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Notes:
  • 0-9 and A-M production company names will be HERE.
  • N-Z production company names will be on Part 2.

Amanda & MF Productions

Background: "Amanda" was the vanity label of the late Jane Wyman, star of the 1981-1990 CBS serial Falcon Crest, and MF Productions was the vanity label of executive producer Michael Filerman, and was known both for solo production of the 1981-82 NBC serial Flamingo Road and joint production (with Roundelay, vanity card of David Jacobs) of the 1979-93 CBS serial Knots Landing.


1st Logo
(1981-1990)


Logo: Simply an in-credit text against a shot of the Falcon Crest mansion (actually the mansion house of the Spring Mountain Winery) that said "An Amanda & MF Production in association with", after it faded off the screen, the appropriate Lorimar logo then appeared (the "Line of Doom" to 1986, the L-T "Sparks of Doom" from 1986 to around 1988 or '89, and the Lorimar "White Marble" logo from 1989 to 1990). On the
1st season DVD release of #1 of Falcon Crest, there is inconsistency in the Lorimar logos that follow; some episodes have the original "Line of Doom," while others have the L-T logo that was shown in syndication.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Simply the last notes of the Falcon Crest closing theme (which varied by season).

Availability: Seen on Falcon Crest, and also on the #1 DVD release of that series.

Scare Factor: None.
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Arsenio Hall Communications

(1989-1994)

Nickname
: "Woof Woof"

Logo
: On a black background (with a purple stripe), the words "ARSENIO HALL" are in large capital letters, with "COMMUNICATIONS" in a smaller white font on the bottom of the screen. The word "
HALL" takes up most of the screen, and it is in dark blue, while "ARSENIO" (in light blue) is much smaller, and it is near the
Arsenio Hall Communications
top of the screen. The words "ARSENIO HALL" have an orange line under them.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Two arrangements of the Arsenio Hall Show theme music. The first one featuring the outro of the theme. The second one was the first four bars of the jazzy tune (composed by Hall himself), followed by Arsenio Hall shouting heavily "Woof Woof," (dog bark åla the infamous "Dog Pound" section of his studio audience, which cheered to Arsenio's signature expression while swinging their fists in the air). Though the theme music's arrangement changed with the show's opening titles, this ID remained the same throughout the run.

Music/Sound Variant
: On the short-lived 1991 music program The Party Machine with Nia Peeples, the sounder had Nia going "Arf! Arf!" in place of Arsenio.

Availability: Rare. It was originally seen on The Arsenio Hall Show and The Party Machine. Arsenio Jams (edited versions of The Arsenio Hall Show that used to air occasionally on VH1) kept this logo intact.

Scare Factor: Low. Arsenio's "barking" may catch somebody off-guard, but is generally considered to be a humorous logo.
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Ashmont Productions

Background: Ashmont Productions is a production company founded by then husband-and-wife duo, William "Bill" Asher and Elizabeth Montgomery, who were working at Screen Gems for the hit 60s TV series Bewitc
hed.


(1971-1974)

Logo: We have an in-credit text that reads "An Ashmont Production".

Variant: On The Paul Lynde Show, the text is in brown and appears on a yellow background with the text "In Association with" below

AN
ASHMONT
PRODUCTION

In Association with.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end-title theme from any show.

Availability: Rare. It's only seen on the final season of Bewitched and the two short-lived series: The Paul Lynde Show and The New Temperature's Rising Show.

Scare Factor: None.
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Bedford Falls Company

(1987-2008)

The Bedford Falls Company

Nicknames: "The House", The Creepy House"


Logo: On a black background is a black-and-white sketch of George Bailey's house (a 19th century 2-story house) connected on the left to a black filmstrip with a white shadow. It is snowing outside. The text "THE BEDFORD FALLS COMPANY" fades in below. A light goes on in the top left window of the house. The text "in association with" fades in at the bottom of the logo. Sometimes, the words "in association with" are lacking.

