Punch-Out Pizzeria
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| First appearance | The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) |
| Greater location | Brooklyn |
Punch-Out Pizzeria,[1] also known as Punch-Out!! Pizzeria,[2] is a pizza restaurant in Brooklyn that appears in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. It is named after the Nintendo game series Punch-Out!!. Many pictures of opponents from the Punch-Out!! series can be seen on the restaurant's walls, as well as paintings of a duck and the panorama from Duck Hunt.
The restaurant first appears near the beginning of the film, where Mario and Luigi view their commercial for Super Mario Bros. Plumbing on a television on the wall, as Giuseppe plays a game on an arcade cabinet titled Jump Man, which is based on the Donkey Kong arcade game, but with a yeti replacing Donkey Kong. Punch-Out Pizzeria is also where Spike appears in the film for the first time, as he insults Mario and Luigi and claims that their plumbing business will fail.
Punch-Out Pizzeria appears again near the end of the film, where Bowser punches Mario into the building, leaving him in a defeated state. The television malfunctions as it plays the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing commercial again, causing Mario's voice in the commercial to repeatedly tell Mario to "save Brooklyn". This inspires Mario to leave the building and challenge Bowser.
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| Italian | Pizzeria Punch-Out[3] |
Punch-Out pizzeria |
References
- ^ "Saw the plumbers’ flyer hanging up at Punch-Out Pizzeria. These guys turned out to be fantastic!" — Testimonial from anothercaserole on SMBPlumbing.com website
- ^ "What areas do you service? Find us around either Brooklyn or Queens… but most likely, Punch-Out!! Pizzeria." — Live Chat section on SMBPlumbing.com website, FAQs option
- ^ "Ho visto il volantino degli idraulici appeso alla pizzeria Punch-Out. Mario e Luigi si sono rivelati fantastici!"; SMBIdraulica.it
