The Walt Disney Company

**The Walt Disney Company**, often referred to just **Disney** for short, is an American media conglomerate that was founded in 1923 by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. The company, which is headquartered in Burbank, California, is well-known for producing many different animated films and TV shows. Their first feature film, *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937), was also the first animated feature-length film to ever be produced in the United States. For a long time, many of the company's subsidiaries, in particular their international television distribution and home entertainment branches, went by the name Buena Vista and are still legally known as that.

Disney is also one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, having sought to acquire multiple properties to expand their already large company. Among their acquisitions are the film studio Pixar, the American television station ABC and its sister channels, Jim Henson's *Muppets* franchise, Lucasfilm (famous for *Star Wars*), the Marvel comics company, and 21st Century Fox (the owners of 20th Century Studios, formerly 20th Century Fox, and most of the Fox television stations).

Disney's Indian branch, simply called The Walt Disney Company India, owns Disney Channel India, the producers and broadcasters of *Simple Samosa*, as well as its sister channel Disney Junior India which also airs the show. Disney also owns the Hotstar streaming service which has the show.

## References to *Simple Samosa* in other Disney properties

* *Bhaagam Bhaag* (Disney Channel India, 2019-present): The series' main character, Sunny, owns a backpack depicting Samosa on it. (Sanjiv Waeerkar, the creator of *Simple Samosa*, also created *Bhaagam Bhaag*.)

## References to Disney and its other properties in *Simple Samosa*

* "Sumo Momo": While it is unknown if this was intentional, the episode's plot greatly resembles that of the 2013 *Mickey Mouse* cartoon's episode "Tapped Out". Both episodes are about the main character bragging that he could defeat a wrestler if he tried and being made to do so under the assumption he was being serious, and both have a character (Samosa in "Sumo Momo", Donald in "Tapped Out") going into a rage and beating up the wrestler.
* "Samosa Mama": The courthouse's wi-fi password is "D-I-S-N-E-Y".
* "Banana Fontana": The name of the popstar Banana Fontana is most likely a reference to the American Disney television series *Hannah Montana*.
* "Sauce Awakens": The episode is named after *The Force Awakens*, the seventh *Star Wars* film. Lucasfilm, which produces the *Star Wars* films, is owned by Disney.
* "Simple Hitchki": The password to enter the room in Doctor Goti Sodawala's hospital containing the uncured hiccup patients is "DISNEY".
* "Mission 925": Dhokla watches a soap opera called *Yeh Nashta Kya Kehlata Hai*, whose name is a pun on the title of *Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai*, an actual Indian soap opera. *Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai* airs on StarPlus, which was one of the Fox properties and thus acquired by Disney when they purchased Fox in 2019.

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One of Disney's previous theatrical logos, used from 2006 to 2022 in films (on-screen text read "Walt Disney Pictures" until 2011).