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{{trope}}
[[File:foxplane.jpg|link=Futurama|frame|[[
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
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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* ''[[Speed 2 Cruise Control]]'' has the logo being washed by the ocean.
* The searchlights going out also occurs in FOX Searchlight's ''[[Sunshine (film)|Sunshine]]'' and ''[[28 Days Later]]''.
* In the ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' trilogy and ''[[X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', the "X" in the Fox logo remains visible to the end although the rest of the logo has already faded out.
* In the 1964 comedy ''What a Way to Go!'', the logo is pink (because [[Gene Kelly]]'s character in said movie loves the color).
* In ''[[Silent Movie]]'', instead of opening usually, the logo appears a few minutes in, in a billboard.
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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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== [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] ==
* ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'': The Walt Disney Pictures logo gets abducted by a [[Tractor Beam]].
* One extended-version trailer for and the ending credits of the home video version of ''[[WALL-E]]'' has the bulb on Luxo Jr. burning out and then being replaced by WALL-E; on his way out he knocks over the R in Pixar and stands in its place.
** Although the joke isn't necessarily with the Disney/Pixar logos themselves, if you stick around to the very end of the credits, the Disney and Pixar logos are followed by a
* ''[[The Haunted Mansion (film)|The Haunted Mansion]]'' has the castle set against the foyer organ, before fading into the roof of the mansion.
* ''[[Enchanted]]'': The camera zooms in on a tower of the Disney castle to show the book on a stand inside, effectively integrating the logo into the animated prologue.
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* ''[[Peter Pan|Return To Neverland]]'': A slightly different version of the usual theme played with the spot flying over the castle with a lot more sparkle. A small spot of light is then seen behind the logo as it is projected onto the side of a cloud. The little spot of light (revealed to be Tinkerbell at the end of the opening credits) then moves, causing the logo to vanish.
* ''[[Winnie the Pooh|Piglet's Big Movie]]'': The spot and the trail it leaves are pink instead of white. Also, the start of the rendition of the "Winnie the Pooh" theme song for that movie plays over the logo instead of the usual theme.
* ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'': The castle is rendered as a black angular shape covered in [[Tron Lines]].
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: On Stranger Tides'' featured the Jolly Roger atop the Disney castle and mermaids in the moat.
* ''[[Tangled]]'': [[Milestone Celebration|50th]] [[Disney Animated Canon]] film disclaimer in the Walt Disney Animation Studios logo.
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* ''[[The Ring]]'': The moon becomes the Ring for a split second.
* ''[[Shrek]]'': The S in both "[[DreamWorks]]" and "SKG" grow ogre ears.
* ''The Lost World: [[Jurassic Park]]'' for [[
* ''[[Small Soldiers]]'' for [[
* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'': a Night Fury flies around in the background. This otherwise introduces the new vanity plate for Dreamworks Animation (which exploits the 3D with a more elaborate fishline-swinging).
* [[Halloween Special]] ''Scared Shrekless'': The boy is scared by a wolf howl and hides behind the crescent moon.
== [[
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* ''[[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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* ''Rogue Squadron III'': The ''[[Star Wars]]'' characters dance to a disco version of the main theme, including the Gold Man.
* ''Bounty Hunter'': Jango ties up the Gold Man and yanks him off the logo, then flies onto it with his jetpack and uses his flamethrower to produce his own golden arc to hold. That gold guy just can't keep his job, can he?
* In ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' we see the Gold Man turn into a skeleton, with the ray above also skeletonized.
* ''Star Wars: [[Republic Commando]]'' features the Gold man rendered in monochrome and static, in keeping with the [[Darker and Edgier]] theme of the game.
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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.
* [[Steve Irwin]]'s ''The [[Crocodile Hunter]]: Collision Course'' had an alligator instead of the lion.
* ''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers]]'' had the lion turning into an animated vampire.
