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glenn · 6 months ago

They just recognized this on tonights show! They animated the background and all.

Matt · 6 months ago

Are you for real? If so, which episode was it, so I can watch @ hulu.com? If not, I am gullible. :)

Hamster · 6 months ago

Episode 5

http://www.hulu.com/watch/76261/the-tonight-sho...

Brian · 6 months ago

The animated version on the show tonight was pretty cool.

Elsongs · 6 months ago

I wonder if that's what the show's producers Nintended.

slowpoke2 · 6 months ago

Look at this, it's Conan's Response to the News of his Super Mario Inspired background on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJTavFU2854

Seph · 6 months ago

-ba-dum, CRASH- Great pun. x)

chuckwood · 6 months ago

epic comment elsongs

Name · 3 months ago

My simple wife thought your comment was hilarious.

jooji · 6 months ago

hahha nice....

Rich · 6 months ago

Amazing detective work!

frank0127 · 6 months ago

wow, good eye dude. :D

MrBrotato · 6 months ago

I thought that was familiar looking.

Vagina Drum · 6 months ago

Well, this is incredible.

snizzlebutt · 6 months ago

Love it. That's all that can be said, really.

C · 6 months ago

what level is it?

genius · 6 months ago

the secret adobe level

Perkle · 6 months ago

Exactly, some people can be so easily persuaded.

CHRIS · 6 months ago

NERD ALERT

Michael · 6 months ago

LOL. nice overlay

Netizenzero · 6 months ago

Is anyone going to try to confirm or deny this?

Sarduakar · 6 months ago

You're kidding right?

shortformblog · 6 months ago

This is beautiful.

victoria · 6 months ago

hahaha how funny!!!! you spotted it! :)

Rachel · 6 months ago

Yes but these are all screengrabs from DIFFERENT mario games. I call shenanigans.

Jay · 6 months ago

Maybe so, but the design still does really seem to barrow from Mario none the less.

SpellCheck · 6 months ago

Borrow.

Todd S · 6 months ago

Excellent! Conan yet again sets the bar.

Kelli_D · 6 months ago

It obviously looks like a combination of different screens, but it still fits amazingly well.

jjbraids · 6 months ago

They are all screen grabs from different games, levels, etc. since they are both simple geometric patterns/shapes, its simple to fill in the blanks with a little photoshop work. The game has NO lines in the sky like that (this was added later by digital artists creating mario wallpapers for desktops).

I say good associative powers by the author, but its not intentional.

shortformblog · 6 months ago

Don't ruin our fun!

Stratis · 6 months ago

Haha! They both look great, he should try to get also 3D graphic overlays from the new 3D Mario games!

MrZ · 6 months ago

hahahaha thats hilarious

STUMBLER · 6 months ago

I AM DENYING THIS!!!!!!!! NO WAI! SHOOPED MOAR SAUCE PL0X!!!!!!!!!!!

prms17 · 6 months ago

this will /b/ the death of this post, you have my word...

Jon · 6 months ago

So where are the magic mushrooms that make Conan grow to gigantic proportions? haha!

AK · 6 months ago

Jay Leno's ego ate 'em.

fallingstairs · 6 months ago

More like his chin. Hahahaha. J/K

Awesome eye man. :D

slap · 6 months ago

Jay Leno is chill. When has he ever come off as egotistical? He always treats his guest with respect, unlike Letterman. Hopefully Conan continues to eat away at Letterman's ratings.

The Barbarian · 6 months ago

Based on the fact that NOBODY thinks Jay Leno is funny at all, I deduce that user "slap" actually IS Mr Leno himself

Albert Pike · 6 months ago

Ha! Or his stalker.

sarahkp533 · 6 months ago

I love Jay Leno and he makes me laugh. I am SOMEBODY! I just registered so that I could tell you this.

Gruppa · 6 months ago

Jay Leno is a douchebag. I live in Burbank and it's quite common to see him running around town in one of his cars. I've met him twice and he's an egotistical blowhard who cries if he doesn't get his way and likes to shout "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?". It really made him mad when I said he was the Doritos guy.

Jess · 6 months ago

Not true. I live in the valley and I see him driving his cars all over the place all the time. He is always friendly to everyone and waves.

I will agree that he isn't that funny though, but he does seem nice.

Mare · 6 months ago

I agree, Jess. I ran into him in Torrance.. and he was driving one of his cars.. walking into a restaurant. He was mid conversation with some friends but he still smiled back at me when I smiled. I'm shocked that someone has had a negative experience with Jay.

Julia · 6 months ago

Haha! Nice job, Sherlock!

