wait remember sanjay and craig the 2013 buddy comedy show that follows the adventure of sanjay
and his friend craig who is a talking snake despite having three seasons with 60 episodes
the majority of talk around the show seem to be heading more negative and i'll admit this less
than stellar word of mouth definitely pushed me away from giving the show a proper watch but today
i wanted to give the show an actual chance for myself since it's been 9 years from the
original release of sanjay and greg let's look into what this show was how it came to be what
happened to the show and if the word of mouth i heard was warranted or not it's perfect math
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y'all know what's happening sanjay and craig for lack of a better word is interesting sanjay patel
is your average kid struggling to fit in with others around him or make the impression he wants
to make on his crush craig slithers is a snake but really only in appearance as after the two of them
become best friends in the best friend's hall of fame which there is no best friend's hall of fame
they made that up he can talk with very few in on that secret to pull off a lot of the stuff these
two get into craig usually dons many disguises to blend into the everyday human world sanjay voiced
by malik pancholi lives out his day-to-day life in the town of lundgren with craig voiced by chris
hardwick as they get into some silly adventures in scenarios that often cause them to navigate
around their neighbor mr newdman who hates snakes he is voiced by tony hale a typical episode would
play out with our duo getting into random everyday situations that can sometimes turn into way more
exciting over-the-top adventures which at the time did pull in parallels from regular show
although i never felt that the two were close enough for that to be a true fair comparison
adventures ranging from trying to find a new laugh as they think that theirs are annoying to trying
to find a secret pool in the middle of the woods there's a lot of different adventures and things
for these characters to do what's nice is the relationship between sanjay and craig with craig
being more than a pet to sanjay plus he hates when you call him that it showcases a great friendship
that while they get to be wacky and have fun as a kid and i guess a snake should there is heart here
he does have a friend group consisting of hector and megan hector voiced by matt jones can be a bit
much to handle sometimes he has an eye patch and has a crush on megan who doesn't have a crush on
him but rather has a slight one on sanjay who he doesn't reciprocate back because he has a crush
on an older girl belle who works at their main hangout place i know that sentence was a mouthful
but we're moving on megan voiced by linda carlini is often shown being a caring friend with big
goals in her own life sanjay's home life consists of his parents vijay and darlene patel who both
know about craig's ability to speak voiced by kunal nayer and gray delisle they are pretty
busy dealing with their jobs where vijay owns and operates a clearance store and darlene is a nurse
and surgeon at the hospital going back to the neighbor he's essentially the show's antagonist
if you'd like to call him that he has a fear of snakes thanks to his father who would constantly
pull pranks that scarred him when he was younger making him have a strong dislike of his father
and snakes he knows something's up about craig and will stop at nothing when given the chance to go
after him and by extension sanjay the show is full of some fun and weird characters to mix in with a
bunch of slapstick and sometimes gross out comedy the voice cast beyond this is stacked from small
one-off characters to many reprisal characters so it was always engaging based on the talents
for what the show had to offer but the show had a quite uplifting journey from concept to production
with the show being turned down multiple times so let's take a look into how sanjay and craig
came to be okay stop hugging my grandma we'll get ready for more sanjay and craig up next
j howell jim dershberger and andreas trolf the three creatives behind sanjay and craig
are a group of do-it-yourself individuals their work together spans back way before sanjay and
craig one of the factors that turned sanjay and craig into what it was is the comic that jay and
jim both made way back in 2004 titled sanji and craig it would be based on a snake charmer and
his roommate being a snake who would be more crude than the final version of craig would turn out to
be in the final product these two first got some notoriety for the forest city rockers an internet
cartoon as well as the name of their production company with their goal of just wanting to make
something themselves rather than waiting for the big break opportunity this worked greatly in their
favor as it caught the attention of audrey deal a nickelodeon executive who moved up the ranks from
at the time being the director of development to executive director of animation development and
finally vice president of animation development until 2017. when she left and is now over at
warner bros currently together the plan was to sit down and pitch this show to nickelodeon
but sadly it didn't go over the way they initially thought with the pitch being turned down not once
but twice so jay jim and andreas sought out advice from how to successfully make this pitch work for
the network the advice would come from lauren bouchard the creator of bob's burgers in which
jay had worked on for character design which is why when looking at sanjay and craig you can see
that bob's burgers style in it come to find out that their idea wasn't the problem it's the pitch
packet itself when they first were pitching the show there was a lot of over ambition with fleshed
out ideas and concepts that could be a lot all at once to sell the show nothing wrong with truly
knowing what you want to make but the network needed a streamlined version of this pitch to
hit the basic notes needed what is the show about who are these main characters here is what they
look like here is the world they live in and a few really simple but effective story ideas initially
