Nickelodeon/1990s

Nick Is Kids (mid-1990s)


ID: We see the Nickelodeon logo pulsating against a purple background. It cuts to dark images of Nickelodeon shows and stars. Then we see a Nickelodeon oval, and the image blurs. We see more footage. Then we see an orange Nickelodeon splat, and it stops pulsating. A red circle that reads "IS KIDS" appears below the logo.

Technique: The pinching/punching and rippling effect of the Nickelodeon logo and fading in and out of the footage.

Variant: A variant exists with the footage of the kids replaced with black and white footage of Nicktoons.

Music/Sounds: Almost throughout the entire ID, we hear a heartbeat. We also hear an idea/lightbulb sound effect but sounding a bit stuttering. We then hear a man saying "Nick is" and then ambience and little swooshing noises can be heard and then we hear the man again saying the same line and then we hear what sounds like ambiance noise of a door closing several times before a small bang is heard which abruptly stops the heartbeat and then we hear the man saying "kids".

Availability: Extinct.

Egg and Spoon (1990-April 1993)


ID: In a purple room, with an egg on a stand on top of a table full of Nickelodeon logos, a spoon taps on the egg, which gains the face of a monster, complete with hair, horns, a bull's nose ring, and a giant mouth with fangs. The monster egg makes a weird noise resembling a low-pitched roar (think the MGM lion), which causes the spoon, which turns into a chicken, to start squawking in fear, then it runs off. The monster egg then looks at us, then turns towards the camera as he swallows the screen and as we see the Nickelodeon logo imprinted on his uvula (the hanging ball in the back of your throat), and he makes the low pitched noise again.

Technique: Early CGI animation by Edward Bakst and Ampersand.

Music/Sounds: A weird brass theme that sounds a little like "Humpty Dumpty" when the spoon taps the egg, then a sample of the 1867 Modest Mussorgsky composition A Night On Bald Mountain starting when the egg becomes the monster. Low pitched grunts/roars from the monster egg (as well as a "Hmm?!" when he looks at us and chuckling when he starts to swallow the screen) and squawking from the chicken spoon are also heard.

Availability: Extinct. It was recently shown on NickRewind on TeenNick.

Legacy: Some may have been thrown off by the egg monster in this bumper, but it’s a memorable one from Nickelodeon’s classic era.

Nickelodeon Blimp (June 1992-Spring 2002)
ID: On a purple flashing background, we see three kids in white suits painting an orange blimp. Then more kids come in and put the letters of the word "NICKELODEON" on the blimp.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: A bunch of drums.

Availability: Extinct.

Acting Hands (September 10, 1991-1994)
TBA

Macaroni and Cheese (September 1991-1994)
TBA

Hairstyles (September 1991-1994)
TBA

Untie the Knot (September 1991-1994)
TBA

Foil (September 11, 1991-1994)
TBA

Paint (September 22, 1991-1994)
TBA

Tape (September 9, 1991-1994)
TBA

Clay Faces (September 1991-1994)
TBA

Layers of Clay (September 1991-1994)
TBA

Paint Hairstyles (September 1991-1994)
TBA

Magic Doors (September 1991-1994)
TBA

Nicktoons Painter (September 1991-1994)
TBA

Nicktoons Blob (April 1993-November 15, 1999)


ID: An orange drip of slime falls and hits the ground, forming the Nicktoons logo at the time. Afterwards, it becomes a dolphin, which jumps and hits the ground, turning back into the Nicktoons logo. The logo then becomes a dinosaur that briefly walks before melting and turning back into the logo. Finally, the logo turns into a man who walks to the right. The man slips on a banana peel and forms the Nicktoons splat.

Variants:
 * When this appeared on Nick Rewind in 2006, the last few seconds of the ID were replaced by a 2D Nickelodeon splat.
 * On some prints of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons' Fairly OddParents short "Where's the Wand", the ID starts out normal, but it goes to the the man transformation. The executive producers' credit (which reads "Executive Producers: Fred Seibert, Larry Huber") appears, then the title card for the short appears.
 * When The 90s Are All That became The Splat, the logo made a huge comeback as a bumper. In between the transformations, the Nicktoons logo is replaced by The Splat logo, which is on a pink background with patterns everywhere.

