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->''Get a degree, find a job, make a career--''
->''Find the one, start a family, take a high-interest mortgage--''
->''Go to the gym three times a week, buy a 20,000 shekel bike, take proper care of yourself!--''
->''Chase, achieve, surpass, consume, realise, dress up, plan, finance, make a profit, use, calculate, dance, build, wreck, scheme, develop, quit your job, stand out, break out, succeed--''
->''But why should you? Just live.''
-->--'''The show’s promo'''

''Asfour'' (Hebrew: עַסְפוּר) is an Israeli {{dramedy}} series written by Khanan Savyon and Gai Amir, directed by Rani Sa‘ar, and produced by Sumayoko productions.

The series tells the story of Moti Amoyal, a man in his early thirties who decided to ‘quit the rat race’: he lives with his three best friends, Itzik Bensuli, Ra‘anan ‘Katsar’ Avital, and Morley ‘Newton’ Avital, on a little lot Moti inherited from his grandfather, with old unused buses (hence the nickname ‘the Bus Farm’) used as houses and a built-in shower and kitchen and anything they need, in the outskirts of Jerusalem. Moti has a job washing bodies before their funerals and Itzik works at a local garage, while Katsar and Newton get their food from a local soup kitchen.

The trouble starts when Moti is informed by the Jerusalem city hall that he has a debt of 750,321 NIS, due to his late grandfather allowing criminals to use the place as a dumping ground for their waste. He has two months to get the sum, lest the four get evacuated and have nowhere to live.

This just gets more complicated, as it turns out that Moti, in a trip to India he had before the show began, had a passionate romance with an Israeli traveller he found there. Said woman, Shir Ambar, is now back in Israel, and her boyfriend, ‘Amit Peled, [[WellDoneSonGuy trying to impress his father Yaïr into getting his father’s appreciation]] and a promotion (he works for his father’s insurance company, Peled Insurance), [[MagnificentBastard is doing everything in his power to make Moti and his friend fail at getting the money]] and get the lot for himself, as he finds out the city hall has big building plans for the lot, making it worth millions.

Add to that a LoveTriangle with both [[BettyAndVeronica Moti and ‘Amit]] trying to get and hold onto Shir, Shir’s best friend friend Yuli Barkai and her quest for love, some shady connections to organised crime, Moti’s complicated relationship with his family, Moti’s sister Sivan trying to get the money for the class trip to Poland[[note]]Israeli sophomore students usually go to Poland to see the ghettos, concentration camps, and whatnot to get a seriously toned down experience of what the Holocaust was like. Students usually raise the money to go themselves, but often help each other out. The trip is quite controversial, partially due to its high costs, as students have to pay extra for keeping all the food kosher, even though many students couldn’t care less about kosher laws.[[/note]] and budding romance with her shady classmate Tavor, mix it all up with the recurring themes of social casting, morality, and faith and you got one of the most critically acclaimed series in Israeli Television ever.
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!!This series provides examples of:

* AbusiveParent: Itzik’s father. The gang mentions he used to beat Itzik before the latter ran away from home (they said he frequently gave him ''kafot''[[note]]כָּאפוֹת, sing. ''kafa'' כָּאפָה, an open-hand blow either to the back of the head or neck or to the face; when delivered to the face, it differs from a slap in that a ''kafa'' uses the whole arm or forearm instead of a flick of the wrist[[/note]], but the fact it was so bad he ran from home implies it was likely more than just that). They treat it lightheartedly, saying he deserved every ''kafa'' he got.
* TheAtoner: Itzik. Once, he makes amends with a religious woman he slept with and ruined her ''shidduch'' (amusingly, she wanted him [[spoiler:to sleep with her again, this time with her as a dominatrix]]). Twice, [[spoiler:he, together with Newton and Katsar, asks Moti burn him alive, saying what they did was entirely unforgivable. Moti only softens up when Newton clumsily screws up pouring gas over himself, making everyone laugh.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: Moti and ‘Amit. YMMV on which is which, as Moti leads a simple life while ‘Amit leads a more high-class life, yet everyone expects Shir to follow conventions and be with ‘Amit instead of living on a ‘bus farm’.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Moti and Victor. It’s nigh impossible to get Moti ''really'' furious, and Victor seems to be a nice person in his few appearances, but you should never, ''ever'' cross the line with those two.