Trivia: As you may have guessed, this logo is basically an homage to the movie It's A Wonderful Life. Bedford Falls was the name of the town in this movie, and the house belongs to the main character, George Bailey.

FX/SFX: The text appearing.

Cheesy Factor: The Bailey house looks like an undetailed, tacky etching, the snow looks fake, and the filmstrip with the shadow (which most likely represents It's a Wonderful Life as a film) gives the visual part of this logo that extra creepy feeling.

Music/Sounds: A man and woman slowly sing, in very creepy voices, the last line of the traditional song "Buffalo Gals" -- "...aaaand dance by the light of the moooon." (A recording of "Buffalo Gals" can be heard in It's a Wonderful Life.)


Availability: Can be seen on reruns of Once and Again on We. It also appeared on thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and quarterlife.

Scare Factor: Medium. The creepy singing and the darkness might scare more than a few; it doesn't help that on My So-Called Life this is followed by the mildly creepy ABC Productions logo. Low for the variant with the NBC generic music.

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B&E Enterprises

(1981-1984)

Background: This logo is the vanity card logo from Brad Buckner and Eugene Ross Leming, the creators and original executive producers of Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

Nickname: "Zooming B&E"
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Logo: On a dark background, we see a yellow circle zooming in with the words "B&E" in a large script font, and under it is "Enterprises Ltd." and two crossed yellow feathers.

FX/SFX: The zooming of the logo.

Variant: On the first 11 episodes of the 1st season of Scarecrow and Mrs. King, this also has an "In Association With" byline, meaning it'll either fade or cut to a WBTV logo.

Cheesy Factor
: The zooming looks cheesy.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show.

Availability: Ultra-rare. Only produced two television movies, like The Cartier Affair. It also appeared at the end of the first 11 episodes of the first season of Scarecrow and Mrs. King, preceding a WBTV logo.

Scare Factor: Low. The zooming would get you, but it's a pretty logo.
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Black/Marlens Company

(1987-1998)


Nickname: "The Marlin", "The Animated Scribble"

Logo: We see a white background with a black rectangle. Inside the black rectangle, it says "The Black/Marlens Company". On the white background is the CGI animation which makes a black scribble
Black-Marlens Company (1992) on the background like paper and a pen. The scribble resembles a marlin fish.

FX/SFX: The marlin drawing.

Cheesy Factor: None, but some people might consider the scribbling animation to look fairly cheap. It featured a Marlin fish mascot in the NBC sitcom Surf's Up.

Music/Sounds: Plays the theme of The Wonder Years. Others have a fantasy-oriented synthesizer fanfare.

Availability: Currently seen on The Wonder Years on The Hub. Also seen on the Corey Feldman special Corey Feldman's Hats Off and Ellen among others.

Scare Factor: None; the logo looks cool. Probably a favorite amongst some of the fans of the logo community.
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Bob Booker Productions

(September 17, 1987-May 25, 1991)

Bob Booker Productions

Logo
: Against a starry space background, two hands come in from each side of the screen. The hands touch the tips of their index fingers together, creating a pink/purple spark between them. The hands then leave, and a gray globe with a diagonal ring around it zooms in from the spark. The words “BOB BOOKER PRODUCTIONS” are imposed on the globe in pink/purple with "
B" and "R" in "BOOKER" bigger and with "BOB" above and "PRODUCTIONS" below "BOOKER" respectively.

Trivia: This logo was based on the main title of the series Out of This World.


FX/SFX: The hands forming the logo.

Cheesy Factor: The whole thing’s pretty cheesy in my opinion.

Music/Sounds: A whooshing sound and a twinkling sort of sound.

Availability: Extinct. This logo was only on the show Out of This World.

Scare Factor: Low to medium. The hands coming onto the screen and the quickly zooming globe will probably make a few people jittery.
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Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision

(2010- )
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Logo: We see a first person view of a path carved through grass leading to a ocean shore. The words "BRAD FALCHUK TELEY-VISION" are superimposed on the image in a faint white font.

FX/SFX: None

Music/Sounds: None

Availability: Seen on Glee, beginning with season 2.

