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3A French-Australian animated series following the adventures of {{Kid Detective}}s Sally Bollywood and Doowee [=McAdam=], who together form the private detective agency SBI (Sally Bollywood Investigations).
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5!!''Sally Bollywood'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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7* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: In "The Delayed Action Chilli Pepper", everyone except Sally comes down with a stomach illness. It turns out the school lunch contained an extra strong pepper, and Mrs. Apu explains that Sally is immune due to being raised on it her whole life.
8* AdultsAreUseless: Usually played straight. Averted with Harry Bollywood; his daughter has to get her talent from ''some''where, after all.
9* AerithAndBob: There are kids with more Western names like Jeremy, Sam, Bob, Cassie, Albert, Betty, Ernest, etc. and then you have kids with names like Kevina, Dharshie, Alma, Devindra, Achmed, Erna, Nirmala, Svetlana, Vanille... the list goes on. Then again, Cosmopolis is implied to be a very multicultural place.
10* AesopAmnesia: No matter how many times the "never jump to conclusions" rule is brought up it never sinks in with Sally.
11** Crossed with BrokenAesop in "the Guardians"; Sally derides Doowee for reading a comic book, but soon reads it herself and likes it, and even uses it to solve the case. Later episodes have her back to dismissing anything nerdy.
12* AffectionateNickname: Mrs. Apu often addresses Sally with things like "my little mongoose" or "my little papadum".
13* AllThereInTheManual: The [[http://student.thestandard.com.hk/liberal/PDF/j/file_20101108125224070554.pdf supplementary material]] provides additional information that wasn't explained in the show.
14** [[DeathByChildbirth Sally's mom died giving birth to her]].
15** Little Bombay is in New Jersey.
16* AmbidextrousSprite: The elephant on Sally's top keeps changing direction.
17* AmoralAttorney: In "Call My Lawyer" Bob hires the kid equivalent of this to defend him when he's obviously guilty.
18* AnimalsHateHim: Doowee. Especially in "A Bird in the Hand" where it's stated several times that animals don't like him.
19* AnimationBump: The second season is much better animated than the first.
20* {{Animesque}}: Glens a bit from anime for its style though it doesn't uses any of the tropes associated with the genre.
21* AntagonisticOffspring: A historical example. In "The White Knight", the titular character [[spoiler: was the evil king's daughter]].
22* ArtShift: The titular comic book in "the Guardians" is drawn in a much more detailed style than the show itself. Also, some segments where a character describes something that happened are also drawn in a much more detailed style.
23* 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 vandalize a bench.
24* TheBGrade: In "Cockroach Capers" Harry bans Sally from doing more detective work just because she got a C+ in a test. Though it was more for arriving late to school that caused her to fail in the first place.
25* ABirthdayNotABreak: In "Birthday Surprise" the heroes end up accidentally uncovering a real crime when Doowee, Harry and Mrs. Apu try to distract Sally with a fake case.
26* 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 favorite.
27* BluffingTheMurderer: While obviously not murderers, Sally uses this in "SOS Saris!" & "The Client in the Clouds" to get the guilty parties to expose themselves.
28%%* BornDetective: Sally
29* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: From "Trapped by the Internet" "I need to have a talk with my client, my suspect, my client suspect, actually."
30%%* TheBully: "Big" Bob Copani.
31* ButHeSoundsHandsome: In "Pyjama Party" someone keeps sabotaging Sally's pyjama party and Doowee, who was upset that he wasn't invited, kept talking about how ingenious the saboteur is when examining the sabotage. This makes Sally suspect he's the saboteur. [[spoiler: But it turns out this was just a RedHerring.]]
32%%* ButtMonkey: Poor, poor Doowee.
33* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: GOOD LORD this trope is taken up to eleven. Whenever characters are viewed from a far angle, only the eyes, (and sometimes even the mouths) are shown. This happens at least OnceAnEpisode.
34* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The janitor (Mr. Cubbins) was a bad guy in the pilot.
35%%* ChaseScene: OncePerEpisode.
36* ChekhovsGun: If Doowee has a new invention for an episode, it will most likely be used in some way to solve the plot.
37* ChristmasEpisode: "Mrs. Apu's Old Friend" which takes place during the holiday.
