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'''Availability:''' Ultimately rare. Seen on ''Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'' on ''HBO Storybook Musicals'' and the music video of "Shadrach" by Beastie Boys. This logo doesn't appear on the first three seasons of ''The Simpsons'' as the studio only did the animation for the show and didn't produce it.

'''Logo:''' A row of box outlines pans on a white background with shapes that change frequently. Each box has a drawing of an object turning into a letter:

* 6th Box: An acrobatic performer forming a tan "Y", which hangs a little off the bottom right corner of its box.

* A still version of the logo (with graffiti still dancing and the logo already black and white with "Y" purple) was spotted on ''Stressed Eric''.

* On prints of ''The Wild Thornberrys'' season one episodes "Matadi or Bust", "Valley Girls", "Lost and Foundation", and "Born to be Wild", the first-season ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'' episode "Cold Hard Toenails/Attack of the Blobs", and on the Shout! Factory DVD releases of the two series, the logo itself is slowed down while the music plays at its normal speed, accompanied by a quote from each episode that would've played on the [[Nickelodeon Animation Studios]] "Haypile" logo (on ''Real Monsters'', it was slowed down to accompany the trail-off into the NAS logo). This is due to the fact that said logo is, strangely, omitted from these prints of the episodes.

* On a December 2001 CBS airing of the ''Rugrats'' episodes "The Santa Experience" and "A Rugrats Chanukah", the logo has been shortened so that it starts with the 6th box in "KLaSKY" and cuts to the Nickelodeon logo before the said "Y" becomes purple.

Throughout the entire logo, a 24-note synth-cello line (sounding much like an old portable Casio keyboard) plays that adds vibrato to its last two notes. A catchy drum-machine loop (time signature possibly 5/4) and a strange film projector-like sound (sounding much like a bingo machine) play as well; the former stops once the logo zooms out, while the latter stops when the transition to B&W starts. Like the second [[Cartoon Network Productions]] logo, there are also corresponding sound effects with the actions of the letters as they pan:

* First K: No effect since the music hasn’t started yet.

During the formation of “CSUPO”, a scribbling sound is heard (which was omitted in 1992) along with two old-timey car honks (abridged to one in 1992), soon followed by a dog “yipping” six times in a high-pitched fashion, similar to a Chihuahua’s barking. As the logo zooms out, a warm synth gradually glissandos to G-5 (on a piano scale) along with a bass note playing in the same key, albeit four octaves lower, the latter of which sustains for the remaining time. A snippet of an elephant trumpet plays twice as the logo nearly finishes its transformation to B&W.

* The early variant of the logo music appears at the end of the song "Alanis", from Neil Cicierega's mashup album ''Mouth Sounds'' along with many other logos.

* For the abridged variant, the music is higher pitched, sped-up, and out-of-sync as it starts at where the second K should form.

* A version exists on the 1998 pilot of ''The Wild Thornberrys'' where the logo plays as usual, but with the 1998 "Robot" logo audio instead. The pilot aired on October 17, 1998, nine days after the "Robot" logo was introduced, so the "Robot" logo might have been intended to debut on this pilot, but for unknown reasons, was changed back to the "Graffiti" logo, but keeping the "Robot" audio intact. Interesting, but still very strange, not to mention that all other episodes with this logo use the normal music/sound variant.

'''Logo:''' Over a static purple background, a black ink stain on a blue background with a liquid effect appears by splattering all over the screen. A hand places onto the stain a yellow card with a mouth on it, while a pair of eyes (which seem to wiggle like Jell-O) zoom to above the mouth, forming a face. The face then says the company name as white blocks fly out from his mouth. The blocks arrange themselves to form the K-C logo (like before, but refined to match the print logo, with the "K" in a font like Futura, "L" in Permian Serif, "a" in a font similar to Linux Libertine or Times New Roman, "S" in Futura Book, The second "K" in a zig-zaggy font made possibly to match with the Letraset Process in the first logo, The "Y" and "CSUPO" set in Futura bold.). During the face's screen time, there are holes in the liquid background which reveal some of the purple background that emerge from the center and slide off-screen from many different directions. After that, the background and the face disappear like a CRT television turning off, and the "'''Y'''" in "'''K'''L'''''a'''''S'''K'''Y" turns purple and flashes faintly.

