Lame, indeed -- and I only mean, yes, I get your pun. Overly long gag is overly long, even for a minute and twenty-three seconds, but...somehow it serves as this oddly lucid and Fridge Horrific moment of insight into the reality of cartoon violence. (Which's been done before, sure, but not like this, particularly.)
Wish Mario didn't go on so much about sex and urination, but...well, in the context of this short, he's a typical dude who recently lost the usual ease of both of those things. Of course he's going to be raving mad about it. And, y'know, his head...with the blunt force trauma and the bleeding and the contusions...
It's all sort of bizarrely genius. Almost like Xavier: Renegade Angel (but not quite). LOL, have I mentioned I love that show yet? Durr-hurr-hurr~
So, anyway, congrats on making it, regardless, and good luck on everything else you're working on. May you be vindicated by the archives on this one, if nothing else, my friend...