38* ClearMyName: Both the aforementioned "Caught Red Handed" & season 2's "Storm Clouds over the SBI" (for both Sally & Doowee) and "Double Trouble" (for just Sally).
39* CluelessMystery: "Catch Me If You Can" had absolutely no clues pointing toward the culprit. Just Bob thrown in as a RedHerring.
40* CompressedVice: "Talent Will Out" depicted Sally as being HollywoodToneDeaf, despite her singing quite well in nearly every other episode.
41* TheCon: In "Fangs A Lot", one of the students, Lee, gets fed up with the pranks of a local bully named Bob. So he stages an elaborate one with other students to make Bob think that Lee's a vampire and is turning the others. Sally and Doowee are brought in to investigate at Bob's behest, Sally eventually finds out herself what Lee is doing and joins in by making it seem Lee had gotten to her sometime before a rendezvous with Doowee and Bob. Doowee catches on to what's happening and instantly helps as well by acting along to Sally "feeding" on him and "turning" into a vampire himself.
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43* ConflictBall: In "Too Many Cooks" Sally and Mrs. Apu have a bit of a falling out when Sally makes Mrs. Apu one of the suspects.
44%%* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Apu
45* CordonBleughChef: In "Call My Lawyer", Sally's entry in the class baking contest was a yellow curry and pepper cake. Dowee's was a haggis cake, consisting of sheep's stomach stuffed with Christmas pudding.
46* CostumeCopycat: In "Halloween Heist" one of the culprits stole Sally's costume and sari while she was changing in the girls' room to impersonate her and left her own costume so Sally would have no choice but to wear it.
47* CultureEqualsCostume: Her name is "UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}", and she looks the part.
48* DaChief: Sally, Harry and Principal Shoebridge take turns at this role.
49* DependingOnTheWriter: While some traits are constant (i.e. Bob is a bully, Sam is into art, the nerds are into nerd stuff), the personalities, relationships and hobbies of the background kids can be radically different from episode to episode.[[note]] For example, Jasmine & Alma's [[AlphaBitch attitude]] in "the Delayed Action Chili Pepper" runs counter to how they act in pretty much every other episode in which they appear. [[/note]]
50%%* DisguisedInDrag: Doowee at one point in "The Egg War". He isn't pleased about it.
51* DisproportionateRetribution: A few examples;
52** Bob's reason for destroying the cakes ([[FelonyMisdemeanor except for Sally's curry pepper cake)]] in "Call My Lawyer" was because he wanted to make sauerkraut for the competition and the planning committee wouldn't let him.
53** Bridget 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.
54* DistractedByTheSexy: Doowee suffers this at the hands of Sinitta in "Trouble at the Museum". [[spoiler: Too bad she turned out to be EvilAllAlong.]]
55* DoItYourselfThemeTune: In the English dub version, the theme is performed by Sarah Aubrey, who voices Sally.
56* DoubleMeaningTitle: The episode "Muckraking" has literal muckraking with compost and figurative muckraking with Stephanie making up stories for the school newspaper.
57* DramaticThunder: In "The White Knight" when Mr. Cubbins hires Sally and Doowee to investigate the suspected ghost, there's a flash of thunder every time someone says "The White Knight", despite it being perfectly sunny outside.
58* ElaborateUniversityHigh: No kidding, Little Bombay Jr High has many elaborate clubs from the usual Newspaper and Sports to things like Good Manners and ''Flash Mobs''.
59%%* EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop
60* FairPlayWhodunnit: It's usually pretty easy to figure out who the culprit is before the unmasking.
61* FreudianExcuse: In "Liz's Secret Diary", Liz admits the reason she's mean to everyone is people have always been mean to her so she decided rather than risk getting hurt she would make the first move and push away any possible friends. Sally straightens her out and tells her that's not the right way to go about it.
62* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Through most of the latter half of "Liz's Secret Diary," Jaya & Melvin can be seen chasing Bob around the school, to exact revenge for him stealing their things.
63%%* GadgeteerGenius: Doowee. Also some of the regular nerd characters, like Albert or Nigel Neutron.
64* GenkiGirl: Stephanie Demillaire, especially in "Go-Kart Wars" where she [[MotorMouth seems unable to stop talking]].
