Nickelodeon Home Media/Endcaps

Background
Normally on VHS or DVD releases, Nickelodeon will typically replace their normal TV logo with a still screenshot of one of their ID's used at the time. This page features logos exclusively seen on these releases, as well as ones exclusively seen on home media or have also been used as a Nickelodeon Productions logo.

1st Logo (August 31, 1993)
Logo: Over a black background, we see a weird-looking 2D Nickelodeon splat logo, which looks like it's been jabbed by a bone several times. Copyright information is below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Extremely rare.
 * It is only seen on the first four Nickelodeon VHS tapes released by Sony Wonder: Rugrats Volume 1: Tales from the Crib, Rugrats Volume 2: A Baby's Gotta Do What A Baby's Gotta Do, Doug Volume 1: How Did I Get into This Mess and Doug Volume 2: Patti, You're the Mayonnaise For Me.
 * The 1996 re-releases of the Rugrats tapes (from Paramount) plaster this logo with the "Slime", while the Doug tapes were never re-released.

2nd Logo (1993-1995?, 2000-2009)
Logo: Same as the Nickelodeon "Haypile" logo, but with an expanded copyright that says "(C)(year) Viacom International Inc. All rights reserved. Nickelodeon, (NAME OF SHOW), and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc."

Variants:
 * Sony Wonder releases from the early '90s normally contained a copyright with the release's name on it.
 * A variant exists without copyright info at all on the VHS version of Oswald On The Go (2004). This may be because the HIT Entertainment logo that preceded it (and 3 Nick Jr. logos/bumpers) already had copyright info, so it would be meaningless to have it appear twice. Despite that, the DVD release does contain copyright info.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None or the end theme of the show.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * On both the Volume 1 & Volume 2 DVDs of The Amanda Show, the audio from the Nickelodeon Productions Lightbulb is used.
 * VideoNow Color releases of All Grown Up have the tail end of the 3rd Klasky Csupo logo.

Availability: Very common.
 * It originally appears at the end on a few Sony Wonder releases.
 * By 2000, it had appeared at the end on pretty much all Nickelodeon VHS's and DVDs from 2000 until 2009 (with the exception of a few Nick Jr. tapes from that time, which used the "Bone", Little Bear: Let's Play a Game, which used the "Flower", and Little Bear: Little Sherlock Bear, which used the Shark, before switching to this one).
 * Examples include Season 1 of The Adventures of Pete & Pete and all SpongeBob SquarePants DVDs from 2003 to 2009, along with several Nick Jr. shows.
 * This logo also appears on DVD releases of Avatar: The Last Airbender and VideoNow Color releases of All Grown Up.
 * The 2009 DVD of True Jackson, VP: Season 1, Volume 1 is one of the last releases to use the logo.

3rd Logo (April 12, 1994)


Logo: Over a black background, we see an orange scribble (that also looks somewhat like a firework explosion) with the Nickelodeon text inside it. Copyright information is below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Extremely rare.
 * It is only known to appear on the Sony Wonder release of Rugrats: Angelica the Divine.
 * Like with the "Weird Splat", the Paramount version of the tape plasters this logo with the "Slime".

4th Logo (August 23, 1994)


Logo: On a black background, we see an orange 2D bat with the Nickelodeon text on the front. Copyright info is underneath.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the show.

Availability: Extremely rare. It's only seen on Nickelodeon Fright-fest, from Sony Wonder. Also used as a network ID.

5th Logo (August 30, 1994)
Logo: On a black background, a holly-shaped 2D Nickelodeon logo is seen, with the text on the top leaf. Copyright info is underneath.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the show.

Availability: Extremely rare. It's only seen on the original Sony Wonder prints of Doug's Christmas Story. The Paramount reissue replaces this logo with the 3D Nick Lightbulb.

6th Logo (February 1997-November 6, 2001)
Logo: On a black background, a flower-shaped 3D Nickelodeon logo is seen. Copyright info is below.

Variant:
 * There is an animated version where the flower zooms in, on top of the copyright info. This can be seen on the Little Bear tape Family Tales.
 * There's another animated version where the flower is seen blooming above the copyright info.

Technique: None or the flower zooming in.

Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the show, or none. Rugrats: Mommy Mania has a quote from one of the preceding episodes on the tape (Tommy: "Bye, Chuckie--I mean, Blaine."). The second animated variant has an oinking sound as the logo animates.

