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}}{{Infobox company|founded=1982|country=United States|name=Klasky-Csupo, Inc.|image=Klasky_Csupo_logo.svg.png|founder=Arlene Klasky<br>Gábor Csupó|key people=Terry Thoren (CEO, 1994-2006)<br>Tracy Kramer<br>Norton Virgien<br>Brandon Scott (Vice President)|formerly=Klasky & Csupo (legal name until 1991)}}

* The 1991 logo's jingle featured the "Handclap" as well as the "toms" and a Closed Hi-hat being played on the Roland TR-909 drum machine, as well as bass notes on a Casio keyboard. The 909 clap sounds were heard during the logo's sequence.

File:Kc 2002.jpg|Filmed version.

File:Klasky Csupo (2002) (Scope).png|Scope version.

File:GW180H135.jpg|Version used on video games (with white background).

File:GW180H136.jpg|Version used on video games (with black background).

File:Klasky Csupo (2021).png|The remastered version.

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File:Kalsky.jpg|Splaat.

File:Klasky Csupo Splaat alternate (2000s).png|Splaat in the scope version.

File:Klasky Csupo 2021 Splaat.png|Splaat in the 2021 remastered version.

'''Visuals:''' On a static {{color|purple}} background, a black ink stain on a {{color|blue}} background with a liquid effect appears by splattering all over the screen. A live-action hand comes in from the left and places a {{color|yellow}} piece of paper containing a {{color|red}}-lipped mouth onto the stain, while a pair of {{color|blue}}, round eyes (which seem to wiggle like Jell-O) appear and zoom in above the mouth, forming a bizarre-looking face. The face then says the company name as white blocks fly out from his mouth, which are revealed to be the parts of the K-C logo as they arrange themselves to form it (the parts have also been 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 smudges of the static background that emerge from the center and slide off-screen from many other 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 {{color|darkviolet|purple}} and flashes faintly. The logo remains on-screen for a few seconds, and then it either fades out or cuts to black.

* According to a reply on a post on Splaat's Facebook page, the logo was designed by Gabor Csupo, Laslo Nosek, and Sergei Shramkovsky, the latter of which is implied to have designed Splaat himself.

** Also in the reply, it is also revealed that the logo was never tested on test audiences.

** In another reply, Andrew S. (here on AVID as BoyOnTheMoon) states how the logo as a whole is a metaphor for the studio's rise to fame from its humble beginnings, quoteː ''"They took nothing (like paper scraps),"'' (represented by how Splaat is created out of 2 paper cutouts) ''"and established their own distinct style that represents who they are (a face representing a style that literally says who they are)".''

* 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 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]. According to Klasky, this logo was ''not'' intended to be scary.

* Video games from the company have a still, slightly bigger logo that completely skips Splaat. All of the boxes and letters in "'''K'''L'''''a'''''S'''K'''Y" (except for the "Y", which is smaller) are medium gray, the letters in "'''CSUPO'''" are white, and "'''INC.'''" (like in the first logo) is on the right of "CSUPO". The background can be either black or white.  

* There is an alternate variant that was made in 2:35:1, where the animation is cheaper (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 (not the blocks) then blurs and cross-fades to the K-C logo rather than disappearing like a CRT 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 before looking back up before the logo fades to black.

* A filmed variant exists on ''The Rugrats Movie'' and ''Rugrats in Paris: The Movie''. The animation is at a lower frame rate and in a more washed-out color scheme, moves at a much faster pace, and is zoomed in to fill the screen.

* On some Nickelodeon split-screen airings of shows from the company, Splaat's mouth movement comes in late.

'''Technique:''' CGI done on a Silicon Graphics computer with Softimage software, plus a chroma-keyed live-action hand and computer animation for the face. For the still variants, none. Limited animation for the Splaat-only variant.

'''Audio:''' A splatter sound is heard when the ink appears and a bouncy "beeping" version of the 24-note bass jingle (which sounds like a clarinet) is played. Another "beepy" instrument plays the same jingle in the background, only it comes in a quarter measure late. The company name is stated in a robotic voice with significant amounts of clipping to make it louder (hence the "Robot" nickname; the voice was supplied by the "Boing" novelty voice in the text-to-speech program used on a PowerMac G3 workstation). After Splaat finishes talking and the company logo appears, there are four cartoon sound effects: a tiny twang, a lip-flapping sound that sounds similar to the "trombone gobble" sound heard in Warner Bros. cartoons accompanied by a slap, a duck quacking twice, and the classic [[Hanna-Barbera]]/Hoyt Curtin boing. The music was composed in C♭ major by Mark Mothersbaugh's brother (and fellow Devo member and ''Rugrats'' composer), Bob.

* On the still video game variants, it's silent.

* On ''The Rugrats Movie'' and ''Rugrats in Paris'', the audio is out-of-sync. To accommodate this, the ending sound effects are closer together and the quacking sound is sped-up, but not affecting the pitch (this also occurs on the cheaply animated alternate variant).

* 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", we can hear the last note from the last logo playing.

* On 2000-2009 airings of the K-C shows, the boing sound trails off and cuts off into the kids laughing sound (or before August 2001, an airplane-like sound with 7 xylophone notes heard over it) in the [[Nickelodeon]] logo of the time.

* When CBS aired ''The Rugrats Movie'' and ''Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'', a generic theme played over this logo.

* 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.

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

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

'''Legacy:''' This logo appears to be a metaphor for Klasky-Csupo's rather inspirational rise to fame from humble beginnings as an animation studio. This logo is well-known inside and outside the community thanks to its constant airplay on Nickelodeon, 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, earning its unofficial nickname "Super Scary Face". Additionally, there is a staggering amount of logo remix videos and other videos related to this logo (that are usually, quite low in production quality). It was even to the point where the company created a web series titled ''RoboSplaat'' in response in 2016, which showcased Splaat as a character. In addition, it was updated, remastered and revived in 2021 for the ''Rugrats'' reboot, presumably to give out scares for a new generation of children.

'''Visuals:''' There is a city silhouette, with a {{color|red}} rooster on one of the buildings and a few palm trees on the right. The sun rises, revealing the city (which is {{color|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, as described below:

When the rooster is finished crowing, 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, sometimes having overlaid copies over it, and flickers for the remainder as the sun's rays spin.  

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

'''Visuals:''' On a white background, there is a very small Klasky Csupo logo in the same grungy font as the previous logo. Suddenly, Splaat comes in from the left side of the screen, and pushes the logo off the screen. Unlike the third logo, Splaat's eyes don't jiggle.

'''Audio:''' The same sound effects from the end of the 3rd logo (without the boing) as well as some different sound effects when Splaat appears, such as a bonk sound, and a crash sound.

'''Audio Variant:''' At the end of episode 1 of ''Scraatch-O-Rama'', "I'm RoboSplaat", before the logo appears, a 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).

[[Category:American film logos]]{{American film logos}}