* BilingualBonus: Watching the gang talk in their special Jerusalem jargon tends to make one feel that way. It doesn’t help that occasionally some words are difficult (or even impossible) to understand from context, and that cultural memes like the ''tishpishti''[[note]]Mediterranean walnut and semolina cake[[/note]] and the ''dola and zurna''[[note]]a traditional wedding dance among Kurds and Turks[[/note]] are usually not understood by common Israelis.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Avigail, Shir’s mother, is a subversion. She tends to act like that to Moti, finally even [[spoiler:publicly calling him a thief after he tried proposing to Shir with a ring he didn’t know Itzik had stolen from Avigail]], but it’s all due to genuine concern for her daughter.
* BittersweetEnding: The first season’s would have been a DownerEnding, had it not been for the fact that [[spoiler:Tavor is, despite everything, back on the straight and narrow, and Itzik is not only [[FakingTheDead alive]], but he also gets to be with Juliet.]]
* BookDumb: Newton. He is actually not quite as stupid as he tends to think he is every now and then.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Tsuf and Saragousti. The only gay character that doesn’t die is Yaniv, Katsar’s and Newton’s cousin, who just shows up for a brief [[FanService striptease session]] and never says a word.]]
* ButtMonkey: Newton.
* TheCasanova: Itzik. Oh God, Itzik. What’s even more amazing is that the person he’s based on dwarfs the fictionalised character. It leads to a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when he leaves his room wearing [[BadassBoast red underpants, a red cape, and a]] Franchise/{{Superman}} [[BadassBoast T-shirt]].
* CannotSpitItOut: Moti never tells Shir he left her because he knew their positions in society were too far apart (he comes from a poor family, the son of a poor night guard; she is from the very top of society, the daughter of the late Mikhael Ambar, a very successful criminal lawyer), or why he was troubled around her (he overheard Avigail badmouthing him in front of Shir over the phone, when Shir accidentally answers his phone call instead of filtering it). Also, his code of honour never lets him rat out his friends, even after they’re no longer his friends. [[spoiler:This is why he never tells anyone how he got the ring, even after Itzik confesses he stole it.]]
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Itai won’t listen to Shir when she tells him Saragousti is gone.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: ‘What, ain’t that right?’
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Inverted: Itzik pretends to be doing this with porn on when Moti catches him continuing his Poker scheme.
* ChekhovsGun: Moti’s work at the morgue, as well as [[spoiler:their charity acts close to the beginning]].
* CerebusSyndrome
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Averted. Skin tone and non-Ashkenazi heritage do not prevent anyone from fitting into high society. Invoked only once when Sivan accused her friend Mor of bigotry when she expressed suspicion at Tavor.
-->'''Sivan:''' Just because he has one more pigment than you do makes you think you’re better than him! You’re being a hypocrite and it’s getting on my nerves!
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:By the end of season 1, Moti gets to keep his land and ‘Amit gets Shir, meaning they both got something they fought the other for. In the end of the second last episode, Moti shares a peaceful drink with ‘Amit on the Farm.]]
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: After a night of heavy drinking, Katsar wakes up next to [[spoiler:Newton’s now ex-girlfriend Orli]]. He panics. [[spoiler:He later finds out he just got drunk, vomited all over himself, and crashed in Orli’s hotel room. She cleaned his clothes and let them dry in the bathroom to hang.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Jackito gives Itzik, Newton, and Katsar a rather poor sum for their stolen jewelry. Later, Itzik [[spoiler:turns him in to the police]]. Justified, as this is [[spoiler:part of his deal with the police, in exchange for a clean record]].