Scare Factor:
None.
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Cardea-Schenck-Baskin-Shulman

(December 30, 1984-April 5, 1987)

Nickname: "Fox w/Cigar"
Schenck/Cardea Productions (1987)Cardea-Schenck-Baskin-Shulman

Logo
: Against a gold background, a cartoon fox apparently wearing a hunting cap is seen on the left in a light blue circle smoking a cigar, the smoke of which is rising continuously (the cigar butt is also glowing). The names "
CARDEA", "SCHENCK", "BASKIN", and "SHULMAN" are to the right, and they are stacked on top of each other, each succeeding name moved one space over to the left (this is all in gold). They are bracketed on top and bottom by two thick gold lines and two thin gold lines; thin outside, thick inside. "in association with" in lowercase is below. This is followed by CPT's 80's Torch Lady" w/Coke byline. The arrangement of this vanity card is thus:

CARDEA
SCHENCK
BASKIN
SHULMAN

in association with

Variant: On Still Crazy Like a Fox, the background is brown instead of gold, and it instead says:

A
SCHENCK/CARDEA
PRODUCTION

and the same cartoon fox is seen below (but the smoke is not there and the cigar butt doesn't glow), with the "in association with" below that.

FX/SFX
: The cartoon fox smoking the cigar, and the smoke rising therein.

Music/Sounds
: The last bars of the closing theme of Crazy Like a Fox.

Availability
: Seen on the CBS detective series Crazy Like a Fox, and on the 1987 reunion film Still Crazy Like A Fox. Apart from that, it's pretty much extinct, unless of course Sony comes out with a DVD release of Crazy Like a Fox.

Scare Factor
: Minimal, because of the smoke rising from the cigar.
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Charles Burrows Charles Productions

(1982-1993)
Vanity Cards - CLG WikiCharles Burrows Charles Company

Nickname
: "American Typewr
iter"

Logo: On a static blue background, we see four words going from either left or right, meeting in the center. "CHARLES" goes first, then "BURROWS", afterwards "CHARLES", and finally "PRODUCTIONS" from top to bottom. All the text is set in ITC American Typewriter, which was popular at the time this logo debuted.

Variant
: On The Tortellis (at least the pilot), the logo appears slightly enhanced. The word "COMPANY" fades in below after the names slide in.

FX/SFX: The text sliding in.

Cheesy Factor: Everything about this logo is very cheap, particularly the animation, which wasn't that bad back then, but was still cheap back in the day.

Music/Sounds: Just the final piano note from the Cheers theme, then it remains silent.

Availability: Common. Found intact on all episodes of Cheers on WGN American and Hallmark Channel.

Scare Factor: None, unless you are not a big fan of rapid-sliding words.
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Circus King Productions


(June 11-August 27, 2006)
Circus King Productions (June 11-August 27, 2006)

Background: This is the vanity card of Louis CK, the star of Lucky Louie.

Logo: On a black BG, we see a white circle containing a drawing of a king with his arms stretched out. "Circus King" and "Productions" are shown above and below the logo, respectively, curving around the king.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of Lucky Louie.

Availability: Extremely rare. It was only seen on the short-lived Lucky Louie on HBO.

Scare Factor: None.

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Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions


(2000-2004)
Dorothy Parker Drank Here (2007)
Nickname: "The Smoke"

Logo: On a shaded grey background, we see a picture of a '50s-era woman with her back turned sitting and smoking, and with a martini glass in her right hand. When the smoke grows, the words "DOROTHY PARKER DRANK HERE" appears via shading, and then " P R O D U C T I O N S" surrounded by two lines.

FX/SFX: The smoke growing, the shading; all computer effects.

Music/Sounds
: The ending theme of the show.


Availability
: Appears on Gilmore Girls on SOAPNet and ABC Family.

