Line #95 WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig


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2	[[caption-width-right:306: Left to right: Hector, Sanjay (the human), Craig (the snake), and Megan.]]
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4	->''Sanjay and Craig, stuff they do is whiz insane!\
5	Sanjay and Craig, they're in the Best Friends Hall of Fame\
6	Sanjay and Craig, there is no Best Friends Hall of Fame (They made it up!)''
7	-->'''--The ThemeTune, [[ExpositoryThemeTune which explains what the show is about]]'''
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9	Okay, so here's the pitch. It's the adventures of a kid and his talking pet snake. Not good enough for you? Well, how about we bring in the creators of the surreal cult 90s sitcom ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' and the man behind a {{nightmare fuel}}-filled dark comedy called ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' as key producers? Oh good, we have your attention.
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11	Created by Jim Dirschberger, Andreas Trolf, and Jay Howell -- the latter of which designed the characters for ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' -- ''Sanjay and Craig'' is a Franchise/{{Nicktoon\|s}} about a 12-year-old boy named Sanjay Patel (Creator/MaulikPancholy) and his talking pet snake named Craig Slithers (Creator/ChrisHardwick), and the trouble they get into in the suburban town of Lundgren (founded by Creator/DolphLundgren himself). Other notable characters include Sanjay’s parents, Vijay (Creator/KunalNayyar) and Darlene (the former owns a clearance store and the latter works at the hospital), Megan Sparkles, an overachieving girl who has a crush on Sanjay, Belle Pepper, a teenage waitress at The Frycade, Hector Flanagan, a goofy friend of Sanjay who wears an eyepatch, Remmington Tufflips, a washed-up actor the duo admire, Craig’s brother, Ronnie, and Sam Lastnamè, a girl introduced in Season 2.
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13	Ran for three seasons from May 25, 2013 to July 29, 2016, after which Chris Hardwick confirmed on Twitter that the show had ended.
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15	Now has a [[Characters/SanjayandCraig character sheet]].
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17	!!Tropes present:
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19	* AbusiveParents: Mr. Noodman's father enjoys torturing his son with snakes, even when he's an adult.
20	** Must be a family tradition as Noodman's grandfather does the same thing to his dad, as well as his great-grandfather, and his great great-grandfather.
21	* TheAce: Remmington Tufflips and Maximum Dennis.
22	** Megan is quite this as well.
23	* AllBalloonsHaveHelium: "The Giving G"
24	* AmbiguouslyGay: Mr. Noodman, who possesses many flamboyant mannerisms.
25	** Tufflips' evil twin, Dillinger Softlips, is very much considered this as well.
26	* AnnoyingLaugh: A plot point in "Laugh Quake". Each of the title characters thinks the other has an annoying laugh, so they try to remedy it by going to a comedy club, where they are eventually kicked out. Later, both get crapped on by a bird, trying (and ultimately failing) to hold in their laughter, which eventually starts a chain reaction.
27	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In "Day of the Snake" Sanjay tastes an extremely volatile drop of wing sauce, causing his tongue to turn to ash and fall apart revealing a bone frame. Later on Craig milks an obviously male falcon with an ''udder''.
28	* AsHimself:
29	** Creator/DolphLundgren, who first appeared in the Season 3 special, "Huggle Day".
30	** There's also [[Series/DoubleDare1986 Marc Summers and John Harvey]] in Season 1's "Trouble Dare".
31	** [[Series/NickelodeonGuts Mike O'Malley and Moira Quirk]] in Season 3's "G.U.T.S. Busters".
32	* AscendedExtra: Chicken Chuck started off as a background character during Season 1. It wasn't until the episode "Hot Sauce Boss" when he was given actual character as a longtime friend of Penny's. Since then, he became a recurring character throughout the rest of the show with a somewhat messed up backstory.
33	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In "Flip Flopas" after eating tons of inedible things, Sanjay, Craig and Hector have [[BalloonBelly balloon bellies]], but Megan doesn't. However, this trope is also [[AvertedTrope averted]] most of the time. Megan and Belle's faces have both been featured in [[GrossUpCloseUp gross-out close-up shots.]] Similarly, Megan belches in "Glory Hounds" and farts in "Dangerous Debbie", and even Belle (who's implied to be quite physically attractive) farts in "Fartwerk."
34	* BigBad: Mr. Noodman. WordOfGod says that [[AbusiveParents his father]] is the GreaterScopeVillain, and that Noodman himself will go through a HeelFaceTurn.