Technique: CGI from Blue Sky Studios.

Music/Sounds: A hip-hop theme with sound effects for each transformation. In the variant, it sounds the same but with most of the sound effects are removed. The music continues to the title card.

Availability: On Nickelodeon itself, it was extinct for a long time, first seen on The 90's Are All That (now NickRewind) on December 31, 2011. The variant only appeared in some prints of the ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons' Fairly OddParents'' short "Where's the Wand". The part where the guy slips on a banana peel was used in the beginning of a promo for Nicktoons tapes on the VHS version of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. It returned to television on October 5, 2015. It can be seen on NickRewind.

Nickelodeon Characters (August 11, 1991-2004)
ID: Depends on the variant, but all variants of this ID involve characters from one of the Nicktoons interacting with an object with the Nickelodeon logo on it.

Variants:
 * Rugrats #1: We see a giant eye watching an Nickelodeon caterpillar. The camera zooms out to reveal it's Chuckie Finster, and he scrambles to get the caterpillar off him until it turns into a Nickelodeon butterfly.
 * Rugrats #2: Angelica Pickles sings into a microphone. She runs away as the white background shatters to reveal an one with the Nickelodeon logo, and Angelica peeks in from the right side and shrugs.
 * Rugrats #3: Reptar stomps in and roars. Then he hears another dinosaur roaring and runs away in a fright as an Nickelodeon dinosaur approaches.
 * Rugrats #4: Tommy and Dil Pickles are having a fight over an Nickelodeon ball and tug at it until they both let go and it turns into the  Nickelodeon splat. Dil briefly cries, before he and Tommy smile at the logo.
 * Ren & Stimpy: Ren Höek is in an Nickelodeon bathtub and hears something bubbling. He lifts his leg and Stimpy J. Cat jumps out of the tub, holding a bar of soap.
 * Doug: Doug Funnie is carrying an Nickelodeon sign while Porkchop sits on the other end, waving at Doug. Doug turns his head and shrugs, dropping the sign on his foot as Porkchop slides over to his arms and licks him.
 * Hey Arnold!: Helga Pataki passes an Nickelodeon ball to the other kids, ending with Arnold Shortman, who hits it with a baseball bat and sends it crashing into the screen. Everyone except for Arnold runs away, and Arnold hides his bat behind him, smiling nervously.
 * The Angry Beavers: Norbert and Daggett Beaver stare at each other and start removing their underwear layer-by-layer. Eventually Norbert is wearing an speedo and Daggett rips off the fur on his torso, before using Norbert's speedo to hide himself and revealing the Nickelodeon logo.
 * CatDog: Cat and Dog chase after an Nickelodeon garbage truck and Dog gobbles the whole truck up, leaving them both bloated. Dog gangs and Cat vomits, forming the Nickelodeon logo.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob SquarePants tries to blow an Nickelodeon bubble, but fails. So he takes a deep breath, accidentally swallowing the bubble and spitting several bubbles out through his pores. The bubbles form a giant Nickelodeon bubble, pleasing SpongeBob.
 * The Fairly OddParents: Cosmo and Wanda in black and white are standing in front of a black-and-white Nickelodeon heart, and they change themselves to color before noticing the heart and also coloring it. The logo then tips over and splashes paint on them.
 * As Told by Ginger: Ginger Foutley, Dodie Bishop, and Macie Lightfoot are dancing until Courtney Gripling and Miranda Killgallen show up. Suddenly, splat water balloons are thrown by Carl and Hoodsey, forming the Nickelodeon logo, leading everyone to leave the scene except Ginger, who chases after Carl and Hoodsey.
 * The Wild Thornberrys: Eliza and Darwin Thornberry run towards the camera, screaming when they're close enough, and it's revealed that they're running from an Nickelodeon rhino with Donnie dangling by its tail.
 * Rocket Power: Reggie Rocket is roller-skating, Otto's riding a bike, and Twister Rodriguez and Sam Dullard are skateboarding. They all join together and crash into a wall, leaving an imprint of themselves with the Nickelodeon logo on it.
 * Pelswick: Pelswick Eggert rides his wheelchair over some hills, which are revealed to be the Nickelodeon splat logo.
 * Jimmy Neutron: Same as the Rugrats #3 bumper, but the dinosaur's top opens up to reveal Jimmy Neutron and Goddard piloting it.
 * Jimmy Neutron #2: Same as the Wild Thornberrys bumper, but the rhino is instead an rocket with the Nickelodeon logo on it piloted by Jimmy and Goddard, with the latter holding a rope that Donnie's dangling by.
 * Oh Yeah! Cartoons #1: Vlad the Count is frightened by Mina Harper's jack-o-lantern and flies away in bat form. Mina shows her pumpkin to the audience, revealing the Nickelodeon logo.
 * Oh Yeah! Cartoons #2: TBA
 * ChalkZone: TBA