** There are two versions of this. The original one is the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaGfWpFT79o lion morphing into a vampire where a drop of blood drops off his fang and segues into the opening credits]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OPvFqh-Oe8 The American version is at the end of the cartoon opening where animated versions of Abronsius and Alfred walk onto the logo as the lion roars then sprouts vampire fangs causing them to run off.] One more blood drops from its fangs and segues to the opening credits
* [[The Movie]] of ''[[Josie and the Pussycats (film)|Josie and The Pussycats]]'' (a co-production between Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins with [[Boy Band]] music playing over the Universal logo but is immediately followed by the MGM logo as the music continues, with the lion being replaced with a [[Squee|squealing]] teenage girl.
* ''[[The Howling|Howling III: The Marsupials]]'' replaced the lion roar with a quick film clip a [[wikipedia:Thylacine|thylacine]] roaring.
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== MTM Productions/Enterprises ==
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* For [[Christmas Episode
** BUT, the original ribbon appears for a split-second, possibly due to an editing error.
* At the end of the "Put on a Happy Face" episode of ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', Mary Tyler Moore herself appeared in place of Mimsie and mouthed the words "Th-th-th-that's all folks!"
* At the end of the 1991 ''Mary Tyler Moore'' [[Reunion Show]], Mimsie does not meow, she says "Bye!" in Mary Tyler Moore's voice.
* On videos produced by MTM Home Video, the kitten holds a remote control. After meowing, the kitten hits "rewind". The picture winds backwards (and loses color), and the kitten meows again.
* ''The Duck Factory'': Before the logo starts, a voiceover says "And now, where's the cat!" The cat then quacks.
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* ''The Graham Kerr Show'': As befits a [[Cooking Show]], the kitten wore a chef's hat.
* Similarly, on ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'', the kitten wore a policeman's hat.
* ''[[Newhart]]'': Bob Newhart's voice says "Meow"
* ''The New WKRP in Cincinnati'': Instead of a meow, you hear Les Nessman saying "Ooooh!". There is no sight of a [[YouTube]] video with this variant, yet.
* 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.
* ''The White Shadow'': A different kitten from the usual Mimsie bounces a basketball off the MTM logo.
* ''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/
== [[Mutant Enemy]] Productions ==
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* "Becoming, Part 2": The zombie says "Ohhh, I need a hug." (This was the episode where {{spoiler|Buffy killed Angel and left Sunnydale}}.)
* "Amends" puts the zombie in a Santa Claus hat.
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== [[Paramount]] ==
* In ''[[Road To|Road to Utopia]]'', [[Bob Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby]] are sledding through the Klondike countryside and enjoying the scenery, when something catches Bob's eye:
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(Cut to a shot of a snow-covered mountain)
'''Crosby:''' Bread and butter? That's a mountain!
(The "Paramount Pictures" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain)
'''Hope:''' Maybe a mountain to you, but it's bread and butter to me! }}
* It was planned for the end Paramount logo to turn into the ''[[Star Trek]]'' insignia at the end credits of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', but the plan was dropped.
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** And there's the gag before the fade, as the mountain itself is not of the contemporary design: all Indy movies use the one from the 1950s.
* ''[[Team America: World Police]]:'' The Paramount logo animation runs backward.
* In ''[[Coming to America]]'', the camera zooms in to the
* 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.
* As seen on the ''[[Exit Through the Gift Shop]]'' poster, guerrilla artist [[Banksy]]'s vanity production company is Paranoid Pictures, whose logo is very similar to Paramount's.
* ''[[The Bad News Bears]] Go to Japan'' has Mount Fuji as the mountain.
* In ''Hard Rain'', the mountain is amidst a huge storm.
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== [[Warner Brothers]] ==
* Since it's just the unveiling of a shield and a snippet of "[[Casablanca|As Time Goes By]]", the WB logo often receives a different tint and audio (generally one that starts the movie).
* ''[[Mars Attacks
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' trilogy: A special version of the WB and Village Roadshow Pictures logos, made of the running green code of the Matrix itself, appear at the start of the film.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'': The WB shield, Village Roadshow W, and Silver Pictures square, appear as metal-worked sewer covers on a cobblestone street; the camera pulls back to reveal the street as part of the movie's opening chase.
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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.
* ''[[Batman Forever]]'' and ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'': The Warner Brothers logo morphs into the shapes of the Bat Emblem. The latter has the logo freezing.