35	* BigEater: Craig eats a whole plate of hot wings in one gulp.
36	* BlackComedy
37	* ButtMonkey: Mr. Noodman takes the cake on this. He never seems to get a break from Sanjay and Craig's pranks. Not to mention he's got an [[AbusiveParents Abusive Dad]].
38	** Megan also falls into this sometimes.
39	* BodyHorror
40	** Craig turning himself inside out in "Unbarfable".
41	** Craig turning into a pizza-crazed behemoth in "Road Pizza".
42	* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler: "A Tale of Two Slithers" gives us Craig's brother Ronnie, who is a snake living as a human and runs a company that makes shovels meant to kill snakes.]]
43	* ChestBurster: Craig fakes being one in "Brett Venom, M.D."
44	* ChildHater: Noodman, who thinks that children remind him of snakes. (Which he hates more than kids)
45	* CityOfAdventure: Lundgren, where [[WorldOfWeirdness all sorts of weird things are always happening]].
46	* CoolOldLady: Grandma Wheezy.
47	* ConformingOOCMoment: In "Street Dogg", everyone boos at Sanjay, Craig, Megan, and Hector after they [[FriendshipSong sing about their friendship]]. This includes Sanjay's parents, who are [[GoodParents supportive towards their son]].
48	* ContinuityNod: Hector's resistance to throwing up from "Unbarfable" becomes a plot point in "Flip Floppas".
49	** Craig's phone completely broke to pieces in the end of "Heartyface", the next episode, Huggle Day, had him getting get a new one.
50	* CouchGag: Starting with Season 2, the "Best Friends Hall of Fame" scene in the intro has Craig wearing two or three different disguises for each episode. Every episode of Season 1 just has him disguising as a cowboy, a cool dude, and a bearded guy in a suit.
51	* CoveredInGunge: The boys get covered in bird droppings in "Laugh Quake".
52	** In "Stinkboy", Sanjay falls into a pool fills with.....stuff....and gets covered in gunge.
53	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Hector. Megan sometimes comes off as this in her dorkier moments; otherwise she's the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]].
54	** Farmer Larry fits perfectly for this trope.
55	* CreditsGag: Remington Tufflips is credited AsHimself.
56	** The same thing happens with Maximum Dennis.
57	* CuteBruiser: Both of the title characters have their moments, such as in "Wild Buds", "Be Like Tufflips", "Muscle Cops" and "Day of the Snake". [[GirlyBruiser Megan]] also counts.
58	* ADayInTheLimelight: The secondary main characters get these pretty often. Megan has "Release the Craigan", "Susan Loogie", "Glory Hounds", "Romper Chomper", and "Combo Attack", Belle has "Ghost Pool", "Fowl Work" ,"Beauty and The Beard", and "All Couped Up" and Hector has "Wolfie", "Unbarfable", "Flip Flopas", "Ew De Hector", and "Space Invaders".
59	* DisappearedDad: We never see Megan's father, which is the biggest mystery of the show.
60	* DemotedToExtra: Hector was a very frequent character during Seasons 1 and 2, having a small handful of episodes centered around him. In the final season, while he is still somewhat relevant, he doesn't do much this season as he hardly gets any character development or contribution to the plots. The closest thing to a Hector-centric episode in Season 3 has to be "Freaks and Cheeks," which mainly focused on Sanjay and Craig looking after Hector's dog, Sweet Cheeks. Hector himself only appeared in the beginning and end of said episode. Justified since Hector is the series' FatComicRelief, and doesn't seem to blend well with some of the more serious storylines in the later episodes (unlike Belle and Megan), so he's mostly pushed to the side and only was only used for one-off gags. It could also be that his VA, Matt Jones, was busy with WesternAnimation/PigGoatBananaCricket.
61	** This also happened to Farmer Larry in episodes produced after Season 3's "Huggle Day". Throughout the reminder of the series, he has made some occasional non-speaking background roles and little-to-no involvement in the storylines. Semi-justified since his actor, Toby Huss, may have been kicked out of the show [[VocalEvolution after his voice was annoyingly high-pitched in the aforementioned "Huggle Day" special compared to all of his earlier appearances.]]
62	* DerangedAnimation: It ''was'' animated at Creator/{{Saerom}}.
63	* EmbarrassingDampSheets: Sanjay and Craig try hard not to wet the bed, but they ended up wetting Tufflips' guest bed. But Tufflips admitted he has wet the bed before.
64	* EroticEating: In a flashback in "Blackout" Darlene did this with spaghetti while on a dinner date with Vijay. Well... at least ''they'' found it erotic.
