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Monty Moles (though never called as such and always referred to as '''Gophers''', also called '''[[Bowser|King Koopa]]'s Nintendo Gophers''')<ref>''"Luigi teaches farming to the cave people, with mixed results. But when the crops grow, King Koopa's Nintendo Gophers steal all the crops and put fire plants and pirhana plants in their place."'' - "[[Gopher Bash]]'s" description from the ''[[Koopa's Stone Age Quests]]'' DVD</ref> make an appearance in the [[Super Mario World (television series)|''Super Mario World'' animated series]], where they exclusively appear in the episode "[[Gopher Bash]]."  

In the episode, several Gophers acted as minions of [[Larry Koopa|Cheatsy Koopa]] to aid him in his plot to steal all the crops grown by the [[Cave People]] of [[Dome City]]. At night, the Gophers helped Cheatsy by stealing the crops and replacing them with [[Piranha Plant]]s and [[Venus Fire Trap|fire plant]]s, laughing alongside Cheatsy as well. The following morning, when [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], and [[Yoshi]] discover that the crops have been stolen, Cheatsy and the Gophers use the Piranha Plants to attack Mario and his friends. Unfortunately for Cheatsy and his Gopher minions, Yoshi manages to eat all of the Piranha Plants. Right when Yoshi is about to eat the last Piranha Plant, one of the Gophers attempts to save the Piranha Plant, but Yoshi attempts to pull the stem of the Piranha Plant, along with the Gopher clinging onto it. Fortunately for the Gopher, Cheatsy commands himself and the other Gophers to help pull the stem of the now eaten Piranha Plant, only for Yoshi to manage to pull the stem out of the ground, exposing both Cheatsy and his Gopher minions out of the ground. Cheatsy then tells Mario and Luigi that the only way they are gonna get their crops back is by shopping at the [[Koopamart]], before him and the Gophers quickly go back to their underground lair.

Once arriving back at their cave lair, Cheatsy tells the Gophers that they did a splendiferous job helping steal the crops and that the Cave People will either have to buy their crops back from him or starve. Afterwards, Cheatsy and the Gophers then sing a self praising song called "[[Cheatsy's Life]]," with the Gophers singing backup on how Cheatsy's life is fun when there is underhanded evil to be done (making it one of the very few pieces of official ''Mario'' media to have Monty Moles being fully voice acted). Unfortunately for Cheatsy, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi were able to secretly follow Cheatsy back to his lair and proceed to kidnap the Gophers one by one while Cheatsy and the other Gophers were busy singing their song. The trio then proceeded to tie up the kidnapped Gophers and suspend them onto the ceiling. Once Cheatsy finishes singing his song, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi then drop the suspended Gophers onto Cheatsy, ultimately crushing him. Mario and his friends then proceed to bring the crops back to [[Dome City]], before Cheatsy makes a remark on how much he hates those plumbers.