Logo Joke: Difference between revisions

A very specific type of inside joke. A subtrope of [[Special Edition Title]]. More examples in the IMDb's [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/CrazyCredits/ Crazy Credits] section, or at the [http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Logo+Variations Closing Logos Group Wiki]

== [[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.

* The ''[[Cannonball Run]]'' ident starts with the familiar theme being "derailed" by sounds of crashing cars and a car chase (between a vehicle and a cop car) that happens in and around the logo.

* ''[[Daredevil]]'' DVD: The 20th Century Fox logo turns into something seen though Matt Murdock's enhanced senses. The movie itself has the regular logo.

== [[Sony|Columbia Pictures]] ==

* ''[[Cat Ballou]]'': The Torch Lady transforms into an animated version of [[Jane Fonda]] as a cowgirl who is holding two guns and firing them.

** Trailers also had her wearing sunglasses.

** 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.

* ''[[Bee Movie]]'': A bee scares away the boy and takes his place on the moon.

* ''[[Madagascar]]: Escape 2 Africa'': The penguins knock out the boy and take his place.

* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'': A leopard in a coolie hat in a [[Ninja Run]], skips across a body of water, fishing pole in hand, leaping up onto the crescent moon to take the boy's place.

** ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'' picks up on {{spoiler|Master Oogway's death}} in the first film by having him go to the moon and take the boy's place.

== [[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).

* ''[[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.

* The [[Homestar Runner]] faux video game company ''Videlectrix'' has a logo with a white man running onscreen, tripping and falling, and then getting up in time with the music. In ''[[Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]: 8-Bit Is Enough'', Strong Bad himself takes the white man's place when he first enters the Videlectrix mainframe.

** The ''Awexome Cross '98'' game has The Cheat, inside a tire, run over the Videlectrix guy.

* The early 90's [[Konami]] logo featured on their [[Sega Genesis|Mega Drive/Genesis]], [[Super NES]], and PC Engine games varied a little depending on the system ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMUKzIXymg&feature=related see them here]). For SNES, the laser that shoots out at the beginning of the logo is purple, while the Genesis version is green, and the PCE version blue, and of course, the jingle sounds a little different on all three systems due to their differing sound-chips.

** Actually, they are even more variations of the standard Konami logo. Playstation games had two major ones : the "Logo coming out of earth" one for Western-released games, and the "Walking Logo" one for Japan-released games ; most of the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' games had the games' heroines cheerfully shouting "Konami!" as the logo appears ; and who could forget the legendary ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' Konami logo, which was a [[Shout Out]] to [[Hideo Kojima]]'s previous game ''[[Policenauts]]''?

* ''[[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 screen -- being the logo for Don Simpson ''and'' Jerry Bruckheimer's company. After Don Simpson's death, Bruckheimer altered the logo to the single bolt of lightning it presently is.

** For ''[[Gone in Sixty Seconds]]'', after the logo frames the lightning tree road, it zooms through the frame and resumes running up the road.

** ''[[Deja Vu (Film)|Deja Vu]]'' has the normal strike, then it rewinds and strikes again.

* The [[Marvel Comics]] "Flipping Pages" logo changes with each film, with the pages shown being altered to the series the film is based on -- So the [[Spider-Man (Film)|Spider-Man]] films featured images from the [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] comics, and so on. Some films, such as [[Fantastic Four (Film)|Fantastic Four]] also alter the color of the Marvel logo from the traditional red to a color more suited to the series.

* 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.

** A later episode opens with the actual Thames logo, followed by a Thames announcer stating, “We’ve got an action-packed evening for you tonight on Thames but right now, here’s a rotten old BBC programme!”

* An example at the end of an episode: the A.K.A. Cartoon logo at the end of every ''[[Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'' episode is remarkably different in every season, episode and even [[The Movie]].