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Vanity Plate
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A short sequence played at the very beginning or end of a program or film to identify its production and/or distribution company. Commonly known as a "closing/production logo" and also variously called a "vanity card," "tag", "sign-off", "end board", or "end tag", this brief sequence displays the production and distribution company's trademark/logo. Ever-rising production costs have increased the number of collaborative efforts between studios in recent years, which has had the unfortunate side-effect of multiplying the number of vanity plates that open a film. Some companies put a great deal of effort into creating a memorable vanity plate, as this is really the only advertising the production company receives. This has led to famous examples such as the MTM Kitten and the Mutant Enemy Zombie, or infamous examples, such as the Screen Gems "Filmstrip S," also known as "The S from Hell." CGI in recent years has made these considerably snazzier. A combination of the increase in quality and number of film vanity plates has increasingly led to viewer confusion over when they end and the movie proper begins. Peter Griffin elaborates here. As the internet rose in the 1990s and 2000s, a community emerged centered entirely around these production logos; while originally it began on Usenet groups where sixties and seventies kids got together and discussed unintentionally creepy logos from their childhood, since the 2000s the logo fandom mostly consists of children, teenagers and young adults who share similar sentiments and have extensively documented MANY of these; AVID (the Audiovisual Identity Database, formerly the Closing Logo Group Wiki or "CLG Wiki") has information on practically every vanity plate EVER, and new vanity plates, or rare versions of existing ones, continue to be found to this day. Logopedia includes vanity plates in its database. See also Logo Joke for vanity plate variants made for specific movies. Compare Station Ident. Not to be confused with Vanity License Plate. |
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For non-horror films, the camera just pans up to the corner of the house, then the overhead lightbulb flickers on and reveals the studio name. This variant is also used for their distribution arm Blumhouse Tilt - even for some horror films (such as The Belko Experiment and The Green Inferno). | |
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The original "Meow" logo was also used on such series as The Bob Newhart Show and WKRP in Cincinnati. | |
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Mohawk Productions: The company behind The Oblongs, The George Lopez Show, and The Drew Carey Show featured a logo with an ultrasound of a baby who giggles. This is accompanied by a quick drum beat. | |
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Originally it was for "Ghost Planet Industries", way back when Space Ghost Coast to Coast and its spin-off, Cartoon Planet, were their only shows in production. Their plate is a blurry picture of the Williams Street studio, with a low tympani roll and a few ominous gongs. (The audio is actually ripped off of Mark VII Limited's plate from the 1960s above.) From 2001 to 2012, the plate was followed by a split-second (sometimes longer) flash of a skull and crossbones image (with the Cartoon Network logo for its teeth, which also looks like a censored bar, fittingly enough) on a white background, with a voice speaking or shouting, "Skull!" | |
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Channel Awesome: Very early episodes from back when the website was "That Guy with the Glasses" ended with a card simply reading "The End by That Guy with the Glasses," which was eventually replaced with a more formal credit sequence. After the rename to Channel Awesome, it got a new logo - a satellite inside of a white circle - and a new vanity plate appearing at the end (and for some longer episodes and movies, the beginning) of The Nostalgia Critic. The satellite fades in from space, becomes engrossed in the light of a star behind it, and forms the logo. The logo was later tweaked so the circle was red instead. |
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In BoJack Horseman, Ubu exists as a celebrity all on his own. Charlotte calls him 'the guy who sits' and Herb comments that he really is a good dog. | |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios now has its own logo, perhaps to differentiate from Pixar films but more likely as a show of pride and legacy, featuring the iconic shot of Mickey Mouse whistling and steering the steamboat from Steamboat Willie, going from initial sketch to finished animation as it plays out. | |
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The studio's mascot, Luxo Jr., hops across the stage, then jumps onto the letter I in the name, flattens it, then looks at the audience in embarrassment. Taken from Pixar's first short, in which Luxo Jr. jumps onto and deflates a ball in the same way. At the end of each film, the sequence is repeated, with the light snapping off or fading out after Luxo Jr. faces the camera. | |
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a.k.a. Cartoon: The Brothers Grunt, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and a few others. The company logo, a caricatured Danny Antonucci (company founder) being skewered by a pencil, accompanied by a generic car-crash sound and a saxophone riff. The logo is remarkably different in every season, special (excluding the Cartoon Network Invaded special) and even Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show. | |
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The company's logo was parodied in The Simpsons in the opening to "Treehouse of Horror XV", with the tentacles of Kang (or possibly Kodos) hammering "XV" on the screen. It was done to reflect the credits sequence for the made-up sitcom Keepin' It Kodos. | |
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Disney didn't really have a consistent one until 1985, when an animated, 2D, segmented (like many other logos of the era) Sleeping Beauty Castle made its debut in front of The Black Cauldron. It was revised in 1990, when the purple gradient inside the castle was removed. This may be the only example of a theatrical film company to use a stylized logo that stuck, in part because they had no iconic logo until then. The jingle based on "When You Wish Upon a Star" also led to new versions of that song in the follow-ups. | |
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Goblin Caught On Tape: Zach Hadel's personal studio which produces Smiling Friends features a large, grotesquely detailed goblin head, with a bit-compressed recording of Zach saying, "Goblin caught on tape!" | |
