This logo used to scare the chocobos out of me when I watched Disney movies such as "101Dalmatians".

I was even scared by the 1993 PBS Kids logo.

kidinbed:
Scary:
One word: Simitar. Scary animation, droning synth, it goes on and on. I got a blooper video @ Goodwill, thought it would be funny and BAM! Rainbow lines, crappy animation, and more droning synths, a fake choir, and to top it all off, creepy whooshes and a very jarring transition from an FBI warning that was scary enough in the first place!
Annoying:
The incredible world of DiC logo. Damn kiddified logo makes DiC look more kiddy.
Anything with moog synth or weird music. Walt Disney Classics, for one, and the other Elektra logo too.
And the first New Line Cinema logo? No music+weird font+incessant flashing=really annoying.
Used to scare me:
The Columbia TriStar "TAKE HOLLYWOOD HOOOOME!!!" chorus logo. That sudden loudness scared the crap outta me when I was 3.
Oh, I gotta add the Touchstone Snake (1986-2002). That logo gave me very vivid nightmares of blue snakes, thunder, etc. And that hellish tune stuck in my head and constantly replayed, causing more bad dreams.

Hoa:
Scary:
All Simitar logos.
CTHV Take Hollywood Home logos
All MGM Lions
New Line 1982
Disney Classics 1984
MGM/UA Home Video 1982, 1983 and 1993.
MGM Home Entertainment 1998
Atari Jaguar 1993

Annoying:
TriStar 1984, Klasky-Csupo 1998, Live Home Video 1990, Manadalay Entertainment, Warner Bros. Cartoons 1964-1970 logos


AsdfTheRevival:

Scary
NONE!

Annoying
The 2002-present DiC logo, the 2004-present NBC Universal logo, and the 2003-present WB Television logo and the Klasky-Csupo SSF

Used to Scare me

The Bedford Falls Company logo as seen on shows like "My So Called Life" with the haunted house and creepy voices used to scare the crap out of me, but now that I've seen it tens of thousands of times, it's not creepy anymore. However, I warn you, this will scare the crap out of you the first time you see it on Youtube- especially if your volume was high (which mine was when I first saw it) MachineryNoise and Mikintosh3001 currently have it. Mikintosh's version is in high sound and video quality making it less scary, however.

Klasky Csupo "SSF", for the same reasons stated by WillWill45



WillWill45

Scarey:

Klasky Csupo's SSF (formly nicknamed Robot), which is like what Asdf mentioned. Well, who wants a freaky face appering out of nowhere and staring at you like if you were crazy? The SSF is much like that. That stopped me from waching Nickelodeon, and avoding me from wach Rugrats movies! However, I love the their past logo, "Graffti". Constrtain Films also scares me, but not as much as the SSF.

Annoying:

The first Saban logo.

Because of the music.

Silversword55:

Scares me:
HBO Independent Productions :UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGLYYYYYYYYYYY!
Is that logo supposed to be an oven, which is getting ready to kill me? Oh and don't forget the bzzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzz sound effect when the hand turns on the light. I refuse to watch Martin, and Everybody Loves Raymond, because of this logo.

Annoys me:
Columbia Tri-Star Television (1996-2002)


bigrene2
Scares Me:

WNET (1993)

The creepy music and darkness seems to be very scary!

Annoys Me:
Thorn-EMI/HBO Video,
It's Because of that damn music!


sega3dmm:

Scares me:
Now, who doesn't know about THX and it's audio mark? I bet no one here doesn't know. It is the perfect formula for a scary logo/trailer, LOUD, SUSPENSFUL AND EAR-RINGING. Now, come on, alot people on CLG don't find synth sounds on a black background that calming. Exactly! Broadway is the worst trailer. Imagine you're in this mysterious theater, and you suddenly hear a soft decending sound. It scares you a bit because noting's on the screen and you are starting to think there's a problem 'cause the theater is old. While you're on this thought, a blue rectangular outline appears on-screen. It's in a creepy shade of blue and the film is old, just to make it worse. You then see "The Audience is Listening" appear and disappear. During that, this soft decending sound becomes a loud, hard, Stephen King-like acesnding noise and you feel the theater shaking. Then the THX logo appears, and the sound holds on a pitch, taunting you and making you deaf. This hold is very long until the THX logo fades out. Also, the logo shines like how people put their finger and slide it across their necks.


Used to scare me:
What used to scare me was the Walt Disney Classics logos from 1988-1994. I didn't care if the audio is clean or distorted. The animation scared me - so did the animation of the 1986 WDHV logo! Distorted music made it worse. I even had to REFUSE watching my Disney classics on VHS!

