Reposted by Kusane
In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario is immune to bees while talking. He will be pushed around by them, but not be harmed while he's engaged in conversation. Note that he is not simply immune to damage - e.g. he will still die to heat stroke while talking. It is specifically bees.
!["Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing" is a popular Internet meme about Luigi that started with a video uploaded by YouTube user KlydeStorm in 2009, in which Luigi wins against CPU opponents in Mario Party 2 without performing any inputs. It became so popular that Nintendo's own social media accounts and official videos referenced it.
[A post from SuperMario_UK on Twitter]
He does nothing. How does he always win?
[A subtitle on Nintendo Monthly Rewind-April 2021 on YouTube]
But will Luigi win by doing nothing?
However, the first instance of Luigi winning while doing absolutely nothing actually comes from Nintendo themselves. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Luigi wins a drama contest while playing grass, a role requiring him to lie down and be silent for the whole play. While it might at first appear that the other actors's performances were responsible for the victory, it turns out that everyone specifically liked Luigi doing absolutely nothing.
[Screenshots of PM:TTYD]
Hayzee was a producer, and he was looking for actors to go on stage with him.
The script was great, but I got really hosed, Bro... My "role"... My "part"...
...Was grass! I played grass by the side of the road! Grass, Bro! Grass!
I just sprawled out on the ground and had to be silent. Everyone but me had lines...
In the end, our musical was the talk of the town, and we won the Drama Slam.
But wow! Outside were tons of fans! MY fans! Fans of grass! They swarmed me!
Source: x.com/SuperMario_UK/status/1183374507811246080, youtube.com/watch?v=u8DwWOEcBbg, screenshots taken by Supper Mario Broth](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heeihz7xdhf7dbjx4befobqw/bafkreidtb3gwy7vuwktcgr3k75dtjatrmo4zk3dmrsbjabefcdesng24bu)
![[screenshot of a boat in New Super Mario Bros. Wii]
NICE_BOAT
In World 6-6 of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a boat with a tilt-controlled spotlight appears. Internally, this object is called "NICE_BOAT". While this may simply mean the programmers thought it was a particularly nice boat, there is reason to assume it is related to the September 2007 "Nice Boat" broadcast incident.
[screenshot of a TV broadcast showing live-action footage of a boat]
The "Nice Boat" incident
In 2007, the anime School Days was aired in Japan. The day before the final episode, which would have featured a girl committing a violent murder, a similar murder took place in real life (16-year-old girl murdered her father with an axe in Kyoto). The episode was cancelled and stock footage was played for 30 minutes in its place, featuring a boat.
The boat, alongside a comment on an imageboard calling it a "nice boat", became a meme in Japan after the incident. Due to NSMBW releasing in 2009, it would have been in development at the time and it stands to reason that the developers could have been referencing the meme.
Source: tcrf.net/New_Super_Mario_Bros._Wii, youtube.com/watch?v=YwortdC_014](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heeihz7xdhf7dbjx4befobqw/bafkreia5dzb52g2v7gknjskw6sd7v7n4kgvotol3cj5tcdp25jdnsb6agm)
