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Editions by AsdfTheRevival, AmantiDorian, Mr. Logo Lord, DaBMan, 'The King Of CLG', and CuriousGeorge60
Video captures courtesy of Ninjutsudude1997 (AmantiDorian), GarfieldFan2000, LogosForTheWin, and others
1st Logo
(October 1, 1992-June 2, 1996)
Nicknames: "The Checkerboard", "The CN Checkerboard"
Logo: Over a white background, we see the Cartoon Network logo of the era (which has the words, "CARTOON NETWORK" inside the black and white checkered rectangle shape) without "STUDIOS" below. Occasionally there is a byline underneath stating "A Division of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., A Turner Company".
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Can be seen on older non-original Cartoon Network shows, like Tin Tin and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.
Scare Factor: None.
2nd Logo
(April 28, 1996-November 28, 1997)
Nicknames: "The Checkerboard II", "The CN Checkerboard II"
Logo: We see the Cartoon Network logo of the era on a white screen, with either the word "STUDIOS" in spaced-out letters underneath, or with an extra checkered row reading "STUDIOS". In the later case, Dexter bursts out of the logo in his robot, looking back and forth afterward. The standard H-B/Turner byline is below.
Variants:
FX/SFX: None for the original version, but Dexter bursting out in the "Dexter" variant.
Music/Sounds: None for the original version, but sound effects that correspond with the logo in the "Dexter" variant.
Music/Sounds Variant:
Availability: The still version can be seen on reruns of The Cartoon Cartoon Show (formerly The What-a-Cartoon! Show) and earlier season 1 episodes of Dexter's Laboratory (with the Dial M for Monkey segment). The "Dexter" variant appears on later season 1 episodes of Dexter's Laboratory (with The Justice Friends segment).
Scare Factor: Depending on the logo variant:
Final Note: In 1997, this unit merged with Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. and used the Hanna-Barbera brand name for their shows, renaming back to its original name in 2001 when Hanna-Barbera's animation department was folded into Warner Bros. Animation even though the original name came back in 2000 with the original Evil Con Carne pilot.
3rd Logo
(2000-2001, June 3, 2006) 
Nicknames: "The CN Factory Building", "The CN Checkerboard III"
Logo: On a red background, we see the original Cartoon Network Studios factory building. Under it is "CARTOON NETWORK STUDIOS" written in the white impact font.
Variant: There is another variant where the 1992 Cartoon Network logo with "STUDIOS" inside of the black rectangular shape next to it are under the CN factory building in place of the text. Under it is an AOL Time Warner byline.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None. In other cases, a sound byte from a pilot is heard.
Availability: The first variant appeared on the failed Korgoth of Barbaria pilot on Adult Swim. The second variant was seen on pilots for My Freaky Family, IMP Inc. and Evil Con Carne (The latter, which became a segment on Grim & Evil, which was later spun off into it's own show in 2003, although the pilot was last seen on Cartoon Planet on Cartoon Network).
Scare Factor: Low. The factory logo can get to some.
4th Logo
(June 8, 2001-March 31, 2012)
Nicknames: "The CN Checkerboard IV", "The Grungy Checkerboard"
Logo: Depends on the show, but the "standard" logo is as follows: Over a white background, a green laser passes over a blinking, grungy 1992 Cartoon Network logo, causing it to stop blinking. The same happens with the text "STUDIOS" in grunge style.
Bylines:
Variants:
Custom Variants: All variations have a "sketched" look and often involve the logo opening and/or closing:
FX/SFX: Whatever the animation in the variation is.
Music/Sounds: The sound effects in the variation. In the standard one, It's either a laser sound or the outro of the end theme (as in the lighthearted, yet short-lived Whatever Happened to...Robot Jones?!).
