Logo Joke / Other Logos

This page lists logo jokes that do not belong to major studios.

---

Film - Animation

• Aardman Animations:
  • Shaun the Sheep: The Movie has the Aardman logo painted on the sheep.
  • Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon has the logo light up as Shaun plays notes on a keyboard, in reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
• Escape from Planet Earth. On the onset, The Weinstein Company's logo appears, if only for a brief moment, before it bleeds into the lights of a UFO that carries the whole sigil away with it.
• Logorama is a short feature revolving around a world filled/populated with corporate logos, intended to parody corporate brands and their effect on society. It features company logos of all kinds, with film logos having an appearance too:
  • A zoo has the MGM lion and the Paramount mountain logo as a rabbit warren
  • When a waitress drops a drink, the orange splash stain is the Nickelodeon logo.
  • The Disney castle is floating in the water in the aftermath of an earthquake.
  • The last scene is an Astronomic Zoom out which reveals the world is the Universal logo Earth, and in the distance is the Orion Pictures logo as a constellation.
• The animated film The Red Turtle has the Studio Ghibli logo (traditionally blue in color) shaded red, seen here. Also counts as a Special Edition Title. The red Studio Ghibli logo was also previously used a couple of years prior in the live action prequel short to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo, which is fitting for the film's bleaker tone.

Film - Live Action

• In the Lakeshore Entertainment title card for Underworld (2003), the logo is tinted blood red.
• In Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, THX: The Audience Is Now Listening is replaced with THC: The Audience Is Now Baking.
• Be Kind Rewind: For British distribution by Pathé, its logo got sweded. (Compare with the real deal.)
• StudioCanal:
  • Attack the Block has an all-black version of the Studio Canal logo (complete with unusually black clouds), to match the colors of the film's aliens.
  • Irréversible has ominous red clouds, to match the colors of the film's closing (uhhh, "opening" if you want) credits and the N in the logo is backwards (reverse letters are also the case with the Mars Distribution logo in the French print), to match the typography of the film's logo.
• The 1971 film The Christian Licorice Store doesn't have the 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.
• Take Me Home Tonight, set in 1988, opens with the 1980s version of the Imagine Entertainment logo (which is technically inaccurate, as the Imagine logo usually appeared at the end of their movies at the time).
• Yash Raj Films
  • The Indian romantic film Chandni has the Yash Raj Films logo colored silver-blue, the color of moonlight ("chandni").
  • The next Yash Raj Film, Lamhe, has the logo appear from the sun.
  • The trailer for the wrestling film Sultan had the logo appear brown, to fit the earthy wrestling arena.
• Shin Godzilla: The Toho logo is the modern version, then turns to the 1950s color logo to homage Gojira (1954)'s era, seen here.
• The Rank Organization:
  • A mid-movie gag occurs in Carry On Up the Khyber when the arrival of the British governor at the Khasi's palace is announced by a shirtless man striking an enormous gong, just like the Rank Organisation logo.
  Khasi: (wincing at the noise) I do wish you wouldn't keep doing that. Rank stupidity!
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom opens with a gong being struck, homaging the Rank logo.
• Superhero Movie had the Dimension Films logo turn green at the end, representing the color of the main character's costume.
• The Safran Company logo has a woman throw a man off a ledge into a meat grinder, seen here.
  • The Suicide Squad uses a different variant: the man throws the woman off, and she falls through a series of comic-book panels before landing on her feet, seen here.
• Zoom: Academy for Superheroes has the Revolution Studios logo turn into a comic corner-box on a comic book of Team Zenith, as seen here.
• The A24 studio uses a variety of different logo styles in its film trailers, as seen herer.
  • Climax has the logo appear on a TV screen.
  • Hereditary has the logo appear underground at a cemetery.
  • mid90s has its logo made from skateboards.
  • Midsommar has its logo made from flowers.
• Prime Video:
  • The Hotel Transylvania: Transformania trailer has fangs on the arrow "smile."
  • The The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer has the logo made out of forged metal just like the rings and the series' title.
• In Power Rangers (2017), the Saban Films logo is comprised of an amalgamation between Saban's 90s logo (the gold disc), the late 90s-2000s logo (the Earth changing into the logo), the Saban Brands logo (with it being in space) and the unused Saban Films logo (having the logo get claw marks) which leads to SCG appearing below it instead of Saban Films.
  • The trailer for the Christmas dark comedy Fatman has the Saban Films logo colored Christmas red (or blood red, if you will).
• In Annie (2014), as the Overbrook Entertainment logo appears, the record player starts playing Hard-Knock Life.
• Jack the Giant Slayer: The Bad Hat Harry logo has five giants walking in place of five men, seen here.
• The Japanese trailer of City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume has the Albatros Film logo^note The Japanese distributor for the film, which though based on a Japanese manga is a French production. feature pages from the City Hunter manga.
• Hammerstone Studios uses a variant for Bill & Ted Face the Music, featuring the logo's cliffside backdrop◊ covered in cave paintings, including one of Bill and Ted sitting on top of the phone booth◊, just like the poster of the first movie◊.
• The Original Film logo is altered in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022). For the former, the black background is now red, while the silver text is blue. With the latter, the color scheme is inverted.
• Alien: There's a Blu-ray release of the film where the Blu-ray logo on the disc is green instead of the usual blue.
• Enola Holmes has the Legendary Pictures logo filtered to have a more illustrated appearance, bordered by flowered. This returns in the sequel but instead of flowers, the edges of the screen slowly burn.
• Cocaine Bear: The Lord Miller logo is redesigned with an 80’s style crest, font, and blue and pink color palate.
• In Lucky Luke and the Daltons, the UGC logo at the beginning is set to harmonica music, to set the Western mood.
• In Leonid Gaidai's film adaptation of The Twelve Chairs, the Mosfilm logo (the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture with transparent glass "Mosfilm" letters in the bottom) is followed immediately by a caricature (originally by Kukryniksy, who also illustrated the book) of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov (writers of The Twelve Chairs) in a Discobolus pose upon a heap of books surrounded by broken chairs, with "Ilf and Petrov" transparent glass letters underneath.

