History Trivia / SamAndCat

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/JennetteMcCurdy has made it no secret that filming the series was a miserable time for her (and seemingly much of the crew) for a MASSIVE list of reasons. Between the retooling of the series, Ariana frequently missing work, being promised and eventually denied a directing role, and her mother becoming effectively comatose and eventually dying of cancer during filming. Hearing the series was cancelled was something she could barely keep her glee for when the news was dropped (which ''also'' got soured when Nickelodeon attempted to pay her $300,000 in hush money to never speak about her experiences with producing this and ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' and the blame for the series being cancelled being twisted around to a pay despute).

* ExecutiveMeddling: This show turned from a completely new vehicle for Creator/JennetteMcCurdy, into a SpinOff that also happened to feature Music/ArianaGrande. The speed this change happened can be shown with the surprise from the dual fandoms of the parent shows. It originally had a sane 20 episode first season ordered...until it turned out to be the only thing on the network's Saturday night lineup with a pulse. Forgetting that Jennette and Ariana aren't Charlie Sheen with the insane 100 episode deal his show ''Anger Management'' had, the network ordered twenty more episodes... onto the first season (the most a kid's sitcom usually gets in a year is 26, but since both stars are over 20, the show isn't tied down by the traditional California child labor laws which would never allow this). This meant no breaks for Jennette, who then had to deal with her mother's death from cancer and a built-up rebellion period, or Ariana, as her musical career was built up and the long process of becoming Cat Valentine had to be cut down to being fit with a wig so she could keep her natural hair color for her musical performances. Neither actress was even able to get a contract re-negotiation for the extra twenty episodes either. Tensions seemed to have built on the set due to the arduous and grinding shooting schedule due to the physical comedy and special effects the show employs, and after the network over-reacted to Jennette's ex-boyfriend releasing racy pictures of her and a circuit of podcast interviews where she admitted some pretty questionable things such as the network driving her to become a country singer, something she never wanted to pursue at all, behind the scenes rancor built up to the point where Jennette refused to attend the Kids' Choice Awards because of how the network treated her at the expense of her well-being. The network put the show on hiatus with a passive-aggressive statement that the season had been "tiring" and promised the show would return, but the show limped towards the end, finishing with 36 episodes and its unexpected finale disappointingly leading into the network's FollowTheLeader attempt at a sports awards show the night after the ESPY's, along with Ariana and Jennette remaining silent on social media about the last episodes. Coincidentally the show had an episode with an homage to Laverne & Shirley featuring the stars of that show in a cameo, the first time Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams shared a soundstage in years (and the last time with Marshall's 2018 death).

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/JennetteMcCurdy has made it no secret that filming the series was a miserable time for her (and seemingly much of the crew) for a MASSIVE list of reasons. Between the retooling of the series, Ariana frequently missing work, being promised and eventually denied a directing role, and the gradually more miserable environment to film in, hearing the series was cancelled was something she could barely keep her glee for when the news was dropped (which ''also'' got soured when Nickelodeon attempted to pay her $300,000 in hush money to never speak about her experiences with producing this and ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' and the blame for the series being cancelled being twisted around to a pay despute).
* DawsonCasting: Barely averted by Ariana at the start (when she was 19); a different matter at the end, since she was 21. On the other hand, Jennette was 20 when production started and 22 by the time the plug was pulled. Which led to this statement from the young lady...

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: This is one of the only reasons the episode ''[=#StuckInABox=]'' happened; Ariana Grande was so busy performing concerts that week of filming that it was an excuse for Jennette to film an episode with her being mostly absent.

* TheCastShowoff: Mostly averted with Music/ArianaGrande - she only sings in "[=#MagicATM=]", "[=#StuckInABox=]" and "[=#GettinWiggy=]" (and it only counts as a sort-of musical number in the first-named), as well as rapping with Sam and their charge at the beginning of "[=#BabysitterWar=]," but her [[ManOfAThousandVoices other known talent]] comes up when she makes convincing baby noises in "[=#DroneBabyDrone=]."

* ExecutiveMeddling: This show turned from a completely new vehicle for Creator/JennetteMcCurdy, into a SpinOff that also happened to feature Music/ArianaGrande. The speed this change happened can be shown with the surprise from the dual fandoms of the parent shows.

** While the effects weren't as immediate, it also proved to be the beginning of the end of Creator/DanSchneider's run on Nickelodeon; he's had a few more shows afterwards, but of those, only ''Series/HenryDanger'' managed to gain success, and even then, it [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld finished its run without him]] after Nick chose not to renew their contract with him following allegations that surfaces in 2018.

