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Logo descriptions and videos by JuniorFan88, AsdfTheRevival, WillWill45, and TomTornados3
Editions by V of Doom,CuriousGeorge60, kidinbed and ZoDanma
Background: During the 1980s, Klasky-Csupo (pronounced "CLASS-key CHEW-po") was formed in a bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, California which of course the name of the company was combining the last names of the two producers Arlene Klasky and Hungarian-born animator Gabor Csupo. During the Tracey Ullman Show (1987-90) days, Klasky-Csupo produced the animated Simpsons skits before The Simpsons became a full-time network series in 1989. After those initial skits, Klasky-Csupo worked with 20th Century Fox Television and Matt Groening to produce the first 3 seasons of the animated sitcom until 1992, when Film Roman took over production. In 1990, the duo cuts a production deal with Nickelodeon, and there they made the cable network's most successful animated series, Rugrats (August 11, 1991-June 8, 2004). After that, Klasky-Csupo made other successful animated shows such as The Wild Thornberrys (September 1, 1998-June 11, 2004), AAAHH!!! Real Monsters (October 29, 1994-March 28, 1999), Rocket Power (August 16, 1999-July 30, 2004), As Told By Ginger (October 25, 2000-November 14, 2006), All Grown Up (April 12, 2003-August 17, 2008), Duckman (for USA Network and Paramount Television), and The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald (a promoted cartoon availible exclusively at McDonald's restuarant from 1998 to early 2001).
1st Logo
(1991-November 1998, 2002)
Nicknames: "The (Dancing) Graffiti", "Scribbles", "The Personification of all that is Cheesy"
Logo: On a white BG with shapes that change frequently, we see squares sliding to the left. One has cubic shapes forming a K, a shoe forming an L, an orange fuzzy shape forming a lowercase A, a lizard turning into an S, a bull turning into another K, and an acrobat jumping and turning into a Y, all of which occur at a very fast pace. The next five squares have a scribble writing the stenciled "CSUPO" on them (in Helvetica). After this, we zoom out so the boxes are arranged with "KLASKY" on top of "CSUPO". "INC" appears next to "CSUPO", letter by letter. The logo turns black and white while the Y turns purple a second later.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The animations in the logo.
Cheesy Factor: Oh my God, where do I start with this one?!? *sigh* First off, this is the CHEESIEST of the 90's logos. The animation is crappy, some of the letter animations are choppy, so many random sound effects that you don't hear on other 90's closing logos, and the graffiti is bad. Also, why does the logo turn black and white anyway?
Music/Sounds: While the letters scroll, we hear a lot of random sound effects due to the various activities going on in the logo. It culminates with a dog barking and 15 descending bass notes, and it ends with some weird synthesized sounds. In early years, there were extra SFX playing, such as a scribbling sound when "CSUPO" is formed. In exceptional cases, it used only the closing theme on some shows, like Stressed Eric and at least one Rugrats episode.
Availability: Can be found on older episodes of Rugrats from 1991-1998 seasons on Nicktoons Network (if the credits are spared; split-screened credits cover this logo up with the next one), but is usually preserved on Rugrats DVDs. Also appeared on Duckman, Aahhh!!! Real Monsters, and Santo Bugito, none of which are being reran. However, there have been VHS releases of said shows in the 1990s, which keep the logo intact. It also appears on Stressed Eric, a short-lived adult animated series. It also appeared on pre-1999 episodes of The Wild Thornberrys. The in-credit variant appears on Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on HBO Storybook Musicals on HBO Family. This logo also made a surprising appearance at the end of the Rugrats episode, "Curse of the Werewuff", which is from 2002.
Scare Factor: Depending on the logo variant:
2nd Logo
(November 1998-2008)
Nicknames: "Super Scary Face", "The SSF" (both nicknames were coined by me [WillWill45]), "Robot", "The Random Face", "Blob Face" "The Reason Why I Don't Want to See the End of Rugrats", "The Face from Hell", "The Face of Doom", "The Personification of All That Is Evil", "Seriously, switch to a different logo"
Logo: Over a purple background, a blob of black ink emerges from the center, soon followed by blue ink. A hand passes by and drops magazine clippings of eyes and a mouth onto the blob. The mouth says the company name as white blocks fly out from the mouth. The blocks arrange themselves to form the K-C logo (like before, but refined to match the print logo). After that, two black blocks quickly slide from the top and bottom of the screen (covering up both the background and the face, but not the K-C blocks), and that also turns the "Y" in "KLASKY" purple. This logo comes in two versions - a widescreen 16:9 version (for movies) and a fullscreen 4:3 version (for TV).
