face. This is the third video we've noticed her doing it with. She's never shown any interest in any other GB content, just Brad's face.

Your cat has excellent taste!

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I gotta get me an NT Mini.

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Even I finished SMB

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GO BRAD!

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Breaking Brad is always really fun.

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Breaking Bad is my favorite GB feature. So glad to see this.

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I've never finished this game either. Usually by the time I get to the first castle I'm some combination of bored and/or stressed that I give up and turn it off. But this stream is awesome. It's like I'm living vicariously through Brad.

And my first ringtone was a MIDI of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir".

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@fledeye: Perhaps your cat is just watching Brad intently, in order to gain a higher understanding of just how much torment a human being can endure before they finally Break...Brad.

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Man, it's good to have a new Breaking Brad. This was a banger, as well.

I still want to see a followup to the classic Doom 2 Breaking Brad in which he completes Doom 2016 on Nightmare. It's surprisingly doable, but still vicious enough to make for great entertainment.

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Roger Ebert's review for The War of the Roses. I had never heard of this movie before, I had to see how it was received at the time. Based on the poster art, I can see why Jeff had absolutely no interest in seeing it, but it looks alright.

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To correct Jeff, Vs. SMB (the arcade version) is not just SMB tweaked with different timers/removed powerups/exploits. It also has levels rearranged and others that replace some of the levels that ended up in Mario Bros 2 (Japanese).

https://www.mariowiki.com/VS._Super_Mario_Bros.#Differences

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This was a good one. It's too bad that the west coast streams are rough for us EU duders but I don't need to watch everything live.

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Hot tip:

Do not, for any reason, tell yourself "This has got to be over soon" and glance at the timeline.

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There isn't a whole lot of platforming in Super Mario Bros. eh?

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@neau said:

Roger Ebert's review for The War of the Roses. I had never heard of this movie before, I had to see how it was received at the time. Based on the poster art, I can see why Jeff had absolutely no interest in seeing it, but it looks alright.

I’ve never seen it and always just assumed it was about The war of the roses so I was confused as to why Mr. & Mrs. Gerstmann would want to see it so badly they would leave young Jeff alone in a car park.

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Brother Shoemaker! I KNEW YOU'D COME!