History WesternAnimation / SallyBollywood

** Also, for their classmates; there are kids with normal names like Jeremy, Sam, Bob, Cassie, Albert, Betty, Ernest, etc. and then you have kids with names like Kevina, Darshi, Alma, Devendra, Achmed, Erna, Nirmala, Svetlana, Vanille...the list goes on.

* AffectionateNickname: Mrs. Apu often addresses Sally with things like "my little mongoose" or "my little poppadom".

* BizarreTasteInFood: In "Caught Red Handed" Audrey offers to help Sally and Doowee get out of detention in exchange for a snack. Sally looks in Doowee's bag and finds a banana, curry, roast beef and maple syrup sandwich. Luckily that just happens to be Audrey's favourite.

* ClearMyName: Both the aforementioned "Caught Red Handed" (for both Sally & Doowee) and "Double Trouble" (for just Sally).

** Brigette Brickhouse changes Nigel Neutron's grades to all F's (except in gym) in "the Killer Curry" because she hated that he did well in every subject (except gym, which she excelled at) and wanted him to get yelled at by his parents for once.

* GenkiGirl: Stephanie Demillaire, especially in "Go-Kart Wars" where she [[MotorMouth seems unable to stop talking]].

** A multi-armed Vishnu clock [[note]] series 2 replaces this with ones of Sally and Doowee [[/note]]

* IKnowKarate: Sally claims to be skilled in Khalariphattyu, an Indian martial art, though she rarely uses it.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "the White Bear," the S.B.I helps out Louis, the son of local rapper Fluff Daddy. Nuff said.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Literally in the case of Darshi, Zoe, Jessica Beetle, Stan, Betty, Nirmala [[note]] technically blue green, but still counts [[/note]] & Alma. Also some characters have purple hair (Sally, Bob, Sam, Kevina), green (Jaya, Jasmine), and even pink (Cassy, Christina).

* BizarreTasteInFood: In "Caught Red Handed" Audrey offers to help Sally and Doowee get out of detention in exchange for food. Sally looks in Doowee's bag and finds a banana, curry, roast beef and maple syrup sandwich. Luckily that just happens to be Audrey's favourite.

* BizarreTasteInFood: In "Caught Red Handed" Audrey offers to help Sally and Doowee get out of detention in exchange for food. Sally looks in Doowee's bag and finds a banana, curry, roast beef and maple syrup sandwich. Luckily that just happens to be her favourite.

* StrangeTasteInFood: In "Caught Red Handed" Audrey offers to help Sally and Doowee get out of detention in exchange for food. Sally looks in Doowee's bag and finds a banana, curry, roast beef and maple syrup sandwich. Luckily that just happens to be her favourite.

* SympatheticCriminal: Some of the culprits turn out to have a sympathetic motive.
** Exceptions include "Trouble in the Museum" & "the White Bear" where the culprits were actual adult criminals.

* TheBully: "Big" Bob Coprani.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The janitor (Mr. Cubbings) was a bad guy in the pilot.

** Brigette Brickhouse changes Nigel Neutron's grades to all F's (except in gym) in "the Killer Curry" because she hated that he did well in every subject (except gym, which she excelled at)and wanted him to get yelled at by his parents for once.

* GenkiGirl: Stephanie Demillaire, expecially in "Go-Kart Wars" where she seems unable to stop talking.

** A determined looking Sally on a spinning circle surrounded by flowers
** A background of flowers with Sally & Doowee appearing on it
** Blue elephants walking across the screen/coming in from opposite sides, like a curtain

** Sally, in a kung-fu stance, appears in a little castle-like dealie.

* TooCleverByHalf: Sally has a big ego and often puts her foot in her mouth by falsely accusing a suspect only to be proven wrong.

* CompressedVice: An early episode depicted Sally as being HollywoodToneDeaf, despite her singing quite well in nearly every other episode.

* DaChief: Sally, Harry and the Principal kind of take turns at his role.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Through most of the latter half of "Liz's Secret Diary," Gia & Melvin can be seen chasing Bob around the school, to exact revenge for him stealing their things.
* GadgeteerGenius: Doowee. Also some of the regular nerd characters, like Albert or Nigel Neutron.

* IdiosyncraticWipes
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In "The Party", Sally and Doowee are investgating who gatecrashed a party. Whilst interrogating a known-gatecrasher, the gatecrasher points that it ''couldn't'' have been him and his buddies, since they don't wear masks when they gatecrash. It's then pointed out that no-one had mentioned that the gatecrashers were wearing masks, and a ChaseScene ensues.

** When Doowee reads Sally's diary at the end of "Liz's Diary," it actually refers to him as being like a brother to her.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "the White Bear," the S.B.I helps out the son of local rapper Fluff Daddy. Nuff said.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Literally in the case of Darshi, Zoe, Jessica, Stan, Betty, Nirmala [[note]] technically blue green, but still counts [[/note]] & Alma. Also some characters have purple hair (Sally, Bob, Sam, Kevina), green (Gia, Jasmine), and even pink (Cassie).

* ClearMyName: Both the aforementioned "Caught Red Handed" (for both Sally & Doowee) and "Double Trouble" (for just Sally)

* GadgeteerGenius: Doowee

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Literally in the case of Darshi, Zoe, Nirmala (although more of a blue-green), Betty, & Alma. Also some characters have purple hair (Sally, Bob, Sam, Kevina), green (Gia, Jasmine), and even pink (Cassie).

* ChekovsGun: If Doowee has a new invention for an episode, it will most likely be used in some way to solve the plot.

* JustAStupidAccent: In the English dub, characters are given random accents [[note]] For example, Sally, despite being Indian, speaks with a very pronounced British accent [[note]]. This is most jarring in the case of the janitor, who was given an Australian accent, but one episode revealed he's from Canada. His son has an appropriate Canadian accent.

* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: In "Caught Red Handed", Sally finds a can of spray paint on the ground and picks it up, not knowing it was used to vandalise a bench.

* JustAStupidAccent: In the English dub, characters are given random accents [[note For example, Sally, despite being Indian, speaks with a very pronounced British accent [[note]]. This is most jarring in the case of the janitor, who was given an Australian accent, but one episode revealed he's from Canada. His son has an appropriate Canadian accent.

** Also, for their classmates, there are kids with normal names like Jeremy, Sam, Bob, Albert, Betty etc. and then you have kids with names like Kevina, Darshi, Devendra, Achmed, Erna, Nirmala, Vanille, the list goes on.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The janitor was a bad guy in the pilot.

* JustAStupidAccent: In the English dub, characters are given random accents. This is most jarring in the case of the janitor, who was given an Australian accent, but one episode revealed he's from Canada. His son has an appropriate Canadian accent.

* OhMyGods: In the pilot Sally used stereotypical Indian expressions like "By the many arms of Vishnu!" For the main series this trait was given to Mrs. Apu.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Sally's cousin Bouleh in "Cousin Bouleh" messes up the SBI's plans several times. It gets to the point where they wonder if he's intentionally sabotaging the investigation.

* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where the Hell is Cosmopolis?]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

* WidowWoman: Mrs. Apu may be this. The "Mrs." in her name is the only indication that she may have been married once.

* AmoralAttorney: In "Call My Lawyer" Bob hires the kid equivalent of this.

* AmoralAttorny: In "Call My Lawyer" Bob hires the kid equivalent of this.