History LogoJoke / UniversalStudios

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Universal often uses an AstronomicZoom in its logo, which fits since its logo is the Earth itself.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* An ad for Universal Studios Theme Park featured the camera zooming in on the Universal Earth until arriving at the park itself.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'':
** ''The Day of the Flyers'': Earth reverts back to its geographic formation during the Pangean era as the camera zooms in, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSNJ5WecTo here]].
** ''Journey of the Brave'': Alongside using the 1997-era music, the camera zooms in to the valley the dinosaurs live in, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6wstUv_j0 here]].
* 2011's ''The Little Engine That Could'' has the titular engine pulling the Universal logo during the ident.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'': The titular characters sing the Universal theme, with one holding the last note for so long that it continues into the Illumination Pictures logo, revealing him still trying to sing and collapsing in fatigue as the other Minions stare at him awkwardly.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TwoFastTwoFurious'': Earth turns into a hubcap.
* ''Film/AmericanMade'' has the 2012 indent play for a few seconds before abruptly cutting to the 1963 logo (with Comcast byline). The other producer plates receive similar makeovers, with Imagine receiving its actual late-80s logo and Cross Creek and Hercules Film Fund getting specifically-made versions. 1980s era TV clips also play in-between each logo.
* The Secret Probation Edition DVD release of ''Film/AnimalHouse'' has the globe get bigger and bigger until it explodes... with John Belushi's character Bluto exclaiming "I'm a zit, get it?".
* The 2019 documentary ''Apollo 11'', which tells the story of the first moon mission using entirely archival footage from the 1960s, opens with a recreation of the logo animation that Universal used in the 1960s (although with the small print updated to say "A Comcast Company" instead of "An MCA Company").
* For DVD releases of the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy, the Delorean flies past the logo and zooms into the camera.
* ''Film/{{Baseketball}}'': As the logo finishes, the Universal name disappears and credits begin to spin around the Earth, all while it turns into a baseball.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}: The Plan'': The planet behind the Universal text is Caprica instead of Earth.
* ''Film/{{Bruno}}'': To fit with "Brüno", the logo title is "[[HeavyMetalUmlaut Üniversal]]".
* ''Film/TheBurbs:'' In a rendition done specially for the movie by Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic, the Universal logo [[AstronomicZoom zooms]] until it turns into a flyover shot of Hinkley Hills, the town the film takes place in, and Mayfield Place, the titular location. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRU20wxx8U here]].
* ''Film/CapeFear'': The logo is shown underwater and starts to ripple.
* ''Film/{{Casper}}'': The globe turns into the moon, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITp01DRvhiE here]].
* The 2010 documentary ''Catfish'', about social media, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si6JuiRpNt8 replicates the Universal logo]] by using a computer cursor to spin a mildly pixelized BrandX version of Google Earth. Production companies Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures are pixelized and represented as a desktop icon, respectively.
* ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'': The logo is completely hand-drawn, styled red-and-white and set over a teal background. The Dreamworks logo which runs after this also has the boy in the moon replaced with the classic Cat from the front page of the book.
* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'': Both the Universal and Legendary Pictures ident are styled all in crimson red.
* ''Film/DeathRace'' has the logo transform into a car engine, alongside the logo being in black-and-white.
* ''Film/{{Doom}}'': After a brief narration from Sam, Earth is replaced by Mars in the logo. After the ident finishes, the perspective zooms into the Olduvai Research Base on the planet's surface.
* In the original release of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', the Universal logo runs backwards (as if to emphasize the space bearing on the plot). For the 20th anniversary release, a special logo was created that shows Elliot and E.T. flying past the Universal globe with the text "Universal celebrates the 20th anniversary of E.T." underneath. (The same ident was used in the original release of ''Film/BigFatLiar''.)
* ''Film/TheFlintstones'' and its {{Prequel}} ''Film/TheFlintstonesInVivaRockVegas'': the Universal logo is made of bones, named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhdihISj628&feature=related "Univershell",]] and hovers over Pangaea (prehistoric Earth).
** In the first film it doesn't appear until the Flintstones go to the drive-in (accompanied by the Revue/Universal Television logo music of the 1960s!), whereas ''Viva Rock Vegas'' begins with this variation - actually noticed in the movie by the Great Gazoo ("Did anyone else see those big letters circling the planet?"). Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyoopawfw8 here]].
* ''Film/FortySevenRonin'': After the logo sequence finishes, the globe stays on-screen for several seconds before the perspective [[AstronomicZoom zooms in through the clouds to Japan]], seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_KHXc1-aM here]].
* ''Film/TheGreatWall'': Just after the logo disappears, the globe goes pitch-black for a moment before being relit and showing the other side of the Earth, just before the perspective [[AstronomicZoom zooms into China]], going all the way to a section of the Great Wall and through a crack in the section, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiuqgSgB62I here]].
