JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER: None of these logos are real, and none of the films and television programs mentioned by name are real, either, so don’t waste your time trying to research any of these (unless these logos and titles are coincidentally similar to already-existing stuff)! Here, have a pickled fish-lipped emoticon! :-() Bmmrber…

Red Red Star Productions (Pakistan)

(1999-2003)

Nicknames: “Seriously?!?!?,” “Cartlon Screen Advertising’s Pakistani Cousin,” “This Makes ‘A Star Named Carlton’ Look Peaceful!,” “Why I Didn’t Watch Any of Red Red Star’s Films”

Logo: It starts off with basically a low budget, scratchy, shot-on-film, shot-for-shot remake of the 1996-2014 Carlton Screen Advertising ident, except taken absolutely to the extreme; once this sequence is finished, we now see that the star-shaped brand is being used by a man wearing a dark outfit and a red, creepy mask (like the face seen in the opening logo for India’s Mateshwari Films, but even more creepier). After catching a glimpse of the mask, the camera constantly cuts between the man’s masked head bobbing around and the man constantly thrusting the brand into the camera lens back and forth at a rapid pace (NOTE: this logo does not re-use previously-seen footage in any way). After the final thrusting of the brand, the masked man comes forward to the camera and screams at the viewer. After that, a freeze frame of the mask is seen, which slowly fades to black. No text is seen in this logo at all.

Cheesy Factor: Totally off the charts! Making a low-budget rip-off of the 1996-2014 Carlton Screen Advertising ident is one thing, but following that up with an even more nightmare-inducing sequence is totally another. The film is obviously scratchy by 1999 standards (like plenty of other modern Pakistani logos that have scratchy film quality), the brand itself looks like it was very poorly-welded, and the mask looks cheaper than what was used in the Mateshwari logo! The fact that there’s absolutely no text to be seen in this logo makes people wonder whether or not that this logo is part of the film itself.

Music/Sounds:
During the opening Carlton Screen Advertising rip-off sequence, a bunch of metal clanging noises and the sound of galloping horses can be heard.
For the middle part of the logo, the jingle suddenly becomes a chaotic sound collage of metallic noises, yodeling women, Looney Tunes sound effects, out-of-tune orchestral horns, backwards string instruments, car horns, and cow sounds.
When the masked man suddenly screams at the camera, the scream is slowed-down and distorted, and when the logo freezes at the end, the scream gets treated with a strange, electronic delay effect (like the ending of “Stick Heat” by the early 1970’s British heavy psych band Toe Fat).

Availability: Seen on Urdu-language films that were released during the company’s existence, such as Yee-Haw Cowboy, You Betcha! and Lovely Little Lemon Tree.

Scare Factor: Nightmare; the very ominous and heavy-handed nature of this logo will scare people faster than previous scary logos from Pakistan, such as those from Ismail Productions, Pervez Productions and Rangeela Productions. What’s even more ironic is the fact that Red Red Star released mostly comedies and artistic – albeit non-transgressive nor creepy – films.

Viacom (CBS)

Variations on the 1976-1986 “V of Doom” ident (Filmed Variant)

Variant 1: The background is black, the text “A Viacom Presentation” is white, and the zooming V is colored red.

Music/Sounds: A creepy hunting horn rendition of the familiar “V of Doom” jingle.

Availability: Seen on the 1978 made-for-TV movie Foxhound Academy.

Scare Factor: Nightmare; the zooming red V on a black background, combined with the hunting horn and the fact that this is a filmed logo will no doubt unnerve of those who were expecting any of the other “V of Doom” logos.

Variant 2: The background is a psychedelic, liquid light projection, the text is Indian saffron (not orange), and the V is black. When the jingle is finished, the V suddenly takes up the entire screen, so the logo ends with a plain black background.

Cheesy Factor: LSD consumption may have been involved in the production of this logo, but it perfectly matches the made-for-TV movie that it came with!

Music/Sounds: A psychedelic remix of the “V of Doom” jingle, which is basically the same jingle, but treated with a trippy flanging effect.

Availability: Seen on the 1979 made-for-TV movie Francis & Cisco: The Psychedelic Years.

Scare Factor: High to nightmare; the unexpected psychedelic background and flanging effect on the jingle will be bound to scare many, but the V literally taking up the entire screen at the end is extremely unexpected, and will gradually raise the scare factor.

Variant 3: On a black background, the V, colored in violet, is decorated with two cat’s eyes and some peacock feathers. The V zooms to the point where a close up of the right cat’s eye takes up the entire screen, where it changes colors before slowly fading to black. No text is seen anywhere in this logo, but it’s pretty obvious that this is a Viacom logo.

Cheesy Factor: And, you thought that the variant used on Francis & Cisco: The Psychedelic Years was trippy enough!

Music/Sounds: An incredibly-distorted, doublespeed rendition of the “V of Doom” jingle, accompanied by a doublespeed tape recording of a voice-over saying “A Viacom Presentation,” complete with the sounds of breaking glass, which continue until the logo fades to black.

Availability: Seen on the 1979 made-for-TV experimental film Experirepxe.

Scare Factor: Nightmare; the overall experimental subject matter, the distorted music, the creepy announcer, the glass sound collage, and the color-changing cat’s eye will scare many viewers by surprise. This may be the scariest variant of the “V of Doom” that was ever conceived by man!

Klasky-Csupo

Variant of the 2002 Alternate Splaat Logo
(2005)

Logo: It’s basically a rehash of the alternate variant (the one that was seen at the end of The Wild Thornberries Movie). This time, the company logo appears at the beginning, instead of at the end. After this, Splaat is seen on a black background with the ink blot behind him in a blue-bordering-on-violet color scheme. Like the 2002 version, Splaat looks at the viewer throughout and smiles at the end, but after Splaat smiles, the logo freezes for a bit before fading to black.

Music/Sounds: When the company logo appears, we hear the sound of duck calls and a babbling brook. When Splaat appears, he says “Klasky-Csupo” with his usual robotic voice, accompanied by ominous electronic screams, like the sound effects heard in “Echoes” by Pink Floyd.

Availability: Seen at the end of The Angelica Pickles Movie.

Scare Factor: High to nightmare; this one is even more nightmare-inducing than the 2002 alternate variant! The black background combined with Splaat’s smile and the electronic screams will scare plenty of unexpecting viewers as well as small children.

FINAL NOTE: The CLG Wiki is slowly replacing all of the Cheesy Factor and Scare Factor logo descriptions with a closing “Editor’s Note.”