Klinny · 6 months ago

You might be on the show tonight:

http://twitter.com/BigBley/status/2031447036

I posted your blog on reddit today; it's getting a lot of attention.

Jodie · 6 months ago

That is completely awesome! I love it!

Nick · 6 months ago

http://blogs.nypost.com/tv/archives/2009/06/con... JUST posted at nypost!

Nadia · 6 months ago

it's all a mind trick to get you to watch Conan...the display of pictures relating to something you're fond of.

mr lawson · 6 months ago

It's made Fark...via some other website

DocNasty · 6 months ago

wow, thats awesome...lol

Rick. · 6 months ago

Where is the Mario image from? Is that actual art or did someone put together 10 screens and shoehorned them into the Conan design? More info, please.

kayla · 6 months ago

HAHA!

poop · 6 months ago

HOMO

wolfbierbaum · 6 months ago

haha!

Mario's attorney · 6 months ago

Copyright infringement!

Osama · 6 months ago

Any official word on whether or not this was intended?

Joe · 6 months ago

That is awesome but you must really have some free time on your hands dude !!!

Brian · 6 months ago

That was the first thing I said the first time I saw it. I swear I spent my entire childhood with Mario.

Andrea · 6 months ago

Me too, but Mario rocks :)

djdrew · 6 months ago

this is amazing!

Matt · 6 months ago

Wow it actually does.

Cheddar Bob · 6 months ago

LOL!!!!!!

Jerko · 6 months ago

Get a life! :)

Jason Lam · 6 months ago

sweet! but what about shy guy's outline in da corner?

kevin · 6 months ago

(linkback) Wow! or Meh? Conan's new set looks like Super Mario [VOTE] - http://www.pikk.com/6cf9d

Dizz · 6 months ago

if you're looking at the mario background, it's different pieces from different backgrounds just pieced together... go figure they made a background out of shapes.

Marvio · 6 months ago

Nintendo themselves have seen this now...

http://kotaku.com/5279071/nintendo-thinks-conan...

Anonymous · 6 months ago

My mind is blown.

Rendan · 6 months ago

amazing and awsome XD

kennynapalm · 6 months ago

YES!

Eric · 6 months ago

Wow. I thought it looked odd when I saw it on TV.

John Jones · 6 months ago

Wow, Conan totally ROCKS dude!

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Rob · 6 months ago

I must have a wallpaper sized version of this now.

Roger · 6 months ago

No coincidence here. It was intentionally done.

cart00nstrip · 6 months ago

Way to tap into the nerd market - immediate nostalgia factor for us while telling the rest of the mainstream that video games are cool because Conan endorses them!

nicholas · 6 months ago

While awesome, I doubt the show's producers did it on purpose. I think you let your imagination go and it created a fun and clever thing. And now it is becoming an internet thing - that is fun. All of this is great and good. But, just, no. I think it is still great, but no it isn't on purpose. That makes it stop being a fun joke into ... I don't know what.

lol · 6 months ago

haha, you are a dumbass. i dont see how anybody can think this is a coincidence.

lawl · 6 months ago

freaky...

Drai · 6 months ago

The princess is in another castle!

imtheredude · 6 months ago

i need my desktop wallpaper to look like conan's backdrop. care to share a link if you find one? thanks!

brent · 6 months ago

okay, i am listening to "voyager" by daft punk, and i noticed that the gif goes along to the beat almost perfectly.

plebe · 6 months ago

Seriously. Someone should make a YTMND of that, or a video on youtube.

wolfbierbaum · 6 months ago

haha you're right! I just tried to make a YTMND but the daft punk mp3 was too big.

dave · 6 months ago

ehhhhh

flipjr · 6 months ago

I love Super Mario... Sweeet!

Brian · 6 months ago

Good eye? What level was that from? It seems more to me like you just cut up/edited some Super Mario images... They're not all even from the same video game, it seems. Funny, though, nevertheless.

Midori Wada · 6 months ago

Wow. That's crazy. Was it intentional?

CoryArmbrecht · 6 months ago

I was kinda thinking the same thing... but I never woulda' taken the time to do THIS! hahaha This is awesome!

Daniel · 6 months ago

It seems a bit patched together though.. and adding elements just so that it compares with the conan background.

Interesting nonetheless. Probably entirely coincidental.

Cody · 6 months ago

lol nice

Jennie · 6 months ago

awesome!