* ''Film/HappyDeathDay'' has the logo rewinding twice after a few seconds, in the style of the film's GroundhogDayLoop. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWug40fZOAs here]].
** The film's sequel, ''Film/HappyDeathDay2U'', has the screen split into three Universal logos, reforming at the end, showing that [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]] are coming into play along with the time loops. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnoiZDPmW00 here]].
* ''Film/{{Hop}}'' has an egg-shaped globe.
* ''Film/TheHouseWithAClockInItsWalls'' uses the 1970s logo, from the era when the "House With a Clock in its Walls" story was first published (1973), seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VacyM4fH_M here]]. [[spoiler: It also plays backwards, mirroring the titular clock's power.]]
* ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar'': The globe transforms into the "golden apple" carried by Queen Raveena as the Universal logo appears.
* The international release of ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' had the Universal logo turn into a tongue ring shown on a screaming girl's tongue. Although the film opens with both logos, this variation is not on the US release (which got the MGM logo joke listed on the main page; the joke appears on the logo of the company that ''didn't'' release it in that territory).
* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
** The opening for the [[Film/JurassicPark original film]] has no fanfare at all, instead playing ambient jungle sounds as the ident appears. For the DVD versions of the film, the logo zooms into a dinosaur footprint. (This variation would also be used for a Universal Theme Parks commercial and the DVD menu of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.)
** The trailer for the [=3D=] re-release of the original film zooms through the logo and into the globe, stopping at a birds-eye view of Isla Nublar.
** ''Film/JurassicParkIII'': The Universal globe, as well as the Amblin Entertainment logo, [[MythologyGag ripple like water from]] [[CallBack the sound of heavy footsteps]].
* ''{{Film/Krampus}}'': Both the Universal and Legendary Pictures logo are coated in ice, with icicles having formed on them and snow blowing in the background, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYO8uWUHfuI here]].
* ''Film/TheLastRemakeOfBeauGeste'' had a variation of the 1936 “Art Deco Globe” with continents on it, followed by Creator/MartyFeldman walking in, knocking off all the letters over the sound of glass breaking, stopping the globe, and forming it into a cube, causing all the continents (except for Africa, where the story takes place) to fall off.
* The trailer for ''Film/Psycho1998'' emphasizes the fractured nature of Norman Bates' mind by having the Universal logo "glitch" out and cut rapidly between a deteriorating film countdown reel and the logo itself.
* After the credits of the final episode of ''Series/MagnumPI'', [[https://youtu.be/JWJquaiqIuA Magnum turns off a TV showing the Universal logo, then says good night.]]
* ''Film/TheManWithTheIronFists'': The logo appears to become blurry and smoke-filled, just before a roaring fire comes up from the bottom of the screen and obscures the logo just before it disappears.
* The comedy[=/=]concert film ''Michaël Youn: Pluskapoil'' has the Universal title transform into the titular performer's name, along with the globe morphing into a toy.
* ''Mo' Better Blues'': [[Music/PublicEnemy Flava Flav]] raps over the (then recently-revealed) 75th Anniversary logo sequence, mentioning how Universal has been "large for years" before telling Creator/SpikeLee to "start the movie, G!" Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvghsZ7S_aM here]].
* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'': The music stops with a record-scratching noise, and the globe starts getting smacked against something. Which turns out to be the result of God trying to fit the round Earth into a square hole.
* In ''Film/MortalEngines'', the globe in the Universal logo shows the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Sixty Minute War]], with explosions going off and massive cracks appearing in the continents, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_th1XWXPec here]].
* In ''Film/TheMummy1999'', the text "UNIVERSAL" disappears and the logo turns into the sun, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i868ZhrH9dM here]].
** In The Mummy Returns, the logo turns into the Scorpion King's banner, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkUIHfccwUY here]].
** In ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'', it turns around to [[AstronomicZoom zoom on China]], seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV_Um_cbdZA here]].
* For ''Film/TheMummy2017'' (and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen presumably the rest of the]] Film/DarkUniverse [[StillbornFranchise had it not been cancelled]]), the Universal logo proceeds as normal, and then rotates around to reveal a dark world and the "Dark Universe" title, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUJNAaDrCKI here]].
* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'': The logo has a ruined, bombed-out Earth with the "Tet" space station floating over it. [[spoiler: And the Odyssey in its blind spot on the opposite side of the planet.]] Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqP_Nz8zMs here]]
* ''Film/PacificRimUprising'': The Universal Studios and Legendary Pictures logos are shown in Jaeger displays, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xizupkS054 here]].
* ''Film/ThePaper'': The logo transitions into a large antique clock situated above an open park in New York City.
* ''Film/PitchPerfect'' has the Universal fanfare performed a capella then cuts to characters performing it; the second film begins with the fanfare done as a duet by Creator/ElizabethBanks and John Michael Higgins. The third has the Bellas doing a different arrangement, with dramatic reharmonizations.
* ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping'' has the traditional fanfare [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand stop midway through playing]] (complete with a bass drop) before turning into an EDM remix.
* ''Pufnstuf'': During one of the verses in the song "Living Island", it cuts to the logo ident -- except it's missing the Universal title and has the Van Allen radiation belts rotating around it.
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' displays the logo and fanfare in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vv2VPSyuvE old-school-games style]]. (Coincidentally, Anna Kendrick is in this movie and the ''Pitch Perfect'' movies.) Also inverted [[PlayingWithATrope in the film itself]] when Lucas Lee makes his entrance to the tune of the original fanfare.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': The Universal spinning-planet logo becomes EarthThatWas, with the colony ships blasting off for space, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYFI0CtKqG4 here]].
* ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'': The 1929 Byplane logo is used (with additional fireworks going off in the background), since the first scene is a flashback to World War I.
* According to its [[DVDCommentary DVD trivia track]], [[WhatCouldHaveBeen an early version of]] ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' scored the Universal logo with sound effects from the fruit machine game Ed plays in the pub.
* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit: Part 2'': Animated versions of Bandit's [=TransAm=] and Sheriff Justice's police car chase around the globe, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F249ib1bzOY here]].
* ''Film/{{Ted}}'' begins with the standard Universal logo (the 100th Anniversary logo in this case), following which it takes [[AstronomicZoom a zoom]] into the globe to arrive on our hero's home.
** ''Film/Ted2'' has a similar transition, zooming through the logo and down through the clouds to the chapel where Ted is getting married while a narrator explains what's happening.
* ''Film/TheThing2011'' uses the 1990 Universal variant (without the "MCA" byline and in blue-purple tones) to emphasize that the film is a {{prequel}} to the [[Film/TheThing1982 original]], seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbxZQmuaW0 here]].
* In ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'', the logo becomes pixelated and the audio quality worsens, the fanfare sounding like a ghastly moan by the end.
* ''Film/VanHelsing'': The Universal Earth is in black and white, and transforms into the flaming end of a torch carried by a member of a TorchesAndPitchforks mob. In the trailer, the globe is replaced by a full moon.
* ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'': The Universal Studios spinning-planet logo shows the ocean levels rising up and flooding the continents. The camera [[AstronomicZoom zooms into the globe down to sea level, and the Mariner's boat]], starting the movie. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWjsHoDNy6s here]].
* ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' features two versions. In the theatrical cut, the Universal logo is lunar silver, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuENPvkZSUI here]].
** The unrated director's cut has a remade (and colorized) version of the Art-Deco Globe logo featured in [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 the original 1941 version]], seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re2_6SlsKPI here]].
* ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'': A recreation of the 1929 Universal globe with biplane flying around opens the film. As the opening credits appear, the globe remains on screen and a succession of increasingly modern flying machines (DC-3, Concorde, flying saucer) emerge from behind the Earth. The music [[ProgressiveEraMontage plays in different styles]] as the objects appear, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxsoT63H96Q here]].
* ''Film/Yesterday2019'': A more Beatles-esque version of the Universal logo music was composed, but it never made it to the final film. It can be heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmBrasTRZI here]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The game ''Film/{{Wanted}}: Weapons of Fate'' had "UNIVERSAL" in keyboard keys flying over a globe model.
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* The international release of ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' had the Universal logo turn into a tongue ring shown on a screaming girl's tongue. Although the film opens with both logos, this variation is not on the US release (which got the MGM logo joke seen above; the joke appears on the logo of the company that ''didn't'' release it in that territory).

* ''Film/{{Yesterday}}'': Inverted. A recorded version of the Universal logo music with a more Beatlesque orchestration was released to the soundtrack, but it never made it to the film.

* ''Film/PitchPerfect'' has the Universal fanfare performed a capella then cuts to characters performing it; the sequel begins with the fanfare done as a duet by Creator/ElizabethBanks and John Michael Higgins.

* ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping'' has the traditional fanfare stop midway through playing (complete with a bass drop) before turning into an EDM remix.

* ''Film/{{Yesterday}'': Inverted. A recorded version of the Universal logo music with a more Beatlesque orchestration was released to the soundtrack, but it never made it to the film.

* For ''Film/TheMummy2017'' (and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen possibly]] [[StillbornFranchise the rest of the]] Film/DarkUniverse), the Universal logo proceeds as normal, and then rotates around to reveal a dark world and the "Dark Universe" title, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUJNAaDrCKI here]].