Technique: The animation, provided by the same studio (Nickelodeon Animation Studios) that animates the Nicktoons. Also, the Ren & Stimpy and Doug ones were done by J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, the Rugrats, Ginger, Thornberrys and Rocket Power ones were done by Klasky-Csupo's commercial animation division Class-Key Chew-Po Commercials, the Jimmy Neutron bumpers were done by DNA Productions, and the Pelswick bumper was done by the Canada-based animation studio Nelvana.

Music/Sounds: Depends. It's usually the theme song of the show, culminating in the familiar Nickelodeon jingle, as well as sound effects and voice actors that correspond to what happens in the bumper. However, the Doug bumper, the Ren and Stimpy bumper, the Fairly OddParents bumper and the second ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' bumper does not use the Nickelodeon jingle.

Availability: Extinct, as most of these shows don't air on Nickelodeon anymore in the summer of 2004. However, the first Rugrats bumper was shown on NickRewind during a break in July 2017, and the Angry Beavers bumper was shown on NickRewind’s Twitter account during Throwback Thursday. The Jimmy Neutron bumpers were only used in 2001 to promote the film.

New Year Baby (1991?-????)
TBA

Nick is Everyday (1991-1996)
ID: On a black background, we see a white mannequin silhouette dancing toward the screen, and then it shakes its head and moves away (as if so not to invade personal space). The screen flashes as the colors invert, and a boy runs away from a Nickelodeon bomb. The bomb fades away, and we see the words, "NICK" and "IS" before cutting to a schoolgirl thinking something. Then, she leans against the words "EVERY DAY", which fade out as dancing silhouettes drop down. They disappear as a Nickelodeon sun fades into the center of the screen while it flashes. "MON" appears with an orange silhouette of a boy, "TUE" appears with a kid doing her hair and a ringing alarm clock, "WED" and "THU" appear under the sun (with shadows), "FRI" appears with a green stick figure rotating over the "I" and falling to the ground. Then, a boy holds "SAT" and the image flips around to a girl holding "SUN". Then the words "NICK", "IS", and "EVERY DAY" flash in on a magenta, green, and blue background respectively. The Nickelodeon splat logo zooms in. We fade to black and see the green stick figure falling from the top of the screen and yelling "Nick is every day!"

Technique: Cut-out animation.

Music/Sounds: Minimal (that is, low and synthesized) jazz music and the guy yelling "Nick is every day!" at the end (voiced by Marc Summers of Double Dare).

Availability: Extinct.

Dog Blocks (February 1992-March 1996)
TBA

Basketball (June 1992-September 17, 1995)
TBA

Gymnast (June 1992-1996?)
TBA

Football Halftime (October 1992-April 1993)
TBA

Lockers (June 1992-Spring 2002)
ID: In a black-and-white school hallway, we see kids getting stuff from lockers and going to class. As more kids go to class, we see the lockers have the Nickelodeon logo in black-and-white on them. One locker is open, but a kid runs to shut it. The logo then turns to color.

