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* Compile, the video game company that created ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'', had a MGM-style logo in the 1990s that had Carbuncle, a character from that game.
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* Compile, the video game company that created ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'', had a MGM-style logo in the 1990s that had Carbuncle, a character from that game.game series.
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* From 2012 to 2015, all the Tom and Jerry cartoons produced by WB had the WB logo be colored blue and set against a blue background, imitating the old Hanna-Barbara "Tom and Jerry" cartoons which had MGM logos with a blue background.
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* From 2012 to 2015, all the Tom and Jerry ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoons produced by WB had the WB logo be colored blue and set against a blue background, imitating the old Hanna-Barbara "Tom Hanna-Barbera ''Tom and Jerry" Jerry'' cartoons which had MGM logos with a blue background.
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* ''VideoGame/WonderMomo'' started up with a MGM-style logo with Momo Kanda roaring at the camera and then winking.
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* ''Literature/TheExecutioner'', In "Vegas Vendetta" standup comedian Tommy Anders is discussing the StageNames trope, and says that it's not just actors who get their names changed.
-->"Anybody here ever heard of a guy called Sam Goldfish? Of course not. You know why? Imagine. Metro-Goldfish-Mayer sounds silly, especially with a lion roaring out of the titles."
* ''Literature/TheExecutioner'', In "Vegas Vendetta" standup comedian Tommy Anders is discussing the StageNames trope, and says that it's not just actors who get their names changed.
-->"Anybody here ever heard of a guy called Sam Goldfish? Of course not. You know why? Imagine. Metro-Goldfish-Mayer sounds silly, especially with a lion roaring out of the titles."
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* In the earlier seasons of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', the CouchGag for episodes starring Buster had Buster appear in the center of the title card's circle and roar like a lion. Sometimes for added comedy, the roar was replaced with an elephant's trumpet, a rooster's crow, a horse's neigh, or a giant burp.
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* Episode 156 of [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Gintama]] opens with a black-and-white MGM-style logo featuring the alien being Elizabeth replacing the lion.
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* The OVA episodes of ''LightNovel/MazeMegaburstSpace'' opens with Princess Mill saying her VerbalTic ("Ukyuu!") in place of the roaring lion.
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* The OVA episodes of ''LightNovel/MazeMegaburstSpace'' ''Literature/MazeMegaburstSpace'' opens with Princess Mill saying her VerbalTic ("Ukyuu!") in place of the roaring lion.
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* The Soviet parody film "Ograblenie po..." features an animated MGM logo featuring the film’s studio mascot Cheburashka with a lion mask.
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* The Soviet parody film "Ograblenie po..." features an animated MGM logo featuring the film’s studio mascot Cheburashka Literature/{{Cheburashka}} with a lion mask.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': The Mammoth Pictures logo is ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' features a parody of MGM known as Mammoth Studios, which features a mammoth in its logo (played by the MGM logo, with film's supporting character Woolie the elephant made up as a wooly mammoth trumpeting, Elephant) and the motto "Optimum est Est Maximum" ("Bigger is Better").
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* During the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Creator/CartoonNetwork had weekend "Cartoon Theater" broadcasts of animated films, with animated introductions and bumper sequences that spoofed studio logos. One MGM-styled intro/bumper has the Lion eating an ice cream cone, then he sees the feature is starting, so he hastily finishes his ice cream, packs his things and exits the logo, and the camera zooms through. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKICgcoeSA here]].
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* During the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Creator/CartoonNetwork had weekend "Cartoon Theater" broadcasts of animated films, with animated introductions and bumper sequences that spoofed studio logos. One MGM-styled intro/bumper has the Lion (patterned after the one in the Creator/TexAvery cartoon "Slap-Happy Lion") eating an ice cream cone, then he sees the feature is starting, so he hastily finishes his ice cream, packs his things and exits the logo, and the camera zooms through. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKICgcoeSA here]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': The Mammoth Pictures logo is a parody of the MGM logo, with Woolie the elephant made up as a wooly mammoth trumpeting, and the motto "Optimum est Maximum" ("Bigger is Better").
* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': The Mammoth Pictures logo is a parody of the MGM logo, with Woolie the elephant made up as a wooly mammoth trumpeting, and the motto "Optimum est Maximum" ("Bigger is Better").