* Strangely, this logo appeared on early airings of the ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' episode "Wet Painters/Krusty Krab Training Video". This was an editing mistake made by Nickelodeon when they first started using split-screen credits; normally, Nick makes custom credits for each of its series and its producers. K-C was the only company at the time, besides Frederator, that produced multiple Nicktoons, and Nick created a generic one for these shows [which mentioned Klasky and Csupo as producers and included Splaat], but, on the said episode of ''SpongeBob'', Nick accidentally used the K-C split-screen credits for that episode. This was fixed in 2006 and the United Plankton Pictures logo has been seen on the episode ever since, but it's still one of the oddest editing mistakes ever made.  

* On the VHS releases of ''Rugrats in Paris'', the "computer voice" uttering the Klasky-Csupo name is actually closed captioned. The same happens in ''The Wild Thornberrys Movie'', but Splaat's voice is referred to as a "computerized voice". Additionally, the sound effects after Splaat's disappearance are also closed captioned (including the lip-flapping sound being referred to as a "voice blubbering" and the duck quacking sound labeled as "novelty horn honks").

* At the July 2012 Comic-Con venue in San Diego, California, the day before Klasky-Csupo was relaunched, Arlene Klasky mentioned that she found, as claimed, "a bunch of fan mashups" of their production logo, in which she also added that the mashups might have been created in part with how many people explained their experience with the logo as kids, and how it "scared" them, so she later decided to give the "robot" character a name: Splaat. Splaat was also given arms, legs, and a more noticeable ability to speak; his voice is done by Greg Cipes. The character was originally intended to be in an animated PSA, with Splaat explaining his confusion about why these mashups exist, and then adding that he is, in fact, ''not'' a robot, but rather an ink splat, which is how his name originated. He stars in his own web series, which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdZ001zSMD4rJ57m2cOkcSw here]. You can see Splaat's PSA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j90KFWrrHEQ here], or the full Comic-Con event [https://web.archive.org/web/20150627160035/http://geeknation.com/videos/sdcc-2012-klasky-csupo/ here]. It is also worth mentioning that, according to Klasky, this logo was ''not'' intended to be scary.

* There is an alternate variant where the animation was cheaper (e.g. the liquid just waves like a flag, there's no static purple background [which explains very few holes emerging from the center once the liquid background has splattered onto the screen], and the eyes of Splaat are flipped vertically instead of being animated to look down/up -- as a consequence of this, Splaat's eyes are noticeably farther away from his mouth than usual when he speaks). There is a black background instead of a static purple background (since the logo transitions from black at the end of the credits); the logo blurs and cross-fades to the KC logo rather than disappearing like the TV turning off (along with the the the purple "'''Y'''" in "'''K'''L'''''a'''''S'''K'''Y" zooming in over the regular "Y") and, to top it all off, Splaat constantly looks at the viewer (in the normal logo, Splaat stares at the blocks, but the blocks are placed directly in the center of the screen, so it appears that Splaat is looking at the viewer) throughout his screen time and smiles as if he accomplished something before the logo wipes to black. On the studio's reopening video, (Which can be seen [https://youtu.be/oJI5s7CNq20 here]) the variant is in 16:9 full screen at 1080p high definition, it is cut to where the hand drops the magazine clippings, the background of the clippings is in a lighter shade of yellow, and after we hear the duck quacking twice, the logo flies off to the right of the screen. The "boing" sound effect is not heard. This variant would later be remastered for 2021, which uses the same animation, but with glitchy computer screen effects placed over it. The Klasky-Csupo logo then zooms in at the last half-second before cutting to the right-facing, blue "energy blaster"-type muzzle flash.

* This logo comes in 3 versions: a standard 4:3 version (for TV shows and full-frame versions of their film output, though some films have slight letterboxing), a 1.55:1 widescreen version (matted to 1.85:1 for theatrical features released in the US (1.66:1 in Europe) and to 1.78:1 for both home video releases of those films), a 16:9 HD version (for the studio's reopening video and the remastered version) and a 2.35:1 scope version (seen at the end of ''The Wild Thornberrys Movie'').

* On the first two ''The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald'' tapes and airings of their Nicktoons with split-screen credits, the logo cuts to black just as the "Boing" sound effect plays.

* 2010-2013 Nickelodeon USA airings of ''Rugrats'' with the split-screen credits omit the boing sound at the end.