I was also scared of the 1993 PBS Kids ident called "The P-Pals". It wasn't scared of the Hip-Hop music and the "This is PEE BEE EZ! Hooh! Arf!" which I thought was awesome. I was afraid of the seizure-textured P-Pals and that dog. Does that dog even look like a dog or a pile of living s**t!? Iremember I used to shield my eyes with a pillow or something when it comes on. When the P-Pals were banned and were replaced by 2 kids named Dash and Dot, I was happy, but I remember the day I first saw it on TV. When I expected the P-Pals to come on-screen, I covered my eyes (with a pillow) but I heard different music and I took I little peek. I shouted in my mind that the P-Pals were dead - and I remember this and I was 4 years old!







Annoys Me:
Media Blasters/Anime Works
It's because of that synth! It's on my Invader Zim DVD!

I'm also annoyed by the plaster-happy Incredible World of DiC logo because it plasters every single g**damn pre-2001 DiC show and I have a HIGH feeling that it's on those SatAM, AoSth and Captin N box sets for every SINGLE episode.

The thrid logo, or should I say logos, that annoys me is the Nickelodeon logos that plasters every Nicktoon logo if the split-screen credits were used. What puts the icing on the poisend cake is the kids laughing on those logos. I prefer those drum sounds in the 2000-2006 logo in it's very early days


Unknown:
This is a real annoyance:

It's not scary, per se, but it sure is monotonous. And annoying. And plaster-happy.


Juniorfan88 (JRmotorsportsfan88)


Scares Me Currently:

MTE (1987-1990)



This logo scared the crap out of me when I first saw this on Youtube. I don't remember seeing this much on television in the 1990's. The way the music is remixed like the regular 1975-1990 Universal static globe with different instruments sounds pretty godawful and scary. The animation looks pretty cool and well done for the time, but does it scare me? Fairly, but the music is what makes this logo scary. Not the rollercoaster-like CGI, but the instrumental remix of the 1975-1990 Universal theme.


Constantin Films (early 1960's)

Man, another bloody nightmare!! Here's another scarefest: the Constantin Films logo used in the 1960's. The music in this one can't be more bombastic then what it already is. It starts out with a mellow drumroll; just as soon as that ends, we abruptly hear a bombastic fanfare with very high pitch notes which may scare even the most emoist of kids ( just kiddin'). The logo is pretty much static in this one; however, at the end, it all of a sudden brings forth seizure-like animation which looks very cheap even for it's time. The animation is horrible and very scary.


Renaissance Pictures

One of longest lasting logos currently shown on television, yet giving people more and more scares. Now the animation is cheesy but not scary with the exception of the lightning; however, the monks droning "AMEN!" and the crackle of lightning is pretty scary and very unexpected after watching another episode of the fine action show Xena.


Logos that used to scare me:

LBS Communications (1984)

After watching Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff & the Cadillac Cats back in 1994 and 1995, I would see Dic and this indigo thing. Am I scared of it anymore? No, but the music is what I was scared of because it played that overly dramatic synthesizer tone with animation that looked pretty awesome. Approximately 12 years later, I really admire how much i miss the logo which very nice looking early CGI and is amongst one of my favorites. Like I posted before, the music is very dramatic for synthesizer, and it could scare some little kids like me.


Saul Group/SFM Combo



I know I forgot to put Nelvana in there for you Care Bear fans, but here's what I thought was a deadly combo when I was a little Saul Group and SFM. I'm not putting SFM as the picture, but Saul Group I will. Let's start out with the Saul Group. The animation is really not that bad, it's cheesy and fairly cheap with the two "S"s forming and flashing. The music/ SFX, on the other hand used to pretty much scare me because it went from a quiet, mellow, low synthesizer jingle to were you heard a bell which sounds fairly loud which always kept me off guard when I watched Care Bears. Today, the Saul Group for my opinion is pretty much average with no scare factor and a pretty nice mellow synthesizer tone which makes this logo sorta relaxing. The SFM logo I'm stilll fairly creeped out about it today. The main reason why like 13 years and sometimes today is because of the announcer and the morse code which meant scare factor pretty much close to off the charts. Like I said, I still think the SFM logo is still fairly creepy today.


MGM (Everyone of the lions)

I used to not like the MGM Lions because they were loud and obnoxious. Today, I see them as pretty awesome particularly Leo and Jackie which those two are pretty awesome.


Logos that annoy the piss out of me

P.I.T.S. Films (1978)

Two things I hate about this logo: the music and color scheme. The synthesizer jingle for this one makes me want to go into an utter insanity and commit suicide because it's that bad. The color scheme is messed-up as well because they chose an excellent color combo (sarcastically) green against blue and thought, "Wow, let's make something that looks like it's from an Apple 1 or 2" The 3-D letters and animation look fairly cool, but the music and color scheme are so godawful they make my ears and eyes bleed.