Technique: Live action.

Music/Sounds: Just the kids chattering and locker doors clanging shut.

Availability: Extinct.

Letters (1992-1993)
TBA

Nickelodeon Home Video Open (1993-1999)


See the Nickelodeon Home Video Opening IDs page for a description.

Head on Chair (May 1993-1995)
ID: In a house with blue walls, a yellow door on the back, and a wooden floor, we see a boy's head rocking from side to side on a chair while watching television. A few moments later, thunder flashes, somewhat alarming the boy's head as the door opens to reveal orange mist outside. The mist soon rips off the walls and the roof, revealing "NICKELODEON" on the top. The boy's head stares at the mist for a few seconds and yawns, after which he continues rocking his head.

Technique: Live action animation.

Music/Sounds: Same as the "Eggs" ID, with some wind sounds from the mist.

Availability: Extinct.

Anagrams (May 1993-1996)
ID: On a blue and orange flashing background, we see "ICE KOLD NEON" spelled under a black box where three girls say each word. Then it changes to "LIKED NO CONE" and the girls repeat it. Then it changes to "COOL KEEN DIN" and the girls repeat that. Finally, the word changes to a Nickelodeon oval as all the girls say "Nickelodeon".

Technique: The girls are live-action. This was designed by Don St. Mars.

Music/Sounds: The girls talking with bongos and weird music playing.

Availability: Extinct.

Anagrams 2 (May 1993-1996)
ID: On a multi-colored flashing background, we see "DO NO CLINKEE" spelled under a black box where three girls say each word. Then it changes to "DEN LOOK NICE" and the girls repeat it. Then it changes to "LINK CODE ONE" and the girls repeat that. Finally, the word changes to a bunch of Nickelodeon arrows as all the girls say "Nickelodeon".

Technique: The girls are live-action. This was designed by Don St. Mars.

Music/Sounds: Rap rock music with Y-DX7 synth bass sounds, along with the pitch of the girl's voice raising and lowering.

Availability: Extinct.

Disco Dogs (May 1993-Spring 2002)
ID: We see six dogs (or more specifically, wire fox terriers) tugging on a Nickelodeon sheet against a flashing blue and background (a la a disco floor) as it zooms on the Nickelodeon logo. Then three dogs in orange Nickelodeon suits morph out of the sheet and dance. It zooms in on the middle dog as we see the logo on his suit.

Technique: Live action computerized dogs on a blue and green flashing background.

Music/Sounds: A girl saying “Do the Nick thing!” followed by dogs barking and girls singing the Nickelodeon theme with disco music in the background, the woman is singing "Nick is Kids!" ending with the girls singing “On Nick!”.

Availability: Extinct, but this can be seen in a break bumper for NickRewind on TeenNick.

Opera (May 1993-August 1998)
ID: We see a conductor with long hair, glasses, a mustache, and a short beard on a stage as he uses his baton to start the show. Then it zooms out on a lady with a big orange wig that reads "NICKELODEON" wearing a purple dress singing the Nickelodeon theme. It briefly closes up to her mouth. Then we see her whole body as she loudly sings "Nick is kids!" Then we see the conductor with a shocked look on his face as his glasses break from the high mote.

Technique: All live-action. This was designed by the now-defunct Blue Brick Design in New York City.

Music/Sounds: Orchestra tuning up until after the conductor begins the show then the lady sings with an orchestral number in the background.

Availability: Last shown on TeenNick during The 90's Are All That (now NickRewind) for the week of December 27-31, 2011, along with several other classic Nick IDs. It's also the thumbnail for NickRewind’s video "A Tribute to Nickelodeon Bumpers".

Bone (May 1993-Spring 2002)
ID: A girl holds up a Nickelodeon bone to a black and white dog and throws it. Then we see a close-up of the spinning Nickelodeon bone. Then the dog catches it.

Technique: All live-action, with a bit of CGI for the bone spinning.

Music/Sounds: Same as the "Ants" logo except with barking from the dog and the tempo is sped up.