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Common. The standard version was first seen on the premiere of Time Squad and appears on Transformers Animated (The Hub airings cut this out,though), Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, and early episodes of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Ben 10, Evil Con Carne, and season 4 episodes of Johnny Bravo and the variations appear on their respective shows. However, the standard version also appeared on the first airing of Firebreather (the future airings of said movie have the next logo below). Most of the variations during the Cartoon Cartoons era are rare and hard to find, though Dexter's variation survives on the short-lived revival of the show when the seasons 3 and 4 episodes are reran on Boomerang. The Johnny Bravo variant appeared when Cartoon Network ran a mini-marathon of the show on March 16, 2008. The still version appears on Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law from episodes 5-9 and Star Wars: Clone Wars. However it only remained on Ben 10: Ultimate Alien while other shows like Adventure Time and Generator Rex began using the next logo starting on their 2nd seasons.
Scare Factor: None to medium, depending on the version shown.
5th Logo
(September 6, 2010- )
Nicknames: "The Three Squares", "The 3-Squared Diagonal Line", "The CN Diagonal Squared Line"
Logo: Against a black background with the spotlight of dark plus signs, we see three squares drop down forming a diagonal line. (The blue square dropping to the bottom, turning white and bounces once. The pink square sliding in from the left and turning white. And the yellow-orange square zooming in and turning white.) Then a fourth square opens showing a different clip of the show's characters (depending on each show). Under the logo as the stars disappear, the words "CARTOON NETWORK" wipes in and "STUDIOS" slides in from the right and pushes the text causing it to shake briefly forming the words, "CARTOON NETWORK STUDIOS". Then the clip in the fourth square turns white. Sometimes, the clip in the fourth square doesn't turn white.
Trivia: This logo was made to fit with the 2010 re-brand.
Variants: Inside the fourth square, there is a different clip depending on each episode of said show or each TV movie:
FX/SFX: The squares forming a diagonal line, the animation of the show's clip in the fourth square.
Music/Sounds: A four note future-like theme based on the jingle used at the end of current CN bumpers since May 29, 2010.
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Common. It currently appears on Adventure Time and Generator Rex since season 2, Regular Show (where the logo was first seen), The Problem Solverz, Sym-Bionic Titan, Tower Prep, and Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. This is plastered over with the Cartoon Network Productions ripple on some episodes of Regular Show and Sym-Bionic Titan on iTunes and CN Video. It also appeared on the TV movie, Firebreather (except for the first airing which has the standard version of the previous logo). However, it might be intact on the Blu-ray and DVD release of said movie.
Scare Factor: None to low, due to the dark background.
Logo captures by AsdfTheRevival, Mr.Logo Lord, V of Doom, BenderRoblox, AmantiDorian, and CuriousGeorge60
Editions by AsdfTheRevival, AmantiDorian, Mr. Logo Lord, DaBMan, 'The King Of CLG', and CuriousGeorge60
Video captures courtesy of Ninjutsudude1997 (AmantiDorian), GarfieldFan2000, LogosForTheWin, and others
1st Logo
(October 1, 1992-June 2, 1996)
Nicknames: "The Checkerboard", "The CN Checkerboard"
Logo: Over a white background, we see the Cartoon Network logo of the era (which has the words, "CARTOON NETWORK" inside the black and white checkered rectangle shape) without "STUDIOS" below. Occasionally there is a byline underneath stating "A Division of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., A Turner Company".FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Can be seen on older non-original Cartoon Network shows, like Tin Tin and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.
Scare Factor: None.
2nd Logo
(April 28, 1996-November 28, 1997)
Nicknames: "The Checkerboard II", "The CN Checkerboard II"
Logo: We see the Cartoon Network logo of the era on a white screen, with either the word "STUDIOS" in spaced-out letters underneath, or with an extra checkered row reading "STUDIOS". In the later case, Dexter bursts out of the logo in his robot, looking back and forth afterward. The standard H-B/Turner byline is below.
Variants:
- A longer version, seen only on the season one finale of Dexter's Laboratory, has Dee Dee dancing by and touching the O's before Dexter appears, causing them to flip around briefly.
- Another variation has just the still logo without Dexter or any animation. This version has a byline reading "a division of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." underneath, and under that is a Turner byline.
- Some episodes of What-a-Cartoon! have a blue, red, or yellow background instead.
FX/SFX: None for the original version, but Dexter bursting out in the "Dexter" variant.
Music/Sounds: None for the original version, but sound effects that correspond with the logo in the "Dexter" variant.