Sony Pictures Television (2002)

The animation is slightly better the Columbia Tristar Pictures Television "Boxes of Boredom", but the question is "Is it better than the Boxes of Boredom?" Answer: No! Main reason: it's very monotonous; even though, they have an extended version of the logo on Jeopardy!. The music for this logo is not bad, but after hearing from 2003 when the logo started getting monotonous until this year and beyond, it became apparent within the logo community that the music became very stale, trite, and very elderly (old) like the mockery from the current Orville Redenbacher commercials. Overall, the logo pretty much sucks.


Incredible World of Dic (2001)

May look cute in the process, but after watching it plaster old Dic shows with the old Dic logos such as the Littles, the logo became very annoying, boredom was settling in the recesses of my brain, and oh yes, one other thing for this logo which is the icing on this cake, it's very monotonous/tedious/repetitive of how many times it has played.


CBS Paramount Television (May 2006-July 2007)

I can stand the "Eye in the Sky" and the first variation of this logo, but the second variation is absolute crap because we have average animation for this logo which indeed looks cheap. Afterwards, we have instrumental music which does not even sound half as good as the "Eye in the Sky." Another thing which sucks about this logo is how monotonous it was for the 14 months it lived. This logo was on Judge Judy without the music, Judge Joe Brown with the music and Entertainment Tonight with the music. This logo was also used alot on the CW when it took over the WB September 2006. Overall, they over drawn this logo too many times, and those are the three reasons why this logo is a piece of crap. In August 2007, we see a much better looking logo for what was Paramount/ CBS Paramount Television as I like to call it "The Backstage" with much better music which sounds more dramatic and more uplifting, the logo looks like spent decent time with that because the animation/ logo's appearance looks alot better/cleaner.

Viacom V of Doom (1976):

Just a horrid logo that use to scare me when I was little, but now pretty much hate the logo because of the godawful synthesizer/tymphany combo which sounds like garbage which I dunno what the conductor was thinking, and the music can give you a migraine the size of texas knowing how craptascular/loud the jingle is. It has a bad color scheme (not as bad as P.I.T.S. Films) which is purple against dark purple against white which looks bad. The only decent thing about this logo is the animation which is not bad for it's time, but still reeks early CGI.


JART4629: That 1989 PBS logo. No, don't laugh at me, I actually had nightmares about that logo. I was like three and after the Sesame Street music came, I would sit in fear of that logo. And as for sega3dmm, I used to hate the Black Diamond, too, as well as the KingWorld "spotlights" THAT was unfriendly.
Annoying ones: That yellow FHE logo is disgusting, Moonlight Productions, Sony Bars of Boredom.

BreilLogos:
THE LOGO THAT ONES VEEEEEEERY FREAKY AND SCARY:
Screen Gems "Loud S from hell" (Alternate) 1961-1967 (but i don't know the year!!!)
V of doom 1981-1990
Walt Disney Home Video 1993 and Walt Disney Home Video blue
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Those are the ones that are scare me.

Annoying logos:
THX
Columbia TV 1982
DiC Video 1987
MCA-Universal Home Video 1994 short version
MCA-Universal Home Video 1994 still
MCA-Universal Home Video 1990

Shadeed329

Logos that scares and annoy me:

*Viacom "V of Doom": 1976-1986 (I hate this logo! Errrrrrrr!)
*P*I*T*S Films: 1978-1982
*Renaissance Pictures: 1982- (I hate this logo! Scary voices and music! "I Aaaam," Whatever!)
*Krofft Entertainment: 1990s logo (Not the 1970s logo!) (I hate this logo and theme!)
*Lorimar Television: 1988-1993 (Gave me the creeps and a nightmare when I was little!)
*Universal Television: (1980-1981 logo theme) (Too unsettling!)
*Buena Vista Television: 1995-2005 (Too annoying! The 2005 version is better!)
*Cannell Entertainment: (1982-1987 theme) (Scariest Cannell theme alive!)
*Klasky-Csupo Productions: (1991-1998) (Scariest music ever used! Sick of seeing this logo!)
*THX (Too loud and scary!)
*Don Taffner's Entertainment Group (DLT) (Annoying logo theme! It'll get stuck in yo' head!)
*Revue Productions/MCA TV: (1951-1953) (Theme sounds like JAWS' theme! One of the scariest themes alive!)
*ABC Films (1969-1973) (The theme is kinda creepy!)
*The Program Exchange (I hate all of their logos! Plus, they get in the way of my favorite shows! Especially those by Sony Pictures Television!)

