History YMMV / SimpleSamosa

* {{Padding}}: The show has a rather slow pace sometimes. Other times they'll fill 11 minutes by adding part of the theme song to the episode ("Comic Book" in particular had to use the whole song to fill its 11-minute runtime).

* DesignatedHero: Samosa not liking how Cham Cham can be quite nasty towards him is understandable, but some of the things Samosa does to his rival are... questionable. In "Makkhi Makkhi", he bullies Cham Cham by scaring him into thinking there's a fly on his back, and in "Patang Hurdang", he doesn't bother to help Cham Cham down to the ground when he is lifted far into the air by kites, even after helping Vada from the same situation. In both instances, it's supposed to be funny since the two are constantly at each others' throats, even though Cham Cham did nothing wrong beforehand.

* ClicheStorm: The show has a tendency to use episode plots that have been done to death. It says something that a StrangledByTheRedString plot point, a NotSoForgottenBirthday, an AlienEpisode, and a BaseballEpisode[[note]]well, UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}}, but it's the same idea[[/note]] are ''all found in Season 1'', not far from each other.

* BizarroEpisode: Even by this show's ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''-esque standards, "Kasturi Khushbu" comes off as outright surreal. The entire plot is that Samosa wants to find some smell he sensed while he was sleeping. To do this, he ''goes around the world just to sniff people''. Better yet, the episode culminates in [[spoiler:Samosa making a speech at a United Nations conference and being greeted by all the attendees farting - which, by the way, is the smell he's after. ''Then'' he winds up sleeping on the ground almost completely naked and sniffs his own fart, to which Jalebi replies that he had that scent with him the whole time]].

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The browser game is a generic platformer with cheap graphics and music.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: From "Cultural Programme":
** Vada's dreadful violin playing.
** Dhokla's "advice" to Vada:
--->'''Dhokla''': Vada, I guess you should break both your legs. Yeah, and side-by-side, you better break your hands too. And problem solved!

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The episode "Khelo Samosa" from Season 2. The idea of an often-criticized cartoon starring a brown-colored anthropomorphic food item having an episode where he and his friends have to complete a video game where one of the objectives is to save a male supporting character who is dressed as a princess is not new; the ''WesternAnimation/CoconutFredsFruitSaladIsland'' episode "Sir Nut-a-Lot" did it first. (For added bonus points, the ''Coconut Fred'' episode was aired as part of what was billed as a second season.)
** For that matter, ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' used the concept of an anthropomorphic food facing another, much stronger one in a wrestling match long before ''Simple Samosa'' did. It's specifically SumoWrestling, which ''Simple Samosa'''s own Sumo Momo is supposed to represent aesthetically.

* WidgetSeries: A Weird Indian Thing (WIT). It's a show about sentient Indian snack foods going about their lives.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: "Toast Malone" features Dhokla searching for "dank music tracks" on [[Website/YouTube GheeTube]]. This episode aired in 2020, some years after the use of the term "dank" as a meme was popular.

* IdiotPlot: The episode "Doctor D" is about Dhokla taking his first visit to another country. When he arrives at the country, he starts to send so many messages to the others about it that it borders on spamming them, which understandably frustrates them.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' With Dhokla being one of Samosa's best friends, you'd probably expect him, along with Jalebi and Vada, to silence their phones so that the notifications won't bother them while not running a major risk of angering Dhokla.\\
'''Instead:''' They go the extra mile and ''block Dhokla'', straining their friendship with him and setting off the primary plot point of the episode where he becomes the celebrity Doctor D. Samosa, Jalebi, and Vada do eventually find Dhokla and forgive him for having blocked him, but that still leaves no excuse for them nearly losing one of their friends for the sake of getting some peace from those incessant notifications.

* AmericansHateTingle: It's a show about Indian food items, so it's to be expected that some Americans aren't interested in it. It does have a couple American fans if you know where to look, but it's mostly unknown in the States. The small handful of comments from Americans on Disney India's [=YouTube=] uploads of ''Simple Samosa'' content are primarily negative, due to the amount of glaring flaws present.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** In "Sumo Momo", Sumo Momo flings a man onto the sidewalk, leaving him severely injured. Samosa's reaction is to ''cheer for Sumo Momo while completely ignoring the poor man''.
** In "Jalebi's Birthday", Vada asks Jalebi for help getting off of an escalator that has stopped working. Even taking into account that [[spoiler:it was a set-up to lead Jalebi to her surprise birthday party]], he easily could have just walked up or down the escalator himself with minimal effort.

* SoOkayItsAverage: This show has never been hugely successful outside of India and certainly has its share of flaws, but that doesn't prevent legitimate fans from popping up. Even some of the fans often regard it as mediocre, but with a little potential and merit.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the 2018 episode "Chhote Rajaji", a spiciness epidemic affects Chatpata Nagar. The town is helpless as no one knows a cure for the disease. Everyone waits in long lines at the hospital, and most notably, they wear masks to protect themselves. Two years later, an ''actual'' [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic pandemic]] caused immense overcrowding at hospitals and everyone to be required to wear masks.

-->'''Dhokla''': Vada, I guess you should break both your legs. Yeah, and side-by-side, you better break your hands too. And problem solved!

** In "Doctor D", he - along with Jalebi and Vada - block Dhokla on social media to stop his spamming even though Dhokla had no ill will in his spamming. [[SarcasmMode They're such nice friends!]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the 2018 episode "Chhote Rajaji", a spiciness epidemic affects Chatpata Nagar. The town is helpless as no one knows a cure for the disease. Everyone waits in long lines at the hospital, and most notably, they wear masks to protect themselves. Does that sound like the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic that happened the following year?

* FriendlyFandoms: Most ''Simple Samosa'' fans tend to get along with fans of other Asian cartoons. Some people from other AsianAnimation communities have discovered ''Simple Samosa'' because of this.

* ClicheStorm: Some episodes use stock plots that have been done to death. For example, in "Jalebi's Birthday" Jalebi is worried that everyone's forgotten her birthday... only for her to find out that everyone remembered her birthday after all! There's pretty much nothing that sets it out from all of the other shows that have done NotSoForgottenBirthday episodes.

* CultClassic: At best, it's a cult classic in America. The show has never taken off outside of India, but some people still enjoy it and/or build the TV Tropes page.

* DesignatedHero: Samosa sometimes comes off as one; for example, the first thing he does in "Makkhi Makkhi!" is to gang up on Cham Cham with his friends and bully him. It's supposed to be funny because Samosa is the protagonist, even though Cham Cham hadn't done anything wrong.