Oh, Fuck You Luigi

About

Oh, Fuck You Luigi is a misheard quote from Super Mario Bros. Super Show in which Mario, played by Lou Albano, says "Oh, thank you, Luigi," but his inflection makes it sound like he is saying "Oh, fuck you Luigi." The clip has become notable online and has grown into an interesting piece of trivia for fans, particularly the Let's Play community.

Origin

The episode featuring the quote in question, "Neatness Counts," was the pilot episode of Super Mario Bros. Super Show, which aired September 4th, 1989.^[1] The line occurs almost immediately in the episode, after Luigi points out Mario has spaghetti on his overalls (shown below). The clip has been uploaded to YouTube several times; the video shown below, uploaded by Ville Mustonen, has over 226,000 views.

Spread

The moment had been mentioned online sparingly. On September 19th, 2009, a post on Fluther.com^[2] inquired about the moment. It has also been included in the TV Tropes ^[3] page about the show as an example of "Memetic Mutation." On January 28th, 2015, Docmock97 of the JonTron subreddit^[4] posted the clip, mentioning Jafari had talked about the scene at a recent panel. On September 20th, 2016, Vinesauce Joel tweeted the scene, gaining over 100 retweets and 330 likes (shown below).

On March 2nd, 2017, during an episode of "Oney Plays," the Let's Play channel of OneyNG, Oney, gamer DingDongVG, and Julian Marcel begin talking about the show. DingDongVG attempts to tell the group about the "Oh, fuck you Luigi" quote, to which the group is incredulous (shown below, left). The moment became popular in the Oney fandom and online as more people became aware of the clip. On April 17th, the channel uploaded an animation of the segment from their Let's Play video by SuperProWaffles, gaining over 389,000 views (shown below, right).

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