Used to scare me but okay with:

MCA TV: 1974-1990
Viacom 1976 (1978 Warp speed version)
American International Television (1969 and 1974) (because of the themes)

amndweek:

Scares Me:
Disney MGM Studios Logo

Annoys Me:
Thorn EMI-HBO Video Logo

dealydugan1995

Logos That Scare Me:

Universal Television w/ 1979-1981 music:

This logo scares the hell out of me ever since I first heard it. The music was slowed down and had the kettledrum at the final note, and scares me to death. I have nightmares of this logo every time I see it! There are other people who are scared of this too...

Hanna Barbara "Swirling Star":

I am absolutely terrified of this! At the end of "The Powerpuff Girls", the logo starts playing and scares me to death.

1978 WGBH Boston:

This scares me and gives me nightmares.

Logos That Used to Scare Me:

Wolf Films:

When I was little (about 4 or 5), I was terrified of the Wolf Films logo every time I saw it at the end of "Law & Order" on A&E (it showed on A&E from 1994?-2002).

Logos That Annoy Me:
None


heart1994

Logos That Used to Scare Me:



Man! That logo scared the hell out of me when I was 8. It was the Hanna Barbera Action logo from 1994. I've seen this on Scooby Doo, Where Are You?. That's a nightmare!!!

mr3urious

TheAdmiester:
Annoys me alot:
Magnetic Video Corp. (????-????)
The mirror effect is just overdone and it seems to go on forever. The logo is about 30 seconds of scrolling text over a big M. And don't even mention the music.

boomersmamaw








WizardDuck:

Scary:
-Renaissance Pictures: Okay, I've gotta be candid, what were they thinking when they made this? The Mona Lisa being torn apart by lightning, what kind of sense does that make? It's worse than this next one, though...
-Klasky-Csupo Robot: Bizarre. What sense does this make? My reason is basically the same as Asdf's: a creepy looking face staring at you! What the heck?!
Not scary anymore:
-Reeves Entertainment 1991: The masks used to be scary as hell when they came on after What Would You Do?. Seeing it 10 years later on the Internet, it looks somwhat passe.
-One Ho Productions: An evil drawing of Whoopi Goldberg stares into your soul. Scared me s**tless when I was four.

JHprod:

Scary:
VID TV Company (1990-1999)

The mask scared me out, but it stared at me!

Annoying:
Hanna-Barbera "All-Stars, Action" (1994-2002)

What the heck is that music?

Spidey016:

Scary:
Oz film company This logo scared the $#%@ out of me when I first saw this! That logo has a freaky lady!
Annoying: Walt Disney HV 1986:The music is just annoying.


CheesyBob42:

Used to be Scary:
The 1986 Walt Disney Home Video "presents" variant surprised me when the "presents" appeared. I had it on Brave Little Toaster!
Another logo that knocked me out of my socks was the David E. Kelly logo that I saw when I was flipping through channels. I almost threw a fit when the text knocked down the old lady. Afterward, I saw a split second of the 20th Century Fox Television logo thinking it would save me from that logo.


meesterfonnyboy

Scares me: None.

Scared me: MGM-TV Wallpaper (esp. the "long pause" variant); NBC News (Huntley-Brinkley era); Revue/Universal City (the music); NBC Radio News 1976 (the audio, of course); sfm Media with narrator.

Gets on my last nerve: any of the Hanna-Barbara "Action" logos (what a mess!); NBC/Universal; Starry Night with the laugh.

ryanasaurus0077:

Used to be scary:
The 1993 PBS Kids P Pals logo. It knocked my socks off the first time I saw it, but in recent years, I've conditioned myself to like this logo, and now this is my kid brother's favorite logo! Not that he likes logos as much as I do, but still!

Annoying:
I like the 1983 MGM/UA Home Video and Big W logos, but the former always appears when I expect MGM/UA 1982, and the latter plasters earlier WB logos even on the earliest releases of THX-1138 and The Candidate! The only logos I really hate are the Bars of Boredom (2002), which makes even the Boxes of Boredom (all its incarnations, even the TV version from 1996!) look interesting, and the Sesame Workshop House of Boredom (2000), which combine on Dragon Tales, though even that deadly combo fails to make me hate the show at all! After all, Dragon Tales IS PBS, and I like PBS.

Gladiator42

There aren't any that annoy me, but there are five that are EXTREMELY scary and they are:

The 90's Thames Video logo - Too scary!
VID - OMG it's that mask with that scary music! After Pole Chudes, people in Russia would get freaked out by the Gruesome Twosome!
2nd Barney Home Video logo - The animation is WAY too scary!
Media Blasters - don't EVER mention the zoom in! It's scary, horrible and can almost kill you if you look at that part (the VHS tapes and DVDs didn't scare me however)!
Rainbow Releasing Productions - I've only seen the logo once but Orson's very VID-esque gaze nearly turned me into a statue. And the eerie silence as well.