Pig Goat Banana Cricket
| Pig Goat Banana Cricket | |
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Poster featuring the main characters in order
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| Also known as | Pig Goat Banana Cricket! |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by |
Dave Cooper Johnny Ryan |
| Based on | Pig Goat Banana Mantis! (2012) |
| Voices of | |
| Theme music composer | David Burns |
| Opening theme | Pig Goat Banana Cricket |
| Composer(s) | David Burns |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 31 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Louis J. Cuck Carl Faruolo (supervising producer) |
| Editor(s) | Joelle Kristy |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Nickelodeon Animation Studio |
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| Original network |
Nickelodeon (2015–16) Nicktoons (2016–present) |
| Original release | July 16, 2015 – present |
Pig Goat Banana Cricket (also abbreviated as PGBC) is an American-Canadian animated television series created by Dave Cooper and Johnny Ryan for Nickelodeon. The show follows the interwoven adventures of the titular quartet.
The show premiered on July 18, 2015, at 10:30 AM, with a sneak preview that aired two days before on July 16, after the 2015 Kids' Choice Sports Awards.
On June 25, 2015, Nickelodeon renewed Pig Goat Banana Cricket for a second season ahead of the series premiere.
Pig Goat Banana Cricket focuses on the titular quartet, a group of best friends and roommates: Pig, who is obsessed with pickles, Goat, who has musical dreams, Banana, who loves video games and Cricket, who is talented at mad science. The four embark on surreal journeys on their own, which are then interwoven together; the action is set in Boopelite City, a gigantic and whirring metropolis where many of the buildings look like archaic clockworks. The streets are constantly teeming with characters of intensely varied description, and the sidewalks are crammed with animals, robots, walking fruit, sea creatures, and more. The four roommates live in a treehouse, which sits in the middle of the city, surrounded by the forest, the seas and anywhere else the friends could possibly go.
Developed from Pig Goat Banana Mantis!, a pilot directed by the independent animator Nick Cross, the stories were described by Ryan as difficult to write, given their intertwined nature and the 11-minute running time. This process was smoothened by the running time being doubled and the direction from the network being clarified. The two had to adjust to the studio environment, and described their career in comics as preparing them for production. Jones, Milo, and Wilson reprise their roles from the original short, with Mantis, who had been previously voiced by James Urbaniak, retooled as Cricket due to a character of the same name in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, another Nickelodeon show.
The series tends to go back and forth between hand-drawn animation and flash animation.
The series was picked up for a second season prior to its premiere.
Ratings for the series were initially favorable. However, ratings began to experience a steep drop mid-season (as an example, the episode "Mall Ya Later" only pulled in 0.79 million viewers) and the last episode aired on Nickelodeon, "It's Time to Slumber Party", was only viewed by 0.95 million viewers. Only the first 20 episodes of the show aired on Nickelodeon.
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