Sammy Jacobs is the main protagonist and narrator of the fifty-seventh book in the Goosebumps series, My Best Friend Is Invisible, and its television adaptation.
History[]
Middletown resident Sammy Jacobs has always loved science fiction books and films, which causes his parents, who are both scientists, to be always trying to make him like real science. Aside from Sammy, Simon is a kid with a small imagination who, like his parents, love science.
When Sammy meets Brent Green, Sammy keeps trying to convince his parents that Brent is real, but they don't believe him, and this leads them to eventually think he needs a psychologist. Even Roxanne Johnson, his best friend, doesn't believe him.
However, Sammy has an idea to show Brent to his parents. He grabs a Molecule Detector Light, which is a special flashlight their parents developed, and it allows people to see things that you normally can't see. Sammy points the light to Brent, finally revealing his real body. Shocked, Sammy screams that Brent is a monster. It is then revealed that Brent is a normal human who was turned invisible by his mother, and Sammy and all the other characters are actually aliens who have colonized Earth and replaced humans. Sammy asks his parents if he can keep Brent as a pet, but his father comments that they will send him to a zoo, as humans are an endangered species.
General information[]
Personality[]
Sammy has a great imagination, and he often daydreams about ghosts, monsters and other supernatural creatures.
Physical appearance[]
As described in the book, Sammy has five eyes, more than one head and several long arms. Instead of hair, he has antennae, tendrils and suction pods in the top of his heads. In the episode, Sammy, like everyone else (besides Brent) look like normal human beings, but they can project their faces into the back of their heads.
Trivia[]
- Unlike most Goosebumps books, the reader only gets a physical description of the protagonist in the last chapter.
- In the TV episode, it is implied that Sammy and his parents kill Brent after revealing themselves to be aliens, instead of taking him to a zoo.
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