Scare Factor: None.
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Eddie Murphy Television

(1989?-????)
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Logo
: Against a beige background, we see Eddie Murphy as a pink comedy mask at the left of the screen, laughing with his arms akimbo. A salmon-colored rectangle drops
down from the top right side, and the text:

EDDIE
MURPHY


TELEVISION

kind of looking like what you see above, and with a small television in between, slides up. "TELEVISION" glows brightly.


FX/SFX: The animations of Eddie, the rectangle, the text, and "TELEVISION" glowing.

Cheesy Factor: Eddie's laugh is sounds more like that of comedian Yakov Smirnoff.

Music/Sounds: Eddie Murphy's trademark laugh (which he no longer uses), though the logo is silent on some shows.

Availability: Uncommon. It's seen on SNL: The Best of Eddie Murphy and What's Alan Watching?. The silent version was seen on The Kid Who Loved Christmas.

Scare Factor: Low. Eddie's laugh, as well as his appearance, may creep some people out. None to minimal for the silent variant.
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Flody Co.

Background
: This is Flody Suarez's vanity comp
any.


(2002-2004)


Nickname: "The Flody Dogs"Vanity Cards - CLG Wiki

Logo: On a reddish-brown and black gradient background, we see two crudely-drawn squares, one blue and one gold. In the blue square, we see a drawing of a yellow Labrador. In the gold square, we see a black Labrador with a blue collar. Underneath the squares, we see the words "FLODY CO." written in a jumbled stencil font in the colors you see here.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show.

Availability
: Can be seen on ABC Family's reruns of 8 Simple Rules.


Scare Factor
: None, it's a cute logo.
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Guntzelman-Sullivan-Marshall Productions

(1988-1990)
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Nicknames:
"Guy Falling Off Roof", "GSM", "AAAAHHHHHHHH!"

Logo: We see an old house at night. An insane looking man walking on the left side of the roof stumbles and falls two stories into some bushes below. Superimposed on the screen is:

A
Guntzelman
Sullivan
----Marshall
_______________
P R O D U C T I O N
in association with

The logo then cuts to the current WB Television logo of the time.


Trivia: From Steve Marshall, writer/producer of Growing Pains:

"Here's the story behind this logo. We had done a fantasy sequence on Growing Pains involving Ben in a 'war movie' setting. He was on a walkie talkie saying they were down to six men. At that moment, a guy is shot and falls off the roof of an old church behind him. He says into the walkie, "Make that five men". We had another camera closer in on the stunt man's dive and decided to use that footage for our logo. As I recall, the scream was mine".

Additionally, you can see what appears to be smoke at the right side of the screen, and as he falls, something comes loose and falls off, while another object hangs off the roof.

Variants: On the Growing Pains Halloween Special, the logo uses a different yelling soundbite accompanied with a comical "falling" sound effect and a thud for when the man falls into the bushes. The theme the logo usually plays over is replaced by crickets chirping.

FX/SFX: It's all live-action.

Cheesy Factor: The man appears to be deliberately falling off the roof instead of just stumbling.


Music/Sounds: The sound of the guy falling off the roof yelling "AAAAAAAHHHHH!" as he falls playing over the closing theme of the show from Growing Pains and Just the Ten of Us. On what may be syndicated prints, a man voice-overs during the logos: "Growing Pains is a Guntzelman Sullivan Marshall Production in association with Warner Bros. Television, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution."

Availability: Last seen on The N's (now "Teen Nick") reruns of Growing Pains and it also appeared on Just the Ten of Us. The Halloween variant is on the Growing Pains Halloween Special. The voice-over variation may be on syndicated prints Season 5 of Growing Pains.

Scare Factor: Medium to high. It's supposed to be funny, but the dark image and the scary looking man falling off the roof may probably give more than a few the creeps.
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Happy Family Productions

Background: This is comedian Dennis Miller's production company.

(1993- )

Happy Family Productions (1993)Logo: On an aquamarine background, we see a ovular garland, inside which is a hanging porch swing, with the words "HAPPY FAMILY" above the bench (the bench appears to be hanging from the "
P" and between the "A" and "M"), and the word "PRODUCTIONS" below the bench in a bold Times font. The whole design appears to be engraved into the background as if into wood, and all of the carved design is gray.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: All that is heard is a gentle breeze and birds chirping.