Availability: Uncommon. Appears on several releases from the time period:
 * The still version appears on the VHS tapes of Blue's Clues: Blue's Safari, CatDog: Together Forever, and Rugrats: Mommy Mania.
 * It also turned up on four Gullah Gullah Island VHS tapes: the Paramount reissues of "Sing Along With Binyah Binyah", "Binyah's Surprise" and "Play Along With Binyah And Friends", and "Dance Along With The Daise Family".
 * It also appears on the Paramount reissues of these three Eureeka's Castle VHS tapes: Sing Along At Eureeka's Castle, Christmas At Eureeka's Castle and Wide Awake at Eureeka's Castle
 * It also showed up on eight Little Bear videos: Family Tales, Goodnight Little Bear, Friends, Summertime Tales, A Kiss For Little Bear, Little Bear's Band, Rainy Day Tales and Let's Play a Game.
 * The animated version only appears on the three Australian Snout! shorts, which have been uploaded to Vimeo. This was also adapted into an opening video ID.
 * This logo was also used as a part of a 1996-98 Nickelodeon break bumper.

7th Logo (October 1, 1996-January 11, 2002)
Logo: On a black background, an orange slime 3D Nickelodeon logo (which looks more like a cloud) is seen. Copyright info is seen below or sometimes not at all.

Trivia: On the YouTube channel Smosh Games, an Honest Trailer (which is a parody) for Splatoon featured this logo, mentioned as an inspiration for the game.

Variants:
 * There's an animated variant in which the slime is shown spinning while zooming up to the front of the screen.
 * Another animated variant has the logo suddenly jerk a bit.

Technique: None except for the slime zooming/spinning on the animated variants.

Music/Sounds: None, except for the second variant, which has a suction cup sound.

Availability: This is the most common out of all the Home Media endcaps to find on VHS, especially compared to some of the other black-background logos on this page.
 * It's seen on a grand total of 10 Rugrats VHS tapes (from Paramount): The Santa Experience, Return of Reptar, Tales from the Crib, Angelica the Divine, Bedtime Bash, Diapered Duo, Chuckie the Brave, A Baby's Gotta Do What a Baby's Gotta Do, and A Rugrats Passover, which plaster the NAS "Haypile", "Firework" or "Weird Splat" from the Sony Wonder releases.
 * It also showed up on a few Allegra's Window VHS tapes: Small is Beautiful, Waiting for Grandma, Storytime Sing Along and Allegra's Christmas.
 * It also appeared on some VHS releases of The Ren and Stimpy Show and Clarissa Explains it All.
 * It is also shown without the copyright stamp, on a preview for Rugrats videos, which can be found on the VHS release of The Rugrats Movie and five Blue's Clues VHS tapes: Blue's Discoveries, Magenta Comes Over, Stop, Look and Listen, Blue's Big Pajama Party, and Blue's Safari, as well as most Nickelodeon tapes from 1997 to 2000.
 * The animated variant can be found during a Rugrats VHS promo on several Rugrats video releases from the late '90s.
 * The animated version was also seen on the American/Australian VHS Ren and Stimpy: Incredibly Stupid Stories with the copyright stamp intact.
 * Also used as part of a 1996-98 "next on Nickelodeon" ID, break bumpers for Tiny Toon Adventures and The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, and on a "Nick Takes Over Your School Sweepstakes" commercial.

8th Logo (March 11, 1997-April 7, 1998)


Logo: Same as the second version of the Nickelodeon Productions "Jack" logo, but it is a still picture, and copyright information appears below the Jack.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Extremely rare. It only appears on the Allegra's Window VHS release Play with Allegra and Friends and the Gullah Gullah Island VHS release Feelings, plastering the 1990-2000 Nickelodeon Studios logo on both shows.

9th Logo (1997-1999)
Logo: Same as the Nickelodeon Productions "Balloon" logo, but it is a still picture.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability:
 * it appears on two Hey Arnold! VHS releases: Helga Stories and Urban Adventures VHS tapes.
 * It also appears on three Rugrats VHS releases - Rugrats: Grandpa's Favorite Stories, the Venezuelan version of Rugrats: Tales from the Crib and the UK version of Rugrats: Chuckie the Brave.
 * It also showed up on the Rocko's Modern Life VHS release With Friends Like These.
 * This logo was also used as part of a 1996-98 Nickelodeon break bumper.

10th Logo (1997-1998)
Logo: On a black background, a 3D fish-shaped Nickelodeon logo is seen. Blue bubbles are seen are also seen coming out of the fish. Copyright info is below.

Technique: None.

Availability: Prior to becoming an opening ID, this logo isn't as common as before.
 * Can be found on some VHS releases of Rugrats such as the 1997 versions of Tommy Troubles and Phil and Lil: Double Trouble, as well as both the US and UK releases of A Rugrats Vacation.
 * This logo was also used as part of Doug break bumpers used between 1995-98.

11th Logo (March 11, 1997-April 7, 1998, January 28, 2003-August 31, 2004)
Logo: On a black background, a top-shaped 3D Nickelodeon logo is seen. Copyright info is seen below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None, apart from the snippet as seen on the Lightbulb logo below on A Rugrats Chanukah.