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When he died, Castle paid him tribute. | |
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Looney Tunes: Hebede-hebede-hebede-that's all folks! | |
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A few international releases around this time didn't use a proper logo; instead, they used the short version of the 1981-1983 Walt Disney intro, with a "HOME VIDEO" banner tacked on at the end. | |
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An updated version of the 16-bit Capcom vanity plate was used in DuckTales Remastered. | |
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Arnold Shapiro Productions: Rescue 911. A spotlight makes its way up the screen before settling on the text "Arnold Shapiro Productions" in the center, and a stern male voice (ostensibly that of a police officer) says, "Mr. Shapiro, step out of the car, please." | |
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The fake dev blog for Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People featured a post where Strong Bad claims that the more unskippable company logos the player is forced to watch before the game starts, the better the game will be. | |
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The first logo for Saban Brands, introduced with Power Rangers Samurai, has a red ribbon in space flying to form the 1996-2002 logo, set to a guitar riff. | |
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Starting with The Last O.G. and BlacKkKlansman, this was changed to a stop-motion clip of camera passing through a train car carrying eccentricities, stopping at a floating monkey's paw stirring a teacup (referencing Get Out (2017)) in one of the seats. | |
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The first logo shows a girl running on a bridge (taken from the Sesame Street skit, "I'm A Little Airplane!") on a black background with the company name above and the URL adress below, as a girl says something along the lines of, "Little Airplane!" which differs depending on the show. A short variation with an animated butterfly exists. | |
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Starting with Halloween (2018), the logo's text is now formed by a blue aurora over a city as seen from space, bringing to mind both of the logos mentioned above. | |
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This was later replaced by the lineup from The Usual Suspects in silhouettes, first seen on X-Men: First Class. | |
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Mad Cow Productions: Production company of Madeleine Smithberg, co-creator of The Daily Show. A cow has its head poking over a fence, with voice a saying "The cow says...", then a baby says "Moo!", then laughs. The cow's eye then rolls back into its head. | |
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Another one features a conductor's hand, which flicks a baton, shooting out a hyperspace conducted with an orchestral fanfare followed by the THX logo zooming in. During the THX logo zooming scene, we hear a more pleasant version of the Deep Note. This was parodied on Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation. | |
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UBU Productions: Of Family Ties and Spin City fame. A distorted photo of Ubu Roi, a black Labrador Retriever, is shown, where the canine is holding a frisbee. Producer Gary David Goldberg says the line, "Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog.", which is followed by Ubu's quick, single bark. Ubu was Goldberg's self-described "campus dog", and died in 1984. Robot Chicken parodied this right beside their own vanity plates with a similar looking photo of a toy dog. Seth Green says, "Sit, Ubu, sit. Bad dog!", before the screen cuts to black, a shotgun sounds, and a dog whimpers. Also parodied on The Hamster Wheel. Can be viewed here (profanities — probably Not Safe for Work) along with other parodies. In BoJack Horseman, Ubu exists as a celebrity all on his own. Charlotte calls him 'the guy who sits' and Herb comments that he really is a good dog. |
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WWE: Front and back Vanity Plates. The Vanity Plate at the beginning of their programming is a 30-second montage of soundbites and blipverts of moments throughout their history. The Vanity Plate at the end is a simple light panning over the WWE logo. Both Vanity Plates were notably absent from ECW on Sci-Fi, a holdover from the early days of the Revival when WWE was trying to separate the new ECW from the other two "brands" as much as possible. WWE's front Vanity Plate has since been parodied in the form of Botchamania's opening sequence. In July 2012, to coincide with the 1000th episode of WWE Raw, the company introduced new front & back vanity plates. The new opening signature is a short montage of photos of WWE wrestlers and arenas that appear in rapid succession before the WWE logo itself appears against a white background, with "Then. Now. Forever." fading in next to it. The Vanity Plate at the end is the word "ENTERTAINMENT" appearing against a black background, then changing to the WWE logo in a flash of light. The company launched a new logo in August 2014. Despite that, their opening intro plate remains essentially the same, only switching out the old "scratch" logo with the new logo at the end. The old "ENTERTAINMENT" closing plate has now been replaced with a brand new one, depicting the new WWE logo being formed like building blocks against an "industrial" nighttime setting. There have been other Vanity Plates WWE has used throughout history. From 1984 to 1988, the WWF block logo emerges in a starry background, with the words "WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION" appearing below, one by one, followed by an announcer's voice saying, "The recognized symbol of excellence in Sports Entertainment." It was reused on the Old School Raw, but with "FEDERATION" crossed out and "ENTERTAINMENT" written below it. From 1988 to 1991, the plate show moving imagery with an announcer's voice saying, "The World Wrestling Federation, what the world is watching." Signatures from 1991 to 1997 simply showed the WWF block logo with "WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION" below it and the announcer's voice said, "The World Wrestling Federation, for over 50 years, the revolutionary force in Sports Entertainment." Different WWF signatures were produced for the Attitude Era. |
