Sally Bollywood

A French-Australian animated series following the adventures of Kid Detectives Sally Bollywood and Doowee McAdam, who together form the private detective agency SBI (Sally Bollywood Investigations).

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Tropes used in Sally Bollywood include:

• Adults Are Useless: Usually played straight.
  • Averted with Harry Bollywood. His daughter had to get her talent from somewhere, after all.
• Aerith and Bob: Sally and... Doowee? What?
• Ambidextrous Sprite: The elephant on Sally's top keeps changing direction.
• An Aesop
• Bare Your Midriff: Sally
• Born Detective: Sally
• Chase Scene: Once an Episode.
• Cool Old Lady: Mrs. Apu
• Costume Copycat: 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.
• Culture Equals Costume: Her name is "Bollywood", and she looks the part.
• Da Chief: Sally, Harry and the Principal kind of take turns at his role.
• Disguised in Drag: Doowee at one point in "The Egg War". He isn't pleased about it.
• Elaborate University High
• Everybody Do the Endless Loop
• Fair Play Whodunnit: It's usually pretty easy to figure out who the culprit is before the unmasking.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Doowee
• Hollywood Hacking: Doowee can hack into anything within seconds by tapping random keys.
• Idiosyncratic Wipes
• Like Brother and Sister: There are no hints that Sally and Doowee might become more than friends.
• Lotus Position: Sally sometimes does this when she needs to meditate and think.
• Missing Mom: What happened to Sally's mother is never explained.
• Papa Wolf: Harry Bollywood.
• Pro Bono Barter: 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.
• Race Against the Clock: A self-imposed example. The SBI guarantees all cases will be solved within 24 hours.
• Snooping Little Kid
• Sympathetic Criminal: Some of the culprits turn out to have a sympathetic motive.
• Token White: Doowee, as well as a few side characters. The series takes place in a primarily Indian community.
  • Though Cosmopolis as a whole seems to be a very racially diverse city, and Sally's clients may be of any race or ethnicity.
• Turn in Your Badge: In "Cockroach Capers" Sally's father bans her from detective work, but she disobeys him to work on a case.
• Where the Hell is Cosmopolis?
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair