Whether you’re great at Mario games (like darbian, who can beat it in under five minutes) or terrible at them (like this cute hamster), you’ve probably killed the titular plumber plenty of times. I remember wondering as a kid where those endless pits I kept falling into went — are they just holes in the ground? Do they go on forever? Why are there holes there in the first place?

Now, thanks to one YouTube filmmaker, we don’t have to wonder anymore.

Somehow we’ve never covered the masterful pop culture-inspired short film work of Andrew “Nukazooka” McMurry before. That’s an error we’re eager to fix. Here’s his original short film, “Super Mario: Underworld”: