Conan O’Brien Discusses His Super Mario Brothers-esque Backdrop

The Mushroom Kingdom in the room
Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Conan O’Brien finally caught wind that the Internet has been buzzing that the background created for his new set on The Tonight Show bears a striking resemblance to the video game Super Mario Brothers and decided to talk about it on last night’s episode:

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While it has been revealed that the set backdrop may not have been taken directly from the video game, I still contend that the similarities between the set design and the Super Mario Brothers video game look way too similar to be a mere coincidence. After the jump, check out video of Conan talking about the similarities himself on last night’s ep of The Tonight Show …

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Did Conan O’Brien Steal The Background Of His New Set From Super Mario Brothers?

Survey says: Um, duhvs!
Thursday, June 4th, 2009

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:

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LMAO! I bet Conan had no idea … but, yep, seem pretty clear to me. What do y’all think?

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