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Marvel Studios: Originally, the logo consisted of the Marvel logo that was already in place since 2002's Spider-Man, just with the word "Studios" forming below "Marvel." Starting with Thor: The Dark World, it got a new logo to differentiate its films from movies merely associated with the brand, with the comic pages falling on an already-formed logo before ending it just like before. It then debuted a new logo in Doctor Strange (2016) which is way more distinct, it begins like the usual "comic pages falling down" plate used in most Marvel productions from the Turn of the Millennium onwards, until illustrations of the core film characters appear next to script pages of the MCU's most famous lines.note "There was an idea...", "I am Iron Man", "I've got red in my ledger", "That's my secret, Captain...", "We are Groot", and "I can do this all day." A shot of Captain America tossing his shield at the screen, taken from The First Avenger, transitions to scenes from the other MCU movies being projected on the sides of the logo until it is fully revealed. Because new heroes are continuously added with each film, the logo clips are refreshed for each new Marvel Studios release to include recent additions; since the debut of the current plate, later iterations have added Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Gamora, Black Panther, & Okoye in prominent positions. Infinity War and Ant-Man & the Wasp also turn the backdrop black at the end and highlight the "I" and "O" in "Studios" to form a red "10" to mark the decade since the May 2008 release of Iron Man. Captain Marvel, the first film the studio released after Stan Lee's death, turned the opening into a tribute to him by making all the clips be of his cameos and behind-the-scenes clips, until the final part thereof where the backdrop itself is like the one from the two movies that preceded it, sans the red highlights; this was later carried on in Avengers: Endgame where, apart from being the movie with Lee's last cameo prior to his passing, the scenes and shots of the MCU characters snapped away in Infinity War are apparently left blank. |
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For Inspector Gadget, it would show Gadget skating by the logo on a blue background (sans the dot on the I); he'd stumble, and the gadget mallet would pop out of his hat and slam into the wall behind him as he flailed away, with the impact of the mallet becoming the dot on the I. | |
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Underdog Productions: The company behind American Dad! features a live-action security guard who smiles at the camera, gives a thumbs up, and says "Bye, have a great/wonderful/beautiful time!" | |
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The Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection logo for 1994-1999 started with the corporate Disney signature drawn out in bronze-gold on an arc, while bronze-gold "Masterpiece" and then "Collection" would zoom in; upon the letters almost lining up, Tinker Bell from Peter Pan would fly out of the middle of the screen, turn, and wave her wand to create a magenta back plaque with a gold border and a silvery Cinderella's Castle between "Masterpiece" and "Collection"; Tinker Bell would then fly off the left side of the screen, and the logo would flash once (this actually is a different shape from the emblem on the top of a general release tape; it has the same general shape as the emblem on the spine); during the logo, a remix of the Classics jingle plays that omits the opening violin and uses deeper, faster chimes (which sound more like bells) and a pure synth instead of trumpets. As for Tinker Bell, this exact same animation appears in the Roy Disney intro to demonstrate a laptop computer and is actually rotoscoped from the intro to Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (a different Tinker Bell animation from Walt Disney Presents was on the Robin Hood Classics demo tape a decade prior); the Tinker Bell animation would later be used on the Disney's FastPlay screen on Disney DVDs whose printings started around the exit of CEO Michael Eisner and beyond. The general release Masterpiece titles had this logo after the F.B.I. warnings rather than before the movie,note As mentioned above, if the tape was printed prior to Katzenberg's exit in August, instead of the Masterpiece Collection logo, the 1986 Walt Disney Home Video logo would play after the F.B.I. warnings and prior to the tape's commercials and a few general release VHS copies circa 1996 plus virtually all Masterpiece LDs that same year on replace the Masterpiece jingle with the 1992 distorted Walt Disney Classics jingle (it still omits the violin, and the jingle goes on a little longer with the ending organ note being prolonged); the logo would flash twice in this scenario (sometimes the logo with the Classics jingle is a different shade, making the magenta backing look completely purple. | |
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After the rename to Channel Awesome, it got a new logo - a satellite inside of a white circle - and a new vanity plate appearing at the end (and for some longer episodes and movies, the beginning) of The Nostalgia Critic. The satellite fades in from space, becomes engrossed in the light of a star behind it, and forms the logo. The logo was later tweaked so the circle was red instead. | |
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Where's Lunch?: Best known for Everybody Loves Raymond, this production company's plate has a placemat with the words "Where's Lunch?" on it, being covered up by... well, lunch; a different meal each episode. The last episode presents the bill... "No charge! Thank you." | |
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In 2007/2008, a new opening replaced the Walt Disney Home Entertainment logo. This opening is a slideshow of Disney movies up to this point and eventually ends in screens building the 2006 Disney castle, with "Movies, Magic, More" in the mix, all set to the Overture from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The castle graphic ends with the traditional arc, but only says "Disney". This is known as the "There is only one Disney" opening due to that being the final and key words from the narrator in this opening. The tune that plays over this is a full orchestra arrangement with chimes/bells over the castle. | |
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While it consisted of a basic reveal of the shield logo, the colour of said logo and the style of music used is genre appropriate. Harry Potter movies have it in brown for example, flying past the camera. If it's not tied in to the movie it's with, it'll usually be accompanied by "As Time Goes By". In 1998, it went fully animated, starting with a still shot of the Warner studio lot that does a pan to a 3D shield. It was revamped in 2021 starting with Locked Down, where we zoom past a photo-realistic rendition of the studio lot (with emphasis on the water tower), only for the new version of the shield (which is bannerless, blue and platinum, and simpler in design overall) to reveal itself. | |