Television - Animation

• DiC Entertainment:
  • Save for the earliest episodes, Inspector Gadget has Gadget skating in front of the DiC logo. The hammer from his hat rises to dot the "i", and then he stumbles off screen.
  • The Littles: As the last line of the theme is sung, Dinky runs to dot the "i" in the DiC logo with a button before hopping away.
• The A.K.A. Cartoon logo at the end of every Ed, Edd n Eddy episode is remarkably different in every season, special and even The Movie.
• For Filmation’s sci-fi Western cartoon Bravestarr, the Filmation logo was accompanied by the sound of galloping horses and a whipcrack.
• Capitol Critters features a variant of the Steven Bochco Productions plate where an animated mouse takes the place of Bochco's father.
• To celebrate 20 years of the company, the Funimation logo had Dragon Ball fighting effects added to it. This logo can be seen here.
• One episode of Lamput has a joke about Lamput hiding in the logo in the intro. Fat Doc tries to find Lamput, but he destroys everything but the creature.
• The Gracie Films logo at the end of The Simpsons has been altered for comedy a few times specific to the episode. At the end of every Halloween episode (with certain variants), 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.
  • At the end of the crossover episode with Family Guy, the logo appears with the latter show's Peter Griffin heard singing along to the familiar nine-note electric piano theme. ("And now the show is over now".)
• Playdate With Destiny (released in front of Onward) has Mickey Mouse replace one of the patrons.
• The King of the Hill episode "Life in the Fast Lane, Bobby's Saga" features a racecar with the Film Roman logo on it.
• Mike Mc Mahan's production company, Important Science, customizes its artwork (done by Justin Noel) depending on which show it's on. The company name in the center and the "pew pew!" sound effects remain consistent.
  • For Solar Opposites, it depicts Jesse, Yumyulack, and a few other aliens goofing around.
  • For Star Trek: Lower Decks, it depicts the Cerrito ship in a galaxy.