Music/Sounds Variant:
- On later 1996-1997 episodes of What-a-Cartoon!, the still logo variant (with the "STUDIOS" text) is seen with the audio from the 1994-1999 H-B All-Stars "Comedy" logo.
- On the episode "Tales of Worm Paranoia," the logo has the audio from the 1997-2002 H-B logo (which ironically was first heard on another episode called "Zoonatiks") playing instead.
Availability: The still version can be seen on reruns of The Cartoon Cartoon Show (formerly The What-a-Cartoon! Show) and earlier season 1 episodes of Dexter's Laboratory (with the Dial M for Monkey segment). The "Dexter" variant appears on later season 1 episodes of Dexter's Laboratory (with The Justice Friends segment).
Scare Factor: Depending on the logo variant:
- None for the original variant.
- Low to medium for the longer variant. You may be caught off-guard by Dexter's sudden appearance.
Final Note: In 1997, this unit merged with Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. and used the Hanna-Barbera brand name for their shows, renaming back to its original name in 2001 when Hanna-Barbera's animation department was folded into Warner Bros. Animation even though the original name came back in 2000 with the original Evil Con Carne pilot.
3rd Logo
(2000-2001, June 3, 2006)
Nicknames: "The CN Factory Building", "The CN Checkerboard III"
Logo: On a red background, we see the original Cartoon Network Studios factory building. Under it is "CARTOON NETWORK STUDIOS" written in the white impact font.
Variant: There is another variant where the 1992 Cartoon Network logo with "STUDIOS" inside of the black rectangular shape next to it are under the CN factory building in place of the text. Under it is an AOL Time Warner byline.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None. In other cases, a sound byte from a pilot is heard.
Availability: The first variant appeared on the failed Korgoth of Barbaria pilot on Adult Swim. The second variant was seen on pilots for My Freaky Family, IMP Inc. and Evil Con Carne (The latter, which became a segment on Grim & Evil, which was later spun off into it's own show in 2003, although the pilot was last seen on Cartoon Planet on Cartoon Network).
Scare Factor: Low. The factory logo can get to some.
4th Logo
(June 8, 2001-March 31, 2012)
Nicknames: "The CN Checkerboard IV", "The Grungy Checkerboard"
Logo: Depends on the show, but the "standard" logo is as follows: Over a white background, a green laser passes over a blinking, grungy 1992 Cartoon Network logo, causing it to stop blinking. The same happens with the text "STUDIOS" in grunge style.
Bylines:
- 2001-2003: The custom logos for the shows during the early years featured the byline "An AOL Time Warner Company".
- 2003-: The Powerpuff Girls and Star Wars: Clone Wars variants feature the byline "A TimeWarner Company".
Variants:
- Sometimes it's just a still logo.
- Sometimes the word "STUDIOS" is in the different grunge styled font.
Custom Variants: All variations have a "sketched" look and often involve the logo opening and/or closing:
- Grim and Evil/The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Grim, with a smirk on his face, stands next to Billy and Mandy. He attempts to chop their heads off with his scythe, but fails because they hid in their shirts. The logo is usual against a black background, although one variant of this used the standard white with the AOL Time Warner byline.
- Evil Con Carne (Season 2): TBA
- Generator Rex (Season 1): Rex turns his back into a jet engine, blasting off in the process while smiling.
- Adventure Time (Season 1): Finn pokes Jake, as he becomes larger and larger, roaring and squeezing aside him.
- Camp Lazlo: Lazlo blows a trumpet. Scoutmaster Lumpus walks up with a large cork and places it in the trumpet. Lazlo continues to blow on it.
- My Gym Partner's A Monkey: Jake and Adam swing on a vine (Adam, visibly uncomfortable, is being held by Jake). Jake swings off the screen, however Adam hits the edge of the logo.
- Samurai Jack: Jack slices the edges of the logo, causing it to close.
- Time Squad: Beauregard "Buck" Tuddrussel warns Lawrence "Larry" 3000 not to touch a button. Then, while Otto Osworth is watching, Lawrence "Larry" 3000 touches the button, causing a shock.