Variant: There is a version of this logo that is considerably scarier than the original, in with the face is different and odd, and the animation is smoother. This dates to 2002, and I think it appeared on some later K-C shows.
SSOEM (Super Scary Odd Editing Mistake): Strangely, this logo appeared on early airings of the SpongeBob episode "Wet Painters/The Krusty Krab Training Video". It was an editing mistake made by Nickelodeon when they first started doing the split-screen credits. (And how? Well, normaly, Nick makes custom split-screen credits for each toon and it's producers. Well, K-C was the only one that produced mutiple Nicktoons, and Nick created a generic one for these shows. (which mentioned Klasky and Csupo as producers and included the face) But on the said episode of SpongeBob, Nick flubbed and used the K-C split screen credits for that episode, and that's why the SSF was used.) As of 2006, the logo is plastered by the United Plankton Pictures logo on repeat airings (which was in the original credits to begin with.) Still, it is one of the oddest editing mistakes ever made, next to a odd byline-less HB Swirling Star appearing on Johnny Bravo a while ago.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Let me start this one off like this: when this logo was made, they were probably drunk or high. That face is (it was probably unintentionally) SCARY, the CG is cheap, and we hear random sound effects again. Oh, and K-C, if you are reading this, WHY do you have to switch to a even scarier logo when the original was pretty scary? I don't see any logic in that.
Availability: Not as common as it was in years past (fortunately). It can be found on episodes such as those of later Rugrats seasons starting in late 1998, Rocket Power, The Wild Thornberrys, As Told By Ginger, and currently on All Grown Up, all of which currently air on Nicktoons Network. This logo was first spotted at the end of The Rugrats Movie, and it's also intact on other Klasky-Csupo films. Also, at the company's website, everything in this logo from the introductory splash to the face saying the company's name can be found on the main page when first being browsed. This also can be spotted on all tapes of the obscure cartoon The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. The variant has been spotted on The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
Scare Factor: NIGHTMARE, mainly to users WillWill45, WizardDuck, kidinbed, SMASH468, and rubycalico. The face looks like something right out of a nightmare, and the rest of the logo is random and disjointed. Children will probably find the logo nightmare-inducing, though adults might find it merely annoying.
3rd Logo
(2003)
Nicknames: "The Rooster", "Crazy Rooster", "The Collision of Pathe and Klasky Csupo"
Logo: On a green city skyline, we see a rooster's silhouette on one of the buildings. The sun rises, and the rooster wakes up and opens its eyes. It yells "WAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUP!!!" as the blocks in the K-C logo float around. When the rooster is finished screaming, the sun brightens, then dims back to normal, as the rooster mysteriously disappears, and the K-C logo appears in the center. It looks "grungier" than the one in the past two logos.
FX/SFX: All CGI animation.
Cheesy Factor: The CGI animation for the rooster seems a little tacky, and it is kinda hard to hear the rooster's yelling with the loud music blaring.
Music/Sounds: A techno theme that appears to be yet another remix of the 1991 logo's music. The "Klasky-Csupo" computer vocal from the "Robot" logo is heard at the end.
Availability: Rare; only seen on Rugrats Go Wild!.
Scare Factor: None to low; The rooster screaming, "WAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUUUP!!" can startle unexpected viewers, otherwise just plain harmless. This is perhaps K-C's best logo by far (they shoulda kept it), even though the first one is more memorable.
