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[[File:foxplane.jpg|link=Futurama|frame|[[FOX]] [[Biting the Hand Humor|shoots down yet another]] [[Stealth Pun|promising pilot]].]]
Some studios have [[Vanity Plate
Every once in a while, though, a creator will have fun with it. The [[Vanity Plate]] will be changed in some way, just enough to put a new spin on it. [[Match Cut]]s are also a common form of this.
A very specific type of inside joke. A subtrope of [[Special Edition Title]]. More examples in the IMDb's [https://web.archive.org/web/20100410142601/http://www.imdb.com/Sections/CrazyCredits/ Crazy Credits] section, or at the [http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Logo+Variations Closing Logos Group Wiki]
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== [[Twentieth Century Fox]] ==
* The 75th Anniversary logo ends with a giant "75" lit up in the sky by searchlights while the camera pans up to highlight it.
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* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' series: The Torch Lady's torch flashes like a [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|neuralizer]]. Happens in-universe at the end of the second movie.
** Trailers also had her wearing sunglasses.
* ''[[The Mouse That Roared]]'': The Torch Lady looks down, sees a mouse at her feet on the pedestal, [[Eek!
** At the end of the film is a title-card sequence where she runs back up the stairs of the pedestal and grabs her torch, via running this opening sequence backward.
* ''Thank God It's Friday'': The Torch Lady's toga transforms into a disco-themed outfit and she does a dance.
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* [[Halloween Special]] ''Scared Shrekless'': The boy is scared by a wolf howl and hides behind the crescent moon.
== [[
{{quote|Doing the "normal" logo is usually the ''exception'' rather than the rule for [[
* ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces|Jedi Knight]]'' series and ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'': multiple variations on drawing a lightsaber / using force powers etc.
* ''[[Afterlife]]'', where the Gold Man first falls into a flaming-red lava pit ... and then flies out with a halo and wings into [[Go Into the Light|a heavenly white light]] off the screen.
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* In the trailer for the [[Marx Brothers]] film ''A Night At The Opera'', the lion was replaced by the brothers themselves, each taking turns miming the lion's roar. (When it was Harpo, his ever-present taxi-horn sounded instead.)
* In ''[[Tarzan]], the Ape Man'' (the 1981 box-office bomb starring Bo Derek), Tarzan's yell is in place of the MGM lion's roar.
* In the 2006 [[
* ''Strange Brew'': Standard MGM opening, but the lion, instead of roaring, belches and appears disinterested. The camera then pulls back from the logo and pans towards the Great White North set. A few minutes later, the lion roars in the background, and Bob or Doug comments, "Oh, NOW he roars..."
* ''[[Silent Movie]]'': The Big Picture Studios logo is essentially that of MGM, but with the studio boss in place of the lion and a kitten's mew replacing the roar.
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* For ''[[Remington Steele]]'' the cat wears a [[Sherlock Holmes]] deerstalker cap and has a meerschaum pipe in its mouth; when it meows, the pipe falls and lands in front of the word "Productions".
** Also, there is a mockup on [[YouTube]], but the letters move slowly, and Mimsie drops a gun, firing a hole into an "M".
* ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'': The kitten is dressed for surgery in mask and smock. In the final episode, the kitten appeared beneath the closing credits, hooked up to life support machinery, [[Tear Jerker|and flatlined]] [[Downer Ending|at the end of the credits.]]
** By a sad coincidence, Mimsie (the MTM cat) died for real that year, in 1988.
* ''The Steve Allen Show:'' The kitten wears heavy black eyeglasses and declares "Schmock!" in the voice of Steve Allen.
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* ''Xuxa'': The kitten uses the voice of Xuxa saying "Ciao!"
* The feature film ''A Little Sex'' has an animated cartoon version of Mimsie crying, followed by a second kitten appearing; the two then rub heads affectionately and purr.
* The most startling variation appears at the end of the TV movie/
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* ''[[Team America: World Police]]:'' The Paramount logo animation runs backward.
* In ''[[Coming to America]]'', the camera zooms in to the mountain—and then ''over'' it, until it reaches the fictional African country.
* In ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer
** This one was ruined when Warner Bros. took over the European distribution of the film.
* ''[[The Core]]'': as it finishes, it zooms into the mountain's core.
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* At the end of the 1951 ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon, ''Alpine For You'', after Popeye punches Bluto, Bluto slams into a mountain peak, forming stars around the mountain. After that, "A Paramount Picture" appears over said mountain, closing the cartoon. This joke was preserved on the AAP prints.
* Popeye, [[Little Lulu]], and [[Little Audrey]] also had their own [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceZCTT7MCE special] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uzO3sPO-zQ "Spinning Star"] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESjMx0pQvHU openings], where stars from the logo would zoom in with the characters' headshots.
* It's [[Stealth Pun|never spelled out in the text]], but Holy Wood Hill in the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
** Also, when they awaken the Golden Knight from his slumber beneath the Hill, Ginger is carrying a torch and Detritus bangs a gong. In Ginger's dream there's a lion roaring as well, but that never actually happens.
* Paramount loves the [[Match Cut]]. In ''[[The Busy World of Richard Scarry]]'' animated series, the Paramount logo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgV3vdOT09I morphs into a mountain in Busytown] which the Applecopter promptly flies out from behind, again via a fade.
