- Mario: This is terrible! Venice, Italy is my favorite city! Next to Brooklyn, USA.
- Princess Toadstool: Why's that, Mario?
- Mario: I don't know why. There... There's some mysterious something about Venice that I just feel in my bones.
- Luigi: Oh, yeah, I feel it in my bones, too, but I thought they were just overcooked by the desert sun.
- Mario: Hey, you feel what I feel, Luigi?
- Luigi: Yeah, tired. Next time, let's get disguises that don't have poles.
- Mario: No, no, I'm talking about something in the... in the Venice air. Something that wrenches a Mario Brother's soul.
- Luigi: But, Mario, we've never been here in Venice before. How could our souls get wrenched?
- Mario: I don't know, Luigi. But I'll tell you one thing, I'm gonna solve this mystery before we leave.
- [Mario and Luigi unknowingly sail past statues of two plumbers who resemble them]
- Kootie Pie Koopa: Can't we warp Venice to Dark Land now? I wanna brag to Bully and Big Mouth that I have my own Kootie Pie Koopa Water Park and they don't!
- Gondolier: [arrives at the two statues] Meet Marco Polo's plumbers! They brought plumbing back from China and made Venice what it is today.
- Toad: They sure look familiar.
- Princess Toadstool: Must've been distant relatives of Mario and Luigi.
- Luigi: Well, that would explain why Venice is our second favorite city.
- Mario: And why we're the best plumbers in the Real World and the Mushroom Kingdom!
- Princess Toadstool: And the most modest.
- Gondolier: Leonardo da Vinci! Valerie Bertinelli! Ha ha ha ha ha! Mario and Luigi!