* ''[[Superman Returns]]'' and ''[[Superman (film)|Superman IV: The Quest For Peace]]'': The opening logo isn't changed, but the accompanying music has a few notes added at the end, effectively playing the Superman fanfare.
* ''[[Gremlins|Gremlins 2]]'': This movie's 1990 release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the first [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon, so Bugs is lounging on top of the WB shield when it zooms into view. [[Daffy Duck]] immediately appears and attempts to usurp his place. The characters reappear during the closing credits.
* The trailer for ''[[Batman Begins]]'' had the WB shield dissolving into hundreds of bats.
* The classic ''[[Looney Tunes]] / [[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoons traditionally began with the WB shield surrounded by brightly colored concentric rings. Some twists: Many of the classic [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoons start with Bugs reclining on the shield, and in some cases pulling down the card reading "Looney Tunes" or "Merrie Melodies".
** One [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner|Road Runner]] cartoon ended with the Coyote essentially quitting, and placing a sign in view advertising for "one gullible coyote" [[No Fourth Wall|to speak to the movie theater manager]], then pulling the closing "Th-Th-That's All Folks" card onto the screen.
** "Lumberjack-Rabbit", the only [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon in 3-D, started with the WB shield bouncing toward the audience, nearly filling the screen before settling to its normal size, in an effort to play with the 3-D effects.
** In "Porky in Wackyland", [[Reality Warper|the Do-Do]] rides the WB shield as it emerges from the vanishing point, bops Porky on the head and rides it back out of sight.
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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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** Note that the site says that the logo used for ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' was also used in ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]'', which is not true:
*** ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'' and ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]'' actually had Sonic run to the right of the screen to make half of the logo appear, and then run back to the left to complete the logo. ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]: Episode 1'' trailers have a black background, with Sonic (In the form of a blue streaking blur) coming towards the viewer three times, the third time in the middle of the screen & leaving the Sega logo in his wake.
*** ''Sonic 3'' and ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'' displayed the Sega logo, then the background turns black and Sonic jumps out from behind the logo. And then the screen flashes white for a second before cutting to the Sonic 3 title screen.
*** ''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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** ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' has the N64 logo walk into the frame and stop to watch a dragonfly whiz by. After a brief consideration on what it just saw, it shrugs and continues on its way. The Rareware logo then pops up, which is promptly crashed into by the dragonfly.
** ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' has the N64 logo dancing to the beats of the opening drums.
** ''[[
** ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' opens with the typical Nintendo and Rare logos looming out of the dark at first, then you are treated to the typical spinning N64 logo... and watch as it slowly changes into a spinning model of the PD logo instead.
* Neversoft really likes this trope, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXtzS_j5E as seen] by the ''[[Tony Hawks Pro Skater]]'' games.
* ''[[Ogre Battle|Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Caliber]]'' had a group of soldiers stab a fallen block until they carved out the Nintendo 64 logo.
* nVidia sponsorship sometimes plays with this. ''[[Call of Juarez]]'' has you shooting down the logo so that it falls on an opposing gunfighter. ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004|Unreal Tournament 2003]]'' had a player [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53TnAGQiChM punching through the logo], and ''UT2004'' followed that up with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-X4pqL6QA a Skarrj pounding him through it].
** ''[[Borderlands]]'' has the logo appear without the nVidia voice. Claptrap comes up, pounds on it, sighs, and then the Nvidia voice plays, making Claptrap go "Ta-da!"
* ''[[A Boy and His Blob]]'' ([[Wii]]): The Boy and the Blob appear on the Majesco Entertainment logo, then the Boy throws a jellybean over to the nearby Wayfoward Technologies logo, which is strangely missing the "O"; the Blob moves over, eats the bean, and turns into the "O".
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* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' games done by [[Activision]] always feature the Activision logo de-cloaking in space, and then getting torpedoed by either the ''Enterprise-E'' or the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' as they fly by.
* The Flash game ''Color My World'' opens with the Armor Games logo as a billboard in Black And White City.
