As YAYSUU was working on it, he had the bright idea to tell his other friend, Astericc, about the production. Astericc got excited and jealous, so he wanted to make a Halloween special of his own. But what is a Halloween special without a show? So YAYSUU told Astericc that he needed his own show, and so, production of a brand new webseries would begin, going by "The Astericc Show", with the script being written by Astericc and YAYSUU. The animation would be done using still images drawn by YAYSUU, along with additional animated scenes being created by Midi Bloxington. The pilot would give viewers a glimpse at what TGJAY was originally gonna be like, showing the original duo, "Astericc and YAYSUU" going on an adventure to the Gamestation Dimension (a parody of early 3d console games) with the use of YAYSUU's "Transdimensionalizertronner 3000 EX" (or TRON30 as Astericc didn't really like how long the name was).

Originally, The Great Jarek and YAYSUU would be animated in the same way as the original pilot, but this version of the pilot never made it past the concept stage. As for the designs of Jarek, YAYSUU, and Fringlebert, they looked completely different from the final show.

Jarek originally sported Red Sonic Shoes as opposed to the Light Blue colored shoes that he has in the final and would also have a much shorter hairstyle. YAYSUU's super suit would appear to have slightly different shoulder pads, and Fringlebert would appear to have shorter hair, peach/pale skin, 3D glasses, a black jacket with red shirt, blue shorts, and black sneakers, instead of being all grayscale, wearing completely black sunglasses, and wearing a grayscale version of YAYSUU's suit.

Eventually, a decision was made to have the series be animated using Pencil2d, an alternative to Adobe Flash, as not only would it help make the animation process easier, but it would look much better than the original limited animation style that The Astericc Show was going for. But at the same time, Midi would create an animation test using FireAlpaca and Vegas Movie Studio, showing a slightly different looking version of the show.

The animation test showed what appeared to be a slightly higher quality version of The Astericc Show's animation style, but with a bit of Limited Animation tropes thrown in, such as a wraparound background and a looping walk cycle for the two protagonists. This animation test would not be used as not only would it cause the series to have a massive artstyles shift, but it would result in the episodes taking much longer to produce.