their pitch was around 30 pages and upon hearing about bob's burgers being around only four pages
they needed to narrow down the fine points before expanding into all the other side stuff like side
characters and other world building as that would come with the development process of the show they
returned to pitch one more time now with a five page pitch packet that followed these more basic
steps this worked and almost immediately after the show was thrust into pre-production and just like
that sanjay and craig was being made but since none of the creatives have ever produced a show
before will mcrobb and chris ficardi were brought on to the show to executively produce it here is
how the process of making the show differed from most and maybe the leading cause of why some may
not at the time have enjoyed the show leading me to personally hear more negative things about
it it wasn't focused first and foremost on the writing but rather than an idea or concept that
led to the storyboarding process before the rest would be filled in to create an episode
now i don't think this is a bad way of creating i think you can take something you're working on
and tackle it from different angles that seem out of the ordinary it may aid in the creative process
as a whole like creating a youtube video it can start off with a script to recording to making
the video to making the thumbnail sometimes the idea of the video is aided by making a thumbnail
and certain beats you want your script to hit which then will lead to the script being written
everyone has their own process of how they do things and it's possible to still make something
work instead you're just picking a different angle to start with to add more talent to the
making of this show throw up van orman the creator of the marvelous misadventures of flapjack join on
as a supervising producer for the show's first season the show premiered on nickelodeon may 25th
2013 to 3.6 million viewers to middling reviews from critics as well as from viewers
themselves the show had gross out slapstick and sometimes mean-spirited humor which can go
either way for most people either that's the type of cartoon you enjoy or the one you stay away from
especially at a time where a lot of cartoons were starting to shift their focus on larger narratives
or be solely based on how good the writing is it seemed that cartoons like sanjay and craig
weren't flourishing as much as they may have in the past with all that being said the show still
found itself with an audience that stayed tuned in and the show garnered enough support to bring
in pretty interesting guests like snoop dogg dolph lundgren adam devine michael leon wooley
paul rubins and anthony bourdain it was renewed twice during its time on the air resulting in
three seasons with 20 episodes apiece with the final episode premiering on july 29th
2016 and being a half-hour special titled booyah for bollywood but what brought the end of sanjay
and craig was there an actual reason leading to this ratings toy sales etc let's take a look
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june 10th 2016 a month and a half before the show would premiere its final episode a tweet popped
online from chris hardwick the voice of craig saying that the series had officially wrapped
production replying to a fan asking if we could see voice actors like carrie walgren and tara
strong do some voice work on the show to which chris replied i would but the series is done we
recorded our last pickups two weeks ago ending the tweet with a frowny face it was confirmed that the
show had finished its production and would come to an end after season three was finished airing
while never given an official reason for the cancellation which we in most cases rarely ever do
most times nickelodeon cancels shows based on overall ratings the show already faced an uphill
battle versus those initial mix reviews but it is surprising to see that three seasons were still
able to come from a show when many don't make it past one or two outside of the show there really
wasn't much to the property sure there was the usual fare of computer games like messing with
nudeman butter slide nudie run rat awesome butt doctors the frycate as well as being featured in
an online brawler game super brawl 3 with a ton of other nickelodeon characters and they even made an
appearance in a spongebob game super easy funtime adventure pants as a player distraction there
were also some books and graphic novels but the series never fully expanded into a ton of merch
unless you're a spongebob squarepants type of show meaning having longevity or some form of
action show it's not surprising we didn't see much of anything the first season of the show
did come to dvd but if you're looking for the full show you can currently find it on paramount plus
i thought the show was alright for what it offered i never found it as gross or as bad
as some people had portrayed it to me so it has its moments that clearly aren't for me for sure
but the relationship of these two friends was still a fun watch and having the similar look as
bob's burgers helped in my enjoyment of the show one thing i legit loved was seeing the nods
to classic cartoon game shows like double dare bringing on mark summers and john harvey as well
as nickelodeon guts bringing back mike o'malley and moira cork one day i will own a piece of the
aggro crag but for now i'll settle as being a youtuber just talking about it the show has a
charm to it and you can feel the love the creators had for it poured into the final product it just
didn't resonate with everyone and maybe will be looked back on fondly by those who did like i
mentioned at the start of the video we just passed the ninth anniversary since its original premiere
i think the show had some fun ideas with some fun characters but after three seasons i think it got
to tell quite a bit of fun adventures with a boy and his best friend who's a snake let me know
your thoughts on sanjay and craig was it something you enjoyed or was it not your cup of tea tell me
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