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Woody Woodpecker also did a parody in "Under the Counter Spy", where the man accidentally hits his thumb with the hammer and yells in pain, then lifts the chisel to reveal the ending card. | |
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Best known for The X-Files, and Millennium (1996). A young boy's voice declares proudly "I made this!" over the sound of an old-fashioned movie projector, while the logo appears on a black screen. (The boy is Nathan Couturier, son of X-Files supervising sound editor, Thierry Couturier. The company name itself refers to the birthday of producer Chris Carter.) | |
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The second logo, first seen at the beginning of The Nutty Professor (1996), shows a drop of water falling into a pond with a reflection of the word "IMAGINE" appearing to a theme composed by James Horner. | |
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Adam F. Goldberg Productions: The producers of Breaking In and The Goldbergs; various childhood pictures of producer Adam F. Goldberg (and his family) would be shown. The Goldbergs episode, "12 Tapes for a Penny", was credited to "Doug Fell Productions", presumably to keep in line with the episode's theme of using fake names. | |
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For The Ten Commandments, they substituted Mount Sinai in the logo. | |
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Peter Hannan Productions: Appearing at the end of CatDog the logo simply showed a pig standing on its hind legs with a piece of straw in its mouth and green cowboy hat standing right next to the name "PETER HANNAN PRODUCTIONS". When Nickelodeon began to push the credits for its shows back the sound of a fly buzzing was added to the logo. | |
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The following Gold Classic Collection logo featured a belt-like plaque design with Cinderella's Castle in a circle towards the left with "Classic" under it, the words "Gold" and "Collection" sandwiching it, and the corporate Disney logo in gold above the belt with a regal blue background behind everythingnote The logo is similar in design to the Keurig Brewed seal from Green Mountain Coffee Keurig products, if that helps ; this logo was static, playing immediately after the starting F.B.I. warnings on every release, and it simply had the Gold Walt Disney Home Video jingle (a violin crescendo) as opposed to a Classics/Masterpiece Collection jingle remix (plus the logo didn't appear on many releases; videos and DVDs that didn't have it had the regular Gold Walt Disney Home Video logo). | |
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Castle Rock Entertainment, which was behind Seinfeld and many movies, featured a logo of a lighthouse in the distance which briefly shone its light at the camera. This was accompanied by a five note melody, which was given a full orchestra remix starting in 1997. | |
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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies introduced a new secondary logo where Daffy Duck, in his wacky persona and design that would later appear in Looney Tunes Cartoons, runs and jumps around the logo going "WOO-HOO!" maniacally, until Porky pulls him into the shield. Amusingly, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge used a variant where it's Scorpion who pulls Daffy into the shield instead, complete with a trademark "get over here!" Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms takes the previous variant one step further, by having Scorpion hop around like Daffy until Shaggy gets him with powers not unlike those portrayed in the "Ultra Instinct Shaggy" memes. | |
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The "Skull" card following the program Squidbillies customarily has the voice of a character from the series saying the word. | |
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Epitome Pictures: The people behind Degrassi: The Next Generation. Uses a flaming torch to form the "T" in "EpiTome. Recently redesigned. | |
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Several different signoffs were used. The best-known of these, used between 1961 and 1978, features a horizontally-stretched globe against a starfield, with "A Filmways Television Presentation" paralleling the top and bottom of the globe. A voiceover stating "This has been a Filmways presentation" usually accompanied the logo, spoken by one of the stars of the show that preceded it. The most famous examples came from The Beverly Hillbillies, spoken by Donna Douglas as Elly May, and Green Acres with Eva Gabor saying: "This has been a Filmways presentation, dahling." | |
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For the shows made in the 1990 season (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, Rick Moranis In Gravedale High Wake, Rattle & Roll, Tom and Jerry Kids, and Yo Yogi!), a special ending vanity plate with Fred Flintstone was used to denote the 30th anniversary of The Flintstones. | |
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Another variant was made, starting with Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: The boy, now dubbed the Moon Child, rides the crescent moon past characters from DreamWorks Animation's past, passing finger guns to the Bad Guys, Toothless appearing in a constellation, Po and Ted Templeton bowing and winking to the camera respectively, hi-fiving Poppy, and finally waving to Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona, finally settling down in the sky to fish afterward. Shortly after this logo was unveiled, it was announced that different DWA franchises will be represented in the sequence depending on the movie being shown before it. This eventually came to pass with Trolls Band Together, with Po and Ted swapped out with Alex and Marty and Eep Crood waving at and reaching out to the camera respectively, while Puss in Boots creates an opening through the sky to transition into the Shrek scene in place of Poppy. |
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Reveille Productions: Co-producer of such shows as The Office (US) and Ugly Betty. A soldier is shown playing a trumpet in white silhouette. | |
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On DonPachi only, a completely different Cave logo was used. | |