* On the first season of ''The'' ''Wild Thornberrys,'' the episode, "Nigel Knows Best" (the only season one episode from the show to have this logo), the boing sound gets cut-off before it fully finishes and in between the transition from this logo to the Nickelodeon Animation Studios "Haypile", you can hear the last note from the last logo play.

* From September 2000 until August 2001, on some split-screen credit airings of their shows, the audio of the promo from the split-screen credits sometimes played over this logo's audio (including Splaat's voiceover).

* On DVD and VHS releases of their Nicktoons as well as the pilot episode of ''As Told by Ginger'', the ending sound effects have a reverb trailing into the Nickelodeon "haypile". This can also be found on the VHS releases of ''The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald'' beginning with the third tape, “The Visitors From Outer Space”.

* There is a bizarre audio variant found on Russian airings of ''As Told by Ginger'' which has a grouchy-sounding male voiceover speaking over the logo's music: "Klasky-Csupo (pronounced like "zupa"). Blblbllblblblbllblbl. (possibly trying to imitate the lip flapping sound)" The timing varies depending on the episode, as does the tone, as different voiceovers were seemingly recorded for every episode this version appeared on. (you can tell because in some episodes the voice sounds somewhat exhausted) In later episodes, the voiceover has a weird echo/reverb effect.

* Another audio variant found on a Russian airing of ''The Wild Thornberrys'' features a male voiceover (different from the one above) saying, "Film Klasky-Csupo Incorporated" after Splaat speaks.

* On a Nickelodeon USA airing of ''Rugrats'' on March 4, 2000, the logo has the audio from the previous logo. Oddly enough, the audio itself was shortened down significantly causing the logo to be silent a little after the final product is formed.  

* On the 2021 remastered version, the logo's audio is sped up. However, the final boing is replaced with a whoosh sound, which goes in sync with the logo disappearing.

* It can be found on episodes such as those of later ''Rugrats'' seasons (starting with the episode "Runaway Reptar"), the obscure ''Rugrats Pre-School Daze'', ''Rocket Power'', ''The Wild Thornberrys'' (earlier episodes had the "Graffiti" logo), ''As Told By Ginger'', and on ''All Grown Up'', all of which are currently airing on TeenNick's NickRewind; it is also shown in place of the previous logo on airings with split-screen credits.

* Debuted on the rather obscure cartoon ''The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald''. This logo was used on K-C films from ''The Rugrats Movie'' to ''The Wild Thornberrys Movie'', though on the first two Rugrats movies' digital prints, it is plastered by the regular variant.<!--Probably the 2022 Blu-ray as well, but wait until release to confirm this--> It's also on the company's website too, and can be found on the main page when first being browsed.

* The 2002 alternate variant is rare; it was seen at the end of ''The Wild Thornberrys Movie'' and the video for the studio's reopening. However, the remastered version of the variant debuted on Gábor Csupó's official YouTube account, and later the 2021 reboot of ''Rugrats'', which is available on Paramount+.

* This logo also appeared on the obscure ''Rugrats'' spin-off ''Rugrats Pre-School Daze''. This did not appear on Klasky-Csupo's first live-action series, ''What's Inside Heidi's Head?'', because it was a series of interstitials as opposed to a series.

* The split-screen credits variant made a surprise reappearance in August 2020 on a NickRewind rerun of a ''Rugrats'' episode due to the fact the episode used Nick's split-screen credits template for the show.

'''Legacy:''' This logo appears to be a metaphor for Klasky-Csupo's rather inspirational rise to fame from humble beginnings as an animation studio. Just like 'Graffiti', this logo is famous inside and outside the community thanks to its constant airplay on Nick, as well as the unique animation and SFX, and Splaat's unnerving design. It's not unusual to call this probably the most infamous "scary" logo of all time, thanks to Splaat's design as well as the "in-your-face" nature of the animation; there is a staggering amount of logo remix videos and other (usually, quite low in production quality) videos related to this logo. Splaat smiling in the alternate variant can be even more unsettling. The logo even returned for Paramount+'s ''Rugrats'' reboot, with the addition of glitches throughout the logo, ready to scare a new generation of children. Nevertheless, it is a favorite of those who grew up with ''Rugrats'' and other Klasky-Csupo productions.