FX/SFX: The finishing of the scrolling credits. Logo: On a black background, a 3D jack-shaped Nickelodeon logo spins in from the top left corner of the screen and then moves into place. When it lands, "PRODUCTIONS", in the same font as the previous three logos and in purple, appears below. Availability: It appeared on some episodes of The Adventures of Pete and Pete, on season 2 episodes of All That (including the Good Burger Special) and season 1 of Kenan & Kel (which is available on iTunes), the rarely seen Nickelodeon Sports Theater with Shaquille O'Neal (which last aired on Nicktoons in 2014) and on pre-September 2000 split-screen credits airings of Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Availability: First seen on Fred: The Movie, also appears on the Nickelodeon TV movie Hey Arnold! ), Electron (used on Pelswick and Are You Afraid of the Dark? FX/SFX: The bubble floating and transforming into a splat. Availability: Can be seen on such films as Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Mad Hot Ballroom, Barnyard, The Catscratch Movie, Charlotte's Web, and Yours, Mine & Ours. FX/SFX: A mix of live-action and animation. The word "movies" spins in around the orange moon to complete the logo, and the camera pans down to start the movie. The cup then falls, causing an orange liquid with the "NICKELODEON" logo on it to come out. Sometimes, the end theme plays over it or the logo is silent. Trivia: This logo may be a nod to the T-shirt worn by Rugrats character Chuckie Finster, which has the planet Saturn on it, although this logo never appeared on any Rugrats episode or video release. The ending theme and the "laughing kids" sound effect mixed together. Appears on all Nick shows starting in September 2009, with it also being used to plaster every previous logo on the split-screen (and later compressed) credits. Nicknames: "Nickelodeon Lightbulb", "The Orange Lightbulb", "The Glowing Lightbulb", "Electric Lightbulb", "Dizzy Lightbulb" (for the 1999 KCA variant). However, it was more widely used outside of the split-screen credits compared to the previous logo. ", followed by grunts from him pulling the lever, then electrical noises as the slime flows, and finally, a bombastic orchestral recreation of the last five notes of the Nickelodeon jingle with SpongeBob singing, ending with a ding noise. Logo: Over a teal-white radial gradient background with green bubbles (like the previous logo), we see an orange blob reading "NICKELODEON". It was also seen on a TV spot for Yours, Mine and Ours and was used as an ID in December 2002 and January 2003 to help promote The Wild Thornberrys Movie. Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the show. Logo: On a black background, we see an orange/dark orange splat with "NICKELODEON" on it. When the company logo appears, we hear a "country" version of the famous Nickelodeon theme. Then, the logo bends up, sending the balls flying up and offscreen. A more common short version exists where the part with the kids has been cut and the logo starts where the Nickelodeon logo comes in. Variant: On March-September 2000 airings of KaBlam!, The Amanda Show, and Rocket Power episodes use the split-screen credits, the background is black and a copyright notice is below. It floats around for a second, then it rams into the screen and turns into a splat. A ripple then occurs in the sky, where it fades into a kaleidoscopic view of several goldfish swimming. Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the film. 1st Logo (in-credit) (April 1, 1979-1984), 2nd Logo (1990, August 11, 1991-August 17, 2008), 5th Logo (in-credit) (July 4, 1991-September 12, 1992), 7th Logo (August 15, 1992-April 16, 1994), 9th Logo (July 4, 1993-September 27, 2009), 11th Logo (September 26, 1993-January 2, 1994), 13th Logo (October 1, 1994-September 28, 1996), 17th Logo (January 2, 1995-September 3?, 2000), 18th Logo (June 25, 1995-September 3?, 2000), 21st Logo (September 4, 2000-September 2006), 23rd Logo (May 27, 2006-September 12, 2011), 24th Logo (October 6, 2007-October 3, 2009), 25th Logo (January 30, 2008-July 8, 2013). This is the first Nickelodeon logo to have its own sounds. Nicknames: "Home of the Good Burger", "Orange Soda". It was also used as part of two "next on Nickelodeon" IDs from 1996. The walls and stairs drop to reveal a Hollywood-type area (with five palm trees on it) at sunrise while the Nickelodeon blimp approaches and "MOVIES" is drawn in a grungy font. Editor's Note: The jack doesn't seem to be rendered properly in the original variant, as you can see lines around it. Sometimes, the end theme plays over it or the logo is silent. Music/Sounds Trivia: The drum sample used is from "Think (About it)" by Lyn Collins, a James Brown-produced record. The brake sounds are accompanied with the familiar vocal Nickelodeon theme: "Nick nick nick nick, na-nick nick nick, NICKELODEON!". The NickMom variant uses a different theme. Music/Sounds: The opening theme/voiceover of the trailer. Some shows use a shortened version of the music. However, he repeatedly bumps, slips and crashes into the clouds in the logo, which turn out to be cardboard cutouts on a movie set. CGI animation done by Trollbck+Company in New York. Availability: Common.