65	* EvilBrit: Tyson. He's not evil but he is a huge [[{{Jerkass}} pain in the arse]] for no reason other than he hates Sanjay.
66	* ExpositoryThemeTune: "Looking for a pet one day / Sanjay found a talking snake..."
67	* {{Expy}}: Hector and Megan are respectively similar to [[WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers Gene and Louise]].
68	* EyepatchOfPower: Hector
69	* FanDisservice: Noodman trying to pull off a SupermodelStrut after his butt surgery, complete with a zoom-in of his massive swaying butt.
70	* FireBreathingDiner: Craig after drinking hot sauce, which makes a handy flamethrower.
71	* ForcedMeme: The "viral" advertising campaign before the show's premiere that shoved the characters into every ImageMacro template that the creators could find and put them up on Website/{{Tumblr}}. That alone would be just annoying and not bad if it weren't for the fact that each one was a paid sponsor post and thus showed up on ''everyone's'' dashboard, whether users wanted to see it or not. Even if they blocked the blog, these posts still showed up.
72	* FreakyIsCool: Sanjay and Craig love Darlene's gross hospital stories, and in "Brett Venom, M.D." they sneak into the hospital and are fascinated by all the freaks they find there.
73	* FurryConfusion: Although Craig looks more cartoony, other snakes are just normal snakes.
74	* GamerChick: Both Megan and Chido. They're fans of and wind up bonding over a game called ''Spirit Animal Pro Fighter 2''. They even start a video game-themed band together called Character Select, and make a song called "Press Start".
75	* {{Gasshole}}: Sanjay, Craig and Hector, with Sanjay and Hector being fart variants and Craig being both a burping and farting variant.
76	** "Glory Hounds" shows that Megan has a special talent for burping words.
77	* GassyGastronomy: Sanjay and Craig [[TrademarkFavoriteFood love spicy wings]], and they often fart and laugh about it. It's even a plot point in "Fart Baby" when Sanjay decides to hold in his gas in front of Belle Pepper (his crush) after devouring a lot of hot wings, which causes him to [[MrSeahorse become "pregnant" with the titular fart baby]].
78	* GenderBlenderName: Penny Pepper, Belle's father and proprietor of the Frycade, Sanjay's and Craig's favorite hangout.
79	* GenreThrowback: Definitely. Not to mention it's made by the creators of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete''.
80	* GirlyBruiser:
81	** Megan Sparkles is a GirlyGirl who loves pink and pageantry and can also kick butt. She's earned the title of Little Miss Mixed-Martial Arts, [[http://www.nickelodeonafrica.com/shows/sanjayandcraig/characters/megan-sparkles/mq0lb2 according to her Nickelodeon Africa character bio]].
82	** An InUniverse example: Foxtrot, a character in the game ''Spirit Animal Pro Fighter 2'', is a badass female fighter who [[PinkMeansFeminine wears a pink dress]].
83	* GoingCommando: Part of the Remington Tufflips costume is a jock strap from "Going Commando 2".
84	* GrossoutShow: Oh yesh, a good chunk of the humor relies on a lot of bodily functions.
85	** Thankfully not as much in the later episodes.
86	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: All Craig has to do to pass as human.
87	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Sanjay and Craig definitely fit this trope.
88	* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Noodman, thanks to his father.
89	-->'''Craig:''' No wonder you're so messed up.
90	* HospitalHottie: Darlene.
91	* ILied: In "Dog Wave" Sanjay makes a deal with Noodman that the latter won't call animal control on Sanjay's dogs if Sanjay can replace Noodman's blueberries, only for Noodman to go back on his word.
92	* ImNotHungry: In "Brett Venom, M.D." Vijay loses his appetite when his wife tells a gross hospital story as he's trying to eat breakfast.
93	* ItTastesLikeFeet: In "Flip Flopas" when the gang eat Frycade wings and the Flip Flopas make them taste bad, Craig comments they taste like "sewer toots".
94	* IronicEcho: Megan is practicing CPR on a dummy, to which Craig says "I believe they prefer to be called 'stupid people'." After shooing them out of the room, she says, "Dummies, or should I say, stupid people."
95	* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Noodman. He hates snakes and children and plots to get rid of Craig. He's also loud and obnoxious.
96	** His father is much, much worse. Because of him, [[JerkassWoobie you can't help but feel bad for poor Noodman]], which could indicate a possible HeelFaceTurn.