Editions by V of Doom,CuriousGeorge60, kidinbed and ZoDanma
Background: During the 1980s, Klasky-Csupo (pronounced "CLASS-key CHEW-po") was formed in a bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, California which of course the name of the company was combining the last names of the two producers Arlene Klasky and Hungarian-born animator Gabor Csupo. During the Tracey Ullman Show (1987-90) days, Klasky-Csupo produced the animated Simpsons skits before The Simpsons became a full-time network series in 1989. After those initial skits, Klasky-Csupo worked with 20th Century Fox Television and Matt Groening to produce the first 3 seasons of the animated sitcom until 1992, when Film Roman took over production. In 1990, the duo cuts a production deal with Nickelodeon, and there they made the cable network's most successful animated series, Rugrats (August 11, 1991-June 8, 2004). After that, Klasky-Csupo made other successful animated shows such as The Wild Thornberrys (September 1, 1998-June 11, 2004), AAAHH!!! Real Monsters (October 29, 1994-March 28, 1999), Rocket Power (August 16, 1999-July 30, 2004), As Told By Ginger (October 25, 2000-November 14, 2006), All Grown Up (April 12, 2003-August 17, 2008), Duckman (for USA Network and Paramount Television), and The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald (a promoted cartoon availible exclusively at McDonald's restuarant from 1998 to early 2001).
1st Logo
(1991-November 1998, 2002)
Nicknames: "The (Dancing) Graffiti", "Scribbles", "The Personification of all that is Cheesy"
Logo: On a white BG with shapes that change frequently, we see squares sliding to the left. One has cubic shapes forming a K, a shoe forming an L, an orange fuzzy shape forming a lowercase A, a lizard turning into an S, a bull turning into another K, and an acrobat jumping and turning into a Y, all of which occur at a very fast pace. The next five squares have a scribble writing the stenciled "CSUPO" on them (in Helvetica). After this, we zoom out so the boxes are arranged with "KLASKY" on top of "CSUPO". "INC" appears next to "CSUPO", letter by letter. The logo turns black and white while the Y turns purple a second later.
Variants:
- A still version of the logo (with graffiti still dancing) was spotted on Stressed Eric.
- An abridged version with higher pitched music was used on Duckman.
- An in-credit variation was on Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on HBO Storybook Musicals.
- A version exists on Aahhh! Real Monsters (at least the pilot) where the logo fades out early and the music trails off into the Nickelodeon "haypile" logo.
FX/SFX: The animations in the logo.
Cheesy Factor: Oh my God, where do I start with this one?!? *sigh* First off, this is the CHEESIEST of the 90's logos. The animation is crappy, some of the letter animations are choppy, so many random sound effects that you don't hear on other 90's closing logos, and the graffiti is bad. Also, why does the logo turn black and white anyway?
Music/Sounds: While the letters scroll, we hear a lot of random sound effects due to the various activities going on in the logo. It culminates with a dog barking and 15 descending bass notes, and it ends with some weird synthesized sounds. In early years, there were extra SFX playing, such as a scribbling sound when "CSUPO" is formed. In exceptional cases, it used only the closing theme on some shows, like Stressed Eric and at least one Rugrats episode.
Availability: Can be found on older episodes of Rugrats from 1991-1998 seasons on Nicktoons Network (if the credits are spared; split-screened credits cover this logo up with the next one), but is usually preserved on Rugrats DVDs. Also appeared on Duckman, Aahhh!!! Real Monsters, and Santo Bugito, none of which are being reran. However, there have been VHS releases of said shows in the 1990s, which keep the logo intact. It also appears on Stressed Eric, a short-lived adult animated series. It also appeared on pre-1999 episodes of The Wild Thornberrys. The in-credit variant appears on Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on HBO Storybook Musicals on HBO Family. This logo also made a surprising appearance at the end of the Rugrats episode, "Curse of the Werewuff", which is from 2002.
Scare Factor: Depending on the logo variant:
- Medium; the cut from the credits to the logo is jarring, and the random sound effects may catch you off guard, but it's an OK logo otherwise.
- Low for the variant with the end of the show's theme playing.
- None for the in-credit variant.
2nd Logo
(November 1998-2008)
NOTE FROM WillWill45: NEVER, EVER, put a video of the SSF on here, espicaly the varient. That logo is FREAKY, man, and you should keep us from freaking out here, see?
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Nicknames: "Super Scary Face", "The SSF" (both nicknames were coined by me [WillWill45]), "Robot", "The Random Face", "Blob Face" "The Reason Why I Don't Want to See the End of Rugrats", "The Face from Hell", "The Face of Doom", "The Personification of All That Is Evil", "Seriously, switch to a different logo"
Logo: Over a purple background, a blob of black ink emerges from the center, soon followed by blue ink. A hand passes by and drops magazine clippings of eyes and a mouth onto the blob. The mouth says the company name as white blocks fly out from the mouth. The blocks arrange themselves to form the K-C logo (like before, but refined to match the print logo). After that, two black blocks quickly slide from the top and bottom of the screen (covering up both the background and the face, but not the K-C blocks), and that also turns the "Y" in "KLASKY" purple. This logo comes in two versions - a widescreen 16:9 version (for movies) and a fullscreen 4:3 version (for TV).
