India’s Got Talent, Black Lights, Tenuous Grasp of Super Mario Bros.
This is from India’s Got Talent — the Indian version of America’s Got Talent in case you’re already drunk this fine afternoon — where a bunch of nerds recreated a very odd version of Super Mario Bros. It’s actually pretty accurate until Luigi pulls down the moon to deflect some of Bowser’s fireballs. You know, I just blew my own mind with that sentence. I think I’m actually going to fix myself a drink.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.