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* During the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Creator/CartoonNetwork had weekend "Cartoon Theater" broadcasts of animated films, with animated introductions and bumper sequences that spoofed studio logos. One MGM-styled intro/bumper has the Lion eating an ice cream cone, then he sees the feature is starting, so he hastily finishes his ice cream, packs his things and exits the logo, and the camera zooms through. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKICgcoeSA here]].
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* ''Film/Mank'': When Mank walks through MGM studios in one scene, a lion's roar is heard.
* The Disney film ‘’The Shaggy DA’’ has a doghouse with the door resembling the MGM logo, with the sheepdog Wilby in the lion’s place and the Latin inscription reading the "Canis Corpore Transmuto" incantation.
* The Disney film ‘’The Shaggy DA’’ has a doghouse with the door resembling the MGM logo, with the sheepdog Wilby in the lion’s place and the Latin inscription reading the "Canis Corpore Transmuto" incantation.
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* ''Film/Mank'': ''Film/{{Mank}}'': When Mank walks through MGM studios in one scene, a lion's roar is heard.
* The Disney film‘’The ''The Shaggy DA’’ DA'' has a doghouse with the door resembling the MGM logo, with the sheepdog Wilby in the lion’s lion's place and the Latin inscription reading the "Canis Corpore Transmuto" incantation.
* The Disney film
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' did a Terry Gilliam-animated parody for "20th Century Vole", which has a vole (a small furry rodent) rising into the MGM crest with a squeak. In ''And Now For Something Completely Different'', this same logo was used, but changed to "20th Century Frog" along with a croaking frog in the MGM crest.
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* ''Troll Face Quest: USA Adventure'' has a MGM logo, dubbed Metro-Trollwyn-Mayer, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqsGfBTNkfA here]].
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* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', when [[http://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/548/ Steve's stomach is growling]], the lion stays, but the motto "Ars Gratia Artis" ("Art for art's sake") is replaced by "Pasce Me Gratia Petri" ([[spoiler: "Feed me, for Pete's sake!"]])
* ''Troll Face Quest: USA Adventure'' has a MGM logo, dubbed Metro-Trollwyn-Mayer, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqsGfBTNkfA here]].
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* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', when [[http://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/548/ Steve's stomach is growling]], the lion stays, but the motto "Ars Gratia Artis" ("Art for art's sake") is replaced by "Pasce Me Gratia Petri" ([[spoiler: "Feed me, for Pete's sake!"]])
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* During the late 1990s to the early 2000s, the Creator/CartoonNetwork had weekend "Cartoon Theater" broadcasts of animated films, with animated introductions and bumper sequences that spoofed studio logos. One MGM-styled intro/bumper has the Lion eating an ice cream cone, then he sees the feature is starting, so he hastily finishes his ice cream, packs his things and exits the logo, and the camera zooms through. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKICgcoeSA here]].
* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', when [[http://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/548/ Steve's stomach is growling]], the lion stays, but the motto "Ars Gratia Artis" ("Art for art's sake") is replaced by "Pasce Me Gratia Petri" ([[spoiler: "Feed me, for Pete's sake!"]])
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' did a Terry Gilliam-animated parody for "20th Century Vole", which has a vole (a small furry rodent) rising into the MGM crest with a squeak.
** In ''And Now For Something Completely Different'', this same logo was used, but changed to "20th Century Frog" along with a croaking frog in the MGM crest.
* The 2018 video game "Troll Face Quest: USA Adventure" has a MGM logo, dubbed Metro-Trollwyn-Mayer, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqsGfBTNkfA here]].
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The MGM logo has had its share of tributes over the years.
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* French comic-book writer Creator/ReneGoscinny launched a production company, Studio Idefix, to adapt his own works into animated form. The logo is a parody of the MGM logo, but with Dogmatix the dog, a Roman laurel wreath and the motto "Delirant Est Romani" ("These Romans are Crazy"), seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD6nyyiH0_M here]]. Unfortunately, the studio only made two films before folding due to Goscinny’s untimely death.
* MTM Enterprises went on to base its company logo on MGM.
* Creator/RichardWilliams Animation Studio had a MGM-style logo with the Pink Panther, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqbTlIM09E here]]. Williams had previously worked on title sequences for two Pink Panther films.