* A few [[Electronic Arts]] games have the ''EA Games'' logo done in the style of the game in question, especially in the ''[[Command
** ''[[Bulletstorm]]'' has the main character lasso the EA logo and kick it away, turning it into the Epic Games logo.
* Another of Ubisoft's includes the ''[[Raving Rabbids]]'' series. Most notably in ''[[Rabbids Go Home]]'', where after the logo appears, the 2-D rabbids seen during level intros run in and swipe the logo in their cart.
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* The 'Gracie Films' logo at the end of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has been altered for comedy a few times specific to the episode. At the end of every Halloween episode, the accompanying bit of music is played on a pipe organ, along with a woman's shrieking in lieu of the logo's usual "SHHHHH!" sound effect.
* 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 ''[[
* 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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* In the Lakeshore Entertainment title card for ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'', the normally sunlit sky turns dark, and a full moon comes out.
* ''[[National Treasure]]'', The [[Jerry Bruckheimer]] production company had lightning striking a tree as its logo. The thunder sounds accompanying the logo faded into the thunder sounds of the storm in the first scene.
** Even the "single bolt of lightning" is a reference in itself. The original logo was two lightning bolts striking in the same place from different parts of the
** Two other Bruckheimer Productions logo jokes: Hurely from ''[[G-Force]]'' runs on the road and flees offscreen when the lighting strikes, and before ''[[The Sorcerer's
** For ''[[Gone in Sixty Seconds]]'', after the logo frames the lightning tree road, it zooms through the frame and resumes running up the road.
** ''[[Déjà Vu (film)|Deja Vu]]'' has the normal strike, then it rewinds and strikes again.
* Another [[ITV]] company who went along with the
* Early editions of ''[[Tiswas]]'' featured the ATV logo running backward. It was eventually stopped.
* LWT's adaptation of ''[[Just William]]'' featured the titular character smashing the logo with a catpult after it had formed up. The endboard after the credits rolled showed it being held together with duct tape.
* The THX logo has quite a few variations, but the funniest is probably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cDi0yV8jpk&fmt=22 the one with the cows.]
* In ''[[Tenacious D]] And the Pick of Destiny'', THX: The Audience Is Now Listening is replaced with [[Stoner Flick|THC: The Audience Is Now Baking.]]
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/20th AS the Five Doctors
* ''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'': For British distribution by Pathé, its logo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKdsajKTnw got] [[Stylistic Suck|sweded]]. (Compare with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyzwj1a8spM&fmt=18 the real deal].)
* The logo for Shadow Projects, involved in the production of a number of puppet shows, featured a dog. It would normally be heard barking at the end of one of these shows, but on ''[[Bear in the Big Blue House]]'', sometimes it would make a different noise, such as meowing or quacking.
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* At the start of the 2nd series of the original ''[[Life On Mars]]'', [[BBC|BBC1]] replaced its usual idents with a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOGuLXtwno&feature=related recreation of the mirror-globe ident] used in the early '70s (the show's setting). BBC Wales opted out of this, choosing instead to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PceKfRb4Vc&feature=related use their actual model], replete with [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|bilingual Cymru/Wales branding, and an original BBC Wales announcer]].
** Promos for the American ''Life On Mars'' featured a 1970s ABC logo and an Ernie Anderson soundalike.
* The [[Marvel Comics]] "Flipping Pages" logo changes with each film, with the pages shown being altered to the series the film is based
* In a movie-oriented skit, ''[[Monty Python]]'' did a Terry Gilliam animated logo for "20th Century Vole" pictures, with a small furry rodent rising into the MGM crest with a squeak.
** In ''And Now For Something Completely Different'', it got changed to "20th Century Frog" along with a croaking frog in the crest. Either done because it sounded better or because it was assumed [[Viewers are Morons|international moviegoers wouldn't know what a vole is]].
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** "...Tantrum."
** "...Blood Pact."
** "...Native American History Exhibit."
** "...Spectacle." And so on...
* ''The Knights Of Prosperity'' had the B, & and B of the B&B animated logo perform a different magic act on every episode, such as the ampersand ("The Amazing Ando" - get it?) sawing the two B's apart.
* 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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