Availability: Extinct. It was recently posted on NickRewind's Twitter account during Throwback Thursday.

Pinchface (May 1993-Spring 2002)
ID: In a very psychedelic, pop art-inspired "room", we see two picture frames with two fists made to look like faces (wearing a hat, some googly eyes, and painted-on "lips") on the right wall, and a picture frame with the Nickelodeon logo in it on the left wall. Two eyes, glasses, dentures and a tie drop down to the middle of the screen and float and bounce around while remaining in place to look like a face. As the colors of the background and even the Nick picture frame continually flash and change throughout the bumper, the fists do the "Nick Nick Nick" section of the Nickelodeon theme, with the Pinchface saying "Nickelodeon" (as it does this, the picture frame reads "Nickelodeon" instead of "Nick"). After the second time the Pinchface says "NickelOOOOOOdeOOOOON!", an orange background with "NICKELODEON" on it flashes three times.

Variant: Apparently, this was used as a sign-off bumper for Nickelodeon at one point. After the face says "Nickelodeon" the second time, it cuts to color bars.

Technique: A very creative combination of chroma-key effects, pixilation, and puppetry, with the Pinchface moved by threads (this is more visible on higher-quality uploads of this ident). This was done by Blue Brick Design.

Music/Sounds: A funky-sounding Balkan brass rendition of the Nickelodeon theme, possibly sung by New York-based klezmer group The Klezmatics. The Pinchface sounds similar to both Los Angeles-based veteran voice actor Tom Kenny (specifically his Heffer Wolfe voice) and Lorin Sklamberg, the lead singer of said group.

Music/Sounds Variant: One version had the Pinchface do a count-off at the beginning in Yiddish: "Eyns, tsvey, dray, fir!" (translation: One, two, three, four!) This version can only be heard on the "The Jetsam Collection" disc of the "Nickelodeon Music & Sound Library" CD boxset.

Availability: Extinct. It reappeared in a bumper for the 2011 Nickelodeon block The 90's Are All That (now NickRewind) on TeenNick. It's on NickRewind's promo "A Tribute to Nickelodeon Bumpers" for a few seconds, too. It's also on a 1994 Earth Day promo for Nickelodeon.

Legacy: A very creative and memorable ID for those that grew-up with Nickelodeon in the '90s.

Funky Dance (May 1993-Spring 2002)
ID: We see a group of kids in a circle as a man sings "Everybody over here". Then the Nickelodeon theme plays. The kids start to dance while carrying a Nickelodeon parachute as they walk in a circle. Two kids jump over the parachute as the rest of them dance. Then they cover themselves in the Nickelodeon parachute.

Technique: Live-action.

Music/Sounds: The man singing the Nickelodeon theme, but with female chorus.

Availability: Extinct.

Ants (May 1993-1996)
ID: A bunch of bloated ants are on a picnic blanket with all the food eaten (including cheese, and a sandwich). One plays a guitar and another sticks out of a soda can with a night cap on as they all sing the Nickelodeon theme while some ants hiccup. A quarter of the presented food have Nick or Nickelodeon logos on them. At the end, it zooms out so that we can read the word "NICKELODEON" on the picnic blanket.

Technique: All the animation in the ID.

Music/Sounds: All the ants singing the Nickelodeon theme with a guitar playing in the background.

Trivia: A slightly sped-up version of the music was later reused in another Nickelodeon bumper featuring a girl and her dog (described above).

Availability: Last shown on TeenNick during The 90's Are All That (now NickRewind) for the week of December 27-31, 2011, along with several other classic Nickelodeon IDs. Now currently airs (as of December 2nd, 2015) on NickRewind.

Nick is Kids Arena Rock (May 1993-Spring 2002)
ID: On a black background, we see a Nickelodeon logo, which folds into a white screen covered in small dancing stick figures, which is constantly shaking. After a moment, the screen transitions into a close up of four of the aforementioned people, whose heads are shaped like a nickel, a sack or load, an "E", and a light bulb that turns on (it's a pun: "Nickel-Load-E-ON"). Then it wipes to the Nick logo which also shakes a bit.