* DistractedByTheSexy: Itzik is tempted to stay a bit too long with his, ahem, ‘ladyfriend’ who works for city hall. He makes it back to the Bus Farm in the nick of time to tell Moti not to sell the lot to ‘Amit.
* DomesticAbuse: Kobi does this to his wife when she [[spoiler:wants them to discuss their relationship, implying they’re miserable]].
* DoubleStandard: Kobi constantly cheats on his wife and barely even bothers to see her. He just supports her financially and goes on with his daily business. When his wife has an affair [[spoiler:with Itzik]], Kobi becomes [[{{Determinator}} determined]] to kill him, even before he knew who it was.
* DumbMuscle: Kobi’s henchman Mishtawa
* DysfunctionJunction: The gang and ‘Amit.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Mishtawa. Presumably named so after the Hebrew word ''mishtara'' (מִשְׁטָרָה), ‘police’ (in other words, an American equivalent would be ‘Puweece’).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Itzik says he’d sooner chop off his dick than touch a friend’s woman.
** Moti is more than willing to trick the government in any way possible, including laundering money and tricking the IRS, but would never cheat anyone ‘with a face’ out of anything.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Juliette.
* FailedASpotCheck: Newton tries hinting to someone that he has pot to sell. That someone is an undercover cop. This on its own is not so bad, only Newton does increasingly more obvious gestures and clearer language, to the point he mimics quite grotesquely the act of smoking a joint.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Trying to open a bank account without a steady income and ''while high'' is not wise. (It is, however, quite hillarious to watch.)
* FreudianExcuse: Tavor says his life of crime was because he’s ‘never had anyone to make [him] sandwiches for school’ ever since he was a kid. As he lives on his own in his own apartment, it’s implied his family neglected him.
** Yaïr qualifies too, as he [[spoiler:was mean to ‘Amit because he thought he was stealing his wife from him when he was a kid, making him extra-mean to him]].
** Kobi might qualify, as [[spoiler:Saragousti damn near blew his head off when he caught him having sex with another man]].
* {{GIRL}}: One of the identities the gang assumes for their online Poker scheme.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Victor was shown smoking a hookah. Practically everyone smokes pot. The more morally ambiguous Itzik and Kobi smoke cigarettes.
* GratuitousEnglish: Slipping occasional English phrases is an indicator of high social standing. ‘Amit does this a ''lot''. This is in contrast with the gang’s language, which is riddled with expressions from Arabic, Kurdish, etc.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Moti, though he seems to be a very, very moral person, seems to have a rather [[BlueAndOrangeMorality strange]] view on morality, claiming that it’s OK to fool the IRS because they’re ‘faceless’.
** As a matter of fact, this is pretty much what gets the whole plot going (see LaserGuidedKarma below).
* GroinAttack:
** Brief scene played for laughs. Katsar kicks the ball at Newton’s soft spot during a game of penalties[[note]]that is, a game in which two players take turns trying to kick the ball past their opponent into his/her ‘goal’, practically leaving out the whole [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball footy]] part and leaving just the penalties[[/note]].
** Played more seriously when Shir knees a police higher-up who hits on her, threatening to release info about him if he doesn’t reveal info about her father.
* HeroicSacrifice: Played straight and [[spoiler:narrowly averted]] by Itzik. [[spoiler:He turns himself in for stealing the ring in an attempt to make amends with Moti, and in the last two episodes of the season he fakes his own death to incriminate Kobi.]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Saragousti, at least until TheReveal.
* HollywoodAtheist: Played with. Moti seems to become more or less faithful (he’s never full-on religious or anything) depending on how good his luck is. The most notable example is his reaction when [[spoiler:his teenage friend Hilel dies]], telling his rabbi boss God cannot possibly exist.
* HowWeGotHere: The first episode shows Moti, Newton, and Katsar, standing next to a fresh grave, and putting a funeral wreath with a ribbon saying, ‘Farwell, say hi to Zohar’. The show backs up two months, showing only one more scene from the end of the plot at the end of the episode (Shir coming by car in her wedding dress with teary eyes, taking the veil off her head). What exactly happened is revealed entirely only on the last episode.