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The Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Family logos have Bugs Bunny leaning on the logo (sometimes preceded by him coming out from behind it) and chewing a carrot. The usual fanfare is "Merrily We Roll Along", while through the '90s and early 2000s the animated TV series had the final bars of the Animaniacs theme ("Those are the facts!"). Teen Titans Go! To the Movies introduced a new secondary logo where Daffy Duck, in his wacky persona and design that would later appear in Looney Tunes Cartoons, runs and jumps around the logo going "WOO-HOO!" maniacally, until Porky pulls him into the shield. Amusingly, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge used a variant where it's Scorpion who pulls Daffy into the shield instead, complete with a trademark "get over here!" Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms takes the previous variant one step further, by having Scorpion hop around like Daffy until Shaggy gets him with powers not unlike those portrayed in the "Ultra Instinct Shaggy" memes. |
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Jaws may be unique in having inspired the names of two production companies, Bad Hat Harry and A Bigger Boat (as in "We're gonna need..."). | |
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Langley Productions: 3 variants exist: the first was the early '80s Barbour/Langley Logo which featured the names in hot pink sliding in from the sides of the screen with an accompanying tune that creeped many of us for years. Fortunately, once Langley took over the graphics changed to where "Langley" would either slide or form in with a Blues-Rock riff. Currently, it's a different riff with a flash revealing the logo. | |
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Bad Robot Productions: Lost, Alias, ...anything J. J. Abrams. An animated logo of a boxy, brightly-colored robot running through tall grass as a chorus of children call out, "bad robot!" (In movies, there is no voiceover, sans Star Wars: The Force Awakens.) | |
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Little Airplane Productions: Josh Selig's company that created Oobi and Wonder Pets!, among others. The first logo shows a girl running on a bridge (taken from the Sesame Street skit, "I'm A Little Airplane!") on a black background with the company name above and the URL adress below, as a girl says something along the lines of, "Little Airplane!" which differs depending on the show. A short variation with an animated butterfly exists. The current variant features a red emblem with a old fashioned plane inside bounce in with the company name in it, as the girl from before once again says, "Little Airplane!" |
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In 1975, the simplified "Blue Mountain" logo used for movies was adapted for television by having "Television" slide under "Paramount". This one has two themes, one by Lalo Schifrin which was first used in 1970 to replace Frontiere's "Closet Killer" on the red "Split Rectangle" logo, and one by Jerry Goldsmith which debuted in 1977. There was a variation of this that started in 1982 (with a more bombastic jingle; the 1979 jingle was used on this as well on some shows, like Taxi) that used a form of the theatrical logo; in this one, "Television" intersected the mountain peak as it slid in under "Paramount" (the part of the "Television" word that touched the mountain peak was a brighter white, possibly due to chroma-keying). This version had a similarity to the popular closing logo of 20th Century Fox Television, in that the "Television" part imposed itself on the actual theatrical logo. | |
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When episode 3 of Power Rangers Ninja Steel premiered, a new logo was introduced, in which a glass globe, filled with liquid gold, turns into the Saban logo. An extended version of this logo is used on Power Rangers (2017). | |
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Michael Jacobs Productions: Famously known for several ABC TGIF programs (most famously Boy Meets World). Its logo is simply the company's name with a soothing guitar riff. | |
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CollegeHumor has a parody of this. | |
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Best Brains Incorporated: Not having a standard-issue logo, the creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000 chose to invent The Stinger — a five-second clip from the episode itself, run behind the BBI name. | |
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A variation comes after the closing credits of WALL•E: after Luxo Jr. squashes the I and turns to the camera, its light bulb burns out. WALL•E rolls into view, changes the bulb, pats Luxo Jr. on the "head", and starts to roll away. However, WALL•E then knocks over the letter R in Pixar, and is forced to take its place by bending his body into the shape of an R. Luxo then turns once more to the camera and the lights go out. The MegaCorp in the film's backstory, Buy-N-Large, has its own Vanity Plate, which appeared after this Logo Joke as The Stinger. This logo consists of several ovals with the BnL letters over them and a choir saying, "BNL!!!" | |
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Wolf Films: Dick Wolf's production company for the Law & Order franchise. An illustration of a wolf howling at a full moon is shown, accompanied by the sound of the wolf howling and crickets chirping. | |
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From November 10, 2016 to April 9, 2021, the Exploding Blocks logo was used. On a blue background, a black square appears at the left and the white one at the right. When they collide, the letters C and N will appear on their respective squares. An explosion graphic effect appears, resulting in revealing the black and white 7x2 square grid. The company's name will appear on it and morphs into the 2010 version of Cartoon Network checkerboard logo. The background color, however, will change from blue to white while the morphing animation plays. Its background music is the retro 4 note of the 2010 CN jingle. Unlike the 1999-2016 Ripple logo, the parent company byline and Trade Mark/Service Mark symbol do not appear below and between the logo, respectively. It was first introduced on a Regular Show episode The Key to the Universe. This is no longer on episodes of Cartoon Network original series, pilots, and films that were produced, released, and distributed in the United States since April 2019 due to the dissolution of Turner Broadcasting System on March 4, 2019 which removed all references to Turner Broadcasting including this division and also resulted on the transfer of Cartoon Network's parent company from Turner to Warner Bros. (with the last CN original series to use this endtag or in general, Cartoon Network Productions logo, is Victor and Valentino and the first CN original series to not use the Exploding Blocks endtag is Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart, while the first CN movie not to use the CNP logo is Steven Universe: The Movie). As a result, they simply end with the Cartoon Network Studios logo. Surprisingly, the Exploding Blocks endtag appeared on Elliott from Earth, which first aired in Africa and in the UK on March 6, 2021. Most likely because the show started production in 2018, when this endtag was still used. |