* TroubledProduction: '''''Where to begin?''''' Originally, the show was envisioned as a star vehicle for Creator/JennetteMcCurdy titled ''Just Puckett'' (about Sam becoming a school counsellor), but eventually Nick insisted on including Music/ArianaGrande in the show as well. Eventually it was retooled as an ''iCarly'' and ''Victorious'' spin-off (with the original concept being retooled for a failed ''Gibby'' pilot). Then, Nick doubled its episode order, causing the producers to scramble to get additional episodes written and filmed. Creator/JennetteMcCurdy started to publicly butt heads with the network while Grande's real-life music career took off resulting in her being too busy with filming, in turn leading to Jenette having to turn down multiple projects and the team having to constantly work around it. Already exhausted and desperate for a break, the atmosphere of the series got worse by the day as Jennette grew more and more bitter (between coping with the passing of her abusive mother, alongside being constantly screwed over between the series retool and a promise to be given a chance to direct being shot down by "someone here who didn't want her to direct") and Dan Schenider's years of emotional abuse accusations finally catching up to him (the final episodes forced him to film in a "small, cave-like room off to the side of the soundstage"). After one of the producers was claimed of sexual harassment, Nick realized just how massive a disaster the series had become to produce and, in spite of some of the highest ratings the network had around the time, decided to pull the plug on the show.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://samandcat.wikia.com/wiki/ Sam & Cat Wiki]]

* LyingCreator: In order to appease angry shippers of ''iCarly'', upset over the implied [[LastMinuteHookup hookup]] between Freddie and Carly, Schneider told fans that there may be shipping moments for Seddie in Sam and Cat. Though whether or not he was truly lying or if he couldn't do it is unknown, considering the show was supposed to go on for another season, only for production troubles to put an end to that.

* LyingCreator: In order to appease angry shippers of ''iCarly'', upset over the implied [[LastMinuteHookup hookup]] between Freddie and Carly, Schneider told fans that there may be shipping moments for Seddie in Sam and Cat.

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/JennetteMcCurdy has made it no secret that filming the series was a miserable time for her (and seemingly much of the crew) for a MASSIVE list of reasons. Between the retooling of the series, Ariana frequently missing work, being promised and eventually denied a directing role, and the gradually more miserable environment to film in, hearing the series was cancelled was something she could barely keep her glee for when the news was dropped (which ''also'' got soured when Nickelodeon attempted to pay her $300,000 in hush money to never speak about her experiences with producing this and Series/{{iCarly}} and the blame for the series being cancelled being twisted around to a pay despute).

* TroubledProduction: '''''Where to begin?''''' Originally, the show was envisioned as a star vehicle for Creator/JennetteMcCurdy titled ''Just Puckett'' (about Sam becoming a school counsellor), but eventually Nick insisted on including Music/ArianaGrande in the show as well. Eventually it was retooled as an ''iCarly'' and ''Victorious'' spin-off (with the original concept being retooled for a failed ''Gibby'' pilot). Then, Nick doubled its episode order, causing the producers to scramble to get additional episodes written and filmed. Creator/JennetteMcCurdy started to publicly butt heads with the network while Grande's real-life music career took off resulting in her being too busy with filming, in turn leading to Jenette having to turn down multiple projects and the team having to constantly work around it. Already exhausted and desperate for a break, the atmosphere of the series got worse by the day as Jennette grew more and more bitter (between coping with the passing of her abusive mother, alongside being constantly screwed over between the series retool and a promise to be given a chance to direct being shot down by "someone here who didn't want her to direct") and Dan Schenider's years of emotional abuse accusations finally catching up to him (the final episodes forced him to film in a "small, cave-like room off to the side of the soundstage"). After one of the producers was claimed of sexual harassment, Nick realized just how massive a disaster the series had become to produce and, in spite of some of the highest ratings during this particular DorkAge, decided to pull the plug on the show.

* TroubledProduction: '''''Where to begin?''''' Originally, the show was envisioned as a star vehicle for Creator/JennetteMcCurdy titled ''Just Puckett'' (about Sam becoming a school counsellor), but eventually Nick insisted on including Music/ArianaGrande in the show as well. Eventually it was retooled as an ''iCarly'' and ''Victorious'' spin-off (with the original concept being retooled for a failed ''Gibby'' pilot). Then, Nick doubled its episode order, causing the producers to scramble to get additional episodes written and filmed. Creator/JennetteMcCurdy started to publicly butt heads with the network while Grande's real-life music career took offresulting in her being too busy with filming, in turn leading to Jenette having to turn down multiple projects and in the team having to constantly work around it. Already exhausted and desperate for a break, the atmosphere of the series got worse by the day as Jennette grew more and more bitter (between coping with the passing of her abusive mother, alongside being constantly screwed over between the series retool and a promise to be given a chance to direct being shot down by "someone here who didn't want her to direct") and Dan Schenider's years of emotional abuse accusations finally catching up to him (the final episodes forced him to film in a "small, cave-like room off to the side of the soundstage"). After one of the producers was claimed of sexual harassment, Nick realized just how massive a disaster the series had become to produce and, in spite of some of the highest ratings during this particular DorkAge, decided to pull the plug on the show.

** According to Jennette's book, ''I'm Glad My Mom Died'', the show was initially supposed to be a star vehicle for her called ''Just Puckett''. It would have been about Sam working as a school counselor.

** According to Jennette's book, ''I'm Glad My Mom Died'', the show was initially supposed to be called ''Just Puckett'' and would've been about Sam working as a school counselor.