With one glorious exception, Mario has never been an especially musical character. But that hasn't stopped New York-based pop punk band Patent Pending from transforming themselves into a Mushroom Kingdom-based tribute band, taking on the personas of “Mario And The Brick Breakers.” It’s kind of like when Garth Brooks shed his multiple-colors-in-big-rectangular-patches skin to become Chris Gaines, if Garth Brooks had been a little-known pop punk band instead of one of the biggest artists in the world, and Chris Gaines had been the wholly owned property of a successful Japanese video game company.
The group has even put together a small trailer for a Behind The Music-type special, detailing the band’s rise and fall, complete with hideous puns like “That’s when I knew I was gonna go from plumber—to drummer,” accompanied by the goofiest shots of a man in a Luigi costume awkwardly pretending to drum that you will ever see. There are some amusing touches, though, like Donkey Kong as the band’s gruff manager, or a cameo from a cackling Wario.