* InformedAbility: Shir can, apparently, interpret people and social situations very well; as she put it, she has ‘HD vision[[note]]The series came out when HDTVs were all the rage[[/note]]’, except when she’s in love. This was only brought up in the introductory short clip about her and never again, possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact she pretty much spends the whole series going in an out of a relationship.
* InNameOnly: Katsar wears a yarmukle, but barely shows any signs of actually being religious. At one point Moti brings to the Bus Farm a girl he had a relationship with long ago, and asks where his yarmukle is, and he says, ‘In my pocket.’ She is amused and says, ‘Same old Katsar!’
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The creators tried suggesting their idea as a ‘daily drama’ (basically a euphemism for ‘telenovela aimed at bored housewives’), in the ‘daily drama’ time slot. They were told it won’t work, as a daily drama ‘has a very specific part’. Heh...
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Kobi literally gets away with murder, at least as of season 1.]]
* TheLancer: Mor is Sivan’s. Shir might also qualify for a while, as Moti says once that she completes him, making him a better person, a ‘Super-Moti’.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Yuli introduces her new boyfriend Bo‘az to Shir. Bo‘az tries to hit on Shir. Shir tricks him into getting handcuffed to the bed with a blindfold on [[WomanScorned while Yuli tasers him thoroughly]]. Both ‘Amit and the gang get screwed over for every immoral trick they play for their gains. [[spoiler:Saragousti, being the worst offender, gets the worst hit.]] At the end, [[spoiler:it’s Moti’s one entirely selfless act of bringing Tsuf back together with his Haredic brother Sha‘ya that gets them the money, as Tsuf is insanely rich and bequoth it to Moti in gratitude]].
* LastNameBasis: Saragousti is only known by his last name. Hell, even that might be an alias.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: You better not watch the second season’s trailers unless you know [[spoiler:Itzik is not dead]].
* LawOfInversePaternity: Subverted. [[spoiler:Yuli winds up pregnant and thinks ‘Amit is the father and [[HideYourPregnancy tries to hide it]], but she finds out on the last episode it’s Itai. Luckily, it takes place after their LoveEpiphany.]]
* LocalHangout: For the gang, it’s the ‘Diwan’, a local simple pub run by the Christian Arab Amir; for Shir, ‘Amit, Itai, and Yuli, it’s ‘Eldad’, a fancy restaurant.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Poor Yuli. [[spoiler: Good thing she gets that LoveEpiphany and gets together with Itai at the end of season 1.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Shir’s father turns out to have been Moti’s grandfather’s lawyer, killed in a mock-car crash by Saragousti as a warning to Victor to keep letting them dump bodies on his lot.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Kobi is this to Saragousti, who became an unresponsive vegetable after Victor attacked him. He uses his still body in a dim light to invoke his authority and intimidate Itzik, and in the series finale he offers to hand him over to the police as part of a deal he makes after attempting to kill Itzik, and [[WoundedGazelleGambit has a pretend shoot-out when the police comes to arrest him]].]]
* MemeticMolester: In-universe example: Newton tells Orli about their childhood friend Yonatan ‘Don’t Touch Me’, who avoided touch like the plague. After a few years they found out it was due to him being a victim of Danny ‘Buddies’, ‘some freak who’d walk around the city park, showing kids his “parrot”[[note]]In Hebrew, ‘bulbul’ (pronounced the same in Hebrew) is the equivalent for ‘willie’.[[/note]]’.
* MistakenForSpies: Itzik suspects Shir of being the mole after she makes him stop the Poker scheme. He finds it suspicious she got back together with Moti shortly after ‘Amit failed to make Moti sell him the lot.
* TheModestOrgasm: Shown in a flashback from when Moti and Shir were in India. Justified, as they were trying not to wake up Yuli, who was ''[[GetARoom in the room with them]]''.