Technique: Cut-out animation.

Music/Sounds: A heavy metal jingle with loud drums plays throughout almost the entire bumper. A voice shouting "Come on now!" and other things, and the people yelling "Nick-Nick-Nick...". At the end, the guy screams "Nick is kids!"

Availability: Extinct, unless it appears on NickRewind.

Chair Butterfly (May 1993-Spring 2002)
ID: In a blue room, we see a kid sitting on an odd-looking orange recliner. A group of kids appear behind and under the "chair", and the boy jumps off it, revealing it is a giant cross-shaped piece of fabric with "NICKELODEON" written on the center. The kids play with the fabric a bit, and then pretend to flap it as if it were a butterfly, at which point the fabric suddenly flies away on its own, much to the kids' confusion.

Technique: Sped-up live-action and puppetry.

Music/Sounds: A nice scat rendition of the Nick theme followed by a male voice saying "Like, Nick is kids!"

Availability: Extinct.

Barnyard (May 1993-1998)
ID: We see all kinds of animals and objects on a toy farm set. At each scene, the Nickelodeon logo is right at the top of the screen in the form of orange clouds.

Technique: Just live-action of a bunch of toys from a farm set.

Music/Sounds: Some vocalists sing the Nickelodeon theme in nasal-sounding voices with bluegrass twang in the background. A pause occurs with a Cartoon Trax frog croak sound and other stock cartoon sounds. Then the vocalists sing "Nick is kids!" followed by a Cartoon Trax chicken cluck sound.

Availability: Extinct. Was last seen during Thanksgiving week on NickRewind on TeenNick, and on its Twitter account during Throwback Thursday.

Paper Chase (May 1993-August 17, 1996)
ID: TBA

Technique: Cut-out animation.

Music/Sounds: A cute cartoony theme, inspired by the music of They Might Be Giants. On "The Jetsam Collection," the song is listed as "They Might Be Midgets."

Availability: Extinct.

Nickelodeon Ball (May 1993-Spring 2002)
TBA

Eggs (May 1993-1997)
ID: We see a large black rooster singing "Nick is kids!" while holding an orange egg with "NICKELODEON" on it, and the egg jumps out of his hand, walking on the legs of the chick that is hatching out. The rooster dances while trying to get the egg as we see a bunch of hens sing the Nickelodeon theme. Finally, he catches the orange egg while holding up a basket with a bunch of orange eggs in it.

Technique: 2D animation by Mark Baldo.

Music/Sounds: An energetic gospel-like rendition of the Nickelodeon theme.

Availability: Extinct. It was shown occasionally on NickRewind.

Eyes in the Dark (May 1993-1995)
ID: TBA

Variant: In Germany, the text was translated to German.

Technique: A blend of 2D and CG.

Music/Sounds: The kids giggling and cartoon sound effects, as well as the dad yelling "Hey, what do you think this is?!".

Music/Sounds Variant: In Germany, the man speaks German.

Availability: Extinct.

Reggae Sun (May 1993-1996)
ID: TBA

Technique: A blend of cel animation and stop-motion.

Music/Sounds: A reggae version of the Nick theme.

Availability: Extinct.

Floating Kids (May 1993-August 1998)
ID: On a blue background, we see seven technicolored children, some of them looking ugly and deformed, looking at us, as we pan to the right. As we reached to the end with the pinkish red girl, we see that the kids are looking at a morphing Nickelodeon logo. The camera zooms out as we see a plane flying by from the top left.

Technique: Clay animation.

Music/Sounds: A dreamy version of the Nick theme sung by a woman as well as whoosh.

Availability: Extinct.

Fall (November 1993-October 1997)
TBA

Turkey (November 1993-1996)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: Cartoon sounds and the people at the table exclaiming.

Availability: Extinct.

Reindeer (December 18, 1993-December 20, 1997)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Shaker (December 1993-2000)
ID: TBA

Technique: CG animation.

Music/Sounds: Mellow violin music, which transitions to livelier holiday music with trumpets, ending with three notes.