65* HairpinLockpick: In "Call My Lawyer", Sally uses a hairpin to the pick the lock on Bob's locker in search of incriminating information.
66%%* HalloweenEpisode: "Halloween Heist."
67* HollywoodHacking: Doowee can hack into anything within seconds by tapping random keys.
68* IdiosyncraticWipes: The most common ones include:
69** A determined looking Sally on a spinning circle surrounded by lotus flowers
70** A background of lotus flowers with Sally & Doowee appearing on it.
71** Blue elephants walking across the screen or sometimes coming in from opposite sides, like a curtain.
72** Sally dancing on the howdah of an elephant, then panning out to show multiple Sallys dancing on multiple elephants.
73** A multi-armed Vishnu clock [[note]] series 2 adds ones of Sally, Doowee, & Harry [[/note]]
74** A temple like thing appears, followed by Sally, in a kung-fu stance, appearing in it.
75** A split screen showing Doowee with a Dr. Octopus-like device on one side & Sally with a magnifying glass on the other.
76* ImprobableAge: Sally and Doowee are 12-year-old detectives and in "The Fortune Teller" Sally says they've been doing detective work since they were 9.
77* IncestuousCasting: InUniverse. In "From Bombay with Love" it's mentioned that Javed's sister was originally supposed to play his love interest in the film, but their parents objected saying she was too young for the role, so the part was given to Kareena instead.
78* INeverSaidItWasPoison:
79** In "The Party", Sally and Doowee are investigating 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.
80** Also used in "Talent Will Out" when Devindra says he doesn't know anything about a hamster, Sally points out she never mentioned a hamster.
81* InMediasRes: "Cousin Bouleh" starts as Bouleh is getting ready to leave. After that, only short clips of his visit are shown.
82* IKnowKarate: Sally claims to be skilled in Khalariphattyu, an Indian martial art, though she rarely uses it.
83** The one time she actually got into a fight, [[FauxActionGirl she was quickly overpowered]].
84* InsistentTerminology: Sally always calls her outfit a sari, despite it not looking like the traditional example of one.
85* ItAmusedMe: In "Doowee's Urn" Doowee quits the SBI and when he finds himself implicated in a crime Sally pretends she's seriously considering him a suspect in order to mess with him.
86* ItsPersonal: Sally is particularly aggressive on cases that personally affect her or Doowee. Likewise with Doowee if anyone messes with Sally or his gadgets.
87* 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 Mr. Cubbings the janitor, who was given an Australian accent, but one episode revealed he's from Canada. His son Stefan has an appropriate Canadian accent. A little justified as in-series Little Bombay, where the series takes place, is meant to be multicultural and out of it, the show is dubbed by an Australian company and they're trying to vary a few of the voices.
88%%** Season 2 downplays this, somewhat.
89* JustifiedCriminal: 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.
90* KaleidoscopeHair: In "The Sorceress" Luna turns Svetlana's hair lime green and later does the same to Sally.
91* KnightOfCerebus: Occasionally the heroes will end up going up against more serious criminals, such as the art thieves who hold Sally and Doowee hostage in "Trouble in the Museum".
92* LatexPerfection: The masks Doowee's "photomorpher" creates in "Double Trouble." Unfortunately, that just makes it easier to frame Sally.
93%%* LethalChef: Harry
94* LikeBrotherAndSister: There are no hints that Sally and Doowee might become more than friends. Except perhaps for a possible ShipTease with the LostLoveMontage in "SOS Saris".
95** When Doowee reads Sally's diary at the end of "Liz's Secret Diary," it actually refers to him as being like a brother to her.
96* LiteralMetaphor: In "Caught Red Handed" Sally is literally caught red handed when she picks up the can of spray paint.
97* LotusPosition: Sally sometimes does this when she needs to meditate and think.
98* MagicRealism: In one episode Doowee helps Sally reach a window using an Indian rope trick and in another episode Sally hovers in midair while meditating.
99* MissingMom: What happened to Sally's mother is never explained in the show. All we learn about her mother is she was an Indian dancer.
100* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "the White Bear," the S.B.I helps out Louis, the son of local rapper Fluff Daddy [[note]] renamed "Fluff Daffy" for all his later appearances [[/note]]. Nuff said.
101** In "Poster Boy" someone is putting up posters for [[Series/HannahMontana Jeanie Bambini]] around the school.