* MoodWhiplash: When Shir is introduced to the gang and asks how Katsar (קָצַר, Hebrew for ‘short’) got his name. Moti says it was because ‘his father was born with no legs’. This is just a mean joke: Katsar is named so for his short temper.
* MoralGuardians: The series was moved to a later hour and limited to viewers aged 18 and up due to JustForFun/{{egregious}} use of cannabis.
* MundaneSolution: Katsar and Newton both apply for a job at Mazal Okhayun’s ''pitsutsiya''[[note]]פִּצּוּצִיָּה, in standard Hebrew ''yemamit'' יְמָמִית, is a sort of an Israeli hybrid between a kiosk and an American convenience store.[[/note]]. She gives them the ‘100 Test’: she gives them the imaginary scenario of a man walking in with exactly 100 NIS to spend. Both then have to find items that cost exactly 100 NIS in total. Newton goes first, grabs an assortment of products, reaching about 94 NIS. Katsar, in turn, says, ‘Three Gato Negros[[note]]‘Gato Negro’ is the name of a brand of poor wine.[[/note]].’ He wins: Newton never noticed the sign saying ‘SALE: 3 Gato Negros for 100 NIS’.
* NeckLift: [[spoiler:After Itzik tells Moti about the cable scheme, the ring, and how they lost all their money in the Poker scheme, Moti furiously jumps on Itzik, knocking him down, and nearly strangles him to death (Newton and Katsar can be heard shouting, ‘He’s going purple!’). He doesn’t lift him up and does this out of sheer fury, but considering how Itzik tried getting the money behind his back and turning Katsar and Newton against him, this can be an assertion of dominance.]]
* NoodleIncident: We might have a clue, based on Itzik’s most obvious defining trait, but what exactly happened between him and Mazal is never brought up in full. All we know is that Mazal hates Itzik’s guts.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: [[spoiler:Yuli thinks she’s pregnant with ‘Amit’s child because she hasn’t had her period. Turned out she stopped having periods beforehand, that was just normal ‘bleeding’; the child was conceived during previous sex with Itai.]]
* OhCrap: Itzik finds out [[spoiler:he’s been having an affair with Kobi’s wife]].
* OneHourWorkWeek: Itai. [[spoiler:Then it turns out to be a cover up; he is actually an undercover cop.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Katsar and Newton. Their real name comes from WordOfGod.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The basis of practically all interactions between characters.
* {{Pride}}: [[spoiler:Itzik never should have continued the Poker and cable schemes behind Moti’s back.]]
* PullTheThread: Newton goes on a date with a Hebrew University student named Orli. He pretends to be a student of architecture, but it turns out he didn't think to check his facts: there is no architecture faculty in Jerusalem, and Orli thinks he goes every day to the Tel-Aviv University to study there (that’s about one hour by car in either direction, if you’re lucky enough to avoid traffic). Newton decides to stop lying, tell her his true situation, which makes her think of him as honest and refreshing, soon becoming his girlfriend.
* {{Ragequit}}: Katsar does this to Newton as he’s about to lose a game of Backgammon, to make it a ‘technical loss’ that somehow ‘doesn’t count’.
* ReallyGetsAround: Yuli and Itai.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The last episode reveals Saragousti survived Victor’s vicious attack, only to become severely retarded and completely unable to function. Kobi has been keeping as the now retarded shell of a man, was not the one behind Kobi; Kobi used him to pretend he was ‘JustFollowingOrders’ and had information of someone greater than himself.]]
** A less dramatic one: [[spoiler:Juliette is Kobi’s wife]].
* RightThroughTheWall: Newton and Orli. As it turns out, Newton is an outstanding lover.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Invoked. When the gang goes to open a bank account to save money while high, Katsar asks the clerk, a woman, who is already impatient towards them, for a ''metsitsa''[[note]]מְצִיצָה, lit. ‘sucking’, as in ‘the action of sucking something out of something else; pl. ''metsitsot'' מְצִיצוֹת[[/note]]. She kicks them out angrily (as this word means ‘blowjob’ anywhere in Israel but Jerusalem), and they explain they were referring to the lolipops (that’s what that word means in Jerusalem) on the table.