Christina D · 6 months ago

All this post claims is that the set resembles super mario's design and he created an example of what it would look like as a level. He's not even saying "OMG! This is totally ripped off from SMB!" So I dunno what some of you are getting all up in arms about it being a patchwork of pictures from different levels... DUH.

a · 6 months ago

It's uncanny!

Alcohol Facts · 6 months ago

Mama Mia! It's a me, Mario!

DJizzle · 6 months ago

quite so

Karla · 6 months ago

Oh my god, that's true!!!

blake holmes · 6 months ago

conan rules

J · 6 months ago

Well, yeah. It looks very Super Mario...but his set is going with the whole Art Deco theme to harken back to Tonight Shows long past.

alan · 6 months ago

I'm surprised that out of 115 comments, you're the only one to point this out. Yup, that pretty much sums it up.

sarahkp533 · 6 months ago

Conan explained that either the first day or last Friday when talking to Jay. As someone said earlier, it is just geometric shapes and someone had the time to grab screens and put them into those shapes.

Noslak · 6 months ago

I wonder if Nintendo will sue the designer for copyright violations! LOL

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lacey · 6 months ago

someone plays a lot of Mario.

The Pope · 6 months ago

HOLY SHIT! That is sick. Nice find!

Carl · 6 months ago

Why do you think that is sick?

The Pope · 6 months ago

Because I watched the show and didn't even notice it. Also it is pretty sick that my favorite Talk Show host has a Mario Level as his backdrop.

Charles · 6 months ago

So you found the actual images even?

wolfbierbaum · 6 months ago

The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Large_Glass

nov0caine · 6 months ago

Haha, who would've thought... Conan becomes a Super Mario prop!

Dylan · 6 months ago

Nice find!

Andrea · 6 months ago

All throughout the monologue I couldn't stop looking at the background because it was so familiar. Now I know why. Awesome lol :)

crazypomp927 · 6 months ago

hahaha wow that's good

johhny · 6 months ago

Sneaky little devils! Good find!

Dr.Shop · 6 months ago

I can mash a turd into the statue of david. Doesn't mean it's david...

jeff · 6 months ago

idiiiiiiot

jeff · 6 months ago

Why don't I remember this level? Oh ya cause you mashed a bunch together and it doesn't actually exist. Good find my buttox.

cxz · 6 months ago

ballz

me · 6 months ago

You are stupid.

Matt · 6 months ago

Wow, really nice work, man. Composite looks great.

KMDK · 6 months ago

Haahaa!!! God that sucks!

simplygreensolutions · 6 months ago

A nice cold, spiked drink would do me nicely (and mama earth too) while seeing level 4 appear in his backdrop. drinking outta here: http://simplygreensolutions.com/canteen.php

James · 6 months ago

Yup.
Always had my suspicions about Conan.

Omair Rais · 6 months ago

:D hehehehe Thats really great.

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rich · 6 months ago

shirely this cant be real, madness

f4te · 6 months ago

*drops jaw*

Tito · 6 months ago

Great !! .. what an eye !

Joe · 6 months ago

AewsomE

tojosan · 6 months ago

Too cool. He gets some geek points in my book for this.

traduccion · 6 months ago

that's awesome

A · 6 months ago

i love the added graphics how awesome and totally intentional!

Bill Lawson · 6 months ago

:Looks like very cleaver subliminal advertising

randav2 · 6 months ago

A keen eye. You are on to them. Will Nintendo take action? :)

Dinflux Ed · 6 months ago

Haha, thats awesome whoever did that background. Just to be clear, they just took some mario backgrounds and matched it to conans set. I think some people are still confused that the background image is actually from a mario game.

Rizzo · 6 months ago

That is so cool!

PeteMK · 6 months ago

seriously, to be able to spot that... jesus. I'm just glad I was a megadrive kid. Still am, actually

itSAMEERacle · 6 months ago

HAHAH wow this is amazing

Daisy · 6 months ago

That's seriously all kinds of awesome.

krumy · 6 months ago

nintendo knows abt this now and thinks that if he's a fan that's great.

but also, i would love to have this as a bg, currently i have something very close, which i love:

http://ker-.deviantart.com/gallery/

angelicdove · 6 months ago

wicked

dan325013 · 6 months ago

Freakin awesome, didn't even notice, even though I've been watching the show since it restarted on Monday

Blue387 · 6 months ago

He just mentioned it on the show!

jooo · 6 months ago

watching the show now and its true LOL

Chris D. · 6 months ago

Conan just plugged this blog. Awesome! lol

Maurice · 6 months ago

They just mentioned it on the Tonight Show. Very funny.