Availability: Fairly rare. It was first used as a Nickelodeon ident.
 * It appears on two Little Bear VHS tapes: Meet Little Bear and Winter Tales.
 * Also seen on the VHS release of Allegra's Window: Sing-Along with Allegra and Lindi and the 1998 UK VHS of A Rugrats Chanukah (albeit slightly tipped over, and replacing the 3D Lightbulb logo below).

12th Logo (July 8, 1997-1998, March-September 2000, 2005)
Logo: On a background, we see an orange 3D slug crawling up and down through unseen holes. It moves to the right of the screen to reveal the Nickelodeon logo on it. The copyright info is below it.

Technique: 3D animation.

Music/Sounds: None, or a snippet from one of the episodes or the end theme of the show is used.

Availability: Rare.
 * It appears on the Paramount re-issue of Aaahh!! Real Monsters: Meet the Monsters.
 * It was probably also seen on The Ren and Stimpy Show: Ren's Brain in the UK.
 * This was also used on March-September 2000 airings of The Wild Thornberrys using the split-screen credits.

13th Logo (July 8, 1997-1998, March 5?-May 7?, 2000, 2003)
Logo: On a background, we see a 3D orange eye with "NICK" inside the pupil. The copyright info is below it.

Technique: None or the eye zooming in.

Music/Sounds: None or in the case of 2000 airings of The Secret World of Alex Mack, the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Very rare.
 * It appears on 2 Aaahh!! Real Monsters VHS tapes, which are the Paramount reissue of Monsters Night Out and the European/Australian exclusive tape All About Ickis.
 * It was also used on Nickelodeon's airings of The Secret World of Alex Mack using the split-screen credits in 2000.
 * This logo was also used as part of Legends of the Hidden Temple break bumpers used between 1995-98.

14th Logo (July 8, 1997, 2002)


Logo: On a black background, a robot-shaped 3D Nick logo is seen. Copyright info is seen below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The end-title theme of the show or none.

Availability: Rare. Only appears at the end of the VHS release of Rocko's Modern Life: Machine Madness. Also used as part of a network ID.

15th Logo (October 13-21, 1997)
Logo: We see an orange 3D lightbulb with "NICK" written on it. Copyright info is shown below.

Trivia: This logo was used as the icon for the PC game Nickelodeon 3-D Movie Maker.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The end theme for the show. As for A Rugrats Chanukah, it's a snippet from Angelica from the preceding episode ("Dumb babies! Those are for...Chanukah!").

Availability: Rare.
 * It can be found on the Paramount reissues of the Rocko's Modern Life tape Rocko's Modern Christmas, Doug's Christmas Story, and A Rugrats Chanukah.
 * The UK version of A Rugrats Chanukah replaces this logo with the Top.
 * It made a brief cameo on the 1995 short film Foil-Man.
 * It was falsely rumored to have appeared on SpongeBob SquarePants episodes and other Doug episodes.

16th Logo (August 1997)


Logo: On a black background, a UFO-shaped Nickelodeon logo flies around and lands with 4 planets spinning. Copyright info is seen below.

Technique: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: The end-title theme of the show.

Availability: Extremely rare. It only appears on the Australian/British VHS release of Ren & Stimpy: Space Madness. It was also used as a part of a 1996-98 "next on Nickelodeon" ID.

17th Logo (October 13, 1997)


Logo: Over a black background, a 2D reindeer-shaped Nickelodeon logo is seen in a sprinting pose, with light rays coming from its nose. Copyright info is below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Extremely rare; it's only seen at the end of the VHS release of Hey Arnold: Arnold's Christmas.

18th Logo (October 21, 1997)


Logo: On a black background, a turkey-shaped Nickelodeon logo is seen. The "NICKELODEON" text appears "inflated". Copyright info is seen below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: A quote from the preceding episode; Stu Pickles doing a turkey gobble, followed by Grandpa Boris yelling "Enough with the gobble already!".

Availability: Extremely rare; it's only seen on the VHS release of A Rugrats Thanksgiving.

19th Logo (January 13, 1998)
Logo: Over a black background, we see a 3D heart-shaped Nickelodeon logo with an arrow through the heart. Copyright info is below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Extremely rare; it's only seen on the VHS release of Hey Arnold!: Love Stinks.

20th Logo (January 13, 1998-August 24, 1999)
Logo: On a black background, a 3D maple leaf-shaped Nickelodeon logo is seen. Copyright info is below.

Variant: The leaf may be tilted at a different angle.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None. But on Rugrats: Playground Patrol, it has a snippet from the episode "Officer Chuckie" (Officer Dan: "Never pet a dog that's strange to you." Chuckie: "You might get something on your shoe!").

