The old Mario cartoons (sans Super Show) are really weird because they have the aesthetic and line delivery of a comedy show, but there are barely any jokes and the plot structure is more akin to something like He-Man or Thundercats - a short adventure with chase/battle scenes and magic powers ending with a valuable (if poorly delivered) moral. Either that or the jokes in the show are just so blatant and pre-meta that they fly over my post-modernity-and-subtlety-adjusted zoomer head.
but im not complaining, it will finally come out of beta