102%%* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Sally and a lot of other Indian kids. According to the supplementary material, Little Bombay is in New Jersey, but nobody speaks with a New Jersey accent.
103* NotMeThisTime: Out of all the kids Bob has been the guilty party the most times, but there are some episodes where he's just a RedHerring.
104* 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.
105%%* PapaWolf: Harry Bollywood.
106* PaperThinDisguise: In "Storm Clouds Over the SBI" Cindy and Melvin disguise themselves badly as Sally and Doowee. No one questions that "Sally and Doowee" suddenly switched skin tones on the security video. They don't even change clothes. They just put on wigs and generic bandit masks.
107* PrimAndProperBun: Sally has one in "Operation Nerd" when going undercover as a nerd. She dons it again in "The New Girl" along with glasses.
108* ProBonoBarter: Sally and Dowee are still on the level where they're accepting payment in candy (or in one case, in math lessons). All their clients are, after all, kids of their own age or younger.
109* RaceAgainstTheClock: A self-imposed example. The SBI guarantees all cases will be solved within 24 hours. Though there have been a few times where the SBI were on a time limit like "Bus Stop"
110* ReverseWhodunnit: In "Call My Lawyer" the SBI (and the audience) know Bob is the culprit from the start, but the problem is proving it.
111* SadistTeacher: The titular character of "The Formidable Miss Chicago" who replaces the normal maths teacher Miss Smith and makes the kids do maths exercises while balancing on one leg, or other things. [[spoiler: Subverted in that Miss Chicago is Miss Smith in disguise, trying to teach her class a lesson for taking advantage of her kindness, while helping them learn their lessons better]].
112* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: The White Knight from the episode of the same name turned out to be the daughter of the evil king and the founder of Little Bombay.]]
113* SherlockScan: In the first episode, Harry does one on Sally to determine why she was late to school that morning.
114* ShoutOut: Mr Big, the kid who sets up a rival detective agency in the episode of the same name bears a striking resemblance to the main protagonist of Manga/CaseClosed.
115* SmokeOut: Played with in "Caught Red Handed". Sally and Doowee fill the detention room with smoke in order for Sally to make a ClothingSwitch with Audrey so Sally can get another hall pass.
116%%* SnoopingLittleKid
117* 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. [[spoiler: He's not, in case you were wondering. He's just clumsy]].
118%%* SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen/ ValleyGirl: Christina & Cindy talk like this, the former moreso than the latter.
119* StolenGoodReturnedBetter: This is the M.O. of the 'Midnight Mender' in "The Midnight Stitch-Up".
120* SupremeChef: Mrs. Apu, but only when it comes to Indian food. In "Bling Bling" she tries her hand at French cuisine and keeps making mistakes.
121* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Doowee is often a victim of this, with one episode full-on having a RunningGag about him never getting to eat the samosas he kept coming across.
122* TooCleverByHalf: Sally has a big ego and often puts her foot in her mouth by falsely accusing a suspect only to be proven wrong. [[note]] This happens quite frequently. [[/note]]
123* TurnInYourBadge: In "Cockroach Capers" Sally's father bans her from detective work, but she disobeys him to work on a case.
124* TwinSwitch: One episode features a new kid at school doing this with his brothers to win at sports; they're a set of triplets.
125* TVTelephoneEtiquette: In "The Sorceress" when Sally calls Svetlana to confirm something, she just hangs up on her after getting her answer.
126* UnderageCasting: InUniverse. In "High School Musical Mystery" Sally is cast as the grandmother in the school play.
127* UngratefulBastard: Some of the people who hire the S.B.I (i.e. Kevina & Liz) are quite nasty towards the detectives they need to help them out. The latter was so bad in fact, Sally actually considered dropping her case.
128* UnprovokedPervertPayback: In "Double Trouble" Sally sneaks into school disguised as Mr. Watson and accidentally gets him in trouble when she goes into the girls' room out of habit, he follows her and Mrs. Madurpore catches him.
129* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Cosmopolis is likely in Australia, as in "The Black Sheep" there's a stall at the fair selling fairy floss, the Australian term for cotton candy. According to the supplementary material, Little Bombay is supposed to be in New Jersey. There is a Little Bombay in real life New Jersey.

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