Samir

### Description

Giant, pink, fat, dancing (formerly), anthropomorphic Indian rhinoceros wearing a red and purple sleeveless vest, pants, and yellow magic shoes (formerly)

### Occupation

Nefir's slave (formerly), Getzistan Destroyer (formerly), and Getzistan citizen

### Goal

To "dance" and "destroy" (formerly), to get the magic shoes off of his feet

### Friends

Aladdin, Genie, Iago, Abu, Carpet, and Sultan Pasta Al-Dente

### Fate

Becomes a Getzistan citizen after Aladdin and his friends help him destroy his magic shoes.

### Quote

"Hi."
"I learned a lot from that relationship, and that's when I decided to come to Getzistan."
"It's these shoes. I woke up one day, and there they were, right there on my feet. I can't get 'em off. Every night, I hear this fun-kay music. And, well, you know I... "Gotta dance!" It's the darndest thing, really"
"Imps! Yeah, that makes sense."
"Play dat funky music, imp-boy!"

**Samir** is a character who appears in the *Aladdin* episode, "Never Say Nefir". He was voiced by Michael Gough.

## Description

Samir is a giant, pink, fat, dancing (formerly), anthropomorphic Indian rhinoceros who wears a red and purple sleeveless vest, pants, and yellow magic shoes (formerly).

## Role in the episode

For some unknown reason, Samir is commonly known for destroying the city of Getzistan almost every night, therefore, earning him the alias "Samir the Destroyer" by its ruler, Sultan Pasta Al-Dente and forcing the latter to have his contractors: Nefir Hasenuf and his imps constantly rebuild the city despite the price augmenting drastically everyday.

One night, Samir arrives once again to destroy the city by simply dancing to a strange music being mysteriously played in the background rather than using brute force or any other form of violence; much to Aladdin and his friends: Genie, Iago, Abu, and Carpet's surprise. However, Genie's various attempts to stop Samir from destroying anymore buildings prove futile; having accidentally knocked Aladdin out temporarily with a tranquilizing dart at one point. As the music comes to an end, Samir delivers a finale by smashing a casino with Genie and Iago in it before departing; leaving the entire city in ruin once again.

The next day, Samir is sleeping in his cave somewhere in the next valley, only to wake up and find himself having received an unexpected yet delightful visit from Genie, having been led by Nefir to capture him in order to impress Aladdin after last night's disaster. Later, Samir is seen with Genie (in giant form) having tea and cupcakes in his cave. When Genie asks the reason for his dancing leading to Getzistan's destruction every night, Samir reveals that the yellow shoes he wears are in fact, magic dancing shoes; stating that one day, he woke up to find them on his feet, but can't get them off and every night, whenever he hears some "fun-kay" music playing, he's "gotta dance"; much to his reluctance. No sooner is Genie's question as to who would want to destroy the city every night is answered than when Nefir and his imps deliberately reveal themselves as the culprits behind the entire scheme all along before capturing Genie and putting dancing shoes on him as well; much to Genie and Samir's chagrin.

Later, in the afternoon, Samir and now Genie are seen dancing their way to Getzistan; much to Aladdin and his friends' shock and surprise. As they dance, Samir greets Aladdin while Genie reveals everything to Aladdin, thus, making the latter realize that Nefir is running a royal scam, so, he decides to help both Samir and Genie take the shoes off by any means necessary.

At night, when Nefir's imps play some music, Samir and Genie dance and destroy the city once again until they are thankfully lured away by Aladdin's flute playing. However, Nefir has his imps play something louder, which forces Samir and Genie to dance back into the city and resume destroying everything. Then, Genie has Aladdin and the others play something softer, which makes Samir and Genie dance their way out again but with grace this time until Nefir, refusing to admit defeat, now has his imps play something faster; forcing Samir and Genie to dance back faster while causing more destruction on the way. Luckily, when Genie notices his feet and especially, the shoes burning up while dancing faster, he asks Aladdin and the others to play faster, therefore, making the latter realize that the faster they play, the sooner the magic shoes are destroyed. So, Aladdin and the others start playing faster before Nefir's imps naively join along as well. Then, Samir and Genie are seen dancing faster until the shoes are finally destroyed once and for all and they are free at last; much to Nefir's chagrin who then gets captured by Genie for his treachery and deceit when trying to flee.

Having been made an official Getzistan citizen by Sultan Al-Dente the next day, Samir is last seen lifting a tent and sarcastically asking Nefir and his imps to "play dat funky music" before they reluctantly perform the can-can during a floor show due to having been forced to wear dancing shoes as punishment.

## Gallery

Samir dancingSamir tiptoeing while dancingSamir dancing and destroyingSamir dancing despite being temporarily tied upSamir's finaleSamir sleeping in his caveSamir meets Genie: "Hi.""I learned a lot from that relationship,...""... and that's when I decided to come to Getzistan.""It's these shoes. I woke up one day, and there they were, right there on my feet.""I can't get 'em off.""Every night, I hear this fun-kay music.""And, well, you know I... "Gotta dance!""It's the darndest thing, really.""Imps!""Yeah, that makes sense."Samir shocked to see Genie get captured by Nefir and his impsSamir and now Genie dancing togetherSamir meets Aladdin: "Hi."Samir and Genie dancing and destroying due to Nefir and his imps' musicSamir and Genie dancing away from the city due to Aladdin's fluteSamir and Genie dancing back to the city due to Nefir and his imps' loud musicSamir and Genie dancing againSamir and Genie dancing softly away with grace due to Aladdin and his friends' soft musicSamir and Genie dancing softlySamir and Genie spinning fast while dancingSamir and Genie Russian dancing back due to Nefir's fast musicSamir and Genie dancing faster due to everyone's very fast musicSamir and Genie's shoes' destruction due to fast dancingSamir and Genie released from their magic shoes' enchantment"Play dat funky music, imp-boy! "
## Trivia

* Although Samir is never seen again, he was mentioned again by Aladdin in the episode, "My Fair Aladdin" when he mentions how he "fought a giant dancing rhinoceros just the other week at sword point" despite the latter having aired before "Never Say Nefir".
* It is possible to conclude that since some pachyderm dancers like hippos and elephants were used in Disney's *Fantasia*s musical segment, the "Dance of the Hours", they decided to add and create another pachyderm dancer in this *Aladdin* episode, namely a rhino (only more gigantic).