Klasky Csupo logo

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Nicknames: "The Face", "Super Scary Face", "(The) SSF", "Robot", "Splatt", "Disjointed Facial Features","Klasky-Csupo went mad","Is this suitable for a kids' show?!?","The reason why Nobody looks at the end of Rugrats" Logo: Over a static purple background, a blob of black ink emerges from the center, soon followed by blue ink. A hand passes by and drops magazine clippings of eyes and a mouth onto the blob. The mouth says the company name as white blocks fly out from the mouth. The blocks arrange themselves to form the K-C logo (like before, but refined to match the print logo). After that, two black blocks quickly slide from the top and bottom of the screen (covering up both the background and the face, but not the K-C blocks), and that also turns the "Y" in "KLaSKY" purple. This logo comes in two versions: a widescreen 16:9 version (for movies) and a fullscreen 4:3 version. Trivia: Strangely, this logo appeared on early airings of the SpongeBob episode "Wet Painters/Krusty Krab Training Video". It was an editing mistake made by Nickelodeon when they first started doing the split-screen credits. (How? Well, normally, Nick makes custom split-screen credits for each toon and it's producers. K-C was the only one that produced multiple Nicktoons, and Nick created a generic one for these shows [which mentioned Klasky and Csupo as producers and included the face]. But on the said episode of SpongeBob, Nick flubbed and used the K-C split screen credits for that episode, and that's why the SSF was used.) As of 2006, the logo is plastered by the United Plankton Pictures logo on repeat airings (which was in the original credits to begin with). Still, it is one of the oddest editing mistakes ever made, next to an odd byline-less HB Swirling Star appearing on Johnny Bravo a while ago. As part of the 2012 re-launch of Klasky Csupo, the face was named "Splatt" and was given arms and legs the animation studio, and will star in his own webseries. Variants: Some games with the Rugrats license have a still logo which completely skips the face, and has a slightly bigger logo, with all of the boxes and letters in "KLaSKY" (except for the "Y") are medium gray and with the letters in "CSUPO" white, and which also adds "INC." (like in the first logo) to the right of "CSUPO". There was a different variant where the animation was somewhat worse (ex: the ink is still once it has splattered onto the screen, instead having a poorly done ripple effect, the eyes of the face are flipped vertically instead of being animated to look down/up). There is a black background instead of a static purple background (since the logo transitions from the blank screen at the end of the credits); the logo blurs and cuts to the KC logo rather than having black boxes cover it up (along with the the purple "Y" in "KLaSKY" zooming in over the regular "Y") and to top it all off, the face constantly looks at the viewer (it's actually staring at the blocks as in the standard logo, but the blocks are placed directly in the center of the screen, so it appears that the face is looking at the viewer) throughout it's screen time and smiles as if it accomplished something before the logo wipes to black. On the studio's reopening video, the variant is in full screen. FX/SFX: The "animated" paper-clippings that form the face, the static background, the ink, and the print logo. All CGI animation. Cheesy Factor: FAR OFF THE SCALE!! The face looks creepy, the CGI is cheap, and we hear random sound effects again. For the alternate variant, why were the ink and the face even more cheaply animated, and why exactly does the face constantly stare at the viewer and smile like it accomplished something? It's just disturbing. Music/Sounds: A "splattering" sound when the ink appears, and a bouncy "beeping" version of the 15-note bass jingle from the 1991 logo plays during the face's screen time. The company name is stated in a robotic voice (hence the "Robot" nickname. The voice was supplied by the "Boing" novelty voice in the the text-to-speech program on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X). After the company logo appears, we hear a couple of cartoon sound effects: a lip-flapping sound, a goose honking, and a boing sound. On The Rugrats Movie and the alternate variant, the music is in warp-speed as the logo fades to black. On Rocket Power, the last note of the end theme of said show trails off into the logo (meaning you hear a rock chord before the regular music plays). Some Rugrats episodes also had the last note of the end theme echoing into the logo. None for the video game variant. Music/Sounds Variant: Sometimes the music is in warp speed. On early television airings of Rugrats, the logo theme is low-pitched. On some recent airings of Rugrats, the boing sound is omitted. Availability: Was common in the past, but not so much anymore. It can be found on episodes such as those of later Rugrats seasons (not counting the 2002 and the final season, they used the previous logo and the next logo respectively, though current prints of these episodes have this logo) starting in 1999, Rocket Power, The Wild Thornberrys, As Told By Ginger, and on All Grown Up, the first two currently airing on Nicktoons, and the latter airing on Nickelodeon. The first use of this logo was in the rather obscure cartoon The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. This logo was used on K-C films from The Rugrats Movie to Immigrants (which used this logo at the end; not counting Rugrats Go Wild!, which used the next logo below). It's also at the company's website too, from the introductory splash to the face saying the company's name can be found on the main page when first being browsed. The alternate variant is quite rare, as it only appears at the end of The Wild Thornberrys Movie, and the still variant appears on Rugrats: Royal Ransom for PS2 and GC and Rocket Power: Beach Bandits, also for PS2 and GC, among others. The alternate variant reappeared on the video of the studio's reopening. Recently appeared on Pysko Ferret. Scare Factor: Depending on the logo variant: For the standard variant, it depends on how you feel about the logo. It can range from none to nightmare. The face looks like something right out of a nightmare, and the rest of the logo is random and disjointed. Children will probably find the logo nightmare-inducing (though some can find it funny), though adults might find it merely annoying. For the alternate variant, high to nightmare, the bad animation and the face looking at us and smiling as if it accomplished something is an even more unsettling sight. The black background and unexpected transition from the credits to the logo is also another reason why this variant is scary. It can be decreased to medium for those who expected this. None for the still variant, as it completely skips the face altogether, which makes it a LOT less scary. (This description was taken from CLG Wiki.)