* The opening of the Shari Lewis Home Entertainment series from MGM/UA Home Video would start with a painting of the MGM lion logo. The fanfare plays, And then Lamb Chop pops through the board (similar to Looney Tunes' Porky Pig breaking out the drum) and remarks "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists present the Shari Lewis Home Entertainment library. Rawr!"
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* Episode 156 of [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Gintama]] opens with a black-and-white MGM-style logo featuring the alien being Elizabeth replacing the lion.
* Season 5 Episode 18 of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has America roaring in a MGM-style logo that reads "USA".
* The OVA episodes of ''LightNovel/MazeMegaburstSpace'' opens with Princess Mill saying her VerbalTic ("Ukyuu!") in place of the roaring lion.
* One chapter of ''Manhwa/MissNotSoSidekick'' has the MGM lion’s mane resembling Latte’s hairo.
* About three episodes of Pokemon that involved movie-making has featured an MGM-style logo, each with a different Pokemon (Meowth, Zorua, Pikachu).
* Every episode of ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'' opens with a MGM-style logo with Miki roaring in place of the lion.
* The anime comedy ''Anime/VladLove'' uses this in its seventh episode: a school film made by film student Maki Watabe opens with a MGM-style logo, with a basset hound (a trademark of Creator/MamoruOshii) in place of the lion.
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* The Hindi sci-fi comedy ''Action Replayy'' features a character named MGM (for Morgan G Morgan).
* ''Film/BodyBags'' features its studio 187 Corp's MGM-style logo with bones, "sanguis gratia artis" ("Blood for art's sake" in Latin) and the Coronor in the lion's place running a chainsaw to simulate a roar.
* ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' has a MGM-style logo reading "Lord Grade Presents" [[note]]Named for Lew Grade, who produced ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and shot the Muppets to fame[[/note]] and Animal in the logo who roars and then takes a bite on the logo.
* ''Film/Mank'': When Mank walks through MGM studios in one scene, a lion's roar is heard.
* The Disney film ‘’The Shaggy DA’’ has a doghouse with the door resembling the MGM logo, with the sheepdog Wilby in the lion’s place and the Latin inscription reading the "Canis Corpore Transmuto" incantation.
* ''Film/SilentMovie'' has an MGM-style logo for Big Picures Studio featuring the Studio Chief mewling and the motto "Ars est pecunia" ("Art is money").
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* The 1981 special ''The Muppets Go to the Movies'' has a MGM logo parody that reads "Metro-Goldwyn-Bear" and has Fozzie Bear is in place of Leo.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'' has made various parodies of the MGM logo using several Muppets in place of the lion.
[[AC:Music]]
* The music video for Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen's "Bring On the Dancing Horses" opens with a parody of the MGM VanityPlate, featuring a cow that whinnies like a horse.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* The logo was parodied in ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' in the episode "That's Monstertainment": an in-show movie opens with a custom MGM-style logo with Scooby-Doo in it. The logo reads "Ranna-Rarrera" (Hanna-Barbera, in Scooby's dialect) and "limitus animatus" (Latin for [[SelfDeprecation "limited animation", which Hanna-Barbera was famous for]]).
* [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks Go to the Movies]] uses a MGM-style logo with Alvin in the lion's place.
* ''WesternAnimation/CatBurglar'', a blatant parody of Creator/TexAvery MGM cartoons, features a blatant parody of the MGM logo, with an elephant in the logo and the slogan "Logo Parodis Spoofus".
* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' features a parody of MGM known as Mammoth Studios, which features a mammoth in its logo (played by the film's supporting character Woolie the Elephant) and the motto "Optimum Est Maximum" (Latin for "Bigger Is Better").
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Brian's a Bad Father" parodied the logo, with Leo the Lion going "Wassup now, bitches?" at having achieved his childhood dream of stardom, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIQwJ9dxdzY here]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': The episode "Hooray for Mollywood!" has a MGM logo with Scratch in place of the lion and the reading "Spooks Gratia Spooktis".
* The ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Lights! Camera! Danger!" has a MGM logo with Neutron's dog Goddard, and an atom at the bottom.
* The Looney Tunes shorts "Bosko's Picture Show" (1933), "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter" (1937) and "Bacall to Arms" (1946) all use a parody of the MGM logo.
* The Disney cartoon ''Mother Goose Goes to Hollywood'' features a MGM-style logo with Mother Goose in place of the lion and roaring instead of honking, and the logo “Ertznay to Ouyay” (“Nutz to You”).
* Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' use a MGM logo with Animal in place of the lion.
* The Soviet parody film "Ograblenie po..." features an animated MGM logo featuring the film’s studio mascot Cheburashka with a lion mask.
* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Lion 2: The Movie", which features Steven and his lion at the cinema hall, ends with a MGM-style logo with the lion roaring in the logo.
* From 2012 to 2015, all the Tom and Jerry cartoons produced by WB had the WB logo be colored blue and set against a blue background, imitating the old Hanna-Barbara "Tom and Jerry" cartoons which had MGM logos with a blue background.
[[AC:Other]]
* During the late 1990s to the early 2000s, the Creator/CartoonNetwork had weekend "Cartoon Theater" broadcasts of animated films, with animated introductions and bumper sequences that spoofed studio logos. One MGM-styled intro/bumper has the Lion eating an ice cream cone, then he sees the feature is starting, so he hastily finishes his ice cream, packs his things and exits the logo, and the camera zooms through. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKICgcoeSA here]].
* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', when [[http://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/548/ Steve's stomach is growling]], the lion stays, but the motto "Ars Gratia Artis" ("Art for art's sake") is replaced by "Pasce Me Gratia Petri" ([[spoiler: "Feed me, for Pete's sake!"]])
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' did a Terry Gilliam-animated parody for "20th Century Vole", which has a vole (a small furry rodent) rising into the MGM crest with a squeak.
** In ''And Now For Something Completely Different'', this same logo was used, but changed to "20th Century Frog" along with a croaking frog in the MGM crest.
* The 2018 video game "Troll Face Quest: USA Adventure" has a MGM logo, dubbed Metro-Trollwyn-Mayer, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqsGfBTNkfA here]].
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* French comic-book writer Creator/ReneGoscinny launched a production company, Studio Idefix, to adapt his own works into animated form. The logo is a parody of the MGM logo, but with Dogmatix the dog, a Roman laurel wreath and the motto "Delirant Est Romani" ("These Romans are Crazy"), seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD6nyyiH0_M here]]. Unfortunately, the studio only made two films before folding due to Goscinny’s untimely death.
* MTM Enterprises went on to base its company logo on MGM.
* Creator/RichardWilliams Animation Studio had a MGM-style logo with the Pink Panther, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqbTlIM09E here]]. Williams had previously worked on title sequences for two Pink Panther films.
* The opening of the Shari Lewis Home Entertainment series from MGM/UA Home Video would start with a painting of the MGM lion logo. The fanfare plays, And then Lamb Chop pops through the board (similar to Looney Tunes' Porky Pig breaking out the drum) and remarks "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists present the Shari Lewis Home Entertainment library. Rawr!"
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* Episode 156 of [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Gintama]] opens with a black-and-white MGM-style logo featuring the alien being Elizabeth replacing the lion.
* Season 5 Episode 18 of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has America roaring in a MGM-style logo that reads "USA".
* The OVA episodes of ''LightNovel/MazeMegaburstSpace'' opens with Princess Mill saying her VerbalTic ("Ukyuu!") in place of the roaring lion.
* One chapter of ''Manhwa/MissNotSoSidekick'' has the MGM lion’s mane resembling Latte’s hairo.
* About three episodes of Pokemon that involved movie-making has featured an MGM-style logo, each with a different Pokemon (Meowth, Zorua, Pikachu).
* Every episode of ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'' opens with a MGM-style logo with Miki roaring in place of the lion.
* The anime comedy ''Anime/VladLove'' uses this in its seventh episode: a school film made by film student Maki Watabe opens with a MGM-style logo, with a basset hound (a trademark of Creator/MamoruOshii) in place of the lion.
[[AC:Films - Live-Action]]
* The Hindi sci-fi comedy ''Action Replayy'' features a character named MGM (for Morgan G Morgan).
* ''Film/BodyBags'' features its studio 187 Corp's MGM-style logo with bones, "sanguis gratia artis" ("Blood for art's sake" in Latin) and the Coronor in the lion's place running a chainsaw to simulate a roar.
* ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' has a MGM-style logo reading "Lord Grade Presents" [[note]]Named for Lew Grade, who produced ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and shot the Muppets to fame[[/note]] and Animal in the logo who roars and then takes a bite on the logo.
