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With great apologies to the late Hunter S. Thompson, for the out-of-context riffing.
"Luigi had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest. ... We had two bags of fire flowers, 75 mushrooms, five invincibility stars ... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge winged turtles, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car ...
Update: The picture's artist is suzyage4. He says he drew the above image back in 2005. It's still timely — Mario is timeless after all.
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We cant stop here, this is koopa country.
Holy god look at that chest hair.
People ask why I love gaming. Silly stuff like this is exactly why.
@Fadakar: MY EYES!!
@crackkills:
Hot Damn, I never rode on a boot before...
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This is awesome.
rofl. You should see the later scene where they pick up Toad the hitchhiker and take him for a ride through bat country...
Hairy chest ftl Dx
I just lost all innocence.
Is that our own Brian Crecente on the left? Wonder why he's hanging with J-Depp/Mario...
@Kenny: XD
OMG CRECENTE IS DRIVING
@Kenny: Your right that is him!
@Kenny: DAMNIT! This is what happens when I take the time to READ the article >:(
They're like tiny fingers!! Ewwhhhh~!!
@crackkills:
Very first comment is so full of win. So very hard.
This movie is like a good dog. It is good!
nice pic, I'm a big H.S. Thompson fan.
Soon enough there will be a film on The Rum Diary.
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and yes my pic has always been this
Oh my god... hahaha
@Kenny:
haha, it does look like brian doesnt it,,i call hax!
@NessD12: ROFLMAO!
Love the HST, even liked the movie. Btw, that is some MASSIVE chest hair on Mario.
First thing I see on Kotaku after coming back from my honeymoon in Vegas. That picture is so full of win, I think my head will explode now.
makes my charcoal drawing of that scene look weak sauce for going realism ; ;
Wow, and I just finished reading Fear and Loathing. Made of win.
This is the best thing Kotaku has ever done..... or ever will do. One of my best times in college was getting to write a research paper of Fear and Loathing.
How come Luigi reminds me of Ron Jeremy?
brilliant!
we can't stop here, this is donkey kong country!
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We can't stop here, this is karaoke revolution country.
pretty good, guys. prettaaaay, prettaaaay good...
@Tiny Post-Impressionist Artist: WTF???? ????
Wow that chest hair on Mario looks more like a thick fungus... or maybe its princess daisy's hair, what is she doing down there?
@Tiny weiner:
@crackkills:
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I've never seen Luigi look more fly in all my life.
@Ichidou:
aaaaaahahahaha! That's hilarious! Now that's all i can see when i look at the picture, haha.
wait a sec, how old is that pic? i know ive seen it once on one of the "chans"
Meh. Doesn't do anything for me, as a huge Mario and HST fan. But that's just me.
Oh man what an amazing poster that would make!
@Ichidou: Haha, You're so right! You know, I hope Crecente isn't reading this...but whenever I see him... He reminds me of the devil... Like, I really think Crecente eats souls for breakfast and shits demons...
[kotaku.com] Look at this picture and tell me I'm wrong...
P.S. It's the facial hair that scares me... haha
@bigman88zz:
I'm almost certain I've seen it on 4chan a long, long time ago too, when I used to browse 4chan.
This is EPIC!
Reminds me....I need to pick up the movie on DVD. Lost it years ago, and haven't replaced it yet.
Sweet crossover. Jokes about magic mushrooms be apt!
Is that a brown pumice stone or chest hair on Mario?
I just got linked this from a friend, so I thought I'd register an account and say thanks for posting the image. I don't know if it's bad form to toot your own horn, but I drew this a long time ago and I was certainly surprised to see it show up here. Anyway, if anyone feels like seeing other artwork i've done, feel free to stop over at my semi banned deviant art page, suzyage4 dot deviantart dot com. Thanks again.
as your attorney i suggest you buy a very fast car
Hey, its Captain Price and Gaz of COD4!
O_O
@bigman88zz:
Yeah, this is really, really old. But hey, it entertains...
@VileMethoD: sweet baby jesus you are right
Oh holy God that is awesome!
THIS! IS! WIN!
Is it just me or does Mario look like a hairier version of Stan Lee in that pic?
@VileMethoD: hes the child of serj tankian and the devil!
I have a version of this saved from Nov. 2006 with the subtitle we can't stop here this is donkey kong country.
2 of my favourite things.
There's a big electric spiky thing in the sky man!
Kill it!
Not yet, I want to study it's habits.
i see the bats or boos.
Oh god. That chest hair will haunt me for the prest of my life.
OH MY GOD!!! I left my first comment on this site about 10-12 hours ago, I'm still not an "approved" member, but I don't even care!! I think I've just gotten all I can from this site, I may have blown a funny fuse! I've just arrive home from d pub pretty wasted... only to see one of the funniest/coolest things of my life!!!
(a) I want that picture in large wallpaper style format!
Think of it as an xbox 360 wallpaper...or better yet a poster in my room(I would actually pay for it) fuckin A!!! (Speaking of whitch I hereby challenge some artistic talent to make a Big Lebowski version of Mario!!!)
(b)Your man LetItSnow is an absolute legend (if its his drawing)!! And Owen Good is also a complete legend for adding the text and posting it here!!!
Fear & Loathing... what a film and we always knew Mario was mad for the mushies!!