Availability: First seen on the 1993 HBO special Live from Washington DC: They Shoot HBO Specials, Don't They?, and was also seen on the TV show Dennis Miller Live and the 2006 HBO special Dennis Miller: All In.

Scare Factor: None.


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In Front Productions

(September 23, 1992-May 16, 2001)


Nicknames: "The Scoreboard", "IN FRONT!"

Logo: On a black background, we see:
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INFRONT
PRODUCTIONS

in a font that resembles the text usually seen in scoreboards in stadiums. The words "INFRONT" are slightly darker than "PRODUCTIONS". Both words are blinking in a very fast speed.

FX/SFX: The words blinking very fast.

Music/Sounds: A bell ringing and sounds of horses running, followed by a P.A. voice that says "IN FRONT!".

Availability: Can still be seen on Mad About You on DVD and on Antenna TV. Also seen on the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl, which was known as Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Palace in the first two seasons.

Scare Factor: Low to medium. The sudden appearance of the logo and the crash may catch someone off-guard.
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Jay Bernstein Productions


(1980s)

Background: Jay Bernstein Productions was the vanity card of indie producer Jay Bernstein, known for The New Mike Hammer and Houston Knights.

Jay Bernstein Productions composite

Logo: We see a shot of what appears to be a living room set, with spotlights in front and a director's or producer's chair marked "Jay Bernstein" in cursive. A man (Mr. Bernstein himself) walks by and picks up what appears to be a walking stick and walks towards the door or window with it. The text "A JAY BERNSTEIN PRODUCTION" with "In Association With" underneath, is seen against this scene.

Variant: There is a variation of this logo in which the setting is apparently that of a city, and there are file cabinets to the right. Also, as Jay walks off, he puts on a black cowboy hat. This was seen on Houston Knights. The CPT logo to follow would be the CPE version from 1982 or '88.

FX/SFX: Mr. Bernstein getting up and walking off.

Cheesy Factor: The way that the Jay Bernstein text was placed (above his name on the director's/producer's chair), you'd think that his show would be a production of his company IAW himself (i.e. "A Jay Bernstein Production In Association With Jay Bernstein"), but that's not true.


Music/Sounds: The last notes of the end title theme from The New Mike Hammer or Houston Knights.

Availability: Probably extinct, as Jay has not produced any series since. It may become more available if Sony puts out DVD releases of The New Mike Hammer or Houston Knights.

Scare Factor: None.
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John Charles Walters Productions


(1978-1985)
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Nickname
: "Good Night, Mr. Walters!"

Logo: We see a clip of a stereotypical businessman named Mr. Walters
(played by Ed Weinberger, a producer for this production company) leaving his office, with a yellow text stating "A JOHN CHARLES WALTERS Production" superimposed over the clip. Usually followed with an "In Association With" screen.

Variants:
  • On the 1978-79 episodes of Taxi, the logo said "In Association with" on it, bypassing the IAW screen.
  • One holiday variant of the logo has the female voice calling after him, "Merry Christmas, Mr. Walters!".

FX/SFX
: It's all live-action.

Cheesy Factor: "Mr. Walters" is going in delayed motion (ala MTM cat).

Music/Sounds: The ending of the show's theme song combined with a feminine secretary saying, "Good night, Mr. Walters." and of course, Mr. Walters grumbles probably from a hard-day on the job.

Availability: Was seen on The Associates as well as Taxi.

Scare Factor: Low, because it depends on what you think of Mr. Walters grumbling. Other than that, it's a favorite amongst logo fans and even non-logo fans.
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Mad Cow Productions

(1996-2002)


Nickname: "The Cow Says"

Logo
: In a rectangle of this already-formed logo, we see a drawing of a brown cow with its head over a fence in a farm. "
MAD COW PRODUCTIONS" is displayed in green on the left side of the rectangle, facing sideways. The rectangle has a black border. The cow then "says" in a low-quality voice "The cowMad Cow Productions (1997-2002) says...". Shortly after, a baby saying "Moo!" is heard, followed by the same baby giggling. The cow then rolls its eyes in disgust.

