Random: Nintendo Shows Off Mario Riding The Inchworm Pipe

My Switch just started preloading the game. I can't wait

Nintendo just don’t understand the internet. Or rule 34.

Inchworm? I feel so seen.

Awww he still appreciates the pipe for the ride even though walking is a lot faster. I still am completely blown away by how...expressive they made the Mario universe as of late.

@sanderev Nice, still waiting on my pre-load! Shouldn't be too long now.
Edit: Now come through! Wa-hoo!!

Mario at the end: ”Ahh screw it, I’m gotta catch me some ZZZs…”.😄

I don't like Mario's new voice ...

1 inch is 2.54 cm long anyway...

Is this a British slang thing? Because an inchworm is just a caterpillar that does pretty much what that pipe does so I'm a little confused as to the writer's repeated gags.

I don't get it. Some sort of British "mind in the gutter" term? The only thing that comes to my mind is the animal.

I actually cannot wait

@locky-mavo @AnnoyingFrenzy in the UK, for some reason, we have an obsession with male genitalia. If something sounds or looks like one, we have to point it out. Even in schools, you open up any exercise book, someone would drawn a picture of one. Inchworm just sounds like a tiny nub which to us (can't just be me) is hilarious.

surely Nintendo knew what they were doing here

@AnnoyingFrenzy Not British slang. I'm British, but then I know what inchworms are, so the name immediately made sense. I think this is a case of the writer's reaction telling us more about them than the thing that they're commenting on.

I'm loving these new shorts they've been releasing for this week for Super Mario Bros Wonder.

I think they're charming. I think Nintendo SEA released a few more on Youtube.

@durian @NinjaNicky @locky-mavo @AnnoyingFrenzy
"Pipe" is also a slang term for penetration in rap culture. I think combining the two might be what set the writer's double entendre alarm off.

Though I've gotta say it doesn't really sound dirty to me. It's literally a pipe moving like an inch worm. Do American audiences use the word caterpillar? That's the only other way I would have described it.

I wish that whoever made these short animations, like for Wonder or what they did for the Mario Makers, would make a half hour series for a streaming service. With no talking, just grunts, yelps, and such.

Those ads are fun, and nice that they keep them short.

@NinjaNicky sounds like one??

Mario loves a good ride.

Such a fun animation, I really like that they put a lot of expression on Mario, and even Luigi and the Toads and even the Goombas.

I've never heard of an animal called an inchworm, so the name sounds odd it does seem to have amused the writer a bit too much here!

@samuelvictor I think those two and the fact he’s “riding it”

Is it just me or did the toads sound a bit different?

@Boo_Boy52 Haha true! 😂

After all of the fanart of Peach and/or Daisy riding the pipe, now Mario gets to have a go.

Mario sounds all right, I can get behind it. Luigi's is a bit in uncanny valley territory, though. Maybe I'm just obsessive lol

Cue numerous joke about Mario riding pipe. Way to go Nintendo, really thought this one through 🤣

He could have bought it a bunch of flowers first

@Tasuki yeah, neither do I😂😅

Maybe I’m just idiot, but what’s so weird about it being called an Inchworm Pipe?😅 That’s quite literally what it is/looks like

Inchworm is a totally normal word for a caterpillar. What a weirdo article.

Watch out where you step or they'll be afoot!

@Yalloo I didn't word it properly. I meant if there's a word that sounds like one, not an object. I'd be very scared if they made noises 😂

@samuelvictor "laying the pipe" always confused me. I've heard it means doing the deed but where I'm from, laying the pipe means going for a poo... So it's confusing when people use it differently. We don't use inchworm in the UK (or at least where I'm from) we just say caterpillar.

@NinjaNicky of course, it just made me laugh so much, I had to mention it. Thank god they don't have their own sound

I guess my mind is in the gutter too because that instantly sounded like a euphemism too me. Riding the inchworm pipe. Giggle

@NinjaNicky Yeah I first heard "lay the pipe" in the early 2000s in some Rocafela and Def Jam stuff, I'm British and to begin with I had that association you did too. However, shortening it to just "pipe" is something I've heard in a lot of British rap/grime/drill etc.

I was never entirely sure if "inch worm" was an exclusively American thing, and just what they called catterpillas. I knew of it from that "measuring the marrigolds" song, which I think we did at school. 🤔 I've never heard a Brit say it outside of that context though.

@Hank_Scorpio What do you mean?

@samuelvictor As an American, I'm familiar with the word "inchworm," but I've only ever heard them be called caterpillars here. Heck, the construction equipment company, Caterpillar, was founded in America.

Why must you all be so dirty minded? An inchworm is just a worm that moves like the pipe does. And yes, Caterpillar is another word for one and Caterpillar is also an American company, but as an American, I hear inchworm a lot.

@Revolution_Falls @Lanmanna Thanks for the replies - I was genuinely interested if somehow "caterpiller" was an unknown term in America, but I was sure that couldn't be the case as I've heard American people reference "The Very Hungry Caterpiller" book, and also the "Catter-killer" badniks in Sonic games were named by Sega of America. I guess that rather than being a country specific term, "inch worm" is an older lesser used folk name, perhaps.

I don't often hear the word inchworm, although I have heard it before. It was instantly obvious that it was just some kind of worm or worm-like animal that probably moves similarly to the pipe. A quick web search brought up a Wikipedia article which confirmed that my original assumption was exactly right, but it also mentioned that it is the larva/catepillar of a particular moth.

Makes perfect sense to me, the word "worm" is often given to the larva of insects that are not really worms, including caterpillars (the term I would more likely use).

So, it all makes perfect sense to me. But what makes no sense is the constant freaking out of the article's author... over a word.

While can be thought of many ways rule 34 and so on my first thought was it's almost like he is on top of a green bike rail to put your bike and lock up then it did a regular green Mario pipe.

I've only heard them called earth measurers.

@versionfiv there is always one person like you

(Not a bad thing, just there always is)

@Revolution_Falls
lol. a terrible pun on the family's latinate name. i've never actually heard them called that.
apparently there's a kind called "spanworms" too

I’ve heard caterpillar and inchworm, but not spanworms.

I didn't really understand the ick about the word "inchworm" either-I thought maybe it was that infectious parasite but then I realized those were called tapeworms. I've never felt more innocent at the ripe age of 27.