Television - Live Action

• In the second season of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet the opening Central logo (a white globe) shrinks down and dissolves into a live action shot of a white roulette ball at the start of the opening credits.
• Thames Television
  • The Kenny Everett Video Show had Kenny bursting through a giant poster of the Thames 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 women's breasts◊!
  • When Morecambe and Wise moved to ITV, their new, Thames-produced series used a re-recorded version of their 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.
  • One Monty Python episode opens with the actual Thames logo, followed by Thames announcer David Hamilton stating, "We’ve got an action-packed evening for you tonight on Thames but right now, here’s a rotten old BBC programme!"
  • Armchair Thriller used a nighttime version of the normal logo.
  • For Storyboard, the last note would be reverbed as white streaks would fly in.
  • For Pauline's Quirkes, Pauline Quirke would rise up from the river dressed as King Kong and start eating the logo.
• Another ITV company who went along with the Logo Joke idea was Yorkshire Television - perhaps the best remembered example was their chevron logo zooming off like a firework in the titles to game show 3-2-1. It then explodes into the numbers "3", "2", "1", before diving back down and landing in a dustbin, magically animating it into the show's mascot, Dusty Bin.
• Early editions of Tiswas featured the ATV logo running backward.
• A variation on LWT's red, white and blue 'ribbon' logo was used at the start of the interview show Russell Harty Plus, where the end of the ribbon would loop into a circle from which the picture would iris in.
  • For LWT's adaptation of Just William, William would smash through the logo with a catapult after it had finished forming.
  • The short-lived sketch show End of Part One^note  A Sound-to-Screen Adaptation of The Burkiss Way begins one episode with the ribbon starting at the top left of the screen as usual, but instead of turning horizontal to form the "L" it continues straight down and falls offscreen with a loud crash.
• 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.
• Liv and Maddie always uses this trope, showing the Beck & Heart Productions logo take on the style of the "sisters by chance, friends by choice" picture, with Beck and Hart replacing the twins. No Disney Channel show loves this trope as much as this one does...
  • In "Flashback-A-Rooney" Liv sees the picture of Liv and Maddie when they were younger on their bedroom wall come to life, with their real faces in place of the drawing; consequently the Beck & Hart Productions Vanity Plate after the end credits has the real faces of creators John D. Beck and Ron Hart superimposed on their drawn bodies.
  • "Helgaween-A-Rooney" has the Helga drawing in the logo, with Beck and Hart presenting offerings of pizza and sandwiches while Helga is heard shouting "KNEEL BEFORE HELGA!"
  • "Rate-A-Rooney" has Beck and Hart holding up sheets of paper with "10" on them, with Karen saying "What'cha doing, Honeybunch?"
  • "Cook-A-Rooney" has Beck and Hart holding up copies of the home ec teacher's self-published memoirs.
  • "Band-A-Rooney" replaces Beck and Hart with a picture of Crispy Kitty's album cover while Joey and Artie - i.e. Crispy Kitty - shout the band name in unison.
  • "Triangle-A-Rooney" leaves Beck and Hart alone - but has Johnny Nimbus standing next to them with Nimbus At Night's chicken puppet Janice squawking.
  • "Continued-A-Rooney" has two planes in the background - one with Diggie's face on it, the other following with the faces of Maddie and Joey on it.
  • "Co-Star-A-Rooney" has (real) Artie right in front of Beck and Hart while he shouts "END SCENE!"
  • "Voltage-A-Rooney" has (real) Liv as SkyVolt, the superhero alterego of her Voltage character Tess, zapping Beck and Hart.
  • "Cowbell-A-Rooney" replaces the drawing of Beck and Hart holding up food with a photograph of them on the back of a cow while Maddie shouts "YOU JUST GOT MILKED!"
  • "Grandma-A-Rooney" has the Beck & Hart Productions logo accompanied with Maddie saying "What a crazy pair!"
  • The series finale "End -a- Rooney" has Beck and Hart holding signs saying "thank you for watching!"