Variant: There is a version of this logo that is considerably scarier than the original, in with the face is different and odd, and the animation is smoother. This dates to 2002, and I think it appeared on some later K-C shows.
SSOEM (Super Scary Odd Editing Mistake): Strangely, this logo appeared on early airings of the SpongeBob episode "Wet Painters/The Krusty Krab Training Video". It was an editing mistake made by Nickelodeon when they first started doing the split-screen credits. (And how? Well, normaly, Nick makes custom split-screen credits for each toon and it's producers. Well, K-C was the only one that produced mutiple Nicktoons, and Nick created a generic one for these shows. (which mentioned Klasky and Csupo as producers and included the face) But on the said episode of SpongeBob, Nick flubbed and used the K-C split screen credits for that episode, and that's why the SSF was used.) As of 2006, the logo is plastered by the United Plankton Pictures logo on repeat airings (which was in the original credits to begin with.) Still, it is one of the oddest editing mistakes ever made, next to a odd byline-less HB Swirling Star appearing on Johnny Bravo a while ago.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Let me start this one off like this: when this logo was made, they were probably drunk or high. That face is (it was probably unintentionally) SCARY, the CG is cheap, and we hear random sound effects again. Oh, and K-C, if you are reading this, WHY do you have to switch to a even scarier logo when the original was pretty scary? I don't see any logic in that.
Music/Sounds: A "splattering" sound when the ink appears, and a bouncy "beeping" version of the 15-note bass jingle from the 1991 logo plays during the face's screen time. The company name is stated in a robotic voice (hence the "Robot" nickname, the voice was supplied by the "Boing" novelty voice in the the text-to-speech program on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X). After the company logo appears, we hear a couple of cartoon sound effects: a lip-flapping sound, a goose honking, and a boing sound. On The Rugrats Movie, the music is in warp-speed as the logo fades to black.
Availability: Not as common as it was in years past (fortunately). It can be found on episodes such as those of later Rugrats seasons starting in late 1998, Rocket Power, The Wild Thornberrys, As Told By Ginger, and currently on All Grown Up, all of which currently air on Nicktoons Network. This logo was first spotted at the end of The Rugrats Movie, and it's also intact on other Klasky-Csupo films. Also, at the company's website, everything in this logo from the introductory splash to the face saying the company's name can be found on the main page when first being browsed. This also can be spotted on all tapes of the obscure cartoon The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. The variant has been spotted on The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
Scare Factor: NIGHTMARE, mainly to users WillWill45, WizardDuck, kidinbed, SMASH468, and rubycalico. The face looks like something right out of a nightmare, and the rest of the logo is random and disjointed. Children will probably find the logo nightmare-inducing, though adults might find it merely annoying.
3rd Logo
(2003)
Nicknames: "The Rooster", "Crazy Rooster", "The Collision of Pathe and Klasky Csupo"
Logo: On a green city skyline, we see a rooster's silhouette on one of the buildings. The sun rises, and the rooster wakes up and opens its eyes. It yells "WAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUP!!!" as the blocks in the K-C logo float around. When the rooster is finished screaming, the sun brightens, then dims back to normal, as the rooster mysteriously disappears, and the K-C logo appears in the center. It looks "grungier" than the one in the past two logos.
FX/SFX: All CGI animation.
Cheesy Factor: The CGI animation for the rooster seems a little tacky, and it is kinda hard to hear the rooster's yelling with the loud music blaring.
Music/Sounds: A techno theme that appears to be yet another remix of the 1991 logo's music. The "Klasky-Csupo" computer vocal from the "Robot" logo is heard at the end.
Availability: Rare; only seen on Rugrats Go Wild!.
Scare Factor: None to low; The rooster screaming, "WAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUUUP!!" can startle unexpected viewers, otherwise just plain harmless. This is perhaps K-C's best logo by far (they shoulda kept it), even though the first one is more memorable.