97	** Tyson is also a jerk to Sanjay when it comes to winning Belle's affection.
98	* LimitedWardrobe: Darlene wears her scrubs even when off-duty.
99	* LittleBoySeeksBigGirl: Sanjay (12 years-old) has a crush on Belle Pepper (16 years-old).
100	* LivingProp: There are several recognizable kid characters that show up in background roles and crowd scenes every now and then. The most common ones include a redheaded girl in a light pink dress and purple boots, and a ginger-haired boy who wears a green shirt. Both the two kids are unnamed, and notably make an appearance in the episode "Muscle C.O.P.S.", at the beginning of the episode.
101	* LocalHangout: The Frycade. Half arcade and half wing-themed diner.
102	* LovesMyAlterEgo: Sanjay develops a crush on Susan Loogie, who is actually Megan attempting to get him to dance with her.
103	* MasterOfDisguise: Craig.
104	* MyInstinctsAreShowing: In "Booger Johnson", Craig can't resist trying to eat Megan's pet gerbil.
105	-->"I can't help it. I'm a snake. He's a gerbil. That equals snack. It's nature's math."
106	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In "Laked Nake".
107	* NameAndName
108	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sanjay and Craig switch their gifts for new ones in different colors in "Huggle Day", only for Huggle Bunny to lose it and drive off with everyone's gifts and the rest of the festivities.
109	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Huggle Bunny, a man who always wears a pink bunny suit and creeps almost everyone out.
110	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan's mom is [[Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo Mama June Shannon]].
111	* NoodleIncident: How Marc Summers got stuck inside the Pick-It nose for an un-determined amount of time (which, given that he has obsessive-compulsive disorder in real life, must have been hell for him, but Nickelodeon probably didn't want to mention that), and was it around the same time that Harvey got packed away as well? As for how Tufflips got the set, he said he bought it from a Belgian donkey smuggler, who presumably bought it from Nickelodeon Studios (which would explain why ''Double Dare 2000'''s set looked so hideous and different from the original set).
112	* NoseNuggets: Sanjay picks his nose, pulls out a strand of snot, and wipes it on the floor in the backseat of his family's car in the episode "D.I.N.K". In other episodes, Sanjay and Hector also both mention their affinity for eating their own boogers.
113	* OnlySaneWoman: Megan.
114	* ObliviousToLove: Sanjay is unaware of Megan's crush on him.
115	* OrWasItADream: In "Dream Rangers", Sanjay and Craig dream that Belle is kidnapped by Noodman. When she doesn't appear the next day, they assume the dream is real and they have to have it again so they can rescue her.
116	* PaperThinDisguise: Everyone is fooled into thinking Craig is human when dressed in clothing, with some even confusing him with an armless kid.
117	* ParodySue: Megan.
118	* PokemonSpeak: In the fantasy sequence at the beginning of "Laugh Quake", Sanjay and Craig just shout their names over and over.
119	* RubberMan: Craig is this, as a snake. He can be inflated, stretched, walked on, whipped about....
120	* SadistShow: Because of what happens in episodes like "Family Re-Noodman" and "Huggle Day", the show is seen as this by most haters; not much the rest of the show, on the other hand.
121	* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: [[GenkiGirl Darlene]] (energetic) and [[BumblingDad Vijay]] (savvy).
122	* SanitySlippage: Sanjay has one in "Stinkboy."
123	** 'CHILL BILL!!'
124	* SecretKeeper: Sanjay, Vijay, Darlene, Megan, and Hector are the only characters that know about Craig being a talking snake. It is currently unknown if Belle knows about Craig being a talking snake.
125	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sanjay's Sensitive Guy to Craig's Manly Man.
126	* ShakingTheRump: The episode ''Brett Venom M.D.'' has Noodman getting a butt transplant at the end showing off a very risqué scene were the camera focuses on Noodman's butt as he shakes it suggestively while taking Lady Butterscotch out for a walk.
127	-->'''Mr. Noodman:''' Lookin' good, Noodman! Lookin' good...
128	* ShapedLikeItself: "Doors are for people who use doors."
129	* SitcomArchNemesis: Noodman. Sanjay refers to him as such in one of the promos.
130	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: There are a few instances of this when Sanjay interacts with Belle, though sometimes all you hear is a ''boing'' sound effect.
131	** In the episode "Glad to Be Sad", when he and Craig go to the Frycade and he asks Belle out on a date to the carnival, he doesn't realize initially that she happily accepts, so he plops his face flat onto the table. Craig snaps him out of it and tells him that she said yes; he promptly lifts his head up, and his flattened nose sticks back up accompanied with a ''boing'' sound. Later in the episode, while he and Belle are at the carnival, their fingers touch when they both reach for the cotton candy that Belle got for them, accompanied with another ''boing'' effect.
