I'm feeling old that my generation is now the generation that watches the Tonight Show in numbers enough to cause that audience roar. But I don't think Conan is one of them, he mentioned the "Super Mario brothers People." He did not say Nintendo.

I hate to say this Andonyx but we're not as young as we used to be. No one under 25 has known a time when there was no Tetris.

As far as I know, yes.

The animation appeared to have a combination of Super Mario World and the Super Mario All-Stars remake of Super Mario Bros., although the music was obviously from the NES version.

We'll know for sure if there's any Stargate or Robotech influences.

What??

#1 He didn't make the reference. The internet made the reference, which he then indulged. He could have taken offense, or ignored it, but he made it into a gag.

#2 Altering that background would probably take a decent amount of man hours to create, so there was nothing lazy happening there.

Wait you mean FABIO dismissed something without really thinking about it?











FUCK MY MONOCLE







(do you know how hard it is to replace a monocle these days)

Yeah basically