- Dexter's Laboratory (Seasons 3-4): Dexter stands next to Dee Dee, who presses a button, causing Dexter to explode. After a flash of light, Dexter appears, scorched and visibly annoyed. Like the Billy and Mandy variation, the background is usually black, although white would also be used for the same reason stated above.
- Ben 10 (Seasons 3-4): Ben turns on the Omnitrix, chooses an alien and pushes the button, triggering a flash of green light.
- Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien: We see a close-up of a grown-up Ben's eyes. We then zoom out on him, as he does in the Ben 10 original variant. On Ultimate Alien, the logo is slowed down and it doesn't close after the flash of green light.
- Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends: Mac is tackled by Bloo. They both "giggle".
- Class of 3000: A piano plays and Sunny Bridges appear at the first of the line, smiling and taking his hat off leading the other main characters of the show on the ride through the piano. Eventually, the last one falls on to the piano.
- Out of Jimmy's Head: Two of Jimmy's cartoon friends, Pickles and Prickles, hit each other with hammers.
- Powerpuff Girls (Movie/Seasons 4-6): The girls, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup each zoom in and beat up Mojo Jojo. This variant first appeared on The Powerpuff Girls Movie.
- Chowder: Chowder walks by with a bag of food. He eats the "O" in "NETWORK". An apple falls out of the bag and replaces the "O".
- The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (Seasons 3-4): Monsters lift the Cartoon Network part of the logo to escape, but Juniper jumps on top and squashes the monsters and then finally jumps away from the screen.
- Megas XLR: A robot from the show shoots a few laser blasts at the screen, then stops with a confused look getting itself.
- Squirrel Boy: Rodney accidentally fires a rocket, as it catches Bob Johnson by his shoe, causing a nervous laugh by Rodney at Andy.
- Johnny Bravo (Season 4): Johnny shows off his poses, then kisses the screen. His lips get stuck in the logo.
- Underfist: Halloween Bash: The original 2001 logo is shown, but with a still picture of Hoss Delgado with Banana nunchakus and Billy saying "All that work and nothin' to show for it!"
- The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: Flapjack is seen with Captain K'nuckles. Flapjack is giggling in a really annoying way. K'nuckles gets annoyed and closes the logo out of annoyance.
FX/SFX: Whatever the animation in the variation is.
Music/Sounds: The sound effects in the variation. In the standard one, It's either a laser sound or the outro of the end theme (as in the lighthearted, yet short-lived Whatever Happened to...Robot Jones?!).
Music/Sounds Variants:
- The first 2001 episode of Dexter's Laboratory (when former show writer Chris Savino took over production) had the custom Dexter logo, but with the audio from the 1997 Hanna-Barbera logo playing over it (with the weird laugh at the end). This was most likely due to an editing error (but it's not too bad).
- Seasons 1-2 episodes of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and season 1 episodes of Evil Con Carne plays a one-liner from the episode, à la King of the Hill.
- On the Star Wars: Clone Wars miniseries, Hanna-Barbera sound effects are heard.
Availability: Common. The standard version was first seen on the premiere of Time Squad and appears on Transformers Animated (The Hub airings cut this out,though), Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, and early episodes of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Ben 10, Evil Con Carne, and season 4 episodes of Johnny Bravo and the variations appear on their respective shows. However, the standard version also appeared on the first airing of Firebreather (the future airings of said movie have the next logo below). Most of the variations during the Cartoon Cartoons era are rare and hard to find, though Dexter's variation survives on the short-lived revival of the show when the seasons 3 and 4 episodes are reran on Boomerang. The Johnny Bravo variant appeared when Cartoon Network ran a mini-marathon of the show on March 16, 2008. The still version appears on Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law from episodes 5-9 and Star Wars: Clone Wars. However it only remained on Ben 10: Ultimate Alien while other shows like Adventure Time and Generator Rex began using the next logo starting on their 2nd seasons.
Scare Factor: None to medium, depending on the version shown.