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* ''[[300]]'': Not only are the WB and Legendary Pictures logos rendered to look like unearthed ancient gold, but the "As Time Goes By" jingle is ''also'' done [[In the Style Of|in a Greek-sounding style]].
* ''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]'': Each of the logos are static, and have apparently been drawn on by Max. The WB logo has a "wild thing" sort of shape drawn around it, with Max scribbling over the Time Warner byline and replacing it with his name. The Legendary Pictures logo has Max drawing a monster eating it. The Village Roadshow logo has Max turning the logo into his own name, with the "V" becoming an upside down "A", and a crude sword along the bottom of the logo.
* ''[[
* ''[[Unaccompanied Minors]]'': The Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow logos get covered in an avalanche of snow.
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'': The WB Logo fades into a police zepplin.
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* ''[[Get Smart (film)|Get Smart]]'': The WB logo is a CONTROL-like door, and the Village Roadshow logo is a billboard.
* [[Cartoon Network]]'s old "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61xR9LyN0T8 Cartoon Theater]" had parodies of the MGM, Paramount and Columbia logos.
** The [http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Cartoon+Network+Studios third and current "Cartoon Network Studios" logo] is a grungy, 1992 version of the network logo that stops blinking when a green scanner runs over it. However, most series/movies have it open up to some rough, animatic-like animation of the main characters (for example, [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
*** The second version of the logo only had one variation: Dee Dee dances by it, causing some of the letters to spin. Dexter, shortly after, crashes through the logo in a giant robot.
* [[Michael Bay]] ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' films: While the visuals are unchanged, the logos are accompanied by the transformation sound effect.
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* The final shot of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' combines the closing logo-gimmicks of Warner Brothers and Disney, with Porky Pig stammering his "[[That's All Folks]]!" and Tinkerbell giving him a parting tap with a magic wand.
* In ''[[The Last Airbender]]'', the Paramount stars are accompanied with splashes of water. The [[Nickelodeon]] Movies logo afterwards is on fire, and gets covered by earth.
* The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos in ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'' appear after the film starts and are shown in the sky with Soren flying around them, followed by the film's title.
* In ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]'', the Paramount and Warner logos appear in a pile of buttons.
* The logos in ''[[The Losers]]'' are printed on a comic book page.
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*** ''Sonic & Knuckles'' starts out just like the ''Sonic 3'' version, but the background behind the logo fades into Sonic and the Death Egg falling through the sky, with the Death Egg landing in the volcano and causing the Sega logo to shake itself out of existence.
** ''[[Vectorman]]'' easily gets the best, where you can play a minigame that might get your game started on later levels if you do well enough and, using an off-screen power-up, you can blow up the Sega logo.
** ''[[Panic!]]!'' for the [[Sega CD]] opens with the letters in the logo all mixed up so that they read "GASE", accompanied by an edited version of the clip used for the Sonic games: "Gaaa-Seee". Then Slap and Stick (the game's protagonists) fall from above and land on the logo, which snaps back to normal and is accompanied by the standard "Seee-Gaaa!"
** For ''[[K-On!]] Houkago Live'' on the PSP, the "Seee-Gaaa!" yell is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL4H9QQSaPs#t=20s done] by [[Aki Toyosaki]] in-character as Yui.
*** Similarly, the ''Hatsune Miku: Project Diva'' series of [[Vocaloid]] PSP games (done by the same staff as the ''K-On!'' game) opens with Miku singing the SEGA sound.
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* The little boy picking the flower in the Gaumont Films logo gets roundhouse-kicked in ''[[JCVD]]'', the Jean Claude Van Damme self-parody film..
* In the second season of ''[[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]]'' the opening Central logo (a white globe) shrinks down and dissolves into a live action shot of a white roulette ball at the start of the opening credits.
* One episode of Thames Television's ''[[The Kenny Everett Video Show]]'' had Kenny bursting through the opening logo. The shot was repeated in reverse for the closing logo.
** Another of Cuddly Ken's programmes replaced the London buildings that made up the Thames logo with [https://web.archive.org/web/20140903224653/http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/itvlondon/itvlondon-thamesmain/images/thames-ident1979-kennytits-l.jpg women's breasts]...
** One edition of the ''[[Morecambe and Wise]]'' Christmas shows produced by Thames used a re-recorded version of the Thames logo jingle: "Here they are now, Morecambe and Wi-i-i-i-i-ise!"
** For the ''Des O'Connor'' show, the Thames jingle was played with different instruments. It would then swoop off into the stars, starting off the credits for the show.
** ''Armchair Thriller'' used a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Up8vQ0cd0 nighttime version] of the normal logo.
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* The ''[[South Park]]'' [[The Problem with Licensed Games|first person shooter game]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLvfLKSHjM had the iguana from Iguana Entertainment's logo] [[They Killed Kenny|bite Kenny's head off.]]
* When [[The Nostalgia Critic]] reviewed ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' (see above), he parodied said film's variation of the Fox logo, except with Chester A. Bum conducting the [[Channel Awesome]] fanfare.
* Google does this frequently, to celebrate an event, whether minor or major. They're called [https://www.google.com/doodles Google Doodles].
* The otherwise forgettable 1971 film ''The Christian Licorice Store'' doesn't have the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=WAhXx4Jpjeg&NR=1 Cinema Center Films logo] (or indeed the title of the film) until about 15 minutes in when a character starts running a film on a home projector and the logo (and title) come up on screen. On the screen in the film, that is.
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