132	** In "Dangerous Debbie" when Belle sits next to Sanjay and mentions that "love happens unexpectedly", Sanjay replies in agreement, nuzzles up to her hair, and the same sound effect is heard.
133	* SpitTake: Sanjay does one through his nose and ears ten seconds into "Brett Venom, M.D." after hearing one of his mom's nurse stories.
134	* {{Spoonerism}}: Averted. Some folks have noticed the syllables in "Sanjay" can be spoonerized is "Jay-san" (Jason), but there is no connection. "Sanjay" is a common Hindu name for males, meaning "victorious".
135	* StalkerWithACrush: Megan sometimes comes off as this.
136	* TearOffYourFace: At one point in "Road Pizza" King Za eats his face off, though he's a slice of pizza and his face is made of cheese.
137	* ToiletHumor: Very common in the first season, not so much in later seasons. For example, the episode "Partybot" has at least two robots that dispense things in ways that look like they're pooping.[[note]]Those two robots being the titular Partybot and Vijay's "Soft Serve Friend". (The latter came back in "A Tail of Two Slithers" and "Huggle Day".)[[/note]]
138	* {{Tomboy}}: Megan's alter-ego in "Susan Loogie".
139	* TotallyRadical: The titular characters are considered this very often.
140	* TownGirls:
141	** Between Megan, Belle and Chido, Chido is the [[TheLadette boorish and aggressive]] Butch, Belle is the [[NiceGirl sweet]] Femme, and Megan is the [[GirlyBruiser girly but hotheaded and tough]] Neither.
142	** Then there's the dynamic of Megan, Chido, and Sam; Chido is the Butch, while Megan is the [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak pageant-loving, but fiery and strong]] Femme, and Sam is the [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak sports-loving, yet tender and emotional]] Neither. (Though she has very little-to-no interaction with the former two)
143	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Both Sanjay and Craig love hot wings, the latter even ate them all in one gulp.
144	** Noodman also has an obsession with blueberries.
145	* TrueCompanions: Sanjay, Craig, Vijay, Darlene, Belle, Hector, and Megan. Ronnie joins in at the end of the GrandFinale while some fans like to consider Sam as part of the group despite her limited appearances and development.
146	* TwoShorts: "A Tale of Two Slithers", [[HalloweenEpisode "Remington Tufflips' Spooky Trailer of Cartoons"]], "Street Dogg", [[ChristmasEpisode "Huggle Day"]], "The Sanjay and Craig Stunt School Special", and [[GrandFinale "Booyah for Bollywood"]] are the exceptions.
147	* TheVoiceless: Big G from "The Giving G".
148	* TheUnreveal: In "Tufflips' Tales of Terror" Tufflips takes the head off Huggle Bunny's costume to see who he is. While Tufflips is able to see who's under the costume, their face is hidden from the viewers by a blinding light emanating from inside the costume.
149	* VocalDissonance: In "Flip Flopas" the candy store owner Munchie is an old man with the voice and mannerisms of a 6-year-old.
150	* VomitIndiscretionShot: In "Unbarfable".
151	* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: At the end of "Road Pizza" when the duo have defeated King Za and are eating pizza they are confronted by the Chicken Wing King, who they ignore and he disappears.
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153	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Sanjay and Craig's neighbor, Mr. Noodman, is terrified of snakes due to being constant pranks by his father throughout his childhood involving them.
154	** In "Blackout" it's revealed Darlene is scared of the dark and being in dark places causes her to freak out. She gets over it.
155	* WorldOfWeirdness: Space-age cars, functional intelligent robots, hot sauce that cost its chef a hand, and magic food that mutates one's taste buds exist. Not to mention Craig is one of at least two talking snakes.
156	* YeahShot: The title duo, at the end of the opening segment.
157	* YouJustRuinedTheShot: In "Be Like Tufflips", Sanjay, in a Remmington Tufflips costume, sees a film crew setting up for a commercial at Tufflips' home and, thinking they're bad guys, goes on the attack. The crew, thinking Sanjay is the real Tufflips, go along.
158	* YouMeanXMas: The 2015 Christmas Special entitled "Huggle Day", despite Craig mentioning the actual holiday in "Bike-O Psycho" and even dressed like a Christmas Tree in "Heartyface".

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