* SexGod: Newton turns out to be mind-blowing good in bed.
* ShoutOut: Newton pretending to be a student of architecture might be a ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Itzik argues with Shir about the efficiency of getting money through hard work. Also, Moti’s views on social classes and fate along the course of the series.
* SmallReferencePools: Averted. The setting is in Jerusalem, where, frankly, relatively few cinematic works seem to take place. The characters, especially the gang, use loads of Jerusalem slang most Israelis have to interpret from context. Two words had to be given a translation in parentheses in the closed captions.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Newton explains his plan (with a drawing board and a silly attempt at looking organised and formal and all that jazz) to get Zuta’s winning lottery ticket for their money laundering scheme. His explanation begins thus:
-->'''Newton:''' Zuta, as we all know, is a son of a whore.
* {{Tagline}}: ‘Working black[[note]]that is, without reporting to the IRS[[/note]], smoking green[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke that is, smoking pot]][[/note]], and seeing pink[[note]]that is, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant looking at the world with an optimistic view]][[/note]].’ There is also Itzik’s famous quote: ‘You can only see a pink world[[note]]that is, [[SugarBowl a happy and optimistic world]][[/note]] through red eyes.’
* TerribleTrio: Kobi, Tavor, and Mishtawa.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Katsar and Newton.
* TitleDrop: The first episode has Victor calling Moti ‘Asfour’ (from Arabic عصفور ''ʿaṣfūr'', ‘a swallow’), saying it’s some sort of a bird that brings good fortune. Later on it’s used in its other meaning: Israeli law-enforcing jargon for ‘police informant’.
* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler:Obviously Itai. He gives Shir bold hints about it to Shir because of her snooping around.]]
* UnusualEuphemism: Newton asks [[spoiler:Katsar]] whether he played ''hanakhash ba''[[note]]הַנָּחָשׁ בָּא, lit. ‘the snake is coming’, an Israeli children game in which a group of kids surround one kid who declares, ‘The snake is coming,’ then swings a piece of rope or a long stick in a circle, eliminating anyone who fails to jump the rope/stick in time; this is done several times till everyone is eliminated. Pretty much the same concept as the Sweeper from VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}.[[/note]] with Orli.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Based on Itzik Savyon, Khanan’s brother, and Moti Levi, who used to live in an abandoned bus on the mountains of Jerusalem. The other two friends are also based on real people. Moti Levi is really a good person: he founded a charity organisation called ‘Youth of Light’, dedicated to helping teenagers at risk.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Downplayed and occasionally subverted. ‘Amit tries to get his father’s approval due to a great part to the promotion his father put up for him. He also doesn’t seem to obsess to much about it, even threatening to leave his father’s company. It turns out [[spoiler:Yaïr resents his son because he felt ‘Amit ‘stole’ his wife from him, tearing their marriage apart before her untimely death]]. Moti also has issues with his father, Reuven, who strongly disapproves of his son’s lifestyle, to the point Moti generally avoids his father when he comes to visit and his father doesn’t hesitate to call him a thief at one crucial point. Moti doesn’t want to live up to his father’s expectations, but rather to accept his way of life.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Katsar never remembers anything he did once he becomes sober. The gang, in their usual RunningGag, tell him he does all sorts of crazy stuff when he’s drunk, which he believes. [[spoiler:Moti finally tells him about it when Katsar tells him he slept with Orli while drunk and doesn’t remember it. That’s how Katsar realises he never slept with Orli.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Yuli and Itai, to some extent.
* WitnessProtection: [[spoiler:Itzik gets to live in hiding from Kobi with Juliette under the name Izho.]]
* YouCantFightFate: [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]]. Moti claims this on the first episode adn the theme is explored, but it generally seems characters believe in it mostly in relation to good profecies and when they’re luck turns for the better.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Kobi eventually pulls this off on Saragousti.]]