Klasky Csupo: Difference between revisions

'''Logo:''' A row of boxes pan across the screen at a rapid pace on a white background with a pattern of shapes that change frequently. Each box has a animation that becomes a letter. In the first box, blue cubic shapes form a green "K" in the Arial Bold Font, which is placed at the left. In the second box, a blue hat, first depicted as a top hat before it stretches into a peaked hat, turns into a boot, which then turns into an "L" in a font similar to Baskerville that is centered properly. In the third box, several orange lines come together to form a pattern that shrinks, turning into a choppy, lowercase "a" in the Shatter font that is positioned in the upper right corner of its box. In the fourth box, a light blue cone with rings surrounding it turns into a crayon with a layer on it, then into a silhouette of a lizard, followed by a silhouette of a snake, and lastly into an "S" in the Futura font that sits in the bottom left of its box. In the fifth box, a pink silhouette of a cow turns into a butterfly, then quickly reverts back into a cow, but from a different point of view, then turns into an alligator, and finally a "K" in the Letraset Process font, and is properly centered. In the sixth box, an acrobatic performer jumps upside down and forms a beige "Y", which hangs a little off the bottom right corner of its box. The remaining five squares have a scribble writing the stenciled "CSUPO" on them (in Helvetica); the first three letters are blue, the "P" is teal when it is being drawn but it becomes orange once complete, and the "O" is purple. After this, we zoom out, during which "INC." appears letter-by-letter in red. Then we see the complete logo, as shown below:  

* It is rumored that Mark Mothersbaugh (the frontman of Devo and composer for ''Rugrats'') did this logo's music. It was actually done by [[Film Roman]] founder Phil Roman.

* 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 began 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 Studios|Frederator]], that produced several Nicktoons, and Nickelodeon created a generic one for these shows [which mentioned Klasky and Csupo as producers and included Splaat], but, on the said episode of ''SpongeBob'', Nickelodeon accidentally used the K-C split-screen credits for that episode. This was fixed in 2006 and the [[United Plankton Pictures, Inc.|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 stating 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 we 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 is cheaper (e.g. the liquid just waves like a flag, there is a black background instead of a static purple background (since the logo transitions from black at the end of the credits [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). The logo then blurs and cross-fades to the KC logo rather than disappearing like a TV turning off (alongside 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 re-opening 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.

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

'''Logo:''' We see a city silhouette, with a rooster on one of the buildings and a few palm trees on the right. The sun rises, revealing the city (which is green) and the rooster. The rooster wakes up and opens its eyes (from the previous logo, as evidenced by yellow edges around them). It crows loudly as its eyes bulge and the blocks in the K-C logo float around.

* Another "K", mirrored, zooms in and takes up part of the screen.

When the rooster is finished screaming, the sun brightens, as the rooster mysteriously disappears, and the K-C logo appears in the center. It looks "grungier" than the one in the past three logos, with the word "KLaSKY" being set in Garish Monde, and "CSUPO" being set in Keedy Sans. The logo rumbles and flickers for the remainder as the sun's rays spin.  

'''Technique:''' Mostly CGI animation, but the rooster appears to be 2D-animated.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A very loud early 2000s style techno theme, made using samples from Zero-G's ''Chemical Beats'' sample library, one of which can be heard [https://youtu.be/aUF4KjKvZF4?t=3883 here] at 1:04:43. A camera shutter sound can be heard when the sun brightens. Also, there's a "POP!" sound when the rooster opens its eyes, as well as the man's voice says "Wake up!". Like the first logo, there's a projector-like sound heard as the blocks fly around. A faint robotic whisper of the company name can be heard at the end. The music for this was done by co-founder Gábor Csupó.

'''Technique:''' 2D computer animation.

'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''

* At the end of episode 1 of ''Scraatch-O-Rama'', "I'm RoboSplaat", before the logo appears, the DJ playing the turntable presses a hot cue on it that plays what seems to be a prototype version of the logo's audio. The cartoon sound effects of the 3rd logo start at the twang, the duck only quacks once, and the crashing sound is different. The glass shattering is absent, and instead is more like a bell twanging combined with a boing, and to top it all off, all of the logo's sounds play at a lower pitch (which is most likely the fault of the DJ playing the sounds slower than normal, but still interesting).