Availability: Extinct.

Thing in a Box (May 1993-1996)
ID: On a blue background with semi-transparent Nickelodeon logos, we see a box with a morphing Nickelodeon logos. The camera then enters the inside of the box. Then a blob that looks like a mix of Klasky-Csupo's "Splaat", the Stretch Films "Laughing Mouth", and Slimer from the film Ghostbusters with a cartoonish eye and a realistic eye and flesh-toned funnel-shaped ears emerges from the bottom. The face sees the viewer and it laughs in a weird way. The box suddenly closes and we zoom out.

Technique: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: A drum-heavy theme, along with some weird giggling for the face.

Availability: Extinct.

Legacy: This bumper is notorious among some for its creepy face and the fact that it laughs, and is noted to resemble the later and infamous Klasky-Csupo and Stretch Film logos.

Nick Sings (Spring 1996-Spring 2002; 2011)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation by Cat & Crossbones Productions.

Music/Sounds: A distorted bongo tune, a slurping sound, and a deep voice laughing.

Availability: Last shown on TeenNick during The 90's Are All That (now NickRewind) for the week of December 27-31, 2011, along with several other classic Nickelodeon IDs.

Machine (1995-????)
ID: We see a robed figure in black (presumably a magician) in front of the camera moving back to show a scene from the year 1905 (with a wrestler, a monkey and a clown in the background) as a girl runs into a nickelodeon theater. The girl puts a coin into a projector, which shows a loop of a man walking wearing a top hat and a suit and holding a cane. The loop slows down and the man grows a beard before a burst of green lightning transforms him into a man dressed in '70s fashion dancing. The scene cuts to him dancing with other children in a city with Nickelodeon signs, now in the year 1979 (when Nickelodeon was officially launched). The camera zooms over to show one girl dressed as the Statue of Liberty lighting an orange animal-shaped rocketship with "NICKELODEON" on it, which takes off and circles the globe before arriving on the other side of the world, where some bored children are seen standing in a dark environment. The rocketship brightens the environment and the children play with objects that it drops, including a robot, a frog, a monster, a party horn, and a chicken, which lays an egg with the Nickelodeon logo on it.

Technique: 2D animation (black-and-white for the first part and in color for the rest of the bumper) by Studio Film Bilder in Germany.

Music/Sounds: For the first part, some 1900s-esque carnival music followed by a silent movie piano tune that slows down before being replaced by a disco theme that seems to be based on the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive". All of which are accompanied by various sound effects. In Germany, a male German narrator spoke throughout the ID.

Availability: Extinct. Was originally made for Nickelodeon Germany and presumably last seen on The Splat/NickSplat; it was more recently spotted on an intro for NickRewind in 2019.

Windshield (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: We see a man driving a car. Three orange splats saying "NICK" appear. The man gets angry and he decides to use the windshield wipers. The wipers turn the three splats into a bigger splat saying "NICKELODEON". The man is confused.

Technique: 2D animation by International Rocketship for Drucker Motion Pictures.

Music/Sounds: The man muttering, along with some splatting sounds.

Availability: Rare; seen on the Paramount VHS of Rugrats: Angelica The Divine.

Parking Meter (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: CG animation by Primal Screen.

Music/Sounds: Various robotic noises and the robot repeating "Wow!"

Availability: Extinct.

DJ (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A rap remix of the Nick theme.

Availability: Extinct; most recently made a cameo in a bumper for The 90's Are All That.

Jack in the Box (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: Springing sounds and the boy laughing.

Availability: Extinct; most recently made a cameo in a bumper for The 90's Are All That.

Surfer Dude (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation by Pete List.

Music/Sounds: A surf rock score and crashing waves as someone shouts "eh" six times.

Availability: Extinct.

Cave Drawing (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation by Funline Animation.

Music/Sounds: The TV buzzing and the animals' hooves.

Availability: Extinct.

Whoopee (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation by Olexa Hewryk and Primal Screen.

Music/Sounds: Cartoon sounds.

Availability: Extinct.