cover the screen. Availability: This was intended to appear on Charlotte's Web, but it was scrapped and the 10th logo was used instead. Availability: This logo was made specifically for the first trailer for The Rugrats Movie, although it was used as a print logo from the company's inception up until the next logo. It's seen on recent films produced by the company, such as The Last Airbender, Rango, The Adventures of Tintin, Fun Size, and made its final appearance on the trailers for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run. Music/Sounds: Either the ending theme or the 1993 Jumbo Pictures/Ellipse Programme music. Music/Sounds: None, or the end theme of the show. Also appears on Hotel for Dogs (the Wii video game uses the 10th logo), Imagine That, and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Some shows like. Nicknames: "Orange Letters III", "Birthday of Nick", "Ballooning Orange", "Nickelodeon Balloons". Availability: Current, but is usually seen on Nickelodeon and NickSplat's credits. Then, the curious nose of a brown-striped white dog appears sniffing the screen, and then he sees the Nickelodeon Movie logo made by frisbees on the grass. This logo was mainly used during split-screen credits between shows from 2000 to 2006 (which was done to simplify the creation of the credits). FX/SFX: None or the electric charge flickering for the normal logo. As the moon moves off-screen at the bottom, the Earth starts to wiggle and "sneezes", causing it to crash into the camera.
Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show, along with a fly buzzing. Logo: A 3-D Nickelodeon cap spins in. Sometimes, the logo would be superimposed over the opening. Also, on 2010-13 airings of the Klasky-Csupo-produced Nicktoons with split-screen credits, between the transition of K-C's "Splaat" logo and the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions logo, you can actually see a split-second of this logo (just the teal background).
Trivia: The splat was also used at the beginning of the Wild & Crazy Kids! The short version appeared at the end of the credits for some Nickelodeon movies (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is one) on television from 2002 up until Nickelodeon stopped using split-screen credits. It appears on two Nickelodeon TV specials: The former special (almost) never reruns on TV anymore, but can be found on YouTube. Logo: On a space background, we see the shadow text on a blue tinted Saturn planet that reads "NICKELODEON". Music/Sounds: A blowing sound, followed by a stretching sound. It settles in the center of the screen, and "PRODUCTIONS" in white spaced-out letters pops up from the bottom, settling under the logo. For the 1999 Kids Choice Awards, a long version exists where the lightbulb is in a, An in-credit variant was spotted on an episode of, There's a different variant where the logo is rotating from right to left over footage from the. Logo: On a sky background with moving clouds, an orange housefly comes from the the top of the screen and flies around in circles twice before stopping right in front of us.
Only appeared on the Behance page. Nicknames: "The Housefly", "Nickelodeon Fly". It can be found on reruns of Salute Your Shorts whenever the NickSplat block on TeenNick airs the show. Trivia: The way the giant foot smashes Slap is a possible shout-out to Monty Python's Flying Circus, where sketches would often abruptly end by something like a giant foot or a weight coming down from the sky and crushing whatever was on the screen (for one example, the giant foot is what ends the show's intro). Availability: Debuted on The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (though the trailers used the 14th logo) and PAW Patrol: The Movie. Editor's Note: This is a wasted effort that sadly didn't appear on any television series at all. ", "CGI Splat", "Nick Splat II", "CGI Nick Splat", "Bubbles of the Green Slime". Availability: First seen on The Spiderwick Chronicles. Nicknames: "Nickelodeon Stuff", "Nickelodeon Junk", "Orange Junk", "The Palindrome Logo". Copyright info appears below, but sometimes it doesn't.