FX/SFX: The cow's mouth, and the eyes rolling.

Music/Sounds: Just the soundbite, which is based on the classic "See 'n Say" toy for children made by Mattel.

Availability: Extremely rare. It was found on older episodes of The Daily Show, which are hardly, if ever, re-aired. The logo is no longer used and the show now has no logo at the end.

Scare Factor: Low. The logo might surprise some, but is generally considered funny.
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Mad Dog Productions

(1981-1985)


Nicknames: "The Killer Dog", "The Dog from Hell", "Doberman Pinscher"

Logo: We see a Doberman Pinscher standing in a field move for about a half a second with its sharp canine teeth showing looking like it's ready to attack or kill. After the doberman moves for half a second, the picture freezes and the words "A MAD DOG PRODUCTION" in yellow are scrawled onto the screen in a childish manner, with an underline.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The dog and the text; pretty much everything about this logo is cheesy with the exception of the dog moving at the half second (but even that is a bit cheesy itself).

Music/Sounds: Just the Doberman snarling.

Availability: Extremely rare/near extinction. It was seen on the TV movies The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire and J.O.E. and the Colonel.

Scare Factor: Medium to high, because of the Doberman's position looking like it wants to attack you, and the snarling is another factor. The text is odd-looking as well.
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Mohawk Productions Inc.

(September 13, 1995-2007)
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Nicknames: "Kicking Baby In Womb", "Ultrasound Baby", "Giggling Fetus", "The Baby"

Logo: We see an actual shot of an ultrasound (the blurry X-ray of what of a baby looks like in a pregnant mother) of a fetus, moving around a bit. The text:

MOHAWK
PRODUCTIONS, INC.

has already appeared, "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" fades in below, and toward the end of the logo, the fetus giggles.


Variants:
  • On at least one episode of The Drew Carey Show ("Drew Blows His Promotion"), the fetus farts instead.
  • The fetus has meowed on an April Fools episode of Drew Carey.
  • On at least one episode of The George Lopez Show, the drums loop a few times, which may or may not have been intentional.
  • Starting in 2002, the Mohawk text became more stylized and became animated. The Mohawk text became a bit more cursive (except for the "H"), and is over a box, half black, half white, with a set of TV antennae. The text, "PRODUCTIONS, INC. IN ASSOCIATION WITH" is below. This whole logo comes in from the left (ala Paramount Blue Mountain), with the box spinning in and stopping in the center as the text "springs" out. The animation/ultrasound is about the same, except it has a blue tint to it this time, instead of black/white like before.
  • Sometimes, the 2002 version would be much shorter (containing a shortened drumbeat which lasted around 1-2 seconds, followed by the fetus's giggle).

FX/SFX: The actual ultrasound.

Music/Sounds
: A drumbeat followed by a baby's giggle. Due to compressed credits on ABC, there was often an accordion-tinged generic ABC jingle playing over (intended to resemble music played over establishing shots on The Drew Carey Show), but the giggle still remains.

Availability: Common. It can be seen on reruns of The Drew Carey Show on local syndication, and the updated version (as well as the shortened version) can be seen on George Lopez on Nick @ Nite, Ion Television, and local syndication. It also appears on The Oblongs on Adult Swim, and Wanda At Large on TV One. It also appeared on The Norm Show (or simply Norm), which has faded into obscurity. The logo first appeared on Someone Like Me, a very short-lived sitcom that aired on NBC in early 1994.

Scare Factor
: Low to high. Some people have been scared of this logo, but those who are used to seeing it won't find it scary.
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Mutant Enemy

(March 10, 1997-January 29, 2010)
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Nicknames: "Grr!! Argh!!", "Paper Monster"


Background: This is Joss Whedon's company, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Angel. "Mutant Enemy" is named after Joss Whedon's first typewriter he got at 15, as revealed in an interview on disc three of the first season of Buffy.