Rhino Ballerina (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: A rhino is performing ballet on stage. It falls through the floor and the stage is covered by Nickelodeon curtains. The rhino emerges from the floor as some animals giggle.

Technique: Cut-out animation.

Music/Sounds: String music, then the rhino exclaiming, glass shattering, and the animals giggling.

Availability: Extinct.

Submarine (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: CG animation.

Music/Sounds: A group of creaking and popping noises.

Availability: Extinct; occasionally seen on The Splat.

Jackhammer (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: Jackhammer sounds and the worker yelling. Underneath these, a funky tune plays.

Availability: Extinct.

Campfire (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: Just some woodland sounds and some splats.

Availability: Extinct.

Alien (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: In space, we see a Nickelodeon UFO pass by the moon and peer towards a green landscape. It crashes into the land, then bounces into the moon, and slams into a nearby comet, turning all of them orange with "NICK" imprinted on them (as well as turning the moon into a crescent). The UFO spins to the center, and a green alien pops out of the top, dizzily waving at us.

Technique: CG animation by Steve Speer.

Music/Sounds: An electronic rendition of the Nick theme.

Availability: Rare; it can be found on the Paramount reissues of the Rugrats tapes "A Baby's Gotta Do What a Baby's Gotta Do" and "Chuckie the Brave".

Gifts (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: Two human hands open many gifts with Nickelodeon logos printed on them. Suddenly, a Nickelodeon blimp flies out and the camera follows the blimp.

Technique: Superb stop-motion by an unknown company for Drucker Motion Pictures.

Music/Sounds: A '50s-style theme along with a kid saying "Huh?".

Availability: Extinct.

3D Robot (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: CG animation.

Music/Sounds: A funky dance tune.

Availability: Extinct.

Pop Goes The Monkey (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation by International Rocketship.

Music/Sounds: Two "boing" sounds and a popping noise. Quiet calliope music is heard in the background.

Availability: Extinct.

Monster Disco (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: Stop-motion by Webster Colcord.

Music/Sounds: Disco music, one of the monsters saying "Step aside!", and everyone cheering him on.

Availability: Extinct.

Fly Fishing (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: A fly buzzes past a bowl with some orange Nickelodeon soup in it. A fish pops out of the bowl and eats the fly. The fly comes out of the soup a few seconds later.

Technique: 2D animation produced by Primal Screen for Drucker Motion Pictures.

Music/Sounds: A Hanna-Barbera fly buzzing sound, then a short guitar riff.

Availability: Extinct.

Betterfly (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation by Trip Park, filmed at Curious Pictures.

Music/Sounds: The bug making noises and a shimmer sound when he becomes a butterfly.

Availability: Extinct.

Sweater (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: Cartoon sounds and the two people exclaiming.

Availability: Extinct.

Kookoo (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation by Trip Park, filmed at Curious Pictures.

Music/Sounds: The cuckoo shouts "koo-koo!" twice, then boings onto and smudges down the screen with a Hanna-Barbera eye blink sound.

Availability: Extinct.

Buggy Drink (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: TBA

Technique: Stop-motion, produced by the musician Aurelio Voltaire.

Music/Sounds: The flies slurping their drinks, the left one getting swatted and the other one freaking out as dramatic music starts.

Availability: Extinct; most recently made a cameo in a bumper for The 90's Are All That.

Cactus (Spring 1996-Spring 2002)
ID: On a crumpled up piece of notebook paper, we see a close up of the Nickelodeon logo shaped like a cactus. We zoom out to reveal a teal turtle who touches it three times.

Variant: A prototype version of the ID is a little extended, showing the turtle placing his hand over his mouth.

Technique: 2D/cut-out animation produced by Our Gang Productions and Computer Cafe for Drucker Motion Pictures.

Music/Sounds: A nice mariachi tune with the turtle saying "Nick, Nick, Nick." The prototype version had a banjo version of the Nick theme and the turtle saying "Ow" three times.

Availability: Extinct, but it makes a cameo appearance in a promo for the NickRewind block on TeenNick, along with other IDs.