5th Logo
(September 6, 2010- )
Nicknames: "The Three Squares", "The 3-Squared Diagonal Line", "The CN Diagonal Squared Line"
Logo: Against a black background with the spotlight of dark plus signs, we see three squares drop down forming a diagonal line. (The blue square dropping to the bottom, turning white and bounces once. The pink square sliding in from the left and turning white. And the yellow-orange square zooming in and turning white.) Then a fourth square opens showing a different clip of the show's characters (depending on each show). Under the logo as the stars disappear, the words "CARTOON NETWORK" wipes in and "STUDIOS" slides in from the right and pushes the text causing it to shake briefly forming the words, "CARTOON NETWORK STUDIOS". Then the clip in the fourth square turns white. Sometimes, the clip in the fourth square doesn't turn white.
Trivia: This logo was made to fit with the 2010 re-brand.
Variants: Inside the fourth square, there is a different clip depending on each episode of said show or each TV movie:
- Regular Show: A clip from the episode, "Prank Callers" where Mordecai and Rigby are laughing when they're looking up prank calls on the computer. The sound clip of them laughing is from the episode, "Death Punchies". There is the early version where it uses a clip from another episode, "Free Cake" where Mordecai and Rigby are saying "Free Cake!" twice. So far, the "Free Cake" version was only used on the first episode, "The Power" while the "Prank Callers" version is used in every episode since "Just Set Up the Chairs".
- Sym-Bionic Titan: The Titan robot is seen while panning up to it's head, with Lance saying "Form Titan!".
- Adventure Time (Season 2 and onward): A clip from the episode "The Enchiridion!", with Finn saying "This party is so crazy!"
- Tower Prep and Level Up: Only the first three squares appear. The fourth square doesn't appear at all
- Generator Rex (Seasons 2-3): A clip from the first episode "The Day That Everything Changed", with Rex transforming.
- Firebreather: A clip of Duncan performing his fire-breathing move.
- Secret Mountain Fort Awesome: A clip from the episode "Funstro", with The Fart saying "All right, who used the last of the purple stuff?"
- The Problem Solverz: A clip of Alfe wearing the virtual reality goggles and gloves walking and moving his arms on the red yellow diagonal striped background.
- On Level Up (excluding the pilot TV movie) and Incredible Crew, the logo (with the three squares) is superimposed over the ending of the episode on the bottom-left after the credits.
- On Ben 10: Omniverse, there is surprisingly no animation whatsoever in the fourth square, as it stays white.
FX/SFX: The squares forming a diagonal line, the animation of the show's clip in the fourth square.
Music/Sounds: A four note future-like theme based on the jingle used at the end of current CN bumpers since May 29, 2010.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- On Sym-Bionic Titan, there is a techno robotic version of the four note theme.
- On Tower Prep, the TV pilot movie of Level Up, and Ben 10: Omniverse, the four note theme is in a different style.
- On The Problem Solverz, it's the short version of the show's ending theme.
- On Level Up and Incredible Crew, it's the finishing theme of the episode.
Availability: Common. It currently appears on Adventure Time and Generator Rex since season 2, Regular Show (where the logo was first seen), The Problem Solverz, Sym-Bionic Titan, Tower Prep, and Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. This is plastered over with the Cartoon Network Productions ripple on some episodes of Regular Show and Sym-Bionic Titan on iTunes and CN Video. It also appeared on the TV movie, Firebreather (except for the first airing which has the standard version of the previous logo). However, it might be intact on the Blu-ray and DVD release of said movie.
Scare Factor: None to low, due to the dark background.
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| squadallahburger | 4th logo still in use | 0 | Jun 4 2012, 8:49 AM EDT by squadallahburger | ||
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Thread started: Jun 4 2012, 8:49 AM EDT
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The standard version of the 4th logo is still in use because it appears on the Friday night block "Cartoon Planet."
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| ShyGuysToyBox | 2nd Logo Music Mistake | 0 | Sep 3 2011, 11:48 PM EDT by ShyGuysToyBox | ||
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On Godfrey & Zeek In "Lost Control", The logo uses a short version of the 1997 Hanna-Barbera logo. Even on The Cartoon Cartoon Sho when this played the error wasn't fixed!
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| AmantiDorian | Hey! | 1 | Feb 4 2011, 3:14 AM EST by curiousgeorge60 | ||
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Thread started: Jan 14 2011, 11:44 PM EST
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I thought the 2001 CN Studio logo appeared on Firebreather.
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