* ''Film/Mank'': When Mank walks through MGM studios in one scene, a lion's roar is heard.
* The Disney film ‘’The Shaggy DA’’ has a doghouse with the door resembling the MGM logo, with the sheepdog Wilby in the lion’s place and the Latin inscription reading the "Canis Corpore Transmuto" incantation.
* ''Film/SilentMovie'' has an MGM-style logo for Big Picures Studio featuring the Studio Chief mewling and the motto "Ars est pecunia" ("Art is money").
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* The 1981 special ''The Muppets Go to the Movies'' has a MGM logo parody that reads "Metro-Goldwyn-Bear" and has Fozzie Bear is in place of Leo.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'' has made various parodies of the MGM logo using several Muppets in place of the lion.
[[AC:Music]]
* The music video for Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen's "Bring On the Dancing Horses" opens with a parody of the MGM VanityPlate, featuring a cow that whinnies like a horse.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* The logo was parodied in ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' in the episode "That's Monstertainment": an in-show movie opens with a custom MGM-style logo with Scooby-Doo in it. The logo reads "Ranna-Rarrera" (Hanna-Barbera, in Scooby's dialect) and "limitus animatus" (Latin for [[SelfDeprecation "limited animation", which Hanna-Barbera was famous for]]).
* [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks Go to the Movies]] uses a MGM-style logo with Alvin in the lion's place.
* ''WesternAnimation/CatBurglar'', a blatant parody of Creator/TexAvery MGM cartoons, features a blatant parody of the MGM logo, with an elephant in the logo and the slogan "Logo Parodis Spoofus".
* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' features a parody of MGM known as Mammoth Studios, which features a mammoth in its logo (played by the film's supporting character Woolie the Elephant) and the motto "Optimum Est Maximum" (Latin for "Bigger Is Better").
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Brian's a Bad Father" parodied the logo, with Leo the Lion going "Wassup now, bitches?" at having achieved his childhood dream of stardom, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIQwJ9dxdzY here]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': The episode "Hooray for Mollywood!" has a MGM logo with Scratch in place of the lion and the reading "Spooks Gratia Spooktis".
* The ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Lights! Camera! Danger!" has a MGM logo with Neutron's dog Goddard, and an atom at the bottom.
* The Looney Tunes shorts "Bosko's Picture Show" (1933), "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter" (1937) and "Bacall to Arms" (1946) all use a parody of the MGM logo.
* The Disney cartoon ''Mother Goose Goes to Hollywood'' features a MGM-style logo with Mother Goose in place of the lion and roaring instead of honking, and the logo “Ertznay to Ouyay” (“Nutz to You”).
* Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' use a MGM logo with Animal in place of the lion.
* The Soviet parody film "Ograblenie po..." features an animated MGM logo featuring the film’s studio mascot Cheburashka with a lion mask.
* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Lion 2: The Movie", which features Steven and his lion at the cinema hall, ends with a MGM-style logo with the lion roaring in the logo.
* From 2012 to 2015, all the Tom and Jerry cartoons produced by WB had the WB logo be colored blue and set against a blue background, imitating the old Hanna-Barbara "Tom and Jerry" cartoons which had MGM logos with a blue background.
[[AC:Other]]
* During the late 1990s to the early 2000s, the Creator/CartoonNetwork had weekend "Cartoon Theater" broadcasts of animated films, with animated introductions and bumper sequences that spoofed studio logos. One MGM-styled intro/bumper has the Lion eating an ice cream cone, then he sees the feature is starting, so he hastily finishes his ice cream, packs his things and exits the logo, and the camera zooms through. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKICgcoeSA here]].
* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', when [[http://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/548/ Steve's stomach is growling]], the lion stays, but the motto "Ars Gratia Artis" ("Art for art's sake") is replaced by "Pasce Me Gratia Petri" ([[spoiler: "Feed me, for Pete's sake!"]])
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' did a Terry Gilliam-animated parody for "20th Century Vole", which has a vole (a small furry rodent) rising into the MGM crest with a squeak.
** In ''And Now For Something Completely Different'', this same logo was used, but changed to "20th Century Frog" along with a croaking frog in the MGM crest.
* The 2018 video game "Troll Face Quest: USA Adventure" has a MGM logo, dubbed Metro-Trollwyn-Mayer, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqsGfBTNkfA here]].
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