Logo: In front of a white piece of display board, we see a paper cutout of an angry-looking monster (animated by Joss Whedon himself) moving from right to left. The text "MUTANT ENEMY INC." is scrawled onto the display board in a "pointy" style, with "MUTANT" in red, "ENEMY" in blue, and "INC." in black.


Trivia: This logo was spoofed in an episode of Robot Chicken, entitled "Rabbits on a Rollercoaster". Joss Whedon guest stars as himself (in doll form). As the enemy mutant rips apart the city, the scene cuts to an office where Joss Whedon is playing with dolls and an executive says to him, "Come on Joss, that's why you were kicked off Wonder Woman.".

Variants: All of these variants are from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • "Becoming, Part Two" - The monster says "Oooh, I need a hug." instead.
  • "Amends" - He wears a Santa hat.
  • "Graduation Day, Part Two"- The monster wears a graduation cap.
  • "Once More, With Feeling" - He sings the line in falsetto.
  • "Storyteller" - The monster sings a line from the episode, "We are as Gods.".
  • "Chosen" - He turns and pulls a face at the viewer.
  • The episode "Bargaining, Part One" references the end-of-credits logo. Tara gives Giles a small rubber monster and says "Grrr. Argghh.".
  • On season seven of Buffy, there is a species of ancient vampires called "Turok-Han" or Ubervamps. They look like more detailed versions of the Mutant Enemy.
  • On Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the logo is vertically stretched and we see a little more of the lower half of the Mutant Enemy.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: This logo is VERY cheesy; everything is low-budget, and along with the paper monster and unconvincing growl, it seems that it was filmed on an old camcorder (some sources say that it WAS filmed with a camcorder). But this was all done intentionally for comic effect.

Music/Sounds: Just Joss Whedon saying "Grr! Argh!" in a very unconvincing manner.

Availability: Common. It appeared on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, its spin-off Angel, and the short-lived cult hit Firefly. Last seen on Dollhouse on Fox.

Scare Factor: Low to medium. The "Grr! Argh!" and the appearance of the mutant may scare some viewers, but most will just find it humorous.


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bigladiesman Clyde Phillips variant on Parker Lewis Can't Lose 0 Nov 17 2010, 10:08 AM EST by bigladiesman
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I remeber a version of the Clyde Philips logo that featured Mickey Randall (Billy Jayne) doing the voiceover for the credits and logo instead of Jerry Steiner (Troy Slaten), saying exactly the same as Jerry but using first names (I watched it dubbed, so the quote may not be exact): "Parker? Jerry? Clyde? HELLO?!"

Anybody else remembers this?
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glickmam Eddie Murphy's Cheesy Factor 3 Nov 16 2010, 12:21 PM EST by ComedyCentralLover3
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This is how the Eddie Murphy description should be written:

Eddie Murphy Television

(1989?-????)

Logo: Against a beige BG, we see Eddie Murphy as a pink comedy mask, laughing with his arms akimbo. A salmon-colored rectangle drops down from the top right side, and the text

EDDIE
MURPHY

TELEVISION

kind of looking like what you see above, and with a small television in between, slides up. "TELEVISION" glows brightly.

FX: The animations of Eddie, the rectangle, the text, and "TELEVISION" glowing.

Cheesy Factor: Eddie's laugh sounds as if it was actually performed by fellow comedian Yakov Smirnoff.

Music: Just Eddie laughing.

Availability: Uncommon; seen on "SNL: The Best of Eddie Murphy".

Scare Factor: Low; Eddie's laugh, as well as his appearance, may creep some people out.
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thegodofmen666 mutant enemy 0 Nov 9 2010, 8:18 PM EST by thegodofmen666
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2nd logo
(2011-)
logo:we see a 3-D human.This time it said: Hmm..."Where's my lunch?" like homer's voice.
do you think my logo is funny?

(fake logo i came up)
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