Luigi's Bad Luck! - Cute Mario Bros

Summary

Luigi initially dismisses Mario’s warnings about Friday the 13th, so Mario gives him a crash course in superstitions: don’t break mirrors, spill salt, or open an umbrella indoors. Luigi opens the umbrella anyway, and a shoe promptly drops on him. He then spills salt, gets trapped in a freezer while searching for snacks, and panics after stepping on a crack, convinced he has broken their mother’s back.

When Luigi asks Mario how to undo his bad luck, Mario presents a “good-luck compartment” that turns out to be a TV converter decorated with homemade charms. He sends Luigi through a series of increasingly ridiculous “remedies”: spinning around, drinking lemon juice, wearing his hat at an exact angle, and running around shouting, “I’m a big fat idiot.” The others join in laughing. Mario nearly convinces Luigi to jump off a ledge by calling it “Omega luck,” but admits he was messing with him.

The final twist reveals that it isn’t Friday the 13th at all; the date is August 28. Jack confesses that he caused the scares because he was bored and had no friends. He says he put the shoe on the railing because it was special to him, locked Luigi in the freezer for a laugh, and thought the crack-and-mother’s-back prank was funny too. Luigi and Mario decide not to hang out with him again.

Characters

• Luigi
• Mario
• Jack, the Scary Pumpkin King
• Other friends who laugh at Luigi