So … Conan O’Brien started his new gig as host of The Tonight Show this week and a few folks noticed something … familiar about the backdrop background of his newly designed set. After careful consideration (and genius side-by-side comparison), it seems pretty obvious that Conan‘s new background came straight from the Mushroom Kingdom of the Super Mario Brothers video game:
From Gizmodo: Conan’s new Tonight Show set sure is nice, but the guys at Serious Lunch noticed that his new monologue backdrop looks pretty familiar. As in Mushroom Kingdom familiar. Chen and I are in disagreement as to whether or not this is intentional. I say it’s a coincidence, but he’s convinced that Mario was a definite inspiration for this background.
OMG … of course this background was inspired (to say the least) from the Super Mario Brothers video game. There is no way in hell that the indenticalness of the background to the layout of the video game can be mere coincidence:
LMAO! I bet Conan had no idea … but, yep, seem pretty clear to me. What do y’all think?
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There is no way Conan DIDN’T know. That’s so his type of humor.
of course its copied, there cant be any idiots out there that think its a coinky dink. right? it is really amazing some dweeb noticed in the first place though.
Hey Trent! Looks like someone ditigally made the set look like a Mario screenshot. Too bad, bc this version of the story was way better than the real one!
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06.....-hoax.html
@Jill — yes, it appears the pieces were concocted but the shapes in the background still look very much inspired by Super Mario Bros.
thats amazing!