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Shortly after this logo was unveiled, it was announced that different DWA franchises will be represented in the sequence depending on the movie being shown before it. This eventually came to pass with Trolls Band Together, with Po and Ted swapped out with Alex and Marty and Eep Crood waving at and reaching out to the camera respectively, while Puss in Boots creates an opening through the sky to transition into the Shrek scene in place of Poppy. | |
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The Curiosity Company: The production company, owned by Matt Groening himself, behind Futurama as well as the Christmas Special Olive, the Other Reindeer. Its logo displays the name together with the first image (and accompanying sound) of the short film A Study in Wet, made by Groening's late father, Homer. | |
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Vanity Plate | |
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One in use from 1991-1998, which had various objects forming the letters in "KLASKY" and scribbles writing in "CSUPO". It was retired as of The Rugrats Movie for a new vanity plate. Another one made its only appearances on Rugrats Go Wild and The Immigrants: a city skyline with a green sky has a rooster who wakes up, screaming "WAKE... UP!!!", before the Sun gets brighter and brings forth the Klasky-Csupo logo (it looks different than it does in the other logos; it's an off-kilter print version which dates to at least 1999). | |
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Vanity Plate | |
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A special variant for The Covenant took the “S from Hell� name quite literally, as it is tinted orange, made to look like fire, and fades out like a flame. | |
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Their first logo for The Angry Video Game Nerd simply displayed the logo on a black screen while a random piece of music (most often a guitar riff) played quietly in the background. | |
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Captain Marvel, the first film the studio released after Stan Lee's death, turned the opening into a tribute to him by making all the clips be of his cameos and behind-the-scenes clips, until the final part thereof where the backdrop itself is like the one from the two movies that preceded it, sans the red highlights; this was later carried on in Avengers: Endgame where, apart from being the movie with Lee's last cameo prior to his passing, the scenes and shots of the MCU characters snapped away in Infinity War are apparently left blank. | |
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The company behind The Fairly OddParents!, My Life as a Teenage Robot, ChalkZone, Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Fanboy and Chum Chum and Adventure Time. For all but the last two shows, bits of metal are hammered onto a blue background, forming a circle of metal, and "A Frederator Incorporated Production" logo flies into the circle. Then, a woman shouts, "FREDERATOR!" | |
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Despite the demise of Hanna-Barbera as a standalone studio, properties associated with the company still use the name and have even resurrected past logos. Movies in the Scooby-Doo Direct-to-Video Film Series produced from 2003-2009 featured an HD remake of the second variant of the "HB Box" logo. A new logo introduced in 2017 is basically an HD remake of the "Rainbow HB" logo, albeit with a different design for the "HB". | |
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For The Littles, it would show Dinky running by the logo and dotting the I with a button before stumbling off the screen. This version used an orange background, but on the French version the background was red. | |
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At the end of Robot Chicken commentaries, the commentators often wait and shout out "Skull!" along with the voice. | |
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In Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the '80s, Activision and Harmonix replaced their typical logo plates with pixelated ones like what one might expect to see in an '80s video game. Activision kept this retro logo in Guitar Hero On Tour Decades for DS. RedOctane uses their regular logo, but since it consists primarily of a pixelated fireball to begin with, it still fits the sequence. | |
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United Plankton Pictures: is the production company of Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. On the logo, several crudely animated plankton are seen holding hands against a watery background with the text "United Plankton" appearing above and "Pictures Inc." appearing below. | |
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Guntzelman Sullivan Marshall: The producers of Growing Pains and Just the Ten of Us used a logo depicting a man falling off the roof of a house at night and screaming. | |
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There are many YouTube channels and videos which show the history of vanity plates for various companies, such as TR3X Productions. The plates are shown in chronological order, thus making the videos Progressive Era Montages. | |
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Revised as of Up and re-releases of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, initially done for the 3D versions in 2009. The same basic scene but starting with the camera facing from the left on the letters which are now shown to have depth. The camera rotates around back to the front as Luxo hops in. | |
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Ulster: Started out as a The Twilight Zone style mix of dots and lines accompanied by a refrain from "The Mountains of Mourne", a piece of traditional music. Come The Troubles, the modified logo with the oscilloscope pattern on the inside of a TV screen shape was usually transmitted still and in silence. Then in 1980, along came "the lollipop" or "the telly on a stick" - a statue with the station logo made from melted silver retrieved from volatile film stock which revolved to the sound of a plinky-plonk early 1980s synth tune. It was intended as an anniversary ident but stuck, still frontcaps though did exist on the few networked programmes it did make. | |
