diff --git a/.jenkins/validate_tutorials_built.py b/.jenkins/validate_tutorials_built.py
index bf42e0845ff..9b939995342 100644
--- a/.jenkins/validate_tutorials_built.py
+++ b/.jenkins/validate_tutorials_built.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 NOT_RUN = [
     "basics/intro",  # no code
     "translation_transformer",
+    "mario_rl_tutorial.py", # needs to be updated to work with gym 0.26
     "profiler",
     "saving_loading_models",
     "introyt/captumyt",
diff --git a/intermediate_source/mario_rl_tutorial.py b/intermediate_source/mario_rl_tutorial.py
index a2d856c4129..f1ddda760ee 100755
--- a/intermediate_source/mario_rl_tutorial.py
+++ b/intermediate_source/mario_rl_tutorial.py
@@ -103,9 +103,11 @@
 #   1. jump right
 env = JoypadSpace(env, [["right"], ["right", "A"]])
 
+action = env.action_space.sample()
+
 env.reset()
-next_state, reward, done, info = env.step(action=0)
-print(f"{next_state.shape},\n {reward},\n {done},\n {info}")
+obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(action)
+print(f"{obs.shape},\n {reward},\n {terminated},\n {truncated},\n {info}")
 
 
 ######################################################################
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 74e2da5fad3..ca05d7c2085 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ scikit-image
 scipy
 pillow==9.0.1
 wget
-gym==0.25.1
+gym==0.26.1
 gym-super-mario-bros==7.4.0
 timm
 pygame==2.1.2