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Super Mario marching band at Carnival in Rio

Cory Doctorow at 12:39 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2012

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Here's a bloco (a marching-band) at Rio's Carnival performing the Super Mario soundtrack, complete with Mario-themed signs, dancing, and enormous verve.

Super Mario Bloco em Santa! (Thanks, igorz!)

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  • Tichrimo

    Somebody needs to smack the person in close proximity to the microphone that was tunelessly whistling along with the band.  

    Smack.  Them.

    • Jimmy_Vee

       I’m pretty sure that the point of this is for everyone to participate and have a good time and not to satisfy the aesthetic tastes of internet commentators.  Besides, the whistling wasn’t even that bad.

  • beemoh

    The slow pace of the initial march and the placards makes it look more like an Occupy World 1-1 protest march.

    Also, is that Bret from Flight Of The Conchords dressed as the Starman? :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/juririm João Paulo Bernardes

    Also “Bloco” is literally translated to block, it’s a pun. Super Mario’s Block!

  • http://www.geekforce.com Hugh Johnson

    Ok, that nails it. Where’s my passport? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8834925 Chauncey Scott

    Purple. :)

  • sean

    Enormous verve? I only counted 14 people with ANY verve at all, and only 5 that sustained their verve for the entire 2 minutes. The rest were a rather lackluster bunch.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=511855650 Hilary Lannan

    Bloco is what they call the street party, not the marching band.

  • http://www.facebook.com/toadgeek Matheus Gonçalves

    ahahahahah one of those girls keep screaming “LETS PLAY VIDEOGAME, PEOPLE!” ahahahahahahahah 

  • http://www.facebook.com/toadgeek Matheus Gonçalves

    And here is the video with the main theme 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzzQGqvQ5zQ&feature=related

    • http://devojane.blogspot.com devophill

       Thank you, kind sir. That was driving me nuts.