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From 2001-2010, some productionsnote — various pilots and original TV movies, the latter seasons of Johnny Bravo, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, the first seasons of Ben 10 and The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, and Transformers: Animated — used a "laser" variant, where the logo appeared as the result of a green scanning effect. This is accompanied by the final notes of the show's Ending Theme, some sound effects, a piece of music/dialogue from the show, or even silence. | |
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Roundelay was the vanity card of David Jacobs, executive producer of Knots Landing. It started in 1980, and its first version (which started in Season 2; Season 1 simply had a text credit on the closing credits) was simply the Roundelay name in a blue neon semicircle that curved up and then back down; that had "A Roundelay Production In Association With" below it, before going to the Lorimar logo of the time. In 1985, Michael Filerman became a co-executive producer with Jacobs, and his initials "MF" in yellow-green were added under the Roundelay semicircle; the line on the previous version was updated to read "A Roundelay-MF Production In Association With," which would, for one season, be followed by the previous Lorimar logo, and in later years, the Lorimar-Telepictures and Lorimar Television logos. This logo also appeared on Dallas, but not on the series itself; rather, it was on the 1986 prequel movie The Early Years. Later series that Roundelay had a hand in would simply have the Roundelay text credit of before, before the logo made one final appearance on Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-De-Sac in 1997. | |
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Warner Animation Group's logo consists of the usual Warner Bros. movie logo before flipping around to reveal its own logo on the other side, a shield with a white border with a red interior, almost similar to the logos seen before the Looney Tunes cartoons. | |
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At the beginning of Soul Calibur 3, the Deep Note is performed by Galaga characters, since both games are owned by Namco. | |
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Vanity Plate | |
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Also parodied on The Hamster Wheel. Can be viewed here (profanities — probably Not Safe for Work) along with other parodies. | |
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In the early '90s, they dropped the Star altogether (at least in Vanity Plate form) after the studio's purchase by Turner Broadcasting. It was replaced by a script "Hanna-Barbera" (introduced in 1988), which was combined with pictures of H-B characters in a rectangle (or an oval on Swat Kats and The Halloween Tree) (usually the ones from the preceding show), along with H-B sound effects in the background. They took this a step further in 1994, with CG animated logos with Hanna-Barbera characters in motion. There were two versions, comedy and action, the latter best known for its accidental presence at the end of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'s mid-'90s prints. When Hanna-Barbera was wound down to little more than Cartoon Network's original programming unit in the late '90s, the early '90s static logos were revisited, except with ovals instead of rectangles (on some shows, rectangles were used instead of ovals). There are versions of these where the logo irises out and the Cartoon Network logo zooms up in its place. | |
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R&D TV: Company formed to produce Battlestar Galactica, its only show as of this writing. Its signoff features versions of Ron Moore and David Eick ("R" and "D") animated in a style reminiscent of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam, taking turns mutilating each other. Thanks to some twisted soul somewhere on the Net, you can see a collected set of these clips here, or check out this article from Wired magazine. | |
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Clover Studios had a very ordinary vanity plate, a green 4-leaf clover blooming accompanied by a female voice saying, "Clover..." But in Ōkami, one of the standard 'clean up the trashed world' activities you have to do in the game is first dig up black clovers, then bloom them into healthy green ones. | |
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Almost all its computer games showed "Wolf Team" scrolling up over a detailed background image, followed by "Since 1987" appearing in smaller letters underneath. (Pre-1987 games had instead "Telenet" followed by "A Wolf Team Presents.") The background images varied from game to game at first (e.g. a Fantasm Jewel in Valis), but most later games had three crossed swords zoom in, with a shield and banner fading in behind them. The musical theme in all cases was two falling chimes played twice. | |
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Braniff: Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "company" credited for South Park. Actually an old commercial for Braniff Airlines that Trey and Matt stuck on the end of early South Park episodes when they realized they didn't have a production company logo to put on the end. It stuck. The unaired, uncut version of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" has a variant with six pantsless guys dancing, with the "Braniff Airlines" text as a censor bar, and singing "Bra-niff Air-lines!" off-key. The "pah PAH-PAH PAH! Pah pah-pah pah-pah-pah! pah-PAH!" jingle came from "Shpadoinkle Day", a song in Cannibal! The Musical |
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Its first logo was a black planet with rings around it with "SABAN" on the rings in a Pac-Man-like lettering style, with "PRODUCTIONS" below that. Five lines are on the bottom left hand side of the planet. | |
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The Bedford Falls Company: Production company responsible for the late 1980s ABC show thirtysomething and mid-'90s Teen Drama My So-Called Life. Snow falls on a Victorian house as the line "...and dance by the light of the moon..." from the song "Buffalo Gals" is sung. Both the plate and the company name itself are a Shout-Out to the movie It's a Wonderful Life: that film was set in the town of Bedford Falls, NY, and there is a scene where Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed sing "Buffalo Girls" before stopping to throw stones through the windows of the abandoned house they would later renovate and live in. | |