• Similar to Liv and Maddie, Coop & Cami Ask the World does this: the Bugliari/McLaughlin Productions logo features a voice clip of someone. Originally it was Ollie saying "Wheeeeee!!!", but other times it's one of the characters saying something throughout the episode played. The latter becomes more common in Season 2.
• Taxi: For the Christmas Episode, the off-screen female voice in the John Charles Walters Productions logo says "Merry Christmas, Mr. Walters!" instead of "Good night, Mr. Walters!"
• Girl Meets World: "Girl Meets the New World" plays with the Michael Jacobs production ending guitar riff, by having Auggie's new friend (named "Dewey", but insists on being called "Doy") sing the guitar riff in nothing but "Doy"s. It Makes Sense in Context.
• Community is "A Dan Harmon/Russo Brothers...
  • "...Tantrum."
  • "...Blood Pact."
  • "...Native American History Exhibit."
  • "...Spectacle." And so on... This lasted until season 4, when both Dan Harmon and the Russo brothers both left the series. When Dan Harmon returned for season 5, the stock Harmonious Claptrap logo was used.
• 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.
• White House Plumbers: Episodes open and close with what appears to be the very first HBO logo. Home Box Office launched in November 1972, soon after the events dramatized in this series (namely, the misadventures of the Plumbers that led to the Watergate break-in) took place.
• The first episode of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper has the Jeff Franklin Productions logo interrupt Mark in the middle of his introduction.
• Speed Racer: The Tatsunoko Studio seahorse logo appears on various objects throughout the show.
• Episode 3423 of Sesame Street opens a Lion King parody with a special "Walt Dizzy" movie logo that combines the logos for Warner Bros and MGM (with a chicken).
• PBS:
  • The network's first Game Show, WNET's We Interrupt This Week, ends with a loud chorus abruptly singing the last line of "Happy Birthday to You".
  • One documentary, Mouth Music, ended with a humorous a capella rendition of the PBS Everymen logo's music.
  • The start of PBS's promo for Al Capone: Icon begins with the PBS circle in the center of the screen swinging upside-down, counterclockwise, as though the bottom of the circle was nailed to something and the top was loose.
  • On the first episode of Square One TV, the 1984 PBS logo animation plays as usual at the end, but afterwards, the logo multiplies as vocals repeatedly sing, "AND ON..."
  • At the beginning of the American Comedy Network special, the 1987 Connecticut Public Television opening logo animation plays, but the text "(Not Funny, Yet.)" appears below it, with audience laughter heard in the background.
  • After the credits roll in the documentary, Los Romeros: Royal Family of Guitar, a guitar strums the 1991 sting as the KPBS closing logo animation is shown.
  • A snippet of the theme from Around and About New Jersey plays over the 1993 New Jersey Network opening logo animation as it commences the series' Revolutionary War episode.
  • Another NJN program, ‘’Reporters Roundtable With Michael Aron,’’ commenced its 20th anniversary episode in 2009 with the said PBS Member Network’s 1986 opening logo.
• Jackass: The Dickhouse "Chicken Statue" logo has many variants, such as floating along in a tub, sitting in the window of a moving car, or getting smacked with flour (from the "Antiquing" episode, in an example actually related to a specific one).
• When Josh Schwartz's production company changed from College Hill Pictures to Fake Empire, the logo became a sketch pad with "FAKE EMPIRE" on it, though what's drawn on the pad depends on what show precedes it. See for yourself.
• For their 25th anniversary in 2007 and the run-up to the first episode of the eighties-set drama It's a Sin in January 2021, Channel Four used all their original branding for the entire days.
• The Amazon Prime logo in the Title Announcement is made out of forged metal just like the rings and series title of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
• In the Forever episode "The Ecstasy Of Agony", which deals with the murder of a patient of a "domination therapist" (who combines BDSM with psychology to help her patients), the Good Session logo has the voice of the invisible therapist ("Good session.") be immediately followed by the sound of a whip cracking.

