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Recap / Simple Samosa Episode 19 "Comic Book"

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Samosa is walking through town one morning when some sudden weird occurrences catch him off-guard (such as multiple cars driving in the same direction at once and close together, a tank driving on the street, water flooding where he's standing, etc.). The camera pans out to reveal this is because it's a story Jalebi is writing. Vada appears and asks Jalebi what she's doing; she says she's drawing something, but advises Vada not to take a peek when she says she'll be right back.

Vada peeks anyway, discovers the story about Samosa, and decides to make a few additions to it. He writes in Mayor Royal Falooda making Samosa his successor; Samosa does so many good deeds as a mayor that he becomes a superhero. Dhokla comes in and asks Vada about the story, and Vada replies that he may look at it, but warns him not to touch anything.

Dhokla makes his own "contributions" to the story, which merely involve him removing Super Samosa's cape and doing stuff such as attaching an anvil to him to speed up his fall. Dhokla laughs hard enough that Vada comes back in and asks what he's laughing about, and he shows Vada and Jalebi what he's done in the story.

Suddenly, a warning is blared outside that the townspeople must evacuate their homes immediately. Dhokla, Jalebi, and Vada go outside to see what's going on and find out that a samosa dinosaur has invaded and, while he has nothing against Chatpata Nagar, he wants four people to take. The other townspeople offer Dhokla, Jalebi, and Vada to him, but the dino is not satisfied - he specifically said four people. The gang tries to call Samosa to help them, but only Jalebi gets any reception on her phone to do so...

...and then she discovers that the dinosaur is, in fact, Samosa himself, prompting her and the others to panic. The camera pans out to reveal Samosa himself is responsible for writing all the events of the episode, and the episode ends with the theme song playing.


"Comic Book" contains the following tropes:

  • Author Powers: Vada gives Samosa superpowers, which are then taken away from him when Dhokla decides to mess around by removing his cape and subjecting him to Zany Cartoon-esque antics such as attaching an anvil to him while he's falling and dropping a safe on him. So, in other words, Samosa is both helped and treated as useless by authors.
  • Bolivian Army Ending: What happens to Dhokla, Jalebi, and Vada after they scream over the discovery that Samosa is the dinosaur who wants to take them, and whether they end up being taken by him at all, is never shown; the camera pans out to reveal Samosa writing the episode's events before it gets to that.
  • Clothes Make the Superman: Dhokla taking away the cape from Samosa causes him to lose his super flight abilities while he's a superhero.
  • The Ending Changes Everything: The ending reveals that the whole episode was written by Samosa, which no other part of the episode references.
  • Eye Pop: Super Samosa's eyes pop when he looks down and realizes he's about to fall to the ground.
  • Flapping Cheeks: Samosa's cheeks and eyelids flap when he falls from the sky as a result of Dhokla removing his cape.
  • Flight: Super Samosa has the ability to fly. When Dhokla removes his cape, it also strips him of this ability.
  • Gainax Ending: Samosa as a dinosaur, with no natural explanation, outside of Jalebi's story, can be justified by the episode being revealed to have been written by Samosa. But then he does the whistling at the beginning of the show's theme song, which plays for the remaining two or so minutes of the episode as if nothing strange just happened.
  • Illogical Safe: One of the things Dhokla does to mess with Samosa in Jalebi's story is to drop a safe on him. The safe opens a second later, revealing Samosa inside.
  • Mind Screw: This episode about the gang writing a story is revealed to be written in its entirety by Samosa himself, hence the uncharacteristically weird happening of him randomly being a dinosaur.
  • Random Events Plot: The story everyone writes goes all over the place in terms of its plot, going from Samosa finding numerous strange happenings as he walks down the street to a story about him becoming a superhero and eventually devolving into him being messed around with by Dhokla.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: Dhokla appears completely out of nowhere when he greets Vada.
  • Superheroes Wear Capes: Super Samosa wears a cape. He loses his ability to fly when Dhokla removes the cape.
  • T. Rexpy: Samosa in his dinosaur form resembles a T-rex.
  • Wrong Parachute Gag: Dhokla gets rid of a perfectly-functioning parachute Samosa is using and eventually replaces it with an anvil attached to his leg.

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