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In the third logo which was only seen in Rugrats Go Wild! and Immigrants, there is a city silhouette, with a rooster on one of the buildings and a few palm trees on the right. The sun rises, revealing the city (which is green) and the rooster. The rooster wakes up and opens its eyes (from the previous logo, as evidenced by yellow edges around them). It crows loudly as its eyes bulge and the blocks in the K-C logo float around. | |
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This was followed by the "Rainbow HB" used from 1974-79, which begins with columns of "HANNA-BARBERA" text in rainbow colors which all disappear except one, which morphs into a stylized "HB" with a scrolling pattern of rainbow colors with columns of "HANNA-BARBERA" text. If you look closely at the background of the title cards and end credits for The Scooby-Doo Show and Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, you'll notice it's made up using the same stylized "HB" logo. | |
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Its logo, well-known to several generations of TV viewers, was Mimsie the MTM kitten, a parody of Leo the MGM lion. In Mimsie's initial appearances at the end of The Mary Tyler Moore Show she simply meowed, but other MTM productions often added animated overlays and/or new sound tracks that were specific to the show. See the long list of such variants at Logo Joke. | |
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Homestar Runner: Fake-video game corporation Videlectrix has its surreal one of a man falling over and giving an "I'm OK!" gesture synced to a simple melody, displayed in the style of the console/computer the presented game is a pastiche of. The fake dev blog for Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People featured a post where Strong Bad claims that the more unskippable company logos the player is forced to watch before the game starts, the better the game will be. |
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David Greenwalt Productions from David Greenwalt of Buffy, Angel, Jake 2.0 and others, uses a literal vanity license plate on a motorhome and a kid saying "Dad, let's go!" as its vanity plate. | |
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There were a number of early versions. What A Cartoon! Show used the studio's first logo on a colored background with information about studio ownership underneath, accompanied with the sound effects of the 1990s Hanna-Barbera Studios logo. Dexter's Laboratory had two variants using a second logo: one that had Dexter crash through the logo inside a robot, and a second where Dee Dee spun the "O"'s in the logo before Dexter crashed through. A small number of pilots in 2001 and 2006 used a horizontal variant of the third logo, with the Cartoon Network Studios building depicted above it. | |
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Also parodied at the end of The Three Stooges short Blunder Boys, where Moe hammers "MARK VII 1/2 - THE END" into Larry's forehead. | |
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Snee-Oosh Inc. who developed Hey Arnold! among other shows. On their first logo from 1996, a totem pole bird surrounded by a yellow haze appears against a brown background with wooden letters of the company's appearing below. Shortly after Nickelodeon began pushing its credits to the side at the end of shows, the logo was accompanied by a chorus that sang the company's name followed by a strange flute-like whistle and an "ooh" sound that continued into Nickelodeon's logo afterward. It also appears in the Ready Jet Go! credits, but without the original logo music. | |
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The THX logo is featured in Over the Hedge; as the animals are breaking in for food, the TV/stereo system comes on with the ubiquitous noise, almost waking up the residents of the house. | |
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The "pah PAH-PAH PAH! Pah pah-pah pah-pah-pah! pah-PAH!" jingle came from "Shpadoinkle Day", a song in Cannibal! The Musical | |
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Key & Peele shows a static picture of a table full of crumpled papers, with a torn-off hand from a monkey doll forming the "M" in "MONKEYPAW" next to some scattered letters. Jordan Peele sings a ditty in the background ("I gotta do my one line here!"). Throughout the series' run, it appeared side-by-side with the vanity plate for Keegan-Michael Key's company, Cindylou, Inc. | |
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It should be noted that from The Muppets (2011) onwards, the "Walt Disney Pictures" name in the logo was shortened to simply "Disney". This was ostensibly done for the sake of mobile devices. | |
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When the studio was bought out by Universal, a new version of the logo was made to accompany it starting with How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. It starts out with a painting of the sky during the day, which then turns into dusk and then finally night. All the while, the painted look slowly turns into CG as a white sphere forms in the middle with the boy on the moon in silhouette, with the letters of the logo being drawn in below. | |
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Chuck Lorre Productions: At the end of Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, and The Big Bang Theory, Chuck Lorre would put a plate up for two seconds which consisted of a blank background, a heading which read "Chuck Lorre Productions #(no. of vanity plate)" and a great big Wall of Text, accompanied by a burst of angelic choir. Viewers had to tape the show and pause the plate to read Lorre's latest humorous discussion of his beliefs and observations. At first the plate was white text on black, but it was changed to black text on white because it was easier to read. Eventually Lorre came up with a standard placeholder message (which pretty much described itself as a placeholder message) for the times when he was running low on material. All of Lorre's Vanity Plates can be seen on his website. | |
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Starry Night Productions: Reinhold Weege's production company for Night Court has an animated logo showing a star flashing brightly (accompanied by a loud clapping sound) and fading, revealing a blacked-out nighttime Chicago skyline (Weege was a native Chicagoan). The loud clap is followed by an elongated Scare Chord on electric organ and the sound of a man laughing heartily, not to say maniacally. The same guy can often be heard on the show's Laugh Track.note The guy was Reinhold Weege's father, Chuck, who attended every taping of the show until his death. | |
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