Web Animation

• In-Universe example: In the AlternateHistory.com timeline A Hippie in the House of Mouse, the movie Mask of the Monkey King: An Indiana Jones Adventure opens with the Paramount logo dissolving into a mountain in China.
• Parodied in Funny Horsie, where every episode is seemingly produced by a different company (most often a parody of an ITV franchise, given that the "show" is supposedly an old British children's programme), but occasionally more ridiculous ones such as "Mrs. Thatcher Productions", "Clowns TV", "Courtney Love Productions" ("I MADE DIS.") and "Bollocks Television".
• The Video Games Awesome! website has dozens of banners done in the style of various video game franchise's logos.
• The Adamation logo at the end of Inanimate Insanity II and Inanimate Insanity Invitational has a different character calling out the "Adamation!" every episode, always a character featured in the current episode.

Web Comics

• Each of the cat news channels in Breaking Cat News has a television logo bug in the lower right corner (BCN's is a ball of yarn; Gatos de Noticias has a toy mouse); cats who have died and go on as ghosts have their own channel, Radio Cat Oracle, with a little ghost cat (in a sheet, yet!) that reacts to what's going on.

Web Original

• Newgrounds:
  • There are 4 variants of the logo showing a different kind of Tankman sitting in the tank.
  • A Halloween version of the logo replaces the Tankman's head with a pumpkin.
  • The flash game Gyossait features the tank in the logo abandoned and covered in weeds.
  • In Spooky Month, the Newgrounds upload of "Deadly Smiles" shows Skid and Pump riding in the tank. "Tender Treats" has them joined by Lila and Jaune, before they all escape after realizing Bob is with them.
  • In Friday Night Funkin', a graffiti doodle of a Tankman thumbs up at the player.
• Every episode of Brutalmoose opens with his own logo altered to resemble a logo pertaning to the game he's reviewing.
• The Channel Awesome logo displayed at the end of The Nostalgia Critic's reviews play one out of context audio byte from the movie he is reviewing.
  • When the 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.
  • On the Critic's review of The Simpsons Movie, the Gracie Films logo jingle plays during the Channel Awesome logo.

Other

• Google does this frequently, to celebrate an event, whether minor or major.
• The Discworld book Moving Pictures, which itself parodies the film industry, features a set of subtle logo jokes:
  • Holy Wood Hill is implied to be a worn-down, aged version of the Paramount mountain logo, and in Ginger's dreams is shown surrounded by huge stars (which is Fridge Horror when, as well as being a Shout-Out, these appear to be connected with the established large stars in the skies of the Dungeon Dimensions).
  • Also, when the Golden Knight is awakened from his slumber beneath the Hill, Ginger is in a toga carrying a torch and Detritus bangs a gong, homaging the Rank Organization logo.
  • Ginger's dream also mentions a lion roaring, referring to the MGM logo.
• The THX logo has quite a few variations, but the funniest is probably the one with the cows.
• During the 1980s, WDIV in Detroit would broadcast Detroit Tigers baseball games, and at the end of the broadcast would feature an animated version of what was then the Detroit Tigers logo◊ either roaring and on occasion eating the opposing team's logo after a victory or mewling with an ice pack on its head after a loss.
  • On the occasions where the opponent's logo would be eaten, there were usually special versions as well. For example, a victory against the Baltimore Orioles would have the tiger spitting out orange feathers.
• During the September 23, 2019 episode of WWE Raw, WWE's opening "Then. Now. Forever." intro had a grim, distorted look, and a Jump Scare of The Fiend.
  • During Eric Bischoff's term as General Manager of Raw from 2002-2005, the WWE intro would play, but a portrait of Bischoff would appear where the WWE logo would be normally placed. A picture of either "Stone Cold" Steve Austin or Mick Foley would appear after Bischoff's during their terms as Co-General Manager, along with sound clips of the audiences' reactions; boos for Bischoff, and cheers for Austin or Foley.
• It used to be common for the Christmas issue of British gaming magazines to show the magazine logo covered in snow.
• The intro to My Sesame Street Home Video has an animated Cookie Monster taking a bite on the Sesame Street logo. As the title fades out, Cookie Monster remarks "Delicious!"
• The CD release of David Byrne's 1994 self-titled album features a riff on the logo for his vanity label Luaka Bop, replacing the cartoon eye with a photograph of Byrne's own.
• Monkeypaw Productions:
  • The Twilight Zone (2019) has the vanity plate appear in monochrome.
  • In Wendell & Wild, the Rust Bank Brewery appears outside the window of the train cart.
• I.R.S. Records created the imprints "I.R.S. No Speak" and "I.R.S. Metal" for instrumental and Heavy Metal releases, respectively, with both of these labels' logos featuring fitting variations on the main "I.R.S. Man" logo. The former imprint is denoted by the I.R.S. Man with a gag tied over his mouth, while the latter is denoted by a skeletal version of the I.R.S. Man.

---