Availability: Very rare.
 * It's seen on two Rugrats VHS tapes: the UK/Australian-exclusive release Playground Patrol, and Doctor Tommy Pickles.
 * It also showed up on the Australian Blue's Clues tape Pool Party, as well as the American release of Little Bear: Little Goblin Bear.

21st Logo (January 13, 1998-2005)
Logo: On a black background, a rocket-shaped 3D Nickelodeon logo is seen. Copyright info is seen below.

Technique: None, except for the rocket flying on the animated variant.

Music/Sounds: None or the ending theme of the show.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * On Rugrats: Runaway Reptar, we hear a quote from Lil from the titular episode ("How's come Dactar did not eat you like a...a big BUG?!").
 * On March-August 2000 airings of SpongeBob SquarePants with split-screen credits, the logo either has the show's ending theme or with the show's ending theme accompanied with the sounds of a rocket. The Ren and Stimpy Show airings have the rocket sounds cut off the ending theme entirely.

Availability:
 * It's seen on the VHS releases of Rocko's Modern Life: Modern Love, CatDog vs. The Greasers, and Rugrats: Runaway Reptar.
 * Also appeared on March-August 2000 airings of SpongeBob SquarePants and The Ren and Stimpy Show using the split-screen credits.

22nd Logo (June 9, 1998-September 24, 2002)
Logo: On a black background, a bone-shaped 3D Nickelodeon logo is seen. Copyright info is seen below.

Variant: There is an animated variant in which the bone spins to the center of the screen for a second, and then it stays still.

Technique: None, except for the bone spinning on the animated variant.

Music/Sounds: None. Although on the video releases of Blue's Story Time and Arts and Crafts, the ending theme is heard.

Availability: Uncommon.
 * it appears at the end of the first two Blue's Clues VHS releases: Blue's Story Time and Arts and Crafts.
 * It's also shown on four Dora the Explorer VHS tapes: Swing into Action, Wish on a Star, To the Rescue, and Dora Saves the Prince.
 * It can also be found on four Little Bill VHS releases: Me and My Family, Big Little Bill, What I Did at School, and Merry Christmas, Little Bill.
 * The animated variant can be found on 3 Blue's Clues VHS releases, All Kinds of Signs, Café Blue, and Blue's Big Holiday, all of which were released in 2001.

23rd Logo (June 9, 1998-1999)
Logo: On a black background, a 3D crown Nickelodeon logo is seen. Copyright is shown below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: It's seen on Rugrats: Angelica Knows Best, as well as its UK release. This logo was also used as part of a 1996-98 Nickelodeon break bumper.

24th Logo (1998-September 21, 1999)


Logo: A still version of the Nickelodeon Productions Saturn logo, but without "PRODUCTIONS" and has copyright info below it.

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 VHS/DVD release of the show.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Extremely rare. Appears on Blue's Clues: Blue's Discoveries and ''Hey Arnold! Partners''.

25th Logo (1999)
Logo: Same as the Nickelodeon Productions cup logo, but it's a still picture.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: On Chuckie’s Lucky Day, a snippet from one of the episodes featured on the VHS, "Chuckie Grows" (Chuckie: "I squished Angelica!" Phil: "That's okay.") and on the UK VHS of Rugrats All Growed Up, a snippet from one of the episodes featured on the VHS, “Tommy for Mayor” (Phil: "And no more bathies!").

Availability: Extremely rare and unused in North America. It appears on two PAL-region Rugrats tapes: Chuckie's Lucky Day and All Growed Up.

26th Logo (October 5, 1999-2000)
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Logo: On a black background, a crayon-shaped 3D Nickelodeon logo is seen. Copyright info is seen below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: Just a snippet from the Rugrats episode "Raising Dil". (Angelica: "Can't you say Angeli--?" Dil: "Yucky! [laughs]")

Availability: Extremely rare; it's only seen on the Rugrats: Make Room for Dil and the US Spanish VHS of Rugrats: Discover America.

27th Logo (February 6, 2001)


Logo: On a black background, an orange 3D shark swims across the screen. As it stops in the middle, we see the familiar "NICKELODEON" text on it, and copyright info fades in below.

Technique: The shark swimming.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Extremely rare. It's only seen on the Little Bear VHS release Little Sherlock Bear. It was also used as a part of a 1996-98 "next on Nickelodeon" ID.

28th Logo (November 20, 2002)


Logo: On a black background, we see a stretched orange splat (that looks similar to an ink blotch) that has the words "NICKELODEON" in white on it. Some copyright information is below the splat.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Rare. Only seen on the previews on the SpongeBob SquarePants DVD Tales From The Deep.

29th Logo (June 2003)


Logo: On a black background, we see a pretty realistic orange splat with the white Nickelodeon wordmark on it. As with the previous logos, the copyright information is below the logo.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Extremely rare, only seen on a Kideo VHS release of the Dora the Explorer episode "Whose Birthday Is It?".