James NomadRip · 6 months ago

Your blog is gonna hit big traffic now that Conan just mentioned it on the Friday night show.

sha · 6 months ago

lmao, they just showed this site on Conan. lol

Lee · 6 months ago

Hey, it made it on Conan!! Awesome!

stan · 6 months ago

haha thats hilarious, i came here because i saw it when conan mentioned it on his show tonight, and before he said "it looks like..." I said super mario bros, and yep.

Andrew · 6 months ago

I've been waiting the past few days for them to mention this on the air. Congrats guys.

Lee · 6 months ago

Awesome, it made it on Conan's show tonight!

guest · 6 months ago

lol he just mentioned this on the show and plugged your website

ino yotsuba · 6 months ago

lol nice

Brad · 6 months ago

They just mentioned this on Conan. Behold ye mighty, the power of the internet.

Russ · 6 months ago

Conan mentioned serious lunch tonight and did a little Mario bit with the background! Woo!

Adam · 6 months ago

just saw the tonight show on friday, your site is going to get hammered.. I guess im one of the first..

Virtuagrrl · 6 months ago

I love tonight's episode with your honorable mention....:)

Heather · 6 months ago

Oh my god it totally does! Great overlay idea!! ^^;

CoolGui · 6 months ago

Hah... Pretty astute observation there. The only thing is that it looks like it's not Mushroom Kingdom, but instead Dinosaur World (from Super Mario World on SNES).

Elsongs · 6 months ago

SCORE!!!!

slowpokex2 · 6 months ago

It's Conan's response on youtube in youtube HD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJTavFU2854

JuggernautG1 · 6 months ago

Stupid NBC marked it for copyright infringement... glad to see people hate free advertisement.

slowpokex2 · 6 months ago

Come on [NBC] guys, there goes a future cult status all thanks to your legal department. I guess their really afraid of getting sued by Nintendo. Bone head move, their own clip of it isn't of that quality or resolution size.

Michal · 6 months ago

Awesome!

euniqueflair · 6 months ago

this is freaking awesome!!

Someone =P · 6 months ago

LOL... it sorta does. this was on last nights episode..now the picture's my desktop.the animated version was hilarious last nite

Charles S · 6 months ago

congrats on having your work displayed on Conan!

mein.fragment · 6 months ago

oh wow, it totally does. i knew there was something strangely familiar about that set! they called me crazy, but i always knew!!

Dierna · 6 months ago

I love how they actually mentioned it last night. Totally awesome.

Bryan · 6 months ago

I marked like crazy when Conan showed this the other night.

Milton Malt · 6 months ago

I read Nintendo's response, at least it was cool with them.

It's basically just Super Mario World for SNES, along with the All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros 3.

I wonder what it would be like if we got to see Conan play some Nintendo on the set. Maybe some other game.

john C · 6 months ago

haha i too thought it lookd like Mario LOL

xr · 6 months ago

hulu doesn't work outside the USA, so: http://xr.com/btp has it on todaysbigthing

KC · 6 months ago

That's hilarious! Congrats to Serious Lunch for the national recognition.

Sawyer · 6 months ago

wooow. yeah someone didn't do the think chain.

Toxiferous · 6 months ago

Great work! I love the animated gif and Conan's reaction to your post was fantastic.

kitty · 6 months ago

I believe is mainly coincidence but it would be so cool that was intentional ! XD

QueenBee · 6 months ago

Are you kidding me? You honestly think that was mostly coincidence? Come on! That is ridiculous! OF COURSE it was on purpose!!

Adam · 6 months ago

I checked on Google Trends and this site got a HUGE amount of searches after Conans show.

Karen · 6 months ago

Super mario FTW

JordanSMTX · 6 months ago

Congrats for actually getting noticed for something you wrote on the internet! For serious though, congrats. If this happened to me I would be pretty happy.

aimee · 6 months ago

yea...so? maybe he's a fan of mario, maybe he's trying to reach out to the teen/young adult community.

Reapz · 6 months ago

LOL Great stuff there. You have a very valid point. I'm sure his set designer was a stoner that played way too many video games growing up.

Mr. Not Happy · 6 months ago

I don't like Conan O'Brien hosting the Tonight Show. I find him to be boring!! Listening to his jokes are grueling.

Jay Aguilar · 5 months ago

That particular screencap used for the Tonight Show backdrop was actually Nintendo's enhanced remake of the original 1985 NES classic developed as on of four original NES Mario Bros games for the SNES in 1993.

Amanda · 5 months ago

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/06/08

you can see the acknowledgment here.

harman001 · 4 months ago

Very sharp observation m8! He also looks like starved mario. exbi chao

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