The "l" gets launched upwards and spins in mid-air. Logo: In a studio, we see SpongeBob SquarePants' hand. FX/SFX: The logo fading and/or zooming in. Logo: Over a black background, we see an orange atom surrounded by three purple, yellow-green, and blue particles, flying from the top right to the bottom left. Also appeared as an ident on Nickelodeon in Summer 1997 to promote the film. Logo: On a black background, we see the Nickelodeon oval. Nice CGI for the mid-to-late 2000s. The entire logo slowly zooms out and then fades to black. Logo: On a white background, an orange oval with "NICKELODEON" written on it is seen. FX/SFX: Once again, well-rendered CGI animation. Music/Sounds: This logo had many music/sounds variants. However, there are fans of this logo (even present-day Nick fans) who like it for its bouncy CGI animation, which does carry a good amount of life to it. The orange drop upon impact with it dots the "i" in the logo, as the splash made by the orange drop quickly forms the dot. Composed by Explosion Robinson. The bylineless version can also be seen on some Nick Jr. shows, and plasters over the Nick Jr. Productions logo along with the first five episodes of. It was also seen at the end of VOD releases of a few, The HD variant only appeared on season 1 episodes of, A version without a copyright stamp was spotted on split-screen credits airings of. Availability: Extinct. FX/SFX: The orange drop, the Nickelodeon logo zooming out, and "MOVIES" fading in. It's only seen on Harriet the Spy released on July 10th, 1996. Also seen on the Hotel for Dogs game on Wii. It then gets stuck to his fingers and he struggles to throw it off. Starring Stick Stickly, which (almost) never airs on TV anymore, but can be found on YouTube, This can also be seen on some TV spots of Good Burger and the Good Burger Good Sweepstakes promotion, albeit the actual movie using the 2nd Nickelodeon Movies logo. The fly buzzing noise is absent. It was also seen after March-September 2000 Nickelodeon USA airings of. An orange rose grows, and dissipates into pillow-like things, or sheets, etc, as an orange zeppelin flies through it. The background shows an audience rapidly taking photographs. ", "Nickelodeon Cup". Availability: It was very common during the era it was used, but now it's rare thanks to plastering.
The volume of the buzzing varies with each show. Most of the time, "presents" would be in different font. Logo: A blue rhino is shown running on what appears to be clouds (a send-up of the TriStar Pictures logo). Then, it cuts to another shot with the boy skateboarding down the "i", two orange lines on the left and right sides of the logo, a girl sitting on the left line and a boy playing on the bottom line, before it cuts to a girl holding on to the "i" and pulling it, before letting go of it, causing the camera to cut to another shot of the letters in "nickelodeon" popping in, with "PRODUCTIONS" (which is smaller and in a different font (named Galano Grotesque) than in the 27th logo) sliding down from below the logo, similar to the Microsoft PowerPoint "Peek In" effect. Sometimes, the copyright info can be seen while the logo is animating. 5th Logo (Early 2000-March 29, 2002, 2006), 8th Logo (December 2002-January 2003, 2005), 9th Logo (October 27, 2004-November 19, 2004, 2006), 10th Logo (December 17, 2004-December 15, 2006, January 6, 2009), 13th Logo (February 14, 2008-June 12, 2009), 16th Logo (February 9, 2019, August 9, 2019-November 15, 2019), Film production companies of the United States, Film production companies of the United Kingdom. The Nathan Love website version and the UK release of PAW Patrol: The Movie had SpongeBob's line and singing absent. The extended version is extinct, due to it being seen on split-screen credits airings of. A blue-colored ball emerges from the explosion as several yellow streaks form in it. Availability: Very rare. Trivia: This logo was based off of Nickelodeon's morphing screenbugs from 2006 to 2009. A shorter version of the logo starts out with the balls zooming out from the middle of the screen. Originally used as a Summer 1996 network ident. The blimp takes off toward the screen right before the logo cuts out. FX/SFX: Extraordinary CGI! Theme 1: A dramatic 4-note fanfare that is somewhat reminiscent of. Availability: Used in tandem with the next and the 2009 logo.
Also, it's good to hear the iconic Nick jingle in this logo, especially the new rebrand on September 28, 2009. Logo: On a white background, we see some orange balloons with the letters of "nick" (in the same font as the previous three logos) on them cover up the screen for a few seconds before floating up off-screen. Nonetheless, this logo is a favorite of many, despite heavy plastering in recent years. On the workprint version, the opening theme was heard with sound effects. Editor's Note: This is generally a well-known and memorable logo among fans of 1990s and 2000s Nickelodeon. Copyright info is shown below. Logo: We see a forest on a sunny day, as if it was seen in the grass. The background glow and the Nickelodeon logo are in. Nicknames: "Orange Letters VI", "Bouncing and Orange", "Kids and Orange II". Music/Sounds: An electronic beat followed by a guitar-led rendition of the last five notes of the Nickelodeon jingle. Logo: During the opening of a show, many 3D Nickelodeon logos of different shapes and sizes (including a balloon, crayon, leaf, hat, crown, gear, top, key, etc.) Music/Sounds: Same as the previous logo for the long version. Pretty good CGI. It's not badly animated at all, and it's far better-looking than its television counterpart. The kids' laughing audio used from August 2001 to September 2006 was taken from the Hanna-Barbera Lost Treasures sound effects library; it was also used in the. Logo: We see an orange scribble-like shape with "NICKELODEON" on it (the one usually used in the intro for the logo of Rugrats), with the copyright notice (in either white or yellow) below it. Editor's Note: The logo has some pretty impressive animation for the time. Nicknames: